Super Sized Kids

Author : Walt Larimore
Publisher : Florida Hospital Publishing
ISBN 13 : 044657760X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Super-sized Kids written by Walt Larimore and published by Florida Hospital Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experts at America's 'Hospital of the Future' provide a comprehensive approach to helping parents control their children's weight while developing a healthy, active lifestyle. Studies show that as many as one in four American children is overweight, and childhood obesity rates have doubled since the late 1970s. Medical problems that doctors once saw only in adults aged 50 or older are now striking individuals in their 20s and younger, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, colorectal cancer, high blood pressure, asthma, joint problems, and arthritis. In this essential new book, a pediatric endocrinologist and a respected dietician present a step-by-step, medically sound, and achievable weight-control program that will benefit the whole family. Poor diet and sedentary lifestyles-as well as a lack of parental guidance-are at the root of this child obesity epidemic. Studies show that approximately 40 % of obese children will grow up to be obese adults. This book seeks to break this alarming pattern.

Author : Aubrey Gordon
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807041300
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat written by Aubrey Gordon and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people. Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further towards authentic fat activism, which includes ending legal weight discrimination, giving equal access to health care for large people, increased access to public spaces, and ending anti-fat violence. As she argues, “I did not come to body positivity for self-esteem. I came to it for social justice.” By sharing her experiences as well as those of others—from smaller fat to very fat people—she concludes that to be fat in our society is to be seen as an undeniable failure, unlovable, unforgivable, and morally condemnable. Fatness is an open invitation for others to express disgust, fear, and insidious concern. To be fat is to be denied humanity and empathy. Studies show that fat survivors of sexual assault are less likely to be believed and less likely than their thin counterparts to report various crimes; 27% of very fat women and 13% of very fat men attempt suicide; over 50% of doctors describe their fat patients as “awkward, unattractive, ugly and noncompliant”; and in 48 states, it’s legal—even routine—to deny employment because of an applicant’s size. Advancing fat justice and changing prejudicial structures and attitudes will require work from all people. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat is a crucial tool to create a tectonic shift in the way we see, talk about, and treat our bodies, fat and thin alike.

Author : Michael DeForge
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 9781770462243
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Kids written by Michael DeForge and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage misfits and adolescent rabble-rousing take center stage in this dark coming-of-age tale Big Kids is simultaneously Michael DeForge's most straightforward narrative and his most complex work to date. It follows a troubled teenage boy through the transformative years of high school as he redefines his friends, his interests, and his life path. When the boy's uncle, a police officer, gets kicked out of the family's basement apartment and transferred to the countryside, April moves in. She's a college student, mysterious and cool, and she quickly takes a shine to the boy. The boy's own interests quickly fade away: he stops engaging in casual sex, taking drugs, and testing the limits of socially acceptable (and legal) behavior. Instead, he hangs out with April and her friends, a bunch of highly evolved big kids who spend their days at the campus swimming pool. And slowly, the boy begins to change, too. Eerie and perfectly paced, DeForge's Big Kids muses on the complicated, and often contradictory, feelings people struggle with during adolescence, the choices we make to fit in, and the ways we survive times of change. Like Ant Colony and First Year Healthy, Big Kids is a testimony to the harshness and beauty of being alive.

Author : Lincoln Peirce
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449402321
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Nate written by Lincoln Peirce and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Nate, a.k.a. middle schooler Nate Wright, is eleven years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the wunderkind creation of cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. Nate is also the star of six novelized books to be published by HarperCollins, the first of which debuted on the New York Times children's best-seller list. This Big Nate Collection collects Peirce's Big Nate strips, originally published only in newspapers. For those not familiar with Big Nate, think Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Calvin and Hobbes. Nate is a self-described genius and a sixth-grade Renaissance man equipped with only a #2 pencil and the unshakable belief that he is destined for greatness (a fortune cookie told him so). He fights a daily battle against overzealous teachers, undercooked cafeteria food, and all-around conventionality. He's the original rebel without a clue, alternately abrasive and endearing to classmates and teachers alike. Throughout Peirce's Big Nate Collection, Nate blazes an unforgettable trail through the sixth grade at P.S. 38, earning straight As in laughs (and numerous detentions) along the way.

Author : Janet Bord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mazes and Labyrinths of the World written by Janet Bord and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From delivery to nursing, diaper duty to bath time, this book walks siblings and their parents through basics of bringing a new baby home. Also included is a note to parents with tips on how to prepare the older child for the new baby and what to expect.

Author : Catherine D. Hughes
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426308469
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Kids First Big Book of Dinosaurs written by Catherine D. Hughes and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides pictures and brief facts about a variety of different kinds of dinosaurs.

Author : Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Publisher : Little People, BIG DREAMS
ISBN 13 : 071126659X
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Attenborough written by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and published by Little People, BIG DREAMS. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this board book from the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of David Attenborough, the inspiring broadcaster and conservationist.

Author : Jim Kershner
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800399
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carl Maxey written by Jim Kershner and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Maxey was, in his own words, “a guy who started from scratch - black scratch.” He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children's Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the only other “colored” orphan. Yet Maxey managed to make a national name for himself, first as an NCAA championship boxer at Gonzaga University, and then as eastern Washington's first prominent black lawyer and a renowned civil rights attorney who always fought for the underdog. During the tumultuous civil rights and Vietnam War eras, Carl Maxey fought to break down color barriers in his hometown of Spokane and throughout the nation. As a defense lawyer, he made national headlines working on lurid murder cases and war-protest trials, including the notorious Seattle Seven trial. He even took his commitment to justice and antiwar causes to the political arena, running for the U.S. Senate against powerhouse senator Henry M. Jackson. In Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life, Jim Kershner explores the sources of Maxey's passions as well as the price he ultimately paid for his struggles. The result is a moving portrait of a man called a “Type-A Gandhi” by the New York Times, whose own personal misfortune spurred his lifelong, tireless crusade against injustice.

Author : Ed Emberley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780744581324
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Go Away, Big Green Monster! written by Ed Emberley and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has a bluish-greenish nose, sharp white teeth and big yellow eyes? It is the Big Green Monster, in this book children can change the features of the monster, it is designed to help dispel their fears of night-time monsters.

Author : Andy Seliverstoff
Publisher : Little Kids and Their Big Dogs
ISBN 13 : 9781943824403
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Kids and Their Big Dogs written by Andy Seliverstoff and published by Little Kids and Their Big Dogs. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From celebrated photographer Andy Seliverstoff, another volume of gorgeous images of little kids kissing, hugging, playing, laughing, jumping, and just generally loving the big dogs in their lives. "Nothing short of magical," the Today Show wrote about Seliverstoff's first "Little Kids and Their Big Dogs" book. "You'll never see anything as adorable as these little kids with big dogs," agreed Buzzfeed. "Outrageously precious" added People magazine. This second volume contains a global assortment of some of the biggest dogs on the planet, from Irish Wolfhounds and Great Danes to lesser-known breeds like Spanish Mastiffs and Caucasian Shepherds. Also available are "Little Kids and Their Big Dogs" greeting cards, a 2018 calendar, and, of course, Volume 1.