Fighting Fatphobia in Nutrition Education

[Cami Fredericks]

Hello fellow educators,

I hope you're well and enjoying the gifts the late fall season brings to us. I direct a garden program at a middle school in Boston, and something I'm always thinking about is how to teach nutrition to young people of color that prioritizes eating intuitively, ancestrally, pleasurefully, and wholly, without perpetuating fatphobia and diet culture. Most of the resources/curriculum I find online are either not kid-friendly or don't address these concerns. As someone who has no formal nutritionist/dietician training, this is a piece of garden teaching that I struggle to know how to teach. 

I'm reaching out to ask if anyone here has any culturally competent / justice-oriented nutrition resources, activities, curriculum that they like? or people/places they can direct me to?

thank you!

cami  

Cami Fredericks (they/them)

Director of Garden Education

Epiphany School

[Andrea Kirkham]

 Hi Cami,

I hope all is well. The resources you are seeking are exactly what a group of dietitians and I are working toward. We are trying to start this company 'on the side' though and it is taking a while for us to get our resources out.

https://www.reimaginenutritioneducation.ca/

We are in Canada but the resources will be online and so available to all.

Our paradigm is that 'nutrition education' should be 

• child/youth AND curriculum/pedagogy based;
• diverse, inclusive (including weight inclusive), and socially just;
• designed to sustain eating competence; and
• grounded in food literacy

Another group of colleagues and I have a paper that has been accepted to the Canadian Journal of Dietetics and Practice. It advocates for having social justice frame all food and body related learning in schools - but we don't have the publication date yet.

Happy to connect further with you and anyone else who might be interested.

Best,

Andrea

Andrea Kirkham, RD, MSc

Nutrition Education & Food Literacy Consultant

Reimagine Nutrition Education

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[Andrea Brewer]

Another resource I really like is Cornell CALS Project S.O.W: Food Gardening with Justice in Mind | Cornell Garden-Based Learning https://share.google/yVtNkg3c1Tgpg0hOJ

It's designed for high schoolers, and I've had success sharing it with 6th and 7th graders

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