Latest / Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families / #524 Baby & Toddler Nutrition With Dr Anthea Rhodes
Transcript
- 0:03Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families Podcast.
- 0:05Speaker 2: It's the podcast for the time poor parent who just
- 0:09Speaker 2: on answers me Now. Hello, This is doctor Justin Coulson,
- 0:12Speaker 2: the founder of Happy Families dot com, dot you, the
- 0:14Speaker 2: author of six books that to six Kids, and the
- 0:17Speaker 2: parenting expert co host on Channel Line's Parentphical Guidance. I'm
- 0:20Speaker 2: really excited today to have a conversation with somebody who
- 0:22Speaker 2: I respect enormously and who does great work for helping
- 0:25Speaker 2: us to understand more about what's going on with kids,
- 0:28Speaker 2: their behavior, and the way that we live our lives
- 0:30Speaker 2: in our families. Doctor Anthea Rhodes is a pediatrician, researcher
- 0:35Speaker 2: and child health advocate. She also runs the Royal Children's
- 0:39Speaker 2: Hospital Children's Health Poll out of Melbourne. She's been there
- 0:43Speaker 2: since two thousand and four as a pediatrician and Anthea
- 0:45Speaker 2: joins me today to talk about the latest Royal Children's
- 0:49Speaker 2: Health Poll. Anthea, thanks for being on the Happy Family Podcast.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Great to be here, Justin.
- 0:54Speaker 2: The latest poll is about a topic that we don't
- 0:56Speaker 2: usually cover off on the Happy Families podcast, and it's
- 1:00Speaker 2: maybe because I'm not quite sure what to say about it,
- 1:02Speaker 2: but I know that I've got opinions. It's just one
- 1:04Speaker 2: of those topics that creates for some parents a little
- 1:07Speaker 2: bit of shame, a little bit of worry, a little
- 1:08Speaker 2: bit of oh, my goodness, another thing that I'm not
- 1:11Speaker 2: doing well enough. So I want to be really careful
- 1:13Speaker 2: in the way that we talk about what you've discovered. Here.
- 1:16Speaker 2: We're talking about baby and toddler foods, the stuff that
- 1:18Speaker 2: you buy prepackaged, the quick simple solutions to give the
- 1:22Speaker 2: kids a squeezy pack because you've got to get them
- 1:24Speaker 2: to eat something before you run out the door in
- 1:26Speaker 2: the morning, and everything's gone wrong in the morning. So
- 1:29Speaker 2: where should we start this national child health pole about
- 1:32Speaker 2: ready made baby foods? How much do parents really know
- 1:35Speaker 2: about what's in these foods? And do we need to
- 1:37Speaker 2: be worried?
- 1:38Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think I think you've hit the nail
- 1:40Speaker 3: on the head. They're justin in saying it's really important
- 1:42Speaker 3: that this conversation is.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Not about parents blaming or guilt.
- 1:45Speaker 3: What we really wanted to find out is, you know,
- 1:47Speaker 3: just how common is the use of ready.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Made baby foods in an average.
- 1:51Speaker 3: Famili's diet for the young kids, and what do parents
- 1:54Speaker 3: know about the facts when it comes to these foods,
- 1:56Speaker 3: how they're produced, how they regulated, what sort of contents
- 2:00Speaker 3: go into them, and how they market it towards you
- 2:03Speaker 3: when you walk down the supermarket aisle and you're bombarded
- 2:05Speaker 3: with choice. And the first thing we learned is that
- 2:07Speaker 3: it's really really common for ozzie babies and toddlers to
- 2:11Speaker 3: have ready made foods as part of their diet. So
- 2:13Speaker 3: around half of kids under five have some of these
- 2:17Speaker 3: foods at least once a week, with some children having
- 2:20Speaker 3: these make up most of their diet. Wow, So part
- 2:24Speaker 3: of what we are doing as a society, and it's
- 2:26Speaker 3: usually for convenience. So the most common reason parents gave
- 2:29Speaker 3: for why they choose these products. You know, as you've said,
- 2:33Speaker 3: we're busy, you're trying to get out the door, you
- 2:35Speaker 3: might be running around in the car after school, you know,
- 2:37Speaker 3: dropping kids off to different things, and convenience tops the
- 2:40Speaker 3: list as to why parents choose ready made food products.
