27 episodes
The Messy Intersection Diana Rice, RD
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5.0 • 11 Ratings
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The Messy Intersection explores the tangled-up place where a generation of parents seeks to raise body-confident intuitive eaters while simultaneously undoing decades of their own diet culture learnings. Guests share stories and insight about about feeding kids, feeding ourselves, intuitive eating, stress, anxiety, the mental load and raising kids with the resilience to defy diet culture and develop a healthy relationship with food. Hosted by registered dietitian Diana Rice, RD of @anti.diet.kids.
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Fat Talk with Virginia-Sole Smith
Today’s interview is with Virginia Sole-Smith, author of the brand-new book Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture. Virginia writes the Substack Burnt Toast and is also the author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. In this episode, we’re chatting about how body ideals interrupt the task of raising kids to have a healthy relationship with food, how the Division of Responsibility can be co-opted into a diet, how to get dads on board with the anti-diet movement and more.
Find out more about Virginia here and follow her on Instagram and Tik Tok here.
Resources mentioned in this interview:
Virginia’s newsletter pieces:
What If I Can't Say "Fat?"
What Instagram Gets Wrong About Feeding Your Kids
"I Love a Beautiful Home, But it Doesn't Rank Higher than Being Able to Function in My Space."
Christy Harrison’s Anti-Diet
The American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Report: Preventing Obesity and Eating Disorders in Adolescents
Virginia’s opinion piece for The New York Times Why the New Obesity Guidelines for Kids Terrify Me
Join the Raising Anti-Diet Kids Facebook Group.
Learn more about Diana’s coaching services: Tiny Seed Family Nutrition.
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Can We Raise Intuitive Eaters and Prioritize Nutrition? With Sumner Brooks
The question I get most often is a version of "how can I raise my kids to be intuitive eaters while also helping them choose healthy foods?" In this episode, Sumner Brooks, RD and I explore exactly this. What is the role of nutrition in raising intuitive eaters and what is a caregiver's job in making nutrition decisions, especially for young kids? Sumner is a mom of two young kids herself as well as the co-author of the new book, How to Raise an Intuitive Eater.
Follow Sumner on Instagram
Sumner's continuing education platform: EDRD Pro
How to Raise an Intuitive Eater website: IntuitiveEating4Kids.com
How to Raise an Intuitive Eater on Amazon
Study mentioned in this episode: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3086849/
Follow Diana on Instagram: @anti.diet.kids
Work with Diana: Tiny Seed Family Nutrition
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The Parallels Between Diet Culture and Infant Sleep Training with Kathleen Meehan
Diet culture in infant sleep?? My guest today is new mom Kathleen Meehan, RD, who outlines the parallels she's noticed between diet culture and the way that vulnerable new parents are sold infant sleep training, such as "one size fits all" programs and placing the blame on the individual rather than the "fix" when things don't work out. We also explore how diet culture directly influences infant sleep with rigid feeding schedules, prescribed limits on formula feeds and how infant weight factors into sleep training.
This episode was inspired by a post Kathleen made on Instagram, found here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CdOLEDlrnWS/
More about Kathleen: Instagram | Website
Follow Diana on Instagram: @anti.diet.kids
Work with Diana: Tiny Seed Family Nutrition
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Is Zero Added Sugar Realistic for Kids Under Two? With Jackie Rodgers
The American Heart Association and Dietary Guidelines recommend zero added sugar for kids under age two. But how do these guidelines impact parents with a history of disordered eating...and is following them to the letter always in the best interest of our kids? My guest today is dietitian Jackie Rodgers, who shares her story of feeding her first child while grappling with her own history of orthorexia.
More about Jackie: Instagram | Website | Facebook Group
Follow Diana on Instagram: @anti.diet.kids
Work with Diana: Tiny Seed Family Nutrition
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Kids and Vegetables: Moving from ”Get” to ”Let” with Chacha Miller
Today, Diana is chatting with Chacha Miller, a registered dietitian and toddler mom (with another on the way!) who is passionate about health equity. Chacha shares her tips on moving away from the mentality of "getting" kids to eat vegetables to creating an environment that lets them explore their food and taste preferences at their own pace.
More about Chacha: Instagram | Website
Resources mentioned in this episode:
101 Descriptive Words for Food Explorers by Dani Lebovitz
Additional books and resources from Kid Food Explorers
@Kid.Food.Explorers Instagram post about the harms of the children's book discussed in this episode
Follow Diana on Instagram: @anti.diet.kids
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How Feeding Professionals Do and Don’t Use DOR
Is Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility (DOR) the be all and end all of feeding kids? On this episode, Diana explores this recent theme from the show and in the world of anti-diet kid feeding at large.
This unique episode is formatted as a "call in" show and features voicemail recordings from the following feeding professionals, who share their own experiences with DOR:
Yaffi Lvova @toddler.testkitchen
Krystyn Parks @feeding_made_easy
Maggie Perkins @tomata_rd
Crystal Karges @crystalkarges
Dani Lebovitz @kid.food.explorers
Lauren Sharifi @LaurenSharifiRD
Terri Ney @tinybitesnutrition
Rachel Rothman @nutrition.in.bloom
Oona Hanson @oona_hanson
Diana also shares details of how she does and doesn't use DOR with her own family.
***This episode has been updated with a short audio recording prior to the introduction that acknowledges and denounces the Ellyn Satter Institute's public Facebook comments dismissing the harm caused by Lindo Bacon to fat and black members of the HAES community.***
Resources:
⭐Sign up for the brand-new newsletter The Anti-Diet Parent⭐
Follow Diana on Instagram: @anti.diet.kids
Join the Raising Anti-Diet Kids Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/antidietkids)
Customer Reviews
This podcast is excellent!
I really appreciate this podcast as both a mom and a Registered Dietitian. All we have been taught as dietitians is Ellen Satter’s Division of Responsibility, so I love that less rigid ideas are presented here. Also, anti-fatphobia work and the undoing of diet culture is desperately needed with young kids, so this podcast is important to the health and well-being of our kiddos! This podcast is helping me feed my young child better and helping do better work as a public health dietitian.
Lucky!
I feel so lucky to have found this podcast in my 2nd trimester. I am learning so much about taking care of myself that will be invaluable for the rest of pregnancy and post partum. Thank you Diana for all this work you are doing!!!
Really well done!
This is a very informative, evidence-based and a non-judgemental podcast. It resonated with me and reminded me of when I had my first child and had confusing messages thrown at me. I am happy that I found my voice and figured it all out but it is a confusing time (I am on my 4th child and happy with the decisions I have made) and it is wonderful to have a podcast admit that and try to steer people in the direction of intuition and also adding that science supports these seemingly-critical decisions. Thanks Diana!