- Claire Baseley • Registered Nutritionist
27th February 2019
Do you have mealtime battles with your kids? Do you cook different meals for the children and yourself? Do you bribe the kids with pudding and sweet treats to get them to eat their greens? If you’ve answered yes to any of these, you are not alone! I’ve worked with many parents to try to help them take the stress out of mealtimes when you have a picky eater in your midst. These are my top tips but above all, keep calm! Start as you mean to go on A great deal of research focuses on the months during which you first give your children food other than milk. This weaning period is over pretty quickly when you […]
5th November 2016
I attended the Childhood Obesity Summit at which the great and the good of the nutrition, medical and behavioural science worlds collided to share their views on what is a global problem. Obesity is inextricably linked to GDP yet is also associated with societal deprivation. The UK is ‘the fat man of Europe’ spending more on treating obesity and type 2 diabetes than collectively on policing, the fire service and judiciary, to quote Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer. With the latest Childhood Obesity Plan from the Government seen as a missed opportunity, particularly in early years settings, what should we be doing to combat obesity? First things first, if I had a pound for every time I […]