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Healthy Eating Habits for Children in Pacific: Insights from Public Health Dietitian Jane Wyllie

Join public health dietitian Jane Wyllie to learn about encouraging healthy eating behaviors in Pacific children, understanding beliefs around eating, and celebrating birthdays without a food focus. Quiz included to test your knowledge on sugar in soft drinks and cookies. Gain insights on the importance of food amounts, emotional vs. physical hunger, and effects of excess weight on health. Discover the Fonofale Model of Health and effective communication techniques for parents to promote nutritious eating habits among children.

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Healthy Eating Habits for Children in Pacific: Insights from Public Health Dietitian Jane Wyllie

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  1. Early Childhood Nutrition for Pacific Presented by Jane Wyllie Public Health Dietitian, Early Childhood Team

  2. Goals of session: you will know… • Understand your beliefs/behaviours around eating • How to encourage healthy eating behaviours in children • Why and how to celebrate birthdays without a food focus

  3. Quiz just to get you thinking!

  4. How many teaspoons of sugar in a 600 ml bottle of soft drink? • 8 • 10 • 16 • 18

  5. 16 teaspoons of sugar 18 teaspoons sugar Both C and D are correct

  6. How many regular biscuits are there in one large cookie?

  7. Eight - Nine!

  8. NZ Children 2-4 years

  9. Why are amounts of food important? • FACT: 40% of Pacific children aged 4 years are normal weight • Eating habits learned & established in childhood

  10. Why are amounts of food important? • Less active + larger food portions = weight gain • Results in health problems: diabetes, heart disease, cancer, depression (later in life)

  11. Excess Weight Causes Many Health Problems

  12. Food for the day for 3 year old girl

  13. Emotional Eating • Comes on suddenly • Crave sugary or fatty foods • Leads to ‘mindless’ eating • May trigger feelings of guilt • Often results in overeating

  14. Eating for Physical Hunger • Gradual onset • Often choose healthier food • Able to enjoy and savour the food • Giving your body what it needs • More likely to stop when full

  15. Foods that Increase Stress • Sugar • Chocolate • Fatty foods • Caffeine • Alcohol

  16. The Fonofale Model of Health

  17. What parents say to their children • ‘When I say you eat, you eat!’ • ‘Try the beans, I made them the way you like them’

  18. What parents say to their children • ‘If you eat 3 more bites of meat, you can have a popsicle’ • ‘No peas, no brownie’

  19. What parents say to their children • ‘If you eat your salad, you can go to Andrew’s to play’

  20. Children serving themselves

  21. Rewarding with food Reinforces behaviours and brain pathways that connects food with feelings

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