Jill Castle is a registered dietitian and childhood nutrition expert. As a former private practice owner, she currently shares her expertise as a writer, speaker and consultant. She is the co-author of Fearless Feeding: How to Raise Healthy Eaters from High Chair to High School and author of the upcoming book Eat Like a Champion: Performance Nutrition for Your Young Athlete (2015).GENERAL SESSION Jill Castle, Infant Feeding Trends: Popular Craze or Crazy Whim?
Objectives:
- List 3 ways to effectively help the public decrease food allergy risk, maximize nutrition and increase food acceptance.
- Name two feeding recommendations to promote self-regulation, normal development, and reduce the risk for obesity throughout life.
- Identify two or three key nutrients needed in the first two years of life when developing a plan to start solids and how trends such as baby-led weaning affect nutrition.
Breakout Session: How Feeding Styles and Practices Influence Childhood Obesity
Objectives:
- Identify parenting skills, feeding practices, and child developmental stages that nurture, and hinder, the parent-child feeding relationship and process.
- Change the healthcare provider counseling approach to include positive feeding practices, parenting skills, child development, and the parent-child connection in normalizing eating and weight.
- Incorporate authoritative feeding approaches, positive feeding skills, sensitivity to child temperament, and child developmental stages into prevention and treatment strategies for childhood obesity.