Episodes
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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
Exploring Intuitive Eating, Part III: Respecting Your Body
Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition
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www.kznutrition.com
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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.
Find Katherine online:www.instagram.com/katzavrd
www.kznutrition.com
*Now taking Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance, contact me with questions or request an appointment.My email for episode topic ideas:
Here's an easy way to rate the podcast:
https://ratethispodcast.com/feedinghumans
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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
Find Katherine online:www.instagram.com/katzavrd
www.kznutrition.com
*Now taking Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance, contact me with questions or request an appointment.My email for episode topic ideas:
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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.
Mentioned in this episode:
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Ellyn Satter's Hierarchy of Nutritional Needs
And here is the Hierarchy of Nutrition Needs that I more commonly use, as described by dietitian colleague and author Rachael Hartley, RD.
Previous Episodes that Mention Ellyn Satter, Eating Competence, or getting nutritional needs met:
Episode 2: Family Feeding Dynamics: Making the Division of Responsibility Work for Your Family
Episode 6: Meeting Your Kid's (And Your Own)
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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 of the New Year. In the spring, we are just as happy to see the last snow melt as we were to see the first snow arrive a few months ago. And the school year we were so eager to see begin in the fall, we are thrilled to close that chapter and move into the carefree, long days of summer. Our bodies also crave this balance, and eating those highly palatable foods all the foods would be sort of like the chaos of the holiday season all year long: it’s too much. We need balance, and if we give ourselves permission to enjoy different foods, our bodies will both appreciate that and be ready to enjoy something different next. It may take some time, if our restrictive mentality around those foods is deeply ingrained, but ultimately we can trust our bodies to crave balance and variety all on its own.
Mentioned in this episode:
Worst End of School Mom Ever, Jen HatmakerMy email for episode topic ideas:
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Mentioned in this episode:
Kendra Adachi and The Lazy Geniushttps://www.thelazygeniuscollective.com/lazy
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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.
Mentioned in this episode:
Kendra Adachi and The Lazy Geniushttps://www.thelazygeniuscollective.com/lazy
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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/article/pii/S1054139X21002792
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Eating Disorders: A Wake-Up Call for the Future of Eating Disorders Among Adolescents and Young Adults
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X21003712
Feeding Humans Podcast Episode: Does My Child Have an Eating Disorder?
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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 vs. school hot lunch, highlighting a privilege many Americans take for granted (Canadians do not currently have a school lunch program, despite lots of advocacy effort). And Katherine and Terri can't help but wander into the subject of food moralizing messages at school, why they aren't great, and what to do when you face this in your own kids' school.
Mentioned in this episode:
Episode 12: The Role of the Nervous System in Family Feeding with Anna Lutz
Episode 20: Extreme Picky Eating with Katja Rowell, MD
Resources for advocating for your kids' lunchtime autonomy:
The Feeding Doctor's Lunchbox Card, Katja Rowell MD, our guest from the last episode! link above
Sunny Side Up Nutrition: Please don't teach my kids to diet! 5 Resources to Give Teachers and Schools by Anna Lutz, RD, one of our awesome podcast guests, linked above
Find Terri online:
https://www.tinybitesnutrition.com
Instagram: @tinybitesnutrition
Dietitians4teachers:
https://dietitians4teachers.ca
instagram: @dietitians4teachers
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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 specific content warning live in the conversation. This podcast is for general informational purposes and shouldn't replace careful evaluation and treatment by medical and feeding professionals. If your child is losing weight or if you have concerns about their weight gain or eating, or some of the other red flags we touch on such as apparent pain or discomfort with eating, please reach out to your child's doctor.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Feeding and Intake Journal
Responsive Feeding Therapy for Professionals
https://www.responsivefeedingtherapy.com
Thrive with Spectrum Pediatrics
https://thrivewithspectrum.com
Tube to Table Podcast, Thrive with Spectrum Pediatrics
Dr. Rowell's published books:
Love Me, Feed Me (new edition coming out in 2022!)
Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating
Conquer Picky Eating for Teens and Adults
Find Dr. Rowell online:
www.extremepickyeating.com Lots of free downloads and resources here!
www.thefeedingdoctor.com
www.instagram.com/katjarowellmd
www.instagram.com/extremepickyeatinghelp
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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 Responsibility Work for your Family
Division of Responsibility in Feeding
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"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.
Find Naureen online:
www.instagram.com/naureenhunaninutrition
www.naureenhunani.com
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
Jessica Matthews: PDA profile of Autism blog
https://pathologicaldemandavoidanceaprofileofautism.com
Christina Miserandino and Spoon Theory
https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
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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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www.instagram.com/katzavrd
www.kznutrition.com
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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 our kids can help us learn to trust ourselves.
Drop In Group Coaching
Sneaking and Snacking Workshop: Save your spot!