- 2:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got to jump in there and highlight. So
- 2:46Speaker 2: when we first had our children and parents of six,
- 2:50Speaker 2: the first few kids that we had, Kighly was amazing
- 2:53Speaker 2: in terms of she'd use the ice cube trays and
- 2:55Speaker 2: mash up all the vegetables and put the vegetables into
- 2:58Speaker 2: the ice cube trays and then freeze them, and she
- 3:00Speaker 2: could just defrost them in bite sized chunks for the
- 3:02Speaker 2: kids so that they were getting the right amount of food.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Kylie would pre prepare everything and have it in the
- 3:07Speaker 2: fridge and the topp ofware containers and so good. By
- 3:10Speaker 2: the time we got the children four, five, and six,
- 3:13Speaker 2: were just exhausted. Granted it was mostly Kylie doing it.
- 3:16Speaker 2: I was doing the PhD, or I was working or whatever,
- 3:19Speaker 2: but eventually we got to the point where the kids
- 3:21Speaker 2: were eating these things all the time. Our youngest kids
- 3:25Speaker 2: ate so much of this pre prepared baby and toddler food,
- 3:30Speaker 2: the ready made stuff, because it was just so convenient
- 3:33Speaker 2: and we were just so exhausted. So I'm not surprised
- 3:36Speaker 2: to hear you say that.
- 3:38Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And look, being fired is what matters, right,
- 3:41Speaker 3: You know, you don't want your kids going hungry, And
- 3:43Speaker 3: you can totally understand that parents need a solution where
- 3:47Speaker 3: they can have convenience and it doesn't have to come
- 3:49Speaker 3: at the cost of healthiness for their kids. And that's
- 3:53Speaker 3: where the really important thing here is. I guess in
- 3:55Speaker 3: our study, most parents didn't know that there are really
- 3:59Speaker 3: no regulations in Australia for toddler food products, so anything
- 4:04Speaker 3: can be put into these products and they can be
- 4:06Speaker 3: marketed really in any way that the companies like. And
- 4:09Speaker 3: as a consumer, as a buyer of these products, you
- 4:12Speaker 3: can really be misled as to how healthy some of
- 4:15Speaker 3: these choices are. And they're not all created equal, so
- 4:18Speaker 3: there are some healthier options and there's some less healthy options.
- 4:22Speaker 3: So what we really would like to do is help
- 4:24Speaker 3: parents to understand a bit more about how they choose
- 4:27Speaker 3: the better product when they're making a decision. And the
- 4:30Speaker 3: other big, real sort of outcome for us from this
- 4:33Speaker 3: study is actually not about parents doing things differently, but
- 4:36Speaker 3: about the government doing things differently. We want to see
- 4:39Speaker 3: regulations at a government level but ensure that these products
- 4:44Speaker 3: are healthy for kids and that they are clearly labeled
- 4:47Speaker 3: and that they're not confusing for parents.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Because these products are here to stay, we absolutely.
- 4:53Speaker 3: Understand why parents choose to use them, and we need
- 4:56Speaker 3: to make it easy for them to make healthier choices.
- 4:59Speaker 2: I'm just thinking about our experience with these foods as
- 5:01Speaker 2: the kids have grown, and I mean, even though we
- 5:03Speaker 2: don't have babies and toddlers anymore, we still from time
- 5:05Speaker 2: to time have prepackaged food in the fridge like that's
- 5:08Speaker 2: just life. We all do it. But the kids from
- 5:11Speaker 2: the youngest age, they always prefer the stuff that's in
- 5:14Speaker 2: the packages. And as I think about what you're describing,
- 5:17Speaker 2: I reckon. I can hazard to guess as to why
- 5:20Speaker 2: if there are no regulations around what goes into these packages,
- 5:24Speaker 2: then the really healthy stuff that's been cooked at home
- 5:27Speaker 2: is probably not going to taste quite the same as
- 5:29Speaker 2: the stuff that's coming out of the packages, the stuff
- 5:31Speaker 2: with the preservatives or the sugars or the additives that
- 5:34Speaker 2: are designed to make kids really like this stuff, and
- 5:36Speaker 2: that's why they only want to eat what's in the
- 5:38Speaker 2: squeeze package. Is that a fair core?
- 5:41Speaker 1: It absolutely is.
