You shouldn't eat breakfast like an Olympian. Here's why.

While I like to think of myself as a strong swimmer (I do several hour-long swim workouts that I call "Phelps Blasts" every week), I'm not the calorie-burning machine that Michael Phelps is. Sadly, even the most active among us have bodies that are programmed very differently than an Olympic athlete's, which unfortunately means we'll feel like garbage if we eat several Phelpsian plates of pancakes with bacon and a 1,000-calorie smoothie every morning. But if you want to know what you should eat, we've got a great story for you below.

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In 1993, North Carolina native Celeste Beatty moved to New York City and started home-brewing in Harlem, a neighborhood with a brewery history that dates back to 1905. In 2000, she founded Harlem Brewing Company and became one of the first — if not the first — Black women to own a craft beer brewery. In this edition of Voices In Food, Beatty shares the obstacles she’s encountered in a white male-dominated industry and the impact that beer can have on communities.

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