Real Food for Mother and Baby
The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods
By Nina Planck
April 2009
$17.00
288 pp
5.5 x 8.25 in
Paperback
By Nina Planck
Following the success of Real Food, Nina Plank's Real Food for Mother and Baby shares the nutritional benefits of eating real food for an expectant mother and her baby.
Nina Planck, one of the "great food activists," changed the way we view food with the groundbreaking Real Food. Never one to blindly accept common wisdom, when Nina became pregnant, she decided to look at the nutritional advice recommended for pregnancy. What she found was surprising: advice is occasionally inaccurate and often impossible. When her baby was born, she turned her attention to the baby's nutritional needs and found the same. In Real Food for Mother and Baby Nina explains why commonly held ideas about pregnancy and infant nutrition are wrongheaded and how real food is good for growing minds and bodies. While Nina may be controversial (her op-ed in the New York Times about vegan diet for infants was one of their most emailed articles), she's no contrarian. She dispenses advice like a trusted friend. The general rules aren't surprising but some of the details might be. She explains why cereals aren't right for babies but barely cooked egg yolks are excellent. During pregnancy, and until your baby's at least two years old, the body's overwhelming requirements are fat and protein, not vegetables and low fat dairy. Filled with reassuring advice for parents who want to grow their children on a diet of whole and natural foods, Real Food for Mother and Baby is a must-have.Reviews/Media for Real Food for Mother and Baby:
A nice mention for REAL FOOD FOR MOTHER AND BABY in the Dining section of the New York Times.
A great piece on homemade baby food in the Washington Post with quotes from Nina.
A terrific interview with Nina Plank on Big Think
"An expert on whole, unprocessed, local, traditionally produced food, Planck here follows up her Real Food: What to Eat and Why with this book specifically for women and children. Planck is an activist and founder of the urban Greenmarket movement in New York and London, and practices what she preaches in this memoir cum guidebook. Like Michael Pollan, she is an advocate of “old food,” the ample and diverse menu untouched by modern science, and urges readers to embrace and fully enjoy nature’s bounty. 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. There are only two real rules: first, learn to recognize industrial food, new to the human diet, and don’t bring it home. Second: buy the best real food you can afford. 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
Nina's interview with Sustainable Suppers.
A review on Babysuncare.net
An interview with Nina in the Hudson Valley’s Chronogram magazine
A mention here on Sarah's MusingsInformation on one of Nina's west coast events.
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