Diet culture

Am I really advocating junk food?

‘Sofie, why are you advocating for junk food?’ is a question I often get. Let me be crystal clear: I’m not advocating for junk food out of some deep love for it. I don’t eat these so-called bad, unhealthy foods that much. But I do want my kids to have a healthy relationship with junk…

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Diet culture kind vraagt snoep

3 tips for dealing with candy stress on Halloween

Emma Frisch – an amazing cookbook author, culinary educator and meal plan wizard – asked me to share three tips for parents on handling candy and stress around kids’ obsession with it during Halloween. Halloween, like many end-of-year traditions, is a time of food abundance, for which we’re not always in a mindset to manage.…

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Diet culture gewichtsstigma

Weight stigma in pregnant women, infants and children

Weight stigma is discrimination based on your weight. You can come into contact with weight stigma at a very early age. Diet culture tells us that anyone who is overweight or obese is always unhealthy. Yet American research shows that nearly 30% of obese people are metabolically healthy. Conversely, more than 30% of normal-weight people…

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