Here’s a milestone to celebrate: Last week Amy Palanjian and I posted the 60th episode of the Comfort Food Podcast, our podcast about the joys (and meltdowns!) of feeding our families and ourselves. Our guest, Jessica Jones, RDN of …
Here’s a milestone to celebrate: Last week Amy Palanjian and I posted the 60th episode of the Comfort Food Podcast, our podcast about the joys (and meltdowns!) of feeding our families and ourselves. Our guest, Jessica Jones, RDN of …
ELEMENTAL // JANUARY 2020
There’s a movement outside of gyms to make fitness a safe space. Whether the industry will ever fully embrace body positivity remains an open question.
Sometimes people are surprised to learn that I write so much about eating disorders and food struggles, even though I’ve never had an eating disorder myself. The first answer to that is: I’m a woman who grew up in modern …
NEW YORK TIMES // JANUARY 2020
Here’s how to keep diet culture off your family table.
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a restful holiday break and is ready to save the world now because 2020, we’ve got work to do. But first, a look backwards.
Here are my favorite things I wrote last year……
NEW YORK TIMES // DECEMBER 2019
‘Division of responsibility in feeding’ is an approach that may help picky eaters and food-fixated kids alike. What it won’t do: make anyone finish their broccoli.
A few weeks ago, America’s Drunk Moms (Hoda and Jenna) decided to intermittently fast their way through the holiday season and we’ve been subjected to all manner of diet culture-y banality from them ever since. When I posted about it…
I talked about this on Instagram recently and it seemed to resonate with a lot of you…
The vast majority of the people writing/studying/advocating about how to feed kids are operating from the premise that 1) kids don’t eat enough …
NEW YORK TIMES // NOVEMBER 2019
Why it’s really O.K. if your child eats only rolls (again) this year.
A question that I’m asked repeatedly (by readers, podcast listeners, and social media folk) is some version of: “Do you have something my spouse can read to get on board with this?” (Sometimes replace spouse with parent or babysitter. Mostly, …
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