Is there any concern with offering foods that are not usually
recommended as best choices for early solid foods -- I'm thinking of
olive oil or molasses, which would probably not find themselves on the
list of a child growing according to expectations. What I'm wondering is
whether fattening a child up rather than gearing food offerings to the
child's own hunger cues / choices has any long-term effects.
Teresa, do you have thoughts on this? And does anyone have a reference
for the correlation of weight at one year and adult weight? Is the
correlation specific enough to be an actual percentage?
I'm also interested in what foodstuffs were generally offered first in
populations that breastfed abundantly but not exclusively. One theory I
have heard is that in some populations high-fat oils (coconut oil ?,
olive oil, and are fish oils fattening, Rachel?) was quite common,
although the lifestyle was not quite as conducive to obesity as ours is.
Jo-Anne Elder-Gomes, PhD, IBCLC, mother of some very slow gainers who
are all healthy kids

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