Get a Child Care qualification
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What influences
our child’s eating habits? |
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How do I
establish positive eating habits for my children? |
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How can you tell
when a child is eating well? |
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Principles of a
good diet |
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Cultural
considerations |
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How are our
children faring?
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NUTRITION
FUNDAMENTS |
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Nutrition and
diet |
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Introduction to
the Australian dietary guidelines for the young |
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Updates on food
groups and pyramids |
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The five food
groups |
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Classification of
nutrients
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Development of
the digestive system in babies |
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Basic concepts
and functions of digestion
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Growth and development in
babies and children |
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Age groups |
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Growth charts |
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Regulation of
hunger and satiety (fullness) |
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Normal eating |
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Importance of
physical activity
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Food safety |
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Foods and safe
eating in early childhood
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feeding baby |
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Breastfeeding baby |
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Health and
nutritional benefits of breastfeeding for baby |
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Milk production and stage
of breastmilk |
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Changes in breastmilk
during feeding |
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Baby’s growth and
development |
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Maternal influences on
breastmilk - diet, caffeine, alcohol, smoking and foods |
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Allergies and the
breastfed infant |
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Caring for breastmilk |
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Infant formulas for feeding baby |
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Types of
formula, terminology and choosing |
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Whole cow’s
milk for infant feeding |
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Other ‘milks’ |
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The importance of iron for
infants |
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Feeding premature babies |
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Weaning
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NURTURING healthy eating habits |
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Introducing solids |
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When to start
solids |
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Signs of
readiness for solids |
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Introducing
solids in pre-term infants |
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How long does
it take to introduce solids? |
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Starting out-
What foods to start with |
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What foods at
what age? |
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Quantity and
frequency of food |
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Foods not
suitable for infants and toddlers |
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Moving toward
meal routines |
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Fluids, fruit juice and
milk |
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Home-made vs. commercial
baby foods |
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The importance of lumpy
foods |
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Adverse reactions |
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What to do when bub say
'thanks, but no thanks'
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Dietary recommendations, growth
and development |
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Ensuring adequate food
intake |
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Highlight on
dietary guidelines ‘Children and adolescents need sufficient
nutritious foods to grow and develop normally |
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Growth
in young children and adolescents |
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A
hungry child |
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NUTRIENTS in our foods |
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Are
carbohydrates that complex? |
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Simple sugars |
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Reading food labels for sugar content |
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Glycaemic Index (GI and Glycaemic Load (GL)) |
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Complex carbohydrates and fibre |
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‘Eat plenty of cereals
(including breads, rice, pasta and noodles), preferably wholegrain’
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Suggestions for including cereals
and meeting the requirements
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Introduction to
dietary fats
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Highlight on dietary guidelines
‘Care should be taken
to limit saturated fat and moderate total fat intake (low fat diets
are not suitable for infants)’
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‘Eat plenty of vegetables, legume and fruits’
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Highlight on dietary guidelines
‘Choose water as a
drink’
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Highlight on
dietary guidelines
‘Include milks, yoghurt or alternatives’
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Highlight on
dietary guidelines
‘Choose foods low in salt’
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Superfoods
and foods as supplements |
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CREATING Healthy EATING HABITS
IN CHILDREN |
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Development of eating
patterns |
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How
do taste preferences develop? |
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How
learning happens |
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influences over Eating patterns
and eating concerns |
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The influence of parents |
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Suggestions for encouraging healthy eating
habits |
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The influence of television |
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Children in daycare |
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Canteens |
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Eating patterns of concern |
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Food finickiness |
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What is fussy eating? |
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Causes of food fussiness |
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The importance of introducing ‘lumpy’ foods |
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Suggestions for coping with food rejection |
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Picky eaters and food neophobia |
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Strategies to reduce the health impact of food
neophobia |
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Encouraging children to the stuff they don't like |
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HEALTH AND EATING HABITS |
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Diet,
nutrition and teeth |
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Iron
deficiency and anaemia in children |
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Anaemia |
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Example meals that meet the RDI of iron |
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The
vegetarian child |
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Allergies and intolerances - lactose and gluten |
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Identifying food allergies |
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Peanut and cows' milk protein allergy |
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Food additives and health |
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Some common problem additives |
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Additives |
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Pesticides and other chemicals |
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Nutrition and behaviour |
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Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |
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Nutrients and hyperactivity |
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What does the research say about food
substances and hyperactivity? |
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Managing ADHD |
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Overweight, obesity, dieting and physical activity in childhood |
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The role of ‘extra foods’ |
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Children and dieting |
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The importance of being active |
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Disordered eating |
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Anorexia nervosa |
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Bulimia nervosa |
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Signs and signals of eating disorders |
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What causes eating disorders? |
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Body image |
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Where to go for help |
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Sports nutrition for sporty kids |
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Hydration |
