Families Health
Why Life is PEACH-y for the Drydens Life has never been so good for the Dryden family.
program mid-2015 after seeing a TV story about it.
They’re spending more family time together, the kids are sleeping better, activity levels are up, TV levels are down, tummies are more “in tune”, and their health-related worries have eased.
“My wife and I had been talking about going to a dietitian to make sure we were getting it right for our kids, so I jumped on the web to look up the PEACH program and it was just what we were looking for,” Dan said.
And they credit a lot of it to the QUT-led PEACH program – a free healthy lifestyle six-month program aimed at families and funded by the Queensland Government.
The family already ate healthy food, but portion size and knowing when tummies were full was more of an issue – particularly combined with a lack of exercise.
The PEACH program includes nine weekly group sessions at a local community venue (plus a 10th follow-up session down the track) which focus on teaching parents about nutrition, relationships with food and eating, how to change family lifestyle behaviours and making healthy eating affordable.
Brisbane’s Dan and Carly Dryden, and their children Ava (7) and Sienna (4), joined the
“In Australia, if you have a toddler or baby and they are hoeing into their food everyone
While the parent sessions are taking place, the kids enjoy active play with a trained child
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praises you: ‘Oh what a good eater’, it is something that is celebrated, and the Dryden’s have celebrated this approach to eating with all our family,” Dan said. “But that ‘healthy appetite’ can turn into a problem.”