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While living in East Africa while my husband conducted his field work, we regularly saw animals – namely goats – slaughtered and the meat sold for dinner. What was notable about this experience to me was not the fact that we watched that as often as we did, but rather that we were so removed … More #5: Know where their food comes from

I have been cooking with my parents since I was a kid. Usually this involved sitting on the counter tasting the cookie dough batter (yes, with raw egg!), but not always. Sometimes I also helped by licking the brownie mix from the bowl with a spatula (wink, wink).  My mom, in particular, loved to bake, … More #4: Take part in meal planning and food prep

When babies are born they are extremely attuned to their internal signals of hunger and fullness. When they are hungry they know, and they will let you know too! They also know when they are full, and they stop eating. This ability is so fine-tuned that – if left to determine their own intake – they will eat to within a … More #3: listen to their hunger & satiety cues

For someone in my line of work, especially given the work that I have been doing lately monitoring and tracking efforts nutrition initiatives in my current position, t’s hard to overstate how monumental this is: yesterday, the FDA released its final decision, requiring the food industry to ENTIRELY phase out the use of all partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs, or … More FDA says “No more trans-fats”

A quick (exciting) update: I’ve started a new company, kizingo, and need your help. If you have 20 minutes, please take the following survey and let me know what you think about children’s utensils. And, if you’re so inclined, share with your friends; I’d love to collect at least 100 responses in the next 30 days. … More kizingo survey

I’m not sure if this is surprising or not, but this goal – eat a variety of foods – is actually the hardest one for me to implement in my house.  Introducing new foods can be met with skepticism (or outright displeasure or disgust) and personally I find it frustrating to spend time making a … More #2: eat a variety of foods

In my last entry I wrote about the long-term food goals that Tim and I have for our kids and promised to “unpack each of them and provide some of the strategies we use to achieve them”.  Then last week I felt like my long-term food goals could just go to hell, and we all but … More #1: willing to taste new foods

I was invited to serve on a panel at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health last week for their A Smart Start Symposium on preventing early childhood obesity. My task was to share my thoughts on early childhood obesity prevention efforts from the perspective of a nutrition researcher and, more importantly, as a mom, and – along with … More long-term {food} goals

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