Slim & Fit Kids: Raising Healthy Children in a Fast-Food World
Author: Judy Mazel
From the author of The New Beverly Hills Diet, this book will show readers how to raise healthy, happy Children - by teaching them how to eat wisely and well.
In 1996, shortly after best-selling author Judy Mazel released the sequel to her original book The New Beverly Hills Diet, Dr. John Monaco, a pediatric critical care specialist and former "fat kid," turned to Mazel's program to combat his own critical weight problem and improve his health. After achieving great success himself, he decided that where adults succeeded on the program, kids could, too - perhaps even more so. Most important, Dr. Monaco realized that obesity among children was the main factor precipitating life-threatening diseases among them - such as asthma, diabetes and clinical depression - as well as other serious, though not potentially fatal, problems like excessive strain on bones, joints and muscles.
Mazel and Monaco have teamed up to offer parents Slim and Fit Kids, a one-of-a-kind approach to raising healthy, well-adjusted children. Combining Mazel's successful twenty-plus years of experience with food combining with Monaco's pediatric expertise, this book will teach parents everything they need to know about nutrition, digestion and nutrient absorption. This compelling book provides easy-to-understand information on the science of pediatric nutrition, as well as down-to-earth reminders on children's natural eating habits, making it easy and fun for parents to teach healthy nutritional habits that will last a lifetime.
Divided into two parts, the first focuses on children's obesity. Chapters in this part include an overview of the problem of obesity in children and the diseases and disorders it engenders; Dr. Monaco's discovery of the Beverly Hills Diet and his idea to adapt it to children's nutrition; an overview of the digestive process; a summary of developmental nutrition, explaining the nutritional needs and issues of each age group; and personal accounts of the childhood obesity problem. The second part shows parents the practical steps to incorporating the nutritional principles they have learned into a daily program for their kids.
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Corks and Forks: Thirty Years of Wine and Food
Author: Robert Finigan
Some may remember Robert Finigan's private wine newsletter, published from 1972 to 1990. Others will know him as the author of the esteemed Robert Finigan's Essentials of Wine. As a critic-at-large, Finigan has dined in the best restaurants and tasted in the finest cellars of the world, and in Corks and Forks he jovially recounts his experiences and the celebrity chefs and winemakers he met along the way.
The events Finigan took part in are now legendary. For the famous Paris Tasting of 1976, Finigan recommended many California Cabernets and Chardonnays that shockingly outpointed their French counterparts. With nine of the world's most distinguished wine tasting professionals, he conducted the re-evaluation of the 1855 Bordeaux classification — the first in 140 years. He has stepped into the private kitchens of Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher, James Beard, Jeremiah Tower, Michel Guerard, and Jean Troisgros, and sipped wine with Robert Mondavi, Ernest Gallo, and Kermit Lynch — to name just a few of the luminaries profiled in this delightful collection.
As much a chronicle of the developments in food and wine as it is a memoir of the man who witnessed them, Corks and Forks is sure to whet anyone's palate.
Library Journal
The title of this book could just as well have been People, Places and Wines I've Known. Finigan, a well-known wine critic from San Francisco, has supped at the tables of none less than Julia Child, Ernest Gallo, and Christian Moueix and here includes many renowned figures in wine and food from the past 30 years. His folksy writing style allows the reader to smell the smells and experience the terroir while being taken behind the walls of some of the most prestigious chateaux, wineries, and kitchens in the world. Finigan writes of well-known events, such as Robert Mondavi's split from the Charles Krug winery in the 1960s and the 1976 tasting in Paris, which catapulted California wines to world recognition, but all his vignettes have a personal note. In the end, Finigan's stories of European and American wining and dining can stimulate hunger for good wine and food. This memoir will be especially enjoyed by those who have appreciated Finigan's other writings, including Which Wine: At-a-Glance Listings of the Three Best Wines for Every Menu, Every Occasion, Every Budget. Highly recommended, particularly on the West Coast. Ann Weber, Bellarmine Coll. Preparatory Lib., San Jose, CA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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