Dietary and infant feeding guidelines should be strengthened to include more practical advice on the best ways to support children to learn to like and eat vegetables, say nutrition and dietetics researchers from the Flinders University Caring Futures Institute.
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Dietary and infant feeding guidelines should be strengthened to include more practical advice on the best ways to support children to learn to like and eat vegetables, say nutrition and dietetics researchers from the Flinders University Caring Futures Institute.
With the Australian Health Survey showing only 6% of children aged 2-17 years are eating the recommended amount of veggies, experts say more tailored practical advice is needed on how to offer vegetables to young children through repeated exposure and daily variety in order to increase their intake.
A recent paper co-authored by researchers from Caring Futures Institute and CSIRO, Australia s national science agency, published in the
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Flinders University is leading a major new program to provide high-quality support for carers of more than 11 million people living with dementia in China, or about 20% of the global dementia population.
Worldwide, around 50 million people have dementia, with that number expected to triple by 2050, says Flinders University Caring Futures Institute researcher Professor Lily Xiao, who is also leading the rollout of the iSupport self-help online project around Australia.
The project has received a $400,000 grant from the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations, an Australian Government initiative aiming to strengthen understanding and engagement between Australia and China.
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