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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.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Feeding Baby Pouch Processed Food
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 below: Do convenience baby foods do a baby’s body good?
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Babies as well as children AND adults need to SEE the food they are eating. Eye appeal, color, texture, variety, all are incorporated into considering food to be appealing and appetizing. I have seen food squirted into a baby’s mouth without them first seeing the food. This contributes to poor food choices and gluttony later. Food/meals are not just to be stuffed in the mouth to fulfill hunger. There is more to a satisfying food then just loading a mouth to chew and swallow. Older children, teens, and adults will take the convenience pouches with the squirt nozzle attach and squeeze it right into the mouth. They never once see what they are eating unless it drips on their shirt! They see the picture on the label and never see the actual food they are consuming. Adults are also very guilty of this as there are many pouch foods available for their convenience as well. Babies and children need to experience eating. They need to be taught not to gobble food, to eat with manners, to use utensils, and to enjoy the food in a variety of ways of preparing and cooking. Not just the variety of the packaging. These parents that are time-limited to such an extent that feel the benefits of the minutes saved by pouches are not realizing the bonding and relationship building they are missing by not feeding their children other foods. They are also being careless regarding nutrition and this will only hurt the child. If parents are that “busy”, then they need to find other things to limit in their lives, rather than sacrificing the child’s feedings.