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Welcome to the renewed HFL Institute portal, dedicated to promoting healthy nutrition for children and adolescents.
On the portal you will find expert articles, current educational programs, useful content for kindergartens, schools, families and other institutions, as well as information about our programs and activities.
We are delighted that you are joining us.

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About us

Shaping lifelong habits.

Habits For Life Institute was founded from over 20 years of experience in children's nutrition in kindergartens and from a dedication to nutrition as the foundation of health and wellbeing for people of all ages.

Shaping lifelong habits

Our purpose

To support families and educational institutions in coordinated collaboration towards a shared goal: helping children develop a balanced relationship with food that will provide healthy foundations into adulthood.

We also bring balanced nutrition to companies and individuals, presenting it in a way that naturally integrates into different lifestyles. We do not promote nutritional extremes — instead, we advocate a balanced approach that is achievable, adaptable and sustainable in the long term.

Mission

  • To encourage a balanced relationship with food from early childhood onwards.
  • To support parents, children, educational institutions, companies and individuals in integrating the principles of balanced nutrition into everyday life.
  • To work with local communities and institutions on the development of nutrition strategies, health promotion and sustainable projects.

Vision

To become a recognised and trusted centre for children's nutrition in Slovenia, contributing to long-term improvement in nutrition habits through expertise, collaboration and the integration of different disciplines.

Through education, consulting and the development of practical approaches, we aim to bring balanced nutrition to life as a natural part of the health, wellbeing and sustainable lifestyle of children, families, individuals, institutions and organisations.

Dr Maja Berlic
Dr Maja Berlic Founder

About the founder

Who is Dr Maja Berlic

Dr Maja Berlic holds a doctorate in nutrition and is an expert with over twenty years of experience in nutrition and health in early childhood settings.

As a long-standing nutrition coordinator and head of health and hygiene management at Vrtec Galjevica, she has shaped the eating habits of more than 2,000 children and planned over nine million meals for pre-school children.

With broad expertise spanning nutrition, work organisation, sanitary engineering and pedagogical work, she understands children's nutrition from a scientific, organisational and educational perspective alike.

Her work is grounded in expertise, dedication and a holistic view of nutrition. She advocates an approach built on science, practicality and balance — principles she lives by as a mother of three teenagers.