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Feeding Humans

Feeding Humans

Katherine Zavodni

When we trust in our body's beautiful wisdom, we can see our struggles with food, family feeding, and body image in a new light. The Feeding Humans podcast dives deep into what it means to be human—our complexities and flaws, our elegant physiology, our absolute uniqueness, our rich lived experiences. All these shape the way we relate to food. And because our little ones are human too, our family feeding challenges suddenly make a lot more sense. This podcast will help you find peace with yourself, parent with confidence, and raise confident kids who trust their bodies. These conversations are based on a firm belief that bodies are good. All bodies, of all sizes, shapes, colors, and abilities. Topic areas include child development, picky eating, extreme feeding challenges, eating disorders, body image concerns, and intuitive eating to help you understand how the human body longs not to be our enemy, but our partner. And from there, we can intuitively care for ourselves and nourish our loved ones in a joyful, connecting way.
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Feeding Humans - Dietary Fat Facts

Dietary Fat Facts

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08/03/22 • 43 min

In this series, we will be looking at the biochemical structure and function of the macronutrients, carbohydrate, protein, and fat, to understand the structure and function of these energy yielding nutrients. Optimal utilization of these nutrients depends on both overall adequacy of intake and generally consistent balance among these energy yielding nutrients.
Mentioned in this episode:
Exploring Intuitive Eating, Part I: Body Trust, Interoceptive Awareness, and Unconditional Permission to EatExploring Intuitive Eating, Part II: Physical Activity and Intuitive Movement
Exploring Intuitive Eating, Part III: Respecting Your BodyIntuitive Eating, 4th EditionFind Katherine online:

www.instagram.com/katzavrd

www.kznutrition.com
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Feeding Humans - Demystifying Protein

Demystifying Protein

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07/12/22 • 25 min

In this series, we will be looking at the biochemical structure and function of the macronutrients, carbohydrate, protein, and fat, to understand the structure and function of these energy yielding nutrients. Optimal utilization of these nutrients depends on both overall adequacy of intake and generally consistent balance among these energy yielding nutrients.
Find Katherine online:

www.instagram.com/katzavrd

www.kznutrition.com
*Now taking Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance, contact me with questions or
request an appointment.

My email for episode topic ideas:

[email protected]

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https://ratethispodcast.com/feedinghumans

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Feeding Humans - Carboyhydrates are our Friends
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06/28/22 • 27 min

In this series, we will be looking at the biochemical structure and function of the macronutrients, carbohydrate, protein, and fat, to understand the structure and function of these energy yielding nutrients. Optimal utilization of these nutrients depends on both overall adequacy of intake and generally consistent balance among these energy yielding nutrients.
Mentioned in this episode:
Episode 25: The Hierarchy of Nutritional NeedsEpisode 3: How to handle sweets with your kids
Find Katherine online:

www.instagram.com/katzavrd

www.kznutrition.com
*Now taking Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance, contact me with questions or
request an appointment.

My email for episode topic ideas:

[email protected]

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Feeding Humans - The Hierarchy of Nutritional Needs
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06/14/22 • 44 min

With all the chatter, handwringing, and noise about all the different nutritional concerns and questions we should have, it's tough to know how to get your needs met. In today's episode, Katherine lays out a specific framework for prioritizing your most important, most basic nutritional needs, so that we see the big picture and don't get lost in the details that matter less. Prioritizing the most important nutritional need of adequacy can encourage more ease and flexibility in eating, and allows us to relax our grip on trying to control and perfectly optimize our eating.
Mentioned in this episode:
Maslow's Hierarchy of NeedsEllyn Satter's Hierarchy of Nutritional Needs And here is the Hierarchy of Nutrition Needs that I more commonly use, as described by dietitian colleague and author Rachael Hartley, RD.
Previous Episodes that Mention Ellyn Satter, Eating Competence, or getting nutritional needs met:
Episode 2: Family Feeding Dynamics: Making the Division of Responsibility Work for Your FamilyEpisode 6: Meeting Your Kid's (And Your Own) Find Katherine online:

www.instagram.com/katzavrd

www.kznutrition.com
*Now taking Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance, contact me with questions or
request an appointment.

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[email protected]

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Feeding Humans - Your Body Naturally Craves Balance and Variety
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05/31/22 • 30 min

When we consider relaxing our tight grip of control of our eating, letting go of food rules and incorporating an “all foods fit” mentality, many of us worry that we will be out of control around those most favorite foods, the ones you always thought you needed to keep out of the house and not allow yourself to eat them at all, because you lose control. Today’s episode talks about why this is a myth, using examples of how we experience the rhythm of our lives and changing seasons. After the holidays, we enjoy the peace and calm of the New Year. In the spring, we are just as happy to see the last snow melt as we were to see the first snow arrive a few months ago. And the school year we were so eager to see begin in the fall, we are thrilled to close that chapter and move into the carefree, long days of summer. Our bodies also crave this balance, and eating those highly palatable foods all the foods would be sort of like the chaos of the holiday season all year long: it’s too much. We need balance, and if we give ourselves permission to enjoy different foods, our bodies will both appreciate that and be ready to enjoy something different next. It may take some time, if our restrictive mentality around those foods is deeply ingrained, but ultimately we can trust our bodies to crave balance and variety all on its own.

