| View Larger Image | Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six | Paperbackby Susan Roberts (Author), Melvin B. Heyman (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Bantam | | Page Count: | 368 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 03, 1999 | | Sales Rank: | 42,964nd |
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Product Description
How the new science of "metabolic programming" can help you: Maximize your baby's IQ and development Prevent allergies and obesity Prevent or cure picky eating Teach your child to enjoy healthy foods Protect against family health problems AND make mealtimes a pleasure for you and your child!In this groundbreaking book, two leading pediatric nutritionists--and experienced parents!--introduce exciting new research into "metabolic programming" and make it accessible and practical for every busy parent. They explain: How the foods you choose can optimize your baby's future development, IQ bone strength, and immunity The eight key nutrients to focus on Scientifically based "smart strategies" for working with your child's inborn instincts to build healthy eating habits Food solutions for common problems--including colic, constipation, poor sleep, and hyperactivity How to prevent or deal with food allergies or obesity Easy ways to adapt family meals for kids--with menus and portion sizes for every stage from birth through age six, plus essential tips for food safetyWhat's more, you can teach your child to enjoy these healthy foods and banish food battles and picky eating forever. |
Amazon.com Review
This book tastes great and it's good for you, too. Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six is based on the principle of "metabolic programming," the scientifically rooted idea that foods eaten in early childhood directly affect the function of individual cells that control strength, intelligence, the immune system, and other vital functions. Think of it as a convoluted molecular take on the old maxim "You are what you eat." Genetics and other external factors also play a role, of course, but those factors are beyond our control. What goes on the dinner table, however, is not. The point of this book is to help parents teach their kids to like healthful foods, thus getting them into a lifelong habit of eating well and staying healthy. There is a fair amount of science in this book, but the clear writing and good organization make it go down easy. Particularly helpful are the numerous graphs and boxes that highlight such topics as the best sources of calcium and iron (and why too much iron is dangerous), the differences between breast milk and formula, the eight key nutrients for different ages, and how to identify and even prevent allergies and intolerance to certain foods. The recipes, sample meals, healthy snacks, and tips for dealing with finicky eaters are alone worth the price of the book. Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health is an invaluable guide to ensuring that not only will your kids eat their vegetables, they'll even ask for seconds. --Shawn Carkonen |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 22 reviews)
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Dubious assertions weaken entire argument by Tombo (Japan)  3 Stars
May 13, 2009
This book has some good advice and suggestions for feeing one's child, but there are a number of assertions in the book that are put forth as if they are science but could only be the cultural bias of the author. For example, arguing that a child must begin solids by 6 months so that he can chew so that he can exercise his mouth for beginning to talk--mentioned on at least two pages--seems absurd to me. Her ideas about when a child needs to start solids and what and how he should be eating by 9-11 months is incongruent with a number of other resources I've consulted. I happen to disagree with her and believe her opinion reflects more cultural bias than anything based on empirical scientific evidence. This doesn't mean her other claims are unfounded, but with such glaring examples of cultural bias disguise as science making me raise my eyebrows, I am skeptical of other arguments and claims she makes that I might have taken at face value on the merit of her degree and training, in which I have less expertise. That said, I don't think her methods and arguments do any harm and truly do foster health. Her advice on how not to have food battles with a child is good. That said, I'll be looking for other resources to go along with this one. I'm disappointed this could not be my "bible," but perhaps that was just wishful thinking.
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Great!!! by Sofiane V. Araujo (Charlottesville,VA)  5 Stars
August 29, 2008
This is one of the best books out there about child nutrition. Everything is very well explained and easy to follow. There were so many things that I was confused about how,when and what to feed my child through out the different stages of life. This book helped me very much, specially since I am a first time mom. It tells you exactly how much your baby need to be healthy and happy. The only thing that I didn't like was that for a bottle feeding baby, I felt like I was doing something wrong and bad for my child's health. But when it comes to solids, it helps a lot.
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Good, useful information by Professionally Preggers (San Francisco)  4 Stars
August 28, 2007
Good source of information about what to feed your kid and when. For those of you who are careful about what you eat and know basic nutrition, none of this is rocket science.
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Excellent approach by Beanhauer (Bloomfield, MI) 5 Stars
January 18, 2005
I read this book when my first child was born 5 1/2 years ago, and it set the course for how I feed my children. I came away from this book with clear, applicable guidelines for presenting food to my children. This is sound dietary and psychological advice that stays at an abstract enough level that you can apply the principles to your home diet, instead of presenting specific recipes or diet plans you must follow.
This is one of the few child rearing books whose impact has resonated five years after reading it.
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Truly excellent -- with a couple of caveats by Misti A. Delaney (Ann Arbor, Michigan USA) 4 Stars
May 17, 2004
Of all the books I have read on feeding babies, toddlers, and children, I find this the most realistic and most the clearly based in scientific research.It's clearly written and well organized, and doesn't recommend any strange foods you wouldn't put on the table for guests or tuck into yourself. That said, I was disappointed at the authors recommendation to start kids on refined breads and crackers because 'they don't need the extra fiber' -- along side the suggestion that you not start your child out on anything you don't want them to prefer. It seems contradictory to me, and my little guy is getting whole grains only. I was also disappointed at the author's lack of knowledge about breastfeeding. In the parts of the book that deal with slightly older children, they have some misleading and out of date information that discounts the benefits of extended breastfeeding and overstates the benefits of cows milk and artificial baby milks.But, even so, I must say that they have some extremely wise and useful information about how children think about and respond to food and some excellent advice for how to raise a child with a good relationship to food -- it's balanced (an occasional piece of candy at a friend's house or a packet of chips after swim class won't kill most children) but weighted in favor of whole foods and higher nutrition. Just what I was looking for!
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