Healthy Eating in Schools: Evidence-Based Interventions to Help Kids Thrive

by Tracy L. Tylka, Evelyn Tribole, Catherine P. Cook-Cottone

School-based interventions that target obesity in children often have little positive effect and may inadvertently contribute to unhealthy behaviors in the attempt to lose weight.

This book provides a conceptual model for understanding both obesity and eating disordered behaviors. Specifically, it advocates for body acceptance and intuitive eating--a flexible, healthy eating behavior involving awareness of the body's hunger and satiety cues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433813009
• ISBN13: 9781433813009
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 10.2"