BONUS EPISODE: Picky Eaters & Habit Change with Dr Orlena Kerek
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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My guest today is health coach and former paediatrician Dr Orlena Kerek who works with many clients to help them lead healthier lives and teach their kids healthy living habits.
This is going to be an episode that will help busy parents with childhood nutrition and particularly those who have ‘picky eaters’.
Today we talk about:
- What picky eating is and why it’s so common
- How demonstration, routines and systems can help
- Why repetition is king
- Our changing tastebuds through child and adulthood
- Two week reboots
- The keys behind habit change
- Creating a vision of what the healthiest version of you looks like
You can check out Orlena’s books and content at https://www.drorlena.com
And if you’re in the market for habit change, check out my weekly newsletter “Eat, Listen, Read” newsletter, that you can subscribe to on our website
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Holland and Barrett's The Wellness Edit Podcast. The fifth series of |
| 0:05.6 | The Wellness Edit is out now. The prior four series are obviously still available to stream, |
| 0:10.8 | and this season I am a guest on the podcast. You can hear me chat to host Dr. Gemma Newman |
| 0:17.1 | about the connection between our diet, our mind, the importance of gratitude, and what wellness |
| 0:23.2 | means to me. You can also go back and listen to a whole back catalogue of interviews with guests |
| 0:28.9 | including Ella Mills, Dr. Rungan Chatterjee and Emma Gunns. Listen to the podcast on the Holland |
| 0:34.8 | and Barrett website, HollandandBarrett.com for a slash podcast, or search The Wellness Edit to |
| 0:40.8 | listen wherever you get your podcasts. Dr. Skitches. Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:49.5 | I'm just over say the best thing you can give your kids is your own happiness and the second |
| 0:53.6 | best thing you can give them is vegetable. Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 1:06.6 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi your host, I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, and I'm a firm believer in the |
| 1:19.7 | power of food and lifestyle as medicine. Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the |
| 1:28.3 | multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 1:37.9 | My guest today is health coach and former pediatrician Dr. Elena Kerrick who works with |
| 1:42.8 | many clients to help them lead healthy lives and teach their kids healthy living habits. |
| 1:48.2 | This is going to be an episode that will help busy parents with childhood nutrition and |
| 1:52.5 | particularly those who have picky eaters. We talk about what picky eating is and why it's so common, |
| 1:58.0 | how demonstration routines systems and repetition can help. We also talk about our changing |
| 2:04.1 | taste buds throughout childhood and adulthood and also the keys behind habit change that is more |
| 2:09.8 | for the adult listener. So you know creating a vision of what the healthiest version of you looks |
| 2:15.8 | like and then putting in processes to ensure that you stick to those as well. You can check out all |
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