Q&A: How culinary medicine can be incorporated into clinical settings

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The field of culinary medicine is growing, according to Melinda Ring, MD, director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern University, and clinical associate professor in the Departments of Medicine and Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. At Osher-NU, she founded a culinary medicine course for health professionals, "Cooking Up Health." She said she believes that food not only heals and prevents illnesses, but that it can also…