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Eating vegetables during pregnancy might make your child a born vegetable lover. color line, Flickr
Some people actually like it. Others, of course, feel it violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
Stanford University pediatrician Alan Greene, the author of "Feeding Baby Green," nonetheless insists that drinking carrot juice and consuming other healthy stuff during pregnancy can help overcome children's classic resistance to vegetables.
Babies actually have more taste buds before they're born and can get detect flavors from their mothers' amniotic fluid, he told USA Today. He added this can create a lasting imprint on the child's taste buds.
"Babies are built from food," Greene said on his Web site.
Green finds that a liberating and inspiring thought. "With a new baby, you have the opportunity to 'get in on the ground floor' when you invest in your child by making healthy food choices," he said on the Web site.
Up until they are about six months old, Greene said babies will eat just about anything. Yet few parents apparently take advantage of this window of opportunity. He added that 94 percent of parents give up offering new foods after only five tries. As a result, almost a third of children younger than the age of 4 don't get any vegetables during the course of the day. And after kids hit the age of 2, kids' food preferences start to solidify. At that point, it takes an average of 90 attempts to get a child to try something new, he said.
One way to get kids emotionally invested in vegetables is have them grow them themselves, pediatrician Laura Jana, the author of the American Academy of Pediatrics' "Food Fights," told USA Today.
She also owns the Primrose School of Legacy in Omaha, Neb., a child-care center where kids grow their own vegetables.
"They eat stewed tomatoes because they grew them," Jana said. "I didn't do that well with my own kids."Related: Bake Sales Banned in NY Public Schools
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10-26-2009 @ 12:09PM
Greta said...Clearly this idea will not work all the time, though - I have a friend with twin boys who obviously got the same exact vegetables and nutrients from their mother in utero, and they were fed the same food as babies and toddlers, but by the time they were 4, they had completely different tastes in food - one loves veggies and the other can't stand them.
I do agree with the sentiment above that getting kids involved with food can assist them with trying new things - my daughter did not like eggs at all until her pre-school teacher had the class scramble the eggs themselves - that taught me a big lesson, and it also taught my daughter that she won't know if she doesn't like something unless she tries it - and to this day she will always try something new at least once.
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10-28-2009 @ 11:20PM
mommiedear said...I just wanted to say that this is SO TRUE!!! I ate nothing but beggies and fruits when I was pregnant. My cravings were always for healthy foods and my DD now only eats fruits and veggies her junk food scale is very low and by choice she would pick a cherry tomato to chips.
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