On our bookshelf

March 22, 2007 | Print

Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health by Susan Roberts & Melvin Heyman

Highlights: Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six by Roberts and Heyman is a thorough, easy read about kids’ nutrition.

A great reference for when it’s safe to offer babies certain foods, integrating feedings with meals, symptoms of food sensitivities and allergies, and which vegetables contain nitrates and why nitrates are unsafe for babies.

Lowlights: Like most books, we pick and choose the information helpful for our families.

For example, we may wait a little longer than the book advises to feed our kids certain foods. And there are different opinions about feeding children cow dairy products, etc. (We use a lot of goat and fortified rice milk products ourselves, due to our kids’ sensitivities.)

Why we like it: Simple, clear, reliable information. We have yet to find a kids’ nutrition book that beats it. Kelly bought the book when Amelia was a baby, five years later she’s using it for Oliver.

Child’s age: Newborn through 6 years old.

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