Healthy Kids
Healthy Kids with Susie Burrell
Lifestyle Lesson 5: Save your pennies – cool, clear water is the best drink for kids Supermarket shelves and refrigerated cabinets are literally groaning with beverages targeting young people these days, but save your pennies and invest in your kids’ health because water is the default setting when it comes to quenching thirst and should …
Healthy Kids with Susie Burrell
Lifestyle lesson number 4: Christmas is just one day! Christmas and the school holidays can be a challenge for families with too many high calorie, high fat foods in the home along with all those hours to be filled as structured activities go on hold, friends go away for the holidays and screens (TV, computer, …
Healthy Kids with Susie Burrell
Lifestyle Lesson 3: Table talk matters (with the television off) For many modern families, the idea of sitting down together to enjoy a home-cooked meal at 6 pm each weeknight is a pretty unfamiliar scenario. Long working hours with even longer commutes, both parents at work and an increasing number of single parent families are …
Healthy Kids with Susie Burrell
Lifestyle Lesson 2: Monitor your children’s growth regularly Many young people have a significant weight problem (1 in 4 in Australia for example), yet few parents realise it – numerous studies show parents don’t seem to notice when children have weight problems until they are obese. It is easy to monitor children’s growth patterns, and …
Healthy Kids with Susie Burrell
In the coming months, pediatric dietitian Susie Burrell will share 10 little lifestyle lessons for healthy kids and happy family meals with GI News readers. Susie Burrell Lifestyle Lesson 1: Children are unlikely to like vegetables first time around What it is about vegetables? They are the most commonly reported foods that children do not …