- 5:41Speaker 3: So the biggest product of concern that goes into these
- 5:45Speaker 3: ready made foods is sugar, so particularly high concentrated amounts
- 5:50Speaker 3: of sugar, which maybe from natural sauces. So often the
- 5:53Speaker 3: products might be labeled as all natural sugars or no
- 5:57Speaker 3: added sugars. But what has happened is fruit is basically
- 6:00Speaker 3: concentrated right down because fruit is very sweet, but it's
- 6:03Speaker 3: a natural product, right, and fruit we think fruit's healthy,
- 6:06Speaker 3: So as a buyer. If you see that something's got
- 6:09Speaker 3: fruit in it, you think, oh, that's going to be
- 6:11Speaker 3: a healthy choice. But in fact, if the way that
- 6:13Speaker 3: fruit has been processed makes it very, very concentrated, what
- 6:17Speaker 3: it really means is it's a sneaky way for companies
- 6:20Speaker 3: to add a lot of sugar.
- 6:21Speaker 1: And we know that kids like sugar, I mean adults.
- 6:24Speaker 3: Like sugar, and the more young children eat food products
- 6:29Speaker 3: that are sweetened, they actually develop a preference where their
- 6:32Speaker 3: palette wants more sweet food and that can really set
- 6:35Speaker 3: them up for you know, not just a short term issue,
- 6:38Speaker 3: but even sometimes a lifelong preference for sweetened foods. And
- 6:42Speaker 3: they do have health implications. Obviously there's weight gain and
- 6:45Speaker 3: unhealthy diet down the track can lead to that, and
- 6:49Speaker 3: then for younger kids there's also a lot of issues
- 6:51Speaker 3: with teeth and you know, cavities that can come from
- 6:54Speaker 3: too much sugar in foods.
- 6:56Speaker 2: Hearing you say that really resonates for me as we've
- 6:59Speaker 2: watched the different ways that our kids, literally the oldest
- 7:03Speaker 2: three versus the youngest three, approach food and diets. And
- 7:07Speaker 2: I'm sure that we can't draw a direct straight line
- 7:09Speaker 2: from the squeeze packs through to what they choose to
- 7:12Speaker 2: do now, but there has to be some sort of correlation.
- 7:15Speaker 2: Let me just go over a couple of other stats
- 7:16Speaker 2: that came out of the pole. You said that one
- 7:18Speaker 2: in five kids aged under five eat ready made foods
- 7:23Speaker 2: most days of the week, which startled me. That's a
- 7:26Speaker 2: fifth of kids eating ready made foods most days. More
- 7:30Speaker 2: than half of parents think ready made baby and toddler
- 7:32Speaker 2: food contains ingredients to make sure children grow and develop well.
- 7:36Speaker 2: And fifty three percent of parents falsely believe that ready
- 7:39Speaker 2: made food products for infants and toddlers are tightly regulated
- 7:42Speaker 2: by government to ensure good nutrition. All statistics that sort
- 7:45Speaker 2: of underscore and emphasize what you've been talking about as
- 7:48Speaker 2: we've discussed things so far. Right after the break, doctor
- 7:51Speaker 2: Anthea Rhodes is going to give us some tips on
- 7:53Speaker 2: how we can make sure that we get the balance
- 7:55Speaker 2: right and that we help our children, no matter their age,
- 7:57Speaker 2: but particularly our infants and toddlers, can make sure that
- 8:00Speaker 2: they're getting their nutritional needs met in guilt free ways
- 8:04Speaker 2: that work for busy families. Your daughter just walked by,
- 8:10Speaker 2: eyes glued to her phone, expression unreadable. You ask her
- 8:14Speaker 2: to put it down, but she balks. You know it's
- 8:16Speaker 2: not good for her, but you're not sure why or
- 8:19Speaker 2: how to support better choices. In the webinar pixel perfect
- 8:23Speaker 2: I joined with psychologists and teen tech expert Jocelyn Brewer
- 8:27Speaker 2: to discuss how to set screen boundaries that work for
- 8:30Speaker 2: you and your daughter. Check out pixel perfect now on
- 8:33Speaker 2: the Happy Family's webshop. It's the Happy Families Podcast, the
- 8:37Speaker 2: podcast for the time poor parent who just wants answers. Now,
- 8:40Speaker 2: I'm speaking with the person who runs the Royal Children's
- 8:44Speaker 2: Health Poll, doctor Anthea Rhodes, a pediatrician, researcher and all
- 8:50Speaker 2: round fantastic person who's going to give us some clues
- 8:52Speaker 2: now about what we do about getting the kids off
- 8:54Speaker 2: those squeeze packs when they're addicted to them. How do
- 8:56Speaker 2: we feed our kids healthily when we are time poor.
- 9:00Speaker 2: The stuff does taste great and it's all vullia, when
- 9:02Speaker 2: the cost is actually pretty reasonable a lot of the time,
- 9:05Speaker 2: and when we actually feel like we're giving the kids
- 9:07Speaker 2: healthy choices.
