Monday, March 01, 2010

Feeding Baby "Green"


Pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, whose popular website, DrGreene.com, has offered a variety of advice for parents, now has a book out about environmentally conscious parenting called "Feeding Baby Green: The Earth Friendly Program for Healthy, Safe Nutrition During Pregnancy, Childhood and Beyond".

Greene states that how you feed your baby early on is important because it not only affects the foods they like, but it will turn on and off certain genes that will affect their metabolic rate, how much weight their likely to gain, how they handle blood sugar and cholesterol, how likely they are to get diabetes or heart disease and the quantity of food that will satisfy them.

Greene says he wants to introduce the idea of nutritional intelligence and development. One aspect of that is the ability to recognize and enjoy healthy amounts of great food. This is something that we have largely ignored in the U.S. He says it is never too late to improve a child's eating habits, but the earlier you start, the easier it is.

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