Not sure how to manage sugar in your house? Whether you’re grappling with an approach to desserts, sugary snacks, your kid’s attitude towards sweets, or wondering if it’s even important that pay attention to any of this stuff at all, press play now. Because if there’s one episode of Didn’t I Just Feed You from which you’ll walk away with a blueprint to take action, it’s this one.

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Links In This Episode

The original broadcast of this episode did not have links, but in the Reheated version, we mentioned the following:

• Our episode with Jessica Wilson, What Anti-Diet Gets Wrong with Jessica Wilson, MS, RD
• Jessica Wilson on Instagram, where she shared her experiment on eating ultra processed foods (UPFs), @jessicawilson.msrd
• Naureen Hunani from RDs for Neurodiversity
• Responsive Feeding
• The Correlation Between Neurodivergence and Eating Disorders
• What If We Just Let Our Kids Eat What They Want?
• Does Sugar Really Cause “Bad” Behavior In Children?
• The Trouble With Sugar on The Maintenance Phase

About Our Guest: Jill Castle

Jill Castle is a mom of 4 and author who writes about childhood nutrition and feeding kids. Early in her career as a pediatric dietitian working in hospitals, she wrote scientific research articles and textbook chapters, collaborating with physicians and researchers. Since then, she’s published 5 books, two with traditional publishers and three self published.

Jill’s nutrition site for parents, The Nourished Child®, houses a wealth of resources for parents based on her “Whole Child Nutrition” approach. She also hosts a podcast by the same name and has started seeing clients via her pediatric nutrition practice.

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