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Heidi Schauster Parents want their children to be healthy. This includes getting plenty of exercise and eating healthy. Eating healthy can mean healthy food, and it can also mean the right amounts of food. Sometimes, people can be so obsessed about their weight and appearance, it can affect what and how they eat to an extreme degree. No one intentionally seeks to harm their children when it comes to food and their diet. Parents can inadvertently be doing more harm than good. Sometimes, people can let the "ideals" they see on social media get in the way of what is really a healthy way of eating. For Heidi Schauster, an author and nutrition therapist, maintaining a healthy relationship between food and the body is more than just a way of life, it is a mission. Schauster has spent 28 years helping people who suffer from eating disorders. She is also a recovering sufferer of an eating disorder. Her experience in the field and personal experiences have helped her in writing "

185 pages; Published by Hummingbird Press, ©2024 In a world where many people seem to seem obsessed with their body and try to address “problems” with cutting back or changing what they eat, Heidi Schauster offers different methods and a different perspective when it comes to facing these problems. Schauster has addressed multiple issues and potential solutions in “Nurture: How to Raise Kids who Love Food, their Bodies, and themselves”. In the book, she offers ten steps to address potential eating disorders and offers alternatives to "solutions" people have previously utilized to manage their weight and their appetite. "Nurture" takes on not only eating disorders that affect adults and teenagers, especially women, but also the body image issues that cause these disorders. Schauster not only cites the problems that can lead to disorders (stress, body image, and genetics, just to name a few) and offers many solutions to the food-related issues. As a licensed profess