A Stay-At-Home Dad’s Guide to Preschool Nutrition

By Dr. Jon Kester

A Stay-at-home Dad’s Guide to Preschool Nutrition is a book that aspires to create healthier future generations through good nutrition and empowering parents with knowledge. As a parent to three children, Dr. Kester knows nutrition for young children can seem overwhelming, especially when surrounded by a world of fast food and processed frozen meals. This book gives parents a starting point and then goes into detail on the important topics such as:
• The proper portion sizes for preschoolers
• The best and worst foods that preschoolers should eat
• Supplementing foods with vitamins and minerals
• How to deal with picky eaters
• 7 day sample meal guide
We must remember that how your preschooler eats today will have a prominent impact on their health throughout adolescence and into adulthood. Consuming nutritious foods helps children grow, develop, do well academically and even more importantly feel good about themselves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728331829

Dr. Jon Kester

Dr. Jon Kester is a highly-established teacher, author, and a strong advocate for family values. He is well known for his “Stay at Home Dads Guide” book series and lectures based on parenting strategies. His passion for parenting comes from the fact that he is a single full time dad with three amazing children. Dr. Kester has spent copious hours finding a variety of different activist that his kids can do in order to help them grow, develop, and most importantly have fun on a daily basis. Dr. Jon Kester loves to share his parenting experiences with the world though his writing of books and articles and plans to continue helping fellow parents any way he can. “Call me crazy but I like to see other families happy and succeeding. Always keep in mind that life is a journey, not a competition.” –Dr. Jon Kester

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Disclaimer: Before implementing any of the advice, tips, and strategies found in this book, be sure to get your physician’s consent.

Published by AuthorHouse   10/15/2019

ISBN: 978-1-7283-3183-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-3182-9 (e)

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To Nanna

Sharon, who thinks that all I feed my kids is soda pop and potato chips. Read this book, and you will find out the truth!

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1    Parents as Role Models

Chapter 2    Specific Eating Strategies

Chapter 3    Dealing with Picky Eaters

Chapter 4    Seven Days of Sample Menus

Chapter 5    Conclusion

References

About The Author

INTRODUCTION

This book aims to create future healthier generations through good nutrition and empower parents with the goal of helping their preschooler reach his or her full potential.

In the twenty-first century, it is very easy to get confused about how, what, and when to feed your preschooler. Between the news, blogs, and social media, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed with all the different messages. This book will give parents a straightforward, informative, and simple approach to nutrition for preschoolers.

First, all parents must remember that preschoolers are not babies anymore and are small people who need the same nutrients adults do. They need protein, fat, and carbohydrates just like us. So in that sense, feeding preschoolers is simple: give them all the nutritious foods you already eat and know to be healthy. Parents also need to remember that nutrition affects all aspects of childhood growth, development, and health, which includes maintaining a healthy weight; avoiding health problems related to excess body fat, and brain development.

As parents we must keep in mind that once a body is overweight at a critical developmental period, it’s very hard to change. Health and physical activity habits established in early life could have lasting effects for decades to come.

Nutrition Problems Facing Preschoolers

Today, more than anytime in history, preschoolers face health issues based on being overweight or obese. According to the Department of Health and Human Services statics in 1980, only 5 percent of American kids aged two to four were obese. In 2010, it was 19 percent—nearly one in five. Now, in 2018, about 40 percent of US preschoolers are classified as overweight or obese.

Health problems overweight preschoolers can face

Excess body fat that exists on overweight preschoolers