Helping Your Child

Helping Your Child
Be Healthy and Fit

with activities for children
aged 4 through 11



By Carol S. Katzman and
Carolyn R. McCary
with Deborah Kidushim-Allen, R.D.

Edited by Cynthia Hearn Dorfman

Illustrated by Annie Lunsford





Carol Katzman has served as Assistant Superintendent in
the Beverly Hills Unified School District and has taught at all
levels, K-8. She served a four-year term on the California
Curriculum Commission, including one year as Chair. As a member
of the advisory board of the local Health Champions (a
comprehensive health education program) she was responsible for
its implementation. When this program became the model for the
California Department of Education's initiative, Healthy Kids,
Healthy California, she worked for the Department on the
program's overall design.

Carolyn McCary is an educational consultant who works for
school districts and private sector organizations. She taught
primary grades for many years. As a coordinator of the
comprehensive health program in the Beverly Hills Unified
School District, she helped build a program that served as a
training model for California's Comprehensive Health Education
and Training Program, and she consulted on the development of
the Healthy Kids, Healthy California initiative.

Deborah Kidushim-Allen is a registered dietician and
author of several cookbooks. She co-authored Light Style the
low fat, low cholesterol, low salt way to good food and health
(HarperCollins). She writes a weekly column for the Los Angeles
Times syndication, and serves as nutrition consultant to Health
Champions.

Annie Lunsford has been a freelance illustrator since
1975. Her works include a Children's Hospital calendar, a book
for Ronald McDonald House, and slide shows for the National
Institutes of Health. Her work has been recognized by The
Advertising Club of New York, the Society of Illustrators, and
The Printing Industry of America.