I often get asked about children and adequate iron. With rapid growth rates, infants, young children, adolescence and pregnant women all have fairly high iron requirements. Deficiency in childhood can result in; – lowered immunity
I’m always curious when people say, “Oh, organic food is just too expensive.” There still largely appears to be a stigma right across the board, right across the variations in family incomes, that organic food
Last week a mother said to me, “I am not going to feed my second daughter all the specific foods, she can eat what she likes. I did that with my first child and she’s
I had the privilege of attending a Women’s Forum a few weeks back and I’ve been contemplating some of the content these last few weeks. There were many questions posed as to why females don’t
I originally got the recipe through a girlfriend’s book “Changing Habits, Changing Lives“/ Cyndi O’Meara, which has been a nutritional resource for our family over the years. This particular wholesome breakfast, interestingly, always seems to
This week I was contemplating yet again the simple rule – that if what you are eating is made by nature, and you are eating it in it’s purest form (ie. it’s not been processed
I had the great pleasure, in the last few weeks, of “filling-in” for some of our chiropractors who were away on holidays. I was fortunate to be able to do just a few shifts, where
One of our team members at work has been experiencing quite severe morning sickness over the last few months. The poor love really has had a rough first trimester…. As I consider the conversations we’ve
I was reminded the other day of the importance of consistently teaching our children the benefits of good health. Sometimes it’s tricky reinforcing that; Being ill is not a ‘bad’ thing, because each time they
Well it has been an ‘interesting’ week for our family. I say interesting because I’ve had plenty of circumstances/scenarios arise – to allow for some serious ‘self –observation’. This process of self-observation is the principle
Australian research published December 2006(1) suggests that epidurals given during childbirth can result in difficulty establishing breastfeeding. The results showed that of 1280 women, those who had had an epidural were less likely to fully
With autumn here, the Victorian air is much cooler and the winds are becoming more constant. Most of us have succumbed to the need for heaters or fires of an evening and early in the
Someone asked me the other day how to get the important oils like Flax and Fish Oils into a child’s diet? There are lots of ways to disguise oils, but personally I think it’s important
Most parents are fairly dubious about Easter. Rightly so, it’s simply one big sugar feast. Our children are given Easter eggs from their teachers, school friends, relatives, family friends, work associates, neighbours and then there’s
One of the boys had a friend’s birthday party the other day and, as to be expected, when I collected him his hands were loaded with a piece of cake and a bag of lollies.
