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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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.
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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The Messy Intersection
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.
