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Food for You
This introduction to healthy eating gives tweens and teenagers the tools they need to understand and take control of their eating habits, promoting confidence, self-esteem and well-being.
As well as providing fun, easy recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts and snacks, Food for You covers information on how to read food labels, food groups, eating disorders, vegetarianism, veganism, environmental issues, and more.
As well as providing fun, easy recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts and snacks, Food for You covers information on how to read food labels, food groups, eating disorders, vegetarianism, veganism, environmental issues, and more.
64 pages, Library Binding
Published January 1, 2023
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August 8, 2018
I came across this book recently on social media and was interested right away. The cover is eye-catching and it's marketed to "tweens and teens". Having a tween myself, I decided to borrow this from the library to see what it was about.
The author, according to her website, is the owner of a cooking school in CA that teaches kids and families how to cook through classes and workshops. That's really cool and she'd be a great choice for authoring a book that teaches kids to cook. This is not that book.
This book uses tween-friendly illustrations and magazine-style dialogue to basically explain the USDA's MyPlate. There are a lot of problems with this including: 1. No research is cited. 2. The author has no qualifications for dispensing nutrition advice. 3. The statistics in the US for diseases directly related to the Standard American Diet is dismal and the USDA is the last place I'd personally choose to seek nutrition advice from.
There's also wording used and information not said that, in my opinion as a mother and someone who's struggled with eating disorders, is dangerous. For instance, the author talks about getting the "right nutrients from food" and the "right proportions". This implies that there are "wrong" nutrients and "wrong" proportions. The words "good" and "bad" are also used to describe foods. Example: "Why is soda bad?" "You may think fats are bad for you..."
More than once, the idea of energy being stored as fat is mentioned along with the reminder that soda can lead to weight gain. No further information is given. Growing tweens and teens should be gaining weight and some body fat is essential for life. Without this additional information, the reader could be lead to understand that gaining weight is bad and storing fat is bad. Most adults in this country don't fully understand the effects their diet has on their health, so assuming that children do is ignorant.
Food for You contains contradictory advice, advice that is confusing, and flat-out bad advice, such as this disturbing line: "Balance out the dessert by possibly eating less bread or a smaller portion of meat during your meal." Nevermind that meat has protein and fat in it that's necessary for life as opposed to a dessert that is presumably packed with sugar and according to this book can "have a negative impact on your health".
This book of "general rules" and bad advice isn't something I would feel comfortable handing to anyone in my life, particularly tweens and teens. It's frustrating that this book was even published in the first place. Again, from this author I would love to see an actual cookbook with advice for beginners in the kitchen. And a book of nutritional advice for this age group could be appropriate if it was handled meticulously by experts in that field.
The author, according to her website, is the owner of a cooking school in CA that teaches kids and families how to cook through classes and workshops. That's really cool and she'd be a great choice for authoring a book that teaches kids to cook. This is not that book.
This book uses tween-friendly illustrations and magazine-style dialogue to basically explain the USDA's MyPlate. There are a lot of problems with this including: 1. No research is cited. 2. The author has no qualifications for dispensing nutrition advice. 3. The statistics in the US for diseases directly related to the Standard American Diet is dismal and the USDA is the last place I'd personally choose to seek nutrition advice from.
There's also wording used and information not said that, in my opinion as a mother and someone who's struggled with eating disorders, is dangerous. For instance, the author talks about getting the "right nutrients from food" and the "right proportions". This implies that there are "wrong" nutrients and "wrong" proportions. The words "good" and "bad" are also used to describe foods. Example: "Why is soda bad?" "You may think fats are bad for you..."
More than once, the idea of energy being stored as fat is mentioned along with the reminder that soda can lead to weight gain. No further information is given. Growing tweens and teens should be gaining weight and some body fat is essential for life. Without this additional information, the reader could be lead to understand that gaining weight is bad and storing fat is bad. Most adults in this country don't fully understand the effects their diet has on their health, so assuming that children do is ignorant.
Food for You contains contradictory advice, advice that is confusing, and flat-out bad advice, such as this disturbing line: "Balance out the dessert by possibly eating less bread or a smaller portion of meat during your meal." Nevermind that meat has protein and fat in it that's necessary for life as opposed to a dessert that is presumably packed with sugar and according to this book can "have a negative impact on your health".
This book of "general rules" and bad advice isn't something I would feel comfortable handing to anyone in my life, particularly tweens and teens. It's frustrating that this book was even published in the first place. Again, from this author I would love to see an actual cookbook with advice for beginners in the kitchen. And a book of nutritional advice for this age group could be appropriate if it was handled meticulously by experts in that field.
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