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CHEF: Teaching Pediatricians About Taste
SA! Salud America! – Posted on February 26, 2016 by Lisa.
The taste of food impacts our eating habits and, in turn, our health from a very young age, even from the womb.
On Friday, February 26th, Dr. Julie La Barba, a pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio and Medical Director of Culinary Health Education for Families (CHEF), presented to and discussed with pediatricians, medical students, and other healthcare professionals in San Antonio how taste and food preferences are formed and how these preferences can impact a child’s diet.
Dr. La Barba is committed to building a healthier culture and showing how food and medicine can work together. The new CHEF program, under Christus Santa Rosa Health Care, targets practitioners and teaches them the importance of healthy eating and how taste applies to medicine and healthcare through in local Chefs, educational videos, and taste testing.
The culinary nutrition education program of the San Antonio Food Bank
