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If you’re feeling stressed about feeding your baby, I’ve got an interview that’s going to set your mind at ease. Vanessa Rissetto, MS, RD is joining me to talk about ditching diet culture and how you can help foster your baby’s healthy relationship with food.

Vanessa is a mom of 2 and a Registered Dietitian in private practice and also the dietetic internship director at New York University. Essence Magazine named her “one of the top nutritionists who will change the way you think about food”, and she does not mince words when it comes to chilling OUT about food and feeding.

In this episode, we’re talking about what “diet culture” even is, why parents feel so much pressure about feeding “healthy” and “wholesome” foods and what words and terms to use (and avoid) when we’re trying to raise kids that don’t have messed up relationships with food!

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SUMMARY of episode

In this episode, I’m interviewing Vanessa Rissetto, MS, RD - private practice dietitian and dietetic internship director at New York University. We’re talking about:

• How to lay off the pressure around kids eating...and practical tips for being less food focussed around children

• What words to use when discussing food with your babies and children to help them have POSITIVE associations with food instead of food-related phobias

• Why parents feel pressure from outside sources to give in to the diet culture...with a discussion on what the diet culture really even is (and isn’t!)

  
  

LINKS from episode

• Follow Vanessa Rissetto on FB

• Follow Vanessa on Instagram at @vanessarissetord

• Follow Culina Health (her private practice) on Instagram at @culinahealth

• Read Blog

• Learn more about the NYU dietetic internship where Vanessa is the director

  
  

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