Culinary Medicine

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.

ORLANDO – One way to expand physicians’ nutrition knowledge base is through culinary medicine, said Michelle Hauser, MD, MS, MPA, FACP, FACLM, DipABLM, at the Lifestyle Medicine .

Intermittent and continuous energy restriction diets both improved cardiometabolic measures and reduced symptoms of depression and disordered eating among adolescents with obesity, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Greater compliance with components of the Mediterranean diet significantly reduced the risk for developing of COVID-19, according to the findings of a recent analysis.

Less than three in 10 women are aware that a healthy diet can help reduce the risk for breast cancer, according to a recent survey.

In patients with atrial fibrillation who had ablation, those assigned a Mediterranean diet enriched with extra-virgin olive oil were less likely to have arrhythmia recurrence than those with no dietary restrictions, researchers reported.

WASHINGTON — “Even at short intervals,” an intermittent low-calorie, plant-based diet may improve inflammation and response to medical therapy among patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis, according to a presenter.

Medical trainees who participated in a virtual culinary medicine program were more proficient in lifestyle medicine counseling compared with trainees enrolled in traditional nutritional educational curricula, according to researchers.