Katherine Erlich - Super Nutrition for Babies

1. 1
   Baby Feeding Fundamentals
   Nutrition Is Necessary for Health
2. 2
   Moms Diet Does Matter
   Critical Feeding Information for Pregnant and Nursing Mothers and Babies
   (0 TO 6 Months)
3. 3
   Drugstore Formula Doesnt Cut It
   Better Options Than Commercial Alternatives
4. 4
   From Fake Flakes to Real Food
   Meeting Nutrient Needs with First Foods
   (6 TO 8 Months)
5. 5
   Oh-So-Much-Better Than Cereal Os
   Taking the Toxins Out
   (8 TO 10 Months)
6. 6
   Reconsider Baby Food Jars and Noodle Stars
   Bolstering Immunity with Nutrients and Foods
   (10 TO 12 Months)
7. 7
   Shape Up Sweets and Ship Out Sugar
   Getting Back to Natures Basics
   (12 TO 18 Months)
8. 8
   Think Outside the Box of Mac N Cheese
   Convenience Foods Can Cost You Your Childs Health
   (18 TO 24 Months)

With Super Nutrition for Babies (and young children), at last I finally have a book that I can wholeheartedly recommend to my patients, my students, and the physicians whom I lecture about nutrition. Someone finally got it right and I applaud the authors for their research and their willingness to tell the truth.

David J. Getoff, C.C.N., C.T.N., F.A.A.I.M., vice president, Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation

You only get one chance to grow a childs body, mind, and spirit, and with our traditional food cultures in shreds, parents have been cut adrift in a sea of conflicting advice. Using clear common sense and basic nutritional concepts, Katherine Erlich and Kelly Genzlinger have written a book that can be an anchor, and then a safe harbor, for parents and babies everywhere.

Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

A clear, practical, and nontrendy guide for parents on how to best feed babies and toddlers, backed by the trifecta of common sense, ancestral wisdom, and sound science. The recommendations accord with Weston A. Price Foundation principles, and are exactly whats needed to get our children off to a good start and to empower their health for life.

Kaayla T. Daniel, Ph.D., C.C.N., vice president, Weston A. Price Foundation, and author of The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of Americas Favorite Health Food

Super Nutrition for Babies by Katherine Erlich and Kelly Genzlinger is something that every expectant and new mother and father should read! It gives the correct information for parents on how to bring up healthy, intelligent, and robust children. In a world where parents are constantly bombarded by wrong and harmful information, this book is a rare treasure! I congratulate the authors, who write with authority based on solid clinical and practical experience and their work as a medical doctor and a nutritionistall supported by thorough research and references. I warmly recommend it.

Natasha Campbell-McBride, M.D., author of Gut and Psychology Syndrome

Erlich and Genzlinger have compiled a wealth of knowledge and experience into a book that is so basic on one hand and so complete and thorough on the other that readers will understandwithout difficultythe concepts and be able to apply them easily. This is a grand reference book that can be used for many years of a childs life.

Nancy Appleton, Ph.D., author of Lick the Sugar Habit

REVISED EDITION

The Best Way to Nourish Your Baby from Birth to 24 Months

KATHERINE ERLICH, M.D., and KELLY GENZLINGER, M.Sc., C.N.C., C.M.T.A.

Super Nutrition for Babies is a much-needed book. Parents are confused about food and often do not have the appropriate knowledge to make the best food choices for their children. Now they have a book that guides them toward making good food decisions.

Conventional medicine makes little mention of the importance of educating parents about how to properly feed their children. Simple dietary changes that emphasize eating nutrient-rich foods would do more than any medicine or vaccine to improve a childs ability to reach their potential. In fact, educating parents about the optimal way to feed their children should be the first item discussed in the prenatal visit. Super Nutrition for Babies provides the optimal dietary advice that gives children the best chance to reach their true potential.

Health care for children is a disaster. What is health care for children? Conventional medicine spends untold amounts of moneys vaccinating children for numerous illnesses. And yes, many childhood illnesses have declined due to vaccinations. However, epidemic numbers of children are suffering from a host of chronic illnesses such as autism, cancer, obesity, and ADHD.

In the United States, for instance, far more money is spent on health care than any other Western country. Currently, more than 16% of the United States gross domestic product is spent on health care. Unfortunately, spending large sums of money on health care has not provided better health indices. As compared to other Western countries, the United States ranks at the bottom of nearly every health indicator. There is more chronic illness, more heart attacks, and generally poorer health when compared to other Western countries. However, it is not just children in the United States who are suffering. All Western countries are seeing dramatic increases of chronic childhood diseases such as autism, ADD/ADHD, and cancer.

Is there an underlying theme behind the declining health of our children? It is not as simple as spending more money. Every country in the world is under strain due to budgetary constraints. In the case of childrens health needs, one inexpensive way to improve the health of children is to feed them nutritious food. This would go a long way to helping the world overcome its health care crises. This process can be started by following the healthy dietary principles outlined in Super Nutrition for Babies.

I have been practicing holistic medicine for nearly twenty-five years. I have seen the consequences of feeding children a poor diet full of refined and devitalized foods. Feeding children a devitalized diet leads to devitalized children who will not reach their potential and suffer from myriad health issues.

My experience has clearly shown that the pathway to optimal health for us all is to eat a healthy diet. The pathway to raising a child who can achieve her full potential is to provide the child with a diet that supplies all of the valuable nutrients needed to help optimize their brain function. A healthy diet can also help the child optimize her immune and hormonal systems as well as all the other organs of the body.

Katherine Erlich, M.D., and Kelly Genzlinger, M.Sc., C.N.C., C.M.T.A, have written a must-read book for everyone who has children and for those who are thinking of starting a family. There is no doubt that the younger your child is when you begin optimizing his/her diet, the greater the tools he or she will have to succeed. These tools include vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and fatty acids. The Western diet is lacking in each of these vital items. For over twenty years, I have been testing children (and adults) for various nutritional levels. Eating a devitalized diet, full of refined foods, leads to multiple nutritional deficiencies and poor brain function.