Jane Ogden 
The Good Parenting Food Guide [EPUB ebook] 
Managing What Children Eat Without Making Food a Problem

The Good Parenting Food Guide offers straightforward advice for how to encourage children to develop a healthy, unproblematic approach to eating.

* Explores key aspects of children’s eating behavior, including how children learn to like food, the role of food in their life and how habits are formed and can be changed

* Discusses common problems with children’s diets, including picky eating, under-eating, overeating, obesity, eating disorders and how to deal with a child who is critical of how they look

* Turns current research and data into practical tips

* Filled with practical solutions, take home points, drawings, and photos

* Mumsnet Blue Badge Award Winner

Зміст

Introduction ix

Facts and theories 1

1. What is healthy eating? 3

2. How do we learn to like the food we like? 22

3. What does food mean to us and what role does it play in our
lives? 37

4. Why are eating habits so hard to change? 52

5. Overweight and obesity: prevalence, consequences, and causes
67

6. Overweight and obesity: prevention and treatments 85

7. Eating disorders: prevalence, consequences, and causes 96

8. Eating disorders: prevention and treatments 116

Tips and reality 133

9. ‘I don’t have time to cook’ 135

10. ‘My child won’t eat a healthy diet’
161

11. ‘My child watches too much TV’: tips for being
more active 174

12. ‘My child eats too much’ 187

13. ‘My child won’t eat enough’ 196

14. ‘My child thinks they are fat’ 206

15. Take home points 216

Recommended reading 218

References 220

Index 225

Про автора

Jane Ogden is Professor of Health Psychology at the
University of Surrey, UK, and has researched eating behavior,
obesity management, and eating disorders for 25 years. She
has published over 140 papers and is the author of five books,
including The Psychology of Eating: From Healthy to Disordered
Behavior, and Fat Chance: The Myth of Dieting Explained.
In addition, she has published several articles for a non-academic
audience and is a regular contributor to health discussions on the
radio and television and in magazines and newspapers. She has
two children, and this book is the culmination of 14 years of
trying to put her research into practice.