How to Diet Proof Your Daughter with Amelia Sherry
The Healthy Family Podcast
Girls are having a rough go of it. A recent CDC report found 57% of teen girls felt persistently sad and hopeless in 2021, compared to 36% in 2011. Not only that, but a report last year found girls going to the ER for eating disorders nearly doubled during the pandemic. There’s never been a more important time to help support our daughters, both emotionally and physically. Today’s guest is full of strategies to help keep our girls out of dieting and body image pitfalls that often go hand in hand with mental health issues. Amelia Sherry is a New York-based dietitian with a master’s in...
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10 Signs Intermittent Fasting Doesn't Live Up to the Hype
The Healthy Family Podcast
We’ve all seen the article or social media post declaring the “proven” benefits of intermittent fasting. Cellular repair. Improved insulin sensitivity. A longer life with reduced risk of chronic disease. Increased metabolism and fat burning. Because of these strong claims, I’ve been wanting to do a deep dive on intermittent fasting for years now. So, in preparation for my latest book for midlife women, I finally did it. And it revealed that the benefits of intermittent fasting are anything but a slam dunk. So in this podcast episode I review all the details of .
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3 Breathing Exercise that Will Change Your Life with Nick Heath
The Healthy Family Podcast
Eat well, exercise, and sleep is all we seem to hear about. But there is another important yet underrated factor for health: breathing exercises. Yep, the way we breathe can have a tremendous impact on our health in either direction–especially the duration and quality of sleep. This is vital as we age, making midlife the perfect time to invest in your breathing. My latest podcast guest is sharing his experience and all that he has learned about the benefits of breathing. Nick Heath is a PhD, type 1 diabetic, and certified instructor of the Oxygen Advantage. He was astounded to discover how...
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Breaking the Rules of Behavior Change for Success with Michelle Segar
The Healthy Family Podcast
Does it really take 66 days to build a healthy habit? Will there be a time we gain enough self-control or willpower to always eat nutritiously and exercise? My podcast guest turns everything we thought we knew about healthy behavior change on its head. Not only that, but she also has the research to support it. And a new book. Michelle Segar, PhD, is an award-winning, NIH-funded researcher at the University of Michigan with almost thirty years studying how to help people adopt healthy behaviors in ways that can survive the complexity and unpredictability of the real world. Her new book, ,...
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What EVERY Midlife Woman Needs to Know About Vaginal Health with Shirley Weir
The Healthy Family Podcast
Women talk about lots of topics, but vaginal health isn’t typically one of them. Yet midlife is the perfect time to start the conversation because most women will experience vaginal issues. In fact, 60 percent of menopausal women have vaginal symptoms like dryness, and this goes up to 80% post-menopause. But it’s not just about some annoying symptoms. Compromised vaginal health has many health implications for women including painful intercourse, poor quality of life, recurrent UTIs, incontinence, and more. In the world of social media, the work of Shirley Weir caught my eye. I couldn’t...
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The Role Intuitive Eating Plays at Midlife with Jenn Salib Huber
The Healthy Family Podcast
Intuitive eating is needed more than ever during midlife. That’s because it helps redefine a woman’s relationship with food in ways that create sustainable change. Whether it’s listening to your body, avoiding all or nothing thinking about food, or denouncing diet culture, as midlife health expert Jenn Salib Huber says: “it’s really something that needs to come together for most women.”
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How the Pandemic Unmasked a Nutrition Crisis with Jeffrey Blumberg
The Healthy Family Podcast
In episode 34 of The Healthy Family Podcast, I provide segments of my interview with Jeffrey Blumberg of Tufts University along with behind-the-scenes content on what went into my most recent post: “Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About the Nutrition Crisis the Pandemic Unmasked.”
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DHA, EPA, and the Omega-3 Index Blood Test
The Healthy Family Podcast
According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, only 20% of adults and 6% of kids eat fish twice a week. That means many are falling short on the omega-3 fatty acids, DHA and EPA. In episode 33 of The Healthy Family Podcast, Maryann shares why these fatty acids are so important and why she decided to test her levels of omega-3 fatty acids.
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Ferritin: The Blood Test Women Should Get at Every Doctor's Visit
The Healthy Family Podcast
In episode 32 of The Healthy Family Podcast, host Maryann Jacobsen discusses her recent experience with iron deficiency anemia. This led her to research iron and what she could have done differently. She discovered this all could have been avoided if she simply tracked her ferritin. Yet no doctor every measured this until it was too late.
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Nutrition During Menopause with Elizabeth Ward and Hillary Wright
The Healthy Family Podcast
What happens when two dietitian-friends who are also writers go through menopause together? They write a book, of course. Join Maryann and her two guests Elizabeth Ward and Hillary Wright as they discuss nutrition during menopause and why it matters.
info_outlineDoes this sound familiar? You try to add a new habit and for a while, it goes well....until life gets in the way. The new exercise routine gets pushed aside when work gets busy. Your vow to keep the house clean slowly goes down the (messy) toilet. Having your child read/do chores/cook/ over the summer goes nowhere because he is so darn resistant.
On today's show, we have a leading expert who shows us that building new habits doesn’t need to be hard. No, it can actually be easy, rewarding, and even fun (his words). We’re just going about it the wrong way.
BJ Fogg is director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, focusing on methods for creating habits and behavior change. He spends half his time in industry and the other half teaching at Stanford. He got his start focusing on how to change behavior utilizing mobile phones and over the years, improving health has become a theme. In December of 2011, Fogg created the Tiny Habits method. His Tiny Habits program has helped over 40,000 people create sustainable and lasting habits. He shares his wisdom and after listening to this episode you'll never look at behavior change the same way again.
Highlights from the Show:
- The three components of behavior that must occur for that behavior to become a habit.
- The best way to stop a bad behavior and add a positive one, and why adding new behaviors is a better approach.
- How to add new behaviors using the Tiny Habits Method, and why it is incredibly useful for helping children form positive habits.
- Top misconceptions about behavior change that hold people back (and why it’s easier to create habits than people think).
- Why it’s so hard to create a habit abound something you don’t want or see as painful.
- The most important question to ask: “where does this new behavior fit naturally in my day?”
- How our culture misleads us into believing transformational change is better than incremental change when clearly it’s the other way around.
- Why effective behavior change is like growing a plant and has nothing to do with willpower.