Family Meals Focus Articles
Written by Ellyn Satter, Family Meals Focus articles address the nuances of the Satter models with different populations, settings and situations. A new article is written or updated every month. Use the index of topics below to see what Ellyn has to say in almost 10 years of Family Meals Focus articles!
Written for the public as well as professionals, some editions are slanted one way, and some the other.
Index of Topics
Baby/infant feeding, growth, nutrition
- Baby-Led Weaning
- Big Babies Do Not Become Obese
- Big Baby, Big Parents: No Problem!
- Breastfeeding Hullabaloo
- Breastfeeding In The Second Year And Beyond
- Catch-up Growth: Normal For Premature Babies
- Division Of Responsibility In Feeding Works For Special Needs
- Early Infant Weight Gain, Obesity, And Adult Disease
- Feeding In Your Baby’s First Year
- How To Feed Your Child: Birth Through Adolescence
- Pregnancy Weight Gain Won’t Make Your Baby Fat
- Pureed Food In Pouches: Boon Or Bane?
Child feeding, growth, nutrition
- Adoptive And Foster Child Feeding Problems
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) position statement, ”Lipid screening and cardiovascular disease in children”
- ARFID: What is it? What does it have to do with feeding dynamics and eating competence?
- Child on psychotropic medication
- Child overweight: are current guidelines helpful? do they do harm?
- Children who are obsessed with food
- Court-ordered placement for child obesity: what can you do to help?
- Do children lose the ability to self-regulate?
- Food restriction in disguise
- Giving children autonomy with eating: what it is and isn’t
- Managing “junk” food AKA sweet, chips, sodas
- Moves and counter-moves with feeding your child
- Nurturing children at school
- Nutriendo a los Niños en la Escuela
- Overweight kids are not gluttons
- Picky eating: Born or made?
- Preschooler who gained too much weight
- Review, The Two Bite Club
- sDOR.2-6yTM validation transforms nutrition intervention
- Should you control portion sizes?
- Should you put your child on skim milk?
- Sticky topic of Halloween candy
- Toddlers who “can’t get filled up”
- Toddler feeding: A series of unfortunate events
- Toddler feeding: the child who won’t eat table food
- Toddler feeding: What’s the big deal?
- Using “forbidden” food
- Understanding and using z-scores to track children’s growth
- Vegetable agenda: Getting children to eat “nutritious” food
Clinical care, education, food selection
- Advice for an undergraduate dietitian: Practicing ecSatter
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) position statement, ”Lipid screening and cardiovascular disease in children”
- Are we teaching our children conflict and anxiety about food?
- ARFID: What is it? What does it have to do with feeding dynamics and eating competence?
- Collective impact: multidisciplinary, collaborative practice
- Control vs trust in nutrition education
- Counseling with the Satter Eating Competence Model
- Court-ordered placement for child obesity: what can you do to help?
- Cultural issues in feeding
- Dieting and mental health
- Division of responsibility in feeding works for special needs
- Do children lose the ability to self-regulate?
- Doctors and weight: Helping without harming
- Does following the division of responsibility mean you have to starve children to make them eat?
- Does the division of responsibility in feeding work in clinical care?
- Eating competence and nutrition facts labels
- Eating competence: food acceptance
- Feeding neglected children mandates division of responsibility in feeding
- Food restriction in disguise
- Hierarchy of food need
- Holiday eating success story
- Managing “junk” food AKA sweet, chips, sodas
- Picky eating in adults: How to help
- Picky eating: Born or made?
- Picky eating: The adult dilemma
- Pregnancy: 1 Weight gain
- Pregnancy: 2 The weight dilemma
- Pregnancy: 3 Weight restriction, harming without helping
- Pregnancy: 4 The joy of eating
- Pregnancy: 5 Weight gain won’t make your baby fat
- Setting the stage for telling parents assessment results
- Should you control portion sizes?
- Should you put your child on skim milk?
- Size acceptance
- Talking with your child about weight
- Understanding and using z-scores to track children’s growth
- Using “forbidden” food
- Versions of internally regulated eating
- Vegetable agenda: Getting children to eat “nutritious” food
- What does eating competence research say about eating disorders
Division of Responsibility in Feeding
- Feeding your adolescent
- Feeding in your baby’s first year
- Feeding is parenting
- Feeding neglected children mandates division of responsibility in feeding
- Feeding pressure on all sides
- Feeding toddlers on the go
- Food restriction in disguise
- Giving children autonomy with eating: what it is and isn’t
- How to feed your child: birth through adolescence
- How to get your child to eat
- Managing “junk” food AKA sweet, chips, sodas
- Medication and the division of responsibility in feeding
- Moves and counter-moves with feeding your child
Eating Competence
- Advice for an undergraduate dietitian: Practicing ecSatter
- Are you ready to stop feeling bad about your eating?
- Control vs trust in nutrition education
- Counseling with the Satter Eating Competence Model
- Counterfeit permission
- Eat what you like and be healthy!
- ecSatter gets high marks for implementing the Dietary Guidelines
- Eating competence and nutrition facts labels
- Eating competence
- Eating competence in action: Season’s eatings
- Eating competence: Context-management skills
- Eating competence: Eating attitudes
- Eating competence: food acceptance
- Eating competence: Holiday eating in the time of COVID
- Eating competence: internal regulation
- Eating competence: putting it all together
- Taste of eating competence for those struggling with eating
- Eating, feeding . . . and life
- Emotional eating
- Family meals are essential
- Hierarchy of food need
- Holiday eating success story
- Managing “junk” food AKA sweet, chips, sodas
- Picky eating in adults: How to help
- Picky eating: Born or made?
