A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity: A Road Map to Health

By American Academy of Pediatrics and The American Academy of Pediatrics

Are you worried about your child's extra weight? If so, you're not alone. Childhood obesity has reached epidemic levels in the United States, affecting more than 9 million children and teens. Being... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581101988
• ISBN13: 9781581101980
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Parents Guide

This is a great book for parents. Clinicians will also find it useful. It does not lend itself as well as I had hoped to use in a monitored pediatric program. By spanning the entire course of childhood and adolescence, it contains "big picture" which is useful to parents but would need to be supplemented to concentration on problems at any given age.