Page 14 - Special Issue: Healthy Baby

Modern Baby Books:

Full of Bad Advice

By Lisa Bianco-Davis

alk down the “Baby & Childbirth” section of any

bookstore or library and you will be faced with a
Wbewildering array of books aimed at the pregnant

woman. These books are written by doctors, obstetricians,
midwives, mothers. . . and others. Unfortunately none of the

authors appears to have read the work of Weston A. Price.
My husband and I are expecting our first child later this year. Being

a first-time mom who is familiar with the work of Dr. Price, I was naturally
curious to see what the pregnancy books had to say on the matter of nutrition.
So I went to our local library and checked out an armload of books. I was

surprised, not by the variety of the advice between the different books, but by
the consistency of the message. Many of the pregnancy books included the
USDA food pyramid, and parroted government recommendations. And while
some of their advice is useful, much of it is misleading or just plain wrong.

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