This is PediCast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of Nationwide Children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello everyone and welcome.

Once again to Pediacast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's

hospital. We're in Columbus, Ohio. It's episode 407 for June 13th, 2018. We're calling this one

Healthy Summer Meals. I want to welcome everyone to the program. We are returning our focus to

healthy eating. It's an important topic for families.

Any time of the year, but as we head into summer, there are unique challenges for getting the family

together at the table and eating healthy meals during the school is out warm weather season.

We know that sitting down and eating as a family, it's an important thing to do for many

reasons. We'll explore some of those reasons today, and we'll consider the obstacles and the

barriers that stand in the way of eating as a family in the summer. I'll also consider some

practical ideas for overcoming those barriers. And then we'll get down to practical advice for eating healthy as we sleep in late,

grab family meals on the go, picnic, and grill out.

I have an excellent guest joining me as we consider eating healthy family meals in the summer.

Liz is here from the popular website, Liz's Healthy Table.

She is a registered dietitian, a food blogger, a podcaster, a YouTuber, a cookbook author, and all-around family nutrition expert.

So we are excited to have Liz join us and offer her unique expertise to the conversation.

Before we connect Liz with the studio, I have something new and in my mind very exciting to tell you about.

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