You are listening to episode 71, plant-based juniors can children be raised on a plant-based diet.

Welcome to this week's episode where I welcome Whitney, who is a registered dietitian and mom,

and one of the founders of plant-based juniors and co-author of the new book The Plant-Based Baby

and toddler, and she's joining me today to talk all about plant-based nutrition for our children.

Thank you so much for joining me, Whitney. Thank you so much for having me, Mona,

to punch you to chat with you today. Well, I'm so excited about this because even as a pediatrician,

I don't know nearly as much as I would want to know about plant-based nutrition. I just think it's

such an important resource to have your education and expertise. Why did you start plant-based juniors?

Yeah, so plant-based juniors is really the community that my partner, Alex and I were looking for.

When we first became pregnant and thought about raising kids. Even as dietitians, you know,

we didn't learn that much about children's nutrition, one, but definitely not much about

pediatric plant-based nutrition in our programs. So we were kind of learning it all on the go

on our own, doing the research as new moms or before we became moms. And what we were finding was

there really wasn't one kind of one-stop shop that had accessible, credible evidence-based

nutrition information on how to raise plant-based kids. Really, when we started doing this,

the only nutrition book that kind of addressed pregnancy, for example, plant-based pregnancy,

was written 10 years ago by a dietitian. And some of the information was already outdated.

So Alex and I, we had actually met about 10 years prior at a conference in state in

touch over the years. And it was when I was pregnant and Alex had her newborn son, Vander,

that we started getting to talking. And we were like, what are you doing about this? Have you heard

this information? Because it's one thing to follow a plant-based diet on your own. Feel really

confident about that, which Alex and I have been doing. But when you have a life in your hand,

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