Katherine Erlich - Super Nutrition for Babies: The Right Way to Feed Your Baby for Optimal Health

More praise for Super Nutrition for Babies

The terrible public health experiment of the low-fat, plant-based diet has left our culture in a wreckage of confusion, guilt, and disease. But finally, here is a book for the people who need it most: parents. 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 commonsense 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 book 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

THE RIGHT WAY
TO FEED YOUR BABY
FOR OPTIMAL HEALTH

Katherine Erlich, M.D. and
Kelly Genzlinger, C.N.C., C.M.T.A.

2012 Fair Winds Press
Text 2012 Kelly Genzlinger

First published in the USA in 2012 by
Fair Winds Press, a member of
Quayside Publishing Group
100 Cummings Center
Suite 406-L
Beverly, MA 01915-6101
www.fairwindspress.com

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

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ISBN: 978-1-59233-503-9

Digital edition published in 2012
eISBN: 978-159-233-503-9

Digital Edition: 978-1-61058-384-8
Softcover Edition: 978-1-59233-503-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available

Cover and Book design by Kathie Alexander

The information in this book is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to replace the advice of a physician or medical practitioner. Please see your health care provider before beginning any new health program.

Some of the views expressed in this book are controversial and not widely accepted by the medical community. Some of the information in this book may be considered complimentary, alternative, or integrative medicine and may not be endorsed by governmental or academic institutions. Some of the supplements and recommendations described may not have received approval by the Food and Drug Administration or other regulatory agencies for the purpose for which they are suggested. Readers are encouraged to consult other sources and make independent judgments about the issues discussed.

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 percent of the U.S.s 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 U.S. 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 U.S. children that 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 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 that 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, 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 nearly 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.