The first time Ama said it, she said it quietly. “I am eating less… but I am gaining weight.” She was not distressed the way patients sometimes are when weight is the obvious issue. Her concern was more precise. Her body felt different heavier in specific places, particularly around the middle. Her clothes fit differently […]
The first thing Abena said to me was not about the baby. “I just don’t feel like myself.” Her baby was healthy. Feeding well. Sleeping as newborns sleep which is to say, unpredictably. From the outside, everything looked fine. But Abena’s body felt unfamiliar to her. Softer in places she did not expect. Heavier than […]
I see patients every week as a dietitian in both corporate and clinical world , and I can tell you with certainty that PCOS is one of the most misunderstood conditions I encounter in my practice. Women arrive having already spent years trying to make sense of symptoms they could not explain irregular cycles, persistent […]
By Aba, Ghanaian Nutritionist The first time I tried to make kontomire stew in London, I spent forty minutes looking for kontomire or anything remotely close.That was before I knew where to look. Before I understood that London, for all its initial resistance, actually has an extraordinary network of African food shops, and that once […]
By Aba, Ghanaian Nutritionist Ghanaian food can absolutely be part of a weight loss journey. Not a modified, stripped-back, joyless version of it, the actual food. Jollof, fufu, kontomire stew, banku, light soup. The food you grew up with, the food that makes sense to you, the food that does not require a separate shopping […]
By Aba, Ghanaian Nutritionist London arrived in January. Grey sky, grey pavement, grey everything. I had moved from a place where the sun was not a seasonal guest but a daily given, where food was not something you planned around your schedule but something your schedule was planned around. Where eating was communal and warm […]
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