Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods Author: Visit Amazon's Nina Planck Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1596913940 | Format: EPUB
Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods Description
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"Far from deprivation, the nutritional plans here for fertility, pregnancy, nursing and young kids propose a wide variety of whole grains, seasonal vegetables and fruits, and raw milk and organic animal fats necessary for healthy pregnancies and fetal and childhood development instead of skim milk, “carbage”(junk carbohydrates) and trans-fats... It tastes better and it’s good for you. Plank gives more comprehensive pre-pregnancy and pregnancy diets than those in What to Expect, and her lively, genuine and personal approach makes it easy to absorb a lot essential information." - Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Nina Planck, author of Real Food: What to Eat and Why and The Farmer’s Market Cookbook, is an expert on local and traditional food. I n London, England, she created the first farmers’ market, and in New York City she ran the legendary Greenmarkets. She lives in New York City with Rob Kaufelt and their son, Julian. They all eat real food.
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 Original edition (March 31, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1596913940
- ISBN-13: 978-1596913943
- Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
When we last heard from Nina Planck, she was a leader in the crusade for Real Food. Her precepts are, by now, familiar:
--- Eat foods with a long history in the human diet (peaches, spinach, lard).
--- Eat them in a whole state, or close to it, or produced in a traditional manner.
--- Eat foods that spoil. But eat them before they do.
--- Don't eat anything that's engineered to be something it's not --- low in something or high in something else. That includes orange juice with DHA --- the vital fatty acid found chiefly in fish --- made from algae. God or Nature (as you prefer) made us fish-eaters. You don't find fish in orange juice.
From the perspective of this household, she's one of the smarties, and her book belongs on the alongside the writing of Michael Pollan. Food writing like this comes less from academic study than from life experience, and Planck has of that --- she grew up on an organic farm and headed New York's Greenmarket. So it's hardly surprising that, when she got pregnant, she would soon be writing about a sensible diet for expectant mothers, what to eat after the baby's born, and what to find the little heir or heiress.
It helps to have read her first book. But worry not. In Real Food for Mother and Baby, Planck summarizes her previous writing. And on the strength of her story, she's doing something right: Five months after her son was born, she was wearing her "prepregnancy jeans".
But let's start with getting pregnant, which is easy to do if you're 19 and unmarried, harder to do if you're in your 30s and working hard. Your diet, she says, "can even affect your baby's genes in the womb." So you want to be in shape to be preggers. Planck pushes for an omnivore's diet and emphasizes the importance of fish oil.
The book begins with Nina defining what real food is. She says, "My definition of real food is based on science, but it's not meant to be technical... Here goes: Real Food is old and it's traditional." What Nina thinks is real, is what humans have eaten since the Stone Age. Fish, fowl, insects, eggs, leaves, nuts and berries.
Real food is a mixture of science and Nina's life as a mother. It includes witty humor and raw emotion. Here's a chapter by chapter summary to give you a better idea of why I recommend this book.
In the first chapter, she delves into science on fat, cholesterol, coenzyme Q-10.
She talks about how she grew up on a farm, and got real milk. Real milk, is raw. It isn't pasteurized, homogenized, and comes from cows that eat grass. Real meat comes from an animal that eats its natural diet, it doesn't have hormones and antibiotics. Real fish is not farm raised. It is wild. (Nina also recommends fish oil if you don't like fish).
Real fruit and vegetables are heirloom, organic, or naturally grown. Preferably they come from the farmer's market.
Nina offers us some practical advice, "People worry too much about how to cook vegetables." Real fat is fried chicken, buttered toast and whole milk. Rightfully Nina tells us about the harm of fake fats, industrial fats such as corn, safflower, sunflower and soybean oils.
Nina is a fan of moderate amounts of alcohol. So she did forget to add "Real Beer" and "Real Wine" to her first chapter. :)
Chapter 2 is the Fertility Diet
She explains how up until recently, grandmothers, and aunts new good food advice for expectant moms. But today they have "dropped the ball" on fertility diets. She likens official government advice to "the Dark Ages.
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