Fit Family: The Official Health Guide to Obesity Prevention

Fit Family: The Official Guidebook on Obesity Prevention details how families dealing with weight issues can develop in their own homes nutritional support, exercise fitness regimens, behavior motivation by promoting personal responsibility through prevention . The book is the latest wellness health approaches with recent research, statistics, from the CDC, NIH, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Fit Family makes recommendations that your family can utilize daily to stay fit.Dr. Wells explains scientific definitions of obesity in our culture along with exposing social myths about the cultural stigma that has traumatized children early creating often a vicious cycle of emotion-overeating and obesity. More importantly this book helps parents devise how to develop healthier attitudes towards foods and supplies usable tools that children can deal with in making healthier choices by getting them use to participating in planning meals, selecting groceries and becoming more autonomous in chosing what they eat at the dinner table. But, Dr. Wells doesn't leave the discussion there. The book looks at several trends of how eating and behavioral habits are impacting the health care industry by creating the greatest epidemic in American history. Direct costs for it are over $147 billion dollars yearly,but this doesn't account for the cost of secondary illnesses it causes such as heart disease, heart failure, stroke, diabete,high total cholesterol, high LDL, high triglyceride, high uric acid, high blood sugar, restrictive and obstructive lung disease, gastro-esophageal -relux disorder, pancreatitis, gall stones, fatty liver disease, osteo-arthritis, gout , infertility, polycystic ovarian disease, Cancer(prostate, colon, breast, uterine, leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma) , and its relationship to eating disorders, bulimia, anorexia, body dysmorphia and depression.Dr. Wells uses his expereinces as a clinician, public health advocate, researcher, and academician to list several solutions beginning with tackling what the restaruant and foods industry can do along with public agencies. Dr. Wells' research has looked at how large corporations have utilized worksite health promotion programs(wellness)to improve employee health, reduce sick days, improve commradarie, employee identification, loyalty and productivity. Similarly community health beginning with the family can also be given incentives to promote a "culture of wellness" in schools, social programs, fitness programs, and companies.The book takes a realistic look at how the delivery of health begins with a family's healthy relationship with eating and activity and how this is supported and preserved in schools and later promoted in the work force. This new "culture of wellness", shifts the paradigm from one now based on "degrees of sickness". Now, the American family and nation can become healthy as right not a mere privilege.