Food as Medicine Symposium Focuses on Nutrition, Lifestyle and Connection

What if we thought of meals not solely as nourishment, however as an essential a part of how we forestall illness, assist therapeutic, and construct more healthy lives and communities?

The FoodLab at Stony Brook Southampton is internet hosting a Food as Medicine Symposium on Friday, September 25, bringing collectively drugs, diet, tradition and the culinary arts to discover the rising function of meals and life-style in well being and well-being.

The symposium contains a dynamic lineup of audio system and experiences, and shall be held from 9 am to 1 pm at Duke Lecture Hall in Chancellors Hall.  Tickets are $75 every and you can register online.

Speakers embrace:

Raja Jaber, MD
Director of Lifestyle and Integrative Medicine, Stony Brook Medicine; Clinical Professor of Family Medicine
The Science of Positive Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine
Jaber will discover the proof behind Food as Medicine and the way diet, motion, sleep, stress administration, and social connection work collectively to forestall and handle persistent illness.

Paula Montagna, MS, RD, CDN, CNSC
Director of Clinical Nutrition, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital
Food as Medicine in Action: From Evidence to the Kitchen
We’ll transfer from dialog to the kitchen as Paula interprets diet science into the meals we really eat by way of an interactive culinary demonstration.

Sohl Lee, PhD
Associate Professor of Art, Stony Brook University
Seaweed Soup: Traditional Food, Modern Medicine and Postpartum Healing
Lee brings tradition and custom into the Food as Medicine dialog by way of the Korean observe of miyeok-guk—seaweed soup historically eaten after childbirth—and what generations of meals data can train us about nourishment, therapeutic, and care.

Krista Zvoch, RD
Director of Nutrition, StoryPoint Group
Food, Longevity, and Quality of Life
Drawing on greater than 20 years in scientific, neighborhood, and company diet, Krista will discover how what we eat can affect wholesome growing old, resilience, independence, and high quality of life throughout the lifespan.

And as a result of conversations about meals belong across the desk, the symposium will conclude with a farm-to-table lunch impressed by Food as Medicine rules, with a possibility to proceed the dialog with our presenters and fellow friends.