Dr. Attwood's Low-Fat Prescription for Kids
Do kids in America eat too much fat? That's practically a given. Just look around you at all of the obese children (many of whom have obese parents as role models). But that doesn't tell the whole story. Because something much more insidious and deadly is going on in the cardiovascular systems of America's children. Fatty deposits are forming in the coronary arteries of more than 70% of kids who consume a typical American diet. Kids are being taught by their parents -- who usually mean well -- to love, cherish, seek out, and consume fatty foods by the grocery-cartful. And someday, maybe years from now, these kids will join more than one million Americans whose lives are claimed by heart disease and strokes annually. Excess fat in the diet can also, directly or indirectly, contribute to factors which cause cancer. America's children should have something better to look forward to as grown-ups than coronary heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
Accordingly, Louisiana physician Charles R. Attwood, M.D. has declared war on the harmful, fat-laden diets of America's children in his popular book Dr. Attwood's Low-Fat Prescription for Kids, a Program of Preventive Nutrition. This book outlines a strategy for switching kids from "saturated" animal fats such as those found in meat, chicken, milk and cheeses to a meatless, complex-carbohydrate based diet. In his book, Dr. Attwood systematically dismantles and debunks the twelve most common pediatric diet myths, then proposes a number of healthy solutions than can benefit children and parents alike. He even includes a collection of delicious low-fat recipes toward the end of his book.
The book's foreword was written by internationally recognized pediatric authority, Dr. Benjamin Spock, who concurs fully with Dr. Attwood's persuasive preventive logic that the best time to fight heart disease and stroke and set the stage for wise health habits is not after you're sick, but, alas, when you're still a small lad or lass. Dr. Attwood's book has received highly positive endorsements from Dean Ornish, M.D., Deepak Chopra, M.D., T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., Frank A. Oski, M.D., and other authorities on health and nutrition.
Dr. Attwood has a thriving solo practice in Crowley, Louisiana, where he emphasizes preventive medicine and children's nutrition.
His book is available in bookstores for $21.95 (U.S.). The publisher is Viking Penguin, 375 Hudson Street, New York, N.Y. 10014 USA, 1-800-253-6476, (212) 366-2225.
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