Category: Nutrition

It’s National Nutrition Month!
[ 0 ] March 9, 2008

It’s National Nutrition Month!

National Nutrition Month® is a nutrition education and information campaign sponsored annually by the American Dietetic Association. The campaign is designed to focus attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.  Visit EatRight.org to find a vast array of nutrition information and resources.  Take the ADA’s Nutrition [...]

Bacteria in Baby’s Gut – Why it may relate to obesity!
[ 1 ] March 8, 2008

Bacteria in Baby’s Gut – Why it may relate to obesity!

From HealthDay News– The mix of bacteria in a baby’s gut may predict whether that infant will become overweight or obese later in life, a new study suggests. Babies with high numbers of bifidobacteria and low numbers of Staphylococcus aureus may be protected from excess weight gain, according to a team of researchers from the University [...]

Flax in Baby Food Recipes?  Just don’t sautee with it!
[ 2 ] February 24, 2008

Flax in Baby Food Recipes? Just don’t sautee with it!

Flax is a wonderful addition to your diet and may also be a wonderful addition to baby’s diet.  Flax is rich in three essential components that are wonderful for our bodies: Omega-3 oils – You may recognize them as “alpha-linolenic acid” or ALA Lignans Fiber, both soluble and insoluble The only draw back to flax [...]

Apple Custard Baby Food Recipe
[ 0 ] February 24, 2008

Apple Custard Baby Food Recipe

Here’s an easy and yummy baby food recipe for apple custard.  Full of Iron and Protein and Vitamin C too, this healthy apple recipe will surely please your little one!  Cut it up and offer it as a finger food meal, drizzle with some yogurt and sprinkle on wheat germ for extra nutrition! 1/2 cup of [...]

A Baby’s Sweet Tooth
[ 4 ] February 21, 2008

A Baby’s Sweet Tooth

As many worry that introducing sweet potatoes before green beans will make baby grow-up with a monsterous sweet tooth, we posted a snippet from a study that shows the order of solid foods that baby is introduced to really doesn’t matter (keeping in mind potential allergens and age appropriateness that is).  Today we were looking [...]

Order of Introducing Solid Foods – Should Green come before Yellow?
[ 2 ] February 12, 2008

Order of Introducing Solid Foods – Should Green come before Yellow?

There must be a lot of little 6 month old babies out there who will be getting some yummy homemade baby foods soon.  We have had quite a few emails about the “proper” order to introduce solid foods in the last week.    The truth is, there is no “proper” order at all.  Some say introduce the [...]

Baby Fish Burps?
[ 0 ] February 10, 2008

Baby Fish Burps?

Fish burps It just makes me laugh to say and write it! What are fish burps and what if your baby has fish burps? Fish burps happen when you take Fish Oil supplements in the form of capsules or the actual oil itself.  The Fish Burps occur because the fish oil hangs out in the [...]

Freezing Homemade Baby Food Recipes With Formula – Can it be done?
[ 0 ] February 7, 2008

Freezing Homemade Baby Food Recipes With Formula – Can it be done?

Sam wrote to us last week asking how much formula she should use to make her baby food purees.  She also wondered about freezing the purees if they had formula in them.  We thought we would share our reply here on the blog:  The amount of formula you would add to your baby food purees would depend [...]

So why can babies have yogurt if they can’t have milk?
[ 1 ] February 7, 2008

So why can babies have yogurt if they can’t have milk?

This morning we received an email from Melissa.  Melissa had read our Newsletter and was wondering about a tip from one of our visitors.  Melissa wrote to us regarding our “Great Tips from our Visitors”. She questioned the use of Yogurt for our Forum visitor’s baby who is “technically 5 months old”. We include her [...]

Nutrients in Baby Food Sweet Potatoes – Jar vs. Baked
[ 2 ] January 31, 2008

Nutrients in Baby Food Sweet Potatoes – Jar vs. Baked

Many parents wonder if making homemade baby food will give their litle ones more nutrients than commercial baby food.  We have done a s a small breakdown of the nutritional values for Sweet Potatoes; jarred vs. home baked.  We used the USDA Nutrient Analysis Database for our calculations.The measurement of both is per 14 grams. The [...]

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