Leading Paediatric Dietitian, creating a healthier future generation
Karina Savage is Australia's leading Paediatric Dietitian and TV presenter, regularly seen on Channel 7 Sunrise where she educates and motivates parents with practical and actionable strategies, to nourish our future generation.
She's a dynamic speaker who skilfully blends a wealth of clinical nutrition experience (23 years) with her approach as a mum of 2.
She works with global brands, is a media advisor and has helped thousands of families to improve their child's nutrition and health.
With 23 years of clinical experience, her specialty Areas include:
• Infant and Toddler Nutrition: Guiding parents on starting solids, nourishing toddlers and creating lifelong healthy eating habits
• Understanding the specific nutrition needs of children
• Fussy Eating Transformation.
• Gut and Immune Health
• Practical Feeding Solutions for Busy Families:
• Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food.
In a world of "information overload", Karina enjoys "cutting through the clutter" with clear evidence based guidance and information.
Through her Nourishing Kids membership, Karina loves supporting fellow mums in their quest to improve the health and nutrition of their child.
Talking Points
Infant Nutrition
This talk is perfect for parents with babies 0-12 months.Infant Nutrition
1. Guiding parents on when is the best time to start solids and how to start solids with their baby.
2. Covers the types of foods and textures to introduce (including purees vs baby lead weaning).
3. Includes strategies to wean milk feeds and best approaches to expanding a variety of solids - including allergenic foods.
4. Provides a key focus on gut and immune health ensuring we nurture babies with robust healthy immune systems.
5. It also covers strategies to reduce your baby's risk of developing food allergy and tips for those who have allergies - how to best outgrow an allergy!
Nourishing our future generation
1. Understanding the specific nutrition needs of children, where we are going wrong, and how to best nourish our children – what and how much!Nourishing our future generation
2. Common nutrients at risk in our children (eg iron deficiency) and how to increase intake through food.
3. Nutritional requirements for various age groups.
4. Gut and immune health- tips to maximise
5. Sugar - impact on our children and how to manage the treat foods
6. Fussy eating - understanding why children can be fussy and what to do
7. Mealtime success - how to set up healthy mealtimes, (where/when/type of food/ how much/ how we talk about food etc). How to only cook one dinner, given fussy palates!
8. Provide free healthy kids recipes: Snacks/lunchbox - how to choose healthy snacks, Provide a snacks guide
9. Direct them to 100 kids' food reviews created by myself to help guide them when in the supermarket!
Gut and Immune Health
1. Explaining the crucial link between gut microbiome and immune function/health, including the crucial "first 1000 days"Gut and Immune Health
2. Factors that positively or negatively impact on gut microbiome in babies and kids
3. Discuss common conditions caused by poor gut microbiome
4. How to rectify poor gut microbiome in kids
5. Pre and probiotics - what they are and how they can help
6. Postbiotics - what they are and how they can help.
Transforming Fussy Eaters
1. Understanding why children are fussy eaters - the 10 common factors contributing to a picky eater.Transforming Fussy Eaters
2. Common nutrients at risk
3. Impact on the child and family
4. How to assess your child's intake and risk of nutritional deficiency
5. What to do - the 5 essential steps for creating a healthy eaters
6. Practical strategies for quick wins to improve the nutrition of a fussy eater, stress and bribe free.
Video
Healthy Lunch Box snacks with Karina Savage
Live on Sunrise 7, Karina shares her healthy kids recipes for the lunch box!Gut Health and Nutrition for our future generation - Karina Savage, Paediatric Dietitian
Karina Savage, Paediatric Dietitian from Smartbite Nutrition does a great job of summarising the development of the gut microbiome in infants and children. She discusses factors that influence the gut and immune development and recommends dietary strategies to help enhance gut health and well being for our future generationWe had the benefit of tapping into the knowledge & expertise of Karina via a dedicated lunch & learn session which was set up for busy parents. A session to navigate the fussy eating stage o ... keep reading Google
Karina is a passionate Paediatric Dietitian with spectacular presenting skills. She makes complex nutritional concepts easy to understand in a welcoming and judgement free manner. Karina’s enthusiasm for her work is infectious, and it's clear that she is dedicated to making a positive impact on the health of children. I wholeheartedly recommend Karina to anyone seeking expert dietary advice paired with compassion and support
