199: Keeping Latinx Food Traditions And Navigating Your Family's Health with Dr. Sabrina Falquier

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Welcome to episode 199. If you've ever tried to eat more healthy than perhaps your parents or than might be common in cultural dishes, then this is the conversation for you. I would say that this conversation with Dr. Sabrina Falquier is extremely important as many of us are making different choices than our parents when it comes to nutrition and wellness. In my case, my dishes look unlike those of my grandmothers who ate white rice and wouldn’t ever think about adding chia seeds to their beans! And this is why this chat is really relevant because she brings such a wonderful perspective being a physician and a mom and someone who was born and raised in Mexico. In this conversation, we spoke about several things, whether it was the choices that doctors have to make as it relates to patient visits and how short of a time they have to share their wisdom on food. As well as some of the reasons why Dr. Sabrina decided to learn more about health and nutrition even after already becoming a full-fledged doctor to how do you retain your cultural roots while going on a new eating and wellness journey that might look nothing like the food you grew up on or will find during this holiday season.

 

Tune into this one if wellness and health is important to you. and your family. Share this with other moms who want to pass on their culture yet do so with healthier recipe edits in mind.

 

About Dr. Sabrina

 

SABRINA FALQUIER, MD, CCMS, DipABLM - To begin, Dr. Falquier (Fall-Key-Ay) loves delicious food. She is a board certified internal medicine, culinary medicine and lifestyle medicine physician. She is bilingual and multicultural, born and raised in Mexico City to Swiss and American parents. This unique multilingual and multicultural perspective has shaped her work tremendously, as she has seen and experienced that our unique backgrounds, culture, taste, cultural experiences and historic expectations shape our health tremendously. Dr. Falquier worked as a primary care doctor for a prestigious multi-specialty group in San Diego, California, for over 15 years, in 2020 founded Sensations Salud, which focuses on awakening the senses around ingredient acquisition and food preparation while empowering people to better health through nutritional knowledge and culinary literacy by way of culinary medicine education and consulting. She is the host of Doctors+ podcast, is the chair of the board of Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center and the chair of the Culinary Medicine Specialist Board. She is also clinical professor at UC San Diego Health Sciences and adjunct professor at Bastyr University. Dr. Falquier promotes culinary medicine throughout San Diego and internationally in a variety of ways and to varied age groups and audiences. Her work can be seen through the powerful documentary: The Kitchenistas. She has been interviewed regarding food and health by media outlets including the Washington Post, The Union Tribune, Edible San Diego, San Diego Magazine, CBS news, and TeleMundo. Additionally, she was recognized yearly, from 2009-2020, as one of San Diego’s Top Doctors. For more information, please visit her website, or follow along @SensationsSalud on social media.

Resources

Podcast: Doctors+   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doctors/id1459044040

Website: https://www.sensationssalud.com/

Documentary: The Kitchenistas Movie: https://thekitchenistasmovie.org/

LinkedIn- personal : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinafalquier/

on social media - all platforms are SensationsSalud

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sensationssalud/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sensationssalud

LinkedIn - SSalud: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sensationssalud/?viewAsMember=true

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOZe0bOAVqDDWHHbaeh3Irw

 

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The ideas expressed during this chat are:

·       Why did Dr. Sabrina pursue further education in nutrition and wellness after becoming a physician? ·       How did Dr. Sabrina make big changes as a mom, especially when her kids were little? ·       What was it like to be a practicing physician without a lot of time to talk about nutrition with patients? ·       How do we change behaviors instead of taking pills? ·       Does eating healthy have to mean eating boiled broccoli? ·       How do we determine what's important to us and retain our ability to control our food intake? What motivates us personally? ·       Instead of restricting foods, what about adding nutrient-dense foods instead? ·       How can we eat family holiday meals without feeling left out? ·       How do we navigate cultural traditions and healthy foods when they clash? ·       How do we navigate Latino foods and family dynamics? ·       How can we use spices to retain the spirit of cultural dishes while making them healthier? ·       If we've stocked our cupboards with foods we know we want to change, should we eat them or toss them? ·       How can we find ways to move without joining a gym? How can we move in a way that's sustainable? ·       What can we do if we want to change our eating habits but no one else in our home does? ·       What are some clear steps people can take now that they know more about wellness and healthy foods?

Three big takeaways are:

1. Find what motivates or inspires you to change your eating and movement habits. What is your long-term goal?

2. You can still respect your cultural food traditions, but it is helpful to eat healthier most of the time (80%) if that is important to you for your health and well-being.

3. Remember that you don't live alone. You may want to pack your own cupboards with healthy foods, but other people in your household may have different taste buds and nutritional needs. Find a way to live together with respect for everyone's choices.

Conclusion

I am so grateful that you're listening to this conversation between two Latinas and it's actually, you know, Latinx Heritage Month in the U. S. And I think it means something when you hear two people sharing their expertise using a mic.

 

There's something to be said about. Participating in this conversation as a listener and someone who's going to take action on the wisdom that we bring to the table. So I want to honor you for actually supporting Latinx Heritage Month, even though you might not have even realized it by listening to this conversation.

 

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