Book description
A guilt-free guide for parents on how to get their children to eat
healthy food. Are you concerned about how little your child eats? Are
you worried about your child's weight? Is every meal a battle? Positive
Food for Kids will help you answer all these questions and more, and
give you simple and effective strategies to get your child to eat and
enjoy healthy food for life. Dr Jenny OÃ Â Dea's groundbreaking research
of 5,000 children and their eating habits revealed some shocking facts:
one in six children had eaten no fruit or vegetables in the past three
days, one in five had had no fruit juice, one in four had had no cereal,
pasta or rice, and one in ten had had no milk. Even more confronting was
her discovery that poor nutrition not only leads to poor physical
growth, but poor brain growth and reduced intelligence, too. In the same
study Jenny also found that children as young as six understood very
clearly why they should choose healthy food and drinks à Â- it would
give them energy, help them to grow and 'feel good on the insideà  .
Her new 'positive foodà  approach is based on this valuable research
and twenty yearsà  expertise as a nutritionist, countless interviews
with parents and their children as well as her own experiences as a
mother. Busy parents can turn to Positive Food for Kids for: - proven
strategies that will get your child to eat and enjoy healthy food for
life - handy nutrition guides to all foods, including take-aways -
simple, healthy recipes you and your kids can eat every day. Dr Jenny
O'Dea is a dietitian and nutritionist with over twenty-five years
experience. She is currently a lecturer in nutrition and health
education at the University of Sydney. Jenny is also the author of three
books about nutrition and health, and has carried out many large
research studies into body image, self-concept, self-esteem and eating
issues among children, adolescents and college students. Her
groundbreaking PhD in Medicine from Sydney University focused on the
prevention of body image problems and eating disorders among children
and adolescents using a school-based, self-esteem approach, and the
results of her study influenced health researchers world-wide, paving
the way for a more positive approach to preventing body image problems
and eating disorders in young people. She has also authored more than
fifty research publications in well-known international journals. Jenny
is well known for her contributions to the media and public debate about
food, nutrition, body image and health, and is a long-time advocate of
commonsense and a balanced view-point when it comes to food, nutrition
and eating. She believes that food should be enjoyed as both nutritious
and delicious.
