> You really don't want to have him fail to thrive because he
> is getting too
> little fat in his diet. That was a real problem in the late
> 80's and into
> the 90's when parents were projecting their own anxiety over
> a fat-rich
> diet onto their growing toddlers, depriving the little ones of the
> nutrition that they needed to grow and develop.

Just to back this up - they were referring to this as "muesli belt
malnutrition" at one stage - middle class well educated parents were
ending up malnourish their children by feeding them a diet too low in
fat - the kids were ending up with not only growth problems, but all the
other results of malnutrition, including in some case mild brain damage.


Megan