Childhood Nutrition: Preventing Obesity, Volume 1: Feeding Your Baby

This first program in a two-part series is a practical guide to appropriate diet for children from birth to one year—from breastfeeding/formula through the transition to solid foods—explaining both what should be eaten and how it should be offered. A dietician/mother narrates and provides transitions between segments, while real babies demonstrate various behaviors signaling that: an infant is hungry or full; an older baby is ready, or not, for solids; and a child on solids is full (also covered are indicators that a child is ready to feed herself). Childhood Nutrition presents detailed instructions for choosing store-bought baby food, or preparing, serving, and storing homemade versions. Specific fruits, vegetables, beans, and meats are recommended, while parents are also cautioned about foods that babies cannot digest. Patience is necessary; adapting to eating something new can be a long process, and little ones who are just learning to feed themselves will make a mess. Along the way, diverse moms, dads, and kids are shown preparing and enjoying breast milk, formula, infant cereal, pureed foods, and bits of fruit or toast. DVD extras include a segment that encourages elementary school–aged children to eat healthy and stay active. Also newly available is Childhood Nutrition: Preventing Obesity, Volume 2: Young Children Eating Right (series price: $109.95 for public libraries; $179.90 for high schools, colleges & universities). Highly recommended. Editor's Choice. Aud: H, C, P. (M. Puffer-Rothenberg)