Raising Low-Fat Kids in a High-Fat World

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Summary: This book was a great help to my husband and I
Review: I have red so many health books over the years and Raising Low Fat Kids in a High Fat World is the only one which not only presents the food facts but gives you easy steps on how to get your whole family to embrace dietary changes. Judith Shaw understands that food changes cannot be dictated to ones family but must be made in partnership with them and she provides sound advice on how to achieve this. Her recipes and ideas for food replacements and recipe alterations are fabulous and reflect the wealth of her cooking experience (Judith apprenticed at Chez Panisse for three years). When discussing the facts about fact Judith includes information on the dangers of hydrogenated oils (a kind of fat I was not previously aware of) and aptly describes them as the "food industry's Trojan horse". The tables of cooking times for grains and legumes are also very useful. This book was a great help to my husband and I

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Summary: A wise and practical book for parents interested in nutritio
Review: This is a unique book on how to change your family's diet without fights or deprivation. Judith Shaw, a wise psychotherapist and a marvelous cook, leads the reader through the reasons to change a family's food toward a healthy, lowfat pattern, and she takes the reader through all the necessary steps to accomplish this. I love the attention she gives to favorite foods and children's reactions to change. With this book, you can enlist the whole family in the adventure of finding a better way to eat

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Summary: An excellent resource
Review: This is a very well-written book. I originally borrowed it from the library and decided right away that I wanted my own copy. It explains how to alter your diet from a typical high-fat American diet to a lower-fat, healthy one without a mutiny from your family.

It was eye-opening to learn how to read nutrition labels on packaged foods so that I really understood how much fat was in the things I was eating. It was also immensely helpful to see WHY certain ingredients (like hydrogenated oils) are bad for you. There are lots of great recipes in this book, and also demonstrations of how you can change recipes you are already using so that they will be lower in fat. There's plenty of info on what kinds of healthy, low-fat foods you can feed your children for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, and on how you can still eat out without consuming tons of saturated fats.

The only thing I found frustrating about this book was the focus on replacing high-fat dairy products with other dairy prodcuts. As someone who is allergic to all dairy, I would hope for some suggestions of non-dairy ingredients with which to replace cheeses and cream, especially since dairy products are so laden with saturated fats. Otherwise, I found this to be a very helpful book.