4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Struggling with junk food battles or getting your kids off their screens? In this episode, Joe De Sena and nutrition expert Amelia Phillips tackle the biggest challenges of raising healthy, active kids in today's screen-obsessed world.
Hear Amelia’s tips for parents who want to raise the next generation of strong, healthy achievers. Learn simple, actionable strategies to transform your family's habits, conquer unhealthy cravings, and unlock your kids' true potential.
Discover why screen addiction is the new smoking epidemic and how to take control now. Plus, get age-specific advice on fostering lifelong fitness and nutrition habits that work for every stage of childhood.
Don’t miss this episode if you want to build a healthier, stronger future for your family!
Timestamps:
00:47 Introduction to Amelia Phillips
01:34 Kids' nutrition and finding the balance
04:46 The addictive nature of phones
08:38 Quick nutrition tips for various ages
14:16 The challenge of kids' meals in restaurants
14:47 Encouraging fitness and movement in kids
18:07 Screen addiction and boundaries for screen time
21:09 Modeling healthy behaviors as parents
22:27 Using technology to encourage positive habits
23:36 Addictive products and personal responsibility
25:39 How to build impactful family habits
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0:00.0 | It's a good nutrition, love of movement and activity and managing screen time. |
0:05.0 | You could be nailing those as a parent. |
0:07.0 | Pretty much everything else kind of falls into line. |
0:11.0 | And if it's an issue for us mature with our brains that are fully formed and mature, |
0:17.0 | imagine what an issue it is for the growing brain. |
0:20.0 | But you've got to let kids be kids and you've got to find a happy balance. |
0:25.1 | Welcome to the Hardway podcast with Jo DeCena, founder and CEO of Spartan races. |
0:30.9 | We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our 10 million plus Spartans to overcome obstacles on the course |
0:38.3 | with insight from the smartest must accomplish experts from every corner of the world get ready to |
0:43.5 | elevate your life today Joe de center here CEO and founder of Spartan in the hard way podcast |
0:51.6 | I've got amelia phillips she's an exercise scientist and a nutritionist, |
0:57.1 | a mom of four, an absolute expert on how we should be living our best lives, how we should |
1:03.4 | raise our children, and just be overall badass. Welcome aboard. Hey, thank you for having me, |
1:08.9 | Joe. And she's in Australia, by the way. |
1:10.9 | So if you're wondering where the accent is from, |
1:13.2 | she just got done wrestling somewhat, some gaiters and killing some spiders, |
1:16.9 | some snakes over there. |
1:17.9 | Everything in Australia wants to kill you. |
1:19.9 | I saw a redback in my swimming pool this morning, actually. |
1:23.3 | Big giant redback that can breathe underwater, |
1:26.4 | which is fantastic when my kids go swimming so so tell |
1:30.3 | us i mean this weekend i had 200 kids i had set up a course for like a christmas challenge for a bunch of |
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