Super Nutrition for Babies, Revised Edition: The Best Way to Nourish Your Baby from Birth to 24 Months
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Super Nutrition for Babies, Revised Edition: The Best Way to Nourish Your Baby from Birth to 24 Months
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| ISBN-13: | 9781592338405 |
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| Publisher: | Fair Winds Press |
| Publication date: | 10/16/2018 |
| Edition description: | Revised |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Sales rank: | 452,950 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Kelly Genzlinger, MS, CNC, CMTA, has dedicated many years to the study of nutrition and foods’ effects within the human body. She is a traditional-foods advocate in her community and is dedicated to promoting wellness for her children, family, and nutritional clients. An author, speaker, and certified nutritional consultant, Kelly is proud to have changed the lives of countless children and adults with her teachings, guidance, and counsel related to whole, real, traditional foods. Her first book, Sugar...Stop the Addiction, addressed the national crisis of excessive sugar consumption. She has been a featured speaker at wellness symposiums and a guest on cable shows, such as Diabetes Countdown and The Bottom Line. She resides in Birmingham, Michigan.
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CHAPTER 1
BABY FEEDING FUNDAMENTALS
Nutrition Is Necessary for Health
Other great healthy-baby feeding books will tell you to choose organic produce, alert you to choking hazards, urge you to make your own baby food, encourage breastfeeding, and provide you with some developmental expectations for your child. We'll tell you all of this too, but we're also going to provide you with much, much more.
Our recommendations are quite different from mainstream advice — this is because how we currently feed children isn't good enough.
We'll tell you why and offer you much better options — what we call the Super Nutrition Baby Feeding Program.
These feeding guidelines will not just provide your baby with the ability to survive but will ensure she thrives. We recommend feeding your baby in a way that coincides with how her body works, considering her unique nutrient needs as a growing baby.
Our Super Nutrition program builds super-healthy babies. And today a healthy baby is not a certainty, as evidenced by the increasing numbers of children with chronic health issues. But diet and nutrition can make a tremendous difference.
A Tidal Wave of Disease
Chronic childhood illness has been on a steep rise over the last thirty to forty years. We call this scourge of Contemporary Chronic Childhood maladies "3C" conditions, and they include autism spectrum disorders; allergies, eczema, and asthma; attention deficit disorders and learning disabilities; emotional, mood, and behavioral disorders; recurrent pain disorders; metabolic syndrome, obesity, and autoimmune diseases; digestive and gastrointestinal disorders; tooth decay; and cancer.
We consider the 3C conditions contemporary because they are relatively modern illnesses that were exceedingly rare in past generations and, in fact, nonexistent in pre-industrialized populations. They are chronic because they aren't an acute problem, like pneumonia, but instead chip away at health every day and are often considered incurable. They are designated as childhood conditions because they affect children or are increasing in prevalence in childhood. For instance, type 2, or non-insulin dependent diabetes (formerly known as adult-onset diabetes), metabolic syndrome, depression, dental problems, heart disease, and high rates of cancer are new to childhood, as previously they predominantly affected adults.
In fact, not only are the 3C conditions on the rise in children, but many, such as obesity, autism, and diabetes, are increasing quickly enough to be called epidemics. Current, common baby feeding practices have not safeguarded our children. Children born today face the following unfortunate statistical realities:
* One in 2½ (40%) have allergies, compared to 30% of adults.
* One in 12 have food allergies; 1 in 6 of those have experienced anaphylaxis (life-threatening symptom of allergen exposure).
* One in 10 people in North America and Europe have one of 80 autoimmune conditions; that's nearly 25 million people, with a 2012 study by NIEHS (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) showing that more than 32 million have autoantibodies, the precursors to full-blown autoimmune disease.
* One in 8 have asthma.
* One in 3 have ADHD, allergies, asthma, or autism.
* Almost 1 in 10 show signs of depression.
* One in 59 were diagnosed with autistic spectrum disease (ASD) in 2014, per the CDC, up from 1 in 68 in 2012.
