Another breastfeeding benefit: Preparing baby’s belly for solid food
A close examination of gut bacteria reveals that exclusively breastfed babies are better equipped for the transition to solids and potentially an early life with fewer stomach woes.
February 9, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: breastfed-babies, close-examination, diet, early-life, exclusively-breastfed, gut-bacteria, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, transition
Diet during pregnancy and early life affects children’s behaviour and intelligence.
The statement “you are what you eat” is significant for the development of optimum mental performance in children as evidence is accumulating to show that nutrition pre-birth and in early life “programmes” long term health, well being, brain development and mental performance and that certain nutrients are important to this process…
September 17, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brain-development, certain-nutrients, children-as-evidence, early-life, long-term, nutrition-pre-birth, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, optimum-mental, pregnancy / obstetrics, process, well-being
