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Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods
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The food-activist author of Real Food challenges popular nutrition advice for expectant and new moms, explaining the value of traditional whole foods while addressing such topics as meat and sodium intake during pregnancy, the importance of specific solid foods in a baby's diet, and the importance of quality fats and proteins in a child's first years. Original.
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Following the success of Real Food, Nina Planck's Real Food for Mother and Baby explains why real food is better for woman and child. Nina Planck, one of the great food activists, changed the way we view old-fashioned foods like butter with her groundbreaking Real Food. T hen she got pregnant. Never one to accept conventional wisdom blindly, Nina found the usual advice about pregnancy and baby food riddled with myths and misunderstandings. In Real Food for Mother and Baby, Nina explains why many modern ideas about pregnancy and infant nutrition are wrongheaded and why traditional foods are best. While Nina can be controversial—her op-ed in the New York Times on vegan diets for infants was one of the paper's most e-mailed articles— she's no contrarian. Readers applaud her candor; they also trust her research and welcome her advice. Nina's basic premise hasn't changed—whole foods are best—but some of the details are surprising. Pregnant women need meat and salt, not iron supplements. Nursing will be easier if you act like the mammal you are. Delaying the introduction of certain solid foods doesn't prevent allergies. Cereals are not the best foods for tiny eaters; meat and egg yolks are better. From conception to two years, the body's overwhelming needs are for quality fat and protein, not for carrots and low-fat dairy. Even as she casts a skeptical eye on the conventional wisdom, Nina is reassuring. She shows you how to keep your baby healthy on good, simple food. Real Food for Mother and Baby will be the new classic on eating for two.
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Pages 272
Dimensions: Length: 1" Width: 5.5" Height: 8.25"
Weight: 0.54 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Mar 31, 2009
ISBN 1596913940
EAN 9781596913943
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 | Inconsistent, contradictory, erroneous and unreliable Dec 13, 2009 |
Do not read Real Food for Mother and Baby if you are looking for a solid source of knowledge about pregnancy, nursing and feeding babies. Planck's book is filled with inconsistencies, contradiction, bad advice and erroneous claims that seem to be just thrown out there without emphasis or reason. A portion of the bad advice is a rehash of mainstream information that comes from government institutions and coinciding industrial food and health corporations. For instance, Planck states that vaccinations are miracles which have completely wiped out major diseases. In reality, there is not a single scientific paper showing that vaccinations perform what they are claimed to do. Moreover, she endorses CDC recommendations of synthetic folic acid for women of childbearing age in order to prevent neural tube defects. Yet, elsewhere she attacks industrial food corporations for making food products that are synthetic and not "real food"; then points to a study in which women with the highest folate levels who were also deficient in vitamin B12 had babies who were small, fat, and insulin resistant at six years. These children are much more likely to be diabetic as adults. Says Planck: "This study also suggests why you probably don't need to fret about folic acid." In actuality, what the study suggests is that it is a bad idea to take synthetic folic acid as CDC recommends but important to get folic acid from foods that also contain B12.
Furthermore, Planck advises taking industrially processed fish oils, which are genuinely toxic and harmful to the body. Another poor suggestion is that pregnant women should sunbathe in the dead of winter. Additionally, Chapter three is littered with specious and unfounded claims which make it difficult to read, especially when she said that you don't need any extra foods during the first trimester of pregnancy and that you can take supplements if it is too difficult for you to eat well. More bad advice comes in the form of her statement that mothers should take anti-depressants even while nursing, because a depressed mom isn't good for the baby. The negative health effects from even a short-term usage of anti-depressants don't outweigh the claimed benefits; in fact, there is no biological test to know whether anti-depressants actually work or not.
Nonetheless, if you can see through the inconsistencies, Planck does give some good advice about avoiding refined and excessively processed "foods." In addition, she brings to surface the fallacies of the lipid hypothesis, which lacks any solid evidence to support its premise that fats, specifically saturated fats, cause degenerative diseases and unhealthy weight gain.
Overall, this book is not a reliable guide for nutrition advice for conceiving, carrying and nursing a baby. The guidelines are consistently misleading, defective and lack detailed explanations. If you want good advice then please turn to dependable sources for nutrition knowledge. These sources may include but are not limited to writings by such great minds as Weston A. Price, Francis M. Pottenger, Jr. and those associated with the Weston A. Price Foundation.
| | |  | good information Aug 16, 2009 |
I'm please with the helpful information, but it causes me to freak out, considering I don't meet the standards, nor do I ever think I will. I'm a "worry-wort".
So, people that don't worry easily, like me, should enjoy this just fine. | | |  | A must for any Mom at any stage Aug 14, 2009 |
I got an advanced copy of this book to review last Friday and honestly didn't expect it to be such an enjoyable fast read. I wish that I had many copies of Real Food for Mother & Baby to give to anyone that is thinking about getting pregnant or newly pregnant. Planck breaks down the often overwhelming platter of prenatal nutrition into an easily understandable and delicious bite. She explains often murky and confusing topics such as eating fish during pregnancy with ease and offers charts that I wish midwives and doctors would copy and hand out frequently. There were a handful of points that I could have taken or left, and this is definitely not for the hard-line vegan (or maybe it is), but overall it is a book that I am happy to add to my library.
