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Food As Medicine faculty member David Ludwig, MD, PhD, knows why you’re #AlwaysHungry
Center faculty member, David Ludwig provides a 3-phase program that let’s you lose weight without calorie counting – by putting biology back on your side!…
FAM Faculty Features: John & Cindy
Join the country’s leading holistic nutritionists, mind-body practitioners, and patient advocates for the Food As Medicine Professional Training Program.
A Letter to the Editor
...antidepressant drugs, which are burdened with such depressing side effects as weight gain and sexual dysfunction are, at best, only marginally more effective for mild…
FAM Faculty Features: Aviva & Stefanie
Dr. Aviva Romm and culinary nutritionist Stefanie Sacks will be a part of this years Food As Medicine Professional Training Program.
Go With the Flow
QiGong, like dance, is a transformative practice. At the end of practice, you are never the same as when you begin.
Hurricane Katrina — 10 Years Later
I'm grateful for the chance to fully live and for the healing out of destruction and the despair of a painful time - post Hurricane…
5 Ways to Relieve Stress
Stress is a part of life but it should not hold you back. Here are five easy stress relievers to get you started.
Benefits of Fasting
Although Ramadan is mainly thought to be a month for spiritual rejuvenation, there are many ways we can benefit from it if we just take…
Staying hydrated during Ramadan
Dehydration is probably the biggest challenge when fasting during the summer...Here are some ways you can hydrate properly.
Shoutouts to our FAM supporters & vendors
Our Food As Medicine training is the nation’s leading introductory program in medical nutrition, providing a semester’s worth of nutrition care practices in just four…
7 Smart Convenient Foods
Renowned nutirtionist Kathie Madonna Swift shares a few of her favorite convenience foods – whole foods that check all the good-for-you boxes.
Chocolate Cherry Walnut Truffles
Studies suggest walnuts may boost memory, while chocolate, as we all know, is the ultimate mood boosting agent.
Feasting on Fiber
Of all the nutritional takeaways, one was repeated over and over again throughout the presentations: Eat Your Fiber.
Journeying through Breast Cancer with CMBM
Naomi L. Baum's story about how CMBM helped with her battle against cancer.
Don’t Give Up; Surrender
Surrendering isn’t giving in or giving up. It’s making a choice to let go of the emotions of struggle, fear and anger.
Shaking and Dancing in the Ring of Fire
My participation in the first Center for Mind-Body Medicine training workshop in Israel in 2004 marked the beginning of a personal and professional transformation that…
Enduring Presence
This work of our Center for Mind-Body Medicine allows people to come back into their bodies, to honor their struggles, and to dissolve and release…
7 Steps to a Healthier YOU!
Food As Medicine course director, Kathie Madonna Swift, shares her seven steps for using nutrition to improve your health.
A Holiday Treat – Empty Your Cup
We want to share with you one of our favorite stories, Empty Your Cup. Dr. Gordon often shares this story at our Mind-Body Medicine Training…
Veterans Health Administration Uses Food As Medicine In Their Local Community
This expansion is one of the first times the Veterans Health Administration is working with community resources.
Childbirth Education: Mind-Body Medicine and the Power of a Well Asked Question
My desire is to have them leaving the one-day class understanding the physiological process of labor and birth, yes, and to create an opening that…
My Granny’s Turnips
Everybody hated turnips in boarding school...But when I would eat turnips cooked by my grandma & my mom, I loved them. I don’t have the…
Koru: A Program to Help Students with Stress at Duke University
Koru, which is a Maori symbol for growth around a stable center, began at Duke University in 2007 and has since then transformed the lives…
Bringing Mindfulness to Medicine
I learned to meditate over 20 years ago. It opened the doors to a lifelong practice of meditation techniques, including Vipassana and yoga, and spiritual…
Roasted Maple Glazed Brussels Sprouts with Caraway
The Brussels sprouts in this recipe played Lucy to my Charlie. They teased me with their offerings of wellness...
The Healing Circle
At the center of the program are self-care practices that strengthen an individual’s ability to care for themselves, based on the model established by CMBM.
Remembering, Reminding, and Reawakening
With every needle and herb I use, I am remembering, reminding, and reawakening my patients to the wisdom that nature already designed into their bodies.…
Happy Holidays
Happy holidays! Sending our best wishes and gratitude that you are part of our community, and of our efforts to make the world a healthier…
Shaking and Dancing with My Gynecologist
The music starts and off we go, shaking, shaking, and then it happens: I feel a huge release in my first and second chakras with…
