Family Nutrition
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How much does my child need to eat?
Children’s bodies go through rapid growth and development over the years and what they eat really does make a difference. Feeding them a well-balanced healthy diet is one of the best things you can do to help them grow and develop properly and ensure they maintain good health. The…
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Snacks vs. Treats
Many of us have become confused between what is a snack and what is a treat A snack is a small portion of food eaten between meals. A healthy snack is filling and has lots of beneficial nutrients. A treat is defined as ‘an event or item that is out…
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Feeding Active Hungry Kids
My kids are super active and hungry all the time… what should I feed them? Good nutrition is especially important for your active, growing children! At times it may seem like your child’s stomach is a bottomless pit. To deal with this, offer them nutritious food choices regularly throughout…
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Enjoying Easter Treats
A friend of mine has a young daughter who gains weight relatively easily, she described Easter as a “cruel” time for children like her daughter. I get what she means – of all the holidays, Easter is the one that can really throw a healthy eating pattern off track. Ask…
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Feel Good For Life
The busier we get, the less time it seems we have to focus on the things that really matter; our health and our happiness. Which foods should we be eating? How much sleep and exercise should we be getting? Often these questions can be overwhelming and tend to fall by…
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7 ways to eat less salt without compromising on taste
Hoping to reduce your daily salt intake without cutting down on flavour? Here are seven tips to help ensure you’re enjoying healthy food with great taste. 1. How much is too much? It’s hard to reduce your salt intake if you don’t know the numbers. The World Health Organisation…
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8 steps to a healthy happy Christmas
The festive season is a wonderful time when we can enjoy catching up with friends and family, spend time outside on warm sunny days and hopefully take a break from work for a while – even if just for a day or two! However, with socialising and food galore on…
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Did you know?..
While in New Zealand we talk about 5 + A Day adults really need to eat at least two serves of fruit and five serves of vegies each day. That’s an ambitious target – did you know 44% of New Zealand adults aren’t managing our current recommendation of three serves…
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Help Your Child Be Happy & Healthy
We all know that getting your kids to eat a balanced diet is important in helping them to be healthy, right? But did you know that there are other factors that influence whether they grow up fit and strong – and that you could help them? Recent research by the…
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Nestlé and Foodbanks Working Together
It is a heartbreaking fact that there are hungry people in New Zealand. Hunger is largely a hidden social problem and many victims suffer in silence. Nestlé has a long standing partnership a number of organisations that help feed hungry Kiwis – Salvation Army; Auckland City Mission, 0800 Hungry and…
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