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Parents have a crucial role to play in influencing how their children pursue active and healthy lives. This section of the website provides parents with information on the importance of encouraging children to 'Move More, Eat Well'.

All articles aim to promote the following federal government recommendations on childhood health and nutrition:
  • Children need at least 60 minutes per day (up to several hours) in moderate to vigorous physical activity.
  • Children should eat a variety of healthy foods including seven serves of fruit and vegetables every day.
  • Children should not spend more than two hours per day using electronic media for entertainment.
The number of serves of fruit and vegetables we should eat on an average day depends on body size and activity level. For children the minimum number of serves as recommended by the NHMRC based on age is as follows:
  • 4-7 years: 2 serves of vegetables & 1 serve of fruit
  • 8-11 years: 3 serves of vegetables & 1 serve of fruit
  • 12-18 years: 4 serves of vegetables & 3 serves of fruit

Parents

Lean Teens Set For Healthier Future

Lean Teens Set For Healthier Future

Ensuring children maintain a healthy weight boosts their chances of having a happy heart later in life....
Life Expectancy Shock

Life Expectancy Shock

Once upon a time it was widely assumed scientific advances would continue to add to our life expectancy. That was......
Make Time For Team Sports

Make Time For Team Sports

Are your children spending too much time playing computer games or watching TV? Team sports may be the answer to......
Obesity A Community Issue

Obesity A Community Issue

Cooperation between teachers, parents and children may be the key to preventing young people from becoming overweight......
Mouthguards Insure Against Injury

Mouthguards Insure Against Injury

Millions of teeth are knocked out each year from sports-related injuries because the unlucky participants weren't......
Parents' Diet Key To Kids' Weight

Parents' Diet Key To Kids' Weight

If parents eat a healthy diet, their children are more likely to follow suit....
Prevent Diabetes

Prevent Diabetes

The prevalence of self-reported diabetes more than doubled in Australia between 1989-90 and 2004-05. So what do we need......
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Schoolbags & Back Pain

Watching children lurch into school laden like packhorses, one has to wonder whether schoolbags are a health hazard for......
School Sport a Lifetime Habit

School Sport a Lifetime Habit

The health legacy left by dedicated teachers may be greater than you think. An international research project has......
Should Children Lift Weights?

Should Children Lift Weights?

Once shunned by coaches and doctors as unsafe for children, weight training is now recommended for people of all ages....
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Online Calculators

Energy Balancer

Energy Balancer

The Energy Balancer is a unique interactive tool that highlights the importance of regular physical activity for burning off the 'energy' we obtain from food and drink. Users can compare nutritious food options with unhealthy choices to see how this affects the amount of activity they need to do.


Body mass index

Body Mass Index (BMI) is one measure commonly used to measure overweight and obesity. It is a measure of what is considered a healthy weight for height and is determined by calculating a person's weight in kilograms divided by their height in metres.


Energy expenditure

Energy expenditure gives an estimate of the energy consumed as food or drink that is burned off during specific physical activities. Use this calculator to estimate how much energy you use during a variety of activities, sports and exercises.


Target heart rate

Target Heart Rate is the heart rate zone you should aim for in order to get the best out of your workouts.

Waist to hip ratio

Your body shape is an indicator of potential risks to your health. This calculator provides a simple and useful measure of fat distribution by dividing waist circumference by hip circumference to determine your waist-hip ratio.

The online calculators provide a general guide but do not replace the advice of a health professional. Care has been taken to make sure the calculators are generating correct results, but no guarantee is made that the results are accurate.

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