Family Fun and Fitness

Knute Keeling

Description

Personal trainer and father, Knute Keeling, shows parents how to flex their creative muscles and start taking control of their family's health. Packed with fun ways to make nutrient-dense whole foods and exercise a central positive aspect of family life.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• diététique
• Fitness
• Health
• Exercise

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 01 août 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781591205142
• Langue: English

Extrait

Praise for
F AMILY F UN AND F ITNESS
Family Fun and Fitness is a book that every parent concerned about their child's health (and their own health) must have. Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions, but the truth is that children’s habits are formed from their parent's example. This book provides parents with easy-to-use, effective information and tips that will permanently benefit the whole family's health. If you love your children … and who doesn't … Family Fun and Fitness is a must have.
—J ORGE E. R ODRIGUEZ , M.D., INTERNIST , O RANGE C OAST M EDICAL G ROUP, AND MEDICAL CONSULTANT ON ABC’ S T HE V IEW

Preventive medicine effectively starts at birth. As a physician who has practiced internal medicine and cardiology for more than fifty years, I have spent the greater part of this time treating the results of disease that could have been prevented. Family Fun and Fitness is an excellent book that shows the way, from the very beginning, to achieve good health for your family.
—E UGENE B. L EVIN , M.D., F.A.C.P., INTERNIST AND CARDIOLOGIST , P ACIFIC C REST M EDICAL G ROUP , L AGUNA B EACH , CA

Family Fun and Fitness successfully captures the importance of a healthy family lifestyle. This book gives inventive suggestions, motivating ideas, and strong healthy direction that parents need for their children. I highly recommend Family Fun and Fitness to all families.
—E DWARD L. S MITH , D.O., FAMILY PRACTITIONER , P ERSONAL AND F AMILY H EALTHCARE , L AGUNA N IGUEL , CA

