Dr. William G. Wilkoff M.D.

From Coping With a Picky Eater by William G. Wilkoff, M.D. Copyright 1998 by William Wilkoff.Reprinted with permission of Fireside Books / (Simon and Schuster, Inc.).

If you are fortunate enough to be reading this while your child is still a babe in arms, if you are pregnant, or planning to have another child, you will find strategies to minimize picky eating as your child gets older.I am not going to promise that these strategies will completely prevent picky eating because it is often a behavior that some children seem to bring with them when they enter the world.However, since picky eating can also develop if parents create an environment that allows it to take hold and flourish, there is hope that you can head off some of these problem behaviors before they get too deeply rooted.By following the few simple suggestions in this chapter, you will be miles ahead of your less-enlightened friends when your child turns 1.

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William G. Wilkoff, M.D., earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate training at Duke University Medical Center and Children's Hospital in Boston.He has been a general pediatrician on the coast of Maine for 25 years, and is a monthly columnist for Pediatric News, a publication for pediatricians.Wilkoff is the author of Coping With a Picky Eater.He and his wife live in Brunswick, Maine, and have three grown children.

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Dr. Wilkoff, a pediatrician, has been serving the people of Maine for more than thirty years.He has authored four books, "Coping with a Picky Eater", "Is my Child Overtired?", "The Maternity Leave Breastfeeding Plan", and his latest book published in 2003 (both in English and Italian), "How to Say No to Your Toddler".He is a monthly columnist for Pediatric News, a publication that is widely read by pediatricians throughout the country.Dr. Wilkoff has been a guest on 20/20 and The Today Show, and is frequently seen and heard on local TV and radio.Dr. Wilkoff is often quoted in national magazines such as Parents, Child Magazine, and Baby Talk.Dr. Wilkoff and his wife have three grown children and are avid bicyclists.They have even accomplished the unbelievable feat of traveling from Seattle to Maine by bicycle!Dr. Wilkoff's primary interests include breastfeeding, picky eating, school-behavioral problems, and sleep deprivation.His personal web site (www.drwilkoff.com) contains additional information on his published books and articles.
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Dr. William G. Wilkoff , a Maine pediatrician and author of Coping with a Picky Eater , said that sometimes parents create unnecessary battles with their children.Instead of making children eat all of a particular food they don't like , simply ask them to maintain nice table manners.He cautions parents against preparing a food simply to suit a child's needs.

Their job is merely to present their child a balanced diet in a suitable format they can eat and in a pleasant surrounding , Wilkoff said.If the child eats it , great.If not , fine..

He offered a few tips for parents to lessen the mealtime stress that can be created by balancing the likes of mom , dad and several children.Wilkoff suggested not letting a child have more of the thing he likes if he doesn't finish the food he doesn't like.

Promise yourself that you're not going to talk about whose eating what or not eating what , even to the standpoint of praising them , Wilkoff said.You just present the meal and then talk about other stuff , and the only thing the child is expected to do is behave at the table in a socially appropriate manner..

Wilkoff said parents have become hyper-aware of nutrition and try to compensate by making their children eat certain foods , a practice inherited and passed down through the years.He said a pleasant eating environment is more important than if a child eats all of his or her lima beans.

The problem is that parents mis-cope with the problem and end up with unpleasant meal situations and battles.Some of it comes from our parents , but some of it comes from the fact that over the last 20 years , parents have learned of the importance placed on diet in the growth and development of children - probably too much importance , Wilkoff said.We are all so concerned with somebody going hungry.There's nothing wrong with being hungry.A child is not going to starve overnight..

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You have to accept that if you have a family with children and adults your meal is going to be somewhat more childish than if you just had adults , Wilkoff said.

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William Wilkoff , M.DPanelist Biography

William G. Wilkoff , M.D. , earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate training at Duke University Medical Center and Children's Hospital in Boston.He has been a general pediatrician on the coast of Maine for 25 years , and is a monthly columnist for Pediatric News , a publication for pediatricians.Wilkoff is the author of Coping With a Picky Eater.He and his wife live in Brunswick , Maine , and have three grown children.

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"It would be hard to imagine it was anything else," said Isabella's pediatrician, Dr. William Wilkoff.
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"We hadn't really seen any cases until last year," said Wilkoff, who practices with the Bowdoin Medical Group on Baribeau Drive.This year, his office has seen several patients with Lyme Disease.

In its earliest stage, Lyme Disease causes nothing more than flu-like symptoms and a characteristic "bull's-eye rash," which appears as concentric circles of redness surrounding the tick bite.

"It was like someone had branded her," Leach said, describing her daughter's rash.

If the disease goes untreated, symptoms can include numbness, paralysis of facial muscles, meningitis and, rarely, an abnormal heartbeat.Long-term effects of the disease include memory loss, joint pain and swelling, and sleeplessness.
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"It never hurts to ask the question when you're talking to your doctor," Wilkoff said.

The Maine Division of Disease Control's Lyme Disease Web site is at www.state.me.us/dhs/boh/ddc/lyme.htm The Centers for Disease Control's Web site is at www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/.

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