78: Reversing the Damage: Diet Culture & Our Children; Interview with Megan of Feeding Littles

The Confidence Project Podcast · Oct 18, 2018 · 45m

I've wondered for a long time how dieting and diet culture effects children. Do kids pick up on their mother's eating habits? How damaging is it to demonize foods for our kids- even if we really, TRULY feel that things like donuts and cookies aren't healthy?

Turns out- all of my suspicions were correct.

A neurotic relationship with food so commonly begins with a parent (or parents) who are also neurotic around foods.

Here are just *some* of things that lots of parents do out of love for their child that might be potentially damaging down the road:

-Rewarding behavior or test scores with food…