Awesome Foods for Active Kids: The ABCs of Eating for Energy and Health

  Awesome Foods for Active Kids: The ABCs of Eating for Energy and Health By Anita Bean

The food you feed your children will affect their health now and in the future. It also determines their energy levels, their physical performance, andtheir success in sports and recreational activities. Their brains, too, are hungry for energy and nutrients, so a healthy diet is vital for optimizing theirmental performance. Teaching children to enjoy a nutritious, varied diet willhelp them to grow up healthy, fit, and full of energy.

This book includes answers to these questions:

1.  Does It Matter What Children Eat?
2. How Do Kids’ Diets Measure Up?
3. Why Should You Change What Children Eat?
4. So How Can I Influence Children’s Eating Habits?
5. Television and Advertising
6. How Can You Combat Advertising Pressure?
7. What Should Active Children Eat? 
8. How Does the Food Pyramid Work?
9. How Many Servings?
10. How Big Is a Portion?
11. Building the Pyramid
12. What Happens to Protein in the Body?
13. Will Extra Protein Make Stronger Muscles?
14. How Much Protein?
15. How to Get Enough Protein
16. What about Vegetarian Diets?
17. What about Protein Supplements?
18. Why Do Kids Need Carbs?
19. How Much Carbohydrate?
20. Which Types of Carbohydrate Are Best?
21. Why Is Fat Needed?
22. What’s the Difference Between Saturated and Unsaturated Fats?
23. What Are the Essential Fats?
24. What Is Hydrogenated Fat?
25. How Much Fat Should Children Eat?
26. What Do Vitamins and Minerals Do?
27. How to Get Enough Vitamins and Minerals
28. How Can You Get Children to Eat 
29. More Fruits and Vegetables?
30. Guide to Vitamins and Minerals
31. Do Active Children Need More Vitamins and Minerals?
32. Should Children Take Vitamin Supplements?
33. How Much Food Should My Child Eat?
34. What Should Children Eat Before Training or Competition?
35. Timing the Pre-Exercise Meal
36. Eating Before an Event
37. What Should Children Eat During Exercise?
38. What Should Children Eat after Exercise?
39. Traveling and Competing Away from Home
40. Why Is Drinking Important for My Child?
41. How Much Should Children Drink?
42. How to Make Children Drink while Exercising
43. What Should Children Drink?
44. What Are the Dangers for Children of Being Overweight?
45. Heart Symptoms in Obese Children
46. How Can I Tell If a Child Is Overweight?
47. Why Do Children Become Overweight?
48. How Should I Deal with Children’s Weight Problems?
49. What Practical Help Can I Give?
50. How Can Children Be Encouraged to Be More Active?
51. How Much Exercise Should Children Get?
52. How Much Exercise Do Children Really Get? 
53. How Can Children Adopt Healthier Eating Habits?
54. How Can I Avoid Mealtimes Becoming a Battleground?
55. Should Children Lose Weight for Sports?
56. How Can I Discourage Television Viewing?
57. Thin or Underweight?
58. Why Are Some Children Thin?
59. Feeding Children with Small Appetites 
60. Feeding Fussy Eaters
61. Feeding Very Active Children
62. Strength Training for Children
63. Packing a Healthy Lunch
64. What’s in School Meals?
65. What Should I Encourage Children to Eat for School Lunch?
66. What Can I Give Children after  School?
67. What Are Eating Disorders?
68. What Are the Causes of Eating Disorders?
69. Why Are Eating Disorders Common among Young Athletes? 
70. How Do I Know If a Child Has an Eating Disorder?
71. How Will an Eating Disorder Affect  a Child’s Health and
72. Performance?
73. What Can I Do If I Think a Child 
74. Has an Eating Disorder? Preventing Eating Disorders

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