Diabetes Self-Care Education: Cooking Classes as a Basis for Teaching Healthful Eating

After realizing how little patients know about healthful cooking at home and how that affects weight, these clinicians developed and taught cooking classes to their clients struggling to manage diabetes and lose weight.

As a group of clinicians, all of the authors were struggling to help clients with diabetes and obese clients to eat more healthfully and lose weight. While troubleshooting, we identified a huge knowledge gap: Many people today don’t know the basics of simple, healthful cooking.