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Speaker 1: Welcome to our Growing Up Talking game show. Please welcome

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Speaker 1: our guest today, Casey Barnes, an incredible nutritionist with hundreds

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Speaker 1: of thousands of followers in her platform. Mama knows Nutrition, Louise,

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Speaker 1: why don't you take the monc I know you have

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Speaker 1: lots of questions about food.

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Speaker 2: Guess I do, Emily, Okay, Casey, My first question is

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Speaker 2: what does a nutritionist do?

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Speaker 3: So what's really cool about being a nutritionist is that

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Speaker 3: you get to help people help them feel good and happy.

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Speaker 3: And you also get to be a scientist too, because

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Speaker 3: you get to learn so much about food and discover

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Speaker 3: things that most people don't know and how food works

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Speaker 3: in the body. I help people be able to eat

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Speaker 3: healthy foods that make them strong and full of energy.

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Speaker 4: I love being a helper in that way.

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Speaker 3: And I just think how great it is to imagine

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Speaker 3: that you can choose foods that help you run faster

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Speaker 3: amazing how much food helps us.

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Speaker 2: I have another question. It's very very important. If food

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Speaker 2: is so amazing, why can't I play with it at

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Speaker 2: the table. It's just so much fun.

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Speaker 3: If your parents say that you can't play with your food.

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Speaker 3: You just tell them that I said it was okay,

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Speaker 3: because it's going to help you learn and help you

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Speaker 3: like more foods.

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Speaker 4: Wait, really, new.

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Speaker 3: Foods can sometimes feel a bit scary or overwhelming or weird,

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Speaker 3: and playing with them is really the best way to

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Speaker 3: feel comfortable trying something new. So my kids they really

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Speaker 3: like to be animals when they're eating, like pretending to

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Speaker 3: be a rabbit nibbling a garden or a dinosaur chomping

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Speaker 3: on a leaf. If your parents say that you can't

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Speaker 3: play with your food, you just whoa is that?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Nothing, just a recording so I can show this

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Speaker 2: as proof to my mom. So, Casey, what are some

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Speaker 2: other ways to make food fun for kids like me?

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Speaker 4: Sometimes we play a would you rather?

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Speaker 3: Game? And so that way my kids have some choice

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Speaker 3: in what they're eating, you know, would you rather an

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Speaker 3: apple or the green bean?

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Speaker 4: And that just makes it.

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Speaker 3: More fun when you can make it playful instead of

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Speaker 3: saying you need to eat.

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Speaker 2: This, Oh that sounds super fun. Between mac poor cheese,

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Speaker 2: I choose mac and cheese.

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Speaker 1: Good one, Louise. Mac and cheese is such a yummy recipe, Casey.

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Speaker 1: My kids sometimes surprise me with their fun food combos.

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Speaker 4: Do your kids do that too?

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Speaker 3: The most surprising things is that my kids come up

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Speaker 3: with the most interesting and creative combinations that I would

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Speaker 3: never think of at all.

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Speaker 4: The Other day, my daughter Amelia.

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Speaker 3: Made me a sandwich, which was so sweet of her,

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Speaker 3: and she put both cheese and red peppers red bell

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Speaker 3: peppers on it, which I never would have thought to

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Speaker 4: But she is so creative.

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Speaker 2: That sounds yummy. You're giving me tons of ideas from

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Speaker 2: my mom's new dinner menu, Casey, Yes, a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of times it's just about adding cheese. I think

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Speaker 3: cheese makes everything tastes better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that actually makes me wonder how did your parents

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Speaker 1: help you get passionate about food and nutrition?

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Speaker 3: So, when I was a little girl, we had a

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Speaker 3: garden in my backyard, and my mom grew up with

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Speaker 3: a garden in her backyard. I just love the memories

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Speaker 3: of being with my mom in the garden picking those red,

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Speaker 3: juicy tomatoes and cucumbers and fresh mint that smells incredible,

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Speaker 3: weaving group pumpkins. It was so fun to see how

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Speaker 3: big and bright and orange they would get. So I

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Speaker 3: just love those memories being with my mom and picking

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Speaker 3: vegetables in the garden.

