Gippsland Lakes Community Health Children’s Centre

[Text displayed on screen] Gippsland Lakes Community Health. Children’s Centre.  

[Text displayed on screen] Healthy Eating. for the best start. 

[Speaker, unidentified, Gippsland Lakes Community Health Children’s Centre] It’s really important to have the kids from a young age been able to come and experience the garden to see how the fruit and vegetables they eat grow.  

[Speaker, unidentified, Gippsland Lakes Community Health Children’s Centre] So these lovely little greenheads like this. This is what you can pick up like that. So we have little trees growing up with the green bit on top.  

[Speaker, unidentified, Gippsland Lakes Community Health Children’s Centre] We offer vegetables every day to the babies in the nursery room.  

It helps them to learn about the different textures of the vegetables and the different colors.  

We talk about the things that they’re eating so they understand the different types of vegetables that they’re having.  

[Interviewer, unidentified] the water only?  

[Speaker, unidentified, Gippsland Lakes Community Health Children’s Centre] Yeah, water only. Except milk and formula. 

[Speaker, unidentified, Gippsland Lakes Community Health Children’s Centre] We also do know that if we can get the nutrition right from the early years, that the long-term gain will certainly assist in that prevention of obesity.  

One in four children in Australia are overweight or obese, and in rural, remote areas, that actually goes up to 36% of children.  

[Speaker, unidentified, Gippsland Lakes Community Health Children’s Centre] It’s so important that these children are learning about where their food comes from, how we produce it, how we prepare it. That’s a lifetime of learning.  

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