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Cracking the food code and having a better relationship with your body and food.
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00:00it is me again hello everyone are you enjoying yourselves it's everyone at home enjoying
00:12yourselves online i've kind of been peeking in and oh my gosh the conversation in the chat room
00:19online is off the chain okay i'm just gonna say that but i am so excited the rain in atlanta is
00:26i've been in here all day but i've been asking i hear it stopped it's beautiful outside don't you
00:31all love living in atlanta you just can never you never know it was great yesterday and today we
00:36wake up and it's a thunderstorm oh my god so we are approaching our last panel of the day but
00:42we're not approaching we got some stuff i think y'all know who's coming up towards the end so make
00:49sure you all stick around for that but we are going to finish up our last panel one of our last panels
00:55so this next one is cracking the food code having a better relationship with your body and food
01:03i have been trying to lose the same 10 pounds since i was i don't want to exaggerate probably about 21
01:10and then now that i'm 52 my metabolism has slowed down to a complete crawl like a snail so i'm always
01:18dieting oh my gosh so we definitely need to crack that code uh were you all taking notes last panel
01:26yes taking notes remember you're having such a great time you may forget some things i know you're
01:32you know but so take some notes okay so that you keep these things for later all right so this next
01:39discussion is all about our relationship with food and how to improve that relationship right so we have
01:47a healthier relationship with ourselves here to get this final conversation going please welcome
01:55owner and executive chef of henlil food service group inc chef keith cash
02:02yes chef cash registered dietitian la shonda beasley
02:10all right she come with her okay amen corner girl and then tv personality and food and lifestyle expert
02:20rosalyn daniel
02:25hello essence wellness house how's everyone doing today
02:38okay we are here with la shonda and chef keith thank you so much for being here and i think we can go ahead
02:47and get started sounds good sounds good okay so to get started i'd like to ask each of you
02:54to please share a little bit about your personal journeys in the food and nutrition space and then
03:01i'll share a little bit about mine so let me go first please yeah so personal journeys um i think
03:08we all kind of suffer from information overload so you kind of like don't know what to eat so me personally
03:17um you know we we've talked a little bit about it prior um i subscribe to eating for my blood type
03:25and that's changed my life actually um really knowing what i should eat how my body processes
03:33foods um and why certain cravings exist instead of tapping into generalities um
03:41and from from the from the from that position then i've been able to make choices that are connected
03:49to results that i'm able to follow and as a result i feel better um hopefully look better
03:56and um you know just have a better quality of life i love that i love that la shonda yes i can
04:03definitely echo that because my own personal journey had a lot to do with learning how to eat
04:11for my body and what foods either hindered or harmed me but along the way especially since learning
04:19about me having pcos i had to learn how to incorporate foods that are going to support me
04:26and also learn how to still have a healthy relationship with food where i can incorporate
04:33all the foods that i enjoy while still supplying the foods that i need to help my disease and my
04:39condition i love that i love that and as for me um i am a food and a lifestyle content creator
04:48and it's very important for me to show women that it is possible to have it all and i do believe that
04:55that starts with what foods you are bringing to your family table and so i like to create approachable
05:02family recipes that women can use to provide food for their family on a nightly basis
05:08okay so let's go ahead and um and jump into la shonda so i have a question as a dietitian
05:19what are some of the most common things you've seen black women struggle with when they're trying
05:24to change their eating habits excellent question one of the things i see most is we take on this
05:33all or nothing thinking where if we don't do something 100 correct when we're following like
05:42a lifestyle or a diet that we choose to you know stick to when we find that one thing where we slip up
05:49then we just feel like we've failed completely and that's not always true it's learning how to build
05:56that skill and it takes time and patience and we need to learn how to give ourselves that same
06:01time patience and grace to build that healthy foundation that you're looking for i can definitely
06:09relate to that it's like if i start a diet and i mess up on one day every it's all out the window
06:15we can start again next week so i 100 can relate to that um so what would you say is the first step
06:23towards changing the way that we think about how we put our food in our bodies and what foods we're
06:29putting in our bodies the common thing i see is that we often we we're going into autopilot a lot
06:35throughout our day so during our day today you know we're busy either picking up the kids or going to
06:41work and all the while we're just picking up the first thing that we grab just to make sure that we're
06:46eating something but not really giving ourselves that time to stop and reflect so my personal suggestion
06:55for a lot of us is to kind of take a step back and either write down what we're eating if it's causing
07:02us to eat based on our emotions if we're bored or if we're anxious or we're eating out of comfort
07:09a lot of times we don't think about those things so it's important to kind of increase your self-awareness
07:14so kind of like a food journal exactly that yes okay i i i love that uh chef key so everybody's
07:27outside again okay we are definitely frequenting restaurants more and we don't have to order in as
07:34much yes but when we go out to these restaurants we want to make sure you know we're sticking to
07:39our game plan of eating healthy um what are some tips that you can offer when we're ordering from
