Book Nook: Grow Healthy Babies: The Evidence-Based Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy and Reducing Your Child’s Risk of Asthma, Eczema, and Allergies

When lifelong asthma, eczema, and allergy sufferers Michelle Henning, a certified Nutrition & Health Coach, and her husband Dr. Victor Henning decided to become parents, they were well aware that half of all babies born today will develop allergies and up to a third will become asthmatic or suffer from eczema. Using their combined backgrounds in nutrition and science, they began investigating a mountain of medical literature on how to prevent chronic illness so that their baby would grow up healthy.

I had a chance to see an e-copy of their book, Grow Healthy Babies: The Evidence-Based Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy and Reducing Your Child’s Risk of Asthma, Eczema, and Allergies. In the book, they make current medical advice easy to understand for parents to make sure they're making healthy, medically accurate decisions, without having to struggle to understand medical terminology and jargon. Following their tips can have a significant effect on the risk of developing a chronic condition.

With the goal of empowering parents-to-be or those planning to get pregnant with information about simple choices that improve their health and their child’s health, they cover a multitude of topics including:

• You can make a difference: By making different choices during/after pregnancy, you have the power to shape your baby’s health for life
• How your baby's immune system develops, and how you can strengthen it to prevent chronic illness
• How friendly bacteria, your microbiome, shape both your and your baby's health, and how to protect and improve your microbiome
• Which food choices and supplements during and after pregnancy make a real difference to your baby's health, according to scientific studies
• Why environmental factors and certain household products can trigger chronic disease, and how to choose healthier alternatives
• How birth choices and breastfeeding can influence your baby's long-term health

Michelle Henning is a certified Nutrition & Health Coach, writer, and graduate of the Irish Institute of Nutrition & Health. Her articles on food, nutrition, parenting and health have been featured in WIRED Magazine, Pathways to Family Wellness, BabyCenter, and many other outlets.

 

Dr. Victor Henning is an award-winning scientist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and founder of Mendeley, a leading scientific collaboration platform. He is a former Adjunct Associate Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam, has published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and has been featured in The New York Times and The Guardian.

 

To learn more, visit www.growhealthybabies.com, and connect with the authors on Twitter, Instagram.

 

Grow Healthy Babies: The Evidence-Based Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy and Reducing Your Child’s Risk of Asthma, Eczema, and Allergies is available at bookstores nationwide and online retailers such as Amazon.