Dear Friends:
    The recommendations include these lovely  paragraphs:
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"Parent and caregiver responsibilities for children's nutrition are choosing  
breast-feeding for first nutrition, maintaining it for 12 months if possible; 
 controlling when food can be eaten; providing a social context for eating  
behavior; teaching about food and nutrition; counteracting inaccurate  
information from the media and other influences; teaching other care providers  about 
proper food choices for children; serving as role models for healthy  eating; 
and promoting and participating in regular daily physical activity. 
The guidelines recommend breast-feeding as the exclusive source of nutrition  
for the first four to six months of life. To improve nutritional quality 
after  weaning, they recommend delaying introduction of 100% juice until at least 
six  months of age and limiting it to no more than 4 to 6 oz. per day; 
responding to  satiety clues and not overfeeding; introducing healthy foods and 
continuing to  offer them if initially refused; and avoiding foods without overall 
nutritional  value." 
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The breastfeeding recommendations are not current;  however, I am glad to see 
that breastfeeding is part of the new guidelines. 
warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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