2025 Edition Culinary Medicine Textbook Available from The University of Arizona

At Ardmore Institute of Health (AIH), we work for a future where healthy environments and lifestyles provide equitable and preferred methods to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. We believe Whole Health makes this future possible.

Whole Health is physical, behavioral, spiritual, and socioeconomic well-being and is achieved through a multifaceted, integrative approach that includes Obesity and Lifestyle Medicine, Integrative and Functional Medicine, and Culinary Medicine.

This peer-reviewed Culinary Medicine textbook, developed by the University of Arizona, is designed for individuals and communities interested in advancing Whole Health through the implementation of food-based disease prevention programs.

This free resource provides a comprehensive introduction to culinary medicine and includes case studies and information on kitchen skills, food safety, menu planning, shopping and budgeting, popular diets, dietary supplements, food demonstrations, seed-to-table programs, community partnerships, and culturally centered approaches.

As defined in the textbook, “Culinary medicine is a subdiscipline of food, agriculture, and human nutrition sciences characterized by the integration of nutrition evidence and culinary techniques that consider real-world budgets, time constraints, and diversity of economic, cultural, and social circumstances, while supporting holistic health and well-being.”

If you are interested in deepening your understanding of Culinary Medicine and utilizing it to support the health of your community or patients, click here to download the textbook.

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