Happy New Year! I hope you are all enjoying a great start to 2016. I thought I would kick off the new year with a fresh and oh-so-simple chia pudding recipe. Chia pudding was one of the first foods to get me hooked on this new healthy way of life. Being half asian, I was…
breakfast
Chia, Almond and Banana Porridge
Breakfast…They say it’s the most important meal of the day. You are essentially breaking the fast of sleeping at night. Doing so helps fuel you for the day ahead, helps with mental alertness, and it provides the body with essential vitamins and minerals. All of which sounds pretty good to me! However, where we could…
![As mothers we all want the very BEST for our children. Good grades at school, a strong sense of self, excellent social and emotional wellbeing and let’s face it, as little visits to the doctor as possible right?! But what if we're sabotaging their health and don’t even realise it?
When I started to educate myself around holistic health and realised that not everything we've been told is true, I remember one stat that blew my mind and it was in relation to children’s health.
The next generation is predicted to die younger than us 🤯 What!? Well, that’s if we continue on the slippery slope we’re on.
Stats reveal 1 in 4 children are overweight and the WHO have recorded a 10 fold increase in that number in the last 40 years.
As Dr Mark Hyman, MD aptly states “By the time overweight children are in their twenties, they can expect to be diagnosed with diseases that normally affect people in their sixties and seventies”. So even if they do live long, they're quality of life is poor.
We are also seeing mood disorders, rates of autism, ADHD, mental health issues and diabetes on the rise.
As a mum I feel more responsibility now more than ever to take a stand for the kind of future I want for my babies. Change always starts from the ground up. That’s us. You and me.
Even if you’re not a parent, this should be on our agenda as adults. Our kids are our future.
For more info on the health crisis affecting our younger generation and what we can do, head over to my blog and checkout my interview with one of our leaders in the area of gut health, @kalesbroccoli. [LINK IN BIO] ☝🏼 He’s also airing a free short doco on the topic this Sunday 9th Dec at 7pm AEST on his YouTube channel so make sure you tune in to watch it! 💚
Tell me your thoughts in the comments below 👇🏼](http://scontent-sin6-2.cdninstagram.com/vp/877e5651562449834297d01d2ccbda19/5CAA5D84/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c0.135.1080.1080/s640x640/45580801_200230007466814_1196750850956678888_n.jpg "As mothers we all want the very BEST for our children. Good grades at school, a strong sense of self, excellent social and emotional wellbeing and let’s face it, as little visits to the doctor as possible right?! But what if we're sabotaging their health and don’t even realise it?
When I started to educate myself around holistic health and realised that not everything we've been told is true, I remember one stat that blew my mind and it was in relation to children’s health.
The next generation is predicted to die younger than us 🤯 What!? Well, that’s if we continue on the slippery slope we’re on.
Stats reveal 1 in 4 children are overweight and the WHO have recorded a 10 fold increase in that number in the last 40 years.
As Dr Mark Hyman, MD aptly states “By the time overweight children are in their twenties, they can expect to be diagnosed with diseases that normally affect people in their sixties and seventies”. So even if they do live long, they're quality of life is poor.
We are also seeing mood disorders, rates of autism, ADHD, mental health issues and diabetes on the rise.
As a mum I feel more responsibility now more than ever to take a stand for the kind of future I want for my babies. Change always starts from the ground up. That’s us. You and me.
Even if you’re not a parent, this should be on our agenda as adults. Our kids are our future.
For more info on the health crisis affecting our younger generation and what we can do, head over to my blog and checkout my interview with one of our leaders in the area of gut health, @kalesbroccoli. [LINK IN BIO] ☝🏼 He’s also airing a free short doco on the topic this Sunday 9th Dec at 7pm AEST on his YouTube channel so make sure you tune in to watch it! 💚
Tell me your thoughts in the comments below 👇🏼")
