Can I Have Another Snack?

This episode is a rerun of my conversation last year with the fantastic Molly Forbes, journalist, campaigner and non-profit founder. She's the author of the book Body Happy Kids: How to help children and teens love the skin they're in and now Every Body, a book for 9-12 year olds helping them learn that body differences should be celebrated. She's also the Founding Director of The Body Happy Organisation CIC, a social enterprise dedicated to promoting positive body image in children.

In this episode Molly and I discuss:

 👉 What the NCMP is, what it looks like in different schools and some of the issues associated with it
👉 Why you might want to opt your kid out and how you even do that
👉 What you can do if you’re worried about your child feeling left out if they’re the only ones left in the classroom

I really hope you will share this episode with your school WhatsApp group, your friendship group and with the teachers in your schools to help end the tyranny of the NCMP. You can also share Body Happy Org and Anybody UK’s informed decision making pack and my writing on the NCMP.

Today I'm talking to the incredible Alex Light, a body acceptance advocate and author of You Are Not a Before Picture. In this conversation we're talking about all the really insidious and toxic messaging we get around postpartum bodies. 

In this episode we discuss:

👉 Snapback culture and the horrendous ways it shows up for birthing people

👉 How our bodies can change during and after pregnancy and the shame often associated with this

👉 The anti-fatness of '9 months in, 9 months out' pictures

👉 Ways to help protect your embodiment in the postpartum period

Come and let us know what you thought of the episode in the comments over on canihaveanothersnack.com. If you'd like to sign up to receive bonus podcasts from CIHAS, you can upgrade your subscription here.

You can follow Alex on Instagram here and Laura, over here

Hey-O. Lucy and I are BACK with your July installment of ALL OF THE SNACKS - a bonus pod for paying subscribers where we answer YOUR questions. 

This month we're answering Qs about:

👉 How to talk to kids about oral health without falling into the diet culture trap and scaremongering sugar

👉 What toxic wellness things we can’t let go of

👉 How to tell when a nutrition ‘expert’ is legit or just a quack

👉 And some thoughts on supporting Autistic kids who seem ‘insatiable’

👉 Plus a controversial snack…

Come and let us know what you thought of this episode in the comments at canihaveanothersnack.com
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Today I'm talking to therapist Vicky Bellman from Concentric Counselling and Fat Bubble about protecting our kids from the weird diet culture things people say that can rupture their embodiment. I loved talking to Vicky and think you'll get so much from this conversation.

In this episode we discuss:

👉 The 'hot potato' of disordered eating and disembodiment that gets transmitted through families
👉 How to shut down body shaming conversations in their tracks
👉 How we can transmit healing back up the line, as well as protect our kids
👉 How every day we protect our kids against diet culture is a day we
👉 Why body positivity and food neutrality are not the whole story

You can follow Vicky on Instagram here.
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Hey-O. Lucy and I are BACK with your June instalment of ALL OF THE SNACKS - a bonus pod for paying subscribers where we answer YOUR questions. 

This month we're answering Qs about:

👉 Whether or not collagen supplements are snake oil adjacent
👉 Does my kid need a snack drawer or am I feeling the pressure of Kid Food Instagram?
👉 How do I deal with a medical appointment that I know will evoke anti-fatness?
👉 My pre-teen has pocket money and only wants to buy snacks - what do I do?
👉 How can I find my appetite when the world is such a horror-show? 

Plus VERY IMPORTANT Lucy and Laura life updates (and why I am taking my sartorial cues from custard. And, as usual, great snacks. 

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We all know that feeding kids is hard - aside from food neophobia, the constant shopping, cooking, cleaning up the mess, and and the worry of whether they're getting what they need, we have the mental load. All the tiny invisible mental notes, planning, prioritising, and juggling that add up throughout the day that can leave us feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, unsupported, and taken for granted. This week I'm talking to Registered Dietitian Maeve Hanan about something Kid Food Influencers rarely discuss or acknowledge: the mental load of feeding a family. We get into:

👉 The expectations vs. reality of feeding a family
👉 Different types of labour in the home (visible and invisible)
👉 How naming terms like 'mental load' and 'household manager' can help create more equal distribution of labour
👉 How the mental load of feeding a family can influence our relationship with food
👉 The unnecessary mental load we absorb from Kid Food Influencers
👉 How ultra-processed foods have a role in reducing the mental load of feeding a family

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HEYO! Surprise Tuesday bonus pod alert!!

Lucy and I are back to take a deep dive into whether a diagnosis of 'high cholesterol' means you need to go on a diet.

Listener M wrote in with the question: I'm very interested in the correlation between high cholesterol and what we eat. It seems to me that the high cholesterol always comes with the diet stuff. Less red meat, less fat in the diet, etc. Is this really true? It feels very shameful to have high cholesterol that you have somehow behaved badly. A sign (almost like being fat) that there is something wrong with you. (Or your diet.) Can you clear this up for me?'

