Cultural

One of the best books you will ever read on the science and practical advice on how to increase the phytonutrients in your diet from fruits and vegetables. “Highly recommended reading for all who are health conscious.” –Andrew Weil, MD  “Only Michael Pollan would come close to her superbly researched  work.” –Bill Kurtis, TV Journalist

Insightful, updated monograph on nutrition intervention in the hospice, long-term care, and home settings. Discussion is on ethics, culture, providing emotional support, patient’s last wishes, palliative nutrition care, and what to expect as a person dies.

This course examines what is meant by culture and the ways in which international and domestic cultures intersect with health issues, including illness causation, healing traditions, socio-cultural structures, and gender.

Very interesting book, evidence-based discussion on the earliest influences on how we learn to eat and why we choose and love the foods that we do. Important for counselors who want to understand and affect food choices of their clients and patients.

Fantastic resource for all nutrition practitioners who work in wellness, sports, or acute care! Educate yourself on supplements patients are taking or those you want to suggest. Over 132 contributing authors who are experts in their field.

Winner of Julia Child & James Beard Awards! Recipes and stories, ingredients, techniques, and history, show the breadth of black cooking from slavery, home cooks, chef writers, entrepreneurs, and restaurateurs. 

Nutrition practitioners must develop and maintain the counseling, interviewing, motivational, and educational skills they'll need to be successful. Throughout this 8th edition book, the authors focus on effective nutrition interventions, evidence-based theories and models, clinical nutrition principles, and knowledge of behavioral science and educational approaches.

New York Times Best Seller! Chosen Best Culinary Book of 2017 by over 19 publications. Learn how to master four simple elements to determine flavor, texture, and to balance flavor in order to make food delicious.

The author, Layal Liverpool, a virologist, immunologist, and science journalist, reveals the fatal stereotypes that keep people of color undiagnosed, untreated, and unsafe, and she tells us what to do about it. The Covid pandemic taught us that it disproportionately affected people of color.

Everyone loves this book! This course is a one-stop resource for everything you need to develop, write, and produce recipes, or adapt recipes for better health /religious/allergy/plant-based/gluten-free/low FODMAP. Practitioners at all levels of experience will find pearls to succeed in this book. The Academy offers an additional 7 CPE hours for book buyers.

From Registered Dietitian, author, video cooking instructor, and clinician, Madhu Gadia, offers wonderful, healthy Indian recipes with cultural context, nutritional analysis, history, and serving suggestions.

James Beard Award Winner!  Exploring more than 150 rare and important black cookbooks, the author honors culture, culinary, and nutritional history by those who nourished generations of Americans. Written by the first black food writer for a major newspaper.

Winner of NPR, Smithsonian, & James Beard’s Best American Cookbook! Chef Sherman celebrates healthy locally sourced, native, wild caught, and seasonal foods—not European staples like wheat flour, dairy, and sugar. 

Easily compared to Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: the local food movement, so far, has failed to change how we eat. Chef Barber studied the soil, land, sea, and seed to see how best to promote, grow, and eat a diet that is in harmony with the earth—sustainable production. 

Bee Wilson shows that in two generations the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating. Paradoxically, our diets are getting healthier and less healthy at the same time.