Ep 117 - The Pressure to Raise ‘Perfect’ Eaters w/ Sarah Dempster {Crossover - Eating Words Podcast}
Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD
Laura Thomas
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I'm being interviewed by friend and colleague Sarah Dempster about the pressure that parents face to raise 'perfect' eaters, from fertility and early pregnancy onwards.
In this episode we discuss:
✨The messages we receive around nutrition and how these can add to the idea that there is a right and wrong way to eat for conception, pregnancy and beyond
✨Why feeding littles can be such an emotive topic
✨Why it's not your fault if your kid suddenly stops eating certain foods
✨ The long-term repercussions of such an intense focus on 'perfect' eating in childhood
✨ Why using food to soothe can be part of your emotional coping toolkit
✨Why we need to be critical about the messages we share around food and nutrition
✨ Why we need more person-centred care in nutrition and dietetics
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by raising intuitive eaters. |
| 0:03.0 | Our online course helping support parents, carers, and anyone responsible for feeding kiddos, |
| 0:09.0 | raise kids that love food and love their bodies. |
| 0:13.0 | This course is made up of 12 modules. |
| 0:16.0 | The first five cover general principles, like how to help support kids respond to their natural appetite cues, |
| 0:22.4 | why it's important to practice food neutrality around kids, and why that actually helps support |
| 0:27.5 | them eating a wider variety of foods. Also, why putting pressure on kids to eat certain foods |
| 0:33.7 | can backfire, what to do instead, plus how to foster body appreciation in little |
| 0:39.3 | ones. |
| 0:40.3 | We also have specific modules for each of the ages and stages of child feeding, starting |
| 0:45.3 | with intuitive eating and pregnancy, then moving through milk feeding, weaning, the early years, |
| 0:51.3 | all the way through primary school and the teenage years. |
| 0:59.5 | If you're worried that your kid is a fussy eater, if you're confused about how much sugar to give them, |
| 1:04.8 | if you think they eat too many beige foods, if you hear them talking shit about their bodies, |
| 1:11.6 | or if you're concerned they don't have an off switch, then head to London Centre for Intchutiv.com.uk. Or check out the show notes in your podcast player for full details and how to sign up. |
| 1:16.6 | Don't solve my game. |
| 1:22.8 | Hey guys, welcome to don't salt my game. I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered nutritionist |
| 1:31.7 | specialising in intuitive eating, health at every size and non-diet nutrition. I'm also the author |
| 1:38.5 | of Just Eat It, how intuited eating can help you get your shit together around food and director |
| 1:43.8 | of the London |
| 1:44.6 | Center for Intchia to Veting. |
| 1:47.4 | We're here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health, food, body |
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