From Picky to Powerful

From Picky to Powerful
Author: Maryann Jacobsen
Publisher: Maryann Jacobsen
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2016-12-20
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

Are you tired of fighting your picky eater? Have you tried all the typical advice to no avail? Renowned family nutrition expert Maryann Jacobsen’s transformative approach will set you free. Instead of delivering empty promises that leave you feeling guilty, From Picky to Powerful will change your outlook on picky eating forever. By explaining the scientific reasons why most children become picky in the first place – and the importance of individual differences – you will come to understand your child’s eating behaviors. After reading this book, you’ll learn: The difference between normal and problematic picky eating, so you can seek professional help if needed. How most cases of picky eating are a normal part of the way children develop, with real benefits. That real progress comes from changing your approach, not trying to control your child. Surprisingly simple research-based strategies to help expand your child’s palate and bring peace to your family’s table. How confidence, peace, and freedom come from taking control of what you can, while letting go of the rest.

How to Raise a Mindful Eater

How to Raise a Mindful Eater
Author: Maryann Jacobsen
Publisher: Maryann Jacobsen
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2016-12-28
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

Raising a Mindful Eater in a Mindless Eating World Whether your child is obsessed with sweets, a big (or small) eater, or you simply want to avoid future eating problems, you are in the right place. In How to Raise a Mindful Eater, family nutrition expert Maryann Jacobsen shows you step-by-step how to nurture your child’s emerging relationship with food. The book pinpoints 8 Powerful Principles that give you the best shot at raising a mindful eater, someone who listens to their body, eats for nourishment and enjoyment, and naturally eats in moderation. The book will teach you how to: Encourage an Internal Approach to Eating: Discover how to structure meals, set limits, help children eat based on internal cues of hunger and fullness, and pay attention while eating. Balance Food for Nourishment and Enjoyment: Find lasting ways to make nutrition rewarding, sweets less desirable, and eating well a pleasurable experience. Teach Body Appreciation and Self Care: Uncover secrets to teaching body appreciation, dealing with weight issues, combating the media’s Thin Ideal, and nurturing self-care. Ensure Mental and Emotional Happiness: Escape barriers to raising mindful eaters such as stress, poor self-regulation, dealing with difficult feelings, and a lack of connection between parent and child.

Stories of Extreme Picky Eating

Stories of Extreme Picky Eating
Author: Jennifer Friedman
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1645671933

Discover the Strategies That Helped the Most Extreme Picky Eaters and That Can Help Your Picky Eater, Too “Is this normal picky eating stuff, or is there more going on here?” It’s a question many parents worry about, and the same question one mom asked Jennifer Friedman in a session about her son Ryder, who struggled to eat more than chicken nuggets and french fries. In Stories of Extreme Picky Eating, Jennifer invites you into her nutritional therapy office to meet real kids struggling with serious food aversions, and learn the strategies that helped them come to eat a wider variety of nutritious foods with more ease. You’ll meet Jackson, an eight-year-old whose diet used to consist entirely of packaged fruit and veggie puree pouches, milk and crackers. You’ll meet Ruby, a bright and bubbly seven-year-old, who ate little more than sugar-laden baked goods and packaged snacks, and who struggled with an extremely sensitive gag reflex. And you’ll meet five more children whose stories are as fascinating to read as they are enlightening to reveal the root causes of picky eating. Backed by cutting-edge research—and including kid-friendly activities and intervention plans—this book will help you understand the complex issues that drive children’s picky eating habits, and implement key strategies that can set them on the path to enjoying a more diverse, nutritious diet.

Read It Before You Eat It

Read It Before You Eat It
Author: Bonnie Taub-Dix
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1101458976

A nationally recognized nutrition expert tells shoppers exactly what should be going into their carts. The whole foods movement explained how to shop healthfully at the farmers market, but how can families shop smart at Wal-Mart? There is a wealth of information on labels, but most people have no idea that products labeled "trans-fat free" can contain trans-fats or that "all natural" is a meaningless phrase. Readers can bring this handy guide to the supermarket to help them interpret labels like a pro. How much sodium is too much? Are all carbs the kiss of death? And what does "organic" really mean? Renowned nutritionist Bonnie Taub-Dix clears up the confusion by showing readers how to make sense of the labels and sidestep tricky marketing ploys. She walks them through a typical grocery store and points out the best food choices to make in every aisle.

Fearless Feeding

Fearless Feeding
Author: Jill Castle
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2013-04-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1118421558

An essential guide to understanding and improving any child's eating habits This comprehensive nutrition guide gives parents the tools for encouraging kids of any age on the path to healthy eating. Pediatric nutrition experts Castle and Jacobsen simplify nutrition information, describe how children's eating habits correspond to their stage of development, provide step-by-step feeding guidance, and show parents how to relax about feeding their kids and get healthy meals on the table fast. Prepares parents by explaining what to expect at different stages of growth, whether it be picky eating, growth spurts or poor body image Helps parents work through problems such as food allergies, nutrient deficiencies and weight management, and identifying if and when they need to seek professional help Empowers parents to take a whole-family approach to feeding including maximizing their own health and well-being Offers fun, easy recipes parents can make for, and with, kids Fearless Feeding translates complicated nutrition advice into simple feeding plans for every age and stage that take the fear out of feeding kids.