Planck extols the virtues of healthy fats, raw milk, and an attainable/low stress diet for Mothers at any point during the childbearing year, let alone anybody at any age. I was happily reminded of past research that I had read, and learned some new interesting tidbits as well, but mostly when I put down the book I had a warm fuzzy feeling and a huge craving for salmon on top of something drenched in butter. | | | | Very informative and honest Aug 7, 2009 |
| I enjoyed Nina's Real Food book, but I think this one is even better. I love her honesty and openness, and how she uses her personal experiences to illustrate her points. It is also good plain common sense, and I wish doctors recommended that all prospective parents read this book. | | | | Show This Book To Your Midwife or Doctor Jul 29, 2009 |
The book begins with Nina defining what real food is. She says, "My definition of real food is based on science, but it's not meant to be technical... Here goes: Real Food is old and it's traditional." What Nina thinks is real, is what humans have eaten since the Stone Age. Fish, fowl, insects, eggs, leaves, nuts and berries.
Real food is a mixture of science and Nina's life as a mother. It includes witty humor and raw emotion. Here's a chapter by chapter summary to give you a better idea of why I recommend this book.
In the first chapter, she delves into science on fat, cholesterol, coenzyme Q-10.
She talks about how she grew up on a farm, and got real milk. Real milk, is raw. It isn't pasteurized, homogenized, and comes from cows that eat grass. Real meat comes from an animal that eats its natural diet, it doesn't have hormones and antibiotics. Real fish is not farm raised. It is wild. (Nina also recommends fish oil if you don't like fish).
Real fruit and vegetables are heirloom, organic, or naturally grown. Preferably they come from the farmer's market.
Nina offers us some practical advice, "People worry too much about how to cook vegetables." Real fat is fried chicken, buttered toast and whole milk. Rightfully Nina tells us about the harm of fake fats, industrial fats such as corn, safflower, sunflower and soybean oils.
Nina is a fan of moderate amounts of alcohol. So she did forget to add "Real Beer" and "Real Wine" to her first chapter. :)
Chapter 2 is the Fertility Diet
She explains how up until recently, grandmothers, and aunts new good food advice for expectant moms. But today they have "dropped the ball" on fertility diets. She likens official government advice to "the Dark Ages."
Nina introduces four fertility rules and explains them in detail.
1. Be and Omnivore
2. Fat and Fertility - basically fat is good
3. The Seafood Principle (yes, we should eat fish)
4. Don't Eat Carbage (white-flour, sugar, polished rice, modern vegetable oils)
Nina gives us tips on coming off the birth control pill and mercury fillings. Nina has a handy chart of specific vitamins that are good for fertility and foods where they can be found. Liver, milk, meat, clams, fish, oysters, and eggs are all on the list. She explains the importance of vitamins A, E, D, and K. The fat-soluble vitamins. And gives tips for men as well. More liver, nuts, fruit, and vegetables. Nina then gives some personal anecdotes and more science behind her assertions.
Chapter 3 - Forty Weeks.
"Lots of actions, all of it inside." writes Nina. This is about the first trimester, second, and third trimester of pregnancy. She talks about hormones, high fat foods, eating more beef, her food diary. Nina prefers the Adelle Davis's diet over the suggestions of the Weston A. Price foundation. She finds that butter, eggs, and seafood are the best foods for the first trimester.
Here you get more about wine and pregnancy, stories about Nina's life and how to deal with NVP (Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy)
Chapter 4 - Nursing
Nina had a very emotional time after her first son was born. That is great to hear of a women sharing her personal raw feelings with the world. Nina's "Pro Life" point of view is on the importance of probiotics. She sites several examples why breastmilk is best, and gives dietary advice from Papua New Guinea. She advises new mom's to just relaxed and not scrutinize every crumb that is going into their mouths.
Nina even had her breastmilk tested at a laboratory. And tells us of Le Petit Singly, a cheese made from human milk. Nina is very concerned that trans fats stay out of the milk. She believes that fish fat is the queen of the fats. DHA is being used up by the breastfeeding infant. The chapter has many reminders how brestmilk is the best.
Nina recommends against childbirth preparation classes, which doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Then she talks about her own perspective on breastfeeding. Here Planck describes traditional wisdom this reminded me of Nagel's highly acclaimed Healing Our Children: Because Your New Baby Matters! Sacred Wisdom for Preconception, Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting (ages 0-6), of breastfeeding on cue. Because human babies, are "Just like monkeys," in relation to breastfeeding. She supports breastfeeding as a mother's "full time job."
Nina gives great advice on feeding baby foods. Giving them real foods, just in small amounts. First food suggestions for babies include raw milk, cheese and yogurt - these are all excellent whole food ideas. Nina rightly states that "cereal is good" for you is a myth and recommends instead, bone broth for babies. Nina of course loves Real Raw milk for her little one. She then tells and amusing story of how she got allot of heat for an article against veganism for children. It's an interesting story. The point she is trying to make, is veganism isn't good for children. Case closed.
There is alot of story on how she came to making decisions about the food she feeds her son Julian. The stories include a struggle with a dumb doctor who tells her to stop breastfeeding. Nina is a big fan of cod liver oil. In the end, Nina talks about her small farm dreams. This is an excellent book. It's also worth mentioning that there is another book that covers child raising in more detail, as well as goes into great depth on healthy foods, nutrition and schooling for parents who want to have happy and healthy babies, it's called, Healing Our Children: Because Your New Baby Matters! Sacred Wisdom for Preconception, Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting (ages 0-6) Real food and Healing Our Children are 5 stars in my book.
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