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Nutritionist Mindy Lu urges Redmond high school Asians to build a healthier student dedicates book project to Day of relationship with food Remembrance
By Nina Huang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
see NUTRITION on 12 The Day of Remembrance Japanese Incarceration Literature for Libraries founder Kai Vanderlip.
Gene Moy pedals his exercycle 100 times each day
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By Mahlon Meyer NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Atop the dusty, blackened plastic top of the television, the glint of the medal is unrecognizable in the gloom of the late afternoon. But when Gene Moy, 104, lies back on his equally depleted dark sofa to watch sports flicker across the
By Kai Curry NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY For Kai Vanderlip, a Tesla STEM High School student, a year-long school project turned into a mission to educate others about the history of Japanese Americans during World War II. The enterprising young person is the founder of the Day of Remembrance Japanese Incarceration Literature for Libraries, which for this year’s memorial delivered six picture books about the Japanese American Incarceration to 33 elementary schools in the Lake Washington School District, ultimately impacting over 14,000 kids. Photo by Mahlon Meyer/NWAW
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“In the Asian community, food is a love language. Food is how we connect with our culture,” Mindy Lu said. In Western dietary circles and fields, people don’t talk about this, but in the Asian community, food is how we communicate affection for one another. Thinking about how Asians celebrate Lunar New Year with feasts and how each dish has a specific meaning, food is integral to the Asian culture, it’s how we connect with our heritage and one another, so it’s important to have access and a good relationship with food that we have great memories of, Lu said. Lu, LMHC, CN is the clinical director, therapist, and nutritionist at Sunrise Nutrition located in the Eastlake neighborhood of Seattle. She was born and raised in Seattle with cultural roots in Taiwan. Her specialty is in eating disorders and body image within the Asian community.
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screen, he keeps his eye peeled on it the entire time. The U.S. Congressional Gold Medal he was awarded for his five years of service during World War II may mean little to outsiders. But to him, it has come to mean everything.
It started in fifth grade, when Vanderlip and his fellow students were given the task of researching a subject in which they wanted to become an expert. A child of a Japanese American mother, one who has spent all of his life in Redmond, Vanderlip had learned about Japanese culture growing up—yet not too much about that dark period in U.S. history. “Nana and Mom suggested the incarceration [as a project topic] and said this is an important part of our history,” Vanderlip recalled. In Vanderlip’s family, both his great-grandfather’s brother and brother-in-law, Japanese language see REMEMBRANCE on 16
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