Los que no pudieron escojer

Have you ever felt that to be a good parent, you need to be superhuman? Like millions of parents, you've got Mommy Guilt: a feeling that your family is suffering because you can't do everything.

Do you know what to look for in a mate? Are you unsure? Have you been depressed? Have you been cheated? Have you had painful situations? In this book some of the situations were selected that occurred most frequently to current relationships and concern us all and are repeated throughout our lives. This book will help us understand the problems that many women face.

"Your child can achieve great things." A few years ago, pregnant women in four corners of the world heard those words and hoped they could be true. Among them were Esther Okwir in rural Uganda, where the infant mortality rate is among the highest in the world; Jessica Saldana, a high school student in a violence-scarred Chicago neighborhood; Shyamkali, the mother of four girls in a low-caste village in India; and Maria Estella, in Guatemala's western highlands, where most people are riddled with parasites and moms can rarely afford the fresh vegetables they farm. Greatness? It was an...

Hijos gordos expone la problemática infantil en la alimentación y la obesidad (que en este país es el número uno) y, en su estilo, retoma casos que analiza a lo largo del libro. El libro que quitará la venda a las familias que no aceptan el problema de la obesidad infantil. ¿Por qué un libro sobre hijos gordos? Las estadísticas nos dan la respuesta: al margen de que México ocupe el primer lugar en obesidad infantil, en realidad el sobrepeso es ya una enfermedad globalizada. En la vida real se les llama "gordas" y no "obesas" a las personas con sobrepeso, y este término carga un...