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What's the best way to keep children healthy - and how can you help them when things go wrong?
Paediatrician Dr Leila Masson has spent over 25 years working with kids considering these very issues - she specialises in nutritional and environmental medicine.
She's the author of Children's Health A to Z, a practical guide that looks at what foods are best for children, how much sleep they should have, mental health issues and common symptoms of illness and what they can mean.
The book also encourages parents to consider environmental toxicity - as things like mould and exposure to certain chemicals can have a big impact on kids.
Footnote: In this interview, Dr Masson referred to apples being “covered in pesticides” and recommended that the fruit be washed. A 2010 study by the US Drug Administration found New Zealand apples as having the lowest average number of residues per sample, when compared to American and Chilean fruit (Warner 2012).