Setting up older children with healthy routines for life
Updated: 30 September 2022
Manuela Leporesi
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- Make sure children eat nutritious food at home and school, such as green and orange vegetables, milk, meat, poultry, fish, beans, nuts, whole grains and fruit
- Show them how to wash and stay clean with soap and water
- Show children how to brush their teeth well at least twice a day
- Make sure children have adequate sleep
- Send children for any health checks that are available at school
- Encourage children to be open and talk about feelings with people they trust
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All →WHO consolidated guidelines for the management of common childhood illness: management of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents
WHO/UNICEF guide for research on wasting and nutritional oedema in infants and children under 5 years: a global research priority agenda, guidance on evidence generation and core outcome sets
Regional Workshop on Strengthening Paediatric Medicines Ecosystems in the ASEAN Region, Report of a WHO meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 11–13 May 2026
WHO guidelines on the integrated management of obesity in adolescents
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