How to Raise an Intuitive Eater, Sumner Brooks
How to Raise an Intuitive Eater, Sumner Brooks
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How to Raise an Intuitive Eater
Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence

Author: Sumner Brooks, Amee Severson

Narrator: Erin Dion

Unabridged: 15 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/04/2022


Synopsis

Kids are born intuitive eaters. Well-meaning parents, influenced by the diet culture that surrounds us all, are often concerned about how to best feed their children. Nearly everyone is talking about what to do about the childhood obesity epidemic. Meanwhile, every proposed solution for how to feed kids to promote health and prevent weight-related health concerns don’t mention the importance of one thing: a healthy relationship with food. The consequences can be disastrous and are indistinguishable from the predictable and well-researched impact that dieting has on adults. Weight cycling, low self-esteem, deviations from normal growth, and eating disorders are just some of the negative health effects children can experience from the fear-based approach to food and eating that has become the norm in our culture. Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson believe that parents want the best for their kids and know a parent’s job is to make them feel safe in the world and their bodies. They want them to grow up to be competent, healthy eaters, living their best lives in the bodies they were born to have. Intuitive Eating is more talked about than ever, and the time is now to make sure parents truly understand what it means to raise an intuitive eater. With a compassionate and relatable voice, How to Raise an Intuitive Eater is the only book of its kind to teach parents what they need to know to improve health, happiness, and wellbeing for the littlest among us.

About Sumner Brooks

Sumner Brooks is a mom, registered dietitian (RDN), and writer who has spent over thirteen years working in the field of nutrition and eating disorders. The founder of EDRD Pro, a global online continuing-education platform for eating-disorder dietitians, she earned her RDN credential and M.P.H. in Community Health Sciences from UCLA. Her own recovery journey through disordered eating has helped her better understand the complexity with which we relate to food and our bodies.

About Amee Severson

Amee Severson is a registered dietitian nutritionist whose work focuses on body positivity, fat acceptance, and intuitive eating through a social-justice lens. After struggling with her own disordered eating, she decided to support others in the quest for peace and normalcy. She holds a bachelor's in food and nutrition from Montana State University and a master's in professional practice from Iowa State University and is working toward becoming a Certified Body Trust Provider.

About Erin Dion

Erin Dion is a professional voiceover artist, musician, vocal coach, and actress who is passionate about entertainment, education, and performing in her community. A graduate of Wayne State University with a bachelor's degree in vocal performance, she has performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She currently resides in Ypsilanti, Michigan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Provin on March 17, 2022

Societies expectations are difficult to manage and so many people think they know how everyone should eat to be at the “ideal“ weight. It’s all lies! There is no one size fits all when it comes to diet and weight loss/maintenance. If we can teach kids to only eat when they are hungry and to eat what......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on December 15, 2021

Definitely more a manifesto than a how-to, this book makes some valid points, but discusses very little about how to raise healthy children. The first hundred pages probably didn't need to exist. Those pages repetitively drone on about all the problems with "diet culture," and how it negatively impa......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on February 13, 2022

As a Millennial who was very influenced by diet culture growing up, both directly from the those around me and indirectly by the media and society, (Weight Watchers, Low Fat diet, NutriSystem, Atkins diet, Keto diet, Paleo diet) I've worked hard the past 10 years on breaking free of disordered eatin......more

Goodreads review by Tiff on January 04, 2022

Though I am not a parent, I am an educator and caregiver for young children. I gravitated to this title because I have struggled with my relationships to both food and my body for nearly my entire life, and I want to do better for the children in my care. The conversations presented in this book are......more

Goodreads review by Zibby on September 26, 2022

This book is about getting to the issues kids face in eating. Babies are born with an intuitive, natural ability. They know when they're hungry and push you away when they're done. Then somehow, over the years, eating gets increasingly confusing, particularly if you have parents who bring in their f......more