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Healthy children : how parents, teachers, and community can help to prevent obesity in children / Smita Guha.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Roman & Littlefield, [2018]Description: v, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781475826654
  • 1475826656
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction -- Motivating and engaging children to be active agents of their heath behavior -- Experts' comments and nutrition unit -- Importance of physical exercise -- Social and emotional challenges for children with health issues -- The roles of family and school in providing nutrition education for children -- Involvement of the community in promoting healthy development for children -- Strategies to work collaboratively to prevent an obesity epidemic -- Appendix A: form for identifying risk and appropriate interventions -- Appendix B: activities for chapter 2 -- Appendix C: children's books about nutrition -- Appendix D: additional books, websites., and other resources -- Index -- About the author.
Summary: Obesity among children is a national and international concern. The focus of this book is to provide evidence-based strategies to assist parents and educators to foster healthy weight gain in children. This book will empower children to be active agents of their own health behavior change. --Publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 618.9239 G942 Available 33111009176633
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book is geared towards educators, teachers, administrators and parents of young children especially with health issues. The book will contribute to the literature in the field focusing on national and international concern about childhood obesity, highlighting the problems with obesity pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes etc. Specifically, the book will provide research findings that children who are healthy do better cognitively, socially, emotionally, and, of course, physically. The focus of the book is to provide evidence based strategies to assist parents and educators to foster healthy weight gain in children and empower children to be active agents of change in their own health behavior. Leading a healthy life helps children live a higher quality of life. The book will provide a model that can be implemented at home and in school. The model will encompass nutrition education for children. Music will be a significant part in this model that will encourage children to sing and dance to the beat. Team and individual sports and games will be an integral part of the book, focusing on being active and avoiding sedentary behavior.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Motivating and engaging children to be active agents of their heath behavior -- Experts' comments and nutrition unit -- Importance of physical exercise -- Social and emotional challenges for children with health issues -- The roles of family and school in providing nutrition education for children -- Involvement of the community in promoting healthy development for children -- Strategies to work collaboratively to prevent an obesity epidemic -- Appendix A: form for identifying risk and appropriate interventions -- Appendix B: activities for chapter 2 -- Appendix C: children's books about nutrition -- Appendix D: additional books, websites., and other resources -- Index -- About the author.

Obesity among children is a national and international concern. The focus of this book is to provide evidence-based strategies to assist parents and educators to foster healthy weight gain in children. This book will empower children to be active agents of their own health behavior change. --Publisher.

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