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Culinary Medicine's Place in the Food is Medicine Movement

Deb Kennedy, PhD - Culinary Medicine's Place in the Food is Medicine Movement

This event was on Thursday, September 05, 2024 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Discover the transformative role of culinary medicine in the rapidly growing Food is Medicine movement. This talk will highlight the explosive growth of this initiative and examine h… Read More.

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Question:

Can you talk about food that helps promote a good night's sleep?

— Mary Roth

Answer:

I mean you can Google what foods promote sleep, like, um, things that have tryptophan in them or you know, a nice warm glass of milk unless you are gonna get up keen all night because you're a little older and your prostate's not working well or you're premenopausal or menopausal and that's not gonna work. So again, see, I can't answer directly, but what I can say is do not fall asleep right after you eat a heavy meal. Eat earlier in the day. This is the best advice I could give you. So make sure there's a good three hours. And that doesn't mean like eat at 10 and stay up till one. That's not what I'm saying. Like if you can eat, um, earlier in the day, um, in the late afternoon, early evening, that's better. What I've started to do is have my biggest meal at lunch and then do a smaller meal at dinnertime if I can't do it earlier. So either you do it earlier or you have a lighter meal for dinner.
Deb Kennedy, PhD

Deb Kennedy, PhD

PhD Nutritionist

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