William H. Dietz - Nutrition: What Every Parent Needs to Know

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Second Edition2012

First Edition 1999 as The Official, Complete Home Reference Guide to Your Childs Nutrition: Making Peace at the Table and Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010919006

ISBN: 978-1-58110-321-2

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What People Are Saying

There is no shortage of nutrition advice out there, but how do parents know what to trust? This book is an invaluable, practical, easy-to-read-and-understand resource for parents, grandparents, child care professionals, and anyone who takes care of children. It is distinguished by providing authoritative advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics about nutrition and feeding and eating behaviors, all together in one place. This is my #1 recommended nutrition book for parents.

Thomas N. Robinson, MD, MPH

Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Healthy Weight, Stanford

University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital at Stanford

Parents who wonderand worryabout what to feed their kids to be healthy now have answers grounded in science and common sense. Drs Dietz and Stern offer practical information that will help guide parents to the nutritious foods that give their children the right start and can help instill healthy eating habits for a lifetime. Every parentand grandparentshould make this a must read.

Sally Squires, MS

Director, Health and Wellness Communications, Powell Tate; Adjunct Professor, Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy; and former nationally syndicated Lean Plate Club columnist, The Washington Post

As a registered dietitian, I like that this book makes science simpleit outlines practical food tips and offers comforting advice on the subject of feeding healthy children.

Connie Diekman, MEd, RD, LD, FADA

Nutrition communications consultant and American Dietetic Association Past President

In addition to providing developmentally appropriate nutrition information on what infants and children should be eating, this book includes valuable advice for parents that can help children learn to like and actually eat those foods that comprise healthy diets. The editors provide clear, evidence-based answers to questions and challenges parents face, whether the reader is a first-time parent with a newborn or an experienced parent of school-aged children or adolescents.

Leann Birch, PhD

Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Director, Center for Childhood Obesity Research, College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University

Editors

William H. Dietz, MD, PhD, FAAP

Loraine Stern, MD, FAAP

American Academy of Pediatrics Board of Directors Reviewer

Myles B. Abbott, MD, FAAP

Reviewers/Contributors

Steven A. Abrams, MD, FAAP

Robert D. Baker, Jr, MD, PhD, FAAP

Susan Baker, MD, FAAP

Miriam Bar-on, MD, FAAP

Jatinder JS Bhatia, MD, FAAP

William John Cochran, MD, FAAP

Betty Crase, IBCLC, RLC

Stephen Robert Daniels, MD, PhD, FAAP