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Despite all the modern medications we have that help control cholesterol, diabetes, and even weight itself, it is becoming clearer that food needs to be part of the fight against chronic disease.
Culinary medicine is a in medicine that blends the art of food and cooking with the science of medicine. It helps people make the best possible choice on food in order to treat or prevent disease. And just like nutrition and diet are different for everyone, culinary medicine is meant to help people with specific diseases to make the right choices.
Why now?
It is never the wrong time to do things that make us healthier. But food is becoming more of a topic of discussion within the medical field because things are not getting better when it comes to trends of chronic conditions worldwide.
a few reasons for the rise in interest in culinary medicine:
- Dissatisfaction with conventional medical approaches to chronic diseases
- Highly processed and convenience foods, accompanied by an increasing suspicion of their health value and the acknowledgement of the hyperpalatable nature of fast food
- Increasing healthcare costs…
