The evidence base underpinning the Menus of Change Principles of Healthy, Sustainable Menus -also a joint initiative of CIA and Harvard Chan School, aimed at advancing the best possible future for the foodservice industry-serves as the scientific reference point as issues of environmental health and food ethics intersect with the distinct vision and mission of HKHL. Chan School of Public Health along with nutrition researchers and health practitioners from other prestigious institutions present the state of the science of diet and nutrition. In this conference, faculty members from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H.

How many doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals are truly knowledgeable about the latest scientific evidence to distinguish “healthy” versus less healthy or unhealthy foods? How many know how best to successfully engage their patients to improve their food choices and lifestyles? How many can serve as role models, coaches, and teachers to shift the way people think about purchasing, preparing, and enjoying healthy and delicious foods?

According to a recent Institute of Medicine report: “The great advances of genetics and biomedical discoveries could be more than offset by the burden of illness, disability, and death caused by too many people eating too much and moving too little over their lifetime.” Physicians, registered dietitian nutritionists, economists, and politicians-with unprecedented unity-are warning that the recent increases in obesity and diabetes are creating extraordinary public health challenges nationally and globally.

This annual gathering of physicians, registered dietitian nutritionists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals hospital, insurance, and other healthcare executives, and healthcare foodservice directors and executive chefs is held every year at The Culinary Institute of America at Copia in Napa Valley, California.

California medical conferences 2016