The Yale Guide to Children's Nutrition
Author: William V Tamborlan
What is the healthiest diet for an infant? What constitutes a nutritious school lunch? How do I deal with my adolescent's eating needs and habits? Will my children receive proper nutrients if they are sick, very athletic, or vegetarians? This authoritative resource answers these and dozens of other questions, not only presenting the latest scientific knowledge about nutrition but also providing recipes from famous chefs for delicious and healthy dishes. The book, written by physicians and dietitians at the Yale University School of Medicine, an international leader in pediatric teaching, research, and clinical care, as well as by dietitians, nurses, and social workers at the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, is the most authoritative, comprehensive, and informative guide to childhood nutrition ever produced.
Publishers Weekly
Authoritative advice from a team of experts, mostly pediatric specialists and nutritionists, makes this a reassuring handbook for concerned parents. Coverage is comprehensive, with topics ranging from breast-feeding infants to stoking adolescent athletes. The book is broken into six sections that can be read or consulted in any order: From Infancy to Adolescence, which treats developmental nutrition; Common Concerns, which tackles such issues as proper weight gain and dealing with picky eaters; Beyond the Basics, which addresses special problems, such as feeding children with diabetes, cystic fibrosis or food allergies; Building Blocks for Good Nutrition; Eating In, Eating Out, which proffers practical advice on school lunches and fast foods; and Recipes, which provides 69 recipes from assorted restaurant chefs, complete with preparation times and nutritional analyses. While some food combinations, such as pasta with shrimp and zucchini, or yellow turnips with shallots, seem of questionable appeal to kids, and the recipes for Vegetarian Lasagna and Sweet Corn Ravioli are rather time-consuming for busy parents, most dishes are fairly uncomplicated and have whole-family appealwitness the Banana-Split Pancakes and Pizza Presto. The liberal use of tables, charts and lists makes all the helpful data relatively digestible. BOMC and Children's BOMC selections. (Mar.)
Library Journal
More than 100 physicians, dietitians, nurses, and social workers from the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital worked together to produce this authoritative guide on children's nutrition. In addition to offering practical advice regarding nutritional requirements for children of all ages, this valuable resource dispels common myths and answers dozens of questions covering a range of topics, including childhood obesity, food allergies, vegetarianism, and nutrition for young athletes. The authors also discuss nutritional management of common childhood health problems, including gastrointestinal and metabolic disorders, as well as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Each of the important building blocks for good nutritionprotein, carbohydrates, fats and cholesterol, vitamins and minerals, fiber, salt, and wateris covered in depth; this gives the reader a good sense of the role and importance of each in a child's growth and development. Throughout the text, the authors provide helpful hints for selecting foods and preparing snacks/meals, reinforcing the message that there is no such thing as a "bad" food and that balance is the key to good nutrition. The book concludes with a selection of recipes from nationally recognized chefs. Comprehensive in its coverage, well organized, and easily understood, this book is highly recommended for any consumer health collection. [BOMC and Children's BOMC selections; March is National Nutrition Month.Ed.]Sue Hollander, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago Lib. of the Health Sciences, Rockford
What People Are Saying
Ronald E. Kleinman
"A well-balanced approach to understanding children's nutritional needs." -- Massachusetts General Hospital
Jane E. Brody
"This book, replete with recipes that have both child appeal provided by some of the best chefs in the United States and wisdom provided by some of the leading scientists in the field of children's health, can help you develop and execute guidelines that can be readily incorporated into family life." -- from the foreword
Kathleen M. Rasmussen
"A redable and comprehensive guide to nutrition for children. I would be pleased to give it as a gift to the parents of a young child." -- Cornell University
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Welcome Home: Following Your Soul's Journey Home
Author: Sandra Ingerman
Sandra Ingerman's deeply moveing debut, Soul Retrieval, captivated readers with its introduction of shamanic journeying, an ancient tradition of healig. With the characteristic warmth, passion, and authenticcity that have earned her worldwide recognition, Ingerman now continues to share her lifework with Welcome Home, an empowering action plan for creating a more positive future by truly letting go of blame and guilt.
Library Journal
The author is a shamanic healer who journeys on behalf of her clients in order to facilitate healing. A book on what to do after one has been through a healing crisis is badly needed; unfortunately, this isn't it. While this is what Ingerman purports to do here she misses the mark entirely, treating the reader to self-indulgent accounts from her own private journal as well as those of her clients in a tone usually reserved for young children. She exhorts us to take responsibility for ourselves and the future but fails to provide any guidelines as to how to go about it. The work is also repetitive and badly written and edited. Not recommended.-- Marilyn E. Schafer, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic Coll., Toronto
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