- 9:07Speaker 3: Anthea, Yeah, so it's not easy justin I think that's
- 9:10Speaker 3: the first thing to say to parents. And there are
- 9:13Speaker 3: ways to still choose some of these convenient, ready made
- 9:16Speaker 3: products without having to compromise that healthy diet for your kids.
- 9:20Speaker 3: First thing to mention, of course, is everything in moderation
- 9:23Speaker 3: is always good. So ideally you don't want to be
- 9:26Speaker 3: having these food products every single meal, every single snack,
- 9:29Speaker 3: every single day. But as a small part of the diet,
- 9:33Speaker 3: then there are ways you can make choices where they're
- 9:34Speaker 3: going to be absolutely okay, and we know that the
- 9:37Speaker 3: benefits of that convenience are worth those choices on that particular.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Day or in that given moment.
- 9:43Speaker 3: If you have a look at the packet of the
- 9:44Speaker 3: food products, there's a bit of information there that can
- 9:47Speaker 3: help you to make the healthier choice. It's really hard
- 9:50Speaker 3: to do that when you're in the supermarket. You know,
- 9:52Speaker 3: I've got four kids myself. They're hanging off your leg,
- 9:55Speaker 3: or they're complaining, or they're looking at the ads on
- 9:57Speaker 3: the packets and the cartoon carriacter and then trying.
- 10:00Speaker 1: To persuade you to buy a certain product.
- 10:03Speaker 3: That's not the moment to stop and pull out, you know,
- 10:07Speaker 3: the nutrition panel and try and work out which product
- 10:09Speaker 3: to choose. The time to do it is at home later,
- 10:12Speaker 3: so buy a few different things.
- 10:15Speaker 1: Once the kids are in bed.
- 10:16Speaker 3: You get five minutes to yourself, hopefully have a cup
- 10:19Speaker 3: of tea, have a look at the packets, and that
- 10:22Speaker 3: you can use that information then to work out which
- 10:24Speaker 3: one's going to be a healthier choice, and you might
- 10:26Speaker 3: go for that option next time. There are two things
- 10:29Speaker 3: that I would suggest parents have a look at. The
- 10:31Speaker 3: First one is the ingredients list. So that's literally that
- 10:35Speaker 3: list where each ingredient appears in a row in a
- 10:39Speaker 3: line with a percentage behind it, and the rules that
- 10:42Speaker 3: do exist tell us that whatever's most common in that
- 10:46Speaker 3: product has to appear first. So if you're buying something
- 10:50Speaker 3: like perhaps you know, a bolonnaise, a bolonnaise product, you
- 10:55Speaker 3: would hope that the first thing on that list might
- 10:57Speaker 3: be something you expect to find in bolonnaise, amato, It
- 11:01Speaker 3: might be meat of some sort. If the first thing
- 11:04Speaker 3: on that list is apple or pair, then what you
- 11:08Speaker 3: know is that actually that product's got a lot of
- 11:10Speaker 3: added sugar in it that is actually going to be
- 11:13Speaker 3: the main part of the ingredients that your child is eating.
- 11:16Speaker 3: So I would look at that list, and particularly the
- 11:19Speaker 3: first one too, even three items on it, and if
- 11:22Speaker 3: it's not sounding like a healthy product based on that information,
- 11:26Speaker 3: choose something else.
- 11:27Speaker 1: That's the first tip.
- 11:29Speaker 3: The second is the thing called the nutrition information panel,
- 11:33Speaker 3: or sometimes we call it the NIP, and that's a
- 11:36Speaker 3: box on the back of all food products that has
- 11:38Speaker 3: a whole list of ingredients and then a whole bunch
- 11:40Speaker 3: of numbers. Sometimes we feel like you need, you know,
- 11:44Speaker 3: a science degree and a calculator to actually work.
- 11:46Speaker 1: Out what it means. Most of it I would ignore.
- 11:49Speaker 3: But the one thing that you know, if you're going
- 11:51Speaker 3: to choose something to look at, would be the sugar.
- 11:55Speaker 3: Scroll down the table, have a bit of a look
- 11:57Speaker 3: fine sugar. Look across at the aut per one hundred
- 12:00Speaker 3: grams and see how many grams.
- 12:02Speaker 1: Of sugar are in that product.
