Weight Watchers Family Power - by Karen Miller-Kovach (Hardcover)

About the Book

Weight Watchers presents a comprehensive guide to healthful weight managementfor all members of the family--including children and adolescents.

Book Synopsis

For the first time, Family Power provides a revolutionary program that gives you proven, practical solutions for achieving a healthy weight and maintaining it as a family. Filled with the motivational stories of families who have achieved healthy-weight homes as well as expert advice from their coaches, Family Power gets your family up, moving, and improving health together as no other book ever has before.

From the Back Cover

Follow the 5 Simple Rules for a healthy-weight home!Focus on wholesome, nutritious foods.Include treats.Aim to keep nonhomework screen time at two hours (or less) per day.Try to be active an hour per day.The Rules apply to everyone in the home.

Living in a healthy-weight home--in which all family members have a lifestyle that supports nutritious eating and regular physical activity--can make a tremendous difference in stopping and reversing the pattern of weight gain that leads to obesity for all members of the family, including children. In this breakthrough book from Weight Watchers, you'll discover how everyone in your family can achieve a healthy weight and maintain optimal health.

Family Power addresses the adult and childhood obesity epidemics with a revolutionary program that families can follow together--without the need for rigidly structured diet and exercise plans. This proactive guide gets your family up and moving, achieving a healthy weight, and improving health together as no other book ever has before.

Review Quotes

* With refreshing practicality and easy-to-follow instructions, Weight Watchers' chief scientific officer Miller-Kovach shows how a family can take small steps to eliminate childhood weight problems and establish a "healthy-weight home... in which everyone who lives there has a lifestyle that encourages them to be at a weight that is right and healthy for them." The steps in this process are unthreatening lifestyle changes, such as focusing on nutritious foods, including treats; rationing nonhomework TV time; being active one hour or more every day; and having these changes apply to the whole family. Miller-Kovach outlines parents' responsibilities for ensuring a healthful diet for their kids: they must be food role models, food enforcers, activity providers and activity enforcers. Chapters such as "Setting Food Policy" and sections on adult versus child weight loss detail how to take these roles; sidebars called "Coach's Corner" pinpoint problems like "The Reluctant Teen." Portraits show how families made changes like taking walks or drinking nonfat milk to lose weight. In all, the book plainly offers ways to incorporate dietary common sense into a family's routine. Notes on special needs and additional sources complete the book. (Jan.) (Publishers Weekly, December 12, 2005)

About the Author

KAREN MILLER-KOVACH is Chief Scientific Officer of Weight Watchers International, Inc. She is also the coauthor of "Weight Loss That Lasts." With its mission of helping people reach and maintain a healthy weight through a comprehensive weight-management program that is based on the latest science, WEIGHT WATCHERS has meetings that provide the coaching and tools to help people make positive changes for lasting weight loss.

Six-time Emmy Award-winning MEREDITH VIEIRA is the moderator of The View, the highly rated ABC-TV talk show. She is also host of the weekday version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, for which she won her first Daytime Emmy Award in May 2005. Ms. Vieira joined ABC News in 1993; previously she had spent more than a decade at CBS News, where she garnered five Emmy Awards for her work as a correspondent on the acclaimed news magazines "60 Minutes" and "West 57th." Ms. Vieira, her husband, journalist Richard Cohen, and their three children live in New York.

A board-certified pediatrician, MARC S. JACOBSON, M.D., is a professor of pediatrics, epidemiology, and social medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is also an attending physician and director of the Center for Atherosclerosis Prevention in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Schneider Children's Hospital of Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Dr. Jacobson is Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Task Force on Obesity.