Special webinar especially for Picky Eating Adults. Find out more and ask the questions important to you.

• The webinar is for Joan to respond to issues raised by PEAs that are important to them. It will not be a lecture. It is important that PEAs feel they can raise issues of how being a PEA affects their lives. And to get the real life insights from a practitioner who has worked with hundreds of PEAs

• PEAs could be forgiven for thinking their difficulties can’t be solved. After all their mothers tried with them right throughout their childhood. On the other hand they could be forgiven for believing there is some easy solution. They and their mother have often been told that everything will go well if they just try some new idea. In fact the answer is that each person is different so they can gradually find some helpful way for them

• The introduction of a diverse range of foods that many people manage is a big task early in life so it is no wonder it can be very complicated and problematic for some. This can be for a variety of reasons - family factors, nutrition, breastfeeding factors, the possibility of adverse reactions, the baby being in distress, crying, waking at night, and others. Each baby is different so in a way each baby is a picky eater. See Chap 1 of Fussy Babies.

• The idea of eating development was not widely understood until now so many PEAs did not have the advantage of this knowledge. Now it is known it can be used. Where people have problems with speech, coordination, reading or writing they are seen as having a developmental delay and not judged. Yet where eating is concerned they are often judged when the issues should be seen as part of eating development. See Chap 2 or Fussy Babies.

• Somehow those people with heightened discrimination about food and who become chefs or food gourmets are not judged but PEAs are. The overlap of ideas here is important.

• Another important idea that is not well known is that many of the little problems that start to show in infancy and continue in some form is food sensitivity, that is adverse reactions to foods. The reactions can be tummy aches, rashes and other allergic symptoms, irritability, frequent mood changes, sleep problems such as not settling, restless sleep, nightmares,  restless legs or waking very early, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), car sickness, mouth ulcers, headaches and migraine.  Fortunately diet investigation helps determine what foods cause reactions and how to decrease the symptoms for people who are susceptible. See Chap 3 of Fussy Babies, and Are You Food Sensitive?

• Supersensitivity is another important issue for many PEAs. The idea that some people are supersensitive to smell, taste, light, texture, temperature, sound and some other inputs is not understood in the general community at all. Most people think their degree of frustration with smell or noise is much the same as others so they do not understand that for some one particular smell or strength of smell can be so distressing that it means the appetite goes completely. This is an interesting area to discuss.

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