You are the key to your child’s wellness future, says leading Australian health expert Dr Nick Fuller.
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He says the first 2000 days of a child’s life — from conception to five years of age — are crucial to their long-term health.
A poor diet and lifestyle can set them up for a host of challenges, like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, mental illness and more.
Dr Fuller has distilled his years of research into six essential steps to setting parents and their family on a path towards a positive relationship with food, exercise and sleep.
Understanding your child’s needs at each stage of their development, and modelling practical boundaries and positive decisions around these areas, will bring energy, joy and freedom to your family.
Healthy Parents, Healthy Kids: Six Steps to Total Family Wellness offers a clinically proven blueprint to total family wellness, including more than 100 tasty recipes (some with QR code links to instructional videos).
So you’ll never be at a loss for delicious meal ideas for even the fussiest kids, as you reconnect with a variety of fresh, healthy food — and each other — at the kitchen table.
Dr Fuller’s six evidence-based principles are ultimately about freedom — not feeling bad — and will guide you to establishing new, healthy habits to last a lifetime. They include:
Health, not weight: How to model healthy habits for your family to ensure that your child has a naturally optimum body weight throughout their life.
Reach for nature first: How to reduce fussy eating as children get older by exposing them to fresh foods and avoiding the pitfalls of our modern diet.
The full rainbow: How to get your child to eat more nutritious foods — not less — with a focus on variety and the key elements they need for healthy development.
Mealtime, feelin’ fine: How to get the whole family involved in mealtimes and improve their innate appetite regulation by slowing down.
Play every day: How to understand your child’s exercise needs at each stage of their development — and how to incorporate movement and a sense of play into your family’s daily lifestyle.
Screen time showdown: How to model healthy tech habits, such as knowing when to turn off technology and establishing practical boundaries and positive alternatives that bring the family together.
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.
Dr Nick Fuller.
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.
Dr Fuller is a well-renowned media personality and has helped many high-profile celebrities with their weight loss.
He is also the author of the bestselling books Interval Weight Loss, Interval Weight Loss for Life and Interval Weight Loss for Women and the father of two children.
Healthy Parents, Healthy Kids: Six Steps to Total Family Wellness by Dr Nick Fuller is published by Penguin Life, RRP $36.99.
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