- 12:05Speaker 3: A good rule of thumb is that a teaspoon of
- 12:08Speaker 3: sugar is equal to four grams. Some of these squeezy
- 12:12Speaker 3: food products, yogurts fruits particularly, can contain a lot of sugar.
- 12:18Speaker 3: Will have thirty grams of sugar, for example, in them.
- 12:21Speaker 3: So you know, straight off the bat, that's seven teaspoons
- 12:25Speaker 3: of sugar, and if your child's going to have two
- 12:28Speaker 3: or three of those over the day, then that rapidly
- 12:31Speaker 3: adds up to way more sugar than they need for
- 12:34Speaker 3: a healthy diet.
- 12:35Speaker 2: I've just I've got to jump in here that this
- 12:37Speaker 2: has blown my mind. So I always look at that
- 12:39Speaker 2: little panel. My mum's a dietitian, She's never taught me
- 12:42Speaker 2: how to read the panel, but I do know that
- 12:44Speaker 2: under the sugars that usually says carbohydrates and sugars. And
- 12:48Speaker 2: so I'm just curious before we get two caught up
- 12:50Speaker 2: in the whole four grams per tablespoon, So twenty eight grams,
- 12:53Speaker 2: that's seven tablespoons. I mean, that's a phenomenal amount of sugar.
- 12:56Speaker 2: If one of my kids had a Milo and they
- 12:58Speaker 2: put seven spoons of sugar into that Milo, I'd be
- 13:02Speaker 2: I'd be having conniptions, I'd be losing it. So is
- 13:05Speaker 2: there a difference in the different kinds of sugars that
- 13:08Speaker 2: are in there? Or is sugars total sufficient for us
- 13:11Speaker 2: to make this decision when it comes to what's on
- 13:14Speaker 2: that nip that nutritional information panel.
- 13:17Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 13:18Speaker 3: So, sugar is a complex business and there are a
- 13:20Speaker 3: lot of different ways that it can be named, and
- 13:24Speaker 3: that can add to the confusion, and it can also
- 13:27Speaker 3: add to ways that companies developing these products can sneak
- 13:31Speaker 3: sugar in.
- 13:31Speaker 1: And it's not clear that it's in there.
- 13:33Speaker 3: So the easiest thing to do is actually literally use
- 13:36Speaker 3: the word that says sugars.
- 13:38Speaker 1: That will be a minimum.
- 13:40Speaker 3: There may be more than that in the product, but
- 13:42Speaker 3: that is definitely at least as much as is in
- 13:46Speaker 3: the product.
- 13:46Speaker 1: So to keep it simple, there will always.
- 13:49Speaker 3: Be a road that says sugars. That's the one to
- 13:51Speaker 3: look at and have a look at the number of grams.
- 13:53Speaker 3: And some of these products actually are great, and you know,
- 13:56Speaker 3: they might have two or four grams of sugar, which
- 13:59Speaker 3: is not an un reasonable amount for a pouch that
- 14:01Speaker 3: contains fruit or contains yogurt. There's going to be a
- 14:03Speaker 3: little bit of sugar in that. The other thing I
- 14:05Speaker 3: will say is it might surprise you which ones are
- 14:08Speaker 3: healthier and which ones are less healthy. Some that are
- 14:11Speaker 3: marketed to look really healthy in the way that their
- 14:14Speaker 3: packaging is, and they might have lots of comments on
- 14:16Speaker 3: there or claims about nothing being added, or being all
- 14:19Speaker 3: natural or being organic. Sometimes they're the ones that really
- 14:22Speaker 3: actually are the worst.
- 14:24Speaker 1: And then even some of the.
- 14:25Speaker 3: Others covered in cartoons where you think, oh, this is
- 14:27Speaker 3: really going to be bad, when you look at the numbers,
- 14:30Speaker 3: it's much better.
- 14:32Speaker 1: So take a minute end of.
- 14:33Speaker 3: The day after the kids have eaten it and decide, Okay,
- 14:37Speaker 3: next time, I'm going to go for this one.
- 14:39Speaker 2: That's fascinating. Are there any other tips that can be helpful?
- 14:42Speaker 2: Just before we wrap this up.
- 14:43Speaker 1: One other really great tip.
- 14:45Speaker 3: I mentioned teeth, and you know how problematic sugary foods
- 14:49Speaker 3: can be for teeth.
- 14:49Speaker 1: We know that with squeezy packets.
- 14:52Speaker 3: Parents listening, you know, I'm sure have handed a pouch
- 14:55Speaker 3: as I have to my kids.
