The top question I receive from family, friends, and people on social media is, “How do I raise my child to have a healthy relationship with food and body?”. For many people, they reach out to me because they have struggled, often since childhood, with disordered eating, chronic dieting, and body hatred and desperately do […]
This blog post has been in the works for quite some time but perhaps it’s apropos to publish it on Mother’s Day. For all the mothers reading this post- keep up the awesome work! Several weeks ago I received a request to write a post about feeding toddlers. It’s a fantastic topic! Many parents are […]
So it’s been over a month since The Boston Globe published an article“BMI screening will begin this fall in Mass. schools.” This topic has weighed heavily on my mind (yikes, no pun intended) but I still seem to be combing through all of my thoughts on the topic. The article states that starting this fall […]
I just got back from serving on a health panel at my church here in Cambridge. I thoroughly enjoyed talking about my topic of choice (food and nutrition) for two hours. While there was a wide variety of questions that I addressed, a common theme focused on the feeding relationship between parents and children. While […]