A person's journey into physical and mental health starts with the mother's diet and lifestyle before and during gestation.
After birth, breastfeeding is natural and ideal.
A mother’s breast milk is the optimum nourishment for the baby, containing, among many other things, sialic acid (important for cognitive function) and the amino acid called tryptophan, the lack of which can prime a child for future depression.
If breastfeeding is either not possible or consciously chosen, there comes the introduction of formula milk, with its lack of important saturated fats, and its use of processed vegetable oils, and sugar.
The following study 'Comparing Infant Formulas with Human Milk', gives the following insight into future health factors as implied in the above paragraph:
COMPARING INFANT FORMULAS WITH HUMAN MILK
PERFORMANCE ADVANTAGES OF BREASTFEEDING
Breastfed infants have different growth characteristics compared with formula-fed infants. They grow at slightly different rates and have a different body composition (Butte et al., 1990; Heinig et al., 1993) and may have a lower risk for later obesity (Gillman et al., 2001; Singhal et al., 2002). (These characteristics are discussed in greater detail in Chapter 6.) Given the great interest in the effect of early nutrition on metabolic setpoints that may affect the child's risk for adult diseases (e.g., the early origins of chronic disease hypothesis) (Barker et al., 2002) and the increasing incidence of early insulin resistance, obesity, and type II diabetes in teenagers, future
research should concentrate on whether breastfeeding is protective. (my emphasis)
Many vegan mothers, or mothers who must avoid cow's milk products, may give their babies soy formula. Here's one. Look at the proportions of sugar and oils!
This unnatural replacement food is then followed by the foods often recommended for weaning (fruit, cereals, rice etc).
Here, especially in manufactured baby foods, there are more sugars and carbohydrates than protein, 'good' fat and the necessary vitamins and minerals essential for growth.
"Is there too much sugar in baby food?"
Dr Frankie Phillips, Registered dietitian and public health nutritionist
AN S-WORD (a warning)
You won't like this video. It's The Carb Addiction Doc, telling us in no uncertain terms that manufactured baby food is SHIT. Watch here.
BEYOND BABYHOOD
We now have a generation of children and young people struggling in an unprecedented way with obesity and early-onset Type 2 diabetes ...
... not to mention depression and mental issues.
Countless young children are being given a horribly sub-par diet, A report by Public Health England published in June 2019 said that around one in five toddlers are overweight or obese in England and one in eight have visible tooth decay.
Antidepressants are being prescribed to children as young as four years old. Really?
I find this knowledge hard to bear. And that is because I fully believe that the difficulties leading to such prescriptions are actually a completely appropriate response to completely inappropriate circumstances.
Just as grief treated by antidepressants is an inappropriate response to a natural feeling of loss, so such natural feelings experienced by children should be allowed, and understood, and their lives adjusted accordingly. Children's feelings, shouted via their behaviour, surely should not be muted by medication? Children need to be heard and responded to.
Even on a purely physiological level, on-going depression or behavioural issues may well be alleviated by simple but vitally important dietary adjustments.
And perhaps these children are already being primed for future metabolic illness and long-term mental health problems?
We, collectively as parents and human beings, should be raging at this! Have we become so inured to such things that we have allowed ourselves to become literally lazy?
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