What diet culture steals from Latinos
LA TimesIt wasn’t too far into December that my Instagram feed suddenly was heavy with weight loss ads and posts. “Because our ‘cultural’ foods do not fit the American mold, many try to change their habits to fit these ‘diets’ and it’s a slippery slope,” explained Soto, who has been a dietitian for 10 years. “That’s really central to what we do,” said Isabel Vasquez, a registered dietitian and licensed dietary nutritionist at Your Latina Nutritionist. Rather than focusing on restricting foods, restricting their cultural foods and not having to buy into these very rigid rules that diet culture promotes.” Years back, I came across “Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing,” a cookbook by Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel. “We know that negative body image, depression, sexual assault, ethnic discrimination and acculturative stress add to the risk.” “Research and funding go a lot into things like the Mediterranean diet, which is approached from a very white, Eurocentric lens, rather than funding research into other cultural cuisines,“ said Vasquez.
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