Marc Wellness International Blog

What’s for breakfast, what’s for lunch and what’s for dinner? Stop and have a think for a moment, think about what you ate all day yesterday. Out of all the food you ate in the entire day, what was the ratio between - how much junk food you ate, compared to how much healthy food you ate?

Some people may believe that eating junk food or supplying a meal of junk food for the family, is a cheaper option then healthy food.

I stumbled across an article today called Battle of the bulge is a fight for life, featured in The Advertiser (Victoria)  where Bendigo Community Health Services manager of healthy communities Kaye Graves said “People were putting themselves at risk of grave health concerns by making poor dietary choices.”

“Fresh food is best and takeaway is always more expensive than fresh food” she said.

The article continued and stated that “A study by Deakin University in conjunction with the Department of Human Services found 50 per cent of Victorians aged between four and 12 had more than two serves of junk food in their lunchbox on a daily basis.”

Wow that is half of the kids between four - 12 years old having more than 2 servings of junk food in their lunchbox each day! So if you calculate that junk food daily by seven days in a week, how much junk food are kids consuming on a regular basis per week.

It is important to realise that it is in the daily food and exercise choices we make, that determine our health status for life. If children develop healthy lifestyle habits such as healthy eating and daily activity/exercise from an early age, they are going to grow up with healthy lifestyle habits. It is the lifestyle habits we learn as kids, that determine our choices for life.

To read the article “Battle of the buldge is a fight for life” click here