“Voices at the Table: A Kids-Led Conversation on Food”
Adults make most food decisions for children—but children live with those decisions every single day. What happens when we invite kids into the conversation?
In this refreshing and insight-rich talk, The Holistic Kids—authors of The Teen Health Revolution—offer adults something rarely heard: honest, lived insight into what truly helps kids eat better… and what unintentionally makes it harder.
Through real-world experiences, research, and conversations with leading health experts, this session highlights the gap between adult intention and child experience—and provides practical, immediately actionable strategies to bridge it.
Attendees will learn:
- What is really hijacking kids and their food choices
- What motivates kids to make healthier food choices (and what shuts that motivation down)
- How pressure, restriction, and messaging can backfire
- Why autonomy, involvement, and respect increase buy-in
- Simple shifts at home, in clinics, and in schools that improve long-term eating habits
- How to create food environments that feel supportive rather than stressful
This is not about blaming parents, teachers, or schools. It’s about partnership.
Kids want guidance, structure, and support—but they also want to feel heard, respected, and included. When adults listen to children’s lived experiences with food, healthy habits become more realistic, sustainable, and even joyful.
Because when kids have a voice at the table, real change happens.
I. Opening Keynote
The Future of Lifestyle Medicine Begins with Youth
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Bland
Duration: 30 Minutes
II. Featured Presentation
Voices at the Table: What Kids Want Adults to Understand About Food
Presented by The Holistic Kids
Duration: 60 Minutes
III. Panel discussion 30 minutes
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Event Information
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Speaker
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Jeff Bland, PhDDr. Jeffrey Bland is a personable and highly respected thought leader who has spent more than four decades focused on the improvement of human health.
He is known worldwide as the founder of the Functional Medicine movement, which represents his vision for a care model that is grounded in systems biology and informed by research that he has a unique ability to synthesize. His pioneering work has created the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute (PLMI), as well as the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), the global leader in Functional Medicine education. Since 1991, hundreds of thousands of healthcare practitioners have participated in PLMI and IFM programs, and this collective knowledge has positively impacted the lives of patients all over the world.