Why so Picky?

Why so Picky?
Author: S.E. Floyd
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2021-08-13
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1665534729

“Why So Picky?” is what every kid trying to be free from their hovering parent wants to know. This book is about a boy who learns to appreciate the wisdom and daily guidance of his parents by watching the mistakes of his friends.

Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating

Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating
Author: Katja Rowell
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1626251126

In Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating, a family doctor specializing in childhood feeding joins forces with a speech pathologist to help you support your child’s nutrition, healthy growth, and end meal-time anxiety (for your child and you) once and for all. Are you parenting a child with ‘extreme’ picky eating? Do you worry your child isn’t getting the nutrition he or she needs? Are you tired of fighting over food, suspect that what you’ve tried may be making things worse, but don’t know how to help? Having a child with ‘extreme’ picky eating is frustrating and sometimes scary. Children with feeding disorders, food aversions, or selective eating often experience anxiety around food, and the power struggles can negatively impact your relationship with your child. Children with extreme picky eating can also miss out on parties or camp because they can’t find “safe” foods. But you don’t have to choose between fighting over every bite and only serving a handful of safe foods for years on end. Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating offers hope, even if your child has “failed” feeding therapies before. After gaining a foundation of understanding of your child’s challenges and the dynamics at play, you’ll be ready for the 5 steps (built around the clinically proven STEPS+ approach—Supportive Treatment of Eating in PartnershipS) that transform feeding and meals so your child can learn to enjoy a variety of foods in the right amounts for healthy growth. You’ll discover specific strategies for dealing with anxiety, low appetite, sensory challenges, autism spectrum-related feeding issues, oral motor delay, and medically-based feeding problems. Tips and exercises reinforce what you’ve learned, and dozens of “scripts” help you respond to your child in the heat of the moment, as well as to others in your child’s life (grandparents or your child’s teacher) as you help them support your family on this journey. This book will prove an invaluable guide to restore peace to your dinner table and help you raise a healthy eater.

First Bite

First Bite
Author: Bee Wilson
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0465073905

We are not born knowing what to eat; as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ourselves. From childhood onward, we learn how big a "portion" is and how sweet is too sweet. We learn to enjoy green vegetables -- or not. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste? In First Bite, award-winning food writer Bee Wilson draws on the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists, and nutritionists to reveal that our food habits are shaped by a whole host of factors: family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love. Taking the reader on a journey across the globe, Wilson introduces us to people who can only eat foods of a certain color; prisoners of war whose deepest yearning is for Mom's apple pie; a nine year old anosmia sufferer who has no memory of the flavor of her mother's cooking; toddlers who will eat nothing but hotdogs and grilled cheese sandwiches; and researchers and doctors who have pioneered new and effective ways to persuade children to try new vegetables. Wilson examines why the Japanese eat so healthily, whereas the vast majority of teenage boys in Kuwait have a weight problem -- and what these facts can tell Americans about how to eat better. The way we learn to eat holds the key to why food has gone so disastrously wrong for so many people. But Wilson also shows that both adults and children have immense potential for learning new, healthy eating habits. An exploration of the extraordinary and surprising origins of our tastes and eating habits, First Bite also shows us how we can change our palates to lead healthier, happier lives.

Conquer Picky Eating for Teens and Adults

Conquer Picky Eating for Teens and Adults
Author: Slp Jenny McGlothlin MS
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2018-05-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781986385930

It's never too late to make peace with food. Are you tired of eating the same 15 foods, ordering off the kids' menu, or feeling anxious or embarrassed about what you eat? You are not alone, and it can get better. Written by a speech pathologist specializing in feeding and a family doctor specializing in relational feeding, this workbook shares tips and strategies to help you get unstuck. It's a no-pressure, how-to guide filled with ideas and activities to explore at your own pace. Understand why you eat the way you do and take control of your path forward. Reclaim your place at the table-and restore your health and wellbeing. "These wise authors cover everything from the mechanics of trying/learning to like new foods to recovering from the shame of not being adventurous with eating. I will recommend this book to many, many clients." -Elizabeth Jackson, MS, RDN, LDN "A long overdue, step-by-step guide that actually helps teens and adults make peace with food." -Skye Van Zetten, founder of Mealtime Hostage blog and online parent-peer support group

Love Me, Feed Me

Love Me, Feed Me
Author: Katja Rowell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2012
Genre: Adopted children
ISBN: 9780615691312

"Grounded in science and made real with the often heartbreaking and inspiring words of parents who have been there, Dr. Rowell helps readers understand and overcome feeding challenges, from simple picky eating to entrenched food obsession, oral motor and developmental delays, "feeding clinic failures," and more" --Cover, p. 4.