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Eating healthy can be hard to do sometimes without the necessary knowledge and tools. These articles will give you an overview of how to start and end your day by providing a health diet for you and your children.

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Child Nutritionists Southampton

Child nutritionists provide expert advice on children’s nutritional needs, healthy eating, and dietary supplements. They create daily menus and oversee nutritional guidelines to ensure that children’s specific dietary needs are met. See below to learn more and to gain access to qualified child nutritionists in Southampton.

Organic Food Southampton

Local resource for organic food in Southampton. Includes detailed information on local businesses that provide access to whole foods, health food, natural food, organic vegetables, organic fruits, as well as other organic food products. Read on to learn more and check the available resources listed below to find organic food retailers in your area.

Bakeries Southampton

Local resource for bakeries in Southampton. Includes detailed information on local businesses where you can find bread, cakes, pies, cookies, cupcakes, birthday cakes, wedding cakes, baby shower cakes, as well as many other pastries and baked goods. Read on to learn more and check the available resources listed below to find bakeries in your area.

Tips on Food Additives: Parenting Advice Southampton

It sometimes seems that barely a day goes by without yet another report saying that Additives (or ‘E numbers’ ) are bad for us and especially for our children. But are they really that terrible?

Baby's First Foods - What Do You Need to Know about Solids? Southampton

You may hear conflicting advice from your Mum and well-meaning relatives about what what foods to offer your baby, and what age to offer them at. Read on to find the answers you’ve been looking for.

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Baby's First Foods - What Do You Need to Know about Solids? Southampton

Bakeries Southampton

Balanced Diet for Children Southampton

Children who lack essential vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids have shown to perform worse academically at school and are seen to be more aggressive in their outward behaviour. As our children grow taller and stronger in their pre-school years, they also become more independent and start to form their own personalities.

Child Nutritionists Southampton

Child Obesity Facts Figures and Prevention Southampton

Overweight children more often than not become overweight adults. In the UK alone, one in four children is overweight and seven percent are classified as obese . That’s around 2.4 million children affected by overweight and obesity. So what can you do to stop your child becoming another statistic? Read on.

Children's Health & Cola Southampton

Does your child love to drink cola? If so, and you’re about to do the weekly grocery shop you might want to consider that new research indicates a link between high consumption of soda with lower bone mass in kids.

Easter Bunny Fairy Cakes Southampton

Kids in the kitchen is always great fun, especially when you’re making seasonal treats like these! These are such fun to make and are guaranteed to impress the whole family at Easter! This mix will make 20+ cakes depending on size.

Eat Healthy Main Meals Southampton

Children who snack throughout the day tend not to have a balanced diet. Encouraging your child to limit snacks in favour of a main meal is healthy, as well as making mealtimes less stressful.

Food Facts on what your Kids Eat Southampton

Our children should be feasting on only the best food and drinks that we can provide. However research continues to show that this is not the case. Children are eating large quantities of sugar, saturated fat and over the daily recommended level of salt.

Fussy Eater and Healthy Eating Southampton

Here’s one issue that has many parents tearing their hair out with frustration: how to get a child to eat anything near a balanced diet? Getting used to meal times, new foods, strange textures and flavours can be troubling for a child. Equally, spending time preparing food which is left uneaten, desperately cajoling your child into sitting at the table, or into trying at least one bite, can be stressful for a carer.

Healthy Packed Lunch Tips Southampton

In addition to these common-sense nutrition guidelines – serving up a balance of fruits and vegetables, lean protein, calcium-rich dairy foods and whole grains – get children involved if you want them to learn healthy habits.

How to Get Your Child to Try New Foods Southampton

Do your kids balk at unfamiliar foods? Do you despair at their predilection for biscuits over beans, or Cheerios over cherries? Well, before you tell them off too severely, think again. It could be your fault!

How to Make Halloween Healthier for Kids Southampton

Halloween is fast approaching, and your little devils, witches and goblins are looking forward to bags full of sweets. Here are some ways to avoid the Halloween sugar rush, and minimise the damage to little teeth.

How to Wean Your Baby Southampton

Between four and seven months of age, your baby starts to show that she is ready for solids. Many babies can sit with help, hold food in their mouths and mix it with saliva. They may chew anything within reach, drool or cry when they see food and appear hungry after milk feeds.

Hyperactivity and Nutrition Southampton

Parents have long been warned of the effects of food additives on their children's behaviour, and the Food Commission called on manufacturers to voluntarily remove additives from their products. Some of the additives have been banned in other countries around the world.

Is Bread Good or Bad for You? Southampton

Bread is a staple in every country and a good quality loaf of bread is very nutritious, as it gives you carbohydrate for energy and a good source of protein from the hard wheat. Whole grains are a good source of thiamine, and their germ is rich in vitamin E, as well as containing significant amounts of potassium, phosphorus, iron and zinc.

Kids Lunch Ideas Southampton

We all want to feed our kids the best, but how can you really know what's in the food we eat? Supernanny's Nutritionist Yvonne Wake blasts the myths about salt, sugar and fat.

Making healthy Snacks for Kids Southampton

Good oral health in children is very important. Not just because teeth are needed to masticate food, but also for speaking and of course for smiling! If a child’s diet contains a lot a sugar, dental plaque is inevitable. Tooth decay is caused by the bacteria in dental plaque breaking down sugar in the food and drinks consumed.

Omega 3 Benefits Southampton

We often hear about the health benefits of omega-3s, the "good fats", but have you ever found yourself wondering just what it is they do? If so, read on.

Organic Baby Food Southampton

We use organic ingredients in all our Organix foods because we believe that children deserve the best start in life. Evidence shows that children are especially vulnerable to toxic chemicals such as pesticides – with babies being most vulnerable of all.

Organic Food Southampton

Teenage Healthy Eating Southampton

The teen years can be hell when it comes to food, but it's more important than ever to eat well. Supernanny expert Yvonne Wake explains why.

Teenagers and Dieting Southampton

You think she’s beautiful, but she thinks she’s fat. How can you change the diet mentality of your teenager? Teens may try skipping meals, diet pills or low carbohydrate diets in an effort to lose weight. Thankfully, most will get hungry or bored within a few days, but you should look out for signs of more serious conditions such as Anorexia nervosa or Bulimia nervosa.

Tips on Food Additives: Parenting Advice Southampton

It sometimes seems that barely a day goes by without yet another report saying that Additives (or ‘E numbers’ ) are bad for us and especially for our children. But are they really that terrible?

Tips on Healthy Eating for Kids Southampton

For many parents, mealtimes can feel like a battle. Sometimes it can be hard enough getting a child to eat any food - let alone the healthy stuff! Be consistent, patient and make time for meals with the family - and eventually they should grow out of this difficult phase.

Top Advice on Bulimia Southampton

An estimated 1-3% of young adult women in the UK suffer from bulimia. Although the disorder was only officially recognised in 1979, the number of cases has increased rapidly, with a fivefold increase in bulimia between 1988 and 1993∗. Like other eating disorders, it most commonly affects young women, particularly those aged 17-21.

Weaning Your Baby Southampton

Weaning your baby can be a difficult time, one where your baby’s individuality has to be taken into account. Susie Willis encourages us to use nutritional super foods, and a little bit of instinct.

What and When to Feed Your Baby Southampton

Our handy timetable offers a rough guide to what you can give your baby and when, but remember that all babies are individuals – and that applies to their appetites too.

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