Food As Medicine

Culinary Medicine Webinar Series

Blending the art of cooking with the science of medicine, this six-part webinar series offers live interactive educational seminars highlighting the importance of food and diet within a patient’s health plan, as well as instructions on using culinary medicine tailored to specific GI diseases and symptoms.

Each episode pairs a physician and a registered dietitian, and includes an overview of the GI condition, an introduction of dietary management recommendations and a cooking demonstration by a medical chef showing how to carry out the recommendations using corresponding recipes.

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Crohn's Disease - Register Now
March 19, 2025
8PM ET

The latest installment of our Culinary Medicine series brings you Crohn’s Disease and the Crohn’s Disease Exclusion Diet (CDED).

The first segment of the live webinar will offer a medical presentation by a physician who will discuss nutrition therapies for inflammatory bowel disease, focusing mainly on Crohn’s, followed by an dietitian who will discuss the dietary approach and implications. Finally, a home medical chef will demonstrate two recipes that follow an anti-inflammatory diet.

Supported by an educational grant from Kate Farms.

Wellness and Prevention

This first episode in the series highlights plant-based and Mediterranean diets and discusses their adequacy in children and application in pediatric GI diseases.

This episode is supported by an educational grant from Kate Farms.

Blenderized Tube Feeding

Blending the art of food and cooking with the science of medicine, this new NASPGHAN webinar series brings you live interactive educational webinars that highlight the importance of food and diet within a patient’s health plan, and how to use culinary medicine tailored to specific GI diseases and symptoms.

Enteral Nutrition/Aerodigestive Disorders, which will highlight blenderized tube feeding and discuss the adequacy of this diet in pediatrics and it application in pediatric GI diseases.  The webinar will pair a physician and a registered dietitian, and will include a brief overview of the GI condition, an introduction of dietary management recommendations and a recorded demonstration on how to carry out the recommendations using corresponding recipes (conducted by a home chef).

This episode is supported by an educational grant from Kate Farms.

Eosinophilic Esophagitis

Blending the art of food and cooking with the science of medicine, this new NASPGHAN webinar series brings you live interactive educational webinars that highlight the importance of food and diet within a patient’s health plan, and how to use culinary medicine tailored to specific GI diseases and symptoms.

Eosinophilic Esophagitis, which will highlight elimination diets and discuss the adequacy of these diets in pediatrics and their application in pediatric GI diseases. The webinar will pair a physician and a registered dietitian, and will include a brief overview of the GI condition, an introduction of dietary management recommendations and a recorded demonstration on how to carry out the recommendations using corresponding recipes (conducted by a home chef).

This episode is supported by an educational grant from Kate Farms.

Milk Protein Allergy/Lactose Intolerance

Blending the art of food and cooking with the science of medicine, this new NASPGHAN webinar series brings you live interactive educational webinars that highlight the importance of food and diet within a patient’s health plan, and how to use culinary medicine tailored to specific GI diseases and symptoms.

The fourth webinar in the Culinary Medicine series will discuss a common problem in pediatric gastroenterology - milk protein allergy and lactose intolerance. The first segment of the live webinar will offer a medical presentation that will define and discuss the differences in diagnoses, followed by a registered dietitian who will discuss the nutritional approach and implications. A home medical chef will then demonstrate two recipes prepared with dairy and lactose free ingredients.

This episode is supported by an educational grant from ByHeart.

North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
The Association of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Nurses
North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Foundation
The NASPGHAN Council For Pediatric Nutrition Professionals
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