Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #302277 in Books
• Published on: 1998-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

Customer Reviews

The key to raising a healthy child
As a physician and parent, I try to provide my daughter with a healthy diet as well as a diet that gives her the best chance at continued good health. Ruth Yaron's book is my bible! She really knows her stuff-- sound nutritional advice, great tips on fast and easy ways to provide a healthy diet, and a common sense approach to parenting. Even though I work full-time, I am able to follow most of the recommendations in her book without a huge expenditure of time. It really is an impressive book. It has been my "new baby gift of choice" for the past year!

Use with Caution
There is a lot of great information in this book. However, there is also quite a bit of nutritional misinformation to go with it. So I found myself having to double-check any recommendation I didn't already know about with another source which somewhat defeats the purpose of buying the book. That said I'm a complete kitchen klutz so having a book that explains exactly how to shop for, prepare and freeze each food is very helpful.

I'd just be very, very careful about using the exact diet as recommended for a baby under 1 year without consulting with your pediatrician first. For example, in order to avoid the "evil" meat, the book recommends introducing nuts, seeds & soy into the baby's diet from a pretty early age. These foods are all high allergen foods and really are not any better for a small baby than some pureed chicken. The book also recommends liver powder -- but organ meats are high in toxins. It also recommends cottage cheese starting at 6 months but cottage cheese has all the same problems as cow's milk and should not be given until you are ready to start straight cow's milk.

So in some senses I think the "cure" (a diet full of allergy-causing foods) is worse than the "disease" (eating meat once in a while).

The book is also not very bfing friendly... if you push solids in the amounts recommended here and as early as recommended here, you could easily have supply problems or your baby could self-wean by 9-10 months.

If you are not a vegitarian, don't but this book!
I bought this book with the intention of making my own baby food for my son. I wanted to find a book to tell me how to cook and combine some of the jarred foods I had been feeding him, such as sweet potato and turkey, and apples and chicken, but to my surprise found that the meat section in this book is nothing less than an statement about how bad meat is and that we are starving the rest of the world by eating it.

Being a vegatarian is great, but I think that the title and book description should include that there are very few meat recipies.