* One in 36 (2.76%) are, at some point in their lives, diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum.
* Developmental disability diagnosis went from 5.76% in 2014 to 6.99% in 2016, with an increase in diagnosis of "other developmental delays" from 3.75% in 2014 to 4.55% in 2016.
* One in 3 children in the United States are currently overweight or obese.
Assuming the diet and environment of children remain as they are now, the future for those born this century is bleak:
* Nearly 1 in 2 will become obese or overweight.
* One in 3 will eventually suffer with diabetes.
* By 2005, 50% of boys born in the United States will have some form of ASD.
What's worse is that these disease rates have been progressively increasing over the years. "If these trends continue," fears William Sears, M.D., pediatrician and author of more than forty books on children's health, "America's children face a future filled with sickness rather than health, of weakness rather than strength, of sadness rather than happiness."
Introducing Super Nutrition
With this book as your guide, we will empower you to put the odds in your favor for preventing your baby from developing such 3C conditions, despite the statistics. Our way to do that is with Super Nutrition. Super Nutrition is the term we've coined to describe a purposeful way of selecting, preparing, and combining foods; using specific supplements; and purposefully avoiding other foodstuffs in such a way as to be protective of health. Ideally, these choices will result in the prevention of chronic and degenerative disease in your child. This means that by feeding your baby following our Super Nutrition method, you can protect her from the very real, very scary, and very tragic 3C conditions.
How does the same feeding program protect against such a wide array of illnesses? It turns out there are significant commonalities in the underlying causes of many of the 3C conditions. So even though they seem different, the 3C conditions actually have two very important things in common: They are caused or made worse by nutrient deficiencies, and they are caused or made worse by toxic overload.
These contributing components are environmental factors of diet and lifestyle. Unfortunately, most people don't give much credit to the role environment plays in health. Perhaps you think that genetics or luck will determine the state of your baby's health. Previously, even experts hypothesized that health was equally determined by nurture (environment) and nature (genetics). But due to the findings of the Human Genome Project and the scientific field of epigenetics, we now know there is a difference between our DNA (with which we are born) and what actually comes to be (how the genes are expressed) — and that difference is often our environment.
Professor Jose M. Ordovas, Ph.D., director of the Nutrition and Genomics program at Tufts University and a recognized expert in the field of nutrigenomics, attests that no more than 25% of health is actually because of hard-coded genetics. This means at least 75% of health is up to environmental factors (and many experts think their influence is even greater!). Environment — because it influences genes — plays a far greater role in our health than does just "genetics." Restated another way: Your diet and lifestyle influence your health more than your genes.
This is great news! It means that you hold most of your baby's health in your hands because you have significant control over his environment. Even if he has "bad" genetics (or genetic susceptibility) that sets him up for autism, diabetes, obesity, learning disabilities, or emotional disorders, it is most often not his genes, but rather his environment that will determine whether he actually ever develops any of these conditions.
The impact of epigenetic changes, such as those caused by environmental changes on genes, can be passed down through generations. If a toxic exposure turns on genes that contribute to autism, those turned-on genes can be passed down to one's children. Additional contributing factors in subsequent generations, such as toxic exposure, stress, or poor nutritional status, might be enough to express these turned-on genes and thus explain the epidemic rise in autism. Unfortunately, unless these environmental factors are corrected, the trend will continue and/or accelerate.
Dr. Philip Landrigan, pediatrician and researcher, reviewed biological, genetic, and environmental factors as contributing factors to autism in Current Opinion in Pediatrics (April 2010). A summary of his conclusions states, "Expanded research is needed into environmental causation of autism. Children today are surrounded by thousands of synthetic chemicals.
Two hundred of them are neurotoxic in adult humans, and 1,000 more in laboratory models. Yet fewer than 20% of high-volume chemicals have been tested for neurodevelopmental toxicity."
We agree more research is necessary. However, research is not needed to know that reducing toxic exposure is important for reducing its epigenetic impact, and therefore 3C conditions.
