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Many parents dread the thought of getting back to lunch box preparation in September. However up to 1/3 of our children’s food is eaten in school and plays an important role in forming eating habits, so it is important to try to ensure that lunchboxes are as healthy as possible. For ideas read on, or tune into TV3 Saturday AM on 2nd September to see Heather sharing her top tips.
‘You are not what you eat, you are what you absorb’
Might not sound as catchy, but you can have a great diet and make good choices, but if you are not digesting and absorbing your nutrients correctly, then your good diet will not benefit your health.
Our skin is our largest organ and a very good barometer of overall health. When it comes to glowing, healthy skin it really is a case of beauty being more than skin deep. What we chose to eat and drink can make a bigger difference to the appearance of our skin than an expensive cream.
Recent research has recommended that we increase our fruit and vegetable intake to ten-a-day. This study from the Imperial College London looked at all studies ever carried out assessing disease risk versus intake of fruits and vegetables. This is called a meta-analysis and is a powerful tool to analyse groups of studies, where findings may differ for various reasons such as population differences. This research looked at the diets of almost 2 million people and concluded that while five-a-day is beneficial to our health, ten-a-day is even better.
Dr Ciara Wright was recently speaking at an international medical conference on safe and sensible weight loss for IVF.
When losing weight is the last thing you want to do
Hearing that you need to have IVF can be very difficult. It is an emotionally and often physically draining process, with the highs of your hopes and expectations and the lows of test results, bad news and failed cycles. When your dream of having a family is proving hard to realise, it can be just another blow to hear that you need to lose weight. We all know that losing weight is difficult at the best of times, but in the midst of the rollercoaster of IVF, it can be even more difficult.
