New book on nutrition by the author of The Politics of Breastfeeding.

COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING by Gabrielle Palmer
New book on nutrition by the author of The Politics of Breastfeeding.

Gabrielle Palmer’s groundbreaking book The Politics of Breastfeeding highlighted the controversies surrounding the aggressive promotion of breastmilk substitutes. She now turns her attention to complementary feeding the first foods that a child eats besides milk.

For most of human existence, children went without industrially processed foods and branded food products. Can we applaud the progress of the way children are fed today? In our unequal world one billion people risk their health through overconsumption while two billion people are hungry. The health problems of both groups start in early childhood.

The power and influence of the food industry has increased dramatically in recent decades. Seductive and often unethical modern marketing methods have led to the promotion of unsuitable, unnecessary and sometimes harmful baby foods. Yet not all industrially processed foods are bad and not all natural foods are good. Both poor and rich children may be inappropriately fed.

What lessons can we learn from history? How do cultural and religious beliefs influence the choice of food? Can government initiatives have any effect? How can we provide good nutrition for all infants? This brief, compassionate and thought-provoking new book will be of interest to anyone who is curious about the world, its children and their nutrition, and will stimulate discussion and debate as part of the campaign to create a world where health for all is a true goal.

Complementary Feeding: Nutrition, Culture and Politics is published by Pinter & Martin.

Category: nutrition ISBN: 978-1-905177-42-4 RRP: £9.99

Format: paperback Size: 135mm x 216mm Page Count: 128pp
Publication Date: July 2011

For further information, including review copies, please contact Sue Bundgaard at Pinter & Martin Ltd

sue@pinterandmartin.com mob: 07977 483920 tel: 020 7737 6868 web: www.pinterandmartin.com

About Pinter & Martin

Pinter & Martin is an independent book publisher based in London, with distribution throughout the world. We specialise in psychology, pregnancy, birth and parenting, fiction and yoga, and publish authors who challenge the status quo, such as Elliot Aronson, Grantly Dick-Read, Ina May Gaskin, Stanley Milgram, Guillermo O’Joyce, Michel Odent, Gabrielle Palmer, Stuart Sutherland and Frank Zappa.
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