Supporting growth and learning in children through food

Nutrition can help your child flourish and get more out of their life. By choosing the right foods they can think more clearly, be calmer, grow stronger and concentrate better.

Getting children to eat food that is good for them might not always be easy but there are ways to change their minds and get greater variety into their diets. Food is also a wonderful medicine and can help boost children’s health and reduce symptoms in conditions such eczema and asthma. Book an appointment to get more advice and support. I am at the Awareness Centre on Wednesday afternoons. For other times and locations please contact me directly.

From the age of 1 infants should be moving to the same diet as the family, from 2 years old children should be fully on the same diet.

Nutrient requirements remain high right through childhood from 0-16 years to support growth, learning and development. Nutrition for children can be more of a challenge than with babies as eating is not always under parents control with nursery, socialising, school and parties.

For the times that you can control what your children eat you can focus on making sure that they are getting all the important nutrients, then at the other times you can be a bit more flexible. Working with a qualified nutritionist you can learn more about the food children need, how to boost their immunity and clever ways of getting extra fruit and veg into them.