Children who eat breakfast, think better

Always make time for breakfast. A healthy sustaining breakfast not only improves concentration, but it also makes children less likely to want to snack on unhealthy foods.

Children who skip breakfast generally have below average nutrition. Their diets contain less:

• Calcium
• Iron
• Dietary fibre
• Vitamins such as riboflavin and niacin

Tips for easy breakfasts:

Here are some easy-to-prepare, healthy breakfast ideas:

• Protein shake with Ionix Minerals and fruit added
• Fresh fruit with wholegrain breakfast cereal and milk. Toast with a thin spread of avocado.
• Toast with cheese and tomato. Hot or cold milk.
• Rolled oats with sultanas and milk
• Freshly squeezed orange juice with breakfast
  
• Top wholemeal toast or rice cakes with cottage cheese and sliced banana
• Baked beans on toast
• Poached, scrambled or boiled eggs on toast

Noela Lopatich
LIFE CLEANSING
ph: (07) 3272 8304 or 0416 119 294

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Eat low fat protein

Low-fat protein, such as chicken, turkey, fish and pulses, such as beans and lentils, are good for your health.

Organic chicken is rich in protein, essential for growth and cell repair and low in fat. It also provides important B-Vitamins, without the hormones.

Turkey is a great low-fat protein food

Whole Grain Rice

Wholegrain (brown) rice provides fibre, magnesium, phosphorus, Vitamin B1 and Iron. It

Iron Friends and Foes

Some foods help your absorption of iron, while others hinder it:

• Vitamin C eaten at the same time as iron-containing foods really boosts your iron uptake, so drink a glass of orange juice with your meal.

• High-fibre diets are good for you and well-balanced Vegetarian diets are also, but insoluble fibre such as bran, hinders iron absorption.

• Some foods high in Iron are: Oysters, Mussels, Silverbeet, Steak, Lamb, Cashews, Eggs, Prune Juice, Licorice. Remember that:

• Tea and coffee contains tannins, which interfere with iron uptake. Don
  
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