We went deep and discussed:

🫘 What a diagnosis of 'high cholesterol' really means
♥️ What function cholesterol plays in the body (and why we need it!)
🫘  The difference between HDL and LDL cholesterol (and why you can'd ascribe moral value to molecules that float around in your blood)
♥️ Whether weight-loss actually helps lower cholesterol
🫘 Some social and structural reasons we might experience higher LDL cholesterol
♥️ How we can support our heart health sans diets
🫘 Gentle nutrition pointers and some great recipe ideas for caring for ourselves if we have 'wonky' cholesterol

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This is a preview of this month's All of The Snacks with Laura and Lucy. If you'd like to listen to the episode in full then click here to upgrade. And if you're already a paid up member of the Snack Pack, then check your email for instructions to add a private RSS feed to your podcast player, or login on Can I Have Another Snack? to listen there.

Alright, this month we're talking about:

👉 Our thoughts on whether 'intuitive movement' is the 'right' way to approach exercise (and boy do we have feelings about this one!)

👉 Why baby food throwing food might not be the huge deal the internet would have you believe...

👉 Plus we lean into Lucy's clothes mending expertise to figure out what to do when we wear through the inner thighs of our jeans (a recurring theme in my life)

👉 And, ofc, we talk about ALL of the snacks. The ease with which I accept 'cheesy flapjacks' as an answer is honestly, astounding. C.C. Lucy, do we have a recipe for this???

👉 Oh and a round of cheese or chocolate (IYKYK)

if you'd like us to answer your question on next month's show, you can submit it here.

Music used in this trailer "Study And Relax"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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This is a teaser of a subscriber only-episode. Head to canihaveanothersnack.com to upgrade your subscription and access the full episode.

Today I’m joined by CIHAS audio engineer and host of the podcast Lecker, Lucy Dearlove, to answer listener and reader questions. Tune in to hear us:

• Revive and old classic (DSMG fans, this one’s for you!)
• Share non-lame-gym-bro snack ideas for pre/post workout
• Explain why a certain gut health shot is a lot like a bad night out
• Talking about why it’s important to be calm in the face of a new medical diagnosis rather than falling into diet culture
• Offering some advice towards handling the challenges of co-parenting with someone whose views on diet culture are very different from your own
• And lastly, why you should ignore influencers who boast about their kids eating stilton and sushi

One of the things that came out of the 2023 Reader Survey was that you wanted a Q+A/AMA of the pod. So we’re giving it a shot. Now our monthly pod schedule will consist of 1-2 guest episodes a month, with 1 Q+A with myself and Lucy. Guest episodes will be free for everyone to listen to, with the Q+A episodes being a perk for paid subscribers. In these episodes, we’ll be answering the more juicer questions… and the answers may be a little on the spicy side! We’re sharing a trailer of today’s episode with free subscribers to give you a taste of what you can expect. And we’ll always make sure there’s something in there for everyone - whether you’re a parent or a nutrition student, or just here for rice cake drama (IYKYK).

Today I’m joined by CIHAS audio engineer and host of the podcast , Dearlove, to answer listener and reader questions. Tune in to hear us:

* Revive and old classic (DSMG fans, this one’s for you!)

* Share non-lame-gym-bro snack ideas for pre/post workout

* Explain why a certain gut health shot is a lot like a bad night out

* Talking about why it’s important to be calm in the face of a new medical diagnosis rather than falling into diet culture

* Offering some advice towards handling the challenges of co-parenting with someone whose views on diet culture are very different from your own

* And lastly, why you should ignore influencers who boast about their kids eating stilton and sushi

Again paid subscribers can set up their own private RSS feed to listen to paid-only episodes in their favourite podcast player by following these instructions.

This was a super fun episode to create and I know you’ll love it too!

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Transcript

Laura: Hey, and welcome to the Can I Have Another Snack podcast, where we talk about food, bodies, and identity, especially through the lens of parenting. I'm Laura Thomas. I'm an anti diet registered nutritionist, and I also write the Can I Have Another Snack newsletter.

Lucy: And I'm . I am the audio engineer for CIHAS podcast normally, and I also host the food podcast, . Uh, I'm delighted to be joining you for this, Laura. This is really fun.

Laura: So we're mixing it up a little bit today to answer some listener questions that you all sent in. I've asked Lucy to join me so that I'm not just sat here talking to myself, but Lucy, I actually have a little surprise for you that I didn't tell you about. So I'm putting you on the spot, but don't worry, It's hopefully a fun surprise. It's not high stakes. But I don't know if you know, but I used to have another podcast called Don't Salt My Game. And at the beginning…

Lucy: I'm aware of it.

Laura: Oh yeah, you've heard of it. Okay, that's good. That's a good start. At the beginning of every episode, I used to ask my guests some quick fire questions. So I'm just like, rapid speed, throw them out and just

Lucy: I remember this.

Laura: Just throw whatever comes to the top of your head, okay? So it's meant to be fun.

Lucy: Okay, I'm on the spot. I'm in the hot seat. I'm ready.

Laura: You ready? Alright. Here we go. Tacos or pizza?