Laura von Nordheim Nutrition Fashion Fad or Medicine

Laura von Nordheim Nutrition: Fashion, Fad or Medicine

Intuitive Eating • An innate (inborn) ability to listen and respond to internal cues of hunger and satiety. • A natural means of achieving & maintaining a healthy body weight, shape & size that is unique and individual to you! • Numerous physical & psychological health benefits: less stress & anxiety, improved body image, mindfulness & presence, . . Laura von Nordheim, 2016

Relationships between Parenting Style, Parental Verbal Eating Messages, Body Image and Intuitive Eating ▶ Background: Obesity continues to be a major public health challenge in the UK, calling for alternative treatment approaches. Intuitive Eating, an adaptive form of eating behaviour, has been put forward as a natural means of weight control with numerous physical and psychological health benefits. ▶ Aims: Explore relationships between parenting style, parental verbal eating messages, body image and Intuitive Eating ▶ Method: Links between parenting style, verbal eating messages, body esteem, body appreciation, drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction and Intuitive Eating were assessed using online questionnaires. ▶ Participants: 65 women & 64 men = 129 total participants from the general public aged 22 – 82 years of age (average age: 31 years) Laura von Nordheim, 2016

Parenting style • Parenting style questionnaire • Parental bonding instrument • Parental authority questionnaire Verbal eating messages Body image Laura von Nordheim, 2016 • • • Autocratic/authoritative/ permissive/unengaged • Care & overprotection/control • Permissive/authoritarian/ authoritative • Caregiver verbal eating messages scale Body esteem Body appreciation Drive for thinness Body dissatisfaction

Relationships between Parenting Style, Parental Verbal Eating Messages, Body Image and Intuitive Eating ▶ Results: In the present study, males ate sign. more intuitively than females. There were sign. links between maternal parenting style, verbal eating messages, body image and Intuitive Eating. ▶ Discussion: Maternal care and control appear to play a role in offspring Intuitive Eating. Results of this study add to the evidence for links between parental eating messages, positive body image and Intuitive Eating. Findings highlight the importance of drive for thinness in connection with low Intuitive Eating scores. Laura von Nordheim, 2016

Top 10 Recommendations: For parents/caregivers: For yourself: 1. Involve children in choosing, preparing and cooking food. 2. Offer unknown foods repeatedly but without force. 3. Don’t use food as reward, punishment or incentive 1. Reject the Diet Mentality. 2. Honour Your Hunger. 3. Make Peace with Food. 4. Challenge the Food Police. 5. Respect Your Fullness. 6. Discover the Satisfaction Factor. 4. Offer appropriate portion sizes to allow children to respect hunger & satiety signals. 5. Be a positive role model! 7. Honour Your Feelings Without Using Food. 6. Don’t worry if your child’s food intake fluctuates throughout the day. Over an entire day, the internal control mechanism makes sure that your kids eats enough of the good stuff! 8. Respect Your Body. 9. Exercise - Feel the Difference. 7. Tell your kids that they are beautiful – irrespective of body shape, size or weight! 8. 9. 10. . . what can you come up with? 10. Honour Laura von Nordheim, 2016 Your Health - Gentle Nutrition. http: //www. intuitiveeating. com/content/what-intuitive-eating

Thank you! Laura von Nordheim University of Sheffield Developmental Psychology lvonnordheim 1@Sheffield. ac. uk Laura von Nordheim, 2016