I would like to know what kinds of books on nutrition you are reading and using as references as you feed your family.
Titles and authors would be great. Recipe books you have found helpful in cooking for your children. I'd also like to know if any of you use online sites as references about keeping a broad healthy diet. Please include sites and I would like your personal experiences if you want to share about diet. I have so many questions but would be happy if you would answer any portion of what I have asked.
I am so pleased with these answers. I want to thank all of you and I will be contacting the professionals who wrote in. Thank you one and all. I wanted to begin a dialog on healthy eating with one of my daughters who was raised on organic vegetarian food but has abandoned that path in feeding her family. I want to thank each of you for your responses. You have given me food for thought and an up to date perspective on healthy and interesting eating.
I enjoy the website www.eatingwell.com I have tried several recipes. They're simple, but tasteful and healthy.
"The Makers Diet" by Jordan Rubin. It's a great book about the importance of getting the right nutrition. It might not be the book your looking for, but it's the book that I try to base my familys diet off of.
Hi L.-Maggie---I have the honor of working with Dr. William Sears in my Wellness Education practice. There are specifically 3 that I work with and recommend; The Family Nutrition Book, The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood, and for kids, Eat Healthy, Feel Great. All can be purchased from Amazon for a pretty good price.
I also refer people to www.eatingwell.com. They have a great kid friendly recipe section as well as some useful health info, although I must warn that some of it is not entirely accurate.
Other great websites are www.pcrm.org for how nutrition and our diet helps to prevent disease. Within that, there is another site called www.kidsgethealthy.org. Another site to visit is www.nutritiondetectives.com, an educational site developed by Dr. David Katz in order to teach kids how to read labels. I have the Nutrition Detectives DVD that I would be happy to share with you, as well as another great one by Dr. Sears.
I have all kinds of great info that I've been learning in a series of wellness classes I'm taking, taught by a Naturopath who has her PhD in Nutrition. I am passionate about sharing, as there is way too much misinformation 'out there' on the internet, in books and even from some of our supposed health authorities and doctors (they simply don't know what they don't know and they know very little about nutrition).
Feel free to call and/or contact me by phone. I would be honored to help. Take care, good luck and congrats on being proactive with teaching about and feeding your family an optimal diet. In health, D. ###-###-####
Good Morning,
As a Wellness Educator, I taught a class just last night Healthy Family Eating. Tips on shopping and cooking nutritious meals and I referred to my favorite books all night.
Diane, already mentioned one, "The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood" by Dr. Sears. It is a good-basic-easy to read book, really for the whole family. I wish, I would have had this book when my kids were little.
Another favorite, probably what I would consider MY food Bible, is "The World's Healthiest Foods" by George Mateljan. I refer to that book, several times a week. It lists, what he believes, are 150 of the most nutritious foods. It goes through the history of the food, they different types, how to pick them, how to store them, a healthy way to prepare and exactly what are the health benefits of that particular food.
A couple of just good books to read about making good food choices are:'
1) "What to eat" by Marion Nestle and 2) "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan.
Some of my favorite websites are www.naturalnews.com, www.mercola.com, www.healthychefalex.com. I can't remember the websites but Google, 'Nourishing our Children"
You are already well on you way to making healthier choices because you are curious and asking! Keep reading and researching. There is so much information out there, a lot of it conflicting, so you just have to listen to your mommy gut as to what makes sense to you.
In Good Health,
Lori Krause, RN
Certified Dr. Sears LEAN Coach
www.YourKitchenCoach.net
My favorite book--ever--in regard to nutrition is Nourishing Traditions.
I love the fact that it is educational in a layman kind of way. It helps me explain to my kids why we eat the way we eat, and why it is really important, but it also gives great recipes and suggestions for integrating good eating habits into daily life.
I am pleased to say that I have label reading kids--and that started, spontaneously, at about eight years of age. My ten year old will reject foods that she would normally want to eat, based on ingredients. It makes me super proud!
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My favorite cookbooks for general purposes come from Taste of Home.
My other favorites can be checked out at the library to see if it's a good fit for your family.
Idiots Guide to Feeding Your Baby and Toddler
Baby and Toddler Meals for Dummies
Feeding the Whole Family by Cynthia Lair is a great book. I use it quite a bit. There are a few blogs that I also get recipes from. Weelicious http://weelicious.com/ and The Nourished Kitchen http://nourishedkitchen.com/ . I also like to use 101 Cookbooks. She is vergetarian but has some great recipes. http://www.101cookbooks.com/ . A friend also gave me the cookbook The New Laurels Kitchen Cookbook. I have found some good recipes in there, they are also vegetarian, but there are some great ideas in there. I have also found that joining a CSA program has helped us to eat better. We belong to Full circle Farm and they have lots of recipes that I try out.
"Real Food" completely changed the way I and my family eat. I've also heard great things about "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food", which I plan on reading soon.
I second the response to "feeding the whole family" by Cynthia Lair -- she also has a website called "cookus interuptus" that is hysterical and she is local here in Seattle and is a Professor at Bastyr University -- she rocks!
Here is one you will like:
http://www.amazon.com/Sneaky-Chef-Strategies-Healthy-Favo...
For all around general health (diet as well as everything else) sign up for the newsletter here - the most accurate and informative information (health wise) on the internet by far. www.mercola.com
*Real Food: What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck
*Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods by Nina Planck
*Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
These books started a revolution in our household! We did further research and the Weston A Price Foundation online: http://www.westonaprice.org/
is a great resource with links, references, research, information and so much more!
We eat extremely healthy and well-rounded diets, we nearly never eat out and save a ton of money as we enjoy our food at home so much more and actually don't feel well eating heavily processed food. My 11 month old son who suffered from chronic ear infections for 7 months straight cleared right up and is healthy for the first time and all we did was switch him to healthy raw milk! My husband eats red meat, eggs, butter, etc which he avoided previously and his cholesteral levels dropped, he lost weight and feels great! If anything, read the first book I listed. It tells why we hould eat certain foods, and in what forms. Goes over research that shows what is truly healthy and good for us vs what has been forced into our base knowledge by the USDA and FDA under pressure from big food corporations and so much more.
