SHENANDOAH JUNCTION--Medical students from the West Virginia University (WVU) School of Medicine visited Driswood Elementary School (DES) precocious arsenic portion of the MedCHEFS Program. In