Culinary Dentistry Takes Students from the Clinic to the Kitchen
Published: November 13, 2018
Students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Dentistry are learning how to do more than drill and fill. They’re also in the kitchen, learning how to prepare nutritious and delicious meals that benefit oral and systemic health alike thanks to the Nourish Program at the UTHealth School of Public Health.
“It is a hands-on nutrition education course where we teach students how to make healthy food taste good,” said nutritionist supervisor John Wesley McWhorter, MS. “We teach disease specifics, whether it be obesity, diabetes, heart disease, et cetera. We do case studies. We talk about the patients, and then we design food around what those patients should be eating.”
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