Sunny Side Up Nutrition

Elizabeth Davenport and Anna Mackay sit down with Sarah Ganginis, a non-diet dietitian who takes a weight-inclusive approach to nutrition and health.   In addition to seeing adults and children in her private practice, Sarah has dedicated much of her time advocating for change in the school nutrition and health curriculums in the state of Maryland. We chat about: Troubling nutrition lessons in sch...

This week we sat down with author, school consultant, speaker, and educator Ana Homayoun to talk about social media wellness. We chat about Ana's latest book Social Media Wellness  and her framework for how families can approach social media in their lives. Ana has many years of experience working directly with teens and has seen how social media has become such a big part of their lives.  Rather...

An interview with journalist and registered dietitian-to-be, Christine Byrne. She writes about food, nutrition and physical activity with an anti-diet, Health At Every Size®, body positive, Intuitive Eating perspective. We touch on lots of topics including:  Her path from line cook in a restaurant to a graduate student in the Masters of Public Health/Nutrition program at UNC Chapel Hill. (This hap...

Anna, Elizabeth & Anna have a loose chat about pantries, cooking and meal planning, with lots of laughs thrown in. We talk about all sorts of kitchen & food-related things, including: Why meal planning doesn’t have to be rigid   and grounded in diet culture How Covid-19 has affected our meal planning & cooking Pantry items we keep on-hand Our go-to meals Links (note - there are lots of great recip...

Anna Lutz and Anna Mackay sit down with Katherine Zavodni to talk about: Typical weight gain and body composition changes during puberty The age ranges of typical development How parents can talk to children in a positive way about body changes How diet culture affects how parents and children's think about and talk about puberty Links and Resources:  Katherine Zavodni Nutrition Your Child's Weigh...

In the final episode of our 5-part series on raising competent eaters we talk about: The myth that eating sugary food causes hyperactivity (aka a sugar rush) What’s up with pre-teen weight gain The negative influence of social media “fitspo” (#fitspo or #fitspiration) accounts Navigating a kid wanting to become a vegetarian or a vegan Links: Why it’s Not Sugar Addiction by Virginia Sole Smith Defl...

In the fourth episode of our 5-part series on raising competent eaters we talk about: Fueling young athletes, from beginner to elite Fostering a healthy relationship with movement Importance of adequacy and consistency Sports coaches handing out nutrition advice - is it appropriate? How rigid meal planning can backfire Red flags to watch out for in young athletes and non-athletes Links: Opal Food...

In the third episode of our 5-part series on raising competent eaters we talk about: How negative body talk impacts children Strategies to neutralize negative body talk Body hate vs. body acceptance vs. body positivity How parents can manage potentially harmful body talk in pediatric visits or nurses offices Growth charts, BMI & why its not helpful for kids to be warned about weight How parents en...

In the second episode of our 5-part series on raising competent eaters we talk about: Raising a competent eater vs. an intuitive eater What happens when parents micromanage their child's food The concept of nutritional ‘scaffolding’ Red flags to look out for, particularly for pre-teens & teens Problematic terminology such as “healthy food vs. junk” or “red light vs. green light” foods Links: Intui...

In the first episode of our 5-part series on raising competent eaters we talk about the ways in which our food environment growing up affects the way we feed our children; diet culture and how it influences the way we eat and feed our families; Ellyn Satter’s ‘Division of Responsibility’; what happens when we pressure children to eat certain foods at mealtime; age-appropriate eating and food expos...

Introducing the Sunny Side Up Nutrition podcast, a series of informative, but light-hearted conversations about nutrition, movement & body image as they relate to kids (toddler to teen). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit snutrition.substack.com