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Hey, it's Wendy.

And it's Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven podcast.

Your online resource for delicious and nutritious living.

Welcome to another episode of the Food Heaven podcast.

Today we have our girl, Maya, who's a registered dietitian specializing in chronic disease prevention.

Maya shares her approachable real-food-based solutions to millions of people through regular speaking

engagements and as a nutrition expert on the doctor, I'll show a good morning America.

Maya's also an adjunct professor at NYU where she teaches nutrition.

We're super excited to talk to Maya today about medical bias, negative healthcare narratives

that affect people of color and how to honor culture through food. We're also going to deep dive

into getting your kids on board with making meals that you're excited about and that your

kids are excited about too. So welcome to the podcast, Maya.

Hey, I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much for having me. Hi, Wendy. Hi, Jess.

Hi. Hey, girl. So for people who aren't familiar with your work, they might not know that you

had a career change in that you haven't always been a dietitian. So okay, you talked to us a

little bit about that. Why you got into nutrition and what you were doing before you were a dietitian?

Yeah, absolutely. So I did my undergrad in experimental theater and philosophy.

Two things near and dear to my heart, but they just, you know, living in New York City, it wasn't

feasible for me to continue living that psilophacic lifestyle and eating on air. So,

you know, fast-forward some years later, I decided to kind of look into the field of dietetics. I

really moved toward it because I've always loved running and I was training for the Boston

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