This book is for parents who ask, "I'm concerned about my child's weight but what can I do?", "What can I do to help my kids get eat better?" or "How do I help my kids so they don't get diabetes like I have?" Parents, including all the moms and dads already diagnosed with diabetes, want to know how to get their kids - and themselves - on the road to better eating. How do you steer kids away from the addictive sodas and McNuggets that pack on the extra pounds? How do you get more fruits and vegetables into your kids' daily foods? Learn with these kid-tested, easy, and economical recipes with your kids. The lesson in Nourish and Flourish is that once you know what to do, it's easy. The tips in Nourish and Flourish teach you how to make small changes to prevent obesity-related diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure and joint diseases. Families with diabetes love this book because it is easy to read and contains great shopping lists. Pediatricians love this book for its clear and concise educational tips and from-the-heart messages. Teachers can incorporate tips into their math, physical education, and healthy nutrition lessons. The response to Growing Healthy Kids' educational programs created the demand from parents for a book that can be used at home and school to build confidence and knowledge about making choices about to eat. This book is for parents of all ages. Follow our Growing Healthy Kids adventure and together we can improve the health - and lives - of America's children, one child at a time.
About the Author: Nancy L. Heinrich, M.P.H., is an epidemiologist, diabetes educator, teacher, and parent. Her public health background includes extensive prevention and control work in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, and other communicable diseases. She is a member of American Public Health Association and American Association of Diabetes Educators. A graduate of University of Alabama-Birmingham and Florida Atlantic University, Nancy is the author of Healthy Living with Diabetes: One Small Step at a Time and the creator of Healthy Diabetes Coach, a diabetes education program. She writes an educational blog for people with diabetes and prediabetes at www.healthydiabetescoach.com. Nancy is the founder of Growing Healthy Kids, Inc., a nonprofit organization focused on reducing, halting, and reversing childhood obesity. Growing Healthy Kids collaborates with community-based organizations and conducts educational programs and workshops on food, nutrition, obesity-prevention and diabetes control. Growing Healthy Kids is a movement with teaches, inspires and motivates kids and adults to eat healthy and get moving. Nancy writes extensively for parents on two blogs: www.GrowingHealthyKids.me and www.GrowingHealthyKids.blogspot.com. Her consulting company, Economic Wellness Works, LLC, teaches C-office leaders to make integrity-based decisions, improve companies' bottom lines, and improve health outcomes and productivity for employees and their families. Nancy has extensive experience working with a spectrum of disabilities including autism, Down's syndrome, intellectual and physical disabilities in her role as manager of an employment program at Sun-Up ARC, Inc. Nancy lives in Vero Beach, Florida where she maintains a small kitchen garden for use in the Growing Healthy Kids test kitchen. Her son, Edward, is the original Growing Healthy Kid.