{"id":6671,"date":"2017-12-05T06:49:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T19:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2017-12-05T07:44:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:44:52","slug":"aussie-parents-struggle-to-make-healthy-food-choices-for-their-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/aussie-parents-struggle-to-make-healthy-food-choices-for-their-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie parents struggle to make healthy food choices for their kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The latest RCH National Child Health Poll has revealed Aussie kids aren\u2019t getting enough vegetables in their diet, and many Australian parents believe fruit drinks may be healthier than water.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We asked parents what they know about the diet, nutrition and eating habits of their children, and here, director of the\u00a0<span class=\"highlightNode\">poll<\/span>\u00a0Dr Anthea Rhodes shares a snapshot of what we found.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/245687164\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"RCH National Child Health Poll - Kids and Food (captioned)\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Overall key findings of the poll include;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over half of parents (57%) say it is hard to know which foods are healthy choices when buying food for their family<\/li>\n<li>Two thirds of parents (67%) find it hard to know how much added sugar is in the food products they buy for their children<\/li>\n<li>More than nine out of ten school-aged children don\u2019t eat the recommended daily serves of vegetables<\/li>\n<li>Parents are giving their children too many treat foods, with almost half (41%) of pre-schoolers receiving treat foods most days of the week<\/li>\n<li>A third of children (35%) regularly consume sugar-sweetened drinks, with one in six preschoolers having sugar-sweetened drinks almost every day<\/li>\n<li>Over a quarter of parents (26%) mistakenly believe fruit drinks may be a healthier choice than water<\/li>\n<li>Almost a third (29%) of parents incorrectly believe children may need sports drinks to recover from regular physical activity.<\/li>\n<li>More than a third (37%) of school aged children have not been taught how to cook or prepare food and almost half (44%) of teenagers rarely or never help to make dinner<\/li>\n<li>Despite one in four Australian children being overweight or obese, only one in eight children in this poll were considered to be overweight or obese by their parents<\/li>\n<li>Parents also indicate cost is a barrier to making healthy food choices, with three quarters (77%) of parents saying that they believe healthy food is generally more expensive than unhealthy food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information and helpful resources, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rchpoll.org.au\/\">www.rchpoll.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest RCH National Child Health Poll has revealed Aussie kids aren\u2019t getting enough vegetables in their diet, and many parents believe fruit drinks may be healthier than water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":6672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6674,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6671\/revisions\/6674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}