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48. 7 Ways Culture Influences How We Eat Today

September 12, 2024 • Naihomy Jerez • Episode 48

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Let's uncover the powerful connections between culture, food, and wellness.  Discover how traditional dishes can be both comforting and nutritious, and why demonizing cultural foods can hinder our health journeys. Together, we explore the delicate balance of honoring our heritage while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

What happens when the kitchen transforms from a place of servitude to one of self-nourishment? I dive into the cultural and gender norms that define our cooking habits and how these deep-rooted beliefs, particularly affecting women, can lead to resistance and feelings of burnout. Through personal stories and reflections, I discuss redefining the kitchen as a space of empowerment and self-care. By addressing these underlying issues, you can reshape your relationship with cooking and embrace new narratives that align with your well-being.

How do cultural pressures influence your food choices, and what can you do to navigate them effectively? This episode tackles the complexities of balancing unhealthy, cost-effective options with nutritious alternatives, and the cultural expectations that make saying "no" difficult. I emphasize the importance of self-worth in making healthier choices and the broader impact these decisions have on generational health. Tune in to learn how to create a balanced lifestyle that respects your cultural heritage while prioritizing your well-being and self-care.

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Speaker 1:

Hey friends, welcome back to Wealthy Generation Podcast, that is W-E-L-L-W-E-L-T-H-Y. So recently I had the absolute pleasure of being a guest expert speaker in Jasmine Escalera's community, the Courage Crew. And a little bit about the Courage Crew. It is a free community that supports women at all stages of their lives. It helps women reinvent themselves with clarity and focus, and it's about finding balance, mastering their mindset and prioritizing what truly matters to them, while staying rooted in mindfulness and spirituality. While staying rooted in mindfulness and spirituality and she had asked the community what's one area or I guess she polled the community, what's one area that they really wanted to focus on? And a lot of them were saying that they wanted to focus on their health. They wanted to focus on exercise, really living a healthy lifestyle, and luckily, jasmine and I connected and I presented or had a conversation and a Q&A in her community. Now I want to talk about one question that Jasmine asked me as part of our Q&A that I thought was so good and I wanted to expand on because I think it's so important, so relatable and it comes up so much in my coaching with my clients. It happens to every single one of us and we might not even realize what's happening and the question she asked me. She asked me a bunch of questions and then we had a Q&A at the end, but the one that really stood out to me was how does culture play into how we eat?

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Part of the discussion was around our cultural foods, as that is very important to us, to our community. That is very important to us to our community, and oftentimes it's the food that gets demonized or it's the food that you're told in the doctor's office that you need to stop eating to become healthy. So a big focus of this event was to make sure it was culturally relevant, and that is something that is very near and dear to me and my values and how I coach and how I like to teach and really teach my clients and community how to live a lifestyle rooted in wellness, without demonizing our food, without saying like you can't eat this and you can't eat that, it's actually quite healthy. There are different reasons why it might not be. You may reach the point in your body where it can't handle certain things, but it doesn't mean that our food is bad for us, right? And I do think that our culture has a lot to do with how we eat as adults, the way that we grew up, the social activities we saw happening, what we saw happening in our home and, granted, it's part of every single culture, but culturally for us, as Latinos, as Hispanics, as Latinx or even generally people of color, women of color how does our culture play into how we eat, especially how we're eating today, and maybe how that is no longer in line, or maybe it is. There's different avenues and aspects to this to our health and wellness journey now and our goals.

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So I am going to share the answers with you that I shared with the Courage Crew community, in addition to a few other pointers that I added because I have the time and the space to do so now that I thought were also extremely relevant. So let's get into it. I have about seven reasons, or just pointers, as to how does our culture play into how we eat. So, the very first thing that I mentioned and it's probably not a surprise for you, there was one on this list that was a real shocker prize for you. There was one on this list that was a real shocker to every single person. But the first few that I'm going to mention they're very common and they might not be as a surprise. So just hang in there, because you will be mind blown soon enough.

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Okay, so the number one, for how does culture play into how we eat is community. Right, like every single social gathering that we have, every single celebration, there's always a meal involved. It brings people together, it brings people in community, whether it's the holidays or religious celebrations like a baptism, a birthday, I know for me for many, many years, my mom would always be like what do you want to eat for your birthday? And she would make me food. And my favorite dish and I remember when I was really young, something that I loved so much and we weren't making all the time because it was a little time consuming was pastelitos or empanadas, and I remember that she I really wanted empanadas. I must have been around eight, nine years old and she allowed me to eat empanadas or pastelitos in the bedroom while I watched tv and, oh my gosh, that was such a treat. But that's more under special occasions, I guess. But community is a big deal. We always, most often than not, are sharing a meal, and I know that if I'm having either people over to my home or we're going out somewhere in a group, we're getting together for any sort of occasion. My first question is like okay, where are we eating? Where are we eating and what are we doing with the food situation? That's always top of mind. For some people it's not, but for me it is, and most of the time when there's a gathering, there is food involved.

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Number two, as to how culture plays into how we eat, is comfort. We comfort ourselves through food, right? It's like you're feeling sad and your mother's like ¿Tú quieres que te haga? Xyz? Like, do you want me to make you tostones or a sopa, or rice and beans? Like whatever your favorite food was? Usually they're making something for you to eat, to lift up your spirits, or they're buying you something, right? And I'm guilty of this too, where sometimes I tell my kids like, oh yeah, do X, y, z or whatever the ask is, and then I'll be like I'll give you a lollipop or I'll buy you some ice cream, right? So usually there's some sort of emotion happening. Maybe you're crying, maybe you're happy, even when, when we're happy and want to celebrate, we're eating something. It's part of this whole comfort, part of the whole community, part of the whole culture where you are offering something to somebody else.

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I remember one of my clients. When she was younger, her sibling would bring her Twinkies to comfort her because her parents worked long hours. Her sibling was usually the one taking care of her and she had this relationship with Twinkies as an adult where she would still use them as comfort and she didn't even notice or realize where it came from. Until one day in coaching we started talking about it and she was like, oh my gosh, when I was younger, my sibling used to bring me Twinkies to help me feel better as a child. So it can be Twinkies or something like that, and it can also be our cultural foods, where it plays into how we eat and it helps us feel better. I know, whenever I'm nostalgic, whenever I miss home, whenever I've been out for too long and I'm just really looking for comfort, sometimes, my cultural foods is what I lean into.

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Some dishes that I've made for myself when I'm looking for comfort has been rice and beans tostones. It's my favorite food. One of the questions at the beginning was what's your favorite comfort food? And I said tostones with ketchup and everybody lost it when I was like with ketchup, they're like what I'm like. Yes, just give me tostones with ketchup. I've made a sopao and sopa as a way to find comfort. It is so comforting and along that same route.

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Number three, as to how does our culture play into how we eat, is love. People show love. The same way people try and comfort you, they also try and show love to you by feeding you and by making you good food. And I think this relates more to the story where I was sharing with my mom, where she would ask me what do I wanna eat for my birthday? And then she would make that. And I know, like if you're invited to my house and I make you a meal from scratch, that's me showing you love. Like I just don't do that for everyone and I think it's very common in our culture for us to show love through food. I know recently I was in the Dominican Republic and every single time I would go to somebody's house, they wanted to make a meal, or they offered to make a meal and at the very least, or they offered to make a meal and at the very least, they would offer to make you coffee right as a sign of love and just sharing something with you. Now I think those three were very, um, kind of obvious, like if somebody would ask you how does our culture play with um play into how we eat, then I think it would be common enough answers to come up. But the fourth one that I'm going to share with you, I think is not common at all, and this is the one where a lot of people gasped in the room where I was making the presentation presentation that is not common and is not seen at all.

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So number four, on how culture plays into how we eat, is rebellion Rebellion. This is going to resonate in a second. So I've just seen this time and time again with my clients. I didn't even know this was a thing until I started to notice this common pattern with my clients as to why they didn't want to make meals in the kitchen. They didn't want to be in the kitchen and it affects how they were eating. It was affecting their health, because part of living, a lifestyle rooted in wellness, is making meals to some extent. There are many, many, many different ways as to how we can feed ourselves and they're all valid and they are all tools that I encourage all my clients to have, because it's important to have these for certain seasons of our lives.

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However, rebellion has caused them not to want to be in the kitchen. And what are they rebelling against? Right, most of it is cultural and gender norms, like gender norms in our culture. So oftentimes my clients would see and honestly I saw this myself to a certain extent and I would always question it but I had a different relationship with the kitchen or saw it differently. So my clients would, for example, see their matriarch working really hard in the kitchen and serving. They still saw the matriarch serving and being of service to the man or the male figures in the house, whether that was brothers, uncles, whoever it was right, the female was still being of service. So this created rebellion in adulthood.

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And sometimes you know, you don't even notice it, you don't even notice that this is the deep rooted reason as to why you're having a hard time making yourself something to eat, um, doing like doing something for yourself in your own home. You might feel a lot of resistance towards it. And these kinds of revelations have happened throughout our coaching together, where a lot of excuses come up as to why it's hard for them to use it or they don't like to, or it's not their thing, or just so many things come up. They don't have the right tools and the more we dig, and the more we dig, most of the time we notice that there's some sort of shame, where probably somebody told you that you didn't know what you were doing and you weren't doing like in terms of cooking and in terms of fixing food and using kitchen tools I know I've been told this before by matriarchs where it's like I'm not cutting the platanos fast enough and I'm not cutting the platanos well enough and you know, like things like that, where there's a certain technique and this certain speed that you have to do things in, and they tell you the conversation can go many ways, right, they'll tell you that your food is no good and this whole notion of you're not going to find a husband because you can't cook, which is back to the gender norms, right.

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And there's this notion that you'll never live up or fill in the shoes of your matriarch and so a lot of times you don't even want to try because it's like, well, my food is never going to be good as theirs, so it's not even worth it. Or there's this other narrative that is shared of family members encouraging the females not to be in the kitchen because it is kind of it is seen as like you don't need to because you're going to go to school. It's like be beneath you almost. Where you don't need to learn how to use the kitchen because you are going to have enough education and make enough money, where you're going to have somebody else do that for you and you don't need to do it for yourself because, culturally, what we see is the woman serving, consistently serving, and this is her role and this is part of her job. And this is her role and this is part of her job. Now, yes, we can look at this many different ways, but we're looking at it from a lens of how the culture plays into how we eat, how we choose to eat, how we choose to make our meals or not make our meals.

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Where do they come from? Because the one thing you cannot stop doing is eating. It can literally kill you, so you must find a way as to how to feed yourself. So there's this sense of rebellion, there's this sense of not wanting to, because you saw matriarchs in your life being completely undermined and not giving any credit to, and just this sense of well, this is your job, so you have to do it, and you don't deserve rest or to sit down with everybody else, right, this thing of you serve yourself last and you make sure everybody's taken care of before you take care of yourself, and the flip side of it of, and then you growing up and being like, well, f this, I'm not going to be serving people and not resting, and like cooking for somebody that's not even going to appreciate me, right, um, I know I've had those thoughts myself where it's like, well, you best to believe that I'm not going to be doing all of these things for you, and just not absolute, like taking care of myself Right Almost becoming this martyr, or like this, um, what's it called?

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There's like other words for this where, like you just take it, you just take it, and this other sense of family encouraging, or culturally, you're being encouraged because you're getting an education and you're probably the first to go to college and they see this vision for you of you becoming a professional earning so much more money that your family has ever had, where they tell you is not worth learning this skill. Okay, so there's this whole sense of rebellion that comes along. And just to give you a quick idea as to how I have thought about this, because I definitely have had my own issues with cultural expectations as a woman, as a wife, as a mom, not necessarily from my own partner, but just from matriarchs, right, and just from society and what is expected of me. But I've never really had an issue making food for myself. Obviously, I make food for my family, but being in the kitchen to make food for me which a lot of times is a main block for people, because I always see it as I am nourishing myself the kitchen is a place where you get to create a new narrative for yourself, and that's with work, right. You just don't wake up and decide one morning. I mean you could, but when you have such deep rooted beliefs and just probably trauma around it, it can be tough. Luckily, I don't have deep seated trauma around it like that.

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But when I started my health and wellness journey, I just saw the kitchen as a place of where I took care of myself. Sure, there's this whole thing of obviously community and making meals for your family and all that, but I saw it as a place where I nourished me. I nourished myself, and this was a place where I could do that and it was safe for me to do it and it was one of the ways that I could show myself love, that I can comfort myself in a way that was aligned with my health goals and what I wanted. So it was a place where I could love on myself, bring comfort to myself, nourish myself. Comfort to myself, nourish myself. And I didn't necessarily bring I isolated that very well and I didn't bring in any other societal beliefs, cultural beliefs, like anything else that was out there. It just didn't align when it came to my own health and wellness. It was just this whole other space for me. So I did not feel I definitely have rebelled in other ways. I'm not going to lie about that or say that it didn't happen, but when it came to making food for myself, that I knew I had to start making changes if I wanted specific results with my health and with weight loss and all that. I was totally okay with it.

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So let's move on to number five. Number five of how culture plays into how we eat is accessibility and worthiness. So most often, when we were growing up and I'm going to say we, but then I'm going to just switch it to I and just it's many, many of our stories that I've heard is that there were not foods that were accessible in our communities. There were foods that maybe our parents were not familiar with or whoever our caretaker was was not familiar with. They didn't know how to cook it and they probably didn't even have the means to purchase foods that to purchase more expensive foods, to purchase maybe organic foods, to purchase higher quality meats and fruits and vegetables and things like that they had to. Whoever your caretakers were, had to make ends meet. They were probably feeding a big family, so of course we have to keep that in mind. Where it just probably wasn't even accessible whether it was financially, whether it was what they sold in your local supermarkets so accessibility has a lot to do with it.

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And when this is tied to worthiness, in the sense that you were probably not in the same space that your caretakers were in when you were younger, so we tend to follow the same habits of thinking of food differently, so it's like, oh no, organic is too expensive, or I can't buy fresh versions of whatever foods. I usually buy canned, even though there's nothing wrong with canned. Please don't get me wrong. I'm just trying to create maybe what was the narrative and what you use younger and what. Probably you have the accessibility, both financially and in your local supermarkets, to do now and you can explore and this right we're tying it back to culture and what's happening now. So you're probably maybe what generally happens is we're buying the same products that our caretakers bought when we were younger, because they're familiar. You don't need to think about it. They're still running commercials on it and that's very valuable not to just be on autopilot like that, and obviously there's been food around you your whole life.

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So this is something that you gravitate to and what usually happens is, too, with the worthiness that sometimes we might not feel worthy of buying the higher quality food items. There is so much mind drama that comes with it of things not being fair right. Like your parents, your caretakers probably didn't have access to these things before again, both financially and what was in their communities. And there's this whole process of being okay with spending extra money on food that's better for you, that's better quality, that is cleaner, but your parents probably couldn't buy it right, and you have this preconceived notion that something that comes in a bigger container is more worth your money than something that maybe comes in a smaller container, and with this, a really good example is, let's say, butter.

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If you go to somewhere like to any supermarket really, but to a wholesale place like, let's say, bj's or Costco, and you look at the butter section or quote, unquote butter, there's these enormous containers of crock country and parkway and you buy that and they're enormous and you're like, yes, it's so cost effective, it's a ginormous thing. But the thing is that that's not even butter, is margarine, is whipped oils and it is extremely inflammatory. So you see this enormous bucket and it costs maybe, I don't know $8. And then you go look at, let's say, grass fed butter, like Kerrygold or I know Costco has their own brand, house brand of grass fed butter and for maybe half the size or less of the margarine bucket you're paying $10. And I've seen loved ones have drama over this and it's like, oh my gosh, how am I going to buy this little tub of butter when I can get this ginormous tub? But the thing is that you are going to pay a price one way or another. One way or another you're going to pay a price and we have to, and sometimes it's not apples to apples. Where it's money wise, sure you can get the margarine and have a big tub and save, I don't know like this in this example. I don't know like this.

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In this example, you would have to use like what's it called? Like an itemized or like a prorated not prorated, there's like a specific term for this that I'm blanking out on but basically like per unit. Oh, this is what I'm looking for Per unit price. I used to do this with the diapers, y'all. Like I had two babies and they were both on diapers and I would stand there with my calculator and I would do the unit price to see how much I was paying per diaper. So, in terms of butter, you would probably have to do the unit price to see how much you're paying per ounce, right? So you're probably paying so much less for this crunchy crock or parkway, so much less for this crunchy crock or parkway.

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But where you do pay more of a price is with your health Okay, is with your health, because this margarine is going to cause major inflammation. It's been studied, it's been, you know, and so this is the price I don't want to pay. And this is the value that our culture has a very hard time seeing, because we're just taught to look at what price we're paying monetarily, like everything ties back to money. Everything is like it's too expensive, but this costs less, but this brings more, and we're making decisions still probably based on monetary factors when, yes, that was very real and at some point and it kept us safe and it kept us fed. But where I'm getting at is that right now? But where I'm getting at is that right now you might be generations of. It's too much. It's not worth it when if in the one place, obviously there's just some groceries and things that are ridiculous. But I always like to calculate the price I'm paying, based on my health and my longevity and how I'm going to feel. So I invite you to keep those things in mind too and be really honest in terms of why are you making the choices to buy one item over the next and how is this cultural beliefs impacting how you're eating now? Okay, so let's keep moving on to number six.

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Number six is feeling the need to be polite, culturally, right, because in whatever community we're in, obviously this is a space that involves other people and someone offers you food. You might feel like it's very impolite to say no and no, thank you, right, you just eat it because they're offering it to you, and I think that that can get us, and I think that that can get us off track with Like, look, if you really want to eat it, then yeah, go ahead and eat it. I'm not talking about that. If you want to eat what somebody's offering you, then go ahead. There's no drama about it. The thing is that oftentimes you don't want to eat it. There's just something that somebody's offering you that you know is going to make you sick, that you know it doesn't sit well in your stomach, that you know it's not aligned with your current lifestyle that you're trying to build. And that's when the culture interferes, where we have it anyway.

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And then we suffer quietly because we don't want to be in polite right, we don't want to be rude. We suffer quietly and we just do it because we don't want to make the other person feel bad, when in reality, I wholeheartedly believe in protecting how we're feeling. And this I learned after time and time and time again, where I would do this exact same thing. I wanted to be polite, I didn't want to be rude and I accepted whatever drink or food or dessert or whatever somebody else was offering me, because it's the right thing to do, culturally right. You don't want to be rude, and every single time I accepted and had something I really didn't want to again, really did not want to have, I would be so sick, I didn't feel good, and then it would last a few days and that just was not worth it for me anymore. So I'm all for no thank you being a complete sentence. I'm all for allowing the other person to feel however they want to feel about me, to have whatever thoughts they want to have, but I know that I owe it to myself to protect how I'm feeling in my own body.

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Okay, and the last thing that I'll mention that I think I already mentioned along this episode somewhere is number seven is continuing to buy what's familiar, if I believe, our community is up leveling so much. We're up leveling in our careers. There's so many of us doing the damn thing. We are professionals, we have PhDs, we are in C-suite positions, we are lawyers, we are doctors. There's just entrepreneurs. The list goes on and on and on of every magnificent thing that we're doing. With that said, we're getting higher education, we are getting higher paychecks, we are buying property. All of these checkboxes of success are happening, but what's not growing along with us is our wellness.

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We're still stuck in these patterns of survival mode and there's nobody out here to teach us how to take good care of ourselves, how to live a lifestyle rooted in wellness, because usually culturally and just societal expectations and gender roles too is like no, you're good, you can do everything. Like aren't you super women? Like they have this, they have this, like these titles they want to put on us, like we can do everything, and I'm talking about work and the home. Like not only do you have a full-on career, you may or may not have kids, you may or may not have aging parents, you may or may not have a partner, a home to take care of I think I already mentioned your career and then you're also expected to take care of every single household item that there is, the laundry.

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So we I think I this is like my opinion and my perspective right that we also need to evolve when it comes to feeding ourselves, when it comes to moving our bodies, when it comes to making time and space for that. Where it's not like added on stress, it's like oh my gosh, now I have to do this too, and now I need to do this too, and now I need to pay attention to this too, where we are creating that space, where we are recruiting support to get the other things done, because they have to get done, like there's just, you know, like the laundry has to get done and we have to clean and we have to make food and all these other things right. So, recruiting support one way or the other. It may be a human, it may be technology, it may be a delivery service, like there's many different ways to acquire support now with technology, and we have a lot of thoughts about that. And we do what's familiar, not just with food, with buying certain things that you're probably buying. And if I ask you why, you're probably like I don't know, my mom used to always buy this, or we always had this in the house. Or whenever I'm tired and I don't want to cook, I have this cereal to eat, or whatever it is right. Like I'll buy myself X, y, z, um, I'll buy myself this kind of takeout because it's just what we're used to. And when we start digging deeper, we realize, oh, this is what would happen when, let's say, we had to feed a big family and we would go to the dollar menu. Right, we had to feed a big family and there was no time to make food and we would go through drive-thrus. All of this is okay. I just want to say that, right, like I'm not trying to bash, like I'm not trying to bash anybody, I'm not trying to do any of that there's space for all of this in our lives. I am purely talking about, culturally, how things play into, how we eat in a space where we are elevating and evolving as a community. I want you to see it that way, right, and maybe there's no need for you to do those things anymore, because you probably also don't want to start dipping into chronic diseases that might run in your family, ailments that are happening and you're like, oh crap, I don't want to go down that route. But if we are continuing to eat and live in a lifestyle that's similar to when past family members, past generations, were in survival mode when it is safe, thankfully, when it is safe, thankfully, thank God, thank you, ancestors to let that go now and elevate in a way that will protect our health and give us a better opportunity at longevity and feeling well in our body, and asking for support and feeding our bodies nutritious foods, then our life can look so incredibly different. So, in speaking about how culture plays into how we eat, we also get to change that tide. We also get to build wealthy and healthy generations together. We get to dismantle these cultural norms. We get to dismantle these gender norms, because my belief is If you're human, you should have kitchen skills.

