Local Mom, Kids Write Healthy Eating Fairytale to Inspire Good Food Choices

(Aug. 7, 2014 – Phoenix, Ariz.) What do you do when you can’t find a children’s book about the importance of healthy eating? Write one yourself! That’s what new author Candice Imwalle did.

Imwalle was concerned about the increasing obesity rates in the U.S. and how unhealthy eating would impact her children, Isabella and Cameron. As a medical device sales representative, she regularly encountered patients with vascular disease and Type 2 Diabetes, most commonly caused by a lifetime of poor food choices. She did not want this fate for her children.

Last year the single mom wrote and published her first children’s book – Sir Morgan and the Kingdom of Horrible Food. She also enlisted the writing help of her kids to make sure the book was both fun and educational for a younger audience.

“As parents, it is important that we educate our children at a very early age about the impact healthy eating choices have on our body and our lives,” said Imwalle. “When reading this book, children understand the message that eating low sugar and whole foods is important for a lifetime of good health. It’s perfectly ok to have unhealthy food in moderation, but to make processed foods, like chicken nuggets, hot dogs and pizza, the majority of a child’s diet will have a negative impact on their health.”

Sir Morgan and the Kingdom of Horrible Food is a colorful fairytale about a land where residents have no consequence for eating high-fat, high-sugar and high-calorie foods until an evil witch casts a spell on the citizens and the negative effects of these decadent foods impacts the way they look and feel.

Unlike any other book in the market today, this story provides parents a wonderful way to start a dialog with children about the importance of choosing healthy, good-for-you foods instead of junk food. Sir Morgan and the Kingdom of Horrible Food is a compelling, unique and educational book that will have kids and parents captivated from start to finish.