Links
Communication
HSE: Talking to your child about weight
https://www2.hse.ie/wellbeing/talking-to-your-child-about-weight.html
Safefood: START webinar-How parents can start a conversation about reducing the amount of treat foods their children eat https://www.safefood.net/blog/treats-conversation
Safefood: A Guide for Parents- Communicating with your Child about a Healthy Weight https://childhoodobesity.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/safefood-A-Guide-for-parents-comm.pdf
Intervention/Treatment
8 Healthy Habits https://childhoodobesity.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/COE-2-192901-8-Healthy-Habits-infographic-update_PRESS.pdf
EASO: Practical Advice on Maintaining Health during Covid-19, children and adolescents https://childhoodobesity.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/easo-children_PRACTICAL-ADVICE-ON-MAINTAINING-HEALTH-Covid-19.pdf
Sleep
Safefood: Healthy routines start with sleep https://www.safefood.net/start/sleep
Safefood: How to set up a good bedtime routine https://www.safefood.net/bedtime
Nutrition
Department of Health: The Food Pyramid https://childhoodobesity.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DOH-2016-The-Food-Pyramid.pdf
Department of Health: Serving-Size-Guide https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/healthwellbeing/our-priority-programmes/heal/food-pyramid-images/infographic-a4-serving-size-guide.pdf
Department of Health: Meal Plans https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/3cfb6-meal-plans/
HSE: Healthy Eating For Families https://www2.hse.ie/wellbeing/healthy-eating-for-families.html
HSE/Safefood START campaign: Tips on How to Prepare a Healthy Lunchbox https://www2.hse.ie/file-library/health-eating-active-living/healthy-lunchboxes.pdf
Safefood: Tackling treats https://www.safefood.net/start/tackling-treats-(1)
Safefood: 101+ Square Meals. Easy recipes for everyday life https://www.safefood.net/getattachment/8b4e6574-e5c3-410b-8319-8a5a075ef13d/101-Square-Meals-2021-Update.pdf?lang=en-IE
Physical Activity and Fitness
HSE: Teaching Your Children to Be Active https://www2.hse.ie/wellbeing/teaching-your-children-to-be-active.html
Safefood: 20 games to keep your kids active https://www.safefood.net/start/active-play-and-games-ideas
HSE Active Play Every Day An introduction to Active Play Guidelines for 0-3 year old children https://childhoodobesity.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/HSE-2014-‘Active-Play-Every-Day-An-introduction-to-Active-Play-Guidelines-for-0-3-year-old-children..pdf
HSE Active Play Every Day An introduction to Active Play Guidelines for 3-6 year old children https://childhoodobesity.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/HSE-2014-‘Active-Play-Every-Day-An-introduction-to-Active-Play-Guidelines-for-3-6-year-old-children..pdf
Screen Time
Safefood: Reducing screen time https://www.safefood.net/start/reducing-screen-time
Safefood: A parent’s or guardian’s guide to screen time Children aged 0-5 years https://www.safefood.net/getattachment/530d75c9-7bdb-4ae8-b0f1-35e4ef492aca/DNCC_ScreenTime_Preschoolers-leaflet.pdf?lang=en-IE
Safefood: A parent’s or guardian’s guide to screen time Primary school-aged children https://www.safefood.net/getattachment/55ccdf1a-7a2d-4691-8c1a-edd4dec5ea39/DNCC_ScreenTime_Primary-school-leaflet.pdf?lang=en-IE
Mental Health
Jigsaw: https://jigsaw.ie
Support Services and Additional Links
HSE: Community Cooking Programmes https://www.hse.ie/communitycooking/
Safefood: Community Food Initiatives https://www.safefood.net/community-food-initiatives
ASOI: The Association for the Study of Obesity on the Island of Ireland https://asoi.info/public/
EASO: European Association for the Study of Obesity https://easo.org
Obesity in Ireland and Support
Deirdre Murphy and Niamh Arthurs on Sharon Noonan's Best Possible Taste Podcast
Claire McKenna Radio Interview
Niamh Arthurs and Claire McKenna Speaking about World Obesity Day
Safefoods Start Campaign
The START campaign is a five year, public awareness campaign from safefood in partnership with both Departments of Health, Healthy Ireland, the Health Service Executive and the Public Health Agency. The campaign aims to support and encourage parents to start making small daily changes to their children’s diet and lifestyle and in so doing, get them started on their way to a healthier life.https://www.safefood.net/start
Get Ireland Active
The site was initially developed to promote the National Physical Activity guidelines. The site has been further developed to become a one-stop shop for physical activity information. The aim of the revised website is to encourage people to become more physically active by creating awareness of the opportunities for physical activity at local, regional and national levels. It also contains lots of information on physical activity: the benefits, how to get started, tips to stay motivated etc.http://www.getirelandactive.ie/
Change4Life
Loads of ideas and help to make the many small changes that add up to a happier, healthier future for you or your family. Change4Life has tons of helpful information, recipes, tools, tips, and games for the kids.http://www.nhs.uk/Change4Life/Pages/change-for-life.aspx
A Guide for Parents
Communicating with your child about a healthy weight
Teaching your children to be active
You can help your children or any children you look after to be active. Children whose parents or guardians are active are more than 5 times as likely to stay active. Teaching your children to be active