Making It Awkward "Dopamine Kids": Pood?! and Dopamine Fundamentalism with Selena Salfen MPH, RD
POOD?!?! Danger abound in the food-specific portion of Michaeleen Doucleff's book Dopamine Kids; A Science-Based Plan to Rewire Your Child's Brain and Take Back Your Family in the Age of Screens and Ultraprocessed Foods. Today Selena Salfen, MPH, RD and Jessica discus Doucleff's daughter's naming some foods "pood" and about how Doucleff affirms this and promotes it. Doucleff doesn't see that she, herself, is making food a problem in her house and by extension of this book a problem for everyone who reads it. She is making the feeding conversation weird with her overwhelming anxiety, morality and her own fear.
We also get to hear from Dr. Bethany Johnson. She connected Doucleff's approach to life to 17 Kids and Counting and introduced the idea of dopamine fundamentalism.
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