88: How to help our kids cultivate a healthy relationship with food with Rachel Rothman
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We all want to help our kids cultivate a healthy relationship with food, but this can be easier said than done. Many of us are still repairing our own negative relationship with food. Add in changing nutrition data, emotional elements, and comments and advice from family and friends and this topic can become a minefield.
To help us navigate this difficult, complex topic I’ve invited Rachel Rothman to share her expertise. Rachel is a registered dietitian and childhood nutrition expert with a background in food science.
Our conversation isn’t solely focused on what to feed your kids (although we do touch on that), it encompasses navigating the challenges and stresses regarding picky eaters, mealtimes, and sugary snacks and desserts.
Since it is such an expansive topic, we split the episode into two parts so that you can take time to reflect on what you learn. Make sure that you’re subscribed to the podcast so that you’ll know when the next episode publishes.
You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in...
- What led her to do what she is doing today [5:22]
- What is a food scientist [8:38]
- How to talk about food with kids to cultivate a healthy relationship [11:40]
- How to deal with the sweets and treats [19:20]
- Dinnertime questions [28:34]
- Do you have to finish dinner if you want dessert? [36:00]
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of Lindy Well. Here on the Balance Life |
| 0:14.7 | podcast, you'll find honest conversations about health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. |
| 0:23.4 | We'll cover it all and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you become |
| 0:29.2 | the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. |
| 0:35.1 | Hello and welcome back to the podcast. I am very excited about today's episode. I know I say that a lot, |
| 0:40.8 | but I really mean it with this one. We are talking all about kids and food. This can be such a |
| 0:48.1 | stressful topic. If you have kids, if you take care of kids, if you've been a kid, you know just how much can go into this topic. |
| 0:57.8 | So I'm speaking with a pediatric dietitian today. And we're not just going to talk about what to |
| 1:03.5 | feed your kids. We're not just going to talk about sugar and snacks and protein and carbs and |
| 1:09.4 | all of that. We will get to that. But we're really talking most |
| 1:12.2 | about how to help our kids cultivate a healthy relationship with food. So you know that |
| 1:18.5 | is something that is very important at Lindywell in our approach for ourselves, |
| 1:23.1 | in our health. And it's something that many of us are working on repairing in our lives. |
| 1:27.3 | I mean, how many of us are working on repairing in our lives. I mean, |
| 1:27.8 | how many of us are still trying to overcome negative relationships with food and dieting in our |
| 1:34.2 | bodies that we experienced when we were young? Some of it may have come from comments from friends |
| 1:40.8 | or family members or doctors that made us develop an unhealthy relationship with food |
| 1:45.1 | or our body. Some of it may have just come from diet culture and all of the messages that we |
| 1:50.2 | received over the years that we need to constantly lose weight, not eat that, eat this, |
| 1:54.9 | eat less of that, count your calories, all of the things that have made foods fall into categories |
| 1:59.4 | that are good or bad. And now with all of the changing science and all of the things, have made foods fall into categories that are good or bad. And now with all of the |
| 2:02.1 | changing science and all of the things, we don't even know what's quote unquote good or bad anymore, |
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