Episodes
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Episode 110: What if My Child Eats "Too Much" or "Too Little"?
In this episode: Anna and Elizabeth unpack one of the most common parent worries, how much kids eat. We explore how diet culture fuels fear, why restriction and pressure backfire, and how to use structure (not restriction or control) to support kids’ self-regulation. We discuss: * Why social…
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Episode 109: What To Do If Your Child Says "I'm Fat".
In our latest podcast episode, Anna and I talk about how parents can navigate a conversation, when a child says, “I’m fat.” In Episode 109, we unpack why this moment feels so charged, and how to respond with curiosity and care. We talk about the baggage our culture places on the word “fat,” why a...
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Podcast Episode 108 - Fueling the Future: Nourishing Teen Athletes
We have another episode for you where I’m joined by Anna Mackay, an original co-host of the podcast with Anna Lutz and me. Anna lives on the other side of the world these days, but she and I were able to catch up and record a few episodes this summer while she was visiting the US. I’m sure you’ll...
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Episode 107: What's My Role, Empowering Parents in Feeding Their Kids
We’re back with our latest episode of the Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast. In this week’s episode of the podcast Anna and I dive into the roles parents don’t need to take on (like controlling weight or forcing kids to clean their plates) and the roles that necessary for raising confident eaters.…
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Podcast Ep. 106 BE REAL's Let's Eat Nutrition Curriculum with Denise Hamburger and Selena Salfen
Greetings! You’re likely in the thick of it with back-to-school activities. But back-to-school isn’t just about packing lunches and adjusting to new schedules. It’s also a time when kids begin to hear harmful messages about food and bodies. In this episode of Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast…
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Ep. 105 Back-to-School Lunch Packing Made Easy
Hi Friends, It’s that time of year again - Back to School! We’ll be sharing plenty of back-to-school content over the coming weeks to help you feel ready to start the school year. If you’re dreading school lunch packing, then this podcast episode is for you. Anna and I offer realistic advice to...
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Podcast Episode 104: Meal Planning Made Easy: College Edition
HI Friends, Elizabeth here. I was so excited to have a chance to chat with Anna Mackay for our latest Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast Episode. In this episode, we offer supportive, non-diet guidance for students transitioning to college life or boarding school. Our conversation draws from both...
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Episode 103: Nutrition Made Simple
Hi Friends, In our latest podcast episode, we’re doing something we don’t often do. We’re actually talking about nutrition. We’re dietitians after all and we do enjoy the science of nutrition, but we also know that the child nutrition information out there can be overwhelming and stressful for...
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Podcast Ep. 102: Kids and Sweets - Tips for Ending the Battle
Hi Friends, In our latest episode, Anna and I get into a topic that brings up a lot of emotions for parents: How to navigate sweets with kids? We talk about into: * Why sugar has been demonized in our culture. * Diet culture and beliefs about sugar and “good parenting.” * What sugar is and why…
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Podcast Episode 101: Simple Tips for Restocking Your Pantry
Hi friends, If restocking your pantry feels overwhelming, or it’s something you just don’t like doing, you’re not alone. In our latest podcast episode, Anna and I chat about what it means to stock your pantry in a way that supports you and your family, without the pressure for a picture perfect...
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Podcast Episode 100: Reboot Your Meal Planning-No Perfection Required
Episode 100: Reboot Your Meal Planning We made it to 100 episodes! Wow!! We’re grateful to you all for being here and supporting our work to challenge diet culture and make family nutrition less stressful. In our latest episode, we’re celebrating with a topic that comes up a lot—meal planning.…
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Podcast Episode 99: Feeding is Parenting
Diet culture loves to tell parents exactly how to and how not to feed their kids. What happens often is well-intentioned parents abandon their parenting style(s) and find themselves swinging on a pendulum between permissive feeding practices and urging their kids to “take 3 more bites, or no...
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Podcast Episode 98: Our 5 Point Framework for Stress-Less Mealtimes
Anna and I are back with Podcast Episode 98! In this latest episode, we share our Sunny Side Up Nutrition Feeding Framework—our five-pillar framework at the heart of feeling more confident about feeding your kids. You’ll walk away with actionable steps you can take today to stress less about meal...
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NEW Podcast Episode: Understanding You're Child's Growth
Episode 97: Understanding Your Child’s Growth We're back! After a year-long break, Anna Lutz, MPH, RD/LDN, CEDRD-S, and Elizabeth Davenport, MPH, RD, LD, return to the Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast with an important conversation about how to support your child’s growth in a body-positive,...
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Improving Your Relationship with Food and Body in 2024
Anna, Anna, and Elizabeth discuss how setting a positive example of a healthy and balanced relationship with food can have a huge impact on our children’s body image and relationship with food, and helps prevent the development of eating disorders. We talk through some specific steps someone can...
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Autism and Eating Disorders with Livia Sara
Anna Lutz chats with Livia Sara, an autism eating disorder recovery coach. They discuss why we often see people with autistic traits develop disordered eating behaviors, and why the way in which we talk about food is especially important among people with autism. They also discuss protective ways...
