Robert Pretlow, MD - Interviews:
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Sample Pages:
Back Cover
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Testimonials
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Contents
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Forward
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Parents
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Professionals
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By
Robert Pretlow, MD
-- Overweight kids are seldom heard and poorly understood. This
book presents what overweight
kids say about being
overweight - their stories, struggles, and successes - in
their own words, with commentary by the author. The source is 134,000 messages from an
open-access website for overweight kids. With stunning
honesty these kids share their difficult lives, their shame
and secrecy, and their
frustration with parents and health professionals. The
degree to which these kids struggle to lose weight is
staggering. A third say they turn to food when sad, angry, lonely,
depressed, stressed, or bored. For most, this ‘comfort
eating’ appears to be unconscious, mindless. The disaster is
that they get hooked on the behavior and are unable to stop. They struggle
to resist cravings for highly pleasurable foods like junk
food, knowing full well the
dreadful effects of weight gain, which is highly suggestive of an
addictive dependence. Their success stories are an inspiration
to kids just starting out. The book examines what's really
causing the childhood obesity epidemic, the ‘why now,’ and
what might be done about it from a treatment, prevention,
and policy standpoint. New solutions for kids to lose weight are presented. (342
pages)