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Got my COVID booster today. The person administering it was Aja, from Gambia. We chatted briefly about West African food, and she repeated again and again how healthy it was. My memory is of a lot of palm oil, but it made me think about what people consider healthy. Here in the United States, or maybe just in my state, there's a tendency to think of vegetables and (recently) low-carb and high protein as healthy. Aja was emphasizing freshness.

I don't know where I'm going with this. I just found it interesting I guess, and related to the way the United States has a tendency to think of its judgements as universally applicable. Healthy is healthy is healthy, right?

I'm still leaning on Michael Pollan's "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly vegetables."