About Dr. Alan Greene
As a father of four himself, Dr. Greene has devoted himself to freely giving real answers to parents' real questions -- from questions about those all too common childhood conditions to those that address the most rare childhood illnesses. His answers combine cutting edge science, practical wisdom, warm empathy, and a deep respect for parents, children, and the environment. He is also an electrifying public speaker, and has personally touched many during his talks in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
In 1995, he launched DrGreene.com, cited by the AMA as "the pioneer physician Web site" on the Internet. His award-winning site receives over half a million Unique Users a month from parents, concerned family members, students, and healthcare professionals. In addition to being the founder of DrGreene.com, he is the Chief of Future Health of A.D.A.M., a leading publisher of interactive health information. Dr. Greene has been recognized by Advance for Health Information Executives as one of the "Top 15 Most Influential Forces in Healthcare IT" and was named the Children's Health Hero of the Internet by Intel.
Dr. Greene is a regular columnist for Kiwi Magazine, and is the online Pediatric Expert for Healthy Kids, and American Baby -- in addition to his own award-winning website. He is also the Pediatric Expert for The People's Pharmacy (as heard on NPR) and Healing Quest (seen on PBS stations). He was the original Pediatric Expert for both Yahoo! and iVillage.
Dr. Greene is the author of Feeding Baby Green (2009), Raising Baby Green (2007), From First Kicks to First Steps (2004), The Parent's Complete Guide to Ear Infections (1997), and a co-author of The A.D.A.M. Illustrated Family Health Guide (2004). He is the medical expert for three additional books, The Parent's Soup A-to-Z Guide to Your New Baby, (1998) The Parent's Soup A-to-Z Guide to Your Toddler, (1999), and The Mother of All Baby Books (2002).
Dr. Greene also appears frequently on TV, radio, websites, and in newspapers and magazines around the world, including such venues as the TODAY Show, Good Morning America, Fox and Friends, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC network news, NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time Magazine, Parade, Parenting, Child, Baby Talk, Working Mother, Real Simple, Better Home's & Gardens, and the Reader's Digest.
Dr. Greene loves to think about challenging ideas, he enjoys being where nothing manmade can be seen, and he wears green socks.
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Feeding Baby Green Tip
Just One More Bite?
Healthy babies who are growing well do not need to be coaxed to try more than a bite of anything. Although it can be fun to fly a spoonful of mashed bananas to your baby’s mouth while making airplane nosies with your lips, if they’re not hungry it will be counterproductive. Similarly, you don’t have to take a bite of her food yourself and exaggerate a happy reaction “Yum, this is sooo good.”
Relax. When your child is hungry, she will let you know. When it comes to food, throughout chlldhood pressure tends to backfire. It usually decreases a child’s enjoyment of the particular food, and even if it does appear to succeed in the short run, it can lead to overeating because it teaches her to ignore her body’s cues.
Source: Feeding Baby Green
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Four Ways to Influence Your Baby’s Food Preferences with Sight
Model the Behavior You Want
Let your baby see you relaxed, enjoying healthy food. This is the time to eat the way you really want to and that you want to pass along. Even if you’ve had difficulty changing the way you eat in the past, you may be able to do it now. Doing something for our kids as well as ourselves sometimes taps into deep motivational power.
Avoid Advertising
Take charge of avoiding exposing babies to commercials for empty food. This could mean turning off the TV, watching PBS, choosing DVDs or using a DVR to fast-forward through commercials. Babies won’t understand much of what they see and hear on television, but they will pay attention to the food. Babies at this age see TV as a kind of reality. If close enough they may even reach for food on the screen.
Let Your Baby See the Colors of Nature Being Opened or Eaten
If you open an avocado or banana for yourself or for the baby, use the opportunity for visual learning from time to time. Even if you only feed your baby jarred bananas, hold up a real banana next to it from time to time to try to make the connection.
Play a Game
If your baby likes peekaboo, you might also want to try peekaboo with a piece of fruit or veggie, or an egg that you are about to prepare.
Source: Feeding Baby Green
Feeding Baby Green Tip
Sweet Stuff After Two: The Rules
Adding a few sweetened foods in the diet can be good sometime after the second birthday, especially to teach children how to behave in a world of sweetness.
1. Eat sweets in moderation.
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When possible choose foods that also have higher nutrient value - desserts based on fruits, dairy, or whole grain, rather than processed white flour and sugar. You might try banana bread instead of a doughnut; low-fat frozen yogurt or ice cream or sorbet rather than a cake. Perhaps with berries on top, or a berries in a tart.
3. Use sweetness to help you enjoy good things you might not otherwise. A drop of honey and a sprinkle of cinnamon mixed into plain yogurt and bananas can taste like a delicious pudding or ice cream if you haven’t overloaded your taste buds with sugar.
Source: Feeding Baby Green
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About the Book
Dr. Alan Greene has written the follow up to his best-selling book and offers parents a definitive guide for making nutritionally-sound decisions for their children. He offers parents green choices for feeding children from when they are in the womb through toddler years.
This unique guide includes advice on how to transform a baby's eating habits that will positively impact their health and development for the rest of their lives. Dr. Greene has included everything a parent needs to know about creating healthy, nutritious meals that help avoid childhood obesity, and prevent childhood disease. This must-have resource
• Shows how what a mother eats during pregnancy effects her baby's health and eating habits for years after birth
• Provides the definitive guide to "green" feeding for babies from pregnancy to toddlers
• Filled with practical tips and advice for selecting and preparing earth friendly meals for babies
• Shows the health benefits for babies who eat "green" with innate nutritional intelligence
The crucial follow-up to the best-selling book Raising Baby Green.
Grocery Shopping with a Preschooler
• Bring your child shopping when she is neither tired nor hungry.
• Stores are designed to entice your child to beg you for food. Conflicts are less likely if she sees you shopping from a list, rather than appearing to make arbitrary choices.
• When she asks for something, you can add it to the list, telling her that at the end she could pick out one thing from among the things she’s added. Or she can pick one fruit, one vegetable and one treat for the family.
• If there are things you won’t buy, try to tie it to a reason or policy so it doesn’t seem arbitrary.
• Never give in to tantrums in stores. It’s better to stop shopping and carry her out. If you do give in, tantrums are more likely on future shopping trips.
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