Elizabeth Davenport and Anna Mackay sit down with Sarah Ganginis, a non-diet dietitian who takes a weight-inclusive approach to nutrition and health.  In addition to seeing adults and children in her private practice, Sarah has dedicated much of her time advocating for change in the school nutrition and health curriculums in the state of Maryland.

We chat about:

• Troubling nutrition lessons in schools
• What led Sarah to advocate for changes on the state level
• How Sarah approached the various people who have influence over curriculum in Maryland
• Some examples of appropriate school nutrition & health education
• Some of the changes Sarah hopes to see
• The next steps Sarah is hoping to take to advocate for nutrition education

Links:

• https://sganginisrd.com/about

• Petition for CDC to re-evaluate the Health Curriculum Guide for Grades K-12

• HECAT Healthy Eating Curriculum PDF

• Pinney Davenport

• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy

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This week we sat down with author, school consultant, speaker, and educator Ana Homayoun to talk about social media wellness. We chat about Ana's latest book Social Media Wellness and her framework for how families can approach social media in their lives. Ana has many years of experience working directly with teens and has seen how social media has become such a big part of their lives.  Rather than stoking fear, Ana offers practical ideas of how social media can be approached in a balanced way.  Elizabeth, Anna and Ana discuss: 

• Ana's social media wellness framework for teens.
• How parents can facilitate their children researching apps that are appropriate and safe.
• How to encourage teens to be smart media consumers.
• Things to consider when deciding if a child should have access to social media.
• The positive and negative effects of social media in all of our lives. 

Links:

• Ana Homayoun

• Green Ivy Educational Consulting

• Pinney Davenport

• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy

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An interview with journalist and registered dietitian-to-be, Christine Byrne. She writes about food, nutrition and physical activity with an anti-diet, Health At Every Size®, body positive, Intuitive Eating perspective. We touch on lots of topics including: 

• Her path from line cook in a restaurant to a graduate student in the Masters of Public Health/Nutrition program at UNC Chapel Hill. (This happens to be the same program where co-hosts Elizabeth Davenport and Anna Lutz met almost 20 years ago).
• What Christine learned working on her recent article for HuffPost: The BMI Is Racist And Useless. Here's How To Measure Health Instead.
• One thing she recommends listeners do if they want to change their relationship with food.
• What Christine is cooking these days and her top 2 favorite recipes she developed.

Links:

• Christine Byrne
• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, by Sabrina Strings
• Jennifer Gaudiani, MD: eating disorders expert and founder and medical director of the Gaudiani Clinic
• Lesley Williams, MD: family medicine and eating disorder specialist
• Other recent articles by Christine Byrne
• Intuitive Eating - 4th Edition
• Skillet Chicken Thighs with Peaches, Arugula and Quinoa
• Sheet Pan Chicken Breasts with Potatoes and Garlicky Mustard Greens
• New York-Style Bagels

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Anna, Elizabeth & Anna have a loose chat about pantries, cooking and meal planning, with lots of laughs thrown in. We talk about all sorts of kitchen & food-related things, including:

• Why meal planning doesn’t have to be rigid  and grounded in diet culture
• How Covid-19 has affected our meal planning & cooking
• Pantry items we keep on-hand
• Our go-to meals

Links (note - there are lots of great recipe & meal planning tips on the Sunny Side Up Nutrition site!):

• Anxious About Family Mealtimes? Serve a Buffet by Virginia Sole-Smith
• "Go-to Meals" - Your Plan B - Sunny Side Up Nutrition
• "Go-to Meals" - Part 2 - Sunny Side Up Nutrition
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition

 

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Anna Lutz and Anna Mackay sit down with Katherine Zavodni to talk about:

• Typical weight gain and body composition changes during puberty
• The age ranges of typical development
• How parents can talk to children in a positive way about body changes
• How diet culture affects how parents and children's think about and talk about puberty

Links and Resources: 

• Katherine Zavodni Nutrition
• Your Child's Weight Helping Without Harming by Ellyn Satter
• Taking Care of Your 'Girls' by Marissa Weiss
• Love Your Body by Jessica Sanders
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition 
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy 
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition

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In the final episode of our 5-part series on raising competent eaters we talk about:

• The myth that eating sugary food causes hyperactivity (aka a sugar rush)
• What’s up with pre-teen weight gain
• The negative influence of social media “fitspo” (#fitspo or #fitspiration) accounts
• Navigating a kid wanting to become a vegetarian or a vegan

Links:

• Why it’s Not Sugar Addiction by Virginia Sole Smith
• Deflated by Fitspo (Flinders University, Australia)
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition

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In the fourth episode of our 5-part series on raising competent eaters we talk about:

• Fueling young athletes, from beginner to elite
• Fostering a healthy relationship with movement
• Importance of adequacy and consistency
• Sports coaches handing out nutrition advice - is it appropriate?
• How rigid meal planning can backfire
• Red flags to watch out for in young athletes and non-athletes

Links:

Opal Food & Body

Sunny Side Up Nutrition

Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy

Pinney Davenport Nutrition

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In the third episode of our 5-part series on raising competent eaters we talk about:

• How negative body talk impacts children
• Strategies to neutralize negative body talk
• Body hate vs. body acceptance vs. body positivity
• How parents can manage potentially harmful body talk in pediatric visits or nurses offices
• Growth charts, BMI & why its not helpful for kids to be warned about weight
• How parents engaging in dieting or restrictive eating behaviors can negatively impact children.

Links:

• Full Bloom Podcast
• Katja Rowell, M.D.
• Letter to your child’s doctor
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition

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In the second episode of our 5-part series on raising competent eaters we talk about:

• Raising a competent eater vs. an intuitive eater
• What happens when parents micromanage their child's food
• The concept of nutritional ‘scaffolding’
• Red flags to look out for, particularly for pre-teens & teens
• Problematic terminology such as “healthy food vs. junk” or “red light vs. green light” foods

Links:

1. Intuitive Eating
2. Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility
3. Sunny Side Up Nutrition
4. Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
5. Pinney Davenport Nutrition

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In the first episode of our 5-part series on raising competent eaters we talk about the ways in which our food environment growing up affects the way we feed our children; diet culture and how it influences the way we eat and feed our families; Ellyn Satter’s ‘Division of Responsibility’; what happens when we pressure children to eat certain foods at mealtime; age-appropriate eating and food exposure.

Links:

• Ellyn Satter Division of Responsibility
• Sunny Side Up Nutrition
• Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy
• Pinney Davenport Nutrition
  
  

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