Ep 148 - What Are They Teaching Them? w /Kelly Fullerton

Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD

Heyo - welcome to the LAST EVER episode of Don’t Salt My Game 🥺 (dw - I have something else very cool in the works and I’ll share details in this podcast feed when it’s ready at the end of summer).

Our final guest is Kelly Fullerton - a nutritionist and primary school teacher from Melbourne, Australia - who is challenging conventional and dogmatic approaches to how we teach kids about food. In this episode we break down:

• Why traditional nutrition education isn’t developmentally appropriate

• The unintended consequences of teaching things like grams of fat in cheese or number of sugar cubes in drinks

• We break down why ‘sometimes’ food and ‘everyday’ foods are just a version of ‘good/bad’
• We talk about how kids actually learn about food and how teachers can engage kids’ natural curiosity, their culture, and the broader context that kids eat

This was a fun episode to go out on - I hope you’ll share it with parents and teachers in your life! And I’m excited to share lots of cool new things with you soon.

Show Notes:

• Follow Laura on Instagram | Twitter
• Follow Kelly on Instagram
• Kelly’s Website
• Follow Don’t Salt My Game on Instagram
• Laura’s Website
• Sign up for the Let’s Talk About Snacks, Baby Workshop
• Book in for a complimentary 15-minute Discovery Call with Laura
• Buy an Intuitive Eating friendly guide to managing different health concerns
• Sign up for a Learn with LCIE Course
• Buy a copy of Just Eat It | How to Just Eat It
• Edited by Joeli Kelly