This article comes at the perfect moment; your brilliant point that those 'expert' daily logs often miss the real cultural algoritm is such a refreshing take.
Yes, Tomesha! Exactly. I have been saying this to my clients for the last 20 years. You start from your own comfort zone of culture. What do you usually eat? That's the starting point, always. Who are you and what does "good food" mean to you. Indian food is the same in terms of a cultural orientation with nutritional choices that no Western diet could hope to understand. But it works and has for thousands of years. Nutritional imbalances and diabetes started with colonialism and that's a book for another day. I totally agree, ladies. Don't jettison what you eat or what brings you comfort for someone else's culturally based idea of "healthy".
Love everything that you shared Hema and we need that book about nutritional imbalances started with colonialism! I wish there were more nutritional conversations that recognized how our foods supported us long before the Western diet came into being.
This article comes at the perfect moment; your brilliant point that those 'expert' daily logs often miss the real cultural algoritm is such a refreshing take.
Thank you so much for your kind words. And love your emphasis on the cultural algorithm 🫶. Hope more people start to see it that way.
Yes, Tomesha! Exactly. I have been saying this to my clients for the last 20 years. You start from your own comfort zone of culture. What do you usually eat? That's the starting point, always. Who are you and what does "good food" mean to you. Indian food is the same in terms of a cultural orientation with nutritional choices that no Western diet could hope to understand. But it works and has for thousands of years. Nutritional imbalances and diabetes started with colonialism and that's a book for another day. I totally agree, ladies. Don't jettison what you eat or what brings you comfort for someone else's culturally based idea of "healthy".
Love everything that you shared Hema and we need that book about nutritional imbalances started with colonialism! I wish there were more nutritional conversations that recognized how our foods supported us long before the Western diet came into being.