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THE FIRST 1000 DAYS OF DIET FOR A NEWBORNE · Your Daily Dose

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  Speaker 1: Well, a new article came out this morning that I
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  Speaker 1: thought was good to be shared. Now that we're on
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  Speaker 1: October 15th, we're now officially halfway through October already. Diet
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  Speaker 1: in the first thousand days shapes your health for the
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  Speaker 1: sum of your lifetime. Do we ever think about those
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  Speaker 1: first thousand days with our kids once they're born? That's
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  Speaker 1: up to age three. Do we really pay attention to it?
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  Speaker 1: We're going to take a look at this. Stay tuned. Hi,
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  Speaker 1: and welcome to Health Talk with Dr. Leng, your daily dose.
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  Speaker 1: with your primary care physician. Get ready for the good
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  Speaker 1: news of the day. God bless you folks, and here
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  Speaker 1: is Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Leng.
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  Speaker 1: Our daily devotional today comes from the book of Matthew
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  Speaker 1: chapter 28. Try to stay conscious of me as you
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  Speaker 1: go step by step through this day. My presence with
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  Speaker 1: you is both a promise and a protection. My final
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  Speaker 1: statement just before I ascended into heaven was, Surely I
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  Speaker 1: am with you always. That promise was for all my
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  Speaker 1: followers without exception. The promise of my presence is a
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  Speaker 1: powerful protection. As you journey through your life, there are
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  Speaker 1: numerous pitfalls along the way. Many voices clamor for your attention,
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  Speaker 1: enticing you to go their way. A few steps away
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  Speaker 1: from your true path are pits of self-pity and despair,
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  Speaker 1: plateaus of pride and self-will. If you take your eyes
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  Speaker 1: off me and follow another's way, you're in grave danger.
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  Speaker 1: Even well-meaning friends can lead you astray if you let
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  Speaker 1: them usurp my place in your life. The way you
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  Speaker 1: stay on the path of life is to keep your
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  Speaker 1: focus on me, awareness of my presence, is your best
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  Speaker 1: protection stay tuned.
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  Speaker 2: So 727-916-4215 Some of the babies Kath McGough helped patients
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  Speaker 2: wean 28 years ago are now adults.
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  Speaker 1: As a pediatric dietitian and co-author of the book Weaning
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  Speaker 1: Sense and Miningful Meals, Begau has had a rare opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to watch children grow from their first teaspoon of food
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  Speaker 1: right through adolescence. You get this wonderful long view that
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  Speaker 1: you simply cannot get from a textbook, she says. I've
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  Speaker 1: had many firsthand experiences of seeing how a child's early
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  Speaker 1: eating habits relate to their health later in life. Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy Schofer, a pediatrician at Family in Focus, said the
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  Speaker 1: first thousand days of eating matter so much for children
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  Speaker 1: because they're developing their coordination needed for eating, neural pathways,
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  Speaker 1: as well as early food relationships. Nutrition is just one
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  Speaker 1: part of a much bigger picture. Can parents effectively influence
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  Speaker 1: that trajectory? Decades of research say they can. The first
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  Speaker 1: thousand days from conception to a child's second birthday. During
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  Speaker 1: this stretch, the brain is forming connections at a remarkable rate.
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  Speaker 1: While the body is building systems, metabolic, immune, digestive, that
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  Speaker 1: will regulate health for years to come, even influencing lifelong
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  Speaker 1: risk of developing chronic disease. What children eat in this
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  Speaker 1: window shapes how they learn to eat, which foods they
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  Speaker 1: see as safe, and the associations they develop with food
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  Speaker 1: that can continue into adulthood. Think about how many early
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  Speaker 1: memories we have around family and food. The details tend
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  Speaker 1: to fade, but the relationships are the anchor of lasting memories.
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  Speaker 1: Early deficits during this sensitive period, often called early programming,
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  Speaker 1: The process by which early conditions calibrate how the body's
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  Speaker 1: metabolic and immune system function can affect a child's neurodevelopment
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  Speaker 1: and physical growth long-term. The first thousand-day window begins before
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  Speaker 1: a baby is born, including pregnancy. In other words, a
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  Speaker 1: child's nutritional journey starts with a mother's health and diet.
