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Abstract Background: Traditional research primarily details child obesity from a risk perspective. Risk factors are disproportionately higher in children raised in poverty, thus negatively influencing the weight status of low-income children. Borrowing from the field of family studies, the concept of family resiliency might provide a unique perspective for discussions regarding childhood obesity, by helping to identify mediating or moderating protective mechanisms that are present within the...

Conversations about weight can be particularly challenging for parents with adolescent kids, and insight into the characteristics of parent-adolescent communication about body weight is limited. Published in Childhood Obesity, this study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity interviewed 148 adolescents enrolled in a weight loss camp, asking them what words their parents typically use to talk about their weight, how those words make them feel, and what words they would most want...

Link to .PDF of article by Lucy Aphramor, Dietician and Social Action Poet: https://lucyaphramor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/NHD-Trauma-April-2018.pdf?utm_source=Training+Registration&utm_campaign=dc0bee3aa9-AUTOMATION__2_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_38d9a4f547-dc0bee3aa9-80253031

Laura- Thanks for posting Lucy's article. Yes, all professions need to know more about trauma. And all professions need to know how to screen for food insecurity, housing insecurity, medical care insecurity, domestic violence, racism, addictions and other limiting factors that keep trauma in place and is made visible through the labels of mental health challenges, physical health challenges, incarnation, foster care/dependency to name a few. Kristen

For me it conjures up free government cheese, drinking those cups of fluoride liquid and the fraudulent dental work we poor kids had done to us plus it conjures up popcorn and cool aid as the only things to eat because we were dirt poor. I think everyone needs to know how to garden and can/preserve food.

I remember my first presentation I gave in residency, it was on the health affects of substandard housing. Many of my colleagues, including many POC, gave presentations on Liver Failure or Hepatitis A, but there was something that had a far greater effect on health and I was very familiar with it. I wish doctors would keep thinking about the effects of poverty. My little brother was lead poisoned in that horrific substandard housing and his IQ is only 52. He cannot read or write and it pains...

Tina- How couragous of you to speak about housing to doctors. So often they don't want to acknowlegde the impact it has on outcome as well as cause. Sorry about your brother.

Well written article and fantastic articulation of the approach around trauma and dietary consumption and consultation. There are many great points to this article and is a sector that needs to be crucially explored. Pointing out in addition to these strong points, the importance of exploring the types of foods we consume and the scientific insight of its impact on our physiological health, emotional regulation, and behaviour change. As similar to therapeutic context of defining trauma,...