Today you wake up into a digital age where we exercise too little, eat too much processed foods, spend too much time in front of computer screens, and a result of too little sun our vitamin D levels have plummeted.

The research makes it increasingly clear how dangerous vitamin D deficiency is. It’s been linked to heightened risk of many types of cancers; arthritis; autoimmune diseases, like multiple sclerosis and lupus; diabetes; heart disease; obesity; and hypertension.

Vitamin D deficiency is linked to a number of illnesses that affect present-day folk in record numbers. Obesity, breast cancer, prostate cancer, autoimmune diseases, depression, heart disease, and hypertension have all been linked to vitamin D deficiency.

After finding out a 5 year old had become the youngest child to be taken into care for being obese I decided that it was time to get a message out there.

It’s quite obvious that there are a small percentage of parents who do not have a clue how to bring up a healthy child. I even got told that a family blended a big mac meal to their baby!

So I shifted my thoughts to how I can get advice out there that parents can understand and use that can also relate to them.

As a non parent I felt if I put out a message offering tips and advice it would perhaps seem a little bit hollow, but what if I asked parents to share their best tips to help struggling parents and families?

There are plenty of parents who don't seem to know how to feed their children. How do we solve the problem? That’s for another discussion, but for now having some helping hands from those in the ‘parent trenches’ so to speak, has to be a good thing right?

Halloween is upon us. I love Halloween, it always brings up some weird and whacky surprises on the costume front…plus scaring a few kids on the way makes it all the more memorable.

There is a downside too it though. As this is when the holiday weight gain really starts. While December is usually the month blamed for holiday weight gain, I do have to warn those wanting to lose weight that thanks to Halloween the pounds actually start to get packed on in late October.