Your Child's Weight by Ellyn Satter
As much about parenting as feeding, this latest release from renowned childhood feeding expert Ellyn Satter considers the overweight child issue in a new way. Combining scientific research with inspiring anecdotes from her decades of clinical practice, Satter challenges the conventional belief that parents must get overweight children to eat less and exercise more. In the long run, she says, making them go hungry and forcing them to be active makes children preoccupied with food, prone to overeating, turned off to activity, and likely to gain too much weight. Trust is a central theme here: children must be able to trust parents to provide as much food as they need to satisfy their appetites; parents must trust children to eat only as much as they need. Satter provides compelling evidence that, if parents do their jobs with respect to feeding, children are remarkably capable of knowing how much to eat.Ellyn Satter's books have reportedly changed the lives of many readers: she writes not just about food, eating, and feeding, but also about emotional wellness and strong family ties. By conveying her view that you and your family are more important than your diet, Satter blesses every food and you for eating it. According to Satter's research, being optimistic and trusting of yourself when it comes to food and eating is better for your nutritional, medical, and mental health than following a set of rules about what to eat and what not to eat. Is it true that allowing oneself to feel cheerful and enthusiastic when it comes to food can make you gain weight? Those who are skilled at eating--those who approach food and eating with optimism, self-confidence, and curiosity--weigh less than those who eat with negativity, self-denial, and avoidance.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780967118918 |
| ISBN 10 | 0967118913 |
| Title | Your Child's Weight |
| Author | Ellyn Satter |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Kelcy Press |
| Year published | 2005-08-15 |
| Number of pages | 472 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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