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‘Decolonizing your plate,’ and embracing the foods of your cultural heritage

The Mediterranean diet isn’t the only healthy cultural heritage cuisine out there.

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By Lynnea Domienik
   

Nutritionists are raising the alarm that focusing on one diet as “the best” can make people feel like their own heritage foods aren’t adequate – or even healthy. This can affect mental and physical health.

Reset learns more about this and ways of valuing traditional foodways.

GUEST: Kera Nyemb-Diop, nutritionist

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