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. The brain is the hungriest organ in the body and requires specific nutrients from the diet for proper structure and function.
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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. The brain is the hungriest organ in the body and requires specific nutrients from the diet for proper structure and function.
So why 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 Kimberley Wilson is starting a teeny tiny beef with NICE.