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Speaker 2: Wow, having a garden like that would be so awesome.

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Speaker 2: Maxie would totally love it too. I have an alien

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Speaker 2: tree with neon fruits and tentacles.

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Speaker 1: Oh, those would be interesting fruits to try.

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Speaker 3: The other day, my daughter wanted to pick up a

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Speaker 3: dragon fruit from the grocery store and we had to

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Speaker 3: look up how do you tell if a dragon fruit

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Speaker 3: is right?

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Speaker 4: But I just love that we get to learn some

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Speaker 4: of those things together.

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Speaker 2: Dragonfruit, I can cut it with my night sword. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I want to be a food explorer, Emily. I can

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Speaker 2: travel to Mac and Cheese Planet or the Milky Shakeway.

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Speaker 1: When I become an astronaut, I'll make sure I check

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Speaker 1: those out. Speaking of milkshakes, Casey, what do you think

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Speaker 1: of fast food?

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Speaker 3: Fast food is very tasty. I love French fries myself,

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Speaker 3: but fast food is usually missing important things that our

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Speaker 3: bodies do need to feel their best, like fruits and vegetables.

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Speaker 3: So fast food is something I like to have just

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Speaker 3: once in a while. I don't like to look at

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Speaker 3: food it's as good or bad, because all foods have

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Speaker 3: good components in them because they're all providing energy to

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Speaker 3: our bodies.

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Speaker 4: So there's all.

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Speaker 3: Foods can fit in a healthy diet. It's about the

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Speaker 3: amount and how often we eat different types of things,

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Speaker 3: so we can have those foods. And like I said,

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Speaker 3: I love French fries, but I'm not going to be

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Speaker 3: very full and satisfied and energized if I just eat

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Speaker 3: French fries for my dinner. I want to have some

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Speaker 3: protein like chicken along with it, and some vegetables. I

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Speaker 3: love broccoli, So making a more balanced meal is going

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Speaker 3: to help our bodies feel really nourished and satisfied.

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Speaker 2: My mind is blown here, Emily. I want to try

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Speaker 2: all the foods.

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Speaker 1: Now, that's great, Louise, and it's an important thing to remember.

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Speaker 4: All foods fit.

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Speaker 1: Casey, let's dive a little deeper. How did you become

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Speaker 1: a nutritionist.

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Speaker 3: I became a special type of nutritionists called a dietitian.

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Speaker 3: Dieticians help keep people healthy with the foods.

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Speaker 4: That they eat.

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Speaker 3: When I was about twenty years old, I had a

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Speaker 3: lot of belly aches and the doctor didn't know why,

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Speaker 3: and I decided to try changing the foods that I

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Speaker 3: was eating, and I found out that it helped so much.

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Speaker 3: I felt so much better, and that was the first

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Speaker 3: time that I really realized that food can change how

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Speaker 3: you feel. When you become a dietitian, you're able to

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Speaker 3: work in hospitals and help people who are sick as well.

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Speaker 2: That's cool. You're like a food doctor.

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Speaker 3: One story that comes to mind that is really cool

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Speaker 3: of how I help someone is that there's a little

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Speaker 3: one year old boy. He was getting sick a lot,

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Speaker 3: and his doctor realized that he wasn't growing like he

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Speaker 3: should be.

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Speaker 4: We were able to add more foods into.

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Speaker 3: His diet, foods like avocado, nuts, eggs, cheese, oil that

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Speaker 3: you cook with, and he started growing and gaining weight again.

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Speaker 3: And that just felt so rewarding to me.

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Speaker 2: That's so nice.

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Speaker 4: I get to be like a food superhero.

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Speaker 1: That's super inspiring. Casey, thank you so much for the

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Speaker 1: super special interview. Thanks for jagging along on this episode

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Speaker 1: of Growing Up all about nutritionists, the food experts that

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Speaker 1: make sure we eat healthy and balanced meals. Remember, little listener,

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