Baby's first food

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rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

Aphrodite Blue

Sunday, August 06, 2006 7:22 PM

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RE: [Raw Food] baby's first food

 

When you do end up going with solids I also used blueberries for my daughter as

well as corn for

a veggie. Those were favorites. All of these are easily mixed up/ blended to the

right

consistency in the cuisinart.

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Greetings everyone,

 

Basic principle: If you have to blend it in order for the baby to be able to eat

it, don't use

it. The baby should be able to eat the food directly, with whatever teeth it

has. This guideline

can help prevent a lot of suboptimal choices, even choices that can lead to

development of " food

allergies " and " sensitivities " later on.

 

When you do eventually introduce solid foods, begin with high water-content,

highly alkalizing

foods, with very soft skins appropriate to the baby's existing teeth. For best

lifelong results,

go with the sweet fruits first ... depending upon season, bananas, figs,

apricots, persimmons,

etc. Pears are good. What we want is to mimic what would develop if we were

living in Nature,

and that means our dominant taste must be fed first -- sweet. And we want to

continue the baby

in a very alkaline place.

 

Along the same line, but expressed differently, we need to shift the baby from

the fuel in

mother's milk, somewhat high in fat, to lifelong fuel, simple sugars. The base

of the healthiest

diet is sweet fruits/tropical fruits. The other, more acidic fruits can be

phased in gradually

over time.

 

The ONLY vegetables advisable for awhile are tender green leaves, and even these

not at first.

Corn is difficult for our species to digest at any age, let the child find it on

his/her own,

years from now, if he/she wishes. Vegetables, in general, are high in starch,

never digested

well by our species, and indigestible fiber (the term hopefully being

self-explanatory).

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

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