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Food as Medicine: A Pilot Nutrition and Cooking Curriculum for Children of Participants in a Community-Based Culinary Medicine Class by Haley Marshall; Jaclyn Albin is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Purpose: Healthy dietary change proves challenging for all families navigating the variable food preferences of children but can be especially burdensome for low-income families with limited resources. encouragingly, programs that engage children in hands-on nutrition education appear to promote changes that positively impact the entire family. from these observations, we designed a dedicated pediatric cooking and nutrition class concurrent with a community-based culinary medicine class for adult clients of a food pantry. ## Description: Through the food as medicine (fame) nutrition education initiative at community pantry sites, we launched culinary medicine classes for pantry clients and offered concurrent culinary medicine classes for their children. each pediatric class included an interactive lesson, hands-on cooking, and crafts or games to reinforce concepts prior to sharing a meal with parents. ## Assessment: The pilot classes launched at two pantry sites, and the team leading the pediatric classes solicited feedback from participants and stakeholders to enable thematic analysis of the impact. observations included the ability of children to identify new foods and to repo

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Author
Haley Marshall; Jaclyn Albin
Publisher
Springer; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1092-7875)
Published
2020
Language
EN
Field
Medicine (Health Sciences)

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