Feed Your Family Right!: How to Make Smart Food and Fitness Choices for a Healthy Lifestyle
With nutritional guidelines and recipes designed to make family meals simple, healthy, and delicious, this indispensable guide shows how to make a nutrition plan for each member of the family, set realistic goals, achieve and maintain a healthy weight, make fitness fun, and eat healthy at home or at restaurants.
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"At a time when childhood obesity and being overweight are at an all-time high, Elisa Zied brings busy families a plan of action. Her easy-does-it recipes and meal plans will help parents and kids meet their nutrition goals and live a healthier lifestyle." —Janice Bissex, M.S., R.D., and Liz Weiss, M.S., R.D., authors of The Moms' Guide to Meal MakeoversWith today's on-the-go lifestyles, how do you keep a family with different tastes, preferences, and activity levels well fed and healthy? The answer: you do it together. Now you can improve daily eating and fitness habits and achieve a healthy weight as a family. It's time to Feed Your Family Right!This easy-to-follow, action-oriented guide helps you understand how your family's habits and behaviors influence your eating and fitness styles, and shows you how to modify them to achieve and maintain a healthier weight for life. You get expert advice to help create a nutrition plan for each family member—one that takes into account individual tastes and genetics—as well as help in setting realistic food and fitness goals as a family. Equipped with delicious recipes, practical meal plans, and exercise tips, you'll learn how to:Support one another to create and maintain your new, healthful behaviors for lifeUnderstand the role of heredity and genes in body weightBalance your food and fitness choices and attitudes—and pass them down to your kids Eat healthfully at home, in restaurants, or on the goIncrease physical activity levels while making fitness funImprove your overall health, body weight, and appearanceDiscover how each member of your family can make more sensible choices, feel good about their bodies, and grow into healthy eaters who enjoy food, fitness, and life.
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Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1The Journey Begins 5Family Genes 7Setting Realistic Food Goals for Your Family 21Making Fitness Fun for Your Family 25Overcoming Food Fights 39Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy Weight for Life 49The Infant, Toddler, and Tween Years 51Teenagers 63Women 71Men 83Seniors 87The Family Action Plan 93The Ultimate Family Food Guide 95Preventing and Managing Diet-Related Conditions 117Surviving the Grocery Aisles 141Eating Out While Still Eating Healthfully 163Delicious Meal Plans 173Family-Friendly Recipes 187Your Family's Genes 227Body Mass Index 229Frame Size 233Food Sources or Key Nutrients 235What's a Portion? 249All about Exercise 251Master Food Lists 253Resources 259Selected References 265Index 269
