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.
Episodes
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
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:
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Virginia’s newsletter pieces:
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Christy Harrison’s Anti-Diet
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The American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Report: Preventing Obesity and Eating Disorders in Adolescents
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Virginia’s opinion piece for The New York Times Why the New Obesity Guidelines for Kids Terrify Me
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Learn more about Diana’s coaching services: Tiny Seed Family Nutrition.
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
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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Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
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
Join the Raising Anti-Diet Kids Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/antidietkids)
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
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
Join the Raising Anti-Diet Kids Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/antidietkids)
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
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
Join the Raising Anti-Diet Kids Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/antidietkids)
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
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)
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
In today's episode, Diana's alone with the mic, sharing her (unfortunately) unusual story of growing up without pressure to change her body or eat a certain way, never dieting and discovering the world of intuitive eating as an adult after becoming a dietitian. She explains what her parents did to set the stage for this experience and how it informs her passion for helping other families do the same.
Follow Diana on Instagram: @anti.diet.kids
⭐Sign up for the brand-new Anti-Diet Kids Newsletter⭐
Join the Raising Anti-Diet Kids Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/antidietkids)
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Today we're talking to Meredith Redmon, a former pediatric ICU nurse turned SAHM and author of the new book, "Dear Jesus, Send Coffee: Finding Joy in the Chaos of Early Motherhood." Meredith and Diana discuss:
- Expectations of new motherhood and how we blame ourselves when things go off course
- Navigating information on conceiving, birthing, breast and bottle feeding, sleep and feeding kids
- Alexandra Sacks's concept of matrescence
- How even the best laid plans to prevent picky eating often don't work out
- Supporting your child's individuality with feeding
- Pressures of perfect motherhood we pick up from social media (vs. reality)
- Is it possible to prevent eating issues in your kids?
- Meredith's story of recovering from an eating disorder and how it has shaped feeding her kids
- Finding your own way in a sea of information about best parenting practices
More about Meredith: Instagram | Website
Meredith's book, "Dear Jesus, Send Coffee" Amazon | Barnes and Noble
Follow Diana on Instagram: @anti.diet.kids
Join the Raising Anti-Diet Kids Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/antidietkids)
Anti-Diet 101 Resources:
- Good Housekeeping's Anti-Diet Article Series
- Christy Harrison's Book, "Anti-Diet" Amazon | Bookshop
- Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Amazon | Bookshop
Links included may be affiliate links.
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
On this episode of The Messy Intersection, we chat with Courtney Vickery, a registered dietitian who suffered from an eating disorder that onset at a very young age. Courtney and Diana discuss:
- Courtney's disordered eating/eating disorder throughout her childhood
- Courtney's healing story and her current practice as an eating disorders professional
- What parents can do to set the stage for eating disorder prevention
- What parents can do if they notice warning signs of an eating disorder in their child
- A handful of general hot tips about feeding kids
Content warning: This episode contains discussion of disordered eating behaviors that are not appropriate for children and may not be appropriate for anyone with an active eating disorder.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- If you suspect your child may have an eating disorder, please visit: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/
- How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder by Casey Crosbie and Wendy Sterling: Amazon | Bookshop (affiliate links)
- Maintenance Phase's episode "The President's Physical Fitness Test"
- More episodes of Maintenance Phase
More about Courtney: Instagram | Website
Follow Diana on Instagram: @anti.diet.kids
Join the Raising Anti-Diet Kids Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/antidietkids)
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
On this episode of The Messy Intersection, we hear from Brooke Miller, a registered dietitian who helps new moms ditch food rules and the scale to embrace truly healthy habits. She shares her story of her difficult pregnancy with her son, who has Down syndrome, as well as her struggles with miscarriage. Brooke also discusses her history with disordered eating, and how embracing intuitive eating and body neutrality has helped her in her journey to conceive.
Content warning: This episode contains a description of a difficult miscarriage.
More about Brooke: Instagram | Website
Follow Diana on Instagram: @anti.diet.kids
Join the Raising Anti-Diet Kids Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/antidietkids)