Busselton expo offers happy, healthy choices

A Happy and Healthy Families Expo aiming to equip parents and children to make informed choices will be organised in Busselton next Thursday.

The event will bring together an array of specialists and wellbeing experts from the region to speak about products, services and tips with particular focus on chemical-free foods and natural, alternative approaches to dealing with challenging behaviours.

Additive Free Kids director Tegan Benfell said the desire to spread health awareness emerged from the personal struggle with her daughter’s Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, through which she enacted lifestyle and dietary changes rather than medicated ones.

Mrs Benfell conceded the event might be considered controversial but her goal was to enable informed decisions to reduce stress and help children “be happy and healthy to give them the best chance of succeeding at school and in life”.

“Unfortunately a lot of doctors aren’t trained in issues surrounding nutrition and food additives so they aren’t able to provide all of the information which means children are often prescribed medications that they may not have necessarily needed,” she said.

“We are not telling parents to chuck their children’s medications in the bin, but we are offering other solutions that have no short term or long term side effects at all.”

Other speakers included Nurture Works’ Sara Buxton and Samudra founder Sheridan Hammond.

The expo will be at the Busselton Senior Citizens Centre from 6.30pm.

Visit www.additivefreekids.com. au or email info@additivefreekids.com.au.