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Susan Evans, MD, knows healthy eating is a prescription for better health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nutrition as medicine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The food: Diet, healthy or otherwise, can impact an individual’s health, making nutrition a larger part of today’s medical education and care.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cooking: Pairing healthy cooking with nutritional info and meal prep tips is a recipe for success at UNMC, where wellness and well-being are top of mind.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recipes: For a healthier, more cost-effective option, skip takeout and prepare a dish from scratch at home. Here are two enticing options.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Now, the 2005 UNMC College of Medicine graduate is making sure future physicians both understand \u2014 and can create their own \u2014 healthy eating habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFood and nutrition are one of the building blocks for health,\u201d said Dr. Evans, assistant professor in UNMC\u2019s Department of Family Medicine. \u201cWe\u2019re not \u2014 as a population \u2014 eating a healthy diet, and as medical students and physicians we\u2019re historically not taught as much nutrition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYet, dietary factors are the biggest risk factor for morbidity and illness so it\u2019s important to ask our patients about nutrition. If we know how to eat and prepare a healthy diet, we\u2019re more likely, and more confident, in asking and counseling our patients on nutrition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To do that, Dr. Evans fulfilled a decade-long dream to partner with Metropolitan Community College\u2019s Institute for Culinary Arts and create an elective, four-hour culinary medicine course for UNMC\u2019s fourth-year medical students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStudents love the cooking class,\u201d which is supported by The Monarch Fund to nurture healthier lifestyle choices, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Med students travel 4.5 miles to MCC to learn both the foundation of a healthy Mediterranean diet and fundamental knife skills, before whipping up a classic citrus vinaigrette or a salmon, spinach and quinoa salad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The culinary medicine class is the icing on a revamped nutrition curriculum that mirrors national trends to strengthen nutrition education for medical students. Through the efforts of an interprofessional team including basic science, nutrition and medical faculty, nutrition content has been integrated across the first three years of medical training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Too often, nutritional messages are confusing, Dr. Evans said. To keep it simple, she advocates for diet quality over diet type, which means eating real foods \u2014 fruits or vegetables, fresh or frozen; healthy proteins; whole grains; nuts; seeds; olive oils and other healthy fats. She recommends avoiding processed foods, keeping a food journal to avoid mindless eating, and adding high-fiber foods to one\u2019s diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nutrition is truly a team effort, Dr. Evans said, and acknowledges that healthy lifestyle choices are impacted by cost barriers, cultural beliefs and one\u2019s access to transportation and insurance. \u201cThe more we know, as physicians, the more we can work with dietitians and reinforce the role of nutrition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal is simple, she said: \u201cI\u2019d like to see more of us living a healthy lifestyle and having conversations with our patients because they think we are a reliable source of knowledge on nutrition.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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