I’m excited about giving a talk on culinary medicine in Boston at a Harvard GI conference next week, and I thought I would share some of the tools I’m going to encourage docs to prescribe for their patients…that you can access now!
Culinary medicine is all about blending the science of medicine with the art of cooking to create restaurant quality meals that help prevent and treat disease. Culinary medicine is condition-specific: the same diet/eating plan/foods do not work for everyone, but specific foods and meals can work for individuals to achieve personal medical goals.
These apps, films and books can help you get started. I’ve linked most to their site or to Amazon when available; the apps are for both ios and android.
Top 10 Culinary Medicine Food Tracking Apps: MyFitnessPal, Lose It, MyNet Diary, Nutrition Menu, Tap and Track, Two Grand, Healthy Out, My Net Diary, My Plate, Fat Secret
Top 10 Culinary Medicine Films: Fed Up!, Food Inc, More Than Honey, A Place at the Table, Spinning Plates, La Cosecha, SuperSize Me, Forks Over Knives, King Corn, Chef
Top 10 Culinary Medicine Books: Dropping Acid, You on a Diet (Revised), How Not to Die, Flavonoids and Related Compounds, Advancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients, Scientific Evidence for Musculoskeletal, Bariatric and Sports Nutrition, Anticancer, ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine, The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen, The Healthy Gut Workbook