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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry but if your ped told you increasing calcium will make him taller, then you need a new ped. This would only be the case if your son had had a severely restricted diet for a few years and then moved to a normal diet. [/quote]\

Also thought this was weird and sounds like old wives' tales.[/quote]

Op here. DS was in weekly feeding therapies for a few years because he has low weight between age 2 to age 5. He still has a restricted diet that he does not eat vegetables, limited textures, a lot of junk food and carb, a little bit milk, some meat and some fruit. He does not have a balanced diet, and I have to give him multi vitamin gummies that he does not even take daily. If I force him to eat some food or texture, he will gag and vomit. That is why pediatrican wants him to cut sugar and take more calcium. [/quote]

Will he drink smoothies? Add ice, milk banana and a frozen fruit of his choice and throw it in the Vitamix and you've got a smoothie. You can freeze these as well and make pops.

If he likes chocolate use milk ice chocolate milk mix banana maybe peanut butter That one is high in protein.[/quote]

Smoothies are only slightly better than lemonade. Whenever you process fruits and berries, you take out the main healthy ingredients in them (fiber) and leave fructose which causes a high insulin spike. Smoothie should be an occasional treat, not an everyday drink. He needs to get used to drinking water.[/quote]

I feel like you've posted about this before.  No, blending a whole fruit in your blender and then drinking it does not remove any vitamins, fiber, or anything else from it.  Think of the blender like it's chewing the food for you.  Do you think those strawberries give you more vitamins if you swallow them whole vs chewing them 50 times before swallowing?[/quote]

If you read above, you will see the full discussion. We have already reached a consensus. The consensus also includes the fact that real fruit and berries are much better, and smoothies are a great way to overconsume calories and fructose that would have been much harder to do if you ate fruits whole. If you love smoothies, by all means, drink away. It's just not healthy when consumed regularly.[/quote]

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