Meals That Heal for Babies and Toddlers
Author: Eileen Behan
For most childhood illnesses, rest and sound nutrition are the best medicine. When your little ones are ill, the foods you serve can alleviate their symptoms and even speed their recovery. But how do you know what to feed your ailing baby or toddler? What best soothes a sore throat, eases nausea, or relieves your baby's teething pains? Here Eileen Behan, registered dietitian, professional nutritionist, and mother of two, provides the answers. You'll discover:
- Comfort food classics like rice pudding and cinnamon toast
- Nutritious fluids and soups to soothe the symptoms of a common cold
- Easily digestible foods that can relieve an upset stomach
- Imaginative, no-sugar-added snacks for healthier teeth
- Iron-rich dishes, and foods that aid iron absorption
- High-fiber muffins, breads, dips, and desserts for regularity
- Fun foods with the right amount of cholesterol for growing bodies
- Just the right home remedies for fevers and flus
- Calming recipes for a good night's sleep
Eileen Behan explains the connection between food and common childhood illnesses from asthma to ear infections to headaches to vomitingand gives you recipes for simple, delicious, kid-pleasing dishes that will actually help your child feel better faster.
Library Journal
Written especially for parents/care givers, this is another excellent book on the value of nutrition that will be highly useful when children are ill. Behan, a registered dietitian and mother (Cooking Well for the Unwell, LJ 5/1/96), has provided home-remedy nursing suggestions as well as recipes to use for common childhood illnesses, such as colds, nausea, ear infections, vomiting, sore throats, teething, asthma, upset stomachs, irregularity, fevers, and flus. This is an expansion of Cooking Well, which had a chapter on sick children. Included are tempting, low-cholesterol, low-sugar, low-fat, iron-rich, easily digested, high-fiber, and fun foods that will please kids and help make them well. Highly recommended for all health collections. [Index not seen.]Loraine F. Sweetland, Rebok Memorial Lib., Silver Spring, Md.
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Dr. Earl Mindell's Unsafe at Any Meal: How to Avoid Hidden Toxins in Your Food
Author: Earl Mindell
The ultimate health-defense guide for eating wisely and safely
Food manufacturers rely increasingly on the use of chemicals to produce larger crops and livestock and to extend the shelf lives of products. Foods once considered safe are being tagged as potential health hazards on a regular basis. Contaminated beef, orange juice carrying salmonella--the list continues to grow. The nearly 3,000 additives being concealed in food products can cause everything from asthma and headaches to heart problems, miscarriages, cancer, and more. Dr. Earl Mindell's Unsafe at Any Meal, a bestseller in its previous edition, is the consumer's best weapon against the hidden hazards in food, drink, herbs, and medicines.
Dr. Earl Mindell, one of America's leading nutrition experts, exposes the food industry's chemical cover-ups and provides crucial information on what to look out for when shopping, cooking, and taking medications. This thoroughly revised, updated edition includes coverage of genetically modified foods as well as foods designed to provide specific health benefits.
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D., has written extensively on health. A popular lecturer, he is an authority on nutrients, supplements, and natural health.
Hester Mundis is the author or coauthor of 26 books. She is a four-time Emmy nominee for outstanding achievement in writing.
Table of Contents:
| Acknowledgments | |
| Preface | |
| A Note to the Reader | |
1 | The Lowdown on Labels | 1 |
2 | Those Unpronounceable Additives | 25 |
3 | Genetically Modified Food Fright | 53 |
4 | Is This Any Way to Start a Day? | 65 |
5 | Coffee, Tea, or Milk? | 91 |
6 | The Lunch Crunch | 107 |
7 | Scary Snacks | 117 |
8 | Think Before You Drink - Anything | 141 |
9 | For Whom the Dinner Bell Tools | 157 |
10 | The Hazards of "Health" and Healthy Foods | 173 |
11 | Cautions a la Carte | 201 |
12 | The Disease and Wellness Connection | 229 |
13 | May I Help You? | 243 |
| Afterword | 247 |
| Glossary | 249 |
| Bibliography and Recommended Reading | 261 |
| Index | 265 |