- 14:56Speaker 1: And I heard a parents say.
- 14:57Speaker 3: To me in mum's group once it's parenting, varna that
- 15:00Speaker 3: moment where you can hand the pouch over and you
- 15:03Speaker 3: know your toddler can take care of it themselves. There
- 15:05Speaker 3: is no mutt mess and they're just you know, sucking
- 15:08Speaker 3: straight back from the packet and life is suddenly easy.
- 15:11Speaker 1: You can do it on the go, in the pram,
- 15:12Speaker 1: in the car.
- 15:14Speaker 3: The downside to that is that that product is getting
- 15:16Speaker 3: all around the teeth. It's not the same even as
- 15:19Speaker 3: drinking juice, because it's quite thick and it will actually
- 15:21Speaker 3: coat teeth and it can lead to problems with teeth.
- 15:24Speaker 1: So a great rule of thumb, if.
- 15:26Speaker 3: You can't avoid this all the time, is to follow
- 15:29Speaker 3: with a drink of water. So if your child's just
- 15:31Speaker 3: had a squeezy pouch of some sort, hand them water
- 15:34Speaker 3: afterwards to actually at least rinse off the mouth and
- 15:37Speaker 3: the teeth, to try and reduce that sugar sitting around.
- 15:40Speaker 3: And of course whenever you can, try squeezing these products
- 15:43Speaker 3: into a spoon, giving them into a bowl, giving them
- 15:46Speaker 3: a spoon, so that they can also have a go
- 15:47Speaker 3: at eating it in that way, because they're learning all
- 15:50Speaker 3: kinds of things.
- 15:51Speaker 1: Then about you know how to use.
- 15:52Speaker 3: Cutlery, what the food product actually looks like, smells like,
- 15:57Speaker 3: you know, in a way that they don't learn if
- 15:59Speaker 3: they're only ever sucking it straight from the pouch.
- 16:02Speaker 2: What a great conversation. And of course, as you mentioned already,
- 16:05Speaker 2: but I just want to emphasize it again, everything in moderation,
- 16:08Speaker 2: everything in moderation.
- 16:10Speaker 3: One or these things across the day is absolutely part
- 16:15Speaker 3: of the way many people manage the diet for their kids.
- 16:18Speaker 3: But it needs to be mixed up with other things,
- 16:20Speaker 3: whole foods, fresh ingredients where you can. It's not about
- 16:24Speaker 3: telling parents get back to the kitchen make everything from scratch.
- 16:27Speaker 3: It's not practical and in fact it's not even necessary
- 16:30Speaker 3: but it's about balancing things and when you are choosing
- 16:33Speaker 3: some of those ready made products, trying to choose the
- 16:35Speaker 3: best ones so that they're still healthy options. It shouldn't
- 16:38Speaker 3: be that convenience means we have to be unhealthy. Ideally
- 16:42Speaker 3: we can achieve both things.
- 16:44Speaker 2: Doctor Anthea Rhodes runs the Royal Children's Hospital National Child
- 16:49Speaker 2: Health Pole. If you'd like more information about it, Anthea,
- 16:52Speaker 2: where can people go to get all of the details
- 16:55Speaker 2: on this pole and the others?
- 16:56Speaker 1: Yeah, so jump online.
- 16:58Speaker 3: We have a website rchble dot org dot au so
- 17:02Speaker 3: lots of information there, including some great tips and handouts
- 17:05Speaker 3: for parents. And we've also got a podcast justin the
- 17:09Speaker 3: RCH Kids Health Info podcast, and we've got an episode
- 17:12Speaker 3: coming up on there about fussy eating, which is another
- 17:15Speaker 3: big part of the challenge when it comes to getting
- 17:18Speaker 3: kids to eat the things you really want them to eat.
- 17:20Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 17:20Speaker 2: Outstanding. So we'll make sure that we link both to
- 17:22Speaker 2: the pole and of the podcast so people can find
- 17:24Speaker 2: out more information about it. I think that it's a
- 17:25Speaker 2: really nice marriage between the work we do here and
- 17:28Speaker 2: the work that you're doing there. Great to talk to you, Anthea,
- 17:30Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time.
- 17:32Speaker 1: My pleasure. Justin great to be on.
- 17:33Speaker 2: The Happy Families podcast is produced by Justin Rowanck from
- 17:36Speaker 2: Bridge Media. Craig Bruce is our executive producer and for
- 17:39Speaker 2: more information about making your family happier, you can visit
- 17:41Speaker 2: us at happy families dot com dot au