Weight Watchers Family Power: 5 Simple Rules for a Healthy-Weight Home

by Karen Miller-Kovach, Meredith Vieira (Introduction), Marc Jacobson (Foreword by)

Overview

For the first time, Family Power provides a revolutionary program that gives you proven, practical solutions for achieving a healthy weight and maintaining it as a family. Filled with the motivational stories of families who have achieved healthy-weight homes as well as expert advice from their coaches, Family Power gets your family up, moving, and improving health together as no other book ever has before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470051337
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	12/01/2006
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.76(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

KAREN MILLER-KOVACH is Chief Scientific Officer of Weight Watchers International, Inc. She is also the coauthor of Weight Loss That Lasts. With its mission of helping people reach and maintain a healthy weight through a comprehensive weight-management program that is based on the latest science, WEIGHT WATCHERS has meetings that provide the coaching and tools to help people make positive changes for lasting weight loss. Six-time Emmy Award–winning MEREDITH VIEIRA is the coanchor of NBC-TV's Today show. A board-certified pediatrician, MARC JACOBSON, M.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology, and Social Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Marc S. Jacobson, M.D.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction by Meredith Vieira.

PART ONE: WHAT IS A HEALTHY-WEIGHT HOME?

Chapter 1. When Weight Is an Issue.

Chapter 2. Getting Ready for Change.

Chapter 3. Kids Are Not Little Adults.

Chapter 4. The 5 Simple Rules.

Chapter 5. The Roles Parents Play.

PART TWO: FAMILY POWER.

Chapter 6. The Kids Are Watching.

Chapter 7. Active Parents, Active Kids.

Chapter 8. Putting Food on the Table.

Chapter 9. Helping Kids Move.

Chapter 10. Setting Food Policy.

Chapter 11. Sit Less, Move More.

Chapter 12. Being on the Lookout.

Chapter 13. Taking It Outside the Home.

PART THREE: Special Circumstances.

Chapter 14. Few Families Are Traditional.

Chapter 15. When and Where to Get Extra Help.

Sources.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

With refreshing practicality and easy-to-follow instructions, Weight Watchers' chief scientific officer Miller-Kovach shows how a family can take small steps to eliminate childhood weight problems and establish a "healthy-weight home... in which everyone who lives there has a lifestyle that encourages them to be at a weight that is right and healthy for them." The steps in this process are unthreatening lifestyle changes, such as focusing on nutritious foods, including treats; rationing nonhomework TV time; being active one hour or more every day; and having these changes apply to the whole family. Miller-Kovach outlines parents' responsibilities for ensuring a healthful diet for their kids: they must be food role models, food enforcers, activity providers and activity enforcers. Chapters such as "Setting Food Policy" and sections on adult versus child weight loss detail how to take these roles; sidebars called "Coach's Corner" pinpoint problems like "The Reluctant Teen." Portraits show how families made changes like taking walks or drinking nonfat milk to lose weight. In all, the book plainly offers ways to incorporate dietary common sense into a family's routine. Notes on special needs and additional sources complete the book. (Jan.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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