Diet-related Conditions
Dietary Treatment Tools
Diet-related Conditions
Dietary Treatment Tools
Dieting or not sharing foods with other family members, can feel difficult and upsetting at a deep and unconscious level. Food and feeding are very much part of family relationships, and behaviours are often mirrored unconsciously from early life. Cross generational history can be in important determinant of food behaviours, eg. if there have been episodes of starvation or food scarcity, this has been shown to increase obesity in subsequent generations.
When children become obese, taking a whole family approach demonstrates collective effort, provides support and encouragement, and can creative a healthy way to model regulation and balance, as well as good health.
Excessive weight gain in childhood adversely affects long-term health, with obese children and teenagers five times more likely to be obese as adults. The most common health consequences of obesity in adult life are type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, some cancers and osteo-arthritis.
Children with excessive weight gain, or within the obese weight range for height, will benefit from a child-centred approach, which allows them learn about eating well, understand how their bodies respond to food, and how hormones, emotions and physical activity are involved.
Carine offers nutritional assessment of the family diet and helps families who want to make food changes, but don’t know where to start.
Takes a close look at the role food plays within the family and the existing patterns of food-related behaviours, eg. how food is eaten in the family, language around food, family history
Carine will help you focus on family-orientated food and nutrition goals, support meal planning, and address misconceptions around food, eating and nutrition
Monthly meetings to explore progress and what’s going well, check-in on family goals, troubleshoot, consider addressing barriers to change
For any general enquiries, please fill in the form with the necessary information. Any information about booking treatments or assessments can be found below.
Carine offers accessible online workshops on a variety of topics, designed to provide a space alongside others to listen, learn, share, practice and develop tools and strategies for nutritional health.
08/03/2023
Making Mealtimes Better : Structure, Nurture & Boundaries Accessible and full of sensible evidence-based information to support feeding young children well, Making Mealtimes Better is on-line workshop series is designed...
05/07/2021
Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is the most common nutritional problem affecting infants with 60% of 6-12 month old babies in the UK having low dietary iron intake, a key risk...
09/01/2020
I really do get it - it's hard to make time on a school morning to prepare a nutritious breakfast. My teenage daughter Izzy and I teamed up to produce...
26/11/2019
Many people are confused about the difference between lactose intolerance and cow's milk allergy. Misunderstood as same condition; the terms lactose intolerance and cow's milk allergy are used interchangeably and...
30/10/2019
Following a 2 - 6 week low lactose diet to treat lactose intolerance, your child should now be well on their way to recovery from symptoms. Reintroducing lactose back into...
02/10/2019
Infants and children need good sources of calcium in their diets on a daily basis. Calcium absorption in the gut is variable and ranges from 25-50%, increasing when intake is...
