{"id":828,"date":"2005-10-13T00:16:31","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T22:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/828"},"modified":"2005-10-13T00:16:31","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T22:16:31","slug":"feeding-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/828","title":{"rendered":"Feeding babies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/HEALTH\/parenting\/10\/10\/baby.food.myths.ap\/index.html\">Doctors challenge baby feeding myths<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some excerpts:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;There&#8217;s a bunch of mythology out there about this,&#8221; says Dr. David Bergman, a Stanford University pediatrics professor. &#8220;There&#8217;s not much evidence to support any particular way of doing things.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n<i>As research increasingly suggests a child&#8217;s first experiences with food shape later eating habits, doctors say battling obesity and improving the American diet may mean debunking the myths and broadening babies&#8217; palates.<\/i><br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n<i>Parents elsewhere in the world certainly take a more freewheeling approach, often starting babies on heartier, more flavorful fare &#8212; from meats in African countries to fish and radishes in Japan and artichokes and tomatoes in France.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nThe difference is cultural, not scientific, says Dr. Jatinder Bhatia, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics&#8217; nutrition committee who says the American approach suffers from a Western bias that fails to reflect the nation&#8217;s ethnic diversity.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Interesting!  I am not surprised by this, but it is good to find something like this on CNN.<\/p>\n<p><b>THOUGHTS?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this: Doctors challenge baby feeding myths Some excerpts: &#8220;There&#8217;s a bunch of mythology out there about this,&#8221; says Dr. David Bergman, a Stanford University pediatrics professor. &#8220;There&#8217;s not much evidence to support any particular way of doing things.&#8221; &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}