We also know that nutrients combat toxins, either helping to clear them or reducing their ability to do harm. A diet that is nutrient rich, therefore, can directly protect your child from toxins in his environment. This is empowering information and is critical in the hands of concerned and caring parents. For more on how nutrients remove and deactivate toxins, see chapter 5.
IMPACT OF DIET AND LIFESTYLE ON HEALTH
For babies, diet is one of the most important environmental factors when it comes to influencing health. The foods selected, their source, their preparation, their timing of introduction, their quality, and their combination are all important in the protection of health ("good" gene expression) or the development of disease ("bad" gene expression). Simply put: Good food keeps good genes turned on and keeps bad-disease genes turned off.
Enemies and Allies in the War on Children's Health
Truth be told, we see modern food and conveniences as an attack, or veritable war, against children's health. In this war, we have identified "Allies" and "Enemies." Your Allies are the diet and lifestyle choices you make. They include not just what you choose to put into your baby's mouth but also what you include in her life to bolster her internal defenses, such as good bacteria, sunshine, clean water, fresh air, and loving embrace.
ANTI-INFLAMMATION. One of the fundamental problems seen in children with the 3Cs is underlying inflammation of various tissues and organs, most notably the brain. Calming this inflammation is a key factor in preventing disease. To tame the flames of inflammation, it is important to support intestinal health, minimize toxic overload, optimize nutrient balances, and bolster immune function — all of which are key to the Super Nutrition program.
PROPER DIGESTION AND DIGESTIVE AIDS. Children with the 3Cs often have digestive problems (including allergies). Therefore, it is critical to aim for complete protein digestion as well as adequate stomach acid to ensure proper nutrition is obtained from foods; it's also essential to prevent a variety of tummy troubles, from constipation to diarrhea.
HEALTHY GUT ECOSYSTEM AND INTESTINAL WALL. Proper nourishment will ensure that your baby's intestinal tissue is healthy and capable of protecting her from undigested proteins and pathogens that could otherwise gain access through a weak intestinal lining to the bloodstream and brain.
CLEAN WATER. Your baby's growing body is, in part, built based on the caliber of water you provide. Using filtered water, when your baby is ready, will help ensure that the water functions appropriately as a cleanser and source of alkalizing minerals, rather than a source of toxins.
VITAMINS AND MINERALS. Trace quantities of certain minerals enable the body to run complex biochemical processes. Vitamins and minerals are also called coenzymes and act as critical helpers in making most processes in the body function effectively and efficiently. In addition to ensuring the body "works" properly, nutrients are the building blocks for your baby's tissues, bones, and organs. Small nutrient deficiencies can cause big problems. Whole foods are your best source of nutrients.
DETOXIFICATION. Toxins are more likely to overwhelm a body that lacks nutrients; a well-nourished body fortunately can cope far better. By providing nutritious foods, you will support your baby's ability to detoxify and thus minimize the effects of these toxins.
HEALING ("SUPER POWER") FOODS. Certain foods provide optimal nutrition to support immunity, detoxification, and the formation and function of organs and of many systems in the body. These foods have been shown to protect and preserve pristine health. When abandoned in the diet, their absence has been associated with an increase in chronic disease, deformity, and degeneration. When replaced, these foods have the power to actually restore health. Thus, we have categorized these protective, nutrient-rich, healing foods as Super POWER foods.
REAL FOODS. Real foods — as we define them — are those that are as Nature designed them. They do not have refined elements or unnatural ingredients, such as additives, preservatives, colorings, flavorings, or texturizers. Real foods come from animals who naturally graze on pastures, enjoying fresh air and sunlight, and who are never given pharmaceutical drugs or synthetic hormones. They are grown in organic soil, free of pesticides, chemicals, and nitrates, where nutrients are replenished through natural sources such as manure and crop rotation rather than chemical fertilizer. While real foods are much more than just "organic," organic is a great place to start. Real foods are pure, are worthy of your baby's body, and support health, strength, character, and intelligence.
