I don't agree that this is an "off-topic" topic, Pat. I think we would do a huge service to our clients/patients if we helped educate them about proper nutrition when we do our weaning/starting solids counselling. Parents have chosen to breastfeed beacuse they want their children to have the healthiest start. It saddens me when I see them introduce "healthy" solids like apple juice, kiddie yougurt (containing several teaspoons of sugar per teaspoon) and "vegetables" like french fries. Parents are told by advertisers that these are healthy foods. Are we surprised that so many of our children are obese?
I encourage moms to seek out whole first foods, perferable those that are prepared at home, without added salt, sugar, nitrites, etc. I advise them that they should be doing most of their shopping from the perimeters of the grocery stores, in produce and meat sections and, selectively, from the dairy case. Better yet, to start their own gardens! ( I am amazed at what I see in other gorcery carts, and at what mothers of my kindergarten son's classmates send off as a midday snack to their kids.)
Sorry for the rant.
Mary Griffin Kellogg, MD, IBCLC
Connecticut
Mary Griffin Kellogg, MD, IBCLC---- Pat Young <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I tell parents that juice is kiddie junk food, it's better to eat the apple
> or orange. My colleague tells them that a glass of juice is as good as a
> handfull of gummie bears :-) TV advertising has really ingrained in the
> public mind that juice is good for you. But parents and kids abuse it's use
> so badly Parents are misguided and think if its juice then it is ok. :-( .
> There is research showing that too much juice contributes to the pediatric
> obesity epidemic. The first thing I try to cut from kids' diet is regular
> milk (use 2%), juice (eat the fruit) , soda, koolade and gatorade. Do you
> know most parents thing gatorade is good for kids? ! Pat in SNJ
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