American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child’s Nutrition: Making Peace at the Table and Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life
A parent’s guide to nutrition for children offers useful advice on dealing with picky eaters, understanding weight standards, and adjusting dietary requirements from birth through adolescence. Original. 17,500 first printing.In American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child’s Nutrition, nutritionist William H. Dietz and pediatrician Loraine Stern have written an authoritative, comprehensive resource for parents concerned about their children’s nutrition. The book is subtitled Making Peace at the Table and Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life, and it provides useful tips for concerned parents on how to feed their children well without turning into the food police. Subjects covered include instructions for breast and bottle feeding, introducing semi-solids and solids, toddler meals and resistance, school lunches, adolescent/parent food struggles, eating disorders, the relationship between smoking and weight distribution, and, of course, the recommended Food Guide Pyramid… More >>
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Introduction: Peace At The Table: The Whys & Hos of Nurturance
Chapter 1 What’s Best For My Newborn
Chapter 2 Expanding Your Baby’s Diet
Chapter 3 THe Toddler Years
Chapter 4 Nutrition During the School Years
Chapter 5 The Adolescent Years
Chapter 6 Nutrition Basics
Chapter 7 Spitting Up, Gagging, Vomiting, Diarrhea, and Constipation
Chapter 8 Is My Child Too Fat?
Chapter 9 Is My Child Too Thin? Too Small? Too Tall?
Chapter 10 Eating Disorders
Chapter 11 What Do I Do ABout Outside Influences
Chapter 12 Can I Cut My Child’s Risk Of…?
Chapter 13 Food Safety and Additives
Chapter 14 Althernative Diets and Supplements
Chapter 15 Is My Child Allergic?
Also included in the book
What Caregivers Need to Know: A Checklist
Food and Medication Interactions
Standard Growth Charts
Body Mass Index Chart
Food Substitutions
Health and Nutritional Resources
Resources from the American Academy of Pediatrics
Lots of tips, advice, facts, common myths and common questions answered throughout the book
The book is very well written, clear, easy to read and understand. It would have gotten more stars, but there is also some highly dangerous misinformation in here.
Here is a complete lie in the book.
“The mineral fluoride is another important nutrition. It is critical for the formation of your child’s teeth… the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends giving a fluoride-containing supplement between feedings after 6 months of age.”
Fluoride is not a necessary mineral, and I don’t think there are any studies which say it is. Fluoride is a highly poisonous substance that is a waste product from nuclear refining and industrial processing. Fluoride in water has been linking to cancer and various diseases. I know people who had fluoride pills in their youth, they all have white spots all over their teeth, that is dental fluorosis.
Clearly some of the advice in the book has another agenda then your child’s health.
Review is by Ramiel Nagel author of Healing Our Children: Because Your New Baby Matters! Sacred Wisdom for Preconception, Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting (ages 0-6) & Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition (First Edition).
Practical, well-written. Provides behaviorial information as well as nutritional. This is one of the better books on children’s nutrition we have seen.
I was excited about this book, but I have found that not much of it is relevant for the age of my little one (4 years old). They list a lot of good information for babies and a lot of good information for older kids, but the information for toddlers and preschoolers was lacking, in my opinion.
I bought this book to help me figure out how to make sure my infant was receiving all the nutrients necessary and also to help with the transition from just formula to eating regular meals. The book didn’t help with information on the transition, but I still think the nutrition information is great.
It has good tips on how to keep feeding time from becoming a battle and good tips on how to start your children out on the right track to healthy eating.
The information on what NOT to feed your infant is also extreemly important and could prevent many choking incidents!