Promote nutritional health and tackle childhood obesity with the latest practice tools and recommendations from the AAP. This popular manual will help guide pediatric health care professionals by providing information, strategies, and suggestions for approaches to prevention, intervention, and treatment for childhood obesity at the primary care level.
Starting with chapters on assessment and evaluation, each subsequent chapter focuses on a specific developmental stage with strategies for prevention of obesity in the normal weight population, intervention for children at risk for obesity, and treatment approaches for those children and adolescents whose BMIs are already greater than 95%.
Included in each chapter are questions for parents and self-assessment exercises to enhance parenting information and skill in making family-based change.
Obtain the latest point-of-care recommendations and ready-to-use tools including:
- Step-by-step health supervision visit guidance spanning birth through young adulthood
- Numerous real-life case studies illustrating family intervention strategies
- New chapter titled, "Before Birth: Maternal Health"
- Patient education handouts, self-assessment forms, and counseling for pediatric patients and families
- Coding fact sheets for obesity-related health care services and template letter for handling carrier denials
- Growth charts for boys and girls including the new WHO growth charts
- And more!
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Them and us
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 - In the beginning everything was ocean
- Colombia was born under the sea
- The oasis in the Caribbean desert
- The Pacific: An ocean on its own terms
- Chapter 2 - Cambrian Park
- Once upon a time at sea...
- The great Cambrian explosion
- A tour of the Cambrian Park
- Chapter 3 - The Last Frontier
- Deep dive
- Five percent explored
- How did a coral conquer the world?
- The temptation of the twilight zone
- Open knowledge for the deep sea
- Chapter 4 - Synergies in the rainforest
- The tree kingdom
- The synergies become the land
- Chapter 5 - From the mountains to the rivers
- From the top
- With the mountains comes change
- There is no life without water
- Chapter 6 - The point of no return
- The race against time
- The sixth great extinction of life
- The arrival of the invaders
- And the weather starts to change
- And deterioration takes the continents
- Do our conservation measures work?
- How will the extinction of species affect us?
- Institutional framework for biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Chapter 7 - Life support
- The essential element
- Water management
- Water disasters
- The plastic era
- The steroid overflow
- The cure is worse than the disease
- Our encounter with water
- Chapter 8 - Microbiota: hidden biodiversity
- Redefining the body
- Probiota
- Our synergies
- What if we don’t function well as an ecosystem?
- And do all living organisms work in the same way?
- Viruses, shapers of life
- Chapter 9 - Zoonoses and pandemics: the cost of altering biodiversity?
- Arboviruses: they emphasize their innateness in humans
- The century of pandemics
- COVID-19: an announced pandemic
- Zoonotic overflow: the danger of disrupting biodiversity
- Chapter 10 - The biodiversity vs. development dilemma
- Can the biodiversity crisis be humanized?
- Discussion of biodiversity vs. development dilemmas, in the classroom
- Hydroelectric
- Legalization of illicit crops
- Invasive species
- GM seeds
- Vegetarian?
- Does the cultivation of oil palm affect biodiversity?
- Chapter 11 - Why do we depend on biodiversity?
- Towards a new development model
- Immediate opportunities
- One last word for education
- References cited
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