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What Is Food Therapy For Kids
Most parents hear the term “food therapy” for the first time in a pediatrician’s office — often right after a growth check, or a conversation about how few foods their child will actually eat. The...
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How To Sneak Protein Into Meals For Kids
Realizing your child needs more protein is usually the easy part. Making it happen is where things get tricky. You push the food, they resist, and protein becomes a thing. Instead of trying to push...
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What Is Food Aversion?
A food aversion changes a person’s whole relationship with eating. It’s not a matter of disliking olives or leaving the mushrooms on the plate. When someone has a food aversion, entire categories of...
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Is ARFID Genetic?
Parents often notice the pattern before they have a name for it. A child eats a short list of foods, and then someone mentions that an uncle was the same way, or that a grandparent still won’t touch...
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8 Sensory Issues With Food
For some people, the way food looks, smells, tastes, or feels in the mouth can make eating far more complicated than it seems from the outside. A crunchy chip, a slimy piece of fruit, or even the smell...
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ARFID Recovery: What It Looks Like and How It Happens
Can you recover from ARFID? For most people, the honest answer is yes, meaningful progress is possible, though recovery rarely looks like a single finish line. It looks like fewer battles at the table,...
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Food Sensitivity Test for Kids: What Actually Works (A Dietitian’s Guide)
If you’ve been wondering whether your child has a food sensitivity and whether there’s a test that can tell you, the honest answer is: it depends on what you’re actually looking for. Food sensitivity...
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ARFID vs. Anorexia
On the surface, both ARFID and anorexia nervosa involve restricted eating, changes in body weight, and significant nutritional risk. But they are clinically distinct disorders with different underlying...
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3 Types of ARFID
ARFID is not a single pattern of eating behavior. While the diagnosis shares a common thread – significant restriction of food intake that impacts health, growth, or daily functioning – it presents in...
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What Are ARFID Safe Foods?
Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), can significantly impact nutrition, health, and daily functioning. For people living with this eating disorder, food and eating is complicated. Food...
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Is ARFID Real?
ARFID might be the most misunderstood eating disorder, partly because it doesn’t look the way other eating disorders do. There’s no body image distortion, no desire to lose weight, no preoccupation...
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Toddler Won’t Eat: 5 Ways to Support a Low-Hunger Toddler
A common concern I hear from parents: their toddler suddenly seems uninterested in food, eats far less than expected, or won’t eat much of anything at all. If this sounds familiar, take a breath. A...
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What is Food Neophobia
While food neophobia, the fear of trying new or unfamiliar foods, is commonly seen in young children, it can also affect teenagers and adults. When it does, food neophobia can lead to restrictive...
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What is ARFID
ARFID is having a moment. The word is showing up in parenting groups, on TikTok, and even in pediatrician offices, but awareness and understanding aren’t the same thing. Most people who’ve heard of...
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How to Treat ARFID in Children: A Parent-Friendly Guide
ARFID is more than picky eating. Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) can significantly impact a child’s nutrition, growth, energy levels, and emotional wellbeing in ways that go well...
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Does My Child Have ARFID?
Many children go through phases of selective eating, but when a child’s eating habits become extremely limited, mealtimes feel consistently stressful, or food refusal starts affecting growth and daily...
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How to Support Someone With ARFID
Supporting someone with ARFID can feel confusing and it can be difficult to understand their eating habits from the outside. Why won’t they just try it? Why does mealtime feel like a crisis? Why...
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ARFID in Toddlers: Why It’s Different and What Actually Helps
ARFID in toddlers can be easy to miss. In the toddler years, some degree of picky eating might be normal, which means ARFID can hide in plain sight. When the two overlap, food avoidance that warrants...
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ARFID in Teenagers: Why It’s Different and What Actually Helps
Eating challenges in teenagers can feel baffling. Shouldn’t they be over this by now? But for many teens, food avoidance isn’t a phase and it can be severe enough to affect their health, growth, and...
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A Parent’s Complete Guide to Teen ARFID Treatment
If you’ve landed here, chances are you’re worried about your teenager’s eating, and not just in a “they’re going through a weird phase” kind of way. Maybe their eating is impacting their social life....
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