108: How Nutrition & Weight Messages are Affecting our Children

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

Weightloss, Eatingdisorder, Kids & Family, Eating, Nutritionist, Nutrition, Health, Dietitian, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Food, Mindfulness

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We all want the same things for our kids—happiness, health and overall positivity. After spending years listening to adults talk about the formative messages they received about their body and food during childhood, I have some strong opinions on how adults portray messaging about food and bodies with children. We mean well, but often our best efforts at nutrition messages are unhelpful at best and harmful at worst.

This is what we're covering in this episode of Nutrition Matters Podcast. We're taking a good look at the nutrition messages we give our kids and breaking down why certain ways of talking about food aren't advised. I invited my friend Dana Snook on to talk about this topic who is is a registered dietitian who specializes in pediatric nutrition and family feeding dynamics.

We talk about why it's best to talk less about and show/do more when it comes to food and kids. We talk about what is actually effective in helping kids to develop healthy eating patterns and an overall healthy relationship with food. We dive deep into action items parents and teachers can do to help kids navigate food and bodies in a mentally healthy and physically healthy way.

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Dana Snook's website
The lunchbox cards from The Feeding Doctor
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1:00.8	Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining me for another episode of Nutrition Matters podcast. My name is
1:06.2	Paige Smathers, and I'm your host. Today, I'm speaking speaking with Dana Snook who is a registered dietitian
1:12.8	and a certified intrinsic coach. We're talking about child nutrition and some of the messaging
1:20.5	that we are maybe inadvertently giving our children about nutrition and bodies and we're kind
1:26.7	of providing some ideas of how to work through that.
1:29.6	So I chose to interview Dana for this podcast because she specializes in pediatric and family
1:34.7	nutrition.
1:36.1	And over the last 15 years, she has worked both in the adult and pediatric population
1:40.1	and specifically working to help improve feeding dynamics in families.
1:47.3	So this is this topic of nutrition messaging and how to go about developmentally appropriately
1:57.2	providing education to kids about food is a really important topic and it's often very much
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