All children deserve a future free of health concerns and one full of self-esteem and wellbeing, no matter their size. Yet, given the rise in childhood obesity, there's enormous pressure on parents to raise fit, thin kids - even if their kids aren't designed to be that way. So, what does a healthy, fit child look like, and how can parents actually raise one, especially in a world of abundant food, busy lives, toxic diet culture, and societal pressures? Pediatric nutritionist Jill Castle offers parents a roadmap for navigating the ins and outs of raising children who are larger, smaller, or in-between. Drawn from science and experts in medicine, psychology, exercise, sleep, media, and nutrition, this book helps families establish healthy habits with a heightened awareness of the social issues, health concerns, and psychological impact of growing up in today's culture, especially when larger or smaller. Kids Thrive at Every Size is a holistic, whole child approach to health--focusing on physical and emotional wellness--and empowers parents to create a positive culture of health and self-esteem in their kids, no matter their size.

From deciding when to introduce solids to helping vegetarian teens make healthy choices, parents confront many issues when trying to get their children to eat healthy meals. This comprehensive book by Jill Castle and Maryann Jacobsen ― both pediatric and family nutrition experts ― explains how eating relates to a child's overall development, how to make balanced food choices (and help children make them too), and how to end feeding struggles forever.

Castle and Jacobsen outline an inclusive approach to healthy feeding centered around the three Fearless Feeding Fundamentals: WHAT, HOW, and WHY.

This newly updated and revised edition of Fearless Feeding explores feeding children at every stage of development in order to maximize health and growth and prevent unhealthy attitudes about food later in life.

What People Are Saying about Feerless Feeding ...

Fear not! This rational, practical, and joyful book gives parents the knowledge and tools to feed their families confidently and fearlessly.
-Michelle May, MD, author, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat

So many experts, books, magazines, and busybodies seem determined to convince parents that they can't do anything right. Here's a book that silences the din of 'You're doing it wrong!' and makes raising healthy eaters easy.
-Lenore Skenazy, author, Free-Range Kids

In this book on infant and child nutrition, two well-trained, experienced nutritionists bring an evidence-based approach to the WHAT, HOW, and WHY of feeding to make infant and child nutrition an enjoyable pastime for parents who are concerned about their child's diet and their overall health. Fearless Feeding is an excellent guide for parents concerned about an appropriate approach to feeding their children.
-Allan Walker, MD, director, Division of Nutrition, Harvard Medical School

At last! A book that offers parents a clear road map to what should be a natural and instinctive endeavor: feeding one's child. It will be a pleasure to recommend this book as a solid resource for helping children build a healthy, long-standing, and perhaps lifesaving relationship with food.
-Nancy Beveridge, MD, pediatrician, Nashville, Tennessee

You no longer can use the excuse 'My child didn't come with an owner's manual' when it comes to finicky eaters. Castle and Jacobsen have created the quintessential one just for you and your child.
-David Grotto, RD, LDN, author, The Best Things You Can Eat: For Everything from Aches to Zzzz, the Definitive Guide to the Nutrition-Packed Foods that Energize, Heal, and Help You Look Great

This sanity-saving resource will help parents gain confidence in the kitchen and at the dinner table and even help them face the biggest challenges like coping with picky eaters, weight problems, and food allergies. Every parent should have a copy of this book in their kitchen!
-Aviva Goldfarb, cookbook author and founder of the family-dinner planning service, The Six O'Clock Scramble

In today's frenzied food world, families want wise counsel-not just on WHAT to feed their children, but HOW to feed them as well. Fearless Feeding accomplishes both with reassuring, practical, easy-to-digest advice for children of all ages.
-Dayle Hayes, MS, RD, president, Nutrition for the Future

Fearless Feeding takes a relaxed and reassuring approach to the often difficult task of nourishing children. As the mother of three, I appreciate how the authors blend their professional know-how and parental wisdom to provide parents with a valuable resource for guilt-free feeding.
-Elizabeth M. Ward, MS, RD, author, Expect the Best: Your Guide to Healthy Eating Before, During, and After Pregnancy

Living with a picky eater who won't try new foods? Tried everything to get your child to eat? Renowned childhood nutrition expert, Jill Castle outlines the Nourished Path(R) to Try New Food, a systematic and strategic approach to help picky eaters taste, eat and like new foods, to move parents from frustration to optimism, and picky eaters from cautious to adventurous.

Instead of waiting it out, or worse, sneaking vegetables or bribing kids with dessert, Try New Food walks parents through a step-by-step process to help kids overcome picky eating. By remodeling the feeding environment and creating a child-centered method, parents learn how to engage and help their picky eaters instead of making things worse. As a workbook, resource and guide, Try New Food equips caretakers with the latest research and practical tips for feeding picky eaters with love, patience and healthy food.

