The Montignac Method Just for Children
How to prevent and treat obesity in the young
Language : English
Publisher : Montignac Publishing UK (2003)
Paperback - 224 pages
ISBN : 2912737206
Dimensions (inches) : 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.5
Obesity in the young is increasing at an alarming rate throughout the world.
According to a study published in 2000, in less thaf a decade one in four
children in Europe will be obese unless we make immediate changes to our
eating habits and lifestyle.
This is a situation that justifiably causes alarm, for obesity not only threatens to
shorten our lives, but in its wake follow the big killers - cardiovascular disease,
diabetes and cancer.
So, what should we eat ? Official advice over the last 50 years, telling us we
should countour calories and engage in more strenuous exercise, has clearly
not worked, despite the fact that at no time in recorded history have so many
willingly starved themselves and exercised so much.
Yet judging by the discussions in the media recently, nutritionists and doctors
appear to have little new to offer. Some suggest our children should eat less sugar,
refrain from eating "junk food" and spend less time playing on the computer. But the
suspicion lingers that this advice is merely an old, worn-out idea dressed in fashionable
clothes.
Just for Children therefore comes as a breath of fresh air, to blow away the cobwebs and
give us a new hope. It is a Gallic "tour de force", in which Michel Montignac outlines
the problems, looks at the causes from a different perspective and then comes up with
some novel solutions, based ona a painstaking apparaisal of the evidence.
Full of advice and information indispensable to nutritionists, doctors and parents alike,
Just for Children also includes a nutritional "bombshell" that is likely to exercise the
minds of the medical world for many years to come!
|
