www.newcastlepost.com.au STAYING
HEALTHY by Susan Garrad
Protecting against colds
the best ways to make sure your children stay fi t and healthy through the sniffl e season. T e battle is to get them to eat good
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foods. Here are my tips. Make food fun: vary the presentation
and combinations of food served. Serve vegetables raw or lightly cooked:
children often prefer them. Keep a variety of healthy snack options
on hand: diced fruit, chopped raw veggies, hommus, nut butters, rice crackers, for example. Encourage a varied diet: off er new
foods regularly. Make sure there is protein: eggs, nuts,
fi sh, beef, chicken or lamb in every meal or snack. Avoid artifi cial colours and fl avours
and excess sugars. Maintain regular bed times. Encourage daily outdoor activity:
organised sports, park time, backyard activities, active toys, playing with pets. Promote high water intake: a healthy
replacement for soft drinks is four parts sparkling mineral water with one part fresh fruit juice.
Susan Garrad is a respected naturopath.
www.womenshealthnaturally.com.au
With winter coming, I’m dreading my kids getting sick – what’s the best way to keep them healthy? Eating a healthy diet is one of
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PHARMACY MATTERS with Anthony Piggott
There is no safety in second-hand smoke
moking is one of the leading causes of preventable death. In fact, tobacco is the only product which, when used as directed, causes ill health and
death. T is year, nearly six million people will die from a
tobacco-related heart attack, stroke, cancer, a lung ailment or other disease. Of this number, around fi ve million are current users
or former users of tobacco, but there are also people – almost a third of them children – who will die from second-hand smoke. Up until recently, it was thought that stopping smoking
completely – either cold turkey or with the help of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) – was the best way to ensure becoming a long-term non-smoker. But this “quick stop” method doesn’t suit everyone. T e “cut down then stop” (CDTS) method has now been
given the offi cial seal of approval. Evidence has shown that reducing the number of
cigarettes smoked, with the assistance of NRT, makes it easier for some heavily addicted smokers to ultimately quit completely. T ere are many myths and misconceptions about the
eff ects of nicotine and NRT. If you need some help to quit, make sure you get the
facts and the right advice on what products will suit you best. Ask for the fact cards on “Smoking and Staying a Non-
smoker” from one of the pharmacies around Australia providing the Pharmaceutical Society’s Self Care health information.
Anthony Piggott is a pharmacist and proprietor of Piggott’s pharmacies at Blackbutt, Hamilton and Hamilton South.
LIFE MATTERS by Cameron Roberts
Tough times and tough people Y
our mental attitude towards any area in life determines the level of eff ectiveness and success you achieve in that area. Race car drivers focus on speeding through
the corners, not crashing into walls. Your life should be the same. Focus on where you want to go – not what you want to
avoid. Sometimes you can come across a roadblock or
a challenge in life, some which are direct results of decisions you make, and while others are just the part of life that most of us never want to experience for that particular time. Either way, you do, however, get to choose your
response to any situation. Your energy will go where your focus is – focus on the
negative of any situation and your results or outcome will be less than empowering. If you focus on pushing through, you focus on the
outcome, you focus on all the rewards you will receive from overcoming the challenges or hurdles. You will not only learn valuable lessons along the way, but you will leap through life even better next time similar challenges and hurdles come your way. Personally, I fi nd that people who step up to the plate
time and time again, even when the going gets tough, tend to create reference points for themselves. T e more reference points they have, the better they
are to deal with tough times. A friend of mine was talking to me recently about the
challenges and stressful times he was going through. After some encouragement and some coaching, I reminded him that I tell my top performers “tough times never last – but tough people do”.
Cameron Roberts is a corporate coach and motivational speaker. He can be contacted at
leapingthroughlife.com.au.
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