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Feeding Baby Pouch Food
Michael Olson’s Food Chain Radio Show #1376
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Guest: Dr. Elizabeth Dunford – Research Fellow, George InstItute Assistant Professor of Nutrition, University of North Carolina and Author of An Evaluation of the Nutritional and Promotional Profile of Commercial Foods for Infants and Toddlers in the United States
A modern times dilemma: Babies are the hope for a future, but an expense for the present. A big expense of a baby in the present is the time the baby requires from the parent.
In their first year of life, babies triple the size of their bodies. They need muscles to crawl and grab onto things. To build those muscles, babies need foods rich in healthy fats and protein. One of the most important responsibilities of a parent, therefore, is to feed the baby good food… all day long!
For time-poor parents, feeding a hungry baby good food all day long is a significant expense. But fear not, because industry has come to the rescue of time-poor parents with disposable baby food pouches. Sales of these baby food pouches to time-poor parents have increased 900 percent in the last 13 years.
But what is in those baby food pouches leads us to ask:
Leave a comment: Do convenience baby foods do a baby’s body good?
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