Feeding Humans
When we trust in our body's beautiful wisdom, we can see our struggles with food, family feeding, and body image in a new light. The Feeding Humans podcast dives deep into what it means to be human—our complexities and flaws, our elegant physiology, our absolute uniqueness, our rich lived experiences. All these shape the way we relate to food. And because our little ones are human too, our family feeding challenges suddenly make a lot more sense. This podcast will help you find peace with yourself, parent with confidence, and raise confident kids who trust their bodies. These conversations ar...
Dietary Fat Facts
In this series, we will be looking at the biochemical structure and function of the macronutrients, carbohydrate, protein, and fat, to understand the structure and function of these energy yielding nutrients. Optimal utilization of these nutrients depends on both overall adequacy of intake and generally consistent balance among these energy yielding nutrients.
Mentioned in this episode:
Exploring Intuitive Eating, Part I: Body Trust, Interoceptive Awareness, and Unconditional Permission to Eat
Exploring Intuitive Eating, Part II: Physical Activity and Intuitive Movement
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Demystifying Protein
In this series, we will be looking at the biochemical structure and function of the macronutrients, carbohydrate, protein, and fat, to understand the structure and function of these energy yielding nutrients. Optimal utilization of these nutrients depends on both overall adequacy of intake and generally consistent balance among these energy yielding nutrients.
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Carboyhydrates are our Friends
In this series, we will be looking at the biochemical structure and function of the macronutrients, carbohydrate, protein, and fat, to understand the structure and function of these energy yielding nutrients. Optimal utilization of these nutrients depends on both overall adequacy of intake and generally consistent balance among these energy yielding nutrients.
Mentioned in this episode:
Episode 25: The Hierarchy of Nutritional Needs
Episode 3: How to handle sweets with your kids
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The Hierarchy of Nutritional Needs
With all the chatter, handwringing, and noise about all the different nutritional concerns and questions we should have, it's tough to know how to get your needs met. In today's episode, Katherine lays out a specific framework for prioritizing your most important, most basic nutritional needs, so that we see the big picture and don't get lost in the details that matter less. Prioritizing the most important nutritional need of adequacy can encourage more ease and flexibility in eating, and allows us to relax our grip on trying to control and perfectly optimize our eating.
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Your Body Naturally Craves Balance and Variety
When we consider relaxing our tight grip of control of our eating, letting go of food rules and incorporating an “all foods fit” mentality, many of us worry that we will be out of control around those most favorite foods, the ones you always thought you needed to keep out of the house and not allow yourself to eat them at all, because you lose control. Today’s episode talks about why this is a myth, using examples of how we experience the rhythm of our lives and changing seasons. After the holidays, we enjoy the peace and calm o...
When Things Fall Apart
Hey folks, I’m back from an unplanned hiatus. Today, I share all about giving ourselves grace when life becomes chaotic or difficult. I share my personal experience about letting go of mealtime expectations during a stressful season of life. It’s okay to be flexible and make adjustments. This teaches us (and our children) to trust ourselves during times when things fall apart, and to give ourselves permission to prioritize only the essentials and let the rest go, requiring us to get very clear on what matters most and what matters less.
A Pandemic Health Crisis
Mentioned in this episode:
http://maintenancephase.com
Maintenance Phase: The Body Mass Index
Maintenance Phase: The Obesity Epidemic
Citations for pandemic era eating disorders increase:
Medical Admissions Among Adolescents with Eating Disorders During the COVID 19 Pandemic:
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/09/09/peds.2021-052201
Outbreak of anorexia nervosa admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic
https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/3/e15.full
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Number of Adolescents/Young Adults Seeking Eating Disorder-Related Care
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Back to School Feeding Challenges with Terri Ney, RD
It's back to school season, and whatever relief we felt to reclaim the routine and structure of school days has probably given way to remember that school weeks are stressful too, particularly when it comes to feeding, school lunches, tired kids, and stressed parents! In today's episode, Canadian dietitian Terri Ney, RD (sounds like "high," not "hay") shares some encouragement and practical tips for parents around school lunches and other common school day feeding challenges. She has lots of specific suggestions for making school days and school lunches easier. We talk about the age old debate around packed lunch...