Mentioned in this episode:
Worst End of School Mom Ever, Jen Hatmaker

My email for episode topic ideas:

[email protected]

Find Katherine online:

www.instagram.com/katzavrd

www.kznutrition.com

Here's an easy way to rate the podcast:

https://ratethispodcast.com/feedinghumans

Mentioned in this episode:
Kendra Adachi and The Lazy Genius

https://www.thelazygeniuscollective.com/lazy

My email for episode topic ideas:

[email protected]

Find Katherine online:

www.instagram.com/katzavrd

www.kznutrition.com

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Feeding Humans - A Pandemic Health Crisis
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10/05/21 • 48 min

Mentioned in this episode:
http://maintenancephase.com
Maintenance Phase: The Body Mass Index
Maintenance Phase: The Obesity Epidemic
Citations for pandemic era eating disorders increase:
Medical Admissions Among Adolescents with Eating Disorders During the COVID 19 Pandemic:
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/09/09/peds.2021-052201
Outbreak of anorexia nervosa admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic
https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/3/e15.full
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Number of Adolescents/Young Adults Seeking Eating Disorder-Related Care
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X21002792
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Eating Disorders: A Wake-Up Call for the Future of Eating Disorders Among Adolescents and Young Adults
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X21003712
Feeding Humans Podcast Episode: Does My Child Have an Eating Disorder?
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www.kznutrition.com
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Feeding Humans - Intuition vs. Fear

Intuition vs. Fear

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08/24/21 • 42 min

Intuition can feel elusive (or even scary) if you have spent a lifetime believing you can’t trust yourself and need to outsource your wisdom. Today’s conversation is about how to identify your inner wisdom when your fear is used to being in the driver’s seat.
Mentioned in this episode:
Free Workshop: Sneaking and Snacking
Why your kids' chaotic eating persists despite your best efforts and what to do about it
Episode 19: Neurodiversity and Feeding Differences with Naureen Hunani, RD
Episode 2: Family Feeding Dynamics: Making the Division of Responsibility Work for your Family
Division of Responsibility in Feeding
Find Katherine online:
www.instagram.com/katzavrd
www.kznutrition.com
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"Neurodiversity is a biological fact." Montreal dietitian Naureen Hunani joins us today to share about how brain differences such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, and Sensory Processing Differences can impact the feeding relationship, and how the frameworks and guidance we depend on can cause more problems than they solve if they are not inclusive of and responsive to those differences.
Find Naureen online:
www.instagram.com/naureenhunaninutrition
www.naureenhunani.com
Mentioned in this episode:
Free Workshop: Sneaking and Snacking
Why your kids' chaotic eating persists despite your best efforts and what to do about it
Sex and the City Clip: Charlotte and Carrie at the speaker's event
https://youtu.be/czKizGap4Yo
Episode 2: Family Feeding Dynamics: Making the Division of Responsibility Work for your Family
Division of Responsibility in Feeding
Jessica Matthews: PDA profile of Autism blog
https://pathologicaldemandavoidanceaprofileofautism.com
Christina Miserandino and Spoon Theory
https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
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www.kznutrition.com
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Feeding Humans - You are the Expert

You are the Expert

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07/27/21 • 30 min

Mentioned in this episode:
Free Workshop: Sneaking and Snacking
Why your kids' chaotic eating persists despite your best efforts and what to do about it
Sex and the City Clip: Charlotte and Carrie at the speaker's event
https://youtu.be/czKizGap4Yo
Episode 2: Family Feeding Dynamics: Making the Division of Responsibility Work for your Family
Division of Responsibility in Feeding
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www.instagram.com/katzavrd
www.kznutrition.com
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Today Katherine is diving in to how the Division of Responsibility feeding dynamics framework can be applied to adults trying to better understand their struggles in their own relationship with food. In feeding dynamics, the parents have certain jobs to do in feeding, and kids have their own jobs in eating. Adults can think of their own behavior in feeding themselves in terms of having both roles to play within themselves. This perspective can be tremendously helpful whether you have kids or not, because we have all been part of a parent child relationship at some point in our lives and have some idea of how this relationship functions, or should function in ideal circumstances. Maybe we have wounds related to our own histories in these relationships, and maybe they have a lot to do with our relationship with food as adults. Regardless, understanding the different roles you play in your task of feeding yourself can help clarify any struggles you might be having and can light the way toward compassion and healing.
Find Katherine online:
www.instagram.com/katzavrd
www.kznutrition.com
Mentioned in this episode:
Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in feeding
https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/how-to-feed/the-division-of-responsibility-in-feeding/
Katherine's take on Division of Responsibility and making it work in your family:
Feeding Humans episode 2
Explanation of the bidirectional chemistry equation and equilibrium as it relates to our bodies and experiences with food:
Feeding Humans episode 1
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FAQ

How many episodes does Feeding Humans have?

Feeding Humans currently has 29 episodes available.

What topics does Feeding Humans cover?

The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Parenting, Kids & Family, Intuitive Eating, Body Positivity, Podcasts and Food.

What is the most popular episode on Feeding Humans?

The episode title 'Demystifying Protein' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Feeding Humans?

The average episode length on Feeding Humans is 44 minutes.

How often are episodes of Feeding Humans released?

Episodes of Feeding Humans are typically released every 14 days.

When was the first episode of Feeding Humans?

The first episode of Feeding Humans was released on Feb 5, 2021.

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