Resources
In My Own Words…
Talking to Your Kids About Food; Wedge Coop Newsletter
Here’s How to Keep Food Issues From Boiling Over; with the St. Paul Pioneer Press
Feeding Children Without Pressure; Wedge Coop Newsletter
Media with FFD
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Feeding websites, books and DVD
www.ellynsatter.com
Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense by Ellyn Satter, 2000
Your Child’s Weight: Helping Without Harming by Ellyn Satter, 2005
DVD: Ellyn Satter’s Feeding with Love and Good Sense II DVD 2011 (individual private use)
DVD: Healthy Mealtimes & Healthy Kids 2010, Learning Zone Express with Katja Rowell M.D
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss-and the Myths and Realities of Dieting, By Gina Kolata, 2007
Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, 2003
www.fatnutritionist.com (HAES nutritionist)
Great Shape: the First Fitness Guide for Large Women by Pat Lyons
www.eatingwithyouranorexic.blogspot.com (eating disorder blog support and info)
www.feast-ed.org (family support with eating disorders)
www.parknicollet.com/eatingdisorders/ (Melrose Institute comprehensive treatment)
www.emilyprogram.com (personalized treatment for eating disorders)
Adoption
www.childrenshomeadopt.org/home.html (adoption resources)
This is more of a history of binge eating and binge eating disorder as well as in intensive self-help approach that may be helpful if you do not have local or other resources. Caution with triggering food diary, skip the appendixes about weight, recognize that the occasional mentions about weight control often sabotage recovery and may not be current thinking.
Caution with choking risk and iron concerns. Read in addition to Child of Mine. Nicely incorporates Division of Responsibility. Read my detail review and conclusion here.
Some excellent research and ideas for raising kids and weight issues. Big caveat, those kids who followed the advice of “healthy” weight maintenance were found upon the study conclusion to be heavier and have more disordered eating than their non-dieting counterparts. Caution with any kind of goal to get kids to eat less or lose weight. Companion book: Your Child’s Weight by Ellyn Satter.
www.newmoon.com (magazine for tween girls)
NEDA: Tips for Eating Well and Feeling Good About Yourself (for kids)
The Night My World Caved In Dawn Friedman (essay on body image)
Cooking
Quick Fix Meals: 200 simple, Delicious Recipes to Make Mealtime Easy, Robin Miller, 2007

