🎧 Food as Medicine with Kathy Taylor and Dr. Rosette Chakkalakal
Discover how Grady Health is transforming care with Food as Medicine—tackling food insecurity, improving chronic disease, and proving nutrition is powerful medicine! 🍎🥦
This week on the show, we’re joined by Dr. Rosette Chakkalakal, an Associate Professor at Emory School of Medicine and Director of Preventive Medicine, and Kathy Taylor, Director of Medical Nutrition Therapy at Grady Health System. Dr. Chakkalakal and Taylor share insights into Grady’s innovative Food as Medicine program, which addresses food insecurity and chronic disease management through nutrition-based interventions. We discuss the critical role of fresh produce access, cooking education, and personalized nutrition counseling in improving health outcomes for patients with diabetes and hypertension. Our guests highlight how Grady’s approach is transforming patient care—helping to lower A1C levels, reduce hospital visits, and even put diabetes into remission. They also share valuable lessons for other healthcare institutions interested in implementing similar programs. Don't miss this inspiring conversation on how food can truly be medicine! 🔗 Learn more at gradyhealth.org
About Kathy and Rosette
Rosette Chakkalakal, MD, MHS is an Associate Professor in the Emory School of Medicine Department of Medicine as well as Director for the Division of Preventive Medicine in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. She is a practicing internist in the Emory at Grady faculty practice at the Grady Memorial Hospital Adult Primary Care Center and a Core Faculty member in the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center. Kathy Taylor, MS, RD, LD is the Director of Medication Nutrition Therapy at Grady Health System. She has served as a registered/licensed dietitian for the past 29 years.
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