2025 Recorded Symposium Session: Whole Child Healthy: Helping Families Resist Dichotomies, Bias, and Stigma

As nutrition professionals, we re charged with helping families raise healthy children no matter their size while also prioritizing their mental well-being. Yet, we live in a weight-centric, food-phobic society where dichotomies, bias, and stigma about food and bodies prevail. This creates additional stress and contradictory beliefs and behaviors for both families and individuals. How can we help children grow up healthy without harming their self-esteem and body image? In this timely session, Jill Castle outlines a practical roadmap that dietitians and health care providers can use to support young people and their families in establishing positive health habits, while also creating heightened awareness of the social issues, health concerns, and psychological effects of growing up in today s culture. Jill will help nutrition professionals identify and develop the skills and conversation starters to help families resist size bias and stigma, as well as discover time-saving techniques that convert positive lifestyle behaviors into applied practice.

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