Healthy Eating Tips for Baby’s First Year
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By Nancy Gottesman
During baby’s first year, you’ll want to cultivate a diet that protects against obesity and disease as he grows. The best way to do that? “Try to get your child used to a wide variety of foods,” suggests Joanne Ikeda, M.A., R.D., a nutrition education specialist in Nutritional Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
Many parents, whether they are aware of it or not, are fostering in their children a predisposition for a high- sugar, high-fat diet—the same diet that’s at the root of our obesity epidemic. “A few years later, these same parents ask, ‘Why won’t my child eat his fruit and vegetables?’” notes Ikeda.
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Great backyard summer treat for the kids. Frozen fruit pops on a stick. 
Comment by Sandra on Sep 20 2009 12:22:46:
It has long since been debunked that you should serve single-grain cereals or vegetables before fruits to babies. Breastmilk is very very sweet; if it were true that fruits will make babe refuse vegetables, then any breastfeed baby would have that issue too.
There really are no “rules” anymore, other than just feed baby what the rest of the family is eating, starting at six months or so, when baby’s pincher grasp is good enough to self-feed finger foods. Spices, eggs, whatever – you don’t have to restrict anything that you all eat, nor do you have to prepare anything special (puree, leave out spices, etc.). THIS will set baby up for a good diet in the future, because she is definitely getting a wide variety and lots of textures and colors. http://geriatricmama.wordpress.com/fantastic-infant-feeding-information/