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9780547053684

Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food / Fake Food World

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    9780547053684

  • ISBN10:

    0547053681

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-03-18
  • Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

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Summary

In a world dominated by fast food, fake food, and rising childhood obesity rates, establishing healthy eating habits in children is one of the greatest concerns for parents-and potentially one of the greatest challenges. Renowned physician Dr. David Ludwig offers the tools families need to keep the kitchen table from becoming a battleground.In 1996, Dr. Ludwig founded a revolutionary program at Children's Hospital Boston, where he and his team tailored a low-glycemic diet for children and combined it with a lifestyle plan that benefits the whole family. Here he outlines the program that has worked for thousands of families and offers tasty recipes, motivational tips, and activities.With compassion and insight gained from years of working with overweight children, Dr. Ludwig provides an essential guide for all parents.

Author Biography

Dr. David Ludwig is an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School as well as director of the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Program at Children's Hospital Boston, one of the largest U.S. clinics for overweight children and their parents Suzanne Rostler is a dietitian at the OWL clinic. She received an M.S. in clinical nutrition from New York University

Table of Contents

Note to Readerp. vi
Acknowledgmentsp. vii
Introductionp. 1
A View from the Battlefront
Overweight and Overpoweredp. 7
Welcoming Children to Weight Loss: A Day at the OWL Clinicp. 20
Making Peace Within Us
Eating to Feel Fullp. 43
Getting Physicalp. 74
It's the Thought That Countsp. 99
Making Peace in Our Families
There's No Place Like Homep. 123
The 9-Week Programp. 149
Making Peace Around Us
Changing the Worldp. 185
Increase the Peace
Recipesp. 205
Reinforcements
Diaries for the 9-Week Programp. 299
Shopping Listp. 307
Recommended Readingp. 317
Notesp. 319
Indexp. 330
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INTRODUCTION During my pediatrics residency training in the early 1990s, I helped care for Grace, a three-year-old girl who was admitted to the hospital with failure to thrive. This condition - usually caused by a chronic medical problem, improper nutrition, or neglect - results in poor weight gain and stunted growth. However, Grace's condition was unusual: she had gained no weight at all in nine months, but her growth had continued at an entirely normal rate. In addition, her appearance was striking, especially compared to photos taken of her in infancy. Over the previous year, all of her normal baby fat had melted away, yet her muscles were remarkably preserved, making her look like a tiny bodybuilder. After a few days of fruitless investigation, we finally discovered that Grace had a rare abnormality in a region of the brain called the hypothalamus, which controls body weight. Somehow her brain was sending her body the message to shed every single ounce of fat. But since she was otherwise healthy, the growth of other body tissues continued uninterrupted. Unfortunately, the surgery needed to treat Grace's condition produced damage to the part of the brain that controls satiety, the sensation of fullness we get after eating. Almost immediately after recovering from surgery, Grace developed a ravenous appetite and a significant problem with overeating. Through the next few years, Grace gained a great deal of weight, going from being substantially underweight to seriously overweight. Grace's mother, with support from our medical team, struggled to control her daughter's hunger and slow down her weight gain. By the end of my pediatrics training, the obesity epidemic in the United States was in full swing. Influenced in part by my experience with Grace, I decided to pursue a career in obesity and joined a basic research laboratory studying the biological factors that affect body weight. I became fascinated by the beauty and complexity of the body's weight-regulating systems. Under most circumstances, these systems help maintain a near- perfect balance between calorie intake and calorie expenditure. Without these systems, our weight would fluctuate wildly, as did Grace's. Just the calories in an extra bagel and cream cheese each day could cause a thirty- five-pound weight gain in one year. During my five years in basic research, I helped discover a gene that can make laboratory mice fat and might contribute to human obesity. However, I came to believe that the discovery of new genes was unlikely to provide a cure for obesity anytime soon. After all, our genes haven't changed much in the past thirty years, but rates of obesity have more than doubled. So in 1996, I left the basic laboratory, began researching new dietary approaches to obesity in people, and developed the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Program at Children's Hospital Boston. Since then, OWL has grown from a staff of two to one of the largest clinics for overweight children and their families in the country. When people find out what kind of work I do, they often say something like, "You treat overweight children? That must be so sad." Sometimes I do feel sad. Overweight people, and especially children, are subject to incessant teasing, abuse, and discrimination. The stories of our patients can at times be heartbreaking. And sometimes I feel angry. Soft drink companies spend millions of dollars on advertising targeting children, but OWL has to fight with insurance companies for only a few hundred dollars to cover the treatment of an obese child. More often I feel joy. In addition to the small, day-to-day victories that you'll read about throughout this book, there are gre

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