Mentioned in this episode:
Episode 2: Family Feeding Dynamics: Making the Division of Responsibility Work for your Family
Episode 13: Exploring Intuitive Eating, Part III: Body Trust, Interoceptive Awareness, and Unconditional Permission to Eat
Episode 14: Exploring Intuitive Eating, Part II: Physical Activity and Intuitive Movement
Episode 15: Exploring Intuitive Eating, Part III: Respecting your Body
Intuitive Eating books, literature, and resources:
https://www.intuitiveeating.org
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www.instagram.com/katzavrd
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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 doesn't magically result in us suddenly loving everything about our bodies, but it is a good first step. And even if our discomfort in our bodies persists, there are actions we can take to help us cultivate a posture and a practice of respecting our bodies.
Drop In Group Coaching:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hquUAWs37bIklLk1nSO90HHlHSZ2dRfWuL1sJtLkXMY
Mentioned in this episode:
Intuitive Eating books, literature, and resources:
https://www.intuitiveeating.org
Feeding Humans Episode 8, How to Not Hate Your Body
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-not-hate-your-body/id1552454783?i=1000516015864
Misclassification of cardiometabolic health when using body mass index categories in NHANES 2005-2012
https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo201617
Books addressing the myths about "obesity" (not affiliate links)
Body Respect, Lindo Bacon
https://www.amazon.com/Body-Respect-Conventional-Health-Understand/dp/1940363195/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=body+respect&qid=1624898276&sr=8-1
Body of Truth, Harriet Brown
https://www.amazon.com/Body-Truth-Science-Obsession-Weight-ebook/dp/B00PWX7SW8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Harriet+brown&qid=1624898545&sr=8-1
The Obesity Myth, Paul Campos
https://www.amazon.com/Obesity-Myth-Americas-Obsession-Hazardous/dp/1592400663/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Paul+campos&qid=1624898437&sr=8-3
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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 consider what an intuitive relationship with movement might look like for you, and Katherine includes how she navigates these questions in her own approach to physical activity.
Mentioned in this episode:
Drop In Group Coaching:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hquUAWs37bIklLk1nSO90HHlHSZ2dRfWuL1sJtLkXMY
Intuitive Eating books, literature, and resources:
https://www.intuitiveeating.org
Feeding Humans episode 1, discussing how we can model our relationship with our body after our relationships with partners or other people:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feeding-humans/id1552454783?i=1000510377498
Feeding Humans episode 5, Feeding Dynamics to heal your own relationship with food
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feeding-humans/id1552454783?i=1000512336166
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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 of outside messages telling us how to manage our bodies. We explore the concept of unconditional permission to eat and how it is the only way to strip food of power that it doesn't deserve, and learn to trust our bodies to guide us.
Mentioned in this episode:
Intuitive Eating books, literature, and resources:
https://www.intuitiveeating.org
Drop In Group Coaching:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hquUAWs37bIklLk1nSO90HHlHSZ2dRfWuL1sJtLkXMY
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www.kznutrition.com
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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 more peaceful but also promote health and optimal nutrition.
Mentioned in this episode:
Anna Lutz, MPH RD/CEDRD
https://sunnysideupnutrition.com
https://lutzandalexander.com
IG: @annalutzrd
@sunnysideupnutritionists
https://sunnysideupnutrition.com/sunny-side-up-nutrition-podcast-2/
Embodied Recovery Institute:
https://www.embodiedrecovery.org
Stephen Porges and Polyvagal Theory
https://www.stephenporges.com
Find Katherine online:
www.instagram.com/katzavrd
www.kznutrition.com
Drop In Group Coaching:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hquUAWs37bIklLk1nSO90HHlHSZ2dRfWuL1sJtLkXMY
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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 is to treat. Responding appropriately and early to the early signs of disordered eating offer your child the best chance of getting back on track and possibly avoiding a long, painful, and difficult course of treatment.
Mentioned in this episode:
https://www.peggyorenstein.com
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Mentioned in this episode:
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 :<
Great article from Sunny Side Up Nutrition about pediatrics and growth charts
A Letter to your Child's Doctor by Anna Lutz MPH, RD, CEDRD and Katja Rowell, MD
with downloadable PDF copy!
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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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Mentioned in this episode:
A not-at-all-comprehensive list of body inclusive instagram accounts to follow (every one may not be for you, just check them out and see what resonates!):
@effyourbeautystandards
@bodyposipanda
@mynameisjessamyn
@adipositivity
@p.s.kaguya
@colleenmwerner
@your_body_is_good
@nerdabouttown
@itsmekellieb
@with_this_body
@ragenchastain
@thebodypositive
@stephanieyeboah
@tess.daly
@Megan_rose_lane
@funny.fat.fabulous
@I_weight
@fatgirlstraveling
@haes_sizediversity
@fatbodypilates
@themilitantbaker
@bodyliberationwithlindley
@sophiehagendk
@mamacax
@louisegreen_bigfitgirl
brands that feature inclusive bodies in their marketing:
@athleta
@parade
@eshakti
@aerie
@modcloth
@asos
@dearkates
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