Feeding Baby Green: The Earth Friendly Program for Healthy, Safe Nutrition During Pregnancy, Childhood, and Beyond
Number Of Pages: 312
Great Read
This book has a lot of helpful information that all mothers, and fathers, and anybody should read! There are so many chemicals in our foods these days, and so much junk, it's so important for everyone to eat healthier. This book explains how to start that in your children starting from when they are in the womb.
helpful information about how and what to feed your baby
I ordered this book because I really enjoyed reading Raising Baby Green. Feeding Baby Green actually covers a lot of the same information covered in Raising Baby Green, but goes into a bit more detail. I pretty much skipped the whole first section on what to eat during pregnancy, since Raising Baby Green already covered the topic.
Overall, the book is practical and useful. I especially liked that Dr. Greene covered formula/bottle feeding. I had not expected to need that section, but after having had serious problems while breastfeeding my son, I was thankful that he gave suggestions for keeping bottle feeding as "green" as possible. However, I think he also covered that topic in Raising Baby Green, as well.
In short, I did like this book, and I found it to be helpful. If I had to do it over again, though, I would check out Feeding Baby Green from the library and buy Raising Baby Green, instead of the other way around.
Great book, wish it had more recipes!
I really liked this book, and was happy to read his opinion that we don't need to feed our babies "baby food", but can feed them a mushed-up version of what we are eating ourselves, as long is it is healthy. I appreciated the age-appropriate suggestions and advice, and I especially liked the fact that it was written by a pediatrician, so I know his opinions are based on research evidence.
It has actually encouraged me to start buying more fresh fruit and vegetables for myself too! I only wish that the book had some more actual recipes.
A book about getting back to basics and eating wholesome
Pros:
*The writer was not brought up eating the healthiest. So, I feel that I can somewhat relate as opposed to someone who has eaten healthy all of their lives and didn't have to make a change.
*Easy to understand, not very technical yet comes across as very sound advice.
*The cover has a "waxy" feel, so it probably won't get messed up if you get food or something else on it.
*I really like how he advocates learning opportunities for you and the kids (letting them pick out fruits/veggies at the store, having a little herb garden to pick from, etc.)
*Although this is a very wordy book, there are some bullet points (or lists) that he gives you that you could highlight and refer back to later. He has a "biodiversity checklist" at the back (about 3 total pages) that I think is neat and would be a great exercise to do with your kids when they are older (besides doing it yourself).
Cons:
*not many "recipes" as I thought there might be, although not a big deal to me.
*I'm a little surprised that he did not talk about foods to eat (or avoid) for breastfeeding. I know that could be a large topic in and of itself, but I thought he would have at least touched on it. (yes, he tells you to limit caffeine, no alcohol, etc.) but I'm talking about foods themselves that will enhance your supply or might give gas to the little ones.
Notes/Neutral:
*152 pages (out of 257) covered his background, pregnancy and up to a baby 3 months of age). Just trying to give you an idea what most of the book is spent upon.
*At times, he does list brands of things he's recommending.
*Basically, if you don't grow it yourself or get food from a co-op, he recommends organic food/formula.
*Although this book is about being "green", to me it seemed more about eating wholesome...so I didn't feel like I was badgered by the "green police" ;)
*I had never heard of him before, but here is his site if you want to read up first: [...]
I ordered this book (through the Vine program) when my twins were toddlers and pretty good eaters (although not wholesome as I would like). Although we are on the older end of the book now, there are still some good ideas. It also gives me some inspiration to better my nutrition.
Overall: I think this book is "best" suited for someone who is pregnant...then next suited for someone who has just given birth (but do you really have time to read? :)
Feeding Baby Green
Judging by the cover, I thought that this is one of those crazy environmentalists books and didn't really want to read it. But since I just had a baby, I decided to give it a try. Surprise! It wasn't that crazy after all. The book is mostly about how to teach a baby to like regular healthy food, as opposed to fast-food junk. I really liked the idea that babies need to be introduced to real food flavors before becoming toddlers, when they will not be so inclined to try new foods.
The book has a lot of sound advise, without going to the extremes.
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The new "baby feeding bible" from the award-wining author of Raising Baby Green
Called the "Al Gore of Parenting" by Parenting Magazine, Dr. Alan Greene has written the follow up to his best-selling book and offers parents a definitive guide for making nutritionally-sound decisions for their children. Offers parents green choices for feeding children from when they are in the womb through toddler years.
This unique guide includes advice on how to transform a baby's eating habits that will positively impact their health and development for the rest of their lives. Dr. Greene has included everything a parent needs to know about creating healthy, nutritious meals that help avoid childhood obesity, and prevent childhood disease. This must-have resource
- Shows how what a mother eats during pregnancy effects her baby's health and eating habits for years after birth
- Provides the definitive guide to "green" feeding for babies from pregnancy to toddlers
- Filled with practical tips and advice for selecting and preparing earth friendly meals for babies
- Shows the health benefits for babies who eat "green" with innate nutritional intelligence
- The crucial follow-up to the best-selling book Raising Baby Green
In addition to working in his medical practice, Dr. Alan Greene makes regular appearances on the Today show and writes articles for the New York Times.
It’s Time for a Delicious Revolution
By Dr. Alan GreeneKonrad Lorenz made his mark by studying a special type of learning where key exposures during a critical and sensitive window of development can have a lasting influence – a process he called imprinting. The famous example of this is imprinting in geese. Newly hatched goslings are programmed to follow the first moving objects they see. They quickly become imprinted on this object and will move their little feet fast to keep up with it. This is highly adaptive. Most of the time. Usually this moving magnet is the gosling’s mother.
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Lorenz showed, however, that if he were the first mover that a gosling saw, it would be imprinted on Lorenz and follow him about, refusing to follow a goose. A goose could even imprint on a toy train and ignore other geese, even its own mother. Later, as adults, these geese would even choose toy trains for their life partners (which didn't work out well for the geese -- or the trains). Lorenz won the Nobel Prize for this work in 1973.
We’ve known for at least thirty years from animal studies that very early flavor experiences change which foods will later be preferred. Within five years of Lorenz’s Nobel Prize, food imprinting had already been demonstrated in snapping turtles, chickens, gulls, dogs, and cats.
Human babies also learn by imprinting, though ours is more complex, more forgiving, and occurs during a longer critical window. In particular human babies imprint on food. This is a highly adaptive mechanism -- but in the second half of the twentieth century we have unwittingly imprinted our children on the wrong tastes and textures. They will chase after junk food and kids meals, and ignore a delicious, ripe peach or tomato packed with nutrients their bodies crave.
Feeding Baby Green unveils the key windows of opportunities for our children, and how the imprinting occurs using not just taste but all of the senses, from pregnancy through age 2 (and beyond -- with a final chapter giving an overview up to age 9).
At its core, Feeding Baby Green is a revolutionary approach to cultivating Nutritional Intelligence, the age-appropriate ability to recognize and enjoy healthy amounts of great food. Pregnancy and the first two years of life are critical windows for learning Nutritional Intelligence, an important, newly described strand of development. Most American kids of the last few decades are Nutritionally Delayed. Thankfully, this is easy to remedy.
Number Of Pages: 312
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