Gordon is a 37-year-old employee at an IT company in the Washington, D.C. area, and until recently, her diet was deeply saturated with fast food ― McDonald’s, Taco Bell, you name it. When her doctor diagnosed her last year with pre-diabetes and prescribed her a CPAP machine to help her sleep through the night, she began working with a nutritionist to clean up her diet. But the lifestyle change she sought would require more than cutting out Chicken McNuggets.

As a black woman, Gordon battled the perception that most of today’s healthy food is “white people food.”

“A lot of the time, when you go to restaurants now, they have these extravagant salads with all these different ingredients in it, like little walnuts and pickled onions ― like the stuff Panera sells,” Gordon told HuffPost. “For me personally, that’s like a white person’s food. A lot of the mainstream stuff that’s advertised comes across as being for white people.”

Today’s Goop-lacquered definition of healthy eating has made it de rigueur to guzzle $9 bottles of cold-pressed kale juice or chug hydrogen-infused water. In this micro-bubble of fastidiousness, a healthy diet means more than consuming your daily dose of fruits and veggies. It means eating pudding made of chia seeds (yes, the same ones used to make Chia Pets) and sprinkling your açai bowl with goji berries, even if you have no idea what either of those things are.

There’s nothing wrong with being nutritionally ambitious, but we’ve cultivated a health food fucking die shitlib scum nuke the earth.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-people-food_us_5b75c270e4b0df9b093dadbb

tbf, white people didn't eat "whypipo food" 20 years ago.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36711593)

also it kind of shits on shrew diets which is also 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36717380)

https://mobile.twitter.com/drbaruch?lang=en

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36717365)

Roll that around in your head for a minute.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36711651)

1) White culture is dominant

2) All good things are defined as white

3) therefore all white things are defined as good

4) therefore healthy eating is not healthy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36711680)

also, "i fucking love science"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36711745)

we check the boxes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36712661)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36712381)

“The most frustrating thing about being on a diet is not having the money to purchase the stuff that you need,” Perkins told HuffPost. “It’s hard to pay for it.”

“A lot of the healthier meals are not marketed toward us. When you go to Sweetgreen or Chopt, their menu is not geared toward low-income families. I can’t take my family there to eat healthy without breaking the bank.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36711669)

and that's kinda the point.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36715871)

The racial framing is retarded but the idea that you need to eat particular fancy food to be "healthy" is one worthy of criticism (though the low IQ criticism in the article is subpar)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36711735)

Damn white people and their

*spins wheel*

healthy eating...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36711756)

"“I would never qualify what I eat as being from one culture or the other,” Bridges said. “No matter who you are, you need to eat fruits and vegetables every day. The bottom line is, we’ve gone to a processed way of eating, and African-Americans have claimed that as their type of food. [African-Americans] want to dismiss healthy eating as being for white people because it’d require a change. The truth is, when people are asked to change, change is difficult.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36712470)

I'm white as fuck and I grew up on food that was pretty mediocre, nutritionally. Kids are picky eaters by their nature and parents are on stretched budgets. White bread, peanut butter, McNuggets and cheese slices end up being a part of your diet no matter what color your skin is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36713393)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/08/the-peterson-family-meat-cleanse/567613/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36714907)

"White people aren't going to be bringing their kids to get coronary attacks anymore"

"OK but Tanisha do"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36714973)

*A young black male shovels spoonful of food into mouth, satified smile on face*

"Yo, this quinoa-flaxseed with keffir-yuzu dressing is DEF!"

*average African-American BMI drops 5 points"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36715086)

Now Idk what? I guess focus on cheap ass prices as it becomes automated /apps/robots.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36715240)

Go buy some cold cuts and greens and reasonably healthy salad dressing and eggs and bread. It is very healthy and very cheap. If you're in serious poverty and can't afford all that, mix in some rice and beans.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36715319)

That makes sense and is a worthwhile message for dietitians servicing black clients. Eating healthy doesn’t mean eating white.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36715802)

oh the horror that the black people are OVERrepresented on the panel to the tune of a 25% privilege or something

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4064538&forum_id=2#36717379)