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  Speaker 1: The brain's growth rate alone illustrates the stakes. Children form
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  Speaker 1: up to a thousand new neural connections every second in
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  Speaker 1: early life. A few nutrients do particularly heavy lifting during pregnancy. Protein,
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  Speaker 1: for example, helps build and repair tissue in both the
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  Speaker 1: mother and the baby. Iron is needed to carry oxygen
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  Speaker 1: from the blood to tissues, while vitamin C supports the
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  Speaker 1: development of the baby's teeth and bones and helps with
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  Speaker 1: wound healing. Calcium is important for the development of the
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  Speaker 1: baby's heart, muscles, bones, teeth, and nervous system, while folic
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  Speaker 1: acid supports brain and spinal development. We're going to take
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  Speaker 1: a caveat away from folic acid to methylfolate. How do
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  Speaker 1: researchers prove that early nutrition has decade-long consequences? One example
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  Speaker 1: of research began with Britain's post-war sugar rationing. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to go into that. It was too long and
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  Speaker 1: really just a little bit wordy. The very best start
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  Speaker 1: in life would be breast milk, followed by a wide
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  Speaker 1: variety of weaning foods. Birth to six months, the first
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  Speaker 1: six months breast milk provides breast milk provides the nutritional
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  Speaker 1: foundation of a baby's needs, contains the nutrients a newborn
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  Speaker 1: needs for proper amounts. Breast milk also changes as a
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  Speaker 1: baby develops, helping to meet their evolving nutritional needs. Around
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  Speaker 1: six months, once a baby is developmentally ready, McGaw recommends
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  Speaker 1: gradually introducing the foods that parents ultimately want their children
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  Speaker 1: eating around the family table, such as vegetables, fruits, legumes, eggs, fish, meat,
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  Speaker 1: and other protein-rich foods, avocado, smooth nut paste, whole grains,
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  Speaker 1: healthy fats, herbs, and spices. Different color, flavors, and textures.
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  Speaker 1: Legumes are good at this age because they bring plant
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  Speaker 1: protein and iron, different fibers for the developing gut microbiome.
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  Speaker 1: Iron matters more than the parents expect. By the second
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  Speaker 1: half of infancy, the iron baby you're born with start
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  Speaker 1: running low, right as they're growing fast enough to need more.
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  Speaker 1: That is why I encourage parents to think about an
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  Speaker 1: iron-rich diet. food regularly, meat, chicken, fish, eggs, lentil, beans,
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  Speaker 1: or iron-fortified foods, depending on the family's diet. Texture is
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  Speaker 1: a part of learning, not just nutrition. McGow encourages parents
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  Speaker 1: to stay with completely smooth purees for too long. Babies
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  Speaker 1: need opportunities to learn what food feels like in their mouths.
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  Speaker 1: Moving through mashed, lumpy, and finger-texture foods is part of
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  Speaker 1: learning to eat. Please don't make children's foods unnecessarily bland.
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  Speaker 1: Food has flavor. Use herbs and spices. Let them experience
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  Speaker 1: the smell of garlic cooking, the tartness of plain yogurt,
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  Speaker 1: the bitterness of broccoli, and the earthliness of lentils and
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  Speaker 1: the flavors that belong to your family's culture. Expect to
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  Speaker 1: offer new foods again and again. Getting children used to
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  Speaker 1: a variety of flavors can take a time, especially when
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  Speaker 1: they're naturally conscious about new foods. A typically diet rather
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  Speaker 1: than a perfect one is the goal. Breakfast, 7 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Oats or soft porridge with full, fat, plain yogurt. Some fruit,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps a little smooth nut butter mixed through. Or a
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  Speaker 1: scrambled egg with avocado and soft toast. Mid-morning snack around
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  Speaker 1: 10 a.m. Fruit with yogurt or avocado and a small
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  Speaker 1: piece of toast. At this age, snacks don't need to
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  Speaker 1: come out of packets. They can simply be small portions
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  Speaker 1: of real food. Lunch. Leftovers from the family meal, such
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  Speaker 1: as a little chicken with sweet potato and broccoli. Afternoon
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  Speaker 1: snacks around 1 o'clock. Fruit with cheese, hummus... with soft
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  Speaker 1: vegetables or plain yogurt with fruit. Dinner at 5.30, family
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  Speaker 1: meals like a mild chicken curry, vegetable-packed bolognese, fish cakes,
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  Speaker 1: or casserole. No child needs to eat everything on this
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  Speaker 1: list every day, she said. One day they may eat egg,
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  Speaker 1: the avocado, and half the toast. The next day they
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  Speaker 1: may lick the avocado, throw the egg on the floor,
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  Speaker 1: and demand more toast. That's the typical one-year-old eating. She
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  Speaker 1: prefers that parents look at nutrition across a week rather
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  Speaker 1: than across a single meal, asking themselves, am I regularly
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  Speaker 1: offering iron-rich foods? Are there different colored vegetables and fruits appearing?
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  Speaker 1: Are there good sources of protein and healthy fats? Is
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  Speaker 1: my child experiencing different textures? Are we sitting together making
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  Speaker 1: food enjoyable? A healthy approach to feeding is more than
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  Speaker 1: just what ends up on the child's plate. The way
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  Speaker 1: the child experiences food and mealtimes matters, too. Schoeffer has
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  Speaker 1: practiced pediatric medicine for more than 22 years. She said
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  Speaker 1: that parents can sometimes become so focused on what their
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  Speaker 1: child is eating that they overlook what's happening around the food.
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  Speaker 1: The number one thing that parents need to be able
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  Speaker 1: to feed their children well is a surprising answer. It's
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  Speaker 1: emotional regulation. When a parent is calm, meals feel safe.
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  Speaker 1: Healthy relationships with food, she says, are grown with practice.
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  Speaker 1: and low-pressure environments invite children to sample food without forcing
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  Speaker 1: shame or restriction. Pretty interesting, huh? For new parents, great information,
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  Speaker 1: and I would ask that you share this podcast with them.
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  Speaker 1: All right, have a great healthy day, folks. God bless.
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  Speaker 1: See you