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We pay upfront for food that
is good for us, or we pay
out back in health care cost.
Optimal nutrition is the
VERY BEST PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
you can give yourself or
your children!
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"Children are being harmed more by poor diet than
by exposure to alcohol, drugs and tobacco combined."
Dr. David Katz, Yale School of Public Health
The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2004
Opitimal nutrition can reduced
obesity and help eliminate Type II diabetes
Babyledweaning.com (an online forum for feeding food instead of commerical baby food and letting baby take the led to good nutrition and weaning)
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Treat your body as if you were going to live forever
And your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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Someone once said, "We are what we eat?" A statement with much truth! It's true as well that what we eat today, isn't the same food our ancestors ate. While we enjoy an abundance of foods rich in textures and taste, many of our foods today are over processed and have little to offer nutritionally. The results is we are well fed, but nutritionally starved. In general as a culture, our bodies are getting bigger, yet our health is growing poorer. As a culture, we have become caught up in the fast pace, fast food, more is better lifestyle. Globally obesity has reached epidemic proportions. In many developing countries, obesity co-exists with under-nutrition. Type 2 Diabetes is becoming increasingly more common even starting as early as middle school age students.
 What can we do? We can become educated and make wiser choices and teach our children about making healthier food choices. Healthcare prevention by improving nutrition is much less expensive than the cost of treating major disease caused by poor nutrition. Remember, you are what you eat! Nutritionist and the newest FDA guidelines suggest that we eat an average of 8-13 servings of fruits and vegetables per day for optimal health. If your diet or your children's diets are lacking in all the nutrients and antioxidants they need to get from 8-13 servings of fruits or vegetables per day, ask Pat what you can do to insure optimal nutrition for you or your child or click here for more info.
Opitimal nutrition and reduced obesity can eliminate Type II diabetes
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Nutrition Books for Baby and Family
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Milk Soy Protein
Intolerance
Guidebook/Cookbook
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The best time
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a healthier diet
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What Do Experts Say about our Growing Nutrition Problem
FDA Consumer, Nov, 1986 by Roger W. Miller
Empty Calories: Putting on Pounds with Poor Nutrition
"Empty calories' is probably an empty term to many people. It sounds contradictory. Like maybe empty calories are calories that don't count. Such is not at all the case. Empty calories are calories obtained from foods that have little other nutritional value. Sugar and alcohol are examples. Those foods supply energy (calories), but virtually nothing else that builds or rebuilds the body.
Obesity drives up the cost of health care by increasing the incidence of diabetes, hypertension, and a wide variety of expensive chronic health conditions, many of which are significant risk factors for other serious diseases, say researchers at Emory University, Atlanta
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Oct, 2005
Nutrition Research Newsletter, March, 2005
The epidemic of childhood obesity is attributed to the toxic environment of readily available, calorically dense food and drink.
Essence, Jan, 1991 by Patricia Mason Woods
A longer, healthier, more energetic life is yours for the eating. It's true. Scientific studies indicate that we may actually be able to live year slonger, be stronger and feel better by eating adequate amounts of the right foods.
Though aging is a fact of life, to a large degree the choices you make about what to eat can influence the length and quality of your life. We now know that many life-threatening diseases that usually accompany aging--such as coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes and some cancers--are all associated with obesity, diets high in fat and/ or poor overall nutrition.
By making unhealthy food choices, we may be eating ourselves to death. But it doesn't have to be that way. Knowledge is power, but only when you use it. So read on to learn how food can open the door to a longer, more youthful life.
Nutrition Action Healthletter, Oct, 2003 by Bonnie Liebman
If you're like most people, you're at least a few pounds overweight. So what?
Losing weight would lower your risk of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and arthritis.
What many people don't know is that extra pounds mean an extra risk of cancer--of the breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, uterus, and possibly more.
"We estimate that 90,000 deaths due to cancer could be prevented each year in the U.S. if men and women could maintain normal weight," says Eugenia Calle, director of analytical epidemiology at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta.
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, May, 2003 by Alan R. Gaby
The prevalence of obesity was 20.8% lower in children who had been breast-fed than in those who had been formula-fed. After adjustment for birthweight, gender, and socioeconomic status, the risk of obesity was significantly lower by 28% in breast-fed children than in formula-fed children.
These results suggest that breast-feeding reduces the risk of becoming obese later in childhood. Although the mechanism by which breast-feeding might prevent obesity is not known, there are several possible explanations. First, the higher content of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in human milk than in infant formulas may promote better development of the brain, including the area in the hypothalamus that controls appetite. Second, as many formulas contain refined sugars, feeding such formulas might promote the development of reactive hypoglycemia, resulting in cravings for refined carbohydrates. Third, infants who experience the comfort of the breast might be less likely to seek substitute forms of comfort, such as overeating. Whatever the mechanism, this study provides one more reason for mothers to breast-feed their babies.
