Metabolic Health As Counterculture

Age 12 in Jakarta.

(By Grace Rollins, MS, LAc) ​It's hard to just blurt it out there, for reasons I'll explain. But here goes. I was once significantly overweight. 

The backstory is an all-too-common one. In short, I grew up in the American food milieu. In the 80s, this meant sweet boxed cereal and skim milk, packaged and frozen meals loaded with sugar, starch and preservatives, refined and processed bread, chips and snacks, candy and cookies, and tons of soda. Not to mention fast food. Those all too potent sensory memories abound from McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Domino’s Pizza, Little Ceaser’s, KFC, Dairy Queen. Wendy’s. Chuck-E-Cheese. (Thinking back, we sure ate a lot of crap pizza.)

Out of nowhere, my family moved to Southeast Asia for a year when I should have been in sixth grade.

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