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Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right by Joanna Dolgoff MD

Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions: More than 18 million American children are considered obese and are at risk for health problems. In fact, today’s generation of kids may be the first to experience shorter life spans than their parents.

Leading pediatrician Dr. Joanna Dolgoff’s Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right teaches kids how to make healthy choices based on the principles of the traffic light: green light foods are nutritious, yellow light foods are eaten in moderation, and red light foods are occasional treats.

The program, which has a proven 96 percent success rate, can be tailored to suit any child’s age, gender, and weight goals. Snacks and meals are designed to ensure that kids get the nutrients they need to not only lose or maintain weight, but to grow strong, healthy bodies. Complete with sample menus, recipes, and an index of more than 1,000 color-coded foods, Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right provides a practical solution for one of the biggest health crises facing America’s children.

Those who read my blog know that Jordan (and I) have struggled for a while with his weight.  When I got the chance to review Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right I jumped at it. 

Let me let Joanna Dolgoff MD explain it in her video first:

As someone who has struggled with my weight since I was about 23, I know in my head what I need to do.  Actually doing it is another thing.  When it comes to Jordan, I have tried to be more diligent with what is good and what isn’t.  That doesn’t mean it’s easy.  Jordan wants to eat the stuff that everyone else is eating (not just our family, anyone who is around him).  In Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right, Joanna shows how he can eat things that everyone else is eating, just prepared in a better way that’s healthier and allows him to eat something that wasn’t a good choice before.  The book is filled with recipes that I have decided we are going to start going by.  I’ve started a list and when we go to the grocery store that’s what I’m getting.  I’m going to have Pato get the kids each a lunch box also and start making their lunches, which they have been asking for anyway.  Jordan has taken cold lunch to school maybe 4 times in 5 years.  I know the school lunch is supposed to be healthy (though sometimes I raise my eyebrows when I see the lunch menu and hope it’s prepared in a decent way) and it’s always been easier for me to not have to deal with making a lunch in the morning (or in the evening), but I want to really put this to use.  It’s not just good for Jordan.  There’s a plan in there for kids who aren’t overweight too, making it healthier for the other 3 also.  Does it matter if they are normal weight (or underweight in Alyce’s case) if they are deficit in nutrients?  That’s something I’m always worried about with my girls.  They are so picky that I know they aren’t getting everything they need. 

Look at some of these recipes she has in the book:

•Breakfast Quesadillas

• French Toast

• Green Light Brownies

• Perfect Party Pizza

• Oven-Fried Chicken

• Peanut Butter Cookies

• Frozen Yogurt Pops

• Delicious Beef Burgers

• Potato Wedges

• Chicken Nuggets

• Taco Dinner

• Dr. Dolgoff’s Chicken “Parm”

• Apple Crisp

• Holiday Ham

• Light Honey Cake

Most of that is stuff I won’t make because I didn’t know there were ways to make it healthy.  Green light brownies?  Come on!  I’m all about that!  Katiana keeps turning to the page with the frozen yogurt pops.  I know that is going to be something is requested a lot. 

I am really excited about this!  I am always feeling like I am taking away from the kids because they want stuff that I think is horrible for them, but come to find out there are ways to work around that. 

Katiana and Jordan have both gone through the book multiple times showing me things, getting excited because this is green light and this is yellow light and it’s stuff that I normally say no to. 

Something that I think is very cool is that right now you can try Red Light, Green Light, Eat right for 21 days for free.  If you keep the book, you can pay for it four installments of $5.50.  It’s attainable for everyone.  I also found it on Amazon for $14.95, but of course you don’t get the free 21 day trial and the payment installments. Buy Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right: The Food Solution That Lets Kids Be Kids on Amazon.

Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right gets a huge huge huge

for being an EASY and do I mean EASY to figure out solution for getting our kids to eat right and for helping to fight childhood obesity.  Excellent book and I highly recommend this if you have kids of any age! (Heck, I recommend it for yourself if you, like me, are overweight and struggling to lose that weight.  Don’t go for fad diets.  Make an easy lifestyle change.)

Thank you so much to Joanna Dolgoff MD for sending me this copy of Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right: The Food Solution That Lets Kids Be Kids.  It is going to get a lot of use!

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