Healthy Children

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.

Smita Guha is a professor in the teacher education field at St. John's University. She is involved in research in the area of mathematics and science teaching.

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