Parents have a vital role in ensuring that children develop healthy lifestyle habits. Simply by ensuring that our children have a healthy diet and are physically active helps them to avoid:
- Obesity
- Heart disease & stroke
- Type 2 diabetes
- Certain cancers
Parents for Health is a new RedBranch initiative that revolutionises the way that parents think about health. With a little support from RedBranch, every parent can become a Parent for Health. The initiative creates a community of health-promoting parents, who share their own healthy lifestyle solutions, helping to solve the problems of other parents and supported by the RedBranch Health Promotion team.
The Resources
The Parents for Health website is a fun, informative and practical resource which includes:
Practical guidelines on promoting family health, covering a range of issues including TV watching, sleep, shopping, cooking, diet and physical activity- Recipes for physical activity – practical tips on helping kids to be active
- Recipes for healthy food
- Fact files on important healthy lifestyle issues
- Opinion and advice from other parents and experts
- Healthy lifestyle news
The Parents for Health Community
When parents sign up for email updates or like the Facebook page, they become a Parent for Health – joining a community of like-minded parents. Belonging to a community of Parents for Health gives people the confidence to make positive changes to family lifestyle, and allows them to share problems and their solutions.
Become a Parent for Health
- Visit the site to become a Parent for Health
- Join Parents for Health on Facebook
- Follow Parents for Health on Twitter
