Cultural Influences on Body Image

you always see that with people whose parents are kind of judged old school success or pure academia and they might be into art or music And then their parents are like, what the fuck are you doing? You're failing this test. And then that's how they kind of judge their self-worth. And then when they, again, like you said, if they go on a nutrition plan and they slip up, they just judge, well, I'm always going to be a failure. So what's the point of me continuing this on? they never get any momentum because they're constantly bashing themselves. And you see it, a lot of it's culture, a lot of it's religious. So part of what we talk about in our foundation nutrition course, I don't know when it's going to be finalized and edited and all that, but we talk about belief systems and we talk about religions and you need to understand other people's cultures, right? Like I'm a white dude from Texas. If I get a client from Asia, If I get a client from India or I get a client from China, that's a whole different culture and belief system that if I don't understand the dynamics, the family dynamics, the parental relationship with the kids, then I'm not going to really truly be able to help them because I can't understand how food revolves around their culture and also how hard their parents push their kids to be successful. right if you don't come from america you probably don't have any understanding of our sporting culture and how fucked up kids get because their parents think that they're they're going to be the next tom brady and they're living by kerosene to their kids and they end up screwing their kids up long term because they're pushing them so hard to be the next major league baseball pitcher or the next you know all-star quarterback um and they end up being like helicopter parents like This is all stuff that just messes kids up. And that can have a long-term impact on your neurochemistry and also on your metabolism. Yeah, and even, like you said, we obviously see tendencies where you're trying to mask whatever your pain is, quote-unquote addictive tendencies. But I was listening to Dr. Fanula McHale, and she had a childhood trauma. And she was saying she used to study and work to mask hers, which then, funny enough, as a society, we'll go, well done. you're working very hard there but you're that's such pure and healthy um mechanism which then is probably feeding back into the massive stress response like we're talking about in the first place by nutrition and training yeah