The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson

and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

The definitive guide to feeding primal babies.

It's commonly portrayed as the realm of infant formula, rice cereal, applesauce, teething biscuits,

sway back toast and Cheerios.

And in the following months, a large pantry selection of strained this or that in tiny glass

commercial jars.

Add to this picture more recent concoctions like toddler formula,

Elmo crackers, mini juice packs, fruit gummies, and graduate lines. All of this begs

the question exactly when and how did baby slash early toddler nutrition become a

string of processed convenience foods. The ingredients lists often smack more of

candy land than the wholesome goodness claimed on the labels. Was this really what nature intended?

Can we do better by our baby grocks? What would Grandma Grock have to say about all this?

We've taken up the kid question before, but I thought it was time for a definitive focus on the youngest of the seedling set.

In a consumeristic society, conventional wisdom has an odd way of merging with marketing maneuver.

These revisions to common sense seep in slowly, idea by idea, item by

item, until we look around and suddenly don't recognize the landscape or logic anymore. That is,

if we choose to think about it. As we so often ask on Mark's Daily Apple, how did our current

customs come to stray so far from the way of our

ancestors? In Grok's Day, for one, babies had to nurse. Human milk was a long complex product of

evolution. Milk with fatty acids for brain development, antibodies for immune system support,

and high nutrient and fat content resulted

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