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Good Housekeeping Magazine November 2007 featuring Meredith Vieira on staying strong in tough times, raising kids on the spotlight and counting her blessings, also Thanksgiving made easy, Bye Bye Belly Fat, Stop Colds Now, Cut College Cost by 50% and much more ... Read more

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For the first time, Family Power provides a revolutionary program that gives you proven, practical solutions for achieving a healthy weight and maintaining it as a family. Filled with the motivational stories of families who have achieved healthy-weight homes as well as expert advice from their coaches, Family Power gets your family up, moving, and improving health together as no other book ever has before.Download Description
From the world's #1 name in weight loss comes a major new book on halting the family obesity epidemic Weight Watchers, the most respected and popular weight-loss company in the world, has helped millions of people drop the pounds and keep them off. Now, as adult and childhood obesity epidemics get ever worse, Weight Watchers is turning its focus to the family. Weight Watchers Family Power is a comprehensive guide to healthful weight management for all members of the family including children and adolescents. The latest scientific research has shown that children are strongly influenced by the food- and physical activity related decisions made by parents and other family members. This knowledge provides the basis for the advice in this breakthrough book. Weight Watchers Family Power features 5 simple rules for optimal family health and weight loss a similar successful format to the 10 weight-loss myths discussed in Weight Watchers recent bestselling book Weight Watchers Weight Loss That Lasts. Readers will learn from inspirational family profiles throughout the book, drawn primarily from participants in Weight Watchers pilot program for childhood weight management. All information is based in science yet presented in a friendly, optimistic, and proactive manner to get families together with the goal of losing weight and improving their overall health safely and easily. Weight Watchers is America's most trusted name in weight loss and the global leader in weight-loss services. With 46,000 weekly meetings in 30 countries, Weight Watchers mission is to help people reach and maintain a healthy weight. Karen Miller-Kovach (Long Island, NY) is the Chief Scientific Officer for Weight Watchers International. She was the coauthor of Weight Loss That Lasts (0-471-73629-5). ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

Good book - good ideas
I wasn't sure if I should get this book.I almost felt like I could write the book on healthy meals for my family.But, the price was right and I am always looking for a new tip.I'm about half way through the book and am really enjoying it.The advice is good and realistic.And, yes, I have learned a few new tips.

Good basic information
This book was well organized, easy to read and understand, and gave good basic information.The healthy eating solutions are easy to implement in daily life.I learned some new things and remembered some things I already knew.

WW'S FAMILY POWER
This is a great book to help families learn how to eat better and get healthier!
Lots of information and on suggestions on how to make it a family effort!
I totally recommend it!
One of the best books WW's has put out!

Directions for a Healthy Weight Family
I wasn't really sure what I was getting when I ordered this book.The book is based on a new program being piloted now by Weight Watchers.The program, in limited areas now teaches parents on how to encourage a "Healthy Weight" home.What surprised me is how different this program is from the one designed by Weight Watchers for adults as part of their nationally available program.For one, they strongly discourage parents from placing all but the most obese of children on a diet and then only with the close supervision of a physician.

The book trains parents on the "5 Simple Rules."
1.Focus on wholesom, nutritious foods.
2.Include treats.
3.Aim to keep nonhomework screen time at two hours (or less) per day.
4.Try to be active an hour per day.
5.The Rules apply to everyone in the home.

While that should tell you all you need to know about the program there is so much more.My daughter 4, does not currently have a weight issue, however as an over obese person since childhood I watch her closely to attempt to prevent her from having the same weight issues I have.I was shocked to learn all of the things I am doing wrong.Everything from what snacks/treats I give her to forcing her to clean her plate, and at least a dozen other things.

One of the things I loved about this book it there was no encouragement to make drastic life altering adjustments to your life.In fact, the book encourages gentler simple steps your family can carry out.It doesn't tell you what order to complete the rules in, but to start with the ones you know you can do.The book offers real life concerns and solutions that even the most out of shape family can take to heart.

