Changing the Healthy Eating Conversation with Jennifer Anderson

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

History, Education

4.9 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sharon sits down with Jennifer Anderson, a registered dietitian and the founder of Kids Eat In Color, to talk about public health and nutrition misinformation. Jennifer advocates for moving away from fear-based messaging around food and consumption habits in order to help develop a perspective of curiosity and open-mindedness. She also shares with Sharon her tips on how to know when an information source is using emotional manipulation to promote health products or specific types of eating styles. Join Sharon and Jennifer to brush up on your nutrition information; it may not always be as complicated the media makes it out to be.

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0:00.0	Hello friends so happy you're here today I'm chatting with my friend Jennifer
0:04.9	Anderson who runs the incredibly popular website and social media account
0:09.6	kids eat in color. Are you already following her? If you have young children I bet you are because she
0:15.2	has some of the most amazing suggestions but what we are specifically talking about today is
0:20.4	misinformation. Misinformation about things like public health, about nutrition.
0:29.0	I think you're really going to have some eye-opening takeaways from this conversation, so let's
0:34.0	dive in.
0:35.0	I'm Sharon McMahon, and welcome to the Sharon Says So Podcast.
0:41.0	Jennifer, it is absolutely a delight to have you here.
0:45.0	Thank you so much for coming.
0:46.7	Absolutely.
0:47.7	Thank you so much, Sharon.
0:48.7	It's great to be here.
0:49.7	I think people are going to take a lot from this conversation.
0:53.2	We have so much to discuss about things like public health
0:57.0	and your children and the scientific method
1:01.1	and just there's a million different directions this conversation can go and so I would love for you first of all to just sort of
1:06.8	introduce yourself tell people who you are if they're not familiar with you.
1:10.2	Sure my name is Jennifer Anderson. I'm behind the company Kids Eat in Color.
1:16.0	We help parents eat their kids with a lot less stress,
1:20.0	especially relating to picky eating, kids were under weight, kids where you were just not sure how to feed,
1:28.1	we are there, we are the leading resource for parents feeding kids everywhere. And I have two kids, they have not been easy to feed. And that has given me a lot of empathy. Feeding kids is tricky.
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