[Dysphagia] Why Pureed Foods? [was "thickening breast milk"]

[eripley at yahoo.com (Irene Campbell-Taylor)]

SuzMorris@aol.com wrote:
Fewer new mothers had the ongoing support of their own mothers and grandmothers 
for successful breast feeding. 

** How well-known in the US is La Leche League?

Prolonged exclusive breast feeding without the 
introduction of iron-rich solids contributes to iron deficiency in older infants.  

** Surely this is realted to the mother's diet? If this were true, then millions and millions would have ricketts - yes, I know millions do, but usually in countries in which the mother is also deprived.

The baby food industry saw a cultural need, and created a nitch for itself by 
promoting the value of pureed food from a nutritional and developmental 
perspective. 

** Advertising remains the occupation of persuading people to acqure things they don't really need,

 
a series of recently published studies based on reported 
dietary intake of 3,022 infants between the ages of 4 and 24 months [i.e., 
"FITS"/Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study] showed that nearly 25% of toddlers did 
not eat any servings of vegetables and 33% did not eat any fruits. And of 
those who ate vegetables, French fried potatoes were the most common vegetable 
consumed between 15-24 months. 

** Ouch!!!

Many thanks for a stimulating and thought provoking response.

Irene.





Dr I Campbell-Taylor
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