Building a Team

02/09/22 • 25 min

This episode brings back previous guests and features a new interview with Christine Hamann, Director of the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, to talk about cross training and collaboration. It continues our series of episodes that consider how to effectively introduce the food knowledge outlined in the first half of the season into a health care context.
Christine references two conferences in this episode:

Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives (next event is in February 2023)
Teaching Kitchen Research Conference (next event is in October 2022)

We feature clips from these previous episodes:

Telehealth and Provider Consultations (Season Two)
Food Access and Health Care Season Finale (Season Three)
How to Cook (Season Four)
Bonus Intro: Designing Better Health Systems (Season Four)
Putting Appreciation Into Practice (Season Four)

The podcast narrative also draws on background conversations I had with:

The Maven Project (see also the VPQHC telehealth office hours they participated in last year for discussion of their work)
Cara Feldman-Hunt - Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching Certificate
Stephanie Gall - Vermont Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and UVM HN clinical nutrition

Finally, if you want to learn more about the questions around nutrition education as part of medical training, the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation published a report in 2019, Doctoring Our Diet, and the proposed resolution referenced from Rep. McGovern is found here.
Full season archive here. This podcast is part of the Food Access in Health Care program at Bi-State Primary Care Association.
This season of Policy in Plainer English is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $189,892.00 with 0 percentage financed with non governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives (next event is in February 2023)
Teaching Kitchen Research Conference (next event is in October 2022)

We feature clips from these previous episodes:

Telehealth and Provider Consultations (Season Two)
Food Access and Health Care Season Finale (Season Three)
How to Cook (Season Four)
Bonus Intro: Designing Better Health Systems (Season Four)
Putting Appreciation Into Practice (Season Four)

The podcast narrative also draws on background conversations I had with:

The Maven Project (see also the VPQHC telehealth office hours they participated in last year for discussion of their work)
Cara Feldman-Hunt - Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching Certificate
Stephanie Gall - Vermont Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and UVM HN clinical nutrition

Previous Episode

Food as We Age

We talk with Chris Moldovan, RD, CD, FAND, and Director of Nutrition and Wellness at Age Well, an Area Agency on Aging in northwestern Vermont. Chris is also part of the Older Vermonters Nutrition Coalition. She provides examples of how our relationship with food and diet shifts with age, and explains how organizations like hers help people navigate changing requirements for nutrition.
Some of the resources referenced in this episode:

Medically Tailored Meals (episode from Season 3)
National Meals on Wheels Organization - Health Care Connections
Food Is Medicine for Older Adults - December, 2021, Symposium Session
Profile of Hospital / Meals on Wheels Partnership for MTMs
Nutrition Requirements of Older Americans Act
More Details on Requirements of Older Americans Act
2020 Report on Funding Adequacy for Older Americans Act Meals in Vermont

Plus two book references:

Ministry for the Future - and a New Yorker podcast interview with the author
The Pleasures of Cooking for One by Judith Jones

Full season archive here. This podcast is part of the Food Access in Health Care program at Bi-State Primary Care Association.

This season of Policy in Plainer English is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $189,892.00 with 0 percentage financed with non governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

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Season Four Finale

A season finale. . . with special guests! Edward Phillips, MD, and Juna Gjata, creators of the podcast Food, We Need to Talk, join us to comment on common themes between the two series, and suggest what should be next in your food & health podcast listening line up.
The first season of Food, We Need to Talk is available online. Two episodes cited specifically in this conversation were: This Is Your Brain on Cheesecake and Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders. We also talked about what makes a "fad" diet and common characteristics of popular diets that don't support sustainable healthy eating strategies, covered in Doomed If You Diet, Doomed If You Don't. The problems with the good food / bad food mindset are explored in Good Food, Bad Food and also What the Heck Should We Eat?
In this first season they do not go deep into diets tailored for treating or managing specific health conditions. But what will happen in the next season? We'll have to tune in March 21st to find out. . .
The podcast mentioned when I steal Steven Levitt's interview structure is People I Mostly Admire from Freakonomics Radio, which also has a health care podcast in its portfolio, Freakonomics, MD (Steve interviews the host on this 2021 episode).
You were promised links to microbiome-focused podcast episodes. There are a lot. It is literally a category of podcast unto itself. A few options that are clear about both the interesting questions before us & the limits of the current science:

BBC Good Food Health Podcast - Dr. Megan Rossi
Stuff You Should Know - Your Gut Is Also a Brain
What Went Wrong at uBiome Part 1 and Part 2 - The Journal (also a cautionary tale in what fraudulent medical billing looks like)

Find easy links to this season's episodes in order here. And an extended playlist here.
This season of Policy in Plainer English is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $189,892.00 with 0 percentage financed with non governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.
This podcast is part of the Food Access in Health Care program at Bi-State Primary Care Association.