Sheri Colberg-Ochs

eBook, ePUB

Diabetes-Free Kids (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

your teenager or younger child spends too much time playing video games, watching television, and loading up on junk foods, this book is for you! Diabetes-Free Kids addresses the burgeoning epidemic of type 2 diabetes among youth by setting out an easy and doable action plan parents can use to try to prevent the illness and to better manage it. This guide shows parents how crucial exercise and proper nutrition are for fighting type 2 diabetes. It provides a clear plan for diet and exercise that will get even the pickiest eaters to enjoy healthier, yet satisfying, meals and snacks and that will motivate even the most sedentary youth to start moving. This updated and expanded program includes: • guidelines for foods kids should avoid or eat more of; • tips for making over meals and snacks into delicious, healthier options; • fun (and doable) physical activities; • easy, structured exercise routines; and • useful tips about diabetes medications and supplements. A wealth of practical information in the book helps parents get their children to safely and effectively lose weight and lower their blood glucose levelsand possibly even reverse diabetes for good.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 3.54MB
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

FICTION: SHERI OCHS started writing children's books when she was just a child herself, beginning with a whole series of (yet unpublished) short stories that she wrote and illustrated at the age of nine. Although she has made a name for herself writing and publishing eight nonfiction books to date about health, fitness, and diabetesunder her professional name of Dr. Sheri Colberg (www.shericolberg.com)she still prefers to read fiction of all genres in her leisure time and write fiction in her "spare" time.

The Sandy Beach series is her first work of published fiction, written for youth (and adults) of all ages. She has also written two adult novels (to date) that will be published shortly.

NONFICTION: Publishing nonfiction using her professional name, SHERI COLBERG is an exercise physiologist and professor of exercise science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She received her doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. Living a long time with type 1 diabetes herself, she specializes in diabetes and exercise, conducting extensive clinical research in diabetes and exercise with funding from the American Diabetes Association, National Institutes of Health, and others. She has also authored more than 250 articles on exercise and diabetes, as well as more than a dozen other books.

A frequent lecturer on diabetes and physical activity, Dr. Colberg is also a funded diabetes researcher, a reviewer for many scientific journals, a member of several diabetes advisory boards, an exercise adviser for dLife, a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, and an active professional member of the American Diabetes Association and its Prevention Committee.

Dr. Colberg recently moved back to California with her husband and their three boys, who have given her more than a decade's worth of practical parenting experience. An avid recreational exerciser, she enjoys swimming, biking, walking, fitness machines, weight training, and hiking. Visit Dr. Colberg's website at www.SheriColberg.com. Access her other websites, Diabetes Motion (www.diabetesmotion.com), and Diabetes Motion Academy (www.dmacademy.com).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sheri Colberg-Ochs
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781937971069
• Artikelnr.: 69855205