Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health : Birth Through Age Six

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Summary: This book tells why you must pay attention to what kids eat.
Review: 'This book should be on every parents bookshelf.' Actually, one of the original endorsers of the book said this, but it is so true it deserves saying again. A radio interview with one of the authors on Talk of the Nation earlier this month prompted me to buy the book. The book is very easy to read, and gives some interesting information about the nutrients kids need and how you can help them get them. I found particularly compelling the information on the importance of multivitamins, and also found it interesting to learn why some foods, like eggs and red meat - normally not a part of my own diet - are really valuable foods for growing children. I tried some of the tactics recommended to get my 4 year old to eat a more balanced meal. Much to my surprise, they are working. Also, having a greater variety of healthy food (and a boring selection of junk food) around the house works not only on them, but on myself as well! I'm going to need the sequel to this book on older kids and hope the authors are already writing this.

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Summary: Essential for all Moms
Review: As a registered nurse and Mom this book is essential. It goes through the stages of feeding starting with breast vs. bottle, including exellent info on breasfeeding. You dont even need to buy a seperate breastfeeding book. Then moves on to babys first foods, including which foods to introduce at certain ages. Gives sample menus for babies of all ages. Also helps parents understand that pushing food on kids only makes them not want to eat. Helps with tips for picky eaters. How to get your kids to eat the foods you want them to eat with them knowing it.

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Summary: Finally - a balanced approach to feeding children
Review: Drs Roberts and Heyman have struck the right balance of solid medical facts and personal experience with their own children in Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health. And balance is just what we need on this topic! I've found other child nutrition books to be heavy-handed, with agendas that are not always about doing what's right for your child and without much scientific backup. This book provides realistic strategies for dealing with an often-difficult and emotional issue - without the guilt! My own experience with my two-year old daughter tells me that they are dispensing very sensible advice. My daughter is a healthy and adventurous eater. It makes life so much easier when mealtime is a pleasure, not a battle. The two points I found to be most helpful: 1) if you don't want them to have it, don't keep it in the house; and 2) whatever a child eats within the first 2 years of life is what they come to know as "safe" or acceptable foods, so variety is key in that time-frame. I hope many, many parents read and benefit from this book.

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Summary: This book is the new MUST HAVE gift for all baby showers!
Review: FEEDING YOUR CHILD FOR LIFELONG HEALTH strikes me as a book that will become as indispen- sible an addition to a new mother's library as the currently invaluable WHAT TO EXPECT... series (...THE FIRST YEARS;...THE TODDLER YEARS). It was exciting to discover a book devoted entirely to the very complicated and perplexing business of feeding a child. I'm the mother of an almost-two year old, and upon opening this book I found myself quickly absorbed. I had never heard of "metabolic programming"--the concept that what and how you feed your child permanantly affect his/her metabolism, eating habits and tastes, and even IQ levels, later in life. Anxious to get on the right track, I was able to easily fast forward to the chapter dealing with my "terrific terrible two". Included were strategies to help with common feeding issues and difficulties in this age group, as well as recipes and sample menus. Especially helpful is the appendix of good food sources. I count this book an essential tool in helping to realize my dream of giving my daughter the best start possible for a lifetime of physical health and mental well being.

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Summary: I found this book easy to read and reference for menu's .
Review: I found "Feeding your Child for Lifelong Health" easy to read and reference. It contains updated nutrition information and addresses parental concerns with ADD, heart disease, vitamins, and more. It also includes sample recipes that parents can sneak nutrition into - including chocolate cookies!

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Summary: Informative guide to develop healthy eating habits in kids
Review: I found the information in this book well organized and clearly focused on how to develop good lifelong eating habits in children. This book provides the kind of comprehensive information on growth and nutrition that you are unable to get in short, well child checks at the pediatricians' office. As a mother of an infant and a toddler the book provided clear advice on how to direct better food choices for my toddler and avoid repeating many of the same feeding problems with my infant. I recomend it for anyway who is concerned with developing healthy and life long eating habits in their children and family.

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I read this after my childrens' pediatrician recommended it to me. I found the information to be very helpful and the suggestions to be surprisingly effective. I agree with most of the other reviews here, but I see that the only negative review of this book comes from someone who seems to have allowed her defensiveness on the issue of breastfeeding to prejudice herself against the book. It's a great book! Whether you need help with a problem or you are just looking for some guidelines to follow, this is the best nutrition book for anyone with young children.

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Summary: Excellent approach
Review: I read this book when my first child was born 5 1/2 years ago, and it set the course for how I feed my children. I came away from this book with clear, applicable guidelines for presenting food to my children. This is sound dietary and psychological advice that stays at an abstract enough level that you can apply the principles to your home diet, instead of presenting specific recipes or diet plans you must follow.

This is one of the few child rearing books whose impact has resonated five years after reading it.

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Summary: Informative book for parents
Review: I would recommend this book for all parents. I wish I'd read it when my oldest was born instead of when he was 2 1/2 and my youngest was 1. Good, practical tips for getting toddlers to eat veggies. OVerall healthy eating practices recommended. Debunks some myths/wives tales, ec. Pediatricians should be recommending this, too. I think I do a good job with my children's nutrition, especially when I see the junk that most of America and even some of my friends let their children eat, but this definitely inspired me to do much better.

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Summary: Informative book for parents
Review: I would recommend this book for all parents. I wish I'd read it when my oldest was born instead of when he was 2 1/2 and my youngest was 1. Good, practical tips for getting toddlers to eat veggies. OVerall healthy eating practices recommended. Debunks some myths/wives tales, ec. Pediatricians should be recommending this, too. I think I do a good job with my children's nutrition, especially when I see the junk that most of America and even some of my friends let their children eat, but this definitely inspired me to do much better.