Own Your Health Through Cooking

Podcast 207

Healthy Cooking – The Best Way To Own Your Own Health

The ability to cook has become a lost skill in our current age, in truth, this is a big factor in deteriorating health today. Today’s guest, Deborah Kennedy, shares how you can Own Your Health Through Healthy Cooking. 

In this episode, we talk about:

• How our physical health is connected to our ability to cook healthily
• Letting children play with food so they can get familiar with it
• Defining what healthy cooking means
• Using culinary techniques to start liking the taste of certain foods
• Starting small with incremental healthier changes
• Deborah’s book and her modular approach to healthy cooking
• What to expect from Deborah’s Food Coach Academy
• The growing health coach industry and the positive impacts it will have

Deborah Kennedy PhD is the CEO of The Food Coach AcademyTM, Build Healthy Kids®, and Culinary Rehab®, which establishes nutrition and culinary competencies, modular learning opportunities, prescriptive delivery methods, and outreach programs for various populations. She received her Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry from Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition, Science and Policy. Dr. Kennedy has studied food from an early age – learning to cook at age 4, working as a chef in Canada, obtaining her doctorate in nutrition, authoring three books on children and nutrition and five in Culinary Medicine, and developing a prescriptive algorithm for dietary changes. She served as the first Chair for Best Practices in the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative (a Harvard and CIA initiative) and serves on the board of Chefs for Humanity.

Memorable Quotes

• “Any opportunity you have to create something yourself is adding health to your body.”
• “There is and never will be this magic food that you can eat that will get rid of all the negative consequences that an ultra processed diet brings you.”
• “Even the smallest changes can have a biochemical effect in your body, which can lead towards health.”