The book also discourages you from weighing your children more than when they are at the physician's office or even discussing weight in front of them.If anyone in your house struggles with their weight this book is a must have.I wish it had been available to my parents when I was young, I only hope I can learn enough from it to prevent the same mistakes in my children.

Weight loss for families.
Great book that will give all the rules for keeping a family slim. Don't let your kids and family become what you don't want them to be. Learn to keep yourself and your family fit and trim.
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Title: Talking with Richard M. Cohen.(Interview)
Author: Alison Dale
Publication: Inside MS (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 24Issue: 5Page: 24(5)

Article Type: Interview

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Washington Post reporter Elsa Walsh explores the lives of three successful women -- TV correspondent Meredith Vieira, conductor and first lady of West Virginia Rachel Worby, surgeon Dr. Alison Estabrook -- to answer the serious questions of how women in the 1990s balance career achievements with the demands of having a family.Walsh, who's won awards for her investigative reporting, spent two years talking to her subjects, and her insightful accounts of their decision-making is compelling reading.Book Description
Despite the large number of books devoted to women's issues in the last twenty years, Washington Post  reporter Elsa Walsh felt that the literature was missing a crucial element--the voices of women themselves. Setting out to probe the myriad layers of women's lives and to illuminate the interior struggles women face at work and at home, Walsh spent over two years interviewing three highly successful women about their lives.

What she found in talking with former 60 Minutes correspondent Meredith Vieira, conductor and first lady of West Virginia Rachel Worby, and Dr. Alison Estabrook, chief of breast surgery at the country's second largest hospital, was that at crucial moments, these women who seemingly "have it all" had trouble fitting together the many pieces of their lives. In sharing the stories of Vieira, Worby, and Estabrook, Walsh provides real life, flesh-and-blood examples of the constant negotiations and compromises every woman must make to reconcile the innumerable and conflicting demands of her career, her family, her own sense of self-worth and satisfaction. Clear-sighted and compassionate, Divided Lives is an important book for all American women today. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

there are no answers here
While the book is well-written, there are no answers here.There are women who need to stick to their priorities and accept the tradeoffs that come with them (Meredith Viera) and who need to take a realistic look at the choices they've made (Rachael Worby).These are women having trouble making a career and family function despite having no real financial constraints, yet they still can't do it.I suppose this should make the rest of us feel better, but I found it quite depressing.

Excellent Portrayal
I'm writing this review primarily to refute Milly's poor rating of this book. While I completely agree with her comments about Meredith and Rachel, I feel the author did an excellent jobportraying all the women for who they truly are. It is a relief to see that people who seem to have it all really are like the rest of us and struggle with the same issues we do. It is also wonderful to see the different ways these women deal with their issues, whether they do so in a healthy manner or not.

This book helped me realize my life isn't so bad and that I do ok dealing with my own issues. Thus, I recommend this to all working women as you are bound to benefit from it in one way or another.

More stories like this are needed
I've read alot of magazines on women in the working world;but, none of them ever step thru the decision making process this well. These are people facing extremely tough challenges, usuallyalone (or with friends who are not actually in the same "trenches", but are looking at the challenge from afar.)

These are brave people, on their own - working thru challenges;How else will i learn about the challenges i have yet to face but through stories like this. I do not learn from tv or movies - nor from newspaper articles or magazines - i do not see these types of stories anywhere. There is room for them and there is a big need for them. Women with daughters should read this; women with a passion for their careers should also; women debating whether or not to have children at a later point in their life should read this.

It is written with tolerance for other opinions which so many stories and people today are lacking. It was really enjoyable...

Awesome book
The struggles in this book touched my soul. Perhaps because I'm a journalist, I could totally relate to Meredith Vieira. And even though it has been four years since I've read it, I can still recall vividly the image of her crying at her kitchen table. Balancing work and the roles of wife and mother is a minute-by-minute-challenge for almost every working woman I know! If working women had more time on their hands, this would be a best seller! Buy, borrow, or steal this book....

Compelling and Moving!
I adored this book. The stories of Meredith (of THE VIEW)and others touched my heart in ways I never imagined. I couldn't put it down.. a mustread! ... Read more