Extreme Picky Eating with Katja Rowell, MD
Does picky eating show up in your family? How do you know when it's a problem? Today we hear from child feeding expert Katja Rowell, MD, family doctor turned feeding therapy specialist who has worked with hundreds of families struggling with the extremes of the picky eating continuum. We talk about how to recognize extreme picky eating and what might be more typical picky eating, and what to do if you believe your family needs more support.
Disclaimer and Content Warning:
Today's topic includes discussions of more severe feeding challenges and disorders. There will be a...
Intuition vs. Fear
Intuition can feel elusive (or even scary) if you have spent a lifetime believing you can’t trust yourself and need to outsource your wisdom. Today’s conversation is about how to identify your inner wisdom when your fear is used to being in the driver’s seat.
Mentioned in this episode:
Free Workshop: Sneaking and Snacking
Why your kids' chaotic eating persists despite your best efforts and what to do about it
Episode 19: Neurodiversity and Feeding Differences with Naureen Hunani, RD
Episode 2: Family Feeding Dynamics: Making the Division of Respons...
Neurodiversity and Feeding Differences with Naureen Hunani, RD
"Neurodiversity is a biological fact." Montreal dietitian Naureen Hunani joins us today to share about how brain differences such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, and Sensory Processing Differences can impact the feeding relationship, and how the frameworks and guidance we depend on can cause more problems than they solve if they are not inclusive of and responsive to those differences.
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www.naureenhunani.com
Mentioned in this episode:
Free Workshop: Sneaking and Snacking
Why your kids' chaotic eating persists despite your best efforts and...
You are the Expert
Mentioned in this episode:
Free Workshop: Sneaking and Snacking
Why your kids' chaotic eating persists despite your best efforts and what to do about it
Sex and the City Clip: Charlotte and Carrie at the speaker's event
https://youtu.be/czKizGap4Yo
Episode 2: Family Feeding Dynamics: Making the Division of Responsibility Work for your Family
Division of Responsibility in Feeding
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Raising Intuitive Eaters
Eating intuitively can feel confusing, overwhelming, even scary for us adults, who may have spent a lifetime battling our bodies. But we're all born with the capacity to eat intuitively, so kids have an advantage. We can support kids' growing into intuitive eaters but helping them maintain their trust and connection with their bodies, even if we feel like we have a long way to go in our own relationship with our own body. Today we talk about how to recognize those skills developing in our kids, how to support and reinforce those skills, and how learning to trust...
Exploring Intuitive Eating, Part III: Respecting Your Body
Bodies come in all shapes and sizes. But there are strong and powerful industries at work compelling us to believe we should all be working to achieve a narrow and arbitrary standard of smallness, thinly veiled by the banner of "health." Today we will talk about how genetics, rather than behavior, is the primary driver of body size and shape, about the forces that come together that make it so difficult to let go of trying to control our bodies, and about where to go from here. Beginning to unlearn the unhelpful things that disconnect us from our bodies...
Exploring Intuitive Eating, Part II: Physical Activity and Intuitive Movement
Often, it is clear what needs to happen to shift our relationship with food to be more intuitive, but our relationship with activity remains fraught and confusing. We still think of exercise as a necessary evil, something we must do to be healthy but we'd so much rather avoid altogether. Thankfully, when we establish trust and respect with our body, our approach to movement can be much more balanced and intuitive, honoring what we know about our body and what it might need at any given time. Today's episode offers specific questions and reflections for you to begin to...
Exploring Intuitive Eating, Part I: Body Trust, Interoceptive Awareness, and Unconditional Permission to Eat
The phrase "intuitive eating" on its own may bring up all sorts of images of binging on chocolate and French fries. But the framework of Intuitive Eating and its ten principles, based on the books by registered dietitians Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, constitute a whole model of self care and body trust with food. In Part I of this three part series, we talk a bit about the foundation of body trust upon which Intuitive Eating is based, and about the ways our body faithfully communicates its needs to us, no matter what we're hearing from the myriad...
The Role of the Nervous System in Family Feeding: An Interview with Anna Lutz
Today we learn all about the role of the nervous system in our experience and struggles with food and feeding. Registered dietitian Anna Lutz shares her knowledge of the nervous system and a relatively new understanding of our somatic experience known as Polyvagal Theory, bringing a whole new layer of insight and understanding to our experience at the dinner table with our families. This interview is extremely powerful in better understanding our kids' experience, and our own as well, of meal time struggles and some perhaps unexpected ways to address those challenges in ways that not only make meals...
