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Living Well with Janet: Food Therapy and Nutrition with Chinese Medicine Food Therapist, Zoey Gong RD

AsianBossGirl

Melody, Helen, and Janet

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Careers, Business

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

I am a big believer that food is medicine. Growing up in a Chinese household, my mother often told me (and still tells me) to eat certain foods based on Eastern philosophies of health. Once I went to college, I was more exposed to Western ways of thinking about healthy eating, which sometimes conflicted with what I was taught growing up. Through the years, I’ve experimented with vegetarian and vegan diets and now practice a pescetarian/Mediterranean way of eating - which I have found is the most accommodating for Western ideals of health while still being able to share meals with my Chinese family. In this episode, I chat with Zoey, a NY and Shanghai-based registered dietician, nutrition consultant, chef, and Chinese Medicine food therapist, who shares her own experience with American versus Chinese ways of eating and how she's seen it impact her physical and mental health. If you want to learn how to improve your nutrition for healthier living and crave a perspective that incorporates both Eastern and Western ways of thinking, listen in as we chat about fad diets, good food habits, and what she's learned from the older women in her life about maintaining good health and longevity. Guest: zoeyxinyigong __________________________________________ Host: Janet Wang Editor: Victoria Cheng __________________________________________ P A R T N E R S • BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month with code “ABG” at betterhelp.com/ABG __________________________________________ C O N N E C T W I T H U S • Subscribe and Follow us @asianbossgirl on Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/YouTube/Instagram/Twitter/Facebook • Listener Survey: Let us know your thoughts on the podcast here • Email: [email protected] __________________________________________ S U P P O R T U S • Merch: asianbossgirl.myshopify.com • Donate: anchor.fm/asianbossgirl/support • More about us at asianbossgirl.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone welcome back to another episode of living well with Janet

0:08.2

where we explore what it means to live well I'm your host Janet a yogi

0:12.4

meditator plant- forward eater, and all-around wellness

0:15.0

enthusiast. I'm also a second generation Asian American woman, an experimenter and a deep

0:19.8

thinker. Join me in my conversations and contemplations on the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, I want to share a little announcement reminder.

0:44.8

I am going to be traveling to Bali for the first time this September, and I would love if you could come with me.

0:49.8

Maybe you've been wanting to visit Bali, but you haven't gotten around to it.

0:53.2

Or maybe you want to take a trip to somewhere in September, but you don't have time to plan it.

0:57.2

This is a great opportunity to come on a week-long trip with myself and a group of 10 to 20 other

1:01.5

beautiful souls.

1:02.6

We're going to be visiting the Terta Emple Water Temple,

1:05.0

a sacred monkey forest, doing a coffee brewing workshop.

1:07.9

I'm going to try to squeeze in a yoga class for us.

1:10.7

I'm getting excited just talking through some of the itinerary.

1:13.4

If you're interested, I'll have a link to the trip details in the show notes and you can also

1:17.1

follow me on Instagram where I'm going to be sharing updates as the trip approaches.

1:20.5

Grab a friend, grab a sister, your mom, your cousin, a partner, make a group trip out of it.

1:25.1

This is a great chance to travel without having to do any of the planning because I'm working with

1:28.4

Trova Trip who will take care of all of the logistics for us.

1:31.6

Thank goodness. All we have to do is book our flights and the rest is taken care of.

1:35.0

If you've been listening for a while you know that I'm a big believer that food is medicine.

1:46.0

Growing up in a Chinese household, my mother often did, and she still does, tell me to eat certain foods to promote health based on

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