Advanced Culinary Medicine Course
The Beginner's Guide to Plant-based Nutrition and Counseling
This online cooking course is designed for anyone who is aiming to PREVENT, ARREST or even REVERSE lifestyle-related diseases such as Heart Disease, Diabetes, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, Obesity, and Cancer.
With the growing trend in wellness and nutrition, more people are looking for healthier options even when eating out. This course is very useful for restaurant owners who are planning to integrate whole-food, plant-based options with their existing menu line up.
With the growing trend in wellness and nutrition, more people are looking for healthier options even when eating out. This course is very useful for restaurant owners who are planning to integrate whole-food, plant-based options with their existing menu line up.
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Health experts have already established the relevance of food intake to health outcome. Many are now suffering from noncommunicable diseases that are largely within the control of our lips. One of the most essential step you can take to maintain and improve your health, boost your immunity and energy levels, and prevent or manage chronic diseases is to move closer and eventually switch in full to a whole-food, plant-based diet.
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Evidences are constantly showing that improving your nutrition is one of the most powerful tool to functionally live longer, reduce the risk of getting sick, decrease health related expenditure and help the environment. You've probably considered that moving to a plant-based diet is the best option, specifically in your health condition, but it feels like so overwhelming, restrictive and you don't know where to start. You've got in to the right place! CulinaryMD will provide you the insights, strategies, tools, and expertise to make the change you've been planning for easy, enjoyable and most importantly, sustainable.
How a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet Affect Your Health Outcome?
Not too long ago when connection of food and chronic disease was not well established. But one of the greatest medical discovery of the 21st century is the concept that modern killer diseases are lifestyle-related. It has something to do with the way we live, we move and eat. Scientific evidences are showing that many chronic diseases can be prevented, arrested, and even reversed by moving to a whole-food, plant-based diet. Scientific research highlighted the famous China Study that shows how plant-based diet can reduce the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancer. It was also proven by Dr. Dean Ornish that narrowing of the coronary arteries can be reversed through whole-food, plant-based diet. In fact, his program is now being paid by health insurance so Americans are now greatly benefiting from his program.
What is a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet?
A whole-food, plant-based diet is based on the two basic principles:
A whole-food, plant-based diet lets you meet your nutritional needs by confusing on natural, minimally-processed plant foods.
- Whole food describes foods that are as close to their natural form as possible, unprocessed and unrefined, or has been processed or refined as little as possible before being consume and is free from additives or other artificial substances.
- Plant-based means food derived from plants including vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, legumes and fruits, and with few or no animal products. A plant based-diet is not necessarily vegetarian.
A whole-food, plant-based diet lets you meet your nutritional needs by confusing on natural, minimally-processed plant foods.
What is Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet?
You will be amazed of the endless variety of selections you could get and here's a quick overview of the major food categories that you will likely enjoy in switching to whole-food, plant-based diet:
There are more foods you can also enjoy including whole-grain flour and bread, nuts, seeds, tofu, tempeh, and plant-based milks.
- Fruits: any type of fruit including apples, bananas, grapes, strawberries, citrus, fruits, etc.
- Vegetables: plenty of veggies including peppers, corn, avocados, lettuce, spinach, kale, peas, collards, etc.
- Tubers: root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, beets, etc.
- Whole grains: grains, cereals, and other starches in their whole form, such as quinoa, brown rice, millet, whole wheat, oats, barley, etc. Note: popcorn is considered a whole grain.
- Legumes: beans of any variety, plus lentils.
There are more foods you can also enjoy including whole-grain flour and bread, nuts, seeds, tofu, tempeh, and plant-based milks.
What's in it for me?
There are remarkable benefits you could get when you move to whole-food, plant-based nutrition, all supported by state of the art science which includes:
- Decrease inflammation: The disruption of the microbiota of our intestine secondary to food intake has been the great subject of research that is pointing towards the development of inflammation. Decreasing intake of inflammatory foods (processed, animal-based products) and increasing consumption of anti-inflammatory food which is basically whole-food, plant-based will result to decreased inflammation.
- Improve bowel movement: Whole-food, plant-based diet is fully loaded with fibers and helpful prebiotics that are necessary for maintaining regular bowel movement.
- Easy weight management: People who eat plant-based diet tend to be leaner than those who don't, and the diet makes it easy to lose weight and keep it off-without counting calories.
- Disease prevention: Whole-food, plant-based eating can prevent, halt, or even reverse chronic diseases, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes.
- Disease reversal: Evidences have established that carefully planned whole-food, plant-based diet can reverse Diabetes type 2, heart disease and dyslipidemia (high cholesterol).
- A lighter environmental footprint: A plant-based diet places much less stress on the environment.
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Online Curriculum
You will receive a Certificate of Completion on CulinaryMD Plant-based Cooking upon successfully finishing the course.
Module 1 |
Plant-based Nutrition for Chronic Disease
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Module 2 |
Switching to a plant-based Kitchen
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Module 3 |
Plant-based Food Preparation 1
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Module 4 |
Plant-based Food Preparation 2
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Module 5 |
Plant-based Food Preparation 3
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Module 6 |
Food Planning
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