Rising up in an Italian family, West Virginia College medical scholar Mia Antinone remembers cooking along with her mom and grandparents within the kitchen earlier than sharing good dialog along with her household over massive plates of pasta on Sunday afternoons.
“For many individuals, myself included, meals is about greater than what you’re consuming on the desk, it’s integrated into our tradition,” Antinone, a fourth-year scholar within the College of Drugs’s Culinary and Way of life Drugs Monitor, stated.
The Culinary and Way of life Drugs Monitor unites college from the College of Drugs and the Davis School of Agriculture to assist college students develop expertise in diet, meals science and preparation and life-style administration with a view to educate sufferers in these behaviors to minimize the chance of power ailments.
As she labored by means of the curriculum, Antinone started fascinated by how she may meet sufferers the place they’re mentally and logistically to offer concepts and inspiration for incorporating diet and wholesome behaviors in a simple to learn and entry format.
She began her weblog when coming into WVU’s M.D. program to doc her journey for household, buddies and herself, and it was an important device for her to steadiness her passions and research.
Antinone determined to broaden her current weblog, Mia Gabriele, to incorporate this info in addition to her ideas and experiences balancing life, journey, religion, train and meals with a busy medical faculty schedule. As soon as she turns into a doctor, she hopes to make use of the weblog as a useful resource for sufferers.
“One in all my large objectives in medical faculty was to not skip out on life,” Antinone stated. “Learning is necessary, and I worth that, however it’s also necessary for me to remain true to all the opposite issues I worth as nicely.”
Antinone is utilizing her weblog to advertise the talents she’s discovered as a medical scholar and thru the CLMT program to assist educate her readers on easy methods to make easy modifications that may result in more healthy habits.
“Via this system, I’ve discovered easy methods to cook dinner for folks with totally different dietary wants,” Antinone stated. “There are methods to tweak recipes with comparable substances to accommodate totally different wants and life, all whereas enhancing the dietary worth of the recipe.”
She notes that the vacations are a time the place folks usually make cherished household recipes handed down by means of generations.
“Tweaking a recipe to incorporate extra nutrient-rich substances doesn’t need to be tough and the meals can nonetheless be scrumptious,” she stated.
When changing recipes to make them more healthy, she suggests simplifying the substances or discovering methods to incorporate extra fruit and veggies.
“Begin with small, attainable modifications and also you is perhaps stunned at how tasty your dish seems,” she stated. “A very powerful ingredient for a profitable recipe is to take pleasure in your self.”
Antinone believes that getting ready meals is a part of having fun with the meals. Making ready meals with family and friends, particularly across the holidays, makes a meal much more particular.
When Antinone is just not finding out or sustaining her weblog, she enjoys spending her time baking and cooking for buddies. She additionally serves because the president for WVU’s chapter of Stroll with a Future Doc, a student-run group that brings collectively medical college students and group members for twice-monthly walks that promote wholesome life.
For extra info on the WVU College of Drugs, go to drugs.wvu.edu.
Healthful Vacation Baking
Observe together with Antinone and WVU President E. Gordon Gee as they put together a tasty and wholesome vacation granola!
“I really like that each ingredient going into this granola and you’ll simply customise it to what you want,” Antinone stated. “It’s an ideal instance of how healthful consuming doesn’t need to be laborious or bland.”
One in all Antinone’s favourite dishes to arrange in a recopied she tailored from “The Effectively Plated Cookbook” by Erin Clarke.
“In the course of the holidays, I search for simplified recipes which might be straightforward, scrumptious and nutritious that the entire household can take pleasure in,” Antinone stated.
Recipe (tailored from “The Effectively Plated Cookbook” by Erin Clarke):
- 3 Tbs. molasses
- ⅓ cup maple syrup
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 3 Tbs. coconut oil (melted)
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- ¼ cup chia seeds
- 1 egg white
- 2 ½ cups quaint oats
- 1 cup uncooked pecans
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 300 levels.
- In a big bowl, whisk one egg white.
- Add molasses, maple syrup, vanilla and coconut oil to bowl and whisk to include.
- Add cinnamon, salt, shredded coconut, chia seeds to bowl and whisk to include.
- Add oats and pecans to bowl and incorporate.
- Unfold combination onto baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake in oven for 20 minutes, stir granola on baking sheet and bake for an additional 20 minutes.
- Let granola cool for 1 hour on the pan.
- Use a spatula or spoon to crumble the granola.
- Add non-compulsory toppings like dried fruits or nuts earlier than serving.
To be taught extra concerning the WVU College of Drugs’s Culinary and Way of life Drugs Monitor go to drugs.wvu.edu/culinary.
