Why babies should not be fed starch?

For almost 200 years, medical science has understood that the amylase enzyme ‘ptyalin’ (pronounced ty-u-lin) contained within our saliva is a critical chemical involved in beginning the body’s digestive processes to break starch down into sugars, and science knows that infants do not produce normal levels of ptyalin until they have a mouth full of teeth.  With ptyalin missing from your baby’s saliva, two problematic bodily reactions often occur after you feed your baby starch (e.g. baby rice, baby cereals, baby porridge, mashed potatoes, bread rusks, crackers):

• The indigestible starch ‘ferments’, and this can potentially cause numerous digestive disorders.
• Mucous ‘thickens’ and can potentially cause ear, nose and throat problems. Perhaps this is a plausible partial explanation for the epidemic levels of continual tummy problems, runny noses, recurring ear infections, tonsillitis, bronchiolitis and asthma that we now see in the developed world.