Category: Diet Nutrition and Supplements
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Your Kid Isn’t Picky. You’re Just a Short-Order Cook.
Picky eating is one of the most common concerns I hear from parents—and one of the most misunderstood. In the vast majority of healthy children picky eating is not a medical problem with the child’s body; it is a behavioral pattern that has been shaped, reinforced, and maintained by the adults around them. In other…
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Teens, Creatine, and Early Kidney Damage: What Parents Aren’t Being Told
Creatine, Teen Muscles, and Quietly Unhappy Kidneys. From your pediatrician who is now ordering way too many kidney labs on teenage boys. Let’s talk about creatine—the white powder your teen swears is “totally safe” because “everyone on YouTube takes it.” Creatine has decent science behind it in adult athletes, at proper doses, under supervision. That…
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Juice: All the Sugar, None of the Fruit—A Pediatrician’s View
Let’s get something straight: pouring apple juice into a sippy cup does not make you a nutrition hero. It makes you a bartender. A very generous bartender. For a two-year-old. Somewhere along the way, juice got rebranded as “healthy.” Probably because it started life as a fruit before we stripped out the fiber, concentrated the…
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Food Pouches: Because Nothing Says Romance Like Broken Glass and Applesauce
Baby food pouches did not replace glass jars so Junior could “self-regulate” by mainlining pureed pears like a Frappuccino. They replaced glass jars because no one wants to spend date night fishing applesauce-soaked glass shards out of the diaper bag. Period. Why pouches actually took over Let’s clear up the origin story. Pouches did not…
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Vitamin D Get All the Glory, Iron Does All the Work: Notes from a pediatrician who is begging you to read the whole label
Vitamin D has become the golden child of infant nutrition. Every parenting group, every pamphlet in my waiting room, every well-meaning grandmother mentions it. And to be fair, it deserves the attention — but somewhere along the way, iron got left out of the conversation entirely, like the sensible middle child nobody remembers at Thanksgiving.…
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Too Much, Too Little, Never Just Right: A Nutrition Rant: From a Pediatrician Who Plots Growth Charts For a Living
Here’s a fun contradiction I get to live in every single week: I’m seeing more overweight kids than ever, and I’m still fielding real, legitimate worry about kids who won’t eat enough. Somehow, as a society, we’ve managed to mess up portion size in both directions simultaneously. Impressive, honestly. Let’s talk about it. The Overweight…
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Feed the Baby, Not the Clock: A Radical Concept Apparently
If you’ve ever been told to feed your newborn every three hours on the dot, congratulations—you’ve just been handed advice that works beautifully… for hospital workflows, not for actual human babies. Let’s state the obvious that somehow keeps getting lost in parenting literature: newborns are not programmable devices. They are small, hungry, erratic humans whose…