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| Foreword | |
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| The Power of Food in your Child's Life | |
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| Metabolic Programming: What It Is, and What It Can Do for Your Child | |
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| Metabolic Programming: The Power of Childhood Feeding | |
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| How You Feed Your Child Is Just as Important as What You Feed | |
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| Programming Your Child's Future Food Preferences | |
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| Inside your Child's Head: Why Children Eat the Way They Do--Starting from Day One | |
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| Who Needs Smart Strategies? | |
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| Building on Your Child's Instincts | |
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| The Key Eight Nutrients | |
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| Fat, Fiber, and Calories | |
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| Three Essential Minerals: Iron, Calcium, and Zinc | |
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| Folate and B Vitamins (B[subscript 6] and B[subscript 12]) | |
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| Antioxidants: Vitamins A, C, and E | |
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| What About Supplements? | |
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| A Word About Water | |
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| Your Baby Arrives | |
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| Food for Thought: Preparing to Feed Your New Baby | |
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| Harness Instincts--Your Newborn's and Yours--for a Trouble-free Start | |
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| Breast-Feeding Made Easy | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| From Three Days to Four Weeks | |
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| Nutrition and Your Milk Supply | |
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| From Four Weeks On | |
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| Special Concerns | |
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| New Options in Formula Feeding | |
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| Six Formula Types: Which Is Best for Your Baby? | |
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| Your Baby's First Feedings | |
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| How Much Formula Does Your Baby Need? | |
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| Common Problems with Formula Feeding | |
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| Feeding a Premature Infant | |
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| Getting Started Breast-feeding a Premature Infant | |
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| Formula Options for Premature Infants | |
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| After You Leave the Hospital | |
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| Food Transitions: four Months to Six Years | |
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| The Family Balancing Act | |
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| Balance for the Whole Family | |
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| How Safe Is Our Food? | |
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| Vegetarian and Macrobiotic Diets | |
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| Foods to Avoid or Strictly Limit | |
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| Helping Baby-sitters to Feed Your Child Right | |
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| Four to Twelve Months: The Big Transition to Solid Food | |
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| Opportunities and Goals | |
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| When Should You Start? | |
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| Moving on to a Mixed Diet | |
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| Smart Strategies for Feeding Babies Four to Twelve Months Old | |
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| Common Problems | |
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| Twelve to Twenty-One Months: A Nine-month Window of Opportunity | |
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| Opportunities and Goals | |
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| What Your Child Eats | |
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| Good Foods to Try | |
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| Food Traps to Avoid | |
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| Smart Strategies for Feeding Toddlers | |
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| Common Problems and Frequently Asked Questions | |
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| Twenty-One Months to three Years: Feeding Your Terrific "Terrible Two" | |
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| Opportunities and Goals | |
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| What to Feed Your Child | |
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| Smart Strategies for Keeping a Basically Good Eater on Track | |
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| Handling Food Jags and Extreme Fussiness | |
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| Coping with Constipation | |
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| Common Problems and Frequently Asked Questions | |
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| Three to Six Years: Moving into the Outside World | |
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| Meet Your Preschooler, the Social Animal | |
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| Opportunities and Goals | |
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| What to Feed Your Child | |
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| Smart Strategies: Maintaining Great Eating Habits--or Establishing Them | |
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| Preschool | |
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| Talking About Nutrition and Health | |
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| Your Child's Body Image | |
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| Frequently Asked Questions | |
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| Food Solutions for Common Problems | |
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| Feeding your Sick Child: Diarrhea, Vomiting, and Other Common Illnesses | |
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| Diarrhea, Vomiting, and Fever | |
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| Colds and Other Illnesses That Primarily Reduce Appetite | |
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| Frequently Asked Questions | |
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| Food, Sleep, and your Baby | |
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| Encouraging Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night | |
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| Getting Your Baby to Sleep | |
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| Cow's Milk Sensitivity as a Cause of Chronic Sleep Problems | |
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| Problems with Weight: The Spectrum from Obesity to Anorexia and Bulimia | |
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| Does Your Child Weigh Too Much? | |
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| Why Some Children Become Overweight | |
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| How to Normalize a Weight Problem | |
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| Eating Disorders: Every Child Is at Risk | |
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| Frequently Asked Questions | |
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| About Allergies, food Intolerances, and Colic | |
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| Routine Prevention of Food Allergies | |
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| Additional Steps for Allergy Prevention in High-risk Infants | |
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| When Your Child Develops a Food Allergy or Intolerance | |
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| Colic | |
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| Common Problems and Frequently Asked Questions | |
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| Food, Hyperactivity, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | |
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| Does My Child Have a Problem? | |
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| Do Some Foods and Chemicals in Foods Cause Hyperactivity or ADHD? | |
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| Your Decision: Will a Special Elimination Diet Help Your Child with ADHD? | |
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| Good Food Sources of Key Nutrients | |
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| Growth Charts | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |