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Healthy Eating Includes Cultural Foods


Healthy Eating Includes Cultural Foods

July 21, 2021 at 11:01 AM

Healthy eating is sometimes seen as a necessary evil.

On one hand, it’s essential to good health, but on the other, it’s suggestive of restriction and self-denial steeped in Eurocentrism.

Even in the Caribbean, where I’m from, many nutrition programs are modeled on the American food pyramid, which then implies what healthy eating looks like to the local communities.

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