Healthy Habits: The Program plus Food Guide Index & Easy Recipes: 8 Essential Kid-Friendly Nutrition Lessons Every Parent and Educator Needs: 1 (The Mommy Manual Series)

HEALTHY HABITS: The Program plus Food Guide Index & Easy Recipes
For children and their educators: The life-changing healthy-eating and exercise workbook developed by a registered dietitian and recommended by your doctor.

Healthy Habits’ mission is to help children develop positive relationships with eating and neutral relationships with food. It provides honest, credible and fun health education utilizing nutrition and exercise principles designed to promote positive behavioral changes. The anticipated result: lifelong healthy habits leading to optimal wellness for the entire family.

Healthy Habits’ goal is to unite children and their families to achieve long-term dietary changes and increased physical activity through personalized group education in friendly, non-judgmental environments. In other words, Healthy Habits’ ultimate goal is to encourage the development of confident children living sensibly using the “Everyday Foods versus Sometimes Foods” philosophy.

Healthy Habits can be used as a continuous eight-week program incorporating both healthy eating and exercise in order to teach children to eat sensibly and to be active. This flexible program can also be used as a guide for coaches, schoolteachers or even parents teaching nutrition. Lesson plans may be employed individually throughout the year as guides for sharing positive nutrition messages rather than a good-versus-bad nutrition philosophy. The program is divided into eight lessons, each with a hands-on nutrition activity, corresponding teacher’s plan, a child-friendly handout and homework. Healthy Habits is sensitive to eating disorder prevention, focuses on accepting all bodies, and encourages children to honor their bodies by consuming all types of food.

This health promotion workbook was developed by Laura Cipullo, RD, CDE, CEDRD, in response to the increase in eating disorders as well as the childhood obesity epidemic universally declared by the media. Healthy Habits is also a tool for families to use in preventing, or helping with, children’s food and weight issues. The program was designed to educate children of all shapes and sizes on how to make appropriate nutrition choices for the rest of their lives.

Each week children learn new nutrition concepts through hands-on activities led by a registered dietitian, a health facilitator, a teacher or even a parent. This unique approach utilizes Laura Cipullo’s expertise as a certified diabetes educator and a certified eating disorder registered dietitian. Healthy Habits is the answer to parents’ nutrition education concerns whether they are implementing the program themselves or sending their children to participate in the program.

Physical activity is recommended as an adjunct to the nutrition lessons and should be incorporated within a supportive and safe environment. The children can exercise or learn yoga and dance with an exercise physiologist, gym teacher, dance instructor or parent.

Laura Cipullo is a Registered Dietitian (RD), Certified Dietitian Nutritionist (CDN), Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE), Certified Eating Disorders Registered Dietitian (CEDRD), and President of the New York Chapter of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals.

Laura Cipullo is a nationally recognized nutritional health expert (She frequently appears on a variety of media broadcasts!), spokeswoman and private practitioner. Her continually expanding Whole Nutrition Services consulting practice has sparked the creation of many ancillary blogs, products, services. All valuable, inspirational, and applauded by the extensive community of nutrition, diabetes, and eating disorder specialists, these include:

Mom Dishes It Out: her weekly blog for helping parents learn from her experiences in/out of the kitchen—the successes, the challenges and the comedic anecdotes—as a dedicated RD and mom of two young picky-eating sons.

Eating and Living Moderately: her continuous, highly informative stream of vital nutritional, health, and lifestyle materials to help her readers learn
how to live their best lives to the fullest.

The Mommy Manual Series: her newly-created repository for a variety of currently in-development books, products, services and programs geared to help busy moms—dads and other caregivers too—with every possible issue having an impact on parenthood. Healthy Habits is the first published item in this exciting new series.