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Get your kids having a party in their tummy!

If you have trouble getting your child to eat vegetables, fruit and healthy food, or even eating healthy food at all, there is no need to have a war in your home, but there are ways you can engage them and entice them to eat more healthfully. Healthy meals for kids don't need to be a myth or an impossibility. Here are 5 tips you can try: 1. My kids won't eat fruit, my child has a poor appetite. Leave enticing healthy snacky treats out and about. Most kids are busy bodies, too busy to eat, but will happily much on the go if there is food available that looks appetising. Cut up fruit and leave it on platters, make fruit skewers, arrange it into faces, use shapes to make it appealing. 2. My kids won't eat that. Research shows repeated exposure works! Regularly dish up a small amount of the different foods you are eating on to your child's plate (the foods you THINK they won't eat) as well as the foods you know they will eat. Don't say anything, don't make a fuss and definitely don't mention it if they do eat it or they will feel tricked. Just be patiently persistent, very often the child will try some of the other stuff on their plate, especially if everyone else is eating it and enjoying it, and if there is no emphasis or no attention either way (for eating it or not eating it!) 3. Make food more interesting, use silly shapes or cooky cutters (make beetroot mash in a cinderella slipper) (Girls will love the pink slipper!). Give food different and outrageous names: Dinosaur eggs (individual grapes set in jelly), Green slime and flies (spinach and sunflower seeds), Crunchy paddling boats (peanut butter in celery sticks, use a couple of raisins as crew).  How to buy fun cool tools that make food more interesting to kids (apple slinky machine, pikelet shapes, cooky cutters, ginger bread house): Contact me for details. 4. Set a good example and take advantage of peer pressure. Eat together as a family and avoid talking negetively about food, kids are little sponges, they model your behaviour and the behaviour of those around them. Have dinner parties and picnics with families or kids that have good eating habits and love good food. 5. Cook together, children love to eat what they cook, it also makes them feel grown up and a part of something if you include them in the food preparation. Get them involved early on, give them easy tasks like making a salad, grating carrots, mashing the potato, use fun exciting shapes and tools to enhance the appeal and bring out their creativity. (Invite us around... we would love to help... Healthy Cooking Parties for Kids.) By looking after your childrens nutrition you set them up with healthy habits and a healthy start to life. It is one of the greatest gifts you can give your child and one of your greatest responsibilities as a parent. I would love to help in any way, please feel free to Contact me with your questions. If you are looking for more ideas, I quite like this website.

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Where can you go to exercise that is fun? Moving your body enough is SO important for your health and it is one of the KEY ingredients to feeling GREAT! Exercising does not have to be boring or dull, it can be extremely enjoyable! And who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks! Now I am not suggesting you are a dog, but I am certainly suggesting, that if you are bored with exercise, that you could try something new! 5 Benefits of Exercise:

1. Builds lean muscle mass, more muscle means you use up more energy and you feel like you have more energy to use up!
2. Increases lymphatic circulation, which helps your body to pump out toxins.
3. Burns calories, it is a great way to help you manage your weight.
4. Releases endorphins, so that you feel happy and energised.  In fact exercising in the morning has been found to be extremely effective at warding off depression.
5. Weight bearing exercise supports bone density, minimising risk of osteoporosis.

There are LOADS of ways and places to exercise that are fun, and you don't have to do it by yourself... Below are some of they ways I exercise and some of my favourite exercise promoters. You will be in GOOD HANDS with any of these... Dancing: A FANTASTIC way to get active! Latin Dancing specialists Rio-Rhythmics run classes and social dancing nights. I've Got Life Members entitled to one free visit. They even have "Rio Jam" for kids. They are based in the West End. If you love Latin dancing, this is THE place to learn! You could check out Jill's Jive, which has a variety of different dances styles on different nights of the week, you will be dancing by the end of the night. It is on the North side. Rock climbing: Check out Urban Climb. They have an AWESOME giant indoor climbing mountain! Hiking and Walking: Check out the Brisbane Hiking Meetup Group. They go on lovely hikes. Or you could join the lovely Susan Living for a bush walk. Kickbiking: What is kickbiking? Well, it is a cool kind of scooter thing, lots of fun and makes you super fit. Bruce takes group kickbike adventures/outings. No need to own a kickbike, you can hire one off Bruce. Group fitness: Merendi Health and Wellness runs group fitness classes on the North side. And All Day Dave from Pro-lifestyles runs group fitness classes in the city. Pilates: Merendi Health and Wellness' Carly (an exercise physiologist) runs pilates classes. You will be in safe hands. Yoga: The Australian School of Meditation and Yoga run wonderful sessions to help you relax, unwind or get energised. Some classes are free, some are by donation, check out their timetable on line or give them a call. Svaroopa Yoga: Any body can do it! Contact Lynne Somerville gratitudeyoga@yahoo.com Check out community activities: Active and Healthy Parks, Walking Groups How much exercise is enough? Aim to exercise for 30 minutes every day. If you can't do 30 minutes do SOMETHING everyday! There are 1440 minutes in a day, make some of them active minutes, you will be glad you did. 2 Key points to remember: 1. Do something you love to do! There are many ways to enjoy exercise or  being physically active. 2. You don't have to exercise because you love exercising you are exercising because you love what having exercised does for you! Want to know how you should be eating around exercise? Contact Us with your questions... we would love to help.

Exercise is a path to Health and Vitality

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With the busy lives we lead and the sense of time moving faster and faster and this increased efficiency of this modern world that allows us to do more and more, it is crucial to make time to relax: to SET ASIDE TIME to stop and just be! So, give yourself permission to take a break. Set aside some down time this week, schedule it in to your diary, especially all you executives, business owners, health care workers, mums and workaholics out there... stop... chill... for as long as you can. If you are worried that you don't have the time to do it, rest assured that the time off will leave you feeling refreshed and regenerated and ready to go, you will be much more motivated to get stuck in and get back into your work!

[caption id="attachment_167" align="alignnone" width="100" caption="Happiness"][/caption] "Happiness, not in another place but this place... not for another hour, but this hour!" Walt Whitman It is interesting how so many of us seek out happiness like it is something elusive and out of reach. Like it is something that has to be found, or strived for, and seems to be craved for above all else. It seems time and time again when I ask the questions: What do you want out of life, or what is important to you? Most will declare: "Happiness" or "to be happy". So, how one might come upon this happiness? This state of being? Some might say: "Some pursue happiness, others create it". Find out more about my course on Happiness: If there is a way to learn how to be happy, or find out why you aren't happy, this course covers it!!! [caption id="attachment_168" align="alignnone" width="100" caption="Ooh now that's exciting!"][/caption] I would love to find out more about this workshop: Ask us about: The Course of Happiness: Or please call Lisa on 0 400 325 341

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