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Punto, that's it. If you're a human, you should have kitchen skills, because every human should know how to nourish themselves. Right? We're not talking about big picture cooking for other people. As humans, we should know how to nourish ourselves one way or the other. Right, kitchen, using the kitchen as a skill, and that's all we're doing. We're learning a skill, but there's off and learn a new way and teach that new way to generations moving forward, and even generations that come before us too.

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As to the value, the long-term value of taking such good care of ourselves, where we can do that and also do the other things that we've wanted to do the career and the family and all that, there's space for it and it doesn't have to be this enormous project and super complicated. When we just get educated, when we learn how foods work in our bodies, when we learn to be okay with judgment of others if they have something to say or not, when we just fall so deeply in love with taking care of ourselves because we know how it makes us feel. We know that when we do our blood work it's going to look good. We know that we can really prevent and reverse health conditions that we might be predisposed to in our families. But guess what? If we change the pattern of how we're eating and how we're living our lives, you have the opportunity to influence gene expression. You have the opportunity to disrupt those patterns for us, for our culture, and I recently recorded a podcast.

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I was a guest on another podcast and she asked me what's something you want to be known for? And I said I would love to play a part in changing health statistics for our culture, for black and brown people, for people of color. I would love to have a little bit of a piece of that pie or a slice to be like man. She really advocated for this. There were generations that benefited from this work of learning how to eat, of taking really good care of ourselves, and it's changed generational patterns where I had to do the hard work of learning all these things, maybe in my 30s or my 40s, but my kids, my nieces and nephews, my students. It's a no brainer for them.

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So I hope this episode has inspired you. I hope to recap I'll just recap them what I think how cultural, how culture plays into how we eat. So those were community comfort, love, rebellion, accessibility and worthiness, need the need to be polite and continuing to buy what's familiar. So I hope it inspired you. I hope it gave you a totally different perspective. Hopefully this lit up some light bulbs for you as to like wow, I didn't even see that coming. As to how I'm affected by what I saw growing up and the way I'm eating now, and I'm not even eating in a way where that's what I want for myself. I'm eating in a way where it's deeply influenced by everything I saw growing up.

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And if you want to change that and you don't know how if you want to start eating in a way that's nourishing for you and changing up your lifestyle so that it is rooted in wellness and you get to influence generational health, along with all of the other generational patterns that you were breaking and elevating in your life, I invite you to book a consultation. I cannot wait to be your coach, your food and hormone health coach, because this is exactly what I help my clients on. Yes, it's about food, yes, it's about hormones, yes, it's about movement and all these other things. But if you're not realizing where a lot of this is coming from, if you're not realizing what's blocking you and what's interfering, then it's really hard to stick to whatever change. You're not realizing what's blocking you and what's interfering, then it's really hard to stick to whatever change you're trying to create.

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And I just want you to think about how many times you've tried, probably, to create changes and to go on diets and to change your lifestyle, and you go back. You keep returning back to what's familiar, what's on autopilot and even if it doesn't feel good in your body, but it feels okay because you don't have to think about it so much and it's familiar. So that alone creates the safety for you. So I am so honored to hold that space for you to help teach you how to create these new safety for yourself, so that you can live and create this lifestyle rooted in wellness, where you're also having major impact and influence in generations to come. So I invite you to book a consultation call with the link in the show notes, and I cannot wait to see you and talk to you next week. Bye.