The average full term baby weighs just over 7lbs. One pound of that is the baby’s brain. Nature, via the mother’s body, devotes enormous amounts of energy into building the baby’s brain during and just after pregnancy. And as you’ve heard me say many, many times, the brain is the hungriest organ in the body and requires specific nutrients from the diet for proper structure and function.
So why, dear listeners, is brain development completely absent from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline update on pregnancy and child nutrition?
In this week’s episode I am a starting a teeny tiny beef with NICE.
NICE Maternal & Child Nutrition Stakeholder List
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Unprocessed: What Your Diet is Doing to Your Brain*
Original music by Juan Iglesias
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