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Newly revised for the 1990s, The Baby Cookbook is the final word on infant nutrition. In addition to hundreds of wonderful recipes, it includes vital new information on vitamin requirements, allergies, childhood obesity, nursing, introducing solids, and balancing meals. It also features all the facts on the health benefits and risks of milk, eggs, salt, fluoride, and complete and incomplete proteins.
The Baby Cookbook also includes the author's personal journal of experiences feeding and raising her own baby. Knight's journal takes some of the fear out of raising a baby by showing parents what to expect (and beware of) in feeding their own infants and toddlers.
And, of course, there are the recipes. All of the more than 250 recipesnearly 100 of them new for this edition — have been designed to be low in sodium, contain almost no sugar, and generally encourage good eating habits.
Best of all, most of the meals in this book can be shared by the whole family. There's Chicken Fricassee, Seafood Chowder, Cheese Enchiladas, Baked Potatoes with Salmon Sauce, Barbecued Ribs, and much, much more, including Homemade Apple Pie. We are not talking strained peas.
The Baby Cookbook is a complete guide to cooking for your family — from ovens and stove tops to microwaves and crockpots. Finally, it's possible for working parents to prepare quick and easy meals for their children without sacrificing taste, variety, or nutrition.
Newly revised for the 1990s, The Baby Cookbook is the final word on infant nutrition. In addition to 200 wonderful recipes for meals the whole family will enjoy, it includes vital new information on vitamin requirements, allergies, obesity, nursing, introducing solids, and balancing meals.
Sages have said that food nourishes and protects, and food destroys. Food is life, and food is disease. What we consume should refine our intellect, give us inner peace, keep our mind and body strong, and enable us to function beautifully in life. What better could we want for our babies?
The sages and science seem to think alike here. Most of our illnesses are diet related, especially congestive heart failure, cancer, diabetes, strokes, and heart attacks. Good nutrition will give us good health if we also have a happy, healthy attitude toward our diet and our body. Love, happiness, laughter, and caring-all need to be added to a nutritious diet for total well-being.
Most of us think of diet and nutrition as the same thing. However, diet is the food and liquids we consume (some of which the body uses and some of which go to waste), and nutrition is the process by which the body utilizes what we eat and drink. Food supplies the raw materials for growth and energy. It allows the body to pursue its complicated process of metabolism. All living cells require a multitude of nutrients and may become malnourished if even one essential ingredient is lacking.
Good nutrition is required for normal development in all children. It also helps maintain the body's natural defense system, which in turn helps the body resist infections. To achieve good nutrition, our bodies need an adequate and balanced amount of protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals.
A well baby is born with a vibrant, healthy body. As new parents, it is one of our primary duties tomaintain our children's good health. The foundations for your baby's future well-being are being laid now, and during these early years you will have the pleasure of watching him develop through one of the most exciting and crucial growth periods of his life. I hope the following pages will help make the experience a joyful and healthy one for both of you.
Proteins are invaluable. They are necessary for tissue maintenance and repair. They help build blood and antibodies to fight infection and are an important source of energy. They aid healthy digestion and are essential for proper elimination of waste material. A lack of protein may cause a craving for sweets and starches, and protein malnutrition can cause permanent stunting of physical growth, failure to reach full intellectual development, and susceptibility to infectious diseases.
Since the chief function of proteins is to supply the body with building materials, they can be thought of as "building blocks" — in nutritional language, amino acids. The human body is capable of manufacturing fourteen of these amino acids, which are referred to as "nonessential" because they need not be obtained from specific dietary sources. Certain amino acids cannot be manufactured by the body itself, or cannot be formed at a sufficiently rapid rate to meet the body's demands, and are called "essential" amino acids. There are eight of them — lysine, leucine, isoleucine, methionine, tryptophan, threonine, valine, and phenylalanine — all of which must be obtained from food sources.
There are two additional amino acids, histidine and arginine, which may also be called essential for children, as their bodies cannot produce them fast enough to ensure an adequate supply. Both are plentiful in cheese, milk, and eggs.
A "complete protein" must contain all these essential amino acids, the best food sources for which are fish, poultry, meat, eggs, cheese, and milk.
Other foods contain some amino acids but not all, and these foods are called "incomplete proteins." Peas, most kinds of beans, rice, cereals, lentils, and processed flour all provide incomplete proteins. However, if different kinds of incomplete proteins are combined, excellent sources of high complete protein can be created (see table page 25). However, a few points should be kept in mind:
When incomplete proteins are combined, not only should foods that supplement limited amino acids be included, they should be combined in proportion to each other for the most efficient utilization of protein. The ratio is specific for each combination. Some examples are:
3/4 cup dry rice in combination with 1/4 cup dry beans
3/4 cup dry rice in combination with 1 cup milk or 1/4 cup milk powder
31/4 cups wheat flour in combination with 1/4 cup soy grits and 1/2 cup sesame seeds
Complementation of proteins is also a practical way to enhance the value of foods readily accepted by young children. For example, some ways of accomplishing this are by adding a small amount of soy grits to oatmeal while cooking, or adding wheat germ, soy flour, and dry milk to muffins, pancakes, and breads.
A simple method, called the Cornell Triple Rich Flour Formula, developed at Cornell University, complements the proteins in baked goods. Before flour is measured, the following ingredients should go into the bottom of each cup:
1 tbsp. soy flour
1 tbsp. dry milk
1 tsp. wheat germ
Then the flour is added to the desired amount.
As essential as protein is to the body's well-being, it is important to remember that if a child is put on a restricted diet, such as a vegetarian diet, there is a danger of an inadequate protein supply. A pure vegetarian (vegan) diet eliminates all animal...
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Newly revised for the 1990s, The Baby Cookbook is the final word on infant nutrition. In addition to hundreds of wonderful recipes, it includes vital new information on vitamin requirements, allergies, childhood obesity, nursing, introducing solids, and balancing meals. It also features all the facts on the health benefits and risks of milk, eggs, salt, fluoride, and complete and incomplete proteins.
The Baby Cookbook also includes the author's personal journal of experiences ...