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But Soto isnt just an ordinary citizen; shes a registered dietitian with a Masters degree in nutrition.
She is familiar with these barriers because she had to overcome her own issues with food.
When Soto began studying nutrition in 2006, for the first time she started to question what she ate.
anti-diet dietitian based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The statistics she learned in class were shocking.
For a while I kind of drank the Kool-Aid, she says.
But instead of making her healthier, she says rejecting and vilifying cultural dishes harmed her relationship with food.
Studies have shown that food insecurity is associated withdiabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.
The majority of the dietary studies she learned from wereperformed predominantly by white people on white bodies.
[Nutrition] is whitewashed, she says.
This deeply concerns Soto.
When I found theHealth at Every Sizeandintuitive eating world, it all clicked, she says.
I realized thats what my community needed but I didnt know there was a name for it.
anti-diet dietitian based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
We want to keep our culture alive.
She prefers to expand a clients eating with foods naturally created to fit their allergies than substitutes.
Its about everybody being treated with dignity and respect, she says.
You dont have to fit all these European beauty standards and you dont have to be the perfect fat.
The body positivity movement wascreated by women of color to find a place, she says.
(Read: Proclaiming that every body is beautiful while still encouraging people to lose weight or diet.)
Soto occupies an uncharted space for Latinxs in a field that often excludes them.
That, in and of itself, is revolutionary.
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