Meet Your New Pals!
PFC Pals is a playful, kid-friendly nutritional literacy program that helps children discover a powerful secret and reveals how food fuels their bodies and brains. Through fun characters and simple lessons, kids learn the roles of protein, fats, and carbohydrates and how they work together as pals. This knowledge empowers them to make food choices that help them build strong, energized bodies and sharp, focused minds from an early age.
When kids discover the power of food, and see each bite as a chance to grow stronger, smarter and more confident, they will make empowered choices that serve as the foundational building blocks for the rest of their lives.
We believe nutritional literacy should be that foundation.
Our mission is to equip children with clear, age-appropriate education about food to discover how to fuel their bodies with strength, focus, and energy.
Our goal is to introduce these concepts early, in a way that is fun, memorable, and empowering.
When children understand fuel, they gain confidence.
When they gain confidence, they make empowered choices.
Empowered choices build lifelong health.
Prevention.
Education.
Tools that last.
We believe childhood health is at a turning point.
Children today are growing up in a food environment that is faster, louder, and more confusing than ever before. Ultra-processed snacks are everywhere and let’s face it, they’re addictive.
Grazing all day has become normal and most kids (and adults!) aren’t choosing foods that serve their bodies. As a result, energy crashes, mood swings, and focus struggles are often dismissed as just part of being a kid, but they are a direct result of the food we are consuming.
At the same time, we are seeing rising rates of childhood obesity, prediabetes, and early metabolic dysfunction at younger and younger ages.
Nearly 1 in 5 children in the United States lives with obesity. Type 2 diabetes, once considered an adult condition, is now appearing in adolescents. Many children are experiencing blood sugar instability long before anyone explains what that even means.
We do not see this as a discipline issue, a character flaw, or a lack of discipline. We see it as a knowledge gap that has to be filled.
Most children have never been taught how food affects their bodies as well as their energy and mood. When blood sugar rises and falls sharply throughout the day, it can influence how well a child concentrates in class, how steady they feel emotionally, how long they stay full, and how their body develops over time.
We believe that when children understand how their bodies work, they naturally begin to make different choices. Not because they are forced to, shamed into it or made to feel “bad” if they eat something labeled “bad.”
When we communicate a diet that feels restrictive and like a bunch of rules to follow, it will often create rebellion or secrecy. When we introduce fear around food, we risk planting the seeds of a strained relationship with eating and body image.
At PFC Pals we are committed to changing the way kids look at food and their bodies.
Our mission is to give children language and understanding around blood sugar balance and heath in a way that feels empowering and age-appropriate. Through the PFC framework, we teach that protein, fat, and carbohydrates work best together. When they are combined, energy is released more steadily, which supports focus, emotional regulation, physical strength, and long-term metabolic health.
We believe education leads to ownership. When children understand why something helps them feel better, they are far more likely to choose it willingly. That kind of choice builds confidence instead of control, and resilience instead of restriction.
PFC Pals isn’t just for kids! We also know when families who live a lifestyle based on blood sugar balance, everyone thrives! Our approach to nutritional literacy at PFC Pals is appropriate and suggested for adults too! In fact, our approach answers YES to the “nutritional litmus test” we know everyone should adopt:
Is what I am doing based in science for my body to thrive?
Can I do it for the rest of my life?
Would I let a kid I love do this?
Meet The
Authors
Carrie Lupoli
CO-CREATOR OF PFC PALS
Carrie Lupoli is a nutritionist, behavior specialist, author, and international speaker dedicated to helping families build healthy relationships with food and their bodies. As the founder of Disruptive Nutrition and PFC3, Carrie has spent more than two decades teaching people around the world how to fuel their bodies and their lives through balance, education, and purpose. She is the author of From Corset To Crown, Disrupting Everything You’ve Been Told About Weight Loss, Confidence and Self-Worth and is th host of a top Apple Podcast, Diet Disruptors.
Blending her background as a special educator and school administrator with her passion for nutritional literacy, Carrie co-created PFC Pals to bring the science of food to life for children. Through colorful characters, engaging storytelling, and easy-to-understand lessons, Carrie and Tara are on a mission to spark a generation of “super-fueled” kids who understand that healthy bodies and bright minds start with what’s on their plate. Connect with Carrie at carrie@carrielupoli.com
TARA CAVOSIE
CO-CREATOR OF PFC PALS
Tara Cavosie is a lifelong creator, innovator, and storyteller whose imagination has inspired products and stories that touch lives around the world. As the holder of dozens of U.S. and international patents, she built a celebrated career as a product designer and HSN (Home Shopping Network) top seller—where her inventive spirit and ability to connect with families turned simple ideas into beloved favorites.
When the world slowed down during COVID, Tara followed her heart toward a new kind of creation: children’s books. Her debut series, Claire Blair’s Unruly Hair, was recognized as one of the top 20 books empowering little girls to love their hair and celebrate their uniqueness. That success sparked her mission to use storytelling to educate, uplift, and inspire the next generation.
Today, in partnership with nutritionist, behavior specialist, and author Carrie Lupoli, Tara channels her creativity into PFC Pals—a fun, science-inspired children’s series that helps kids discover the power of food as fuel and the importance of making healthy choices for life. Connect with Tara at tara@disruptivenutrition.com
