In 1991, like 12% of the American population were overweight or obese, and today it's 42.4%.

Whoa.

So seemingly we have more access and more knowledge and we're far wars off.

122 million Americans have type 2 diabetes and one in five of them don't know it.

And only 0.02% have ever seen a registered dietitian.

Welcome back to What's Next with Eric Wood. Our next guest is Vanessa Rosetto. And Vanessa is a registered

dietitian and co-founder of Kalina Health. Vanessa was named by Essence Magazine as one of the top five

black nutritionists that will change the way that you think about food. Her true passion is that

nutritional coaching and science-based

health and wellness education is possible and should be available for all. Vanessa is changing

nutrition with Kalina Health, a digital platform that connects clients with registered dietitians

for individualized virtual sessions. And a lot of the time, this is covered by insurance.

If you haven't already, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast wherever you tune to

weekly. And also, if you haven't already, go to Amazon and order my new book, tackle what's

next. And the link to that is in the show notes. Thanks and enjoy. Vanessa, welcome to the show.

Hi, thanks for having me. Yeah, absolutely. This has been a

pleasure and I've loved diving into your work in preparation for this episode. So tell me in the

audience, how did you get started on this journey in nutrition? Yeah, my mom is from Haiti, which is a third world country. It's the poorest country in the

Western Hemisphere. And the thing that she talks about is that it doesn't matter how wealthy you are,

poverty lives alongside you. So even though she grew up wealthy, if there was a rainstorm that

took a bridge out, it didn't matter, right? There was no infrastructure for her to

get food, right? And so my mom, you know, came to America, became a nurse, like, married my dad,

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