Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods
Ten years ago, Nina Planck changed the way we think about what we eat with the groundbreaking Real Food. And when Nina became pregnant, she took the same hard look at the nutritional advice for pregnancy and newborns, finding a tangle of often contradictory guidelines that seemed at odds with her own common sense.

In Real Food for Mother and Baby, Nina explains why some commonly held ideas about pregnancy and infant nutrition are wrongheaded—and why real food is good for growing minds and bodies. While her general concept isn't surprising, some of the details might be. For expecting mothers and babies up to two years old, the body's overwhelming requirements are fat and protein, not vegetables and low-fat dairy—which is why, for example, cereals aren't right for babies, but meat and egg yolks are excellent.

Nina shares tips and advice like a trusted friend, and in this updated edition, her afterword presents the latest findings and some newly won wisdom from watching her three children grow on real food.

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Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods
Ten years ago, Nina Planck changed the way we think about what we eat with the groundbreaking Real Food. And when Nina became pregnant, she took the same hard look at the nutritional advice for pregnancy and newborns, finding a tangle of often contradictory guidelines that seemed at odds with her own common sense.

In Real Food for Mother and Baby, Nina explains why some commonly held ideas about pregnancy and infant nutrition are wrongheaded—and why real food is good for growing minds and bodies. While her general concept isn't surprising, some of the details might be. For expecting mothers and babies up to two years old, the body's overwhelming requirements are fat and protein, not vegetables and low-fat dairy—which is why, for example, cereals aren't right for babies, but meat and egg yolks are excellent.

Nina shares tips and advice like a trusted friend, and in this updated edition, her afterword presents the latest findings and some newly won wisdom from watching her three children grow on real food.

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Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods

Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods

by Nina Planck
Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods

Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods

by Nina Planck

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Overview

Ten years ago, Nina Planck changed the way we think about what we eat with the groundbreaking Real Food. And when Nina became pregnant, she took the same hard look at the nutritional advice for pregnancy and newborns, finding a tangle of often contradictory guidelines that seemed at odds with her own common sense.

In Real Food for Mother and Baby, Nina explains why some commonly held ideas about pregnancy and infant nutrition are wrongheaded—and why real food is good for growing minds and bodies. While her general concept isn't surprising, some of the details might be. For expecting mothers and babies up to two years old, the body's overwhelming requirements are fat and protein, not vegetables and low-fat dairy—which is why, for example, cereals aren't right for babies, but meat and egg yolks are excellent.

Nina shares tips and advice like a trusted friend, and in this updated edition, her afterword presents the latest findings and some newly won wisdom from watching her three children grow on real food.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781632864598
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 05/10/2016
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Nina Planck is a farmers' daughter, food writer, and farmers' market entrepreneur. She is the creator of the wildly popular London Farmers' Markets. A gifted speaker and a home cook, she is the author of Real Food: What to Eat and Why as well as The Farmers' Market Cookbook and The Real Food Cookbook. She lives in New York City and Stockton, New Jersey, with her husband, Rob Kaufelt, proprietor of Murray's Cheese, and their three children.
NinaPlanck.com
@ninaplanck

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 What is Real Food? 5

Real Food Defined 5

Real Milk 12

Real Meat, Poultry, and Eggs 17

Real Fish 21

Real Fruit and Vegetables 23

Real Fats 26

Real Bread 33

Real Food Rules 36

Chapter 2 The Fertility Diet 41

Traditional Fertility Foods 41

Four Fertility Rules 46

The Modern Fertility Diet 55

Five Easy Pieces 57

The Sperm Team 65

A Population of One 70

Chapter 3 Forty Weeks 78

Mother and Baby in the First Trimester 78

Knocked Out Loaded 79

More Blood 88

A Glass of Wine? 91

Green in the Gills 94

Red Meat Is Ironclad 98

Mother and Baby in the Second Trimester 101

Prenatal Scare 105

An Ounce of Prevention 110

The Day I Forgot I Was Pregnant 114

Mother and Baby in the Third Trimester 118

Brain Food 121

Not a Tax Return 124

Birth Day 128

Chapter 4 Nursing Your Baby 134

Very Soggy Indeed 134

Pro-Life 139

Your Milk and Your Diet 143

The Queen of Fats 152

Harder Than It Looks 158

When You Cannot Nurse Your Baby 165

Cache or Carry? 170

Tips and Myths 178

Chapter 5 First Foods 185

East of Eden 185

Readiness Is All 189

Baby Foods 190

The Scientific Feeding Method 203

Baby Drinks 207

I Get in Hot Water over Vegan Babies 212

Bread and Chocolate 215

Cod Liver Oil Comes Back 221

Bye Bye, Delicious Milk 224

The State of Real Food, Circa 1940 227

Acknowledgments 231

Resources 233

Notes 241

Bibliography 257

Index 261

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