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Remember that every bite your baby takes is a nutritional opportunity for you to nourish your baby with the very best.
According to the National Institute of Health Research, childhood obesity in the US is an epidemic. Obesity is easier to prevent than to treat, and prevention focuses in large measure on parent education.
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In infancy, parent education should center on promotion of breastfeeding, recognition of signals of satiety, and delayed introduction of solid foods. In early childhood, education should include proper nutrition, selection of low-fat snacks, good exercise/activity habits, and monitoring of television viewing.
The key is to provide your child with whole, fresh, minimally proceed, organic nutrient-dense food, which is the basis to building strong healthy bodies and establish long lasting healthy eating habits as a preventive method. Taking into consideration how tiny baby tummies are and given the fact that they can only take so many bites a day, efficiency is of the almost importance.
Do not feed babies 'empty nothing'. Make every bite count. Whenever you want to feed something to your baby, ask yourself what nutritional role that little bite is going to play?
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