The medical community is finally putting their money where their mouths are, by adding culinary medicine classes to the curriculum for doctors in training.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, the most important factor in staving off premature death and disease is a proper diet, yet many healthcare professionals don’t understand nutrition well enough to properly dispense dietary advice. For some medical students at the University of Chicago, that is about to change.
It is recommended that medical students receive 25 hours of nutritional training, yet only about one quarter of the medical schools in the United States offer this program. In Chicago, some students are moonlighting at a top culinary institute to get schooled on healthy eating, through a grant funded pilot program.
The classes begin with a lecture on diet related disease and how to treat it with food, followed by hands on cooking sessions where the budding doctors learn to prepare dishes that they can recommend to their patients. It is hopeful that when doctors fully understand the effect that healthy food has on disease and know how to make a variety of dishes that can prevent or treat various health problems, they will be more likely to share the information with their patients.
It is still in the early stages, but the organizers are looking forward to the day when it becomes part of the required curriculum.
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Tags: culinary medicine, doctors in training, fighting disease with food, Food, health, medical school, nutrition, University of Chicago
Indigo jones 
September 13, 2015 at 7:15 am |
Creating awareness for the importance of eating well is a good thing.