South Asian Heritage Month: Sri Lanka

To break bread with loved ones, to travel and to enjoy the arts comes from the rich history and unique resources from countries all over the world. These shared cultures embedded in society are a wonderful, but often forgotten product of immigration. The displacement of people from their homes is the inevitable impact we have seen from the centuries of colonialism and imperialism.

During such time, South Asians (including Sri Lankans) lived through famines and adapted to starvation by storing fat. This predisposition in wanting to store fat, on the premise of…