YOUNG CHILDREN NEED MORE THAN JUST APPLE JUICE

From: The Washington Post | Date: March 29, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Finding the right balance in one's own diet is hard enough. When feeding children, it can get even trickier.

In a recent issue of the journal Pediatrics, nutritionist Melanie M. Smith and physician Fima Lifshitz of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn reported on eight cases of "failure to thrive" - abnormally slow growth - in young children from 14 to 27 months old. The children had no disease. What they did have was the habit of drinking too much apple juice instead of more nutritious foods.

One child was part of a family that avoided fat because of a family history of abnormally ...

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