While things have been quiet on these pages over the last several months, work in the background has been proceeding at a breakneck pace. This has culminated in the release of one of the first ...

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) researchers have led the first-ever randomized controlled trial of a culinary medicine curriculum for medical trainees, which found that hands-on cooking is an effective ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Diet is the single most important risk factor for morbidity and mortality. There is a lack of nutrition training ...

Anita Raj, a globally recognized scholar whose research on gender, public health, violence prevention and numerous other areas ranks among the most widely cited in the world, has been elected to the ...

Culinary medicine, particularly when directed at cardiovascular disease prevention, can be feasibly taught to medical trainees, an analysis presented at the Lifestyle Medicine Conference showed. Wood ...

Food-based interventions aimed at improving health—collectively referred to as Food Is Medicine (FIM)—are increasingly recognized within the health care system as an essential approach to preventing ...

Let’s say you go to your family doctor and he or she says you have high blood pressure or high cholesterol or diabetes. And then you are written a prescription … for a cooking class. This is actually ...

The idea behind teaching culinary medicine to medical school students is to prepare them to help patients prevent and control some of the most pervasive chronic health conditions. Although diet is one ...

Leaning over a stainless steel bowl, chef Heather Nace urged a fourth-year medical student to massage her kale with greater gusto. “You gotta get in there, girl,” Nace said, explaining that massaging ...