Can I Have Another Snack‪?‬ Laura Thomas, PhD, RNutr

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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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 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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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 workoutExplain why a certain gut health shot is a lot like a bad night outTalking about why it’s important to be calm in the face of a new medical diagnosis rather than falling into diet cultureOffering some advice towards handling the challenges of co-parenting with someone whose views on diet culture are very different from your ownAnd lastly, why you should ignore influencers who boast about their kids eating stilton and sushi

In today’s episode, I’m speaking to writer and parent educator Eloise Rickman. Eloise’s work focuses mainly on challenging adultism, championing children’s rights, and helping parents and educators rethink how they see children. In this episode, we touch on how diet culture shows up in gentle parenting spaces and how mainstream ideas of gentle parenting don’t always challenge where power comes from and how it’s leveraged. We’ll also talk about kids’ embodied resistance and Elosie’s new book, It’s Not Fair.Don’t forget to leave a review in your podcast player if you enjoy this episode - or let me know what you think in the comments below.Find out more about Eloise’s work here.Pre-order Eloise’s new book here.Follow her on Instagram here.Follow here on Substack - Follow Laura on Instagram here.Subscribe to Laura’s newsletter here.Enrol in the Raising Embodied Eaters course here. Here’s the transcript in full:INTRO:Laura: Hey and welcome to the Can I Have Another Snack? podcast where we talk about appetite, 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.Today we’re talking to . Eloise is a writer ( ) and parent educator. Her work focuses on challenging adultism, championing children’s rights, and helping parents and educators rethink how they see children. Today we’re going to talk about how diet culture shows up in gentle parenting spaces and how mainstream ideas of gentle parenting don’t always challenge where power comes from and how it’s leveraged. We’ll also talk about kids’ embodied resistance and Elosie’s new book, It’s Not Fair.But first - just a quick reminder that Can I Have Another Snack is entirely reader and listener supported. If you get something from the newsletter or podcast, please consider a paid subscription - it’s £5/month or £50/ year which helps cover the cost of the podcast,  gives you access to our weekly subscriber only discussion threads, the monthly Dear Laura column, and the entire CIHAS archive. Head to laurathomas.substack.com to subscribe now. And thank you to everyone who is already a paid subscriber.Alright team, here’s this week’s conversation with Eloise Rickman. MAIN EPISODE:Laura: Alright Eloise, can you start by telling us a bit about you and your work?Eloise: Yeah, of course. And whenever I do these, I'm always absolutely terrified, that I'm gonna forget something really big , like “I'm a writer” or “I work with parents”. So yeah, I'm a writer and I work with parents. I write books about children and about children's rights.And I've just finished writing my second book, which is on the idea of children's liberation. which looks at all different sorts of topics from parenting to education to children's bodies. And alongside my writing work, I also work with parents running courses on home education and on rights-based parenting and on workshops as well.I'm also – at the same time as doing this – home educating my daughter, who at the time of recording is eight, which also kind of feels like a full time job and just because life is not complicated enough, I'm also doing a Masters in children's rights at the moment, which is brilliant.Laura: Okay, I have no idea how you find the time in the day to do all of those different things, but I am in awe. And you mentioned that you just finished writing your second book, but you didn't say what it's called.Eloise: Sorry, I didn't, you’re right! So it's called It's Not Fair. Which is a title we deliberated over for a really long time, but I really like it because it's something which we hear so often from our children's mouths.It's not fair, this isn't fair. So it's called It's Not Fair: Why it's Time for a Grown Up Conversation About How Adults Treat Children. And that really does sum it up. It's really looking at how we treat children in all d