Good food should be part of hospital care
Hospitals should offer better, more nutritious food to improve patients’ health.
Doctors share their best cooking tips
Take a cooking class. Organize your ingredients. And learn techniques rather than recipes. These are just a few of the cooking tips provided by a handful of doctors in a July 26, 2018 U.S. News & World Report…
For teaching kitchens, a day of sharing and collaboration
Sharing, collaborating, and co-creating were the unmistakable themes at last week’s Teaching Kitchen Collaborative Research Day, where a mix of over 100 physicians, healthcare professionals, students, and researchers gathered to learn about, and discuss experiences related to “teaching…
Take two cooking classes and call me in the morning
A growing number of doctors and medical groups are going beyond simply telling their patients to eat healthier—they’re teaching them how to cook. Given that poor diet can lead to numerous health issues—such as diabetes, high blood pressure,…
Twitter chat highlights benefits of "teaching kitchens"
David Eisenberg, adjunct associate professor of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, participated in a Twitter chat hosted by PBS NewsHour on May 18, 2017.
Doctors need more nutrition education
Despite the connection between poor diet and many preventable diseases, only about one-fifth of American medical schools require students to take a nutrition course, according to David Eisenberg, adjunct associate professor of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School…
Home cooking: Mastering basic techniques helps older men improve diet, health
People tend to cook less as they age, which can leave older men, who may have never learned to cook in the first place, overly dependent on prepared and processed food—and at increased risk of weight gain, heart…
Adding wellness training to medical education
Just as large numbers of physicians in the 1970s quit smoking and counseled their patients to do the same, health care providers can help stem the tide of obesity and its related diseases by acting as role models…
Teaching nutrition in an era of obesity and diabetes
Teaching more nutrition education and self-care skills like mindfulness and behavioral change to medical students and other health professionals will better prepare them to teach patients to lead healthier lives and help stem the public health “tsunami” of…
Chefs and doctors team up to promote healthy cooking
Doctors, dieticians, and chefs gathered March 13-16, 2014 for the annual Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives conference in Napa Valley, Calif. The event, a collaboration between Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Culinary Institute of America, provides…