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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.

Photo by Howard Schoenberger

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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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16644 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780470425244
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
Babies are built from food, writes Greene (Raising Baby Green) in this straightforward manual for eco-conscious parents. Most of the nutritional advice here will not be new to parents; its not specific to parents who are choosing organic or sustainable food. The strength of the book is in its personality. Greene shares his own childhood eating habits and takes a nonjudgmental approach, offering specific brand suggestions for organic baby formulas knowing that some mothers need that option. Parents of picky eaters will especially appreciate the tips for engaging toddlers in new flavors and aromas. Verdict This title will stand out among the proliferation of organic cookbooks for babies and toddlers, as it capably tackles the why (we feed our kids healthy food) and how (to get them to eat it). Library Journal Xpress Review(Oct 2010)

From the Back Cover

Feeding Baby Green

The Earth-Friendly Program for Healthy, Safe Nutrition During Pregnancy, Childhood, and Beyond

Alan Greene, M.D.

Author of Raising Baby Green

A new way to train your baby'staste buds for a lifetime of good eating habits

Not your typical feeding book! You can break the cycle of weight struggles, junk food, and unhealthy kids' meals—and avoid food battles along the way. Feeding Baby Green contains all you need to know to feed your baby best and to raise a child who recognizes and enjoys good food.

Praise for Feeding Baby Green

"For all those interested in healthy family nutrition."

—Robert Kenner, director-producer, Food Inc.

"Makes it easy for kids to learn to love healthy amounts of healthy foods—and to enjoy meals together as a family."
—Brooke Burke, the Modern Mom

"??'Nutritional Intelligence'—this approach is a gift to ensure that every little one will thrive for a lifetime!"
—Jessica Capshaw Gavigan, mother and actress

"A straightforward and fundamental guide to healthy eating for mothers, infants, and children."
—Walter Robb, co-president and COO, Whole Foods Market

"This is a terrific map for parents who want to raise healthy children and for the health providers who want to help them."
—Erica Frank, M.D., M.P.H., professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia

"What's in this book could change the trajectory of children's health."
—Julius Richmond, M.D., founding director, Project Head Start, and former U.S. Surgeon-General

"Will be a staple for families who make healthy living and healthy eating a priority."
—Sara Snow, TV host and author, Sara Snow's Fresh Living

"Gives parents the tools they need to set a strong foundation for their children to have a healthy and positive relationship with food for the rest of their lives."
—Anna Getty, holistic and eco lifestyle expert, author, and founder of Pregnancy Awareness Month; director, PureStyleLiving.com

About the Author

Alan Greene, M.D., is a beloved practicing pediatrician, leading authority, and spokesperson for the green baby movement. He is the author of Raising Baby Green, winner of the Nautilus Book Awards Gold Medal for "Best Parenting Book of the Year." Dr. Greene teaches at Stanford University School of Medicine. Visit his Web site at www.DrGreene.com.

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Customer Reviews

Provides a Thought Provoking Solution to BPA-laden Baby Food
Baby food is a myth. At first glance, this seems like an overly simple statement, or maybe even an outlandish sales pitch. But as I continued to read, the weight of Dr. Green's bold statement hit me. Does he realize he's going completely contrary to a foundational belief in our society? What are his intentions and how does aim to support such a claim? The answers to those questions quickly became clear, along with a solution to our ever-growing problem of toxic chemicals in our children's food.

I know - you're wondering if it's really a smart idea not to follow the Stage 1, 2 and 3 exactly as you've been told. You're thinking that it will take too long to prepare fresh food for your baby. And then what if you're not sure you can provide your baby with a balanced diet?

Drop the worry, let the fear go and dump your pre-conceived ideas about how babies should be fed. Dr. Greene has orchestrated an amazing - and doable - journey for you. Feeding Baby Green is so much more than a "how to" book - it's a stolen look into Dr. Greene's own journey to freedom and joyful family meals where baby is included instead of separated.

And those concerns of BPA and toxic preservatives harming your baby's health? They become drastically diminished in a world where you prepare one dinner for the whole family, without the need for jarred and canned baby food. In the process your child will learn how to enjoy healthy, unprocessed food for life.

Feeding Baby Green
I will have to agree with another reviewer who says this book is good for beginners. For those who have a fairly decent knowledge of nutrition and healthier alternatives and those who did their research while pregnant, on the other hand, this book may simply be more of the same.
While I enjoyed what the book had to say regarding the "magical" properties of herbs etc, my largest complaint would be the lack of recipes throughout the book. There are some, and while the text does not call itself a cookbook, I believe more recipes, with a background on why they are the best choice for your child, would have been more suited to my own personal needs. A lot of the information is what you would find in any pregnancy guide, magazine or website.
If you have already had children or are one who is extremely health conscious, you are not likely to find a host of profound information in this book that you have not come across previously. That being said, it is certainly a viable guide for those who want to change their nutritional lifestyles for themselves, their kids and their environment (if they have not already done so).

Excellent!
This book has everything! If you're like me and a picky eater, you've probably wondered how to get your kids to eat things you don't eat. I was fed a very limited variety of foods as a child, and as a result I've always been very picky. This book explains why me and countless other Americans prefer the taste of packaged, processed foods loaded with salt and sugar, over fresh, wholesome, good food. So what did people do before the bland, jarred baby food of the industrial revolution hit store shelves? Read this book to find out!

What is included:

The definition of "baby" food
How to eat while pregnant to maximize the chances of your baby being an adventurous eater later on
How to introduce foods in a way your baby will find intriguing
Recipes
How we inadvertently teach our toddlers to become picky eaters
Facts about what's actually in baby food
How jarred baby food came to be in the first place
How to approach eating as "fun" and create enjoyable food experiences

You not only become educated on what to feed your baby, you become educated on the entire process of how consumers came to depend on Gerber and other baby food companies as the only way to feed a baby. I was always told that it wasn't safe to introduce too many varieties of fruits and veggies to a baby at once, but this book dispels that myth and so many others.

Skip What To Eat While You're Expecting and just read this.