Zucchini noodles are long and delicate and will help to curb the craving for traditional wheat pasta, especially when paired with your sauce of choice and the options are endless. Zucchini is packed with nutrients to support healthy kids including the B vitamins to support energy metabolism, Vitamins C and A, potassium, folate, and fibre.
How Zucchini Benefits Healthy Kids
Zucchini, also known as courgette, is a type of summer squash and although zucchini is often treated as a vegetable, it’s botanically classified as a fruit. Like other fruits, its wide array of nutrients to benefit your child’s health and wellbeing.
Zucchini is packed with nutrients including a range of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants which protects cells from free radical damage. Another important benefit of zucchini is it promotes healthy gut health because it contains both soluble and non soluble fibre. This helps lower the risk of your child becoming constipated. Another benefit of soluble fire is it acts as a source of nourishment to feed the friendly bacteria living deep within your child’s gastrointestinal tract.
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Fiona Stock
Paediatric Naturopath & Nutritionist
Fiona Stock
Melbourne Naturopath
Fiona Stock is a respected Paediatric Naturopath & Children’s Nutritionist with a career spanning over 25 years. Armed with an abundance of experience and a true desire to transform your child’s health, she’ll listen closely to understand the underlying causes of their troubling condition.
Fiona gets to the heart of your child’s presenting symptoms by deciphering what their body is trying to tell you. She will suggest simple and specific changes as well as herbal or nutritional medicine where required to nurture and restore your child, so they can enjoy the good health they deserve.
If you’ve tried everything and are yet to find solutions to your child’s health challenges – this could well be the path to take.
Fiona, The Children's Naturopath is skilled at getting to the heart of childhood health challenges – helping to initiate lasting change.
Eczema
Poor Immunity
Lack of Focus & Concentration
Behaviour Issues
Autism
ADHD
Depression
Anxiety
Food Allergies
Food Intolerances
Constipation
Diarrhoea
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Tummy Problems
Asthma
Childhood Obesity
Auto-Immune Disease
Recurring Infections
Fussy Eaters
Sleep Issues
Plus much more...
Fiona is a Naturopath in Melbourne based in St.Kilda
She provides face-to-face appointments to families in Melbourne as well as phone consultations to families in rural Victoria, interstate and internationally.
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