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Feb, 2002
Researchers at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) warn that carrying extra weight means carrying extra cancer risk. Moreover, the nation's current epidemic of overweight and obesity is likely to drive up cancer rates in coming years.
Nutrition Research Newsletter, April, 2005
A recent study in JAMA set out to assess adherence rates and the effectiveness of four popular diets (Atkins, Zone, Weight Watchers and Ornish) for weight loss and cardiac risk factor reduction.
The results showed that four popular diets could reduce weight and several cardiac risk factors, but only for the minority of individuals who can sustain a high dietary adherence level. One way to improve dietary adherence rates in clinical practice may be to use a broad spectrum of diet options, to better match individual patient food preferences, lifestyles, and cardiovascular risk profiles. These findings definitely challenge the concept that one type of diet is best for everybody and the notion that very low carbohydrate diets are better than standard diets.
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Baby Food Recipes
With a little planning, and a blender, a fork, a strainer, a food mill, or a baby food grinder, you can make foods for your baby at home.
Pureed Fruit Delight
1/2 cup freshly cooked or home-canned fruits, or cooked dried prunes (without sugar) (Use apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, apricots or prunes)
2-4 teaspoons liquid (water, unsweetened fruit juice — not citrus — or formula)
Remove skin and seeds. Press through a sieve, or put ingredients in food mill or blender and puree until smooth. Serve or freeze. Freeze no longer than one month.
Yummy Fresh Fruit
3/4 cup ripe fruit (uncooked peaches, nectarines, pears, or apricots) without sugar
1 tablespoon unsweetened fruit juice (not citrus)
Remove skin and seeds. Puree ingredients in baby food mill or blender until smooth. Serve or freeze. Freeze no longer than 1 month.
Vegetable Medley
1/2 cup cooked fresh, frozen or canned vegetables (potato, sweet potato, green beans, peas, carrots, yellow squash), without salt added
2-4 tablespoons cooking liquid, formula or water
Cook fresh vegetables or use frozen or canned vegetables without salt or seasoning. (Read labels for ingredients.) Press vegetable chunks through a sieve or baby food mill. Thin with cooking liquid or formula to eating consistency. Or put cooked vegetables and liquid in a blender and puree until smooth. Serve or freeze. Freeze no longer than 1 month.
Note: After the individual vegetables have been fed several times, some good combinations are: potatoes and carrots, potatoes and green beans, carrots and peas.
Applesauce Deluxe
1 medium apple
4 tablespoons pineapple juice
Peel, quarter, and core apple. Cook with pineapple juice until soft. Blend until smooth in texture.
Bananas Plain and Simple
Ripe bananas may be pureed or mashed and fed to your baby directly.
Your Choice Combo Dish
(for babies over 8 months)
1 cup cooked, cubed or diced meat (cut off fat)
1/2 cup cooked rice, potato, noodles, or macaroni
2/3 cup cooked, diced vegetables
3/4 to 1 cup liquid (formula, broth, or water)
Combine and blend until smooth. Serve or freeze in serving-size containers. If frozen, use within 1 month.
Note: If you prepare combination dishes, use them only after you have fed the individual food several times.
Simple Strained Meat or Poultry
(for babies over 8 months)
1/2 cup cooked meat (small pieces of lean chicken, beef, turkey, or pork)
2-4 tablespoons meat broth or formula
Cook lean meat (fat, skin, and connective tissue removed) over low heat in a small amount of water. Puree meat and liquid until smooth. Serve or freeze. Freeze no longer than 1 month.
Egg Yolk Puree
(for babies over 8 months)
Cook 1 egg in simmering water 15 to 20 minutes. Remove shell. Remove yolk and mash with 1 tablespoon of formula or water until smooth. Serve or freeze. Freeze no longer than 1 month.
Note: Use only the yolk. Avoid feeding egg whites until 1 year to avoid problems with allergies. Use the extra egg white in the family’s casseroles, salads, or sandwiches.
Creamy Custard
(for babies over 1 year)
3 egg yolks
2 tablespoons sugar
2 cups milk, warmed
Mix egg yolks and sugar. Stir in milk and mix well. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture coats the spoon. Refrigerate. Use within 2 to 3 days
Question
Q: Should I avoid certain foods if I make my own baby food?
A: High-nitrate vegetables, such as beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, celery, collard greens, lettuce, spinach and turnips, should not be fed to babies in large quantities.
The naturally occurring nitrates in these vegetables can change to nitrites, which bind iron in the blood and make it difficult to carry oxygen.
This can cause the skin to become blue and make it hard to breathe.
Limit the serving size of these vegetables to one to two tablespoons per feeding.
© 2001 Pat Lindsey, IBCLC - Lactation Services all rights reserved.
This internet site provides information of a general nature.
If you have any concerns about your own health or the health of your child, you should
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