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Growing Up Healthy
by Joan Lunden, Myron, M.D. Winick
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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Atria (July 19 2005)
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Chapter 1: Killer Diseases Begin with Childhood Nutrition
I'm a new mom all over again! And just as excited and in awe of the challenge of parenthood as I was first time around. My new twins Kate and Max share the cover of this book with me because they, along with children everywhere, now have an amazing

Chapter 1: Killer Diseases Begin with Childhood Nutrition
I'm a new mom all over again! And just as excited and in awe of the challenge of parenthood as I was first time around. My new twins Kate and Max share the cover of this book with me because they, along with children everywhere, now have an amazing

Chapter 1: Killer Diseases Begin with Childhood Nutrition, Part 2
Stop Heart Disease in its Tracks. Our children may be overeating their way to heart disease. According to the American Heart Association, the increasing epidemic of obesity among children is setting them up for cardiovascular disease later in life.



Book Description

Whether you're expecting or already parenting a child, you still have a chance to offer them the gift of a healthy, disease-free life.

In Growing Up Healthy, Joan Lunden, one of America's most trusted journalists and most visible working moms, teams up with Dr. Myron Winick, a leading expert in childhood nutrition, to produce a guide that contains the lifesaving knowledge we all need to shield our children from disease and help them grow into strong, fit adults.

Based on groundbreaking research that shows the link between childhood nutrition and "adult diseases" — including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, and cancer — Growing Up Healthy will teach you:

  • how to choose foods that will boost your children's brainpower, fuel their growing bodies, and shield them against disease

  • which foods influence our children's bodies during the years in which their cells are forming,and their organs and tissues are developing

  • why growing children should not adhere to low-fat or low-carb diets

  • how to create healthy life-long eating patterns that help prevent the onset of chronic illness

... and more. From first foods to fast foods, this comprehensive plan for childhood nutrition goes far beyond the basics to invite us all to give our children the gift of a life infused with good health and vitality.

About the Author

Joan LundenJoan Lunden

Joan Lunden was co-host of ABC's Good Morning America for nearly twenty years. A bestselling author, she hosts A&E's Behind Closed Doors and the Newborn Channel's Parenting Minutes. She lives in Connecticut..

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Myron Winick, M.D.Myron Winick, M.D.

Is the Williams Professor of Nutrition and Pediatrics (emeritus) at Columbia University and for more than fifteen years serves as Director of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia's Collage of Physicians and Surgeons. Chairman of the Task Force for the Study of Pediatric Antecedents of Adult Diseases of the Institute for Cancer Prevention (formerly the American Health Foundation), Dr.

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