Picky eaters aren't destined to be unhealthy eaters Parents are empowered to move their kids beyond typical and extreme picky eating behaviors. Try New Food maps out a plan for sensible food options, positive feeding, and effective parenting.

Parents will learn:

• The roots of picky eating
• The best way to interact with fussy eaters around food
• How to set up a fun, encouraging eating environment (without pressure)
• The counter-productive interactions (and language) that make picky eating worse (and what to do and say instead)
• When (and where) to seek more help for extreme picky eaters (those children with ARFID)
• A step-by-step food tasting approach
• How to make mealtimes calmer, meaningful and nutritious

Most of all, Try New Food will help families nourish and nurture their picky eaters while cultivating healthy eating patterns and a healthy relationship with food.

It's hard keeping up with the nutritional needs for kids, and even harder getting them to actually eat many of these foods. Learn how to get your athlete on the right track.

With athletic kids, there's even more to pay attention to! Most young athletes are not eating properly to compete--too many convenient but empty calories that are doing them more harm than good. As a result, these young athletes are losing energy when they should be increasing it, feeling deterred when they should be motivated, and decreasing muscle mass when they need it more than ever.

Fortunately, with the right nutrition, young athletes can increase their energy, bolster their motivation, gain muscle mass, overcome fatigue, and improve their performance. Registered dietitian and childhood nutrition expert Jill Castle has written this must-read resource for every parent of active kids ages eight through eighteen.

In Eat Like a Champion, parents will find help in:

• Tailoring diets for training, competition, and even off-season
• Finding the best food options, whether at home or on the go
• Addressing counterproductive or unhealthy patterns
• Understanding where supplements, sports drinks, and performance-enhancing substances do--and don't--fit in

Complete with charts, recipes, and practical meal and snack ideas that can help athletic youngsters eat to win, Eat Like a Champion just may be the difference-maker in your athlete's next game!

The One-Stop Nutrition Resource for Starting Your Baby on Solids.

Your baby's food journey and future health begins with his first bite. From tasting new flavors and textures to learning how to eat and self-feed, your baby is moving through one of the most important milestones of his life: Learning about food and how to eat.

The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids is your step-by-step blueprint for starting baby food, advancing flavors and textures, supporting self-feeding, and getting your baby to the family table.

You'll get: Month-by-month physical transitions all babies go through which enhance their eating abilities; Expectations for development and how they cue starting solids; Information about the important nutrients baby needs for body, brain and bone growth; How babies learn to eat; Keys to building healthy food and flavor preferences; How to help babies tune into their appetite and regulate it well; How to encourage self-feeding; The common mistakes and how to avoid them; Different feeding methods and which is right for your baby; Month-by-month starting solids guide; Sample menus for each month; How to prevent choking, food allergies and overeating; and all your baby feeding questions answered

With The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids you'll get the latest science, practical guidance, and implementation tips from pediatric nutrition expert and mom, Jill Castle, MS, RDN. Learn about the most important nutrition and feeding concepts and eating goals in the first year, so you can be clear and confident in feeding your baby.

The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids will help you navigate hot topics like preventing food allergies, over- and under-eating, spoon-feeding, baby-led weaning, and preventing feeding mistakes so you raise a child who enjoys eating and begins developing a healthy relationship with food.

Start your baby on a healthy eating path Cover the nutrition bases, tackle baby food, and sail through the first year of eating with confidence and know-how.

Raise a Smart Snacker

Does your child snack all day? Raid the pantry when he gets home from school? Sneak snacks when you're not looking? Love to eat sweets and treats?

Healthy snacking can be a daily discussion (or battle ) between parents and their kids. Parents emphasize healthy snack food and kids just want what tastes good-often sweet, salty or fatty foods. If you have a love-hate relationship with kid snacks, you're not alone.

In The Smart Mom's Guide to Healthy Snacking, pediatric dietitian Jill Castle lays out the acronym SNACK SMART to outline a fail-proof strategy to teach your child healthy snacking habits and empower him to be a smart snacker.

This book will teach you how to:

- Set up a routine with snacking, from where and when, to what foods to serve

- Choose snack foods, emphasizing nutritious options while including room for sweets and treats

- Encourage mindful eating and appetite awareness with snacking

- Make fast and healthy yummy snacks for kids that spark curiosity and fun

- Monitor snacking without being a food cop

- Respond to challenges around snacking like sneak snacking, overeating and unhealthy food choices

The Smart Mom's Guide to Healthy Snacking highlights healthy snack food ideas, on-the-go snack combinations, and recipes for healthy snacks.

Take back the snack, lead your child to nutritious options, and teach healthy snacking habits