234: Janet Wang: Discovering and Crafting Your Identity
The Lavendaire Lifestyle
00:00
The Conflict Between Eastern and Western Health Trends
There was this like health trend in Western culture around eating a variety of like super fibrous and like raw vegetables right yeah. That directly conflicts with a lot of like Eastern approach which is you should almost always have food cooked. In Chinese medicine they have like cold versus hot food so if it's a raw food I think they might say that it causes too much like coldness in the body or it causing too much dampness. So when I was not eating meat that was something that really freaked my parents out and as kind of a way to compromise I started eating seafood again and fish and I would incorporate it just enough so that it kind of like qualmed them.
Transcript
Play full episode
