EP208: Own Your Health Through Cooking

Health Coach Conversations

The ability to cook has become a lost skill in our current age, which is a big factor in deteriorating health. Today’s guest, Deborah Kennedy, shares why cooking is the only way you can own your health.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How our physical health is connected to our ability to cook
• Letting children play with food so they can get familiar with it
• Defining what it means to cook
• Using culinary techniques to starting liking the taste of certain foods
• Starting small with incremental healthier changes
• Deborah’s book and her modular approach to healthy cooking
• What to expect from Deborah’s Food Coach Academy
• The growing health coach industry and the positive impacts it will have

Memorable Quotes

• “Any opportunity you have to create something yourself is adding health to your body.”
• “There is and never will be this magic food that you can eat that will get rid of all the negative consequences that an ultra processed diet brings you.”
• “Even the smallest changes can have a biochemical effect in your body, which can lead towards health.”

Deborah Kennedy PhD is the CEO of The Food Coach AcademyTM, Build Healthy Kids®, and Culinary Rehab®, which establishes nutrition and culinary competencies, modular learning opportunities, prescriptive delivery methods and outreach programs for various populations. She received her PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition, Science and Policy. Dr. Kennedy has studied food from an early age - learning to cook at age 4, worked as a chef in Canada, obtained her doctorate in nutrition, authored three books on children and nutrition and five in Culinary Medicine, and developed a prescriptive algorithm for dietary changes. She served as the first Chair for Best Practices in the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative (a Harvard and CIA initiative) and serves on the board of Chefs for Humanity.

Mentioned In This Episode:The Culinary Medicine Textbook: The Basics

Links to resources:Health Coach Group Websitehttps://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/

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