Culinary Medicine: Bridging the Gap Between Nutrition Knowledge and Practice

Welcome to another episode of Flip Your Script, a vodcast by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, hosted by ACLM President Dr. Padmaja Patel. In each episode, we explore five key takeaways on how lifestyle medicine is helping clinicians and innovators reimagine the future of healthcare.

This episode, “Culinary Medicine: Bridging the Gap Between Nutrition Knowledge and Practice,” features Drs. Colin Zhu and Melissa Mondala discussing how this evidence-based field combines the science of nutrition with the culinary arts to optimize health. The conversation explores how culinary medicine bridges the gap between knowing what to eat and actually doing it, making nutrition practical and hands-on. You'll learn about the evidence supporting culinary medicine, which has shown a positive impact on cardiovascular conditions and reducing diabetes risk, specifically blood sugar regulation. The practice leads to increased patient and provider satisfaction by making lessons learned in textbooks come to life through a hands-on experience.

If you're interested in learning how to translate nutrition knowledge into real-world action and join the growing movement to reverse chronic disease through food, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.