Martine McCutcheon's difficulty to keep son healthy as she reflects on family struggles

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Express.co.uk, where Martine was speaking about the importance of understanding and testing cholesterol levels, the Love Actually star went on to say that she is also conscious about keeping on top of her son’s cholesterol.When asked how she makes sure Rafferty eats well and keeps active, Martine shared: “It is difficult.

I think kids' diets are tricky.“Depending on your child, children are all different. I am really lucky that he loves his apples, cucumber, oranges and bananas so he is great with that.“But I have to make sure that he doesn’t have too much fat because he does love the dairy!”Martine added that she is able to cope by sticking to the mantra: “It is just about being sensible.”She continued to explain: “It is about letting him have treats but also making sure that I balance it out with the good stuff, without him realising.“Because obviously you don’t want kids to be worrying too much about all this stuff, so that is kind of your job as mum and dad really.“I just try and make sure he gets as balanced and as good meals as possible.

And also that he lives life and has treats and has fun and feels like joining in.”Not only using her mantra to maintain her son’s health, Martine said that she also adopts it into her own life.With data from Flora ProActiv revealing that nearly half (49 percent) of Brits admit they have no idea what their cholesterol levels are and over three in 10 not knowing how or where they can receive a cholesterol test, Martine has taken it upon herself to try and educate the nation.“It is important to get your cholesterol levels checked because the consequences can be huge,” Martine urged.“And it can be so easily prevented and it is so preventable so I think that we need to keep going with.