- Picky eating: The adult dilemma
- Practicing nutritional judo
- Pregnancy: 1 Weight gain
- Pregnancy: 2 The weight dilemma
- Pregnancy: 3 Weight restriction, harming without helping
- Pregnancy: 4 The joy of eating
- Pregnancy: 5 Weight gain won’t make your baby fat
- Preventing holiday weight gain
- Size acceptance
- Stop being hysterical about “obesity!”
- Using “forbidden” food
- Versions of internally regulated eating
- What does eating competence research say about eating disorders
Eating disorders
- Are we teaching our children conflict and anxiety about food?
- ARFID: What is it? What does it have to do with feeding dynamics and eating competence?
- Child on psychotropic medication
- Children who are obsessed with food
- Counseling with the Satter Eating Competence Model
- Dieting and mental health
- Eating competence
- Emotional eating
- Feeding is parenting
- Feeding your adolescent
- Hierarchy of food need
- Holiday eating success story
- Picky eating in adults: How to help
- Pregnancy: The weight dilemma
- Setting the stage for telling parents assessment results
- Size acceptance
- Stop being hysterical about “obesity!”
- Taste of eating competence for those struggling with eating
- Toddlers who “can’t get filled up”
- Understanding and using z-scores to track children’s growth
- Versions of internally regulated eating
- What does eating competence research say about eating disorders
Family meals and snacks
- Celebrate National Family Day with a family dinner
- Eating competence
- Eating competence: Context-management skills
- Taste of eating competence for those struggling with eating
- Family meals are essential
- Family meals in restaurants
- Family meals mean love and security
- Family meals: Getting the meal habit
- Family meals: Let’s be realistic
- Family-style meals
- Feeding toddlers on the go
- Feeding your adolescent
- Food restriction in disguise
- How to feed your child: birth through adolescence
- How to get your child to eat
- Managing “junk” food AKA sweet, chips, sodas
- Moves and counter-moves with feeding your child
- Should you control portion sizes?
- Should you follow MyPlate?
- Should you put your child on skim milk?
- Vegetable agenda: Getting children to eat “nutritious” food
General interest
Nutrition policy
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) position statement, ”Lipid screening and cardiovascular disease in children”
- Child overweight: are current guidelines helpful? do they do harm?
- Dietary Guidelines 2010 and eating competence
- Eat what you like and be healthy!
- Eating competence and nutrition facts labels
- Eating competence
- ecSatter gets high marks for implementing the Dietary Guidelines
- Labeling overweight children as obese
- Pregnancy: The weight dilemma
- Schools are not weight-loss camps
- Should you control portion sizes?
- Should you follow MyPlate?
- Should you put your child on skim milk?
- Stop being hysterical about “obesity!”
- USDA FNS child feeding policies and recommendations: what is the role for the division of responsibility in feeding?
Overweight, obesity
- Big babies do not become obese
- Big baby, big parents: No problem!
- Breastfeeding hullabaloo
- Catchup growth: Normal for premature babies
- Child overweight: are current guidelines helpful? do they do harm?
- Children who are obsessed with food
- Countywide obesity prevention – speaking with one voice
- Court-ordered placement for child obesity: what can you do to help?
- Dieting and mental health
- Do children lose the ability to self-regulate?
- Doctors and weight: Helping without harming
- Early infant weight gain, obesity, and adult disease
- Eating competence: internal regulation
- Food restriction in disguise
- Giving children autonomy with eating: what it is and isn’t
- Helping without harming with child overweight
- Holiday eating success story
- Labeling overweight children as obese
- Overweight kids are not gluttons
- Preschooler who gained too much weight
- Pregnancy: 1 Weight gain
- Pregnancy: 2 The weight dilemma
- Pregnancy: 3 Weight restriction, harming without helping
- Schools are not weight-loss camps
- Should you control portion sizes?
- Should you put your child on skim milk?
- Size acceptance
- Stop being hysterical about “obesity!”
- Talking with your child about weight
- Toddlers who “can’t get filled up”
- Understanding and using z-scores to track children’s growth
- Versions of internally regulated eating
School and community
- Are we teaching our children conflict and anxiety about food?
- Celebrate National Family Day with a family dinner
- Collective impact: multidisciplinary, collaborative practice
- Countywide obesity prevention – speaking with one voice
- Court-ordered placement for child obesity: what can you do to help?
- Cultural issues in feeding
- Feeding is parenting
- Nurturing children at school
- Nutriendo a los Niños en la Escuela
- School nutrition horror stories
- Schools are not weight-loss camps
- Stop being hysterical about “obesity!”
- USDA FNS child feeding policies and recommendations: what is the role for the division of responsibility in feeding?
Other
- Adoptive and foster child feeding problems
- ARFID: What is it? What does it have to do with feeding dynamics and eating competence?
- Catchup growth: Normal for premature babies
- Division of responsibility in feeding works for special needs
- Does following the division of responsibility mean you have to starve children to make them eat?
- Does the division of responsibility in feeding work in clinical care?
- Feeding neglected children mandates division of responsibility in feeding
- Medication and the division of responsibility in feeding
- Picky eating: Born or made?