by The Omnivorist | Oct 31, 2015 | Health, pregnancy, Pregnancy & Baby, Recipes
Welcome to the second edition of my roundup of news, views and recipes that I usually share on social media — hope you’ll find something in here that will be of interest! If you’re too busy to read right now, you can use an app like Instapaper to...
by The Omnivorist | Oct 20, 2015 | baby, Health, pregnancy, Pregnancy & Baby
I had seen the documentary The Business of Being Born when it first came out, meaning long before I had even given much thought to the idea of having children. In it Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein take a critical look at the highly medicalized state of childbirth in the...
by The Omnivorist | Feb 20, 2015 | baby, Health, pregnancy, Pregnancy & Baby
What if our nutrition during pregnancy, or heck even before conception, had lifelong consequences for the health of our children? Let me rephrase that in case you have missed the enormity of the statement: what if what the parents ate and how they lived even before...
by The Omnivorist | Feb 3, 2015 | baby, Health, pregnancy, Pregnancy & Baby
(This is the first of two articles.) If you’re wondering how the teachings of a little-known early-20th-century dentist can possibly be relevant for the lifelong health of your (future) baby, or what really constitutes “super foods”, then read on!...
by The Omnivorist | Sep 29, 2014 | baby, baby food, Health, Pregnancy & Baby
I was so excited about my little guy starting solids and thought I knew exactly how I wanted to do it: the traditional real foods way. Then a friend gave me a copy of Baby-Led Weaning, the influential book by Gill Rapley, and said that it had worked great for their...
by The Omnivorist | Sep 16, 2014 | baby, Health, Pregnancy & Baby
Upon finding out about my very international background, somebody recently asked me which culture I prefer: Turkey, my native country, the US, my home for some 15 years, or France, my current home. It is a question I don’t usually ask myself since I probably...