07:47the food menus when we're going out to different restaurants so i gotta take a different i'm going
07:53to answer that question but i'm gonna take a different journey to get into that answer right
07:57so i think that a lot of us subscribe to general practice when it comes to trying to be healthy
08:08like keto let's just use as example sure there's several people in here that have tried keto as
08:14we know that's not a lifestyle you can maintain right um it's not necessarily healthy but there are
08:24several types of regiments or trends that people follow and then try to follow that when they go out
08:31to a restaurant right um so i think first and foremost you have to identify what makes us all
08:40different what makes all of our bodies different how does each one of our bodies process foods um this
08:49is why and we talked about science math etc from a scientific standpoint to keep it simple each of our
08:56our bodies are different based on our blood type so not each of us can all eat the same foods so we
09:04first need to know what we can eat right so once you determine what's beneficial or inflammatory for
09:11your body your particular situation then when you go out you can order items that promote that
09:18vice subscribing to a general practice that's not specifically for your situation so what works
09:26for one person may not necessarily work for the other and as an example let me give you a prime
09:32example if you're a person that's maybe an old blood type old blood types their stomach is
09:37primarily a lot of acid which is why old blood types crave meats we kind of you know i need a steak
09:44i gotta go to you know those people atl is here i gotta go to houston's and get my steak right i gotta
09:51go to who's got soul and get my beef ribs right so so um your body is craving that because that's
09:59that's what it needs to be you know beneficial for that particular blood type so i think first of all
10:05once you know that then if you do go to a restaurant not only ordering that but lighter options don't allow
10:11you know it's a lot of social um i say pressures to veer you off your path you know stand firm
10:20on what you're doing in your journey even though the people at the table may be going in a different
10:25direction in their journey right because what you will find is people will start to gravitate towards
10:31your leadership i would say right because you said no i mean yet just yesterday i was out with friends
10:40and one of my boys said it's lent we're not drinking right well he's not everybody else was
10:46okay right he didn't drink anything because that was his personal journey but not only that everybody
10:53respected it no one said hey why you ain't drinking no he's not drinking give him some you know alkaline
11:02water and you know it looks like tequila you feel me so um i think knowing and information right just
11:11having the information to go down the path that you need to get to your your actual fitness and health
11:18goal and speaking of going down paths what path can you take or some do's and don'ts that you would
11:24recommend um if you're cooking at home and you want to still have something that's super flavorful
11:31but you want to stick to your journey you want to stick to the plan
11:36i got set up for this one let's talk about cooking so um you may hear the cliche fat fattest flavor
11:45right you know grandma would throw that that that that that pig foot in the pot with that with the
11:53greens right so um knowing that flavor comes from fat you got to identify so what the healthy fats are
12:03right and then also understand that vegetables provide a lot of flavor so you don't always have
12:10to rely on meat and protein to get flavor you get your best flavor in my opinion from herbs and vegetables
12:19and if you know how to transition those into your traditional dishes and as an example one thing i do
12:28is i'll smoke peppers smoked garlic now you get that smoked flavor that you would normally get from a smoked
12:37turkey wing per se and you can put that in your greens right um there are things you can do to mimic
12:44some of the traditional techniques we've used that give you the same profile but are a lot healthier
12:51and you can still enjoy the foods that you want to you know eat during the holidays without
12:58jumping off the cliff and getting away from your goal like to to be on point from you know new year's to
13:07september and then in october to go down this steep decline because you want to eat a bunch of stuff
13:14for the holidays is just putting yourself through a roller coaster of the same thing year after year
13:20so you would say get some of your flavors from your spices your herbs and lean more into that
13:27instead of getting your flavors from fat from the mead and stuff yeah and if you do select fats
13:35you want to go in the direction of just lean clean like you don't necessarily like olive oil is fat
13:43right avocado is fat you can utilize some of these healthier fats to create and replace some of
13:53the traditionally unhealthy fats and make the exact same dishes taste amazing okay well let's talk about
14:01food groups okay you guys so are there is there any truth to the phrase everything in moderation because
14:09i can kind of take that and run with it so i'd like to know from you guys is there any truth to that
14:14when you're trying to change your relationship with food or are there some types of foods that we
14:21truly need to eliminate all together to make some real progress
14:27i'm a firm believer of everything in moderation i even with my clients i help to let them learn what a
14:3580 20 mindset is it's not just focused on percentages because that's not where it because that's get it
14:41gets too complicated you don't want to do all of that but what you want to do is make sure that you're
14:46including your what i like to call your fun food so you know your ribs your chicken however you want to
14:52have it but still make sure that you're incorporating more of those healthier foods more plant-based foods
14:58like you can still have those foods that you enjoy and not deprive yourself because the longer you
15:04proud of yourself the harder that that craving it hits and it hits hard so it's important to be
15:10able to give yourself permission to have some of those foods that you enjoy while still eating healthy
