Everyday there is a battle is playing out in homes, classrooms and workplaces. It's the battle for concentration, focus and resilience.
In our crazy world of busy-ness, where everyone seems time poor, people are trading convenience for our health without understanding how this is impacting their ability to concentrate, focus and be resilient. Quite simply, the way we are eating is impacting health, academic results, productivity and innovation. Oh, and it's impacting the planet too.
Bel Smith shares how nutrition is at the heart of us thriving, and that one simple question - What's In My Food? - can help your family, community and team thrive.
So, if you looking for a speaker that's dynamic, engaging and will change the lives of your family, community or team, then look no further. You've come to the right place.
Bel Smith is a dynamic and passionate speaker about food and the impacts it is having on health, learning, behaviour, resilience and the planet. She's one of Australia’s leading Independent voices for Children’s Health, Author of The Lunchbox Effect and founder of The Root Cause.
Bel is available to talk at your school, conferences and at your workplace.
Who is Bel Smith?
Having personally experienced the impact food had on her depressed husband and anxious daughter’s ability to regulate their mood and participation in day-to-day life, speaker, researcher and author Belinda Smith is on a mission to raise awareness that nutrition is at the heart of health, learning, behaviour, resilience and protecting the planet.
Belinda Smith is one of Australia’s leading Independent voices for Children’s Health, Author of The Lunchbox Effect, an advocate for real food for health and founder of The Root Cause.
Bel travelled Australia for 2.5 years visiting 100 schools, communities and businesses, empowering children, parents, teachers and teams to make better food choices. Her programs have now reached over 50,000 people. Bel supports families and businesses around the globe to improve their health, productivity and lighten their environmental footprint. She has been featured on Australian national and regional TV and radio, guest expert on ABC Radio Broken Hill and her work has been mentioned in Australian Parliament.
Bel loves supporting forward thinking leaders in schools and business to help their communities and teams thrive.
BUSINESS/ CORPORATES/CONFERENCES
After almost a decade of empowering people to make better food choices, and spending way too many hours of researching to count, I believe nutrition is at the heart of businesses thriving.
The health of you, your team and even their family can present problems to your business. Paying attention to nutrition can help improve these issues faced my most businesses.
productivity issues lack of focus and concentration, brain fog lack of energy low resilience levels, anxiety, depression lack of creativity or innovation
If we're not paying attention to nutrition and making it a way of life in our businesses, then we are going to continually face these problems and they come at a cost. You may not even recognise that you're covering these costs because you've absorbed them into your business.
- productivity issues
- absenteeism
- presenteeism
- poor team morale
- poor business results
- need for additional staff
- behaviour / performance management costs
- stressed employees
- etc
Many businesses say they have wellbeing programs and that's enough. Yet many businesses employ people who say they don't have time, food is an after thought, that it's a nuisance or it's just too much of a battle. When people feel like this and lack the understanding of how important it is to nourish their bodies, then they will never be able to perform their duties to the best of their ability.
Bel hosts fun, engaging seminars and workshops that helps businesses and their employees understand how food may be affecting their everyday life without them realising it. She has a knack of helping people make nutrition a way part of every day life at home and work, by making simple swaps in how they do things.
It's not about more on the to do list, it's just about swapping how we do things.
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SCHOOLS, CONFERENCES, PARENTS
After almost a decade of empowering children, parents and teachers to make better food choices, and spending way too many hours of researching to count, I believe nutrition is at the heart our children thriving, improving learning and resilience, and protecting the planet.
Health, learning and resilience are multi-faceted problems. However, paying attention to nutrition can help improve these every day issues that parents, teachers and principals commonly tell us they are dealing with EVERY DAY.
poor behaviour lack of focus and concentration lack of energy low resilience levels reduced fine motor skills dispensing high amounts of medications If we're not paying attention to nutrition and making it a way of life in our homes and school system, then we are going to continually face these problems and they come at a cost. You may not even recognise that you're covering these costs because you've absorbed them into everyday life.
- parental stress
- food wastage
- teacher stress
- poor academic results
- need for additional support staff
- absenteeism
- behaviour management costs
- student and teacher wellbeing
- etc
Many parents say they don't have time, food is an after thought, that it's a nuisance or it's just too much of a battle.
And many schools say it's covered by the curriculum, they have too much on their to do list already or their hands are tied because it's the parents who feed their kids.
Bel helps schools and parents understand how they are already spending time and money on these issues without realising it. In a non-judgemental way, Bel has a knack of helping parents and schools make nutrition a way part of every day home and school life, by making simple swaps in how they do things.
It's not about more on the to do list, it's just about swapping how we do things.
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