Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby’s First Foods

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Ten years ago, Nina Planck changed the way we think about what we eat with the groundbreaking Real Food. And when Nina became pregnant, she took the same hard look at the nutritional advice for pregnancy and newborns, finding a tangle of often contradictory guidelines that seemed at odds with her own common sense.

In Real Food for Mother and Baby, Nina explains why some commonly held ideas about pregnancy and infant nutrition are wrongheaded–and why real food is good for growing minds and bodies. While her general concept isn’t surprising, some of the details might be. For expecting mothers and babies up to two years old, the body’s overwhelming requirements are fat and protein, not vegetables and low-fat dairy–which is why, for example, cereals aren’t right for babies, but meat and egg yolks are excellent.

Nina shares tips and advice like a trusted friend, and in this updated edition, her afterword presents the latest findings and some newly won wisdom from watching her three children grow on real food.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury USA
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 10, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1632864592
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1632864598
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.85 x 8.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #272,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #437 in Natural Food Cooking #575 in Pregnancy & Childbirth (Books) #2,262 in Other Diet Books
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