From dietician and creator of @kids.eat.in.color comes a guide to help parents cut through the noise and empower kids to have a healthy relationship with food and their bodies for a lifetime.
We live at a time when one of the most basic functions of being human—eating—is incredibly confusing. From clickbait headlines to the inescapability of processed foods—feeding ourselves well has never been harder.
And then there are our kids.
Today’s generation is growing up in a dietary landscape marked by slippery slopes. Diet culture, body image, misinformation—for many parents, feeding their kids is more stressful than feeding themselves. At the heart of every parent’s struggle is the dual agenda of teaching good nutrition and instilling body positivity.
In Feed Them Well, dietician Jennifer Anderson offers parents a definitive framework to support their kids’ physical and mental health. Raising body-positive, healthy, nutritionally fluent kids requires parents who maintain a consistent approach to eating at home. The “rules” will look a little bit different in everyone’s household, but Anderson addresses the questions parents navigate every day: How can I increase the variety of what they eat? Is it bad to make them finish a plate? What if they hate vegetables?
Feed Them Well will do for kids’ nutrition what The Anxious Generation did for the other daily pain point—and high-stakes issue—of modern parenting, providing both a big idea and perspective shift and an actionable, evidence-based framework parents can turn to time and again. Feed Them Well is poised to become a classic of modern parenting literature.
"A thorough, thoughtful masterpiece that embraces both evidence and nuance, never oversimplifying a deeply complex topic, Feed Them Well provides the clarity, compassion, and practical wisdom parents need to cut through the noise around nourishing kids. As a pediatrician and a mom, I wholeheartedly recommend this book."
Whitney Casares, MD, Author of Raising Body-Confident Kids
"Jennifer Anderson meets parents where they are, giving them strategies to feed the families they actually have. With warmth and without judgment, Feed Them Well is a one-stop resource for helping families realistically find their way through the often fraught subject of food and all the emotional weight it carries."
Aliza Pressman, PhD, bestselling author of The Five Principles of Parenting
