Aug 12, 2019 | Eating Competence, Professionals
Newsflash! Woman breaks dieting cycle, discovers stopping point! Sally is a 28-year old, unmarried, professional woman who learned from her mom at a young age “how to diet.” She was a regular attendee at Weight Watchers meetings by the time she was...
Jul 19, 2019 | Eating Competence
Brenda is a 45-year old mother of four whose “eating-without-eating” consisted of finishing off her children’s plates of food while standing at the kitchen counter, bingeing on cookies while standing in the pantry where nobody was watching, and...
Jun 14, 2019 | Adult, Eating, Eating Competence, Weight
An all too typical first meeting with a new client struggling with eating, weight and with their relationship with food goes something like this, “I have issues and I’m so hoping you can help me. I’ve been trying to lose weight on and off for as long as I can...
May 5, 2019 | Family meals, Feeding, Pressure
Do you remember when you were a kid and your swimming teacher wanted you to jump into the pool from the high dive board? At every swimming lesson, the pressure just built up to jump off that board. It wasn’t even required to pass the class, but the other kids were...
Apr 24, 2019 | Eating, Joy
Canada, you’re the latest to acknowledge that pleasure in eating is not only okay, but important! You have left US behind. Our neighbors to the north have re-written their dietary guidelines to recognize the importance of joy in eating. That’s something...
Apr 14, 2019 | Eating, Family meals, Food insecsurity
How frequently do you worry about having money for food? Do you go hungry in order to provide for your children? Your concern for them is impressive. However, children know you are doing it, and they feel bad about it. Why not consider some surprising strategies that...
Feb 23, 2019 | Family meals
How you feed your child differs from one developmental stage to the next. Initially you feed from the breast or from a bottle, holding your infant close to you. Their task is to suck, swallow and breathe whilst you support their body in your arms. Once they start...
Nov 25, 2018 | Division of Responsibility in Feeding, Family meals, Medication
Parents whose children who are being treated with medication for ADHD have particular feeding challenges. The medication spoils children’s appetites, children eat poorly, and parents worry that their child’s growth will be stunted. Often, parents and their children...
Nov 7, 2018 | Feeding, Nutrition
The bad press surrounding saturated fat has mostly harmed the reputation and enjoyment of milk and milk products, since the early 1970s. Not all saturated fat is bad However, the evidence for branding saturated fat in dairy foods as “bad”, was never too strong to...
Sep 5, 2018 | Baby, Feeding
Just when you start to relax, now comes word that you have to be careful not to overfeed your baby! Always ready to pack for a guilt trip, having grownup children doesn’t save us from second-guessing what we did back then! Not to worry! Relaxing and having good times...
