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  1. The Children's Nutrition Blog: Introduction to picky eating

    Picky eating. It's one of those poorly-defined, catch-all terms that spans toddlers who subsist solely on potato chips and bottles of formula, to kids whose only sin is to shirk the green vegetable on their dinner plate.



    The first rule when you have a picky eater should be: don't panic!

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    Most of us were picky eaters to some extent during our toddler years. I distinctly remember disliking avocado (slimy!) ...
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  2. The Children's Nutrition Blog: More on the nut allergy and breastfeeding study

    Professor Katie Allen of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute had this to say in another ABC report on the topic:

    "The report only asked [about] breastfeeding, not about maternal dietary practices. Therefore the authors cannot conclude in any way whatsoever about maternal dietary practices including exposure to nuts and its risk of peanut allergy," says Allen.

    Further, as the article states, recent research into food allergies actually suggests ...

    Updated 18-07-2012 at 19:42 by Sarah Officer

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    Current Affairs , ‎ Parenting in the news , ‎ Breastfeeding , ‎ Parenting , ‎ Health , ‎ Infant nutrition
  3. The Children's Nutrition Blog: Does breastfeeding really raise peanut allergy risk?

    Splashed across the news today was a study from the Australian National University that reported a statistical link between breastfeeding and nut allergy, particularly peanut allergy. Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months got an especially bad rap from the study authors, according to media reports. “Breast feeding... may, in fact, be causative of allergy”, the study authors have concluded.



    So what's going on?


    At first I thought there might be ...

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