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Meals That Heal for Babies and Toddlers

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This book was a great disappointment. Given the title, I expected large numbers of recipes that were highly nutritious. Instead, I found relatively few recipes, many of which are heavily sugar-laden. (Since sugar depresses the immune system, feeding it to a child when he's ill seems even more foolish than usual.) There is *some* good information in some of the illness-specific sections. These, however, are each followed by approximately two recipes, very few of which are what I would consider nutritious. For example, of the two recipes provided for sore throats, one contains ice cream; the other contains candy. Now, ice cream might very well be *soothing* for a sore throat but, first of all, we all already know that and, second of all, it isn't going to help "heal" a sore throat. The end of the book contains recipes for comfort foods. Some of these are less unhealthy than the illness-related foods, but nearly all are recipes one can just as easily find elsewhere. (One example is macaroni and cheese.) I am certainly glad I did not pay $19 to purchase this new!

This is a great resource for parents and health care providers. Anybody who wants to know what to serve when a child has a stomachache, sore throat or even colic will find this very useful