Ep 141 - Stomping out Diet Culture in Schools w/ Molly Forbes
Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD
Laura Thomas
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Hold tight folks, this is a good one! This week, I’m chatting with Molly Forbes, journalist, campaigner, author of Body Happy Kids and founding director of the Body Happy Organisation.
Molly gives loads of practical and pragmatic advice for how you can begin to open up conversations with your school to stomp out diet culture and support positive body esteem. It's such a helpful episode for anyone who has wondered whether or not schools are undoing some of the things that you're doing at home to protect your kids' relationship with food and their bodies.
Some of the topics we cover include:
- How influential schools really are when it comes to supporting/disrupting body esteem.
- Where diet culture creeps up in schools in areas like school uniform policy.
- How we can open up conversations with schools about diet culture, and how teachers can get their schools on board with an anti diet culture policy.
- How you can begin to tackle food policing policies.
- National weight measurement programme and why you should opt your kiddo out.
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Show notes:
- Follow Laura on Instagram | Twitter
- Follow Molly on Instagram
- Follow Don’t Salt My Game on Instagram
- Check out Molly’s Instagram post school uniform policies
- Check out Dieticians 4 Teachers on Instagram
- Laura’s Website
- Body Happy Org Website
- Buy a copy of Just Eat It | How to Just Eat It
- Buy a copy of Body Happy Kids
- Sign up for a Learn with LCIE Course
- Buy an Intuitive Eating friendly guide to managing different health concerns
- Edited by Joeli Kelly
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So I don't think it's a case of teachers waking up in the morning saying, |
| 0:09.0 | right, how can we damage kids' relationships with their bodies today? |
| 0:12.0 | Like, that is not what's happening. |
| 0:14.0 | But I think that as parents, the more that we learn about this issue, |
| 0:18.0 | if we notice it popping up in school, it is really important to speak to the school about it and let them know, hey, did you know this is problematic? |
| 0:26.8 | And did you know there's another way of doing it? And you don't have to do it like that. |
| 0:33.5 | Hey team, welcome back to Don't Salt My Game or we are having conversations with game changers who are flipping diet culture on its head. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered nutritionist who specializes in intutes of eating and anti-diet nutrition. |
| 0:48.1 | And I'm the author of Just Eat It and How to Just Eat It. |
| 0:51.1 | Today I'm talking to Molly Forbes, author of Body Happy Kids and founder of the |
| 0:56.0 | Body Happy Kids organization, all about stumping out diet culture in schools. We're going to get to that |
| 1:03.1 | episode in just a second, but first I wanted to tell you about some training for professionals, |
| 1:08.0 | working with kids and families that I offer. |
| 1:19.0 | 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 |
| 1:24.5 | everything you as a professional need to know to support kids and |
| 1:29.3 | their grownups to have a positive relationship with food and their body. We talk about why pressure |
| 1:35.1 | backfires, why restriction leads to being obsessed with food, why conventional nutrition |
| 1:41.3 | education. So things like the cubes of sugar or traffic lights activities |
| 1:46.1 | are really damaging and what you can do instead and how you can talk to parents and kids |
| 1:52.1 | about nutrition in a way that isn't going to be harmful for them. We also talk about responsive |
| 1:57.6 | feeding practices, the typical stages in feeding development like food |
| 2:01.4 | neophobia, growth, and loads, loads more. It's a super comprehensive course with lots of |
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