Although physicians are on the front lines of the nation’s diabetes and obesity crises, many graduate from medical school with little knowledge of nutrition, let alone cooking. So Dr. David M. Eisenberg, an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, started “Healthy Kitchens/Healthy Lives” in partnership with the
Although physicians are on the front lines of the nation’s diabetes and obesity crises, many graduate from medical school with little knowledge of nutrition, let alone cooking. So Dr. David M. Eisenberg, an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, started “Healthy Kitchens/Healthy Lives” in partnership with the Culinary Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health. Now in its eighth year, the sold-out event accommodates 400 or so pediatricians, endocrinologists, dietitians and other health practitioners spending three and a half days in the Napa Valley learning how to cook. “Healthy Kitchens/Healthy Lives” is an “‘interfaith marriage,” as Dr. Eisenberg calls it, among physicians, public health researchers and distinguished chefs that seeks to tear down the firewall between “healthy” and “crave-able” cuisine.
The New York Times, 4/11/2012
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