Healthy Kid-Happy Kid: A Pyschological and Nutritional Solutions to Help Children Grow Up Healthy and Face Life's Challenges With Strength - Paperback

Childhood obesity is not just about eating too much. Healthy, happy kids need to be both ""physically fit"" and ""emotionally fit."" Regrettably, and all too often, children aren't allowed to be KIDS any more. Overscheduling and overstructuring severs the emotional connection between parent and child, leaving the child to fill the emotional void according to Dr. Sundermeyer. HEALTHY KID-HAPPY KID provides help for parents, enabling them to grow nutritionally, psychologically and spiritually with their children. Both nutritional and psychological solutions are given for preventing and treating sleep deprivation, weight problems, attention and learning problems. It teaches straightforward skills that will help children eat healthier, manage emotion, and find purpose in life. Its powerful message is: Children need to slow down and be given the time to grow into strong, compassionate, thinking people. Parent must not lose their focus on the ""whole child"" and what he or she may need physically and emotionally to be successful and happynot just academically. Equal attention and nurturing must be given to developing emotional skill, social skills, and healthy eating and exercise habits. Whenever we lose focus on the whole child, we lose power as parents and educators. HEALTHY KID-HAPPY KID explains what's behind the alarming rates of obesity, Type 2 diabetes, depression, kidney stones and hypertension, once found almost exclusively in adults are now increasing among children. Children today are overfed but undernourished, overstimulated but tired, and experience more social and academic pressures than previous generations did. All children possess remarkable strengths just waiting to emerge, and this book brings learning and endless possibility alive.