15:18foods that are going to support your body and your system
15:22well yeah so um i'm gonna go back to the science right okay um i don't subscribe to everything in
15:33moderation i think there's some things well let me take that back because this statement may also
15:42subscribe to moderation depending on what it is we like what we like right we grew up eating certain
15:48foods food is a very emotional journey it's intimate right so food triggers a lot of different
15:57memories or different you know feelings may remind you of something it may remind you of a period in
16:05your life when you used to have your favorite pizza or burger right i think that from a scientific
16:15standpoint being that our body all metabolizes food in a different way based on our blood type that
16:22when you figure that out and you know what that type is then you can eat the foods that are therapeutic
16:29for you in moderation or eat eat the foods that are not therapeutic for you in moderation eat the foods
16:35that are therapeutic for you primarily right make that the bulk of your diet and if something is on that
16:42inflammatory side that you don't necessarily um want to give up you don't have to give it up completely
16:49you can just do and and me me and lashana talk about it like 80 20 right like don't do it do it once a
16:57week that's your cheat day you don't have to divorce it completely but make sure that you tap into the
17:04what your body wants right because we i think a lot of us are walking around sick
17:09yes we our bodies in the sick state you know um doctors often diagnose certain health conditions
17:18that are linked to obesity as hereditary especially in black and brown families is it possible to change
17:25what health conditions we pass down to our children by changing how we eat and how we cook
17:32i certainly believe that there's a a new science trend that's happening it's showing a lot of good
17:43evidence supporting this issue called nutrigenomics so what it is is that you
17:51take a blood test or saliva test and it lets you know which genes that you have in your body that
17:57are more susceptible to like certain obesity genes that could be possibly in your family
18:03and it's amazing and exciting but with it it can help you to learn like okay if i have an increased
18:11risk of obesity then there are ways that i can change my environment to where it works for me and reduce
18:19my risk of having obesity or any any comorbidities along the way so incorporating more of those foods are
18:26going to support your body to reduce that risk yeah and and i agree with that um because it's based on that
18:36science right um we we at times you may be doing the same thing that someone else like a friend of yours
18:48they eat the exact same way and this person tends to be able to just get away with just eating horribly
18:55right genetically you're different so what she was speaking of um
19:01um kids watch exactly what we do so when you teach kids poor eating habits then they take those habits
19:12with them when they leave the house and it's very hard to deprogram when they get older right
19:17yeah so i think that um when kids tell us at the table they don't like something
19:25but based on our knowledge you eat that yes eat it sit there and eat it don't leave the table until you
19:34eat this right yes well what what if that kid is a certain blood type and he does not
19:42want that broccoli that you're trying to make him eat because his body is telling him that he does
19:47not want it right yeah so it's very important that we find out some of this data and tap into it very
19:54early so that then as time goes off they don't have to re-reprogram so many bad habits that they learn
20:01later in life simply because we didn't teach and and and promote it when they were earlier and when
20:08they were younger i love hearing that because you know parents we we're just trying to do our best
20:15and we want you to eat that food you know i want you to have that nourishment so you can have a good
20:20day tomorrow right but uh that might not be the best thing like whole grain right yeah there's certain
20:28there's certain people that can't process whole grains but we're told that it's very healthy for
20:34everybody when it's not healthy for everybody yes that's very true because i would i would like to
20:39add to that because oftentimes when we learn about these different foods that we put in our body
20:46when we realize like there's like this severe allergy obviously you don't want to add that or
20:51put your child at risk because this food is healthy but their body's telling them i can't eat that
20:58but fortunately there's so many other foods out there so much variety where you can still give
21:05them like cauliflower for example like okay i can't do broccoli but let's try the cauliflower same type of
21:11nutrient same type of source it's a different color they might even enjoy a little bit better and you you
21:19still feel great and proud as a as a loving mother and a nurturing mother to be able to do that
21:24okay well our time is running out but before we wrap up i want to thank both of you guys la shonda and
21:34chef keith for being here with us today do you mind sharing with the audience how we can keep up with
21:41what you have going on and how we can learn more about what you're doing yes so you can follow me on
21:49instagram at health for you by you i'm also on tick tock kind of and facebook at health for you by you
21:58yeah you can um keep up with me um at chef keith cash um all platforms cash with a k um i also own
22:09who's got sold southern cafes throughout atlanta i also own um just brunch breakfast bra and i also own
22:17juiced harlem in new york juice bar which will be open here soon as well um one thing i want to
22:23say we have to be creative i love what you guys are doing with the wellness house um we appreciate
22:30y'all inviting us and um definitely yeah one thing that i am going to do and i'm gonna say this before
22:35our time is up is i'm going to start on my personal program my personal pages putting out more
22:41information because i'm kind of um been a little lazy in that regard so i so so i got to start
22:48sharing this information more because i think it could benefit a lot of people okay well i appreciate
22:54it and thank you guys again thank you thank you thank you
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