“Pediatricians have recommended rice cereal for decades, as a baby’s first solid food. It’s easy on the tummy and gluten free, so baby is less likely to have an allergic reaction. But there is now a campaign against it.

“Do you want some more?” Carrie Plastow is helping her eight month old daughter Lydia adjust to solid foods. Her mom says she started, like most American moms, with rice cereal. “This is recommended by everyone, but doctors, by dieticians, by the WIC program, by everybody.”

Dr. Alan Greene, a pediatrician from Stanford University is fighting the recommendation. He has started the “white out” campaign. He says he has studied nutrition for ten years and is certain there is a link between rice cereal to the national epidemic of overweight children. “I have become convinced that white rice cereal can predispose to childhood obesity.”…”

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