Can you suggest a reliable source of information about sound nutritional guidelines for young children?
I suggest you read a fabulous book entitled, Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health: Birth Through Age Six. A colleague of mine at Tufts, Dr. Susan B. Roberts, wrote the book. It is excellent – very practical and easy to read and packed full of the latest scientific information. Q: Isn’t it true that some people may work at weights for a reasonable amount of time and never show a difference in their muscle definition while others develop muscles quite rapidly? Can you tell me if this is so, why it is so, and is there any thing that those people who don’t show muscles can do to “get muscles”? A: Yes, it does appear that some people build muscle more easily than others. At Tufts, we are trying to figure out the physiologic factors that are responsible for this difference. While we still have a long way to go to fully understand the mechanisms, we do believe that natural hormone levels are largely responsible. Some women just naturally have more anabolic (building up) hormones and some wo
