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Cooking as Medicine
Blog by Gary Sforzo and Margaret Moore with Claude AI For years, health and well-being coaches have known something that mainstream medicine is only beginning to fully embrace, behavior change is the engine of lasting health transformation. A new study published in Obesity - a highly respected journal - offers compelling, rigorous evidence that combining culinary skills training with health coaching principles produces meaningful, sustained weight loss over a full year. And i
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May 55 min read


Your New AI Coach Assistant
Here are a few of the ways that your new AI Coach Assistant can boost your efficacy as a coach! Analyze an assessment, screener or inventory and help you consider the results. Analyze a coaching session and get feedback on your skills. Learn more about coaching tools and receive guidance on how to utilize them. Check for potential risks, human harm and ethical responsibilities. Get different perspectives about an issue. Download conversations. Utilize the History Tab for down
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Apr 181 min read
Why Meaning, Purpose, and Spirituality Belong at the Heart of Coaching — and Lifestyle Medicine Is Finally Catching Up
A landmark paper in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine argues that what coaches have always known is now a clinical imperative For twenty-five years, Wellcoaches has trained health and wellness coaches to start where the client is — not with a diagnosis or a diet plan, but with what matters most to them. What gives their life direction? What they’re willing to fight for when motivation fades, and old habits reassert themselves. Now, a sweeping new supplement published
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Apr 85 min read


CHEF Coaching Graduates
CHEF Coaching Graduate Spotlight ~~ Theresa A. Stone, MD shares both her experience implementing the training she received from the CHEF Coaching Program and patients success stories. May 2021. Learn and Listen . “Thank you, Rani, Sara, Shirley, Jane, and the entire CHEF crew! The tools that I learned in the CHEF Coaching Program equipped me to bridge the gap between nutritional knowledge and patient self-care empowerment. I enjoy sharing whole food recipes and cooking tips
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Mar 182 min read


CHEF Coaching Faculty
Karla Arancibia, MD, MPH CHEF Coaching Faculty Karla Arancibia is a lifestyle medicine physician and health and wellness and culinary coach providing services in Latin America, Europe and the United States. She is the co-founder of the Latin American Lifestyle Medicine Association (LALMA). She is a graduate of the CHEF Coaching program and is co-founder of the Lifestyle Medicine Clinics in Latin America and owns her own health and wellness coaching practice Healthview Lifesty
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Mar 182 min read


CHEF Coaching in the Press
CHEF Coaching Articles Spice up Your Cooking to Cut Down on Salt - Harvard Hart Letter Culinary Medicine: A Recipe for Better Health - US News & World Report Your new Rx for patients health: a good home-cooked meal - American Medical Association Culinary Medicine: A Prescription for Healthier Eating - Scientific American Practice Culinary Medicine in Your Own Kitchen - Heraldtribune Beans: tools to improve health – Vascular Medicine Chef coaching – Joslin Diabetic Ce
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Mar 131 min read
Sample Timeline
This is a sample timeline, assuming the student begins in a January cohort. Please note we launch cohorts every month, so the timeline would adjust accordingly.
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Feb 251 min read


Culinary Coaching Research
Patient Outcomes Explore selected studies on the impact of culinary coaching interventions across various patient populations and their potential to improve outcomes. Innovation in Diabetes Care: Improving Consumption of Healthy Food Through a “Chef Coaching” Program: A Case Report A case report describing the outcomes of the first culinary coaching program, delivered in 2014. We concluded that a culinary coaching program could help people with diabetes improve their culinar
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Feb 63 min read


Culinary Medicine Resources
CHEF Coaching Newsletters Winter 2019 Spring 2019 * Summer 2019 * Fall 2019 Winter 2020 Spring 2020 * Fall 2020 * Winter 2020 * February 2021 * June 2021 * September 2021 * December 2021 * March 2022 * June 2022 *Resources Curated by CHEF Coaching Faculty Recipe Library Recipes - Vegan Eatingwell Wholefoods Recipes Foodnetwork Diabetes-recipes Cookinglight Myrecipes Allrecipes Chopchop Dr-Gourmet Recipes - Jamie Oliver Recipes - BBC Anne & Katie Medichefs
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Feb 61 min read
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