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Reducing added salt in your family’s diet

Salt is added to many foods to improve the flavour and preserve their shelf life. Unfortunately, too much salt is not good for our health. How do you keep your salt intake in check?

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Starting Solids FAQs

Starting solids with your baby is an exciting but often also very overwhelming time! Let us help you with our most frequently asked questions about starting solids.

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Navigating Food Labels

Don’t be fooled by marketing hype on packaging! Making the best choices in the supermarket will be easy once you read up on our tips for navigating label reading.

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Lunchbox salads - Making sure they’re actually a meal

Not every kid (or adult) is a sandwich person. Mixing up the ‘main’ part of lunch is great but salads can sometimes fall short of giving enough fuel to get through the afternoon. Read on for tips to make sure your salad is a proper meal.

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Healthy lunchbox snacks

Knowing what to pack in our kids lunchboxes can be tricky. It needs to get them through 6 hours of their day so we want to make sure it has plenty of fuel in there to get them through their learning and playing.

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What happens in a Telehealth appointment?

Since COVID, must of us know about the option of Telehealth appointments but every profession do things a bit differently. Dietetics is actually well suited to Telehealth and we’ll explain why here.

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When is the right time to introduce solids?

There is so much information available about starting solids with babies. Some things say 4 months and other say 6 months but how do you know when the right time is for YOUR baby?

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Reducing added sugars in your family’s diet

Sugar gets terrible press due to it’s relationship with poor dental health and the belief that sugar is one of the main causes of obesity. Many products contain added sugar and it is good for all of us to reduce our intake of added sugar.

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Packing a healthy lunchbox

Kids spend the bulk of their awake hours at school so we need to make sure that we fill their lunchboxes with as much nutrition as we can squeeze in.

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Diet and constipation

Ideally children (and adults) should open their bowels every day. This ensures that their body is getting rid of all of its waste products and not building up and getting backed up. Constipation in children can cause pain, bloating, wind and a reduced appetite.

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Choosing Breakfast Cereals

There is so much information on breakfast cereal packages. Which one is best to choose? Read on to find out more.

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