Does my child have an eating disorder?
Too often, eating disorders in young people are not identified before things have gotten way out of hand and we have a very sick child. And most of the time, in retrospect, parents and caregivers can look back and see the clear early warnings signs, that they just didn't know to be concerned about at the time. Today's episode goes into how to recognize those early warning signs, what to look for and how to respond if you notice changes in your child that are concerning. The more advanced an eating disorder is upon intervention, the more difficult it...
Understanding Kids' Growth
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Growth Charts:
Girls Stature for Age and Weight for Age, Age 2-20
Boys Stature for Age and Weight for Age, Age 2-20
American Academy of Pediatrics Position Paper
*Warning and apologies for the regrettable use of the stigmatizing O-words in this publication :
How to not hate your body
When "loving your body" feels out of reach or impossible, where do we go from here? Today Katherine expands on the idea of doing our own healing work in our relationship with our body that last week's episode touched on. We cover some practical things you can start doing, or STOP doing, right away, to positively impact how you relate to your body, and then how to dig deeper when you're ready.
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Supporting kids with positive body image
In order to raise our kids to feel at peace and at home in their bodies, we have to swim against the tide. This culture does not support us trusting and feeling good about our bodies, and when we have difficulty in our relationship with our own bodies, it can feel confusing and overwhelming to navigate talking with our kids about this. Today's episode offers practical guidance about how to talk with our kids and support their body image and their comfort with body diversity, even if we are still struggling on the inside, as well as what to...
Goals and Values in Feeding
Today's episode is all about zooming out and examining our goals and values around food and feeding, or identifying the "why" in how we craft the food environment in our homes. Katherine talks about long term and short term goals, and how staying grounded in our hopes and vision for what our kids will have learned by the time they reach adulthood helps us focus when the day to day feeding relationship feels difficult. Finally, she walks through how to identify your values, and how if we don't get clear on which values are most important to us, we...
Meeting your kids' (and your own) nutritional needs
If we're letting go of diet rules and externally sourced plans for eating and feeding our families, how can we know if we are meeting our nutritional needs and our kids'? If our bodies and needs are changing and fluctuating all the time, how can we have any hope of hitting those nutritional targets? In today's episode, Katherine talks about the role our bodies play in communicating its needs to us, and how we can provide for ourselves and our families to make sure our bodies and our kids are well cared for.
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Feeding Dynamics to heal your own relationship with food
Today Katherine is diving in to how the Division of Responsibility feeding dynamics framework can be applied to adults trying to better understand their struggles in their own relationship with food. In feeding dynamics, the parents have certain jobs to do in feeding, and kids have their own jobs in eating. Adults can think of their own behavior in feeding themselves in terms of having both roles to play within themselves. This perspective can be tremendously helpful whether you have kids or not, because we have all been part of a parent child relationship at some point in our...
Feeding in a pandemic
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Mentioned in this episode:
Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in feeding
https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/how-to-feed/the-division-of-responsibility-in-feeding/
Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski, PhD
Burnout, Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA
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Family Feeding Dynamics: Making the Division of Responsibility work for your family
Today's episode takes a close look at Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility, how it relates to discipline style and how many common struggles with family feeding can be addressed by parents understanding their jobs in feeding and allowing kids to do the jobs of eating for themselves. Katherine shares the rationale for this style of feeding and why she subscribes to this framework for her own family, and she also mentions some caveats regarding when you might need to make adjustments to make it work for you and your family.
Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in Feeding:
How to handle sweets with your kids
Today's episode starts out with a follow up from the previous discussion about the Division of Responsibility in family feeding. Katherine offers a couple of tips to address common challenges that often arise and trip up parents in the early implementation of this feeding framework.
Then, we will dive into the topic of sugar and sweets and how to manage them with kids. Katherine will explain why sugar isn't the boogeyman that conventional wisdom would have us believe, and why it's important to support kids establishing a functional relationship with sweets to give them the opportunity to b...
Feeding Humans: Introduction
In today's episode, Katherine talks about the meaning behind the title "Feeding Humans." She will explain how our relationships with our human bodies, as well as our relationships with our kids, are dynamic interactions that are always in flux, and that we can't approach these relationships with a controlling agenda. Both the human experience and the physical human body are rich and complex, and both influence one another. This deeper understanding of what it is to be a human, and to raise humans, will be a guiding force in all of our future conversations about how we relate to...
