Culinary Medicine in Clinical Care
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In healthcare where quick-fix solutions often take precedence over preventive care, and brief clinical visits provide limited time for education and counseling, culinary medicine fundamentally changes traditional approaches to nutrition by focusing on how to eat healthfully.
Culinary medicine is a form of nutrition education that translates nutrition recommendations into feasible, repeatable food skills and behaviors through hands-on and experiential learning. Culinary medicine has been found to enhance behavior change, improve health outcomes, and be even more effective than nutrition education alone. Although dietitians, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals are already adopting culinary medicine, barriers to comprehensive integration into clinical care often remain, including a lack of guidance for short patient visits (especially in the absence of a kitchen), documentation, and billing.
This document offers an explanation of the importance of culinary medicine, practical suggestions for using Rewire Health to facilitate integration, and opportunities for improved care and reimbursement.
In healthcare where quick-fix solutions often take precedence over preventive care, and brief clinical visits provide limited time for education and counseling, culinary medicine fundamentally changes traditional approaches to nutrition by focusing on how to eat healthfully.
Culinary medicine is a form of nutrition education that translates nutrition recommendations into feasible, repeatable food skills and behaviors through hands-on and experiential learning. Culinary medicine has been found to enhance behavior change, improve health outcomes, and be even more effective than nutrition education alone. Although dietitians, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals are already adopting culinary medicine, barriers to comprehensive integration into clinical care often remain, including a lack of guidance for short patient visits (especially in the absence of a kitchen), documentation, and billing.
This document offers an explanation of the importance of culinary medicine, practical suggestions for using Rewire Health to facilitate integration, and opportunities for improved care and reimbursement.
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