Health and nutrition
Life is busy enough without having to worry about your family’s health. Now you can keep your family health and happy with easy nutrition tips, health and fitness advice and tips on how to keep a balance in your family’s life.
Diet tip: Eat more, not less
Often when we diet, the focus is on restricting how much we eat. What we need to realise that often it’s not the quantity, but the quality of our diet that is the problem. Here’s some tips to improve your family’s approach to food.
World Egg Day and why you should eat eggs for breakfast
What better day is there than World Egg Day to talk all things ‘eggs’ – why we should eat them, how we love to eat them, and other egg-cellent facts.
9 healthy fruit and veggie chips
Chunky potato chips fried in oil? No, thank you! Here are 9 HEALTHY ways to satisfy your craving for a crispy snack.
Yoghurt popsicles
These baby size popsicles are super-cute and just as easy as filling an ice cube tray and freezing. Most of all they are healthy and as a parent, you have to love that!
Brain foods every child should be eating
Want to boost your child’s brain development? It all starts with what they eat.
Party food doesn’t have to be unhealthy. These healthy party food recipes prove you can enjoy delicious bites which are as good for you as they taste. Expand your party food repertoire with fruit kebabs, yoghurt popsicles and healthy vegetable and chicken sausage rolls.
When the kids are hungry and the fruit bowl just isn’t cutting it, you want some healthy snacks at your fingertips. Fill their tummies with these nutritional powerhouses including banana bread, homemade muesli bars and vegetable pikelets.
Could my child have a food allergy?
Your child’s just finished dinner and you’ve noticed some swelling around her mouth. It’s quite possible your child is allergic to something she’s just eaten. more
When it comes kids and sugar, how much is too much?
Sugar is the diet enemy of many and a food that received far less attention than fat or salt… more
Is the Health Star Rating actually worth listening to?
Nutritionist Amanda Fraser decodes the ambiguous Health Star Rating and explains how and when you should incorporate it into your...more
Why I quit Paleo and became a fauxgetarian
The concept of being a vegetarian used to be straight forward. Eat everything but meat. Simple. But today, there’s about 101 variations...more
5 foods you might be avoiding, but shouldn’t
Think potatoes make you fat, or that dairy bloats you? Think again. Here are five foods you can stop avoiding. more
What’s really in ready-prepared baby food?
It is commonly thought that ready-prepared baby food is highly processed and full of additives and preservatives. The truth is that...more
Makers of Paddle Pops and Sakata fined for misleading 'healthy' claims
The ACCC have called out these two family favourites, fining them for making false claims on their packaging. more
What a nutritionist (and busy mum of twins) really eats in a day
Busy mum of baby twins, nutritionist Susie Burrell reveals her “real” choices for breakfast, lunch and dinner! more
You won't believe THIS about butter...
Could the oh-so-creamy taste of butter actually be good for us? more
7 of the most common health myths debunked
When it comes to healthy eating don’t believe everything you read, writes Kidspot nutritionist Amanda Fraser more
The best supermarket soups according to a nutritionist
Brrrrrr, it’s cold outside! But which soup is right for you? Nutritionist Susie Burrell gives us the low down on the real...more
