I’d like to send kudos to the folks at Danone/Activia for being so responsive to the inquiry about Activia and Toddlers. Their PR guy Michael was very helpful and responded quickly and thoroughly. It’s nice to know that this company cares about it’s consumers concerns! Below you will find the statement from Danone/Activa about feeding [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Nutrition'
Activia and Toddlers – Thank you Danone!
June 26th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Tags: Dairy · Dangerous Food Items · Friendly Baby Food Advice · Nutrition
Yogurts for Babies and Toddlers – Activia
June 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments
This post is prompted by an email we received 2 days ago from a visitor. She sent in the following:
I found your site by Googling “Can Toddlers eat Activa yogourt”, the reason being that my husband bought Activa for our 18 month old recently instead of Stonefield YoBaby. Soon afterwards he started suffering diarrhea [...]
Tags: Dairy · Dangerous Baby Items · Dangerous Food Items · Friendly Baby Food Advice · Nutrition
Baby Foods to Avoid – Are Forbidden Foods Still Relevant?
June 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments
We received an email this evening regarding delaying the introduction of foods listed on our Forbidden Foods chart. Sandra wrote the following:
Your list of “forbidden” foods is very poorly outdated. The AAP revised their very old policy about withholding peanuts and other “no nos” a very long time ago.
The new recommendation is that [...]
Tags: Allergies · Dangerous Food Items · Food Safety Tips · Forbidden Foods · Friendly Baby Food Advice · Nutrition · Solids and Weaning · Uncategorized · personal news
Babies fed homemade baby food rather than commercial food grow up leaner.
May 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments
“Children with higher-quality weaning diets including fruits, vegetables and home-prepared foods had a greater lean mass at four years of age,” said Dr Sian Robinson of the University of Southampton, who led the study.”
We knew all along that the benefits of making your baby fresh homemade baby food were many. We [...]
Tags: Friendly Baby Food Advice · Nutrition
Court Scolds Gerber for Marketing Candy as “Fruit Juice Snacks” – Not Baby Food but Candy
January 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Thanks to Josie in CA who let us know about the latest marketing ploy at Gerber. Not only do the commercial baby food companies try to deceive parents into thinking that they are better at feeding babies than the parents are, they are now making foods labeled as Fruit Juice Snacks – these contain [...]
Tags: Call to Action · Nutrition · additives

















