Smita Guha

Healthy Children

How Parents, Teachers and Community Can Help To Prevent Obesity in Children

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Obesity among children is a national and international concern. The focus of this book is to provide evidence-based strategies to assist parents and educators to foster healthy weight gain in children. This book will empower children to be active agents of their own health behavior change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9781475826654
• ISBN-10: 1475826656
• Artikelnr.: 48141426

Autorenporträt

Smita Guha, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Early Childhood Education at St. John's University, New York. She has over ten years experience working with young children and over 15 years as a faculty in university.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Motivating and engaging children to be active
agents of health behavior Chapter 2: Nutrition education unit Chapter 3:
Importance of physical exercise Chapter 4: Social and emotional challenges
for children with health issues Chapter 5: Role of parents and family in
providing nutrition education for their children Chapter 6: Involvement of
the community in promoting healthy development for the children Chapter 7:
Strategies to work collaboratively to prevent obesity epidemic Appendix A:
Workshop programs Appendix B: Lessons across curriculum