Delina Soto, A.k.a. Your Latina Nutritionist is back. She has a new book, The Latina Antideat,

a dietitian's guide to authentic health that celebrates culture and full flavor

living. We are getting into all of it, her take on GLP1 drugs, all of the weird nutrition

advice the internet is serving me now that I'm over 40, what intuitive eating looks like

when you're part of a Latino family, and what making America healthy would actually require. Delina is expert at hacking through

nutrition nonsense and there is a lot of it out there. But in this conversation, she also challenges

me to think about what it would look like if all of us were trying to do more, tried instead

to do less.

Thank you so much for being here. Thanks for having.

Congrats on the book.

Thank you.

I remember just a twinkle in your

eye. I know. So you go to school and you study to be a registered dietitian. When you go in,

what is the goal? Um, like my goal professionally or, okay, so my goal. Like change the world theory.

Yeah. I mean, I think my whole change the world theory was very much, I'm going to cure diabetes. I'm going to go into the community and I'm going to make everyone healthier. I'm going to make everyone have this amazing journey of curating their blood sugars. I'm eating better. And they're just going to be so great and I'm going to be the best dietitian ever. And then what happens? And then I start working in the community and I started realizing, wait a second, this is really

hard.

There's so many other factors that go into play into someone's health.

And back then, I mean, I've been a dietitian 12 years now.

It's like a long time. Schools, my education was not very diverse in the sense that we weren't learning a lot of the things that I think the newer students now are learning when it comes to social determinants of health and diversity in the importance of understanding people's culture and their foods when we're talking to them as dietitians.

So I had to teach all myself that, especially the social determinants of health, not the culture

part because I had that in me. But yeah, it was very eye-opening when I'm in North Philly

working with this lower-income community. And I'm like, they don't care about food right now.

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