Family Fun and Fitness is a must for parents who want to optimize the health of their children in our increasingly sedentary and fast-food-filled world. This book contains the essentials parents need to create a home environment conducive to a healthy family lifestyle. We all know that leading by example is the best way to teach our children, and if you follow these recommendations the whole family will be healthier because of it.
—R OBERT K ESSLER , M.D., F.A.C.S., AESTHETIC SURGEON AND CONSULTANT ON ABC’ S E XTREME M AKEOVER
F AMILY F UN AND F ITNESS
Getting Healthy and Staying Healthy—Together
KNUTE KEELING
The information contained in this book is based upon the research and personal and professional experiences of the author. It is not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician or other healthcare provider. Any attempt to diagnose and treat an illness should be done under the direction of a healthcare professional.
The publisher does not advocate the use of any particular healthcare protocol but believes the information in this book should be available to the public. The publisher and author are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of the suggestions, preparations, or procedures discussed in this book. Should the reader have any questions concerning the appropriateness of any procedures or preparation mentioned, the author and the publisher strongly suggest consulting a professional healthcare advisor.
Basic Health Publications, Inc. 28812 Top of the World Drive Laguna Beach, CA 92651 949-715-7327 • www.basichealthpub.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Keeling, Knute
Family fun and fitness : getting healthy and staying healthy-together / Knute Keeling.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59120-514-2
1. Children—Health and hygiene—Popular works. 2. Physical fitness for children—Popular works. I. Title.
RJ61.K257 2009
613’.0432—dc22
2009026735
Copyright © 2009 by Knute Keeling
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner.
Editor: Cheryl Hirsch Typesetting/Graphic design: Gary A. Rosenberg Cover design: Mike Stromberg
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Kids In Crisis: The Big Picture of Children’s Health
2. A Really Good Start: Pre-Pregnancy, Prenatal, and Postpartum Nutrition and Fitness
3. Fit Family Food Fundamentals
4. Fit Family Food Plan
5. Fitness-Loving Kids: Fitness for School-Aged Children and Their Parents
6. Fit Family, Smart Family, Happy Family
7. Secrets of Fit, Energized Families
Appendix: Fit Family Recipes
Resources: More Family Fun and Fitness to Come
About the Author
Dedicated to my best friend and wife, Nikki, and our beautiful daughters, Cameron and Kianna, who have made my life go from black and white to color .
The fun and spirit of our family inspired the idea and vision for this book .
Acknowledgments
I am grateful to many family and friends who have formed my foundation as a family man. I would like to first acknowledge Melissa Lynn Block for her amazing writing skills and for her ability to take all this information and put it together for this book. I would like to also acknowledge Tracey Bouknight for her photography and wonderful artistic ideas. I would like to give special thanks to Norman Goldfind at Basic Health Publications for listening to my idea and for believing in this important material.
I would like to give thanks in addition to Dr. Bruce Connell, Dennis Camene, and Jon Madison for their friendship, advice, and amazing support of my family.
I would like to also acknowledge my parents for all their adventurous camping trips that involved fishing, swimming, and nature walks. These healthy childhood experiences helped instill in me a sense of the importance of family fitness, which is what this book is all about.
I would like to also thank my best man, Colin Cashin, and his beautiful wife, Michelle, along with their incredible kids. This “studly” family is the healthiest, most active family I know. Thank you Cashins for all the great Thanksgiving Day dinners, and thanks, Colin, for the intense rock climbing at Joshua Tree National Park, the scuba diving in Catalina, and that crazy climb of Mount San Jacinto Peak.
Finally, I would like to acknowledge Margie and Joe Peeler of Oklahoma, who gave me a place to live while in school. Thanks for going to all my football games and for making me a special part of your family up to this very day! I will always be grateful to you for taking me in as a young man and for teaching me the family values that I continue to live by with my own family.
Introduction
Y ou care deeply about the health of your children. You want them to be fit and happy and to do well in school and in life. Looking back, even from your present wiser, more seasoned vantage point, you know how hard it can be to be a kid … how irresistible it can be to indulge in less-than-healthful habits … and yet how much good health matters.
You’re a good parent, a motivated parent, a parent who is willing to go the extra yard for the benefit of your family. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t have bothered to pick up this book. Of course, you want to give your children the best possible start. And you know that a major aspect of a great start in life includes being at a healthy weight and fitness level and eating healthfully. But you’re up against some formidable adversaries:
• A huge variety of high-calorie, intensely sweet or salty, delicious, brightly colored, ingeniously packaged and advertised foods—some of which are served to your child when you aren’t around. Even the best-intentioned parent who never gives his or her children these sorts of foods will be faced with a child who’s hooked when he comes home wild-eyed from a party, face and hands sticky with sugar and artificial colorings, raving about the cake, and stuffing goodie-bag treats into his mouth.
• Some of the most engaging entertainment ever created—video games, computer games, computer-based socializing—all which involve (for the most part) sitting and staring at a screen.
Oversized portions of bad-for-your-kids foods are everywhere. They are rewarded with sweet treats at school and may be eating school lunches that leave much to be desired in terms of nutrition. Sedentary leisure activities are taking over where playgrounds and neighborhood backyards once predominated. Schools and home life are conspiring to keep your kids from getting the physical activity they need. As a result, children are getting fatter and unhealthier with each passing year.
According to Trust for America’s Health, an independent research group, one-third of America’s children are overweight, and the percentage of American children who are heavy enough to be categorized as obese (what this means, exactly, you’ll learn later in this book) has more than tripled since the 1970s.
Although your daughter might only be concerned about her weight because she wants to look like a stick-thin celebrity, you know that the problems with being heavy go well beyond this concern. Being obese is a health risk. Sure, you can be fit and eat healthy and be overweight—the research proves this. But for the most part, a person who is obese is not eating well or exercising regularly, and is at risk for a long laundry list of scary diseases, including type 2 diabetes and heart disease. A child who is obese is likely to start facing these health problems well before hitting late-middle age. Type 2 diabetes used to be called adult-onset diabetes because pediatricians almost never saw it in their patients. That has changed. For the first time in U.S. history, this current generation of kids is expected to have a lifespan shorter than the one before it.
This book contains all the tools you need to begin taking control of your family’s health and doing all you can to ensure that your child gets the best possible start.
• In Chapter 1 , “Kids in Crisis: The Big Picture of Children’s Health,” you’ll learn more about the state of our health and the roadblocks in the way of moving into a more energized, fit way o