If you had to bet on one, I would say Shepherdstown was probably founded first, simply because it's on an important thoroughfare connecting the Shenandoah Valley to the important Delaware ports, where a lot of European migrants, principally Scots Irish and German migrants, were arriving in the 18th century. So it's likely that these migrants arrived at the banks of the Potomac River in the valley before they arrived in the South Branch Valley. So it's likely that Shepherdstown was founded earlier.
Home » Food As Medicine: Teaching Young Doctors to Cook in an Effort to Improve Patient Nutrition
Published
Food As Medicine: Teaching Young Doctors to Cook in an Effort to Improve Patient Nutrition
Listen
Share this Article
As part of an effort to change students’ perspectives about using food as medicine, medical students at WVU Charleston took a cooking class yesterday.
“One of the things that we talked about is probably 70 percent of the adults that they’ll see in the clinics have some form of metabolic disease that is directly related to nutritional status,” said Doctor Rosemarie Lorenzetti, a professor of family medicine at West Virginia University Medical School. The class was co-led by Lorenzetti and CAMC Executive Chef Bill Dodson.
Lorenzetti has offered this class for the past three years at the medical school’s Eastern Division. The school has expanded the class this year to both the Morgantown and Charleston locations.
Credit Kara Lofton / WV Public Broadcasting
/
WV Public Broadcasting
Students chop strawberries for an avocado-based mousse during Monday’s cooking class.
Lorenzetti says she hopes that the young doctors will learn to help their patients make small nutritional changes that can make a big change in health.
“For example, find out if your patient is a sweet or salty snacker – most people are one or the other – and help people find something that is healthier for them that would still satisfy whatever need,” she said.
Lorenzetti is also beginning to offer cooking classes to the public. Last month she held a “cooking with clergy” class for pastors in the Eastern Panhandle.
Appalachia Health News is a project of West Virginia Public Broadcasting, with support from the Benedum Foundation.
Researchers at Marshall University are seeking participants 55 and older to examine the effect of visual art activities on the well-being of aging adults.
According to the Air Now Fire and Smoke Map, West Virginia’s panhandles are experiencing the majority of particle pollution in the state, especially in the Eastern Panhandle, where Shepherdstown has been issued a code red warning for “unhealthy” air quality.
