Feed Your Family Right! - by Elisa Zied & Ruth Winter (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

With nutritional guidelines and recipes designed to make family meals simple, healthy, and delicious, this indispensable guide shows how to make a nutrition plan for each member of the family, set realistic goals, achieve and maintain a healthy weight, make fitness fun, and eat healthy at home or at restaurants.

From the Back Cover

"At a time when childhood obesity and being overweight are at an all-time high, Elisa Zied brings busy families a plan of action. Her easy-does-it recipes and meal plans will help parents and kids meet their nutrition goals and live a healthier lifestyle."
--Janice Bissex, M.S., R.D., and Liz Weiss, M.S., R.D., authors of The Moms' Guide to Meal Makeovers

With today's on-the-go lifestyles, how do you keep a family with different tastes, preferences, and activity levels well fed and healthy? The answer: you do it together. Now you can improve daily eating and fitness habits and achieve a healthy weight as a family. It's time to Feed Your Family Right!

This easy-to-follow, action-oriented guide helps you understand how your family's habits and behaviors influence your eating and fitness styles, and shows you how to modify them to achieve and maintain a healthier weight for life. You get expert advice to help create a nutrition plan for each family member--one that takes into account individual tastes and genetics--as well as help in setting realistic food and fitness goals as a family. Equipped with delicious recipes, practical meal plans, and exercise tips, you'll learn how to: Support one another to create and maintain your new, healthful behaviors for lifeUnderstand the role of heredity and genes in body weightBalance your food and fitness choices and attitudes--and pass them down to your kids Eat healthfully at home, in restaurants, or on the goIncrease physical activity levels while making fitness funImprove your overall health, body weight, and appearance

Discover how each member of your family can make more sensible choices, feel good about their bodies, and grow into healthy eaters who enjoy food, fitness, and life.

About the Author

ELISA ZIED, M.S., R.D., is a registered dietitian, a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, and the coauthor of "So What Can I Eat?!" Her work has appeared in Weight Watchers magazine and in Seventeen magazine, where she was a contributing editor. Zied is frequently quoted in national publications and she appears regularly on CBS's "The Early Show." Visit her Web site at elisazied.com.

RUTH WINTER, M.S., is an award-winning science and nutrition writer. Her books include "A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives." Visit her Web site at brainbody.com.