New Vegetarian Baby
- ISBN13: 9780935526639
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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An all-new edition of America’s favorite guide to bringing up baby as a vegetarian, this book incorporates all the latest information to answer questions and lay to rest any lingering doubts about a vegetarian regimen for infants…. More >>
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February 3rd, 2010 at 12:11 pm
The nutrition advice in this book is very similar to the typical pregnancy book guidelines, but one difference, no chicken, beef, fish or pork.
The book starts out with a highly flawed and dangerous perspective on vegetarianism. It talks about macrobiotics, which in some cases people are now adding some fish, but she only encourages the vegan approach. It talks about the China study, the highly flawed and bias study that aims to related disease to eating meat. Even though most people in China are NOT vegetarian. She explains that Japanese people have a vegetarian cuisine, but again, traditional Japanese diets are totally loaded with sea foods including the organs. Saying that pacific islanders, Hawaiians and Marquesans were vegetarian or that they fed their children only vegetarian food is an outright lie. In fact some pacific islanders purposely avoided certain plant foods and fruits and purposely chose to eat the animals that ate the fruits. Pacific island diets were loaded with sea foods of all forms. In fact, there is little or know documentation that any indigenous group, living on their native diet were vegetarian.
The information is twisted because she talks about the importance of fat-soluble vitamins, which are primarily found in animal fats. There is a way to be healthier as vegetarian, but it’s not discussed in the book.
For example, grains need to be prepared in traditional ways to maximize assimilation. Dairy should be raw, not pasteurized, and from cows eating rapidly growing grass. Large quantities of eggs (like a dozen a day for pregnant women) and extremely high quality raw butter are needed to attempt to produce a healthy child.
I speak from first hand experience as well as interviewing many vegetarian and vegan mothers. Due to a vegetarian style, even though we did eat a small amount of fish, our first daughter developed severe tooth cavities. Other mom’s have had their young children develop cavities on a similar diet. It took my spouse 1 year to recover from a natural birth, for example, due to depletion from a mostly vegetarian diet and lifestyle prior to conception and during pregnancy. Vegetarianism is really Russian Roulette with our children’s health. Happy, and healthy babies, especially in today’s modern world filled with foods that are grown on depleted soils, require at least an extremely exact vegetarian program, but more realistically, a program that includes at least sea foods. Done with care and in an ethical way, these foods provide our children with the possibility for abundant health. Choosing vegetarianism for our children, is choosing a mental utopia, instead of choosing real health.
Review is by Ramiel Nagel author of Healing Our Children: Because Your New Baby Matters! Sacred Wisdom for Preconception, Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting (ages 0-6) & Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition (First Edition).
Rating: 1 / 5
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:51 pm
This book provides dangerous misinformation. Any baby raised vegetarian will have very low levels of Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12 and Zinc, to name just a few nutrients. Plant-based foods do not contain all nutrients a baby needs. Kale and carrots do not contain Vitamin A as many people believe, they contain beta-carotenes which the liver can convert into true Vitamin A. However, babies’ livers cannot make this conversion yet. The ability to convert beta-carotenes into Vitamin A does not mature until adolescence. Furthermore the liver needs saturated fat to make this conversion. Babies and children need preformed Vitamin A which is only found in animal foods.
Active Vitamin D3 is also only found in animal foods. A large portion of the albeit small number of rickets cases in children are vegetarians.
Zinc from animal sources is four times more absorbable than zinc from plant sources and very a very important nutrient for intelligence and the immune system.
I could go on, but anyone considering this book should also read “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” by Weston A Price and make up their own mind.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:50 pm
When I bought this book off this site I expected a vegetarian cookbook for infants(because it appeared in such a section)When I received it I was surprised to see that the least it had was recepies. My first reaction was of disappointment but as I started reading it (after all what else could I do) I found it a very essential book if you want to raise a vegetarian child. It has the tools you need along with pediatrician counseling to help your baby strive in such a diet. It is specially helpful to ward off those family members that think your going to starve your child to death by making him a vegetarian.
Rating: 4 / 5
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Answers a lot of those really vexing questions about how to raise a vegetarian child. Tons on information that is easy to understand. Includes a break down of each food in each category and what vitamins/nutrients it provides and what things to beware of about a particular food. Use it often as a reference when I am uncertain about my child’s diet. So far my 16 month old vegetarian is healthy, happy and growing!
Rating: 5 / 5
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Very good book on raising a veggie baby. It gave alot of great statistics and facts that helped me feel reassured that raising my son veggie was the right thing. Great ideas on feeding too. Would be a great book for anyone who is worried that being vegetarian might be unhealthy or to give to others who feel you are doing the wrong thing.
Rating: 4 / 5