Weight Watchers Family Power : 5 Simple Rules for a Healthy-Weight Home

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• ISBN13: 9780471771029
• ISBN10: 0471771023
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-02
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

For the first time, Family Power provides a revolutionary program that gives you proven, practical solutions for achieving a healthy weight and maintaining it as a family. Filled with the motivational stories of families who have achieved healthy-weight homes as well as expert advice from their coaches, Family Power gets your family up, moving, and improving health together as no other book ever has before.

Author Biography

KAREN MILLER-KOVACH is Chief Scientific Officer of Weight Watchers International, Inc. She is also the coauthor of Weight Loss That Lasts. With its mission of helping people reach and maintain a healthy weight through a comprehensive weight-management program that is based on the latest science, WEIGHT WATCHERS has meetings that provide the coaching and tools to help people make positive changes for lasting weight loss.

Six-time Emmy Award–winning MEREDITH VIEIRA is the moderator of The View, the highly rated ABC-TV talk show. She is also host of the weekday version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, for which she won her first Daytime Emmy Award in May 2005. Ms. Vieira joined ABC News in 1993; previously she had spent more than a decade at CBS News, where she garnered five Emmy Awards for her work as a correspondent on the acclaimed news magazines 60 Minutes and West 57th. Ms. Vieira, her husband, journalist Richard Cohen, and their three children live in New York.

A board-certified pediatrician, MARC S. JACOBSON, M.D., is a professor of pediatrics, epidemiology, and social medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is also an attending physician and director of the Center for Atherosclerosis Prevention in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Schneider Children's Hospital of Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Dr. Jacobson is Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Task Force on Obesity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Foreword.

Introduction.

Chapter 1. When Weight Is an Issue.

Chapter 2. Getting Ready for Change.

Chapter 3. Kids Are Not Little Adults.

Chapter 4. The 5 Simple Rules.

Chapter 5. The Roles Parents Play.

PART 2. INTRODUCTION: FAMILY POWER.

Chapter 6. The Kids Are Watching.

Chapter 7. Active Parents, Active Kids.

Chapter 8. Putting Food on the Table.

Chapter 9. Helping Kids Move.

Chapter 10. Setting Food Policy.

Chapter 11. Sit Less, Move More.

Chapter 12. Being on the Lookout.

Chapter 13. Taking It Outside the Home.

Chapter 14. Few Families Are Traditional.

Chapter 15. When and Where to Get Extra Help.

Sources.

Index.