Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food / Fake Food World

In a world dominated by fast food, fake food, and rising childhood obesity rates, establishing healthy eating habits in children is one of the greatest concerns for parents-and potentially one of the greatest challenges. Renowned physician Dr. David Ludwig offers the tools families need to keep the kitchen table from becoming a battleground.In 1996, Dr. Ludwig founded a revolutionary program at Children's Hospital Boston, where he and his team tailored a low-glycemic diet for children and combined it with a lifestyle plan that benefits the whole family. Here he outlines the program that has worked for thousands of families and offers tasty recipes, motivational tips, and activities.With compassion and insight gained from years of working with overweight children, Dr. Ludwig provides an essential guide for all parents.

Dr. David Ludwig is an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School as well as director of the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Program at Children's Hospital Boston, one of the largest U.S. clinics for overweight children and their parents Suzanne Rostler is a dietitian at the OWL clinic. She received an M.S. in clinical nutrition from New York University