Nourishing The Mother

NTM 495: Sweet Christmas and New Year? Managing Kids’ Sugar Highs and Lows

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The festive sugar load can have us spinning into anxiety, apprehension and control, so let’s talk with Naturopath Jess from Natural Super Kids on how to move away from perfect and make change accessible to all of us. Tune in for practical tips, mum advice, and simple solutions to sugar-swings. In this episode we discuss:- Moving away from ‘perfect’ and optimising your child’s nutritional balance - Recognising nuance and your individual child’s limits- Loosening up our boundaries around sugar and feeling into our own experience of that - Sinking into the realisation that the best lessons are the ones they learn on their own - Recognising where your “I can’t let you have more sugar/stay up late etc” is because you can’t be with what’s on the other side of that choice. - Having internal flexibility around their sugar intake is possible when you can maintain a healthy base of good quality protein, healthy fats and complex carbohydrates. - The effect of sugar on our kids’ microbiome, immunity, tummy problems, toil