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Can food actually be medicine? These doctors in the US say yes
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At culinary medicine classes at Community Servings in Boston, meals have healthy components like whole-wheat couscous.
PHOTO: TONY LUONG/NYTIMES
Kim Severson
BOSTON – Ms Lauren Estess, a third-year student at Tufts University School of Medicine, believes knowing how to make chickpea stew will make her a better doctor.
She and 14 other students spent a recent evening making dinner as part of a two-month culinary medicine class to train doctors, dentists and dietitians that the university began offering last spring.
