The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

The definitive guide to children's nutrition. Feeding infants is quite simple.

There's a ton riding on you getting it right, of course, a developing immune system,

the fact that the kid's growing an inch a week,

a permeable blood-brain barrier, synaptic pruning,

but the answer is usually always, feed them more breast milk.

Even if you can't nurse, you've got formula, which for all its limitations is a decent proxy

for breast milk and getting better all the time.

Feeding children, however, is a different ballgame altogether.

I've gotten a lot of requests for a post about children's nutrition, so it's long overdue.

When it comes down to brass tacks, kids really are just small people.

They aren't a different species.

They use the same nutrients their parents do.

They need protein, fat, and glucose just like us.

So in that sense, feeding kids is simple.

Give them all the nutritious foods you

already eat and know to be healthy. But it's not easy. Adults have been around the block.

We've already spent several decades eating, so what we do today won't have as big an impact.

Kids are starting from square one. They can get away with a lot in the sense that

they have fast metabolisms, they heal quickly, and they carry less physiological baggage. That makes

them appear impervious to damage. A Snickers bar may very well send a diabetic's blood sugar to

the stratosphere or trigger weight gain in a middle-aged

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