Caring for Your Child with Severe Food Allergies or Using Your Weights for Weight Loss

Caring for Your Child with Severe Food Allergies: Emotional Support and Practical Advice from a Parent Who's Been There

Author: Lisa Cipriano Collins

Understanding and Learning to Live Well with Food Allergies

Considering that severe allergic reactions can be life-threatening, parents often find that protecting children can be a daunting task–trying to make sure they are safe, while still creating a sense of normalcy as they grow up.

But it can be done. Sorting the truth from the myths and misunderstandings, Caring for Your Child with Severe Food Allergies presents not only pertinent facts but, more important, it helps families cope with the emotional aspects of raising a child at risk for severe food reactions. With compassion and insight, Lisa Cipriano Collins blends her own experiences raising a child with severe peanut and tree-nut allergies with practical observations, interviews with parents, and data from recent medical studies. By learning how to reduce risks while promoting a child’s normal emotional development, parents can address the needs of their allergic child and his or her siblings, as well as their own needs–and work toward a happy, healthy family.

Caring for Your Child with Severe Food Allergies covers:

• Identifying allergies
• Working with schools
• Restaurant and travel concerns
• Encouraging independence
• Finding treatment
• Safety risks and solutions
• Helping your child help himself
• Identifying ingredients
• Making an emergency kit
• Finding support
• Developing community awareness

Library Journal

Collins, a family therapist and the mother of a child with severe nut allergies, outlines the management of life-threatening childhood allergies and the stresses they create within the family. She presents a short, concise manual for parents and other family members and caregivers. Most of the text is devoted to providing techniques for maximizing safety and minimizing the risk of anaphylactic shock. Although brief, the book explores the emotional family context as well as the complexities of allergy management outside the home--in school settings, in restaurants, and on trips. The medical components of the book are well documented, and a short resource guide accompanies the text. Recommended for hospital/patient education libraries, consumer health collections, and appropriate social service settings.--Andy Wickens, Univ. of Washington Health Sciences Lib., Seattle Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

First Encounters with a Severe Food Allergy.
Food Allergy Basics.
Keeping Your Family Healthy.
As Your Child Grows.
Branching Out: Working with Caregivers and Schools.
For Caregivers.
Resource Guide.
References.
Index.

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Using Your Weights for Weight Loss: The Fast Track to a Slimmer, Stronger, Firmer Body

Author: Sam Murphy

So you want to lose weight, shape up, and shed body fat? Then you need to be strong. I'm not talking about being strong enough to resist chocolate cake or a second portion of pizza (although that inevitably helps!) — but about physical strength, achieved by training with weights.

When we set our sights on weight loss, most of us turn to the kind of activities that get the heart pumping, like running, swimming, dance, or aerobics classes. And while there is no doubt that cardiovascular activity is an important part of the equation, resistance or strength training is the key to maximizing daily energy expenditure and fat loss — and really streamlining your body shape.

There are a lot of misconceptions about strength training out there, but rest assured that you won't end up with big, bulging muscles by strength training, nor will you lose your aerobic fitness. What you will end up with is a stronger, firmer, and slimmer body. You don't even need to go to a gym or pick up a dumbbell — it's perfectly possible to train with alternative, or even no, equipment.

This book will show you how to incorporate strength training into your fitness regime in a safe, fun, and effective way. It will also give you the information you need to make smart eating choices so that you can lose body fat without starving yourself or feeling deprived, and keep it off. You won't believe what a difference strength training will make to your weight-loss efforts, your body shape, and size.

Sam Murphy is one of the UK's leading fitness and health writers, contributing regularly to The Guardian, Top Sante, Zest, Health & Fitness, Runner's World, Healthy, and Easy Living, as well as designing fitness programs for the RealBuzz and BBC Lifestyle websites, and presenting at health and fitness expos and conferences. Sam works as a consultant to the Flora London Marathon and the Women's Running Network and is a 10-time marathon runner herself. Her previous books for Kyle Cathie are Run for Life and The Real Woman's Personal Trainer. She lives and trains in North London.