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How Pressure Shows up in Feeding Children With Marsha Dunn Klein
Anna L. and Elizabeth chat with Marsha Dunn Klein, a Pediatric Occupational Therapist and expert in the field of feeding children. They discuss how pressure and other factors such as the sensory aspects of eating affect our children's relationship and connection to food. They explore strategies...
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Navigating Diet Culture During the Holidays with Jenna Werner
Anna L. and Elizabeth chat with Jenna Werner, a Registered Dietitian (RD), who runs a virtual nutrition coaching practice. They discuss the diet culture-fueled experiences people often face during the holidays, and tips for navigating these moments. They also explore some advice specifically…
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REBROADCAST: Podcast Ep. 92 - The Scariest Thing at Halloween is Not the Sugar with Sammy Previte
Anna L. and Elizabeth chat with Sammy Previte, a Registered Dietitian (RD), Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Certified Personal Trainer, and the Founder of Find Food Freedom®. Find Food Freedom® is a virtual private practice where Sammy and her team are dedicated to their mission of helping...
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Talking to Kids About Body Size, Health and Social Identities with Mary Himmelstein
Anna M. and Elizabeth chat with Dr. Mary Himmelstein a professor and researcher in psychological sciences at Kent State University. Mary is the director of the SWAG Lab, a social and health psychology lab where she examines biopsychosocial mechanisms which influence health and disease processes,...
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Partnering with Teachers for Protective Nutrition Education with Gwen Kostal
Anna L. and Elizabeth chat with Gwen Kostal, a Registered Dietitian who helps teachers and educators teach about food safely in the classroom. When Gwen first started out as a dietitian, she was trained to contribute to diet culture, encourage weight loss, recommend restrictions, and talk to kids...
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Disordered Eating in Young Athletes with Georgie Buckley
Anna M. chats with Dr. Georgie Buckley, a dietitian and postdoctoral researcher who currently works as an eating disorder and body image consultant. Georgie is also a queer, neurodivergent woman, and a trauma survivor with a history of an eating disorder. They discuss: The nature of disordered...
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Packing School Lunches with Diana Rice
Anna L. and Elizabeth chat with Diana Rice, a registered dietitian who works with both children and adults to put positive family feeding dynamics into practice, and heal food-related issues brought on by medical conditions or years of chronic dieting. They discuss: Why packing school lunches can...
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Yummy Toddler Food Dinnertime SOS with Amy Palanjian
Anna M. and Elizabeth chat with Amy Palanjian, a recipe developer, content creator, cookbook author and mom to three kids. Amy is the creator of Yummy Toddler Food, the go-to resource for busy parents to create meals families swear by. They discuss: How the Yummy Toddler Food blog and social…
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How to Help a Friend with an Eating Disorder with the Dear Me Team
Anna L. and Elizabeth chat with Aerin Atinsky and Alexa Moses, two of the founders and directors of Dear Me, an affiliate program of the National Alliance for Eating Disorders. They discuss: Why eating disorder rates have skyrocketed over the last several years, especially in the case of teens....
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Permission to Eat Breakfast for Dinner
Anna, Anna and Elizabeth chat about meal planning, ways to alleviate pressure around meal times, strategies to get meals on the table (especially if you are not into meal planning), and easy meals to add to your need-dinner-in-less-than-20-minutes list that require very little preparation and…
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Ditching Diets with Lisa Folden
Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Dr. Lisa Folden, a licensed physical therapist, NASM certified behavior change specialist and Anti-diet Health & Body Image Coach. They discuss: The importance of positive messaging around bodies and the process of self-acceptance. The...
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Gut Health & Gastro Issues with Emily Arkin
Anna M. and Anna L. chat with Emily Arkin, a Washington, D.C.-based registered dietitian nutritionist. Emily owns the group practice RD Emily & Team and specializes in eating disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, and Health At Every Size®-aligned medical nutrition therapy. They discuss…
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Filtering Nutrition Information on Social Media
Anna, Anna and Elizabeth discuss how a proliferation of problematic and sometimes outright false nutrition information on social media makes it increasingly difficult for parents and teens to discern good nutrition information from bad. We discuss: The problem with popular accounts that claim...
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Feeding A Family with Diverse Needs with Leslie Jordan Garcia
Anna and Elizabeth chat with Leslie Jordan Garcia, a multi-certified anti-diet eating disorder recovery and wellness practitioner. They discuss: The challenges that parents face when feeding their families such as differing needs and weight stigma from health professionals. The specific obstacles...
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Cooking with Kids with Catherine Lea
Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Catherine Lea, a longtime food educator in public schools, and creator of Stir The Pot Kitchen, an online space where kids learn cooking skills. They discuss: Positive ways to teach children about food. The benefits of cooking and…
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The Harm of Wellness Culture with Christy Harrison
Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Christy Harrison, a journalist, registered dietitian, and certified intuitive eating counselor. Christy is the author of a new book, coming in April 2023, The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious...
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Fat Talk with Virginia Sole-Smith
Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport chat with Virginia Sole-Smith, a journalist and author of the recently published book Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, that investigates how the “war on childhood obesity” has caused kids of all ages to absorb a daily onslaught of body shame from...
