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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Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
***The Messy Intersection is taking a break until November of 2021. Please enjoy the archive and connect with Diana through The Messy Intersection Podcast Community to chat about future episode ideas. Thanks for your support!***
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This episode is a follow-up to episode 014. My guest Gwen Kostal of Dietitians4Teachers and I will discuss how school assignments rooted in diet culture show up from elementary school up through high school. We discuss:
- How Dietitians4Teachers aims to support teachers and provide them with resources to teach children about food in a positive way.
- How diet culture shows up in curriculums from K-12 in both Canada and the U.S.
- The language about food and health that tends to appear in U.S. state and Canadian province curriculums and how that language can be interpreted into assignments that either do or do not help children develop a positive relationship with food.
- The types of school assignments that hold the potential to encourage behaviors that may lead to eating disorders.
- How stock images and avatars used in educational settings, especially in virtual learning, tend to reinforce the thin ideal and perpetuate weight stigma.
- The challenges that teachers face as generalists who are required to teach nutrition and health lessons without a formal background in these subjects.
- How teachers and parents can recognize assignments that may not be in a child's best interest when it comes to helping them cultivate a positive relationship with food.
- How teaching about food can positively intersect with other areas of the curriculum such as math and science.
- Whether lessons on what different nutrients do in our bodies are appropriate for elementary school age children.
- At what age it's appropriate to teach students about calories and macronutrients and how to do so in a way that does not encourage dieting.
- How teaching kids to use critical thinking when faced with nutrition and health assignments helps kids develop resilience against diet culture messages.
Follow Gwen:
Instagram: @dietitians4teachers
Follow Diana:
Instagram: @baby.steps.dietitian
Visit Diana's website to learn more about her counseling services:
(https://dianakrice.com/)
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