Ditching Diet Talk at the Dinner Table: Raising Food Confident Kids

This week Dr. Kim is talking with Diana Rice. Diana Rice, RD, LD (she/her) is a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor and certified parent educator on a mission to help families enjoy a healthy relationship with food. She is the voice behind the online platform Anti-Diet Kids which teaches parents how to bring the concepts of intuitive eating and rejecting diet-culture into parenting. Diana also owns Tiny Seed Family Nutrition, a weight-inclusive nutrition counseling and coaching practice that helps both children and adults with issues including selective eating, food fixations, body image, intuitive eating and meal planning. Her Substack newsletter and podcast, "The Messy Intersection," speaks to parents seeking to restore their own relationships with food while raising children with the resilience to resist dieting, enjoy a variety of foods, and embrace their natural body sizes. She is the co-author of the book, "Food Positivity: How to Ditch Diet Culture and Talk to Kids About Food" (Wiley, 2026). Diana is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where she lives with her husband and two girls.