Food Decoded is a YouTube channel where Yemi shares free, evidence-based nutrition advice to help the Black adults reset their relationship with food, break free from fad diets, lose weight, keep it off and live healthy.
“It was liberating to know I didn’t have to give up jollof rice, bitter leaf soup or suya in other to lose weight or eat healthy, more importantly, that you can keep a lot of health issues at bay by eating right; a lot of people still don’t know that,” says Yemi Fadipe who is a Public Health Nutritionist and Food Technologist with 20 years food industry experience.
We asked her about the inspiration behind her book ‘The Weight Loss Code’ and her YouTube channel ‘Food Decoded’, and this is what she said:
When I embarked on my weight loss journey in 2018, it was incredibly difficult to find tailored support, resources or information for the African taste palette, cuisines or the needs of the black population generally. I had to rely on my nutrition knowledge as a Food professional to create my meal plans and healthy, nutritious and delicious weight loss recipes tailored to my taste palette and around my traditional Nigerian cuisines. By the way, I lost over 20kg in 6 months without giving up my favourite cuisines.
In my interactions with people of African or Caribbean descent, there is still a lot of misinformation, lack of awareness and general knowledge around the link between food, nutrition and health issues that are predominant within our population.
Our people want to do what is right for their health. Yet as prolific as nutrition information is and as much as the risk factors for black people are constantly highlighted, wherever you look there are barely any resources, support or information tailored to our population group.
You can watch some recent episodes from the heart health and weight management series below.
Episode 1 – Food Decoded?
Episode 2 – The truth about BMI
Episode 6 – Nutrition and heart health
Episode 7 – How to eat for your heart
Episode 10 – The Tested and Proven Formula for Weight Loss
Subscribe to the channel at youtube.com/fooddecodedwithyemifadipe to keep up to date with more nutrition, health and wellness videos.
Connect and find out more about Yemi’s work at lnk.bio/fooddecoded
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