SuperSized Kids: How to Rescue Your Child from the Obesity Threat
by Walt Larimore
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The experts at America's 'Hospital of the Future' provide a comprehensive approach to helping parents control their children's weight while developing a healthy, active lifestyle. Studies show that as many as one in four American children is overweight, and childhood obesity rates have doubled since the late 1970s. Medical problems that doctors once saw only in adults aged 50 or older are now striking individuals in their 20s and younger, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, colorectal show more cancer, high blood pressure, asthma, joint problems, and arthritis. In this essential new book, a pediatric endocrinologist and a respected dietician present a step-by-step, medically sound, and achievable weight-control program that will benefit the whole family. Poor diet and sedentary lifestyles-as well as a lack of parental guidance-are at the root of this child obesity epidemic. Studies show that approximately 40 % of obese children will grow up to be obese adults. This book seeks to break this alarming pattern. show lessTags
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Walt Larimore, MD, has been a family physician for over forty years. The bestselling author of the Bryson City books and The Best Medicine, as well as dozens of other books and hundreds of articles, he was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Who's Who in 2019. He's been listed in Distinguished Physicians of America, The Best show more Doctors in America, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and the Guide to America's Top Family Doctors. Both the Christian Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians have named him their "Educator of the Year." He writes a bimonthly health column, "Ask Dr. Walt," for Today's Christian Living magazine, formerly hosted the Ask the Family Doctor show on Fox's Health Network, and has been a frequent guest on a wide variety of television and radio shows. Dr. Larimore and his wife live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. show less
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