Malina Malkani, MS, RDN, CDN, is the pediatric registered dietitian, best-selling author, speaker, and single mom and top nutrition influencer dedicated to educating her combined audience of over 150,000 followers about infant and child nutrition. Malina is a trusted expert in local and national media outlets and owns a nutrition consulting company and private practice that helps caregivers feed their babies and kids with confidence. She Joins us on the Vault to talk about how parents undergo stress and anxiety related to their children’s food allergies and ways to cope. She also talks about foods that are brain foods for children and babies because food is medicine.
She is the author of Simple and Safe Baby-Led Weaning: How to Integrate Foods, Manage Portion Sizes, and Identify Allergies and the creator of two online courses for parents: Safe & Simple Baby-Led Feeding and Solve Picky Eating. Her new book, Safe and Simple Food Allergy Prevention: A Baby-Led Feeding Guide to Starting Solids and Introducing Top Allergens, is due out in November of 2024 with publisher, BenBella Books, distributed through Penguin Random House. A Forbes Health Advisory Board Member since 2022, member of the Advisory Council for the RWJF Reframing Child Health and Obesity project, Kabrita Medical Advisor, and former national media spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Malina completed her undergraduate degrees at Northwestern University and master's degree in clinical nutrition at New York University.
Resources:
Private Pediatric Nutrition Practice: https://www.malinamalkani.com/work-with-malina-malkani
Starting solids course: http://babyledfeedingcourse.com/ (online course helping parents start solids without stress and reduce the risk of food allergies)
Starting solids 12-week meal plan: https://startbabyledfeeding.com/ (12-week baby-led feeding meal plan with a complete plan for allergen introduction)
Picky Eating Course: https://solvepickyeating.com/ (online course helping parents navigate picky eating behaviors in toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age kids)
Trustpilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/malinamalkani.com
Pre-order new baby-led feeding cookbook: https://foodallergypreventionbook.com/
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