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C. UK. You're listening to Well Now, Slates Podcast on Health and Wellness. I'm

Kavita Patel. And I'm Maya Fowler. Discussions about food and nutrition

often focus on diet and what a person should omit or like the things that they can't eat

and this is all in order to attain and maintain optimal health. Rarely does the

discussion center around pleasure-filled eating patterns that are supportive of whole body and mental health.

There is a well-researched relationship between human brains and food

perception that shapes not only our food choices,

but how we respond to food stimuli,

as well as emotion and environment.

Maya, I know you cook most of your meals,

and you're a big proponent of communal and family dining.

Tell me about that.

Yeah, absolutely, Kavita, I, you're right, I cook probably 90%, maybe even more of my meals.

I mean I make breakfast for sure for everyone I make lunch for myself and my husband on the days that I'm eating from home and I'm a huge believer in family meals I really like to be able to think about the ingredients that I'm using, how I'm putting them together,

and it actually gives me a lot of pleasure.

I have to tell you, Kavita, though, that in my practice and working with people, many of them do not get as much pleasure as I do from cooking.

So I understand that, you know, for the majority of folks, like there's not that intimate relationship with their kitchen anymore.

They don't get that great feeling and they don't enjoy making the food and

sometimes they don't enjoy eating the foods that they've made. And I feel like,

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