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An essential guide to understanding and improving any child's eating habits This comprehensive nutrition guide gives parents the tools for encouraging kids of any age on the path to healthy eating. Pediatric nutrition experts Castle and Jacobsen simplify nutrition information, describe how children's eating habits correspond to their stage of development, provide step-by-step feeding guidance, and show parents how to relax about feeding their kids and get healthy meals on the table fast. * Prepares parents by explaining what to expect at different stages of growth, whether it be picky eating, growth spurts or poor body image * Helps parents work through problems such as food allergies, nutrient deficiencies and weight management, and identifying if and when they need to seek professional help * Empowers parents to take a whole-family approach to feeding including maximizing their own health and well-being * Offers fun, easy recipes parents can make for, and with, kids Fearless Feeding translates complicated nutrition advice into simple feeding plans for every age and stage that take the fear out of feeding kids.
About the Author
Jill Castle is one of the nation's premier childhood nutrition experts. Known as a paradigm shifter who blends current research, practical application and common sense, Jill inspires audiences to think differently about feeding kids. From babies to teens, Jill takes a unique, "whole-child" approach to showcase food, feeding and childhood development as the secret ingredients to raising a healthy child. A sought-after speaker, advisor, and media contributor, Jill has inspired TEDx, American Academy of Pediatrics, WIC, university groups, and a range of nutrition, medical, government and parent audiences. Jill is on the Board of Advisors of Parents Magazine, and is scientific advisor to a handful of privately held child nutrition companies. She is the author of Try New Food: How to Help Picky Eaters Taste, Eat & Like New Foods (February 2019) , The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids, Eat Like a Champion and co-author of Fearless Feeding (2nd edition February 2019) . She pens The Nourished Child blog, interviews experts on her podcast of the same name, and regularly contributes to US News & World Report's For Parents blog. She has appeared in The New York Times, WebMD, Fast Company, USA Today, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Fox and Friends, NBC-CT, and Parents Magazine. She and her husband have four kids, two dogs and live in CT.
