First and foremost: babies are not classified under the US Dietary Guidelines until they are two years of age. So in these two years, a lot of the baby’s food choices surprisingly has to with the mother’s socioeconomic status. It was found that babies who’s diet included more breastfeeding and solid foods are more-so related to higher income homes. Babies who’s diets consisted of high sugar and fat, seemed to derive from families of low-income parents.These high fat diets evolve and end up seizing bone growth in babies as they mature, and the FDA is trying to educate families on this. Definitely an interesting read, focusing on food justice.
Read more: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141030133532.htm
This article truly brings up some of the major problems regarding food justice in the modern day. It is sad that healthy foods are more expensive whereas junk foods that are high in fat and sugar are cheap and easily accessible. It makes sense that a family that is struggling due to a low income would feed their babies food that costs less money, however, if people understood the impacts of such a decision, many people may think twice before letting their child consume a processed, nutrient-poor food. It does not surprise me that such processed junk foods cause seizing bone growth in young children as these foods impact our bodies in ways we do not even realize.
I found this article very interesting I was completely unaware that babies are not classified under the US Dietary Guidelines until they are two years of age. It’s extremely sad that babies have to rely on their parents socioeconomic status which parents, for most cases, cannot help. It is crucial when babies are young to start them off with a good diet in order to help their bone growth and health in general. This is a major environmental justice issue that needs to be addressed healthy food should be at the access of everyone no matter their income.
This article truly brings up some of the major problems regarding food justice in the modern day. It is sad that healthy foods are more expensive whereas junk foods that are high in fat and sugar are cheap and easily accessible. It makes sense that a family that is struggling due to a low income would feed their babies food that costs less money, however, if people understood the impacts of such a decision, many people may think twice before letting their child consume a processed, nutrient-poor food. It does not surprise me that such processed junk foods cause seizing bone growth in young children as these foods impact our bodies in ways we do not even realize. I think that more scientific study should be done regarding processed foods and how they affect people throughout their lifetime.