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Conference moira::parenting_v3

Title:	Parenting
Notice:	READ 1.27 BEFORE WRITING
Moderator:	CSC32::DUBOIS

Created:	Wed May 30 1990
Last Modified:	Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1364
Total number of notes:	23848

65.0. "fruits vs vegetables" by MCIS2::DUPUIS () Mon Jun 25 1990 14:05

    Does anyone out there have a chart of some kind that compares the
    nutritional values of fruit and vegetables?
    
    I have a 3 year old who is currently refusing most vegetables.  I would
    like to give her some fruit in place of the vegetable we are eating,
    until this "phase too, shall pass".
    
    Thanks in advance,
    Roberta

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
65.1		RDVAX::COLLIER	Bruce Collier	`Mon Jun 25 1990 14:53`	15
	Penelope's advice, which worked pretty well for us: Give her a multivitamin pill daily, and don't pay much attention to the vegtables. The purpose of the pill is to prevent parental anxiety, so that mealtime doesn't become a battle of wills. That's a much more common problem than any actual nutrition deficiencies. It is amazing how little they need to eat when not in a growth spurt. When their bodies need the food, you won't be able to keep them away from it. Exposure to multiple kids lends useful perspective. It seems one of my boys is always partial to meats, the other to veggies, but never with the same partiality at the same time. They switch sides every few months. I do my best to pay little attention (with only partial success). - Bruce
65.2	I don't agree	DECWET::GETSINGER	Eric Getsinger	`Tue Jun 26 1990 21:09`	11
	>>Penelope's advice, which worked pretty well for us: Give her a >>multivitamin pill daily, and don't pay much attention to the vegtables. I think it would be a mistake to think that vitamins can do the same thing as food. Try eating vitamins and no food for a month. You'd be dead, or close to it. I have a pretty thorough book about food composition. I'll try to remember to look up the title tonight. Eric
65.3		RDVAX::COLLIER	Bruce Collier	`Wed Jun 27 1990 13:56`	12
	In re: .2 The pill is to decrease parental anxiety. Offered a variety of reasonable foods, it is extremely rare for a kid to end up malnourished. They instinctively tend to balance their own diet. Not at every meal, or even every day, but quite nicely over time. Almost all parents manage to substantially overestime what a kid really needs. I have a niece who went several years eating either a carrot stick or a cracker in alternate weeks (a bit of an exaggeration, but it really seemed like that). She did fine; 98th percentile on height. - Bruce
65.4		RDVAX::COLLIER	Bruce Collier	`Wed Jun 27 1990 14:11`	4
	p.s. - see also 68.* - b.c.
65.5		DECWET::GETSINGER	Eric Getsinger	`Wed Jun 27 1990 18:21`	17
	RE: .3 Fair enough. RE: .2 Title: Composition and Facts about Foods Researcher: Ford Heritage Copyright: 1968 Republished in 1971 by Health Research, 70 Lafayette Street, Mokelumne Hill, CA 95245 As the dates show, the book was published a while ago. I don't know if it is still in print, but I hope it is. It has a wealth of information.