128: Beyond Halal—Understanding Muslim Practices and Eating Patterns

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

Weightloss, Eatingdisorder, Kids & Family, Eating, Nutritionist, Nutrition, Health, Dietitian, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Food, Mindfulness

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Rahaf Al Bochi is a registered dietitian and owner of Olive Tree Nutrition LLC. She specializes in diabetes prevention and management and intuitive eating. She also has a special interest in the Mediterranean eating pattern and shares about her experience as a registered dietitian and Muslim.

In this episode, Rahaf gives insight into Muslim practices around food, culture and beliefs. She explains what the term halal means in terms of food and more broadly. She also talks about Ramadan and the cultural and religious meaning behind the altered food pattern during this time. We also discuss the implications of Ramadan on those with special eating concerns such as diabetes or eating disorders.

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Rahaf's website: https://olivetreenutrition.com/
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1:01.9	Hello everyone and welcome to Nutrition Matters podcast. My name is Paige. And as always,
1:07.2	I'm so excited you're here. So today I'm speaking with Rahaf Al-Bushi, who is a registered
1:12.5	dietitian and owner of Olive Tree Nutrition LLC. She specializes in diabetes prevention and
1:19.6	management and intuitive eating. She also has a special interest in the Mediterranean eating
1:24.9	pattern. We talk about that a lot in the podcast episode. She also has
1:29.5	this role as a media spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, where she engages
1:34.9	in frequent media work. So we're really lucky to have her here to talk with us today about
1:40.5	we talk about the power that food has to connect us to ourselves and people around us,
1:47.2	to our culture, to the way that we were raised, also maybe to certain regions of the world.
1:54.0	We also talk about her background as a Muslim registered dietitian where we're talking in this
2:00.7	podcast episode about
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