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Supporting Children to Eat and Grow with Emiko Davies
Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Emiko Davies, an award-winning Australian-Japanese food writer, photographer and cookbook author based in Italy. They discuss: Emiko’s experience growing up in an anti-diet household. Ways to navigate cooking for a family when one (or…
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How to Support Children in Larger Bodies with Ginny Jones
Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Ginny Jones, the founder of More-Love.org, and a parent coach who helps parents of kids with body image issues, eating issues, and eating disorders. They discuss: How parents can support children in larger bodies. The impact on children…
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Feeding Your Family with Nicole Cruz
Anna Lutz and Anna Mackay have a conversation with Nicole Cruz, a Registered Dietitian specializing in eating disorder recovery, intuitive eating, and family nutrition. They discuss: Age-appropriate nutrition education, and how to talk to kids about “health”. Strategies to deal with adults (eg....
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Shifting the Way We Approach Exercise with Michael Ulloa
Tigger Warning: Discussion of weight loss, fad diets, and suicide. Anna Mackay and Elizabeth Davenport chat with Michael Ulloa, a personal trainer working to shift the conversation around exercise, and breaking down barriers to health & fitness, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They discuss: Whether...
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The New American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines with Katja Rowell, MD
Anna Lutz sat down with Katja Rowell, M.D., a family doctor, author, and responsive childhood feeding specialist to talk about the new AAP guidelines. They discuss: What pediatric clinical practice guidelines are and why the AAP releases them periodically. The details of the recently released...
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Expat Life in Timor Leste: Being Flexible is Key with Karen (“Kip”) Shrosbery
Anna Mackay and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Karen Shrosbery (known as Kip), a Journalism Trainer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s International Development Unit mentoring women in Asia and the Pacific. Kip currently lives in Dili, Timor Leste and is Anna M’s…
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Feeding Challenges: An OT's Perspective with Rose Langston
Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Rose Langston, MS, OTR/L, an occupational therapist and clinic manager at Pediatric Possibilities in Raleigh, NC. They discuss: The role of occupational therapy (OT) when working with families and children with feeding concerns. Some…
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Tips for Navigating the Holidays (Repost)
ICYMI! Since the holidays are still in full swing, for our last episode of season 3 we decided to rebroadcast this one featuring Anna, Anna and Elizabeth talking about ways to navigate food around the holiday’s, and boundary setting in situations where there is negative talk about food and…
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Getting Diet Culture Out of Sports Culture with Rachel Manor
Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Rachel Manor, a Registered Dietitian and Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics. They discuss: How diet culture shows up in sports. The most important things for parents to understand about kids & teens who are involved in sport (hint…
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Tips for Navigating the Holidays
Anna, Anna and Elizabeth chat about navigating food around the holiday’s, and ways to set boundaries around negative talk about food and bodies. We discuss: Factors that contribute to an increase in diet talk, and food and body shaming during the holidays. Strategies to navigate this negative...
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Weight Inclusive Personal Styling with Dacy Gillespie
Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Dacy Gillespie, an online personal stylist who helps women uncover their authentic style. They discuss: The challenges of clothes shopping. The pressures faced by children and teens to looks and dress a certain way What parents can say to...
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Male Body Image and How We Define Masculinity with Aaron Flores
Anna Mackay and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Aaron Flores, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who specializes in male body image. Dietitians Unplugged Podcast Sunny Side Up Nutrition Podcast Lutz, Alexander & Associates Nutrition Therapy Pinney Davenport Nutrition...
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Simplifying Your Grocery Shopping with Lauren McIlwaine
Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Lauren McIlwaine, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, specializing in nutrition therapy for children, adolescents, and adults with eating disorders. They discuss: Specific strategies to simplify grocery shopping. The challenges…
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How to Challenge Weight Stigma with Dr. Fiona Willer
Anna Mackay and Anna Lutz have a conversation with Dr. Fiona Willer, an Australian advanced practice dietitian, academic, advocate, educator and organizational consultant on a mission to make the health sector a safe and inclusive place for larger-bodied people. They discuss: How Fiona decided to...
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Parent Letters for Diet-Free Schools with Johanna Kandel and McCall Dempsey
Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Johanna Kandel, founder and CEO of the Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness, and McCall Dempsey, founder and director of Southern Smash. Sunny Side Up Nutrition and the Alliance teamed up to create five parent letters that can be...
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Opting Out of Diet Culture’s Pre- and Postpartum Pressures with Shreen El Masry
Anna Mackay and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Shreen El Masry, a body inclusive Personal Trainer and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, about the enormous pressure mothers often feel to shrink their bodies after giving birth in order to conform to unrealistic and harmful...
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The Benefits of Bringing Yoga into School Classrooms with Brigitte Pollio
Anna Lutz and Elizabeth Davenport have a conversation with Brigitte Pollio, a yoga teacher who trains both kids and school teachers, about the ways in which yoga can be used to connect body, mind and spirit, which is beneficial for everyone, but especially children. They discuss: The benefits of...