If you're battling medical issues already with your children you'll know the importance of healthy living. For everyone else, the evidence is climbing - that the sooner we start introducing children to healthy eating and healthy living the better off everyone is.

This article from the Mayo Clinic suggests starting while your baby is in the womb! The bottom line is that introducing a baby in-utero to the flavour and goodness of vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower and other  highly flavoured vegetables gives baby a taste for flavoursome foods later in life - which opens their diet up to much more than bland fast food.

Yet more research linking the importance of exercise and better results at school has come along. This article on webmd spills the details. The fitness levels and test scores among a group of kids were evaluated and the study found that the aerobically fit students were 2.4 times more likely to pass their maths tests than other students. It seems simple - because it is - more exercise means smarter kids.

Does someone in your family have an illness that puts them in danger of an event outside the home? Then consider a Mediband to alert others and enable medical professionals to establish the necessary treatment protocols in the event of a medical emergency.