Smart Cookie and Intuitive Eating: Noa Miller on Balanced Nutrition, Parenting, and Healing

Ellen Z. Goldberg interviews eating disorder dietitian Noa Miller (NourishedWithNoa.com) on Frum Women in Motion about her integrative, intuitive-eating approach and her co-authored book, "Smart Cookie: A Girl’s Guide to Food", written with Batsheva Herzka and Dina Cohen, aimed at girls age 9+ to provide balanced nutrition education and help prevent dieting and eating disorders.

They discuss intuitive eating principles (rejecting diet culture, honoring hunger/fullness, gentle nutrition, joyful movement), key messages for schools (carbohydrates as energy; fat is satisfying), and resources like Atzmi’s prevention curriculum. Noa shares pediatric feeding strategies including Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility, calming parental stress, and practical guidance for “Shabbos party” and backup dinner options.

She also recounts severe juvenile idiopathic arthritis leading to emergency neck surgery and how yoga supports pain management, emphasizing medication as a gift alongside nutrition as preventive care. A contest offers a free copy of Smart Cookie via Instagram comments or email.

Please consider making a donation to Atzmi in honor of Noa: charityextra.com/atzmi

00:00 Noa Miller

02:28 Smart Cookie: The Book

08:15 Intuitive Eating

24:45 Nutrition for Busy Women

27:44 Noa's Medical Journey & Yoga

36:50 Outro & Giveaway