Cooking and Confidence

Yumlish: Diabetes and Multicultural Nutrition

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Dr. Joanna Rees talks to us about her recent research on the effects of taking a healthy cooking class on the mental health and confidence of participants.

Dr. Rees is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian with a background as a chef and sports coach, currently working as a post-doctoral research fellow in the area of gut health. Her particular area of interest is how we should target nutrition as a preventive strategy to tackle population issues such as declining mental and physical health

“At the beginning of the program, there was a big difference between the males and females in their cooking confidence, where the females were more confident at the start of the program. And then by the end of the program, the males and females were both equally confident.”

Question of the Day: Have you ever taken a cooking class? What was your experience?

On This Episode You Will Learn:

Gut Health Science

Mental Health

Healthy Diets

Healthy Cooking

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Key Points:

00:00 - Intro with Shireen!

01:28 - Can you talk a bit about how you became interested in public health in your academic career and in gut health science in your post-doctoral research? How did this lead you to your current research?

03:25 - How did you conceive of the need for this kind of research?

04:33 - How did you coordinate with the other organizations involved in this project?

06:00 - Your results from this project saw that the participants reported significant improvements in their mental health, confidence in cooking, and general wellbeing that were fairly long term. Were these the expected results?Were there any surprises in the results?

08:27 - How much of these mental health benefits can be attributed to the improved self-confidence of learning to cook healthy meals and how much may be solely from the benefits of improving one’s diet?

11:17 - Where do you hope research on this topic will go in the future?What are your plans for future research?

15:10 - How can our listeners connect with you and learn more about your work?

18:02 - Outro with Shireen!

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