9781118709375

The Good Parenting Food Guide offers straightforward advice for how to encourage children to develop a healthy, unproblematic approach to eating.

Explores key aspects of children’s eating behavior, including how children learn to like food, the role of food in their life and how habits are formed and can be changed
Discusses common problems with children’s diets, including picky eating, under-eating, overeating, obesity, eating disorders and how to deal with a child who is critical of how they look
Turns current research and data into practical tips
Filled with practical solutions, take home points, drawings, and photos
Mumsnet Blue Badge Award Winner

Facts and theories 1

1. What is healthy eating? 3

2. How do we learn to like the food we like? 22

3. What does food mean to us and what role does it play in our lives? 37

4. Why are eating habits so hard to change? 52

5. Overweight and obesity: prevalence, consequences, and causes 67

6. Overweight and obesity: prevention and treatments 85

7. Eating disorders: prevalence, consequences, and causes 96

8. Eating disorders: prevention and treatments 116

Tips and reality 133

9. “I don’t have time to cook” 135

10. “My child won’t eat a healthy diet” 161

11. “My child watches too much TV”: tips for being more active 174

12. “My child eats too much” 187

13. “My child won’t eat enough” 196

14. “My child thinks they are fat” 206

15. Take home points 216

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