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Kids go through phases, adults go through phases,

and it, you know, we don't know, it could be another month,

and then they'll start picking up more food, it could be a little bit longer,

but in general, like, I think some food jags are to be expected,

especially like adolescents going into puberty,

they're probably going to pick up more calorie heavy foods because they're going to go

through that, you know, expected and normal pain that is needed for puberty.

And I think kids' bodies naturally know which foods to go to to help in that process of the expected and needed weight gain for puberty.

Hey team, welcome back to Don't Salt My Game, where we are having conversations with game changers who are flipping diet culture on its head.

I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered nutritionist who specializes in intuitive eating and anti-diet nutrition.

And I'm the author of Just Eat It and How to Just Eat It.

Today on the pod, we have Kristen Schur back with us, who you met a few weeks ago. We're going to

be answering some of the questions that you had about feeding your kids and the specific challenges

you're facing. So we're going to get to that in just a moment. But first, just a quick interlude

to tell you about the courses I'm running for health professionals working to support kids

to have a better relationship to food and their bodies.

So earlier this year, my colleagues and I released a new continuing professional development course for professionals working with kids and it's called Raising Embodied Eaters and it covers everything you as a professional

need to know to support kids and their grownups to have a positive relationship with food and

their body. We talk about why pressure backfires, why restriction leads to being obsessed with

food, why conventional nutrition education, so things like the cubes of sugar

or traffic lights activities are really damaging and what you can do instead and how you can talk

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