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When cultural food values conflict with spiritual fasting practice

My doctor cleared me for intermittent fasting but every time I skip breakfast I hear my Italian grandmother's voice saying I'm insulting the gift of abundance and now I don't know if I'm honoring my body or disrespecting my heritage.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Inherited cultural relationships with food can create internal tension when adopting spiritual practices that seem to contradict ancestral wisdom.

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