Gen Z Is Changing the Food System (And It's Working)

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Bishaka Chowdhury discusses how Gen Z is challenging the ultra-processed food system and embracing nutrient-dense eating.

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com The generation raised on ultra-processed food is starting to fight back. In this episode, Corey and Christine welcome Bishaka Chowdhury, a Gen Z health advocate and content creator behind @foodlicious444, for the third installment of their series: Gen Z and How One Generation Is Changing the Future of Food. Born in Bangladesh and raised in the U.S., Bishaka shares how growing up between two food cultures, going vegan and watching her health crash at 80 lbs, and finally returning to nutrient-dense, ancestral eating shaped her mission to wake up her generation to what's really in their food. Together, they unpack why Gen Z is fed up with ultra-processed everything, how Bishaka's parents developed diabetes after moving to the U.S., and why her mom still drives hours to source real ingredients from her home country. Bishaka gets honest about the cultural pressure to grab fast food on every corner, the "cheat day" mindset that keeps her peers stuck, and why she thinks millennials were "the guinea pig generation" —…

People in this episode

Hosts: Corey Dunn, Christine Muldoon

Guest: Bishaka Chowdhury

Topics covered

• Gen Z food culture
• health advocacy
• nutrient-dense eating
• ultra-processed food
• cultural food influences

Keywords

• Gen Z
• food system
• health
• vegan
• ancestral eating
• diabetes
• cultural pressure
• fast food

Sponsors

Earthley

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Bangladesh, U.S.

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