Podcasts

In this week’s episode, Anna & Anna have an important conversation with Lee Beers, MD, FAAP about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), and the ways in which mental health is linked with other health issues. Dr. Beers is a Professor of Pediatrics, and the Medical Director for Community Health and Advocacy at Children’s National Hospital. Dr. Beers was also selected by peers in 2019 to serve as the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics president in 2021.

Anna Mackay & Elizabeth sit down with Rachel Coleman & Tina LaBoy to take a dive into family diet legacies and what we can do to break the cycle. Rachel is a licensed marriage and family therapist, Tina is a Certified Eating Disorders Registered Dietitian as well as a personal trainer, and together they co-host…

About our guests: Virginia Sole-Smith is a journalist and author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America. She is a frequent contributor to the The New York Times parenting section, and many other publications. Amy Palanjian, is a writer, editor and recipe developer. She is the founder of Yummy Toddler…

Anna Mackay & Anna Lutz chat with Claire Neary, M.Ed., C.S.W., the co-founder and director of My Remarkable Self, a program that offers training in communication and problem solving that is tailored to address specific issues and challenges facing children ages six through eighteen. We discuss: How puberty can be tough for kids, especially if…

We decided it would be fun & interesting to interview our kids so we sat down with 4 daughters, ranging from age 10-16. We heard about the kind of food & body messages they hear at home, and how these messages differ from what they hear among friends, and generally in the world. Some key…

Anna Mackay & Anna Lutz chat with U.K. based personal trainer and PhD researcher Jake Gifford about his research and his transition from being a weight-normative personal trainer (emphasis on weight & weight loss) to a weight-inclusive personal trainer (emphasis on the many variables that influence health, other than weight). We also discuss: The many…

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…

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…

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…

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: 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…

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 …

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…

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 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…

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”…

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…

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).