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Dr. Sheila Carroll, a board-certified pediatrician and certified life coach, discusses her transition from clinical medicine to helping parents and families navigate childhood obesity and promote healthy lifestyles. She emphasizes the importance of understanding emotional eating and finding natural pleasures as alternatives to unhealthy food choices. Dr. Carroll also provides practical advice on creating healthy shopping lists, reading food labels, and avoiding added sugars. She encourages parents to focus on health rather than weight when discussing these topics with their children and highlights the significance of unconditional love in promoting positive change. 

Takeaways

• Understanding emotional eating and finding natural pleasures can help promote healthier food choices.
• Creating a healthy shopping list, with whole, real foods over processed foods and reading food labels can help reduce the consumption of added sugars.
• Focusing on health rather than weight when discussing food and lifestyle choices with children 
• Unconditional love and acceptance from parents are crucial in supporting children's well-being and promoting healthy habits.
• Genetic factors can contribute to obesity, but lifestyle choices still play a significant role.
• Humans evolved to store fat for survival, but modern lifestyles and abundant food availability work against us.
• Parents have a responsibility to make healthy food choices for their children, even if it may be met with resistance.

Dr Jessica Hochman is a board certified pediatrician, mom to three children, and she is very passionate about the health and well being of children. Most of her educational videos are targeted towards general pediatric topics and presented in an easy to understand manner.

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The information presented in Ask Dr Jessica is for general educational purposes only. She does not diagnose medical conditions or formulate treatment plans for specific individuals. If you have a concern about your child's health, be sure to call your child's health care provider.