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Find Your Food Voice

Ep 005: Help my daughter who is fat like me.

Find Your Food Voice

Julie Duffy Dillon RDN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 750 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Do you parent a fat child? This letter comes from a large woman raising a child who is now teased at school because of her size. Should she put her child on a diet? Take her to the gym?

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Key Points:

  • 12 in 100,000 children have Type 2 Diabetes* yet 2900 in 100,000 children experience an eating disorder**. Statistically, worry more about eating disorders than increased adiposity.
  • Teach kids how to have a healthy body image and a healthy relationship with food.
  • Is fat a bad word? Let's neutralize it. Just may be the key to positive body image and respecting others.
  • The Division of Food Responsibility by Ellyn Satter
  • What to do about junk foods? Stop calling them junk and refer to them as fun foods because they are fun! Offer them a few times a week at a snack or as part of a meal.
  • Do you make your child go to the gym? No pain no gain = more body hate. Encourage movement that feels pleasurable. As a parent, our job is to help children to connect to the movement their body prefers.

Show Notes:

Food Peace Syllabus Additions:

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:40.0

Say goodbye to the food police

0:41.6

and hello to peace.

0:43.5

Welcome to the Love Food podcast

0:45.3

hosted by award-winning dietitian

0:47.2

and food behavior expert, Julie Duffy Dillon.

0:50.3

This authentically engineered series

0:52.2

is in the form of a love letter

0:53.6

welcoming you to

0:55.1

reconnect with food.

0:56.6

Now pour a cup of coffee or a margarita and let's begin.

1:10.2

Welcome to episode five of the love Food podcast. I am Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and food peace promoter.

1:18.7

I am so glad you're here and we have a lot to talk about. We have a letter today from a mom of a child who's in a larger body and the mom also experienced being a fat child and all the

1:30.2

teasing and taunting that came with it. Today she's writing to food because she does not want

1:36.2

her daughter to experience the same thing. So does this mom put her on a diet, take her to the

1:42.5

gym? Does she tell her daughter she's not fat when

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