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What to avoid

It’s often as important to know what to avoid, as it is to know what’s good for you. Unnecessary fats, artificial additives, pesticides – food doesn’t just contain essential nutrients but often also harmful substances. On top of this you have to consider a few other potential dangers in your family’s nutrition. Get informed and proactively prevent!

 

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Additives

The health effects of food additives are – at best – controversial. They are also often found in foods that ought to anyway be consumed in moderation by children.

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Pesticides

When talking about nutrition, and particularly one that ought to be healthy for us and our children, pesticide contaminations are an ever present topic.

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Healthy food on the go

Food outside the home

Your average weekly routines probably don’t allow for all meals being consumed at home. And that’s quite all right: The little ones need to mingle, get outside and learn about new surroundings.

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Children chicken nuggets

So called kids foods?

There’s everything from aggressive to subtle advertising for kids food, using bright colours and sometime outrageous health claims. But is there any substance behind it?

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Sweets for children

Fat, salt & sugar

If there was a survey on which ingredients should be consumed in moderation by children, even the non food experts among us would probably guess the usual suspects: fat, salt and sugar.

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Mercury levels in fish

Mercury in Fish

Fish is a great source of many necessary nutrients, vitamins and essential fatty acids, and should be included in every balanced diet. Nevertheless, mercury level in fish has become an important issue when discussing children nutrition or food during pregnancy

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