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Defining Culinary Medicine: A Call for Consensus on Competencies to Improve Nutrition.

Rani Polak, Beth Frates, Jacob Mirsky, Jennifer Trilk, Nathan Wood, Margaret Moore, Olivia Thomas, Edward M Phillips

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Article in Nutrients, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Rani PolakCHEF Coaching Program, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6360-902X
Beth FratesSpaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA.
Jacob MirskyDivision of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02130, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9353-7226
Jennifer TrilkUniversity of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Greenville, SC 29605, USA.
Nathan WoodDepartment of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9624-3001
Margaret MooreWellcoaches Corporation, Wellesley, MA 02482, USA.
Olivia ThomasNutrition Innovation and Implementation, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
Edward M PhillipsSpaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0035-6088

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most premature adult deaths and chronic diseases, with their associated costs, are directly related to unhealthy behaviors, particularly poor nutrition. The 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health emphasized the importance of nutrition equity and security as a key to preventing chronic diseases. What and how we eat also have important environmental impacts, with 26% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions attributed to the total food supply chain, primarily ultra-processed food (UPF) production. A new paradigm is needed to better educate patients and the public to adopt healthier eating behaviors. Culinary education, emphasizing skills such as shopping, food storage, and meal preparation is a burgeoning field, aimed at reducing UPF consumption and improving nutrition while addressing cultural and socioeconomic factors. The term Culinary Medicine (CM) is becoming popular in describing these interventions; however, a consensus on its definition has not yet been reached. There are no consensual curricular outlines and/or competencies, and the potential for addressing food security and equity has not yet been fully developed. We believe that consensual competencies will formalize CM and ensure appropriate outcomes followed by improved assessments of learners, thus promoting CM research and further implementation of this novel nutrition education approach.

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CookingDiet, HealthyNutritional SciencesConsensusFood SupplyHumansNutritional Statusclimate changeCulinary Medicinehealth equitynutritionultra-processed food

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PMID40362712
PMCPMC12073106

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