Synopses & Reviews
Weight Watchers has helped millions of people worldwide lose weight and keep it off. Now, as the global epidemic of adult and childhood obesity gets more and more serious, Weight Watchers turns its focus to the family. For the first time, Family Power provides proven, practical, real-world solutions for a healthy-weight home.
Family Power is a comprehensive guide to healthful weight management for all members of the family, including children and adolescents. Family Power answers parents' most common questions about family weight-management issues while clearly telling you what works and what doesn't. The latest scientific research has shown that children are strongly influenced by the food- and physical activityrelated decisions made by parents and other family members, and this knowledge provides the basis for the advice in this breakthrough book. Karen Miller-Kovach, Chief Scientific Officer of Weight Watchers International, reveals the most effective family weight-management strategies while sharing the inspiring stories and experiences of families who have adopted them to show how everyone in your family can develop good lifestyle habits and achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
This friendly, practical guide outlines the basics of weight management and shows the important differences between children and adults when approaching weight management. Family Power then explores the 5 Simple Rules for optimal family health, explaining why they work and how to make them a positive and enjoyable part of family life. Family Power advocates that families make small, consistent changes in their lifestyles, and following the Rules is a realistic and healthy way to make these changes. You'll discover the roles parents play in reinforcing the Rules while keeping children active and involved. You'll see how to handle special situations and challengesfrom untraditional family structures to unhelpful peopleand you'll find out where to get extra help if you need it.
Filled with the motivational profiles of families who have achieved healthy-weight homes as well as expert advice from their coaches, Family Power will help coach you and your family so that you can live together in a healthy-weight home too. To find out the latest on creating a healthy-weight home, log on to WeightWatchers.com/family.
Review
* 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)
Review
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)
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.
Synopsis
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 homein which all family members have a lifestyle that supports nutritious eating and regular physical activitycan 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 togetherwithout 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.
Synopsis
From the world s #1 name in weight loss comes a major new book on halting the family obesity epidemic
Weight Watchers, the most respected and popular weight-loss company in the world, has helped millions of people drop the pounds and keep them off. Now, as adult and childhood obesity epidemics get ever worse, Weight Watchers is turning its focus to the family. Weight Watchers Family Power is a comprehensive guide to healthful weight management for all members of the family including children and adolescents. The latest scientific research has shown that children are strongly influenced by the food- and physical activity related decisions made by parents and other family members. This knowledge provides the basis for the advice in this breakthrough book.
Weight Watchers Family Power features 5 simple rules for optimal family health and weight loss a similar successful format to the 10 weight-loss myths discussed in Weight Watchers recent bestselling book Weight Watchers Weight Loss That Lasts. Readers will learn from inspirational family profiles throughout the book, drawn primarily from participants in Weight Watchers pilot program for childhood weight management. All information is based in science yet presented in a friendly, optimistic, and proactive manner to get families together with the goal of losing weight and improving their overall health safely and easily.
Weight Watchers is America s most trusted name in weight loss and the global leader in weight-loss services. With 46,000 weekly meetings in 30 countries, Weight Watchers mission is to help people reach and maintain a healthy weight. Karen Miller-Kovach (LongIsland, NY) is the Chief Scientific Officer for Weight Watchers International. She was the coauthor of Weight Loss That Lasts (0-471-73629-5).
Synopsis
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.
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.
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Marc S. Jacobson, M.D.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction by Meredith Vieira.
PART ONE: What Is a Healthy-Weight Home?
Chapter 1: When Weight Is an Issue.
Chapter 2: Getting Ready for Change.
Chapter 3: Kids Are Not Little Adults.
Chapter 4: The 5 Simple Rules.
Chapter 5: The Roles Parents Play.
PART TWO: Family Power.
Chapter 6: The Kids Are Watching.
Chapter 7: Active Parents, Active Kids.
Chapter 8: Putting Food on the Table.
Chapter 9: Helping Kids Move.
Chapter 10: Setting Food Policy.
Chapter 11: Sit Less, Move More.
Chapter 12: Being on the Lookout.
Chapter 13: Taking It outside the Home.
PART THREE: Special Circumstances.
Chapter 14: Few Families Are Traditional.
Chapter 15: When and Where to Get Extra Help.
Sources.
Index.