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Feeding Baby Green: The Earth Friendly Program for Healthy, Safe Nutrition During Pregnancy, Childhood, and Beyond |  | Author: Alan Greene
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 312
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.9 x 1
ISBN: 0470425245
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.92
EAN: 9780470425244
ASIN: 0470425245
Publication Date: October 5, 2009
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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 Greene
Konrad 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.
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 very informative, easy-to-read book November 19, 2009
anonymous (Terrestrial, Earth)
as someone who already avoids plastic and eats organic food whenever possible, i didn't expect much from this book. sure, you can go to all the different websites for how to best nourish your child(ren), but this book pretty much sums it up for you in one package. containing the latest info, i especially appreciated reading about the related research studies to support his points in simple non-doctorese language. i also like the approach of "do the best you can," instead of chastising less-than-ideal practices (like using formulas).
the premise is simple: eat well because you and your baby are what you eat. it's a good book if you don't have the time to browse all the websites.
Good Info November 19, 2009
E. Byers (San Diego, CA)
With a child on the way, it seems like a very good thing to start getting as much information as possible regarding the health of the mother and the baby.
Essentially Dr. Greene is advising us to take a step back, go to a simpler time. A time when we made our babies food right there. In a world where everything is very commercialized and even cheerio's come in special formulations for babies, it does seem like this view point is very refreshing. The other big thing is about flavor. Making sure that what are children are getting at a young age are the 'real deal', instead of what a baby food manufacturer thinks a baby would like, this will allow them to transition better, and essentially 'naturally' pick better/healthier foods when they are eating solid foods/snacks.
There are a lot of theories and ideas about how to raise your children, and while I don't think I will follow everything outlined in this book, it offers some good practical advice, and notions that hopefully will make our new family healthier.
 Very Practical and Easy to Use November 19, 2009
Bradley Olin (Santa Cruz, CA United States)
My wife and I opened this book up to random chapters over the past month as we prepare to bring our first child into this world. We were astounded by the many strategies and supporting data that the author provided in an easy to understand fashion. Because the book reads so well, you can easily flip to very specific chapters both pre-birth and post to help you find the best way to feed your growing child. I highly recommend this book!
A vital and fascinating resource for all parents-to-be November 18, 2009
Julia Rietmulder-Stone (Harrisburg, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book kind of blew my mind. I am already a proponent and (mostly) practicer of "green" eating, but Dr. Alan Greene (haha) convinced me that eating whole and organic foods will become even more of a priority when (if) I become pregnant.
"Feeding Baby Green" walks through the various stages of pregnancy and the first few years of a child's life, laying out both a comprehensive eating strategy and examining in depth specific strategies to employ at each stage. The central message is that children will become adults who seek out the foods they ate both in utero and as infants, so parents should actively think about and feed their children the foods they want them to wind up eating as adults. Greene makes it sound like common sense, and in some ways it is, but he also backs it up with very compelling science.
Did you know that babies in utero drink amniotic fluid, and that it conveys the flavors of the foods the mother has eaten? Or that there have been studies that show that animals will seek out the foods their mothers ate while pregnant, even if separated from their mothers after birth, and so lacking the social cues that might direct them to those foods? Even if those foods are not things the animal would be expected to seek out? Wow!
There's also a significant amount of science surrounding the benefits of eating whole and organic foods in preventing allergies, eczema, asthma, and more. And about the negative behavioral effects food dyes have on children -- so negative that many European nations have banned the dyes we (and our kids) eat regularly!
Although Greene says you can begin these strategies at any time in infancy or toddlerhood, he also repeats over and over that it'll be easier the earlier you start. I recommend this book wholeheartedly for the not-yet-pregnant and the newly pregnant, and only slightly less enthusiastically for parents of toddlers. I think it will be especially compelling for people who themselves have an interest in "eating green", but are interested in specific strategies for doing so during pregnancy. And it'll likely provide some extra motivation to *not* pick up a fast food burger out of desperation. The book might be frustrating for those with toddlers and older, because so much of getting a toddler to try something new seems to depend on whether or not they've already had good experiences with both similar and wide varieties of other foods. That said, his strategy of "taking charge" could be helpful for parents of children of any age. (You may also want to check out How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk for general parenting strategies along those lines if you're in that situation.)
Overall, a compelling read for anyone thinking about having children, whether or not they're already pregnant, and especially important for newly pregnant women.
From Before Day One of Pregnancy November 18, 2009
Jarucia Jaycox Nirula (Seattle, WA, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Being currently preggers myself, I'm all about getting educated for growing a healthy baby both inside the womb and once he enters the world.
Of all the things I enjoy about this book, I like its arrangement the best. With the regular insertion of recipes, stories, tips, reports and more, this book lends to an ease of reading that's both episodic (which is often the life of a pregnant and new mother) as well as providing more in-depth information.
I'm fairly well read and abreast on current pregnancy, infant and child nutrition trends (as well as the more traditional approaches) and I have to say that Dr. Greene does an excellent job of bringing in a broad range of information that is both accurate and helpful.
His personal story also goes far in establishing a friendly credibility from him toward the reader.
His approach to sharing information and encouraging parents is valuable in that it's VERY mindful of appropriate (and realistic) issues that parents will face during different developmental stages of their child's early life.
Overall, a highly recommended reference reading that will be helpful from before you get pregnant, right trough the toddler years.
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