Stimulate, develop, and balance your child's nutrition
In an ideal world (and on social media), we imagine today's youth eating healthy, rainbow-themed, animal-shaped snacks and meals—foods freshly picked from their community gardens. But the reality is that children face very significant nutritional hurdles.
It's already difficult to get children to eat vegetables when today's families often face hectic lives where feeding everyone is an achievement in itself. The wide availability and aggressive marketing of processed foods have brought them to the forefront. Even with the pressures of living an Insta-worthy life and a freshly updated Canada's Food Guide, children simply aren't meeting the following daily nutritional recommendations:
- Only 10% of Canadian students in grades 6 to 12 meet the recommendations for fruit and vegetable intake.
- Approximately 40% of this intake in Canadian children and adolescents comes from juice and white potatoes.
- 84% of children consume less than one serving of fish/seafood per week.
- 55% of the energy intake of Canadian children and adolescents comes from ultra-processed foods (sodas, fast food, sweets, etc.).
It is becoming increasingly clear that children need help to develop their nutrition and resilience in the face of an abundance of harmful food and environmental influences. So, what can we do to set our children on the right path? What do they need for robust health and development?
We know that consuming a gut-friendly diet including PHYTONUTRIENTS, FIBRE, and OMEGA nourishes children, supports their gut health, and helps protect them from autoimmune diseases early in life. We also know that these elements are essential for developing a healthy immune system, both during childhood and into adulthood! While we can't tell your kids to turn off their screens and go outside, we can offer support for nourishing the bodies and brains of the next generation.
How to Boost, Build, and Balance Your Child's Nutrition
Genuine Health has partnered with Joyous Health to offer children a range of supplements that provide the essential nutrition they need for healthy bodies, guts, and lives! Genuine Health for Healthy Kids makes nutrition as simple as 1-2-3!
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BOOST their nutrition with organic fermented gut superfoods for kids
Each serving is made from 22 organic, whole, polyphenol and prebiotic-rich foods that nourish the body and gut, and the product comes in a delicious grape flavour they'll love. Not only that—the product is fermented to provide a rich source of amplified plant nutrients for overall health, is a verified non-GMO project, and is dairy, soy, gluten, and peanut-free. -
BUILD their gut flora with advanced gut health probiotics for kids
Probiotics made for kids that contain 7 specially selected strains for children, offered in delicious lemonade-flavoured chewable tablets they'll love! Unique "honeycomb" technology delivers the strains exactly where they are needed for better oral and digestive health. Plus, advanced gut health probiotics for kids is shelf-stable with a guaranteed 5 billion CFU claim at expiration.
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BALANCE their EFAs with omega-3 + D3 for kids
It provides omega-3 fatty acids, an essential supplement, in a simple, clean format that gives children their daily doses of EPA and DHA, key nutrients in brain and eye development. Each serving also contains 600 IU of vitamin D and 5.5 mg of lutein to protect against blue light, all in a delicious cherry flavour they'll love.
Genuine Health products for kids are:
- formulated to help your children thrive because they are based on the latest research in children's health.
- made from whole ingredients, such as USDA certified organic fruits and vegetables, triple-cleaned probiotic strains, and wild-caught, sustainably sourced fish oils.
- Free from bad stuff, such as added sugar, artificial colours, and GMOs.
Genuine Health for Healthy Kids is a comprehensive approach to boosting, balancing, and building children's unique nutritional needs and gut health! Providing a simple, daily nutritional insurance policy that promotes clean, whole eating and makes colourful, varied fruits and vegetables appealing to the pickiest eaters—kids!
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