Description
Does your grade-schooler ever trade away his lunch? Does she only pick at her dinner at home, or complain she doesn’t like what’s set before her? The grade-school years are nutritionally a very important time for children, and getting your child to eat healthy and make smart choices can be a challenge.

Written with the full support of the American Dietetic Association, the American Dietetic Association Guide to Healthy Eating for Kids arms you with practical skills to make sure your kids are eating right even when they’re not under your roof. Jodie Shield and Mary Catherine Mullen are mothers as well as registered dietitians with more than twenty years of professional experience in childhood nutrition.

Their five-star system offers hands-on advice on how to turn eating dilemmas into fun, nutritionally educational opportunities. Whether your child is a breakfast skipper, an unreasonable eater, a lunch trader, or even a snack-a-holic, you’ll find fast, real-life solutions for transforming eating habits, including:

 Banishing brown bag boredom Secrets of successful family meals
 Smart snacks for hungry kids The top nutrition mistakes parents make
 Fueling your grade-schooler for fitness
 The principles of menu planning
 Breakfast basics for busy families
 Teaching smart nutrition to your young athlete
 Developing a gold-star feeding relationship with your child.

Offering delicious recipes your child won’t be able to resist, this timely course gives you all the nutrition knowledge you need to teach your child how to eat smart–now and for the rest of his or her life.

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 0471442240
ISBN-13: 9780471442240
Format: Paperback, 240pp
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Edition Number: 1
Pub date: 2002

Content
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction. An Orientation to Eating Smart
Not All Grade-Schoolers Were Created Equal
If Your Family Is on the Go, This Book Is for You!
How to Use This Book
Getting Started
Problem Areas at a Glance…Which Ones Apply to Your Child?

Chapter 1. Feeding Kids
Philosophy 101
Who's Principally in Charge of Eating?
The Feeding Responsibilities in Action
How to Develop a Gold-Star Feeding
Relationships
Tuning In to Your Grade-Schooler's Learning Potential
Extra-Credit Assignment: Eating Responsibilities
Worksheet

Chapter 2. Nutrition Fundamentals
Exploring the Pyramids
Dig In to the Food Guide Pyramid
Taking a Closer Look at Each of the Food Groups
Food Pyramid Jr.
A Day in the Life of the Food Guide Pyramid
Putting the Pyramids into Perspective: The Dietary Guidelines
Extra-Credit Assignment: Rate Your Kid's Plate

Chapter 3. Breakfast for Brain Power
Breakfast: An Eye-Opening Experience
Breakfast Basics for Busy Families
What Does a Balanced Breakfast Look Like?
Analyze This: Real-Life Breakfast Makeovers
Breaking the Breakfast-Skipping Barriers
Breakfast Is Served
Recipes
Extra-Credit Assignment: The Breakfast Club

Chapter 4. Lunch Lessons Let's Do Lunch!
The Anatomy of a Healthy Lunch
Can This Lunch Be Saved?
Banishing Brown-Bag Boredom
What's for Lunch?
Lunch Express
Recipes
Extra-Credit Assignment: Beyond Peanut Butter and Jelly

Chapter 5. Family Dinners in a Flash
Whatever Happened to the Family Dinner Hour?
All Together Now-Secrets of Successful Family Meals
The Dinner Dilemma
Dinner-Menu Review
Someone's in the Kitchen…but Not for Long!
Home-Cooked Convenience
Weeknight Survival Menus
Recipes
Extra-Credit Assignment: Table Topics

Chapter 6. After-School Snack Attacks
Snackin'-Just Do It!
Chew on This
Smart Snacks for Grade-Schoolers
What's Your Child's Snacking Style?
Snacking Styles: The Junk-Food Craver, The Mindless Muncher; The On-the-Go Snacker; The All-You-Can-Eat Aficionado
Savvy Snacks for Hungry Kids
Recipes
Extra-Credit Assignment: Hey, Kids!
What's Your Snacking Style?
 
Chapter 7. Extracurricular Eating
Life in the Fast-Food Lane
Nutrition Tips to Go
Close Encounters at the Concession Stand
Birthday Parties That Take the Cake!
Healthy Cakes
Recipes
Celebrate Good Times!
Extra-Credit Assignment: Your Order, Please?

Chapter 8. Culinary Kids
The Principles of Menu Planning
Label-Reading Literacy
Supermarket Savvy
The Joy of Cooking with Kids
Kid-Friendly Kitchen Concoctions
Recipes
Extra-Credit Assignment: Hunting for the Healthiest Buys!

Chapter 9. Physical Activity: A Moving Subject
Couch Potatoes Breed Tater Tots
Let's Get Physical: How Much Physical Activity Does My Child Need?
Fueling Your Grade-Schooler for Fitness
What to Eat before Competition What to Eat after Competition
Teaching Smart Nutrition to Your Young Athlete
Sport Specifics
Extra-Credit Assignment: Family Fitness Plan

Chapter 10. Red Flags Answers to Questions
Commonly Asked by Parents of Grade-Schoolers
Extra-Credit Assignment: For More Information…

Appendix A. Key Nutrients in Foods and How They Work in Your Child's Body
Appendix B. Growth Charts with Body-Mass Indexes
Index

Book authors
Jodie Shield, M.Ed., R.D., is a Senior Partner with JM Associates, a nutrition communication company in Illinois. She is also a nutrition consultant and freelance writer fro the American Dietetic Association, Weight Watchers, the Chicago Tribune, and The National Dairy Council.

Mary Catherine Mullen, M.S., R.D., is a Senior Partner with JM Associates and a pediatric dietitian with Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. She is also a nutrition consultant for the Chicago White Six, the American Dietetic Association, an the Chicago Tribune.

The American Dietetic Association is the larges group of food and nutrition professionals in the world.  As the advocate of the profession, the ADA serves the public by promoting optimal nutrition, health, and well-being.

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
3020 Assessment of target groups, populations
4000 Wellness and public health
4030 Dietary guidelines, DRIs, Food Guide Pyramid, food labeling
4150 Infancy & Childhood
5080 Adolescence
5070 Pediatrics