It's time to have the 'Fat Talk' with our kids — and ourselves

2024-12-26 05:41:44 source:lotradecoin knowledgebase category:Invest

Virginia Sole-Smith is an author, writer and host of the podcast Burnt Toast — and her work focuses on our relationship to food and fat. Her latest book, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture is based on one simple idea: it's okay and normal for kids to be fat. "What fat kids need is to know that we see them, we accept them, and we know they are worthy of respect, safety, and dignity," she writes. "Making their body smaller isn't the solution."

Virginia sits down with host Brittany Luse to discuss why anti-fat bias hurts people of all body sizes, why we need to rethink "unhealthy" foods and how to have the fat talk.

This episode was produced by Liam McBain. It was edited by Jessica Placzek. We had fact checking help from Greta Pittenger. Our executive producer is Veralyn Williams. Our VP of programming is Yolanda Sangweni and our senior VP of programming is Anya Grundmann.

More:Invest

Recommend

One Tech Tip: How to protect your communications through encryption

LONDON (AP) — After a sprawling hacking campaignexposed the communications of an unknown number of A

How investigators tracked down Sarah Yarborough's killer

See how DNA helped solve the murder of 16-year-old Sarah Yarborough almost 30 years after the crime.

New York Jets bench struggling quarterback Zach Wilson

After inept quarterback play again this season that bled into Sunday, New York Jets coach Robert Sal