Feeding Families
Feeding a family is tough! How do you get kids to eat better? What if people challenge your food choices? How do you work within a budget? Food affects all aspects of our children's health but life is busy, budgets are tight, and kids can be picky and frustrating around food. Our Feeding Families podcast breaks down what every parent needs to know about nourishing their kids for strong, resilient health. Host Jess Sherman is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, board certified in Practical Holistic Nutrition who helps parents use food to improve mood, behaviour, and learning in their kids. She is the author of Raising Resilience: take the stress out of feeding your family and love your life, a former teacher, and mom of three. Jess and her guests will help you understand your child's nutritional needs and bring you inspiring food stories to help you overcome real-life food-related challenges. You'll gain clarity, new ideas, and practical strategies from this podcast, so you can nourish your kids and families, strengthen their physical and mental health, and feel confident around your food decisions. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/feeding-families--5202281/support.
Episodes
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition & by Oak Meadow.
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Did you know that what kids eat, and even how they eat, can affect their sleep? Not only that, but how they sleep can affect how they eat! Sleep is nourishment - our kids need quality restorative sleep for good mental and physical health. In this discussi...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition & by Oak Meadow.
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When we understand our kids we can help them; when we don’t understand them they drive us bonkers. We all know that force-feeding and bribing picky kids to eat more typically snowballs into anger, frustration, and chaos, so what to do with your picky eate...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition & by Oak Meadow.
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In this conversation, I talk mom-to-mom with Jessie Thomas about practical nutrition for families. As two mothers interested in raising healthy kids, while supporting the health of the planet, and navigating the reality of time and budget constraints, thi...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition & by Oak Meadow.
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"Water is virtually ignored, but it is the backdrop of everything happening in the body."- Dr Clinton comes onto the podcast today to talk about water in ways you’ve never heard it discussed.
Water makes up 70% of our bodies and influences our biological ...
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Did you know Nitric Oxide plays a crucial role in brain health, energy, and mental clarity? In this episode, our guest Dr. Nicole Berkins discusses with Jess why nitric oxide is crucial for kids. She shares her personal exper...
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Is Kombucha safe for kids? What about the sugar? The caffeine? The alcohol? Is it ok to buy or does it need to be homemade? If we buy it, what do we look for on the label? What is “sugar free” kombucha? Is Kombucha really as ...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://csnn.ca
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In this episode, we discuss the importance of knowing what is in and on our food so we can make educated quick decisions at the grocery store. Marketing tactics and product creep in stores have become harder and harder to nav...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://csnn.ca
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In this episode Dr. Elisa Song and I discuss integrative pediatrics and the importance of gut health in raising resilient children. We talk about her new book, Healthy Kids Happy Kids, and highlight the interconnections betwe...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://csnn.ca
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We’re kicking off season two by exploring the very concept of nourishment and how parents can create “a culture of nourishment” in their families. We introduce the model of the Five Nourishment Needs; the non-negotables the b...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://csnn.ca
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As we wrap up season one of Feeding Families I want to address the elephants in the room - those feelings of guilt, shame, and not-enoughness that too often slide in alongside when we learn about nourishing our families.
We’v...
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In this episode Jenn and Jess tackle female hormones and teen girls. Many parents roll their eyes when the topic of teenage hormones comes up. There’s general confusion about how to help girls move through puberty and a genera...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://csnn.ca
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In this episode Jess and Dana discuss the ins and outs of managing ADHD symptoms with natural strategies like food. She busts through some myths and showcases how she helps families integrate a nutrition strategy into their m...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://csnn.ca
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“Regenerating health will start when the burden of toxic chemicals begins to lift. Without addressing this underlying burden on the body, the effort to consume nutrient-rich food is simply a way to plug the holes of vitamin a...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://csnn.ca
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My guest and I are tackling the topic of eating disorders and disordered eating today. Dr Lauryn Lax brings the perspective of someone who herself climbed out of a vicious cycle of eating disorders, as well as that of a train...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://csnn.ca
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There is now robust research on how microbes impact our health and wellbeing. But as research has exploded, so has confusion about what to actually do. Do we need probiotics? Certain food? Does it really matter all that much?...
Feeding Families is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://csnn.ca
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What we feed our kids matters. But what are some simple ways to get deep nourishment into them when we’re tired, busy, and frustrated with their picky behavior? Je...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://csnn.ca
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Nourishing Exceptional Kids - getting beyond “fixing” and truly helping kids thrive
In this episode Jess invites Susan Baker to talk about her journey with her now 13 year old son Andrew who has autism and communicates without ...
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What should we be feeding our teen athletes? How important is it that they fuel up with the right food and the right nutrients? In this episode, we invited Dr Kirk Gair to discuss not only what foods help and hinder child ath...
This episode was generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://csnn.ca
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When Dr Kilbane discovered the impact food was having on the skin and ear infections of one of her young patients, she got curious. Since she received little nutrition education in her medical training, that experience prompt...
This episode is generously sponsored by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition: https://www.csnn.ca
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Food should be nourishing, but sometimes foods can be provoking hidden stress that’s interfering with your child’s ability to grow, learn and develop! How is a parent supposed to figure out which foods are helpful and wh...
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