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Child Nourishment: Raise Healthy Kids with plants | Dr. Gemma Newman
Description
As parents, we are all striving to raise and nourish our children with love and intention, and to set them up with a healthy foundation of emotional and physical wellbeing for the rest of their lives. Dr. Gemma Newman, a general practitioner who’s been practicing for 18+ years, shares her wealth of knowledge and experience on optimizing your family’s health and wellbeing. She is a senior partner at a family medical practice in the UK, has OBGYN, family planning, and pediatric credentials, as well as her own experience transitioning her family to a plant-based dietary pattern many years ago. Her approach is inclusive towards all types of lifestyles in how to adapt a healthy plant-based diet and she provides a compassionate lens through her years of experiencing different types of patients and circumstances.
Her book “The Plant Power Doctor: A Simple Prescription for a Healthier You” is a complete how-to go-to that has the necessary science for people to feel empowered to thrive on their plant-baed diet. It’s the perfect combination of recipe book and information to help you navigate your journey towards optimal health and preventing disease.
I loved this conversation and we got to cover so many topics together in this packed two hour episode. I hope you feel empowered with the information Dr. Gemma shares and enjoy hearing our own different & personal experiences from two plant-based mothers raising healthy families.
In this episode we cover:
- Dr. Gemma’s experience and expertise in pregnancy and child nourishment
- What the science says on the benefits of raising children plant-based and how it stacks up against dietary patterns rich in animal foods
- How to best adopt a diet rich in whole plant foods
- How to best set up our children for a healthy pattern as they get older, reducing risk of heart disease and obesity and cancer
- Nutrients of focus & supplementation
- Different options to meet your family’s nutritional needs, depending on your life situation and preference
- Child teeth health and using both natural and western practices
- Picky eater tips & party gatherings
- Transitioning your family to plant-based
- What really are “ancestral diets”
- Breastfeeding, donated breastmilk, and formula
- Starting baby on solid foods
- Allergies and eczema
- Should parents get their child’s blood levels checked?
- Being the example & how to help children incorporate new foods in a healthy environment
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WHERE TO FIND DR. GEMMA NEWMAN
website
Her book “The Plant Power Doctor: A Simple Prescription for a Healthier You”
WHERE TO FIND ME
Sources in description box of YouTube version