Summary and Objectives

• Explain key concepts like secular growth trends, effects of various hormones, and how nutrition contributes to healthy growth.
• Apply your knowledge to think about “Why this matters?” and consider the nature of childhood obesity.

References

• Wansink, B. (2006). Mindless Eating: Why we eat more than we think.

Links

• The Baby Place: Info for parents
• Zero to Three: The place for info on early child development
• Feeding your newborn
• How breast feeding prevents illness.
• Breastmilk and HIV
• Where estrogen comes from.
• Women and testosterone.
• Why do women outlive men? (Hint: it might be testosterone). 
• Overweight Kids.
• Sue McDonald’s
• McDonald’s and Nutrition
• TV and Fast Food makes kids fat!
• Dieting makes kids fat!
• The Sugar Debate
• The National Weight Control Registry
• Kids and Food
• US Government Nutrition Site
• National Osteoporosis Foundation
• More trouble in paradise: Malnutrition in Barbados.
• Getting Kids to Shape Up.
• Child Saftey network
• Baby-proof your home.
• Worst ways to get baby to sleep
• And of course, 12 scary sleep disorders