32. Culinary Nutrition Programs: With Special Guest Teresa Pangan, PhD, RDN

December 5, 2023

Dr. Teresa Pangan has been delivering onsite and virtual culinary nutrition programs for years leveraging Living Plate Rx content.

In this episode, Teresa and I discuss the case for incorporating culinary instruction into the nutrition care process. We cover why it’s necessary, how it can drive business and engagement, and the value you can bring to communities by offering this type of nutrition care.

We’ll cover:

How to Incorporate culinary instruction into your practice
Why it’s necessary to drive business to your practice
Its value to communities

In this Episode:

[2:51] An introduction of Dr. Teresa Pangan, who she serves, and how she serves them.

[6:07] What did Teresa do after she became a Registered Dietitian?

[10:23] How Living Plate Rx helped Teresa with her mission to educate on heart disease nutritional care.

[14:25] Teresa’s initial goal was to serve people as best as she could and then started with the business aspect of that.

[18:02] Why is it important to incorporate culinary instruction into nutrition care on a clinical level and behavior change level?

[22:27] How do you do motivational virtual interviewing when people aren’t comfortable with the technology?

[25:37] What other aspects of facilitating a culinary nutrition program impact behavior change?

[30:37] Why incorporate culinary instruction into nutrition care?

[35:09] Teresa’s process of getting grants and funding to support her free nutritional programs.

[41:20] Offering demos in nonprofit settings for free is a great way to start collecting data for your practice.

[45:08] “We have a culture and a media that is in a way working against what we’re trying to do.” – Dr. Teresa Pagan

[48:40] Dr. Teresa Pagan shares some parting advice for colleagues in growing their practices with kind of evidence-based care.

[54:44] Your Content Cure for the week.

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About Teresa Pangan, PhD, RDN

Dr. Teresa Pangan

Dr. Teresa Pangan, PhD, RDN is a sought-after professional speaker, culinary and nutrition educator, entrepreneur, and registered dietitian focusing on empowering people to eat food that is both delicious and supports the health they want. She gives keynote presentations to the public, health professionals, and worksite groups empowering them with the straight facts on the connection between food and health.

Teresa regularly appears on media outlets illustrating how eating healthy doesn’t have to be hard and debunking the latest nutrition myth. Heart disease hits close to home for Teresa since her dad passed away with heart disease. She is on a mission to prevent the number one killer in the U.S. Teresa engages audiences with new ways to think about eating and food and what they can do to become a savvy health consumer.

Teresa received her doctoral degree in nutrition from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. She completed two Bachelor of Science degrees from Iowa State University. Teresa also is certified in Tiny Habits from BJ Fogg focused on building new habits for better health. Teresa enjoys unwinding with a glass of red wine, writing in her gratitude journal, and experimenting with new recipes.