nutrition

Glorya Fernandez grew up in a Caribbean household in Cambridge where cooking was obligatory. Her family is West Indian from Barbados, and she was raised by an aunt who “could make spam taste like steak.”

There is actually no particular diet a person with lupus needs to follow. It’s wide open — you can pick and choose from a panoply of sorts. Just follow the oft-repeated regime. Eat fruits and veggies, whole grains and healthy fats. Limit consumption of processed foods, saturated fat and added sugars.