SUPPLEMENTS. Supplements are ideally just that: "supplemental" to a nourishing diet. Food provides nutrients in their most absorbable form, acting synergistically to provide the best support for the body. However, supplements are often beneficial to fill a nutrient void or to support a metabolic blockage.
ANTIOXIDANTS. Antioxidants are nutrients that protect your cells against free radicals, which cause damage to the body, resulting in inflammation and other problems. Antioxidants reduce the damage of today's free-radical onslaught from processed foods (predominantly from plant and seed oils) and our toxic environment.
PROBIOTICS.Probiotics is another term for beneficial bacteria, which serve untold health functions in the body. Maintaining healthy gut flora will protect against a damaged or "leaky" gut, thus minimizing the risk of allergies, mood alterations, nutrient deficiencies, digestive distress, and illness from infection.
STRONG IMMUNE SYSTEM. The immune system has several levels of protection that it invokes to maintain health, as well as prevent illness. Our baby-feeding regimen provides the best possible support for your baby's immune system troops. According to the National Institutes of Health, endorphins are being studied for their amazing immune-strengthening abilities, including "antibody synthesis, lymphocyte proliferation, and natural killer cytotoxicity."
Note: Holding your baby releases endorphins, both comforting and immune boosting.
SUNSHINE, FRESH AIR, AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. It is a different world for the youth of today than even when we were children. By encouraging sun exposure, movement, and fresh air, you will improve immune function, detoxification, and your child's overall health.
The Enemies That Attack Your Child's Health
Supplying her body with Allies will help your baby be stronger, but there are Enemies lurking about that can overwhelm them rather effectively. What makes Enemies particularly powerful is that they are insidious — part of common diet and lifestyle for kids — and they're increasingly prevalent. It's impossible to avoid all Enemies, but becoming aware of them and reducing exposure to them will minimize their impact on your baby.
TOXINS. Toxins include pesticides, pollution, heavy metals, medications (including vaccines), industrial waste, chemicals (found in common items from cleaning and hygiene products to foods to tap water), dyes, artificial ingredients, preservatives, and even animal foods (such as arsenic and fluoride in poultry from chicken feed, mercury in meat from cattle's grain-based feed, and glyphosate in wheat and oats). Toxins accumulate in the body and disrupt normal metabolic activity, leading to multiple issues.
Many children suffer from a reduced ability to eliminate toxic elements entering the body — due to digestive problems or insufficient nutrients to help enzymes do the job. Toxins then accumulate, crippling various organs and systems. At high enough doses, many of them are lethal, but even at lower doses, toxins cause trouble with normal function and development.
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Table of Contents
FOREWORD by David Brownstein, M.D., 6,
INTRODUCTION: Children's New Health Concerns, 8,
1 Baby Feeding Fundamentals Nutrition Is Necessary for Health, 14,
2 Mom's Diet Does Matter Critical Feeding Information for Pregnant and Nursing Mothers and Babies (0 to 6 Months), 32,
3 Drugstore Formula Doesn't Cut It Better Options Than Commercial Alternatives, 62,
4 From Fake Flakes to Real Food Meeting Nutrient Needs with First Foods (6 to 8 Months), 82,
5 Oh-So-Much-Better Than Cereal O's Taking the Toxins Out (8 to 10 Months), 112,
6 Reconsider Baby Food Jars and Noodle Stars Bolstering Immunity with Nutrients and Foods (10 to 12 Months), 146,
7 Shape Up Sweets and Ship Out Sugar Getting Back to Nature's Basics (12 to 18 months), 172,
8 Think Outside the Box of Mac 'n' Cheese Convenience Foods Can Cost You Your Child's Health (18 to 24 months), 214,
AFTERWORD, 254,
APPENDIX, 254,
RECOMMENDED READING AND DOCUMENTARIES, 257,
RESOURCES, 259,
Sources for Ingredients, Instructions, and Supplies for Homemade Formula, 259,
Sources for Food, Supplements, Ingredients, Books, Equipment, and More!, 261,
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 263,
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 265,
ABOUT THE AUTHORS, 266,
INDEX, 267,