| Many parents struggle to know which foods
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| | parents are not making healthy food
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| are healthy for their children. When they
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| | choices themselves. There are strong
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| are able to opt for healthy choices,
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| | links between obesity and ill health. The
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| about two-thirds struggle to get their
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| | Australian Institute of Health and
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| children to eat healthily, a poll of
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| | Welfare lists the following increased
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| nearly 800 parents found. Developing
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| | risks of cancers in obese
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| Patient Partnerships (DPP), which
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| | people:Men Women
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| commissioned the survey, said that
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| | Cancer % Increase
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| parents need more support to tackle the
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| | Risk Cancer %increase Risk
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| growing problem of childhood obesity.
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| | Prostate 23 Uterus 178
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| Childhood obesity has tripled in the past
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| | Leukaemia 43 Kidney 110
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| 20 years, official figures show.Recent
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| | Bowel 53 Bowel 35
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| studies suggest that parents do not know
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| | Liver 128 Liver 48
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| what good nutrition is. Perhaps
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| | Gallbladder 76 Breast 71Statistics
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| advertising of fast foods, and busy life
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| | such as these are a stark reminder of the
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| styles has contributed to this.
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| | importance of maintaining a healthy
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| Nutritional meals can be prepared quickly
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| | weight level. Children must be given
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| and simply at home.Of the parents of
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| | every opportunity to have a healthy body.
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| children aged 15 years and younger
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| | In order to get their family on track to
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| questioned by the DPP, 45% said they
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| | a healthy lifestyle parents need to learn
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| found it difficult to work out which
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| | how to feed themselves and their family
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| foods were healthy for their children.
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| | good nutrition.A simple way to improve
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| When parents did select healthy foods,
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| | nutrition is to add raw fruit and
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| 65% said they struggled to motivate their
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| | vegetables to family diets. These are
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| children to eat it. Three-quarters of
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| | foods that have no preservatives or added
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| parents blamed advertising and marketing
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| | color. They provide plenty of vitamins,
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| of unhealthy snacks and drinks for making
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| | mineral, antioxidants, fiber, water and
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| this job so difficult. Another 87%
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| | trace elements. (All necessary for good
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| believed that schools should play a big
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| | nutrition.) They look appetizing and have
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| role in teaching children how to be
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| | high water content. They have a firm
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| healthy.When more than a thousand
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| | texture which means we need to chew them
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| children aged seven to 16 were questioned
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| | well. This aids the digestive system. The
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| about their lifestyles, 70% said they
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| | body quickly and easily processes them.
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| would be more likely to eat healthily and
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| | This means less work for the digestive
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| get active if their parents were doing
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| | system.
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| it. Only 16% said they ate the
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| | They are natural, that is, not processed
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| recommended five portions of fruit and
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| | and pre-packaged with extra chemicals.
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| vegetables per day. This suggests that
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