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                                                              Baby Diet

A lot of mothers ask us whether they can give baby foods that are available in the market.

Read the following  ingredients........

Potassium Citrate; Calcium Phosphate; Calcium Carbonate; Ascorbic Acid; Potassium Chloride; Magnesium Chloride; Choline Chloride; Ferrous Sulfate; Sodium Chloride; Zinc Sulfate etc.......

You might think that the above might be the ingredients of fertilizer pack that you got for your home garden. You are mistaken .....it is the ingredients of a baby food pack.

|Understand that the minerals and vitamins found baby food is in a very crude form. This crude of minerals are very harmful for the body. Your baby's body is not the plants or trees. The plants and tress can assimilate the crude form of minerals and nutrients  to assimilable form. The tender baby's body can only use the assimilable form. The crude form of nutrients might  cause oxidative damage body.

One might see fast growth in kids. Many parents have the notion that plump fast growth means healthy. No. A Kid at the age of 2 might look like a four year old. It looks great. But seldom the parents think that the faster the kid grows, the faster it ages. This fast growing kid at the age of 18 would look like aged 30. The same parents who felt great would then feel miserable. More than the parents the kid would feel miserable being over aged and with mover weight.

 
A review of 24 studies published online by the British Medical Journal on Friday showed that size early in life has a life-long impact.

"In the majority of studies the infants who were heaviest or those with the highest body mass index (BMI), and those who gained weight more rapidly in the first two years of life were more at risk of obesity," Dr Janis Baird, of the University of Southampton, in southern England, told Reuters.

"This was true for obesity in childhood, adolescence and adulthood."

Rates of obesity around the globe have been rising at an astounding rate. An estimated 155 million school-age children worldwide are overweight and about 35-40 million of that figure are obese, according to the International Obesity Task Force

If kid's are growing at a slow pace but are healthy falling less sick , it is a good sign. All that  is quick and easy done is not always good. Mothers may feel less work by using pre-prepared baby foods. But have you ever thought would you eat foods that were cooked and packed with an expiry date of a year?. How can then we feed tender  babies with old food?

The care you take for the baby is not for one generation. If the baby's body is damaged then it not suffer from poor health but would pass damaged genes to the next generation. No wonder now there is increased genetic diseases than ever before in the history of mankind. We would discuss this fact elsewhere.

If you care for your baby and your future generation's health, then your every second of your time and energy is valued.

Bottled or Canned foods: Anything that is fresh has nutrients and has subtlest energy  in it. When cooked food is kept longer it loses that. We adults cannot eat such food then how can we except babies to eat food that has been cooked and bottled and kept for several months. Just for our convenience and just because babies cannot know these facts we feed them these junk good. It could be organically grown foods and bottled , still it is not good. Give freshly prepared food to babies.

Simple natural  home made foods

Millet

Millet the perfect baby food which  is rich in nutrients and fiber and is also a great cleanser. It detoxifies the body of the baby and keeps healthy. No known allergic reactions to millet has ever been noted (African millet or Indian ragi is the best form of millet). As we said earlier  the body of the infant tries to get rid of the toxins by giving out allergic reactions and pus and itches. The itching sensation occurs so that blood circulation to the skin is increased to remove the toxins. This is why the skin appears red.

           Our experience shows that mothers during pregnancy when drink less amounts of water (do not count fluids intake) accumulate toxins in the umbilical fluids and in turn in the body of the kids. After the kid is born the body of the kid tries to get rid of this in the form of eczema. There fore giving water and giving fiber rich foods like millet helps healing the skin problems.

Corn milk

Cut the corn grits as close as to the hard part. Steam it and then put in a blender and filter to get the milk. This can be started as early as six months. After seven months it can be given without filtering in a solid pasty form. It good in nutrients and rich in fiber too.

Rice dal mix:. Rice and dal can be steam and mixed in a blender to make a thick soup. Add butter or ghee (clarified butter). Add a little salt if needed.

Legumes and beans: Soak the beans and legumes for overnight and cook them well. You can add a pinch of ginger (not to irritate the stomach). this will enhance digestion and flatulence in kids. Ginger is optional. Soaking and spouting alone will prevent gas formation. If you want your kid to get enough proteins this is the good way.

Brown rice if soaked for 2 to 4 hours and then cooked is a fiber rich good and supplies all good nutrients.

Vegetables Avoid frozen vegetables. freshly prepared vegetables are tasty and nutritious. All vegetables are good. Steam cook carrots and other vegetables. Potatoes steamed and mixed with a pinch of salt and little butter is a good food and tasty food for kids older than 6 to 8 months.

Fruits Give fresh fruits and juices. use blender to make juice. its easy and gives fibers and other nutrients. Juicers will remove fiber and many other nutrients too. Apples and pears can be blended with little water. Instead of sugar raisins and dates could be given. They are natural sweeteners.

Almond milk: Soak almonds and dates overnight and then put in a blender and add water and make a milk like consistency. its a very good drink for kids. Some kids like it less watery consistency.

Cooking bananas: Ripe bananas can be given by gently smashing between the fingers or could be blended in a blender with water (No sweeteners needed). Ripe cooking bananas are available in market. Steam cook them with water, its excellent food for kids and tasty.

Powder dried cooking bananas. Sun dry cooking bananas powder and store in a clean bottle. To prepare, pour one teaspoon of ghee to a pan and add two tablespoons of the powder and just briefly fry for 20 seconds. Add water and stir continuously for 5 minutes to cook without forming lumps. Add sugar or palm jaggery for taste.

This is excellent recipe to help kids gain weight.

Yogurt : Once the child feeds on rice, mix with yogurt and feed the child. The lactic acid organisms in it are suitable for infant feeding.

A good tonic for children is prepared by heating a cup full of fresh drumstick leaf juice and then the clear fluid is filtered.

It is mixed with milk instead of water and the infants and children are fed once a day to help them to grow healthy with strong bones, blood and high resistance against infections and mal-nutrition.

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Suggestions given above are based on our experience. We are not responsible for any problems following these suggestions.

 
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