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Healthy Parents, Healthy Kids
Six Steps to Total Family Wellness
By Dr Nick Fuller
Published by Penguin Random House
ISBN
9780143791119
As someone who was fortunate to be raised with a parent who provided good healthy food made at home and no junk food and who takes good care of our own health, eating healthy food and doing daily exercise, I was pleased to review Healthy Parents, Healthy Kids.
In the opening pages it was clear that this was going to make good sense and I found myself nodding affirmatively to many of the statements and chapters made by the author. All except for the one on and the inclusion of canola oil in recipes.
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The practical advice is most helpful, such as what to do such what to when planning meals and for helping you with your food shopping to prepare nutritious food, There are suggestions for what to do about buying fresh, dried, bottled or canned food.
The paragraphs regarding sugar are helpful, especially when it states that sugar is disguised using forty different names on ingredient labels. This is something I am acutely aware of as I eliminated sugar a few years ago.Fuller suggests the much better option of giving children fresh fruit instead of sweets, which I was pleased to read. He also discusses probiotics, the benefits of eating fermented foods and how to have good health gut.
For those who lead busy lives and are concerned with the time it takes to cook, the information about whether or not to use frozen and canned food could be helpful. So too is the information on the importance of ensuring your child has a good healthy breakfast each day before going to school. Although Fuller mentions that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, this was along the lines of a statement made may years ago by one of the major cereal manufacturers used to sell more of their products.
Dr Nick Fuller uses his years of research into six essential steps to setting parents and families on a path towards a positive relationship with several key areas of life: food, exercise, sleep and technology. This easy reading for understanding your child’s needs at each stage of their development,
Included are 100 recipes for breakfasts, lunches, salads, main meals and desserts. Several are suitable for vegans, vegetarians and those with food allergies or intolerances, Many of the breakfast recipes include bananas which could be replacing cane sugar.
The recipes wth a variety of international influences, are for four servings and several include QR codes for links to videos. There are main meals that are called kd friendly and can be made quickly with all including carbs such as lentils, chick peas, rice, potatoes, pizzas and pasta.
Healthy Parents Healthy Kids is a mine of information and one that could be referred to when needing to know aspects of overall good health as your family grows
The author
Dr Nick Fuller is an internationally recognised health expert and leading obesity researcher with degrees in exercise physiology, nutrition and dietetics, and a doctorate in obesity and weight management. He is currently responsible for the clinical research program within the Boden Initiative, located within the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. He is also the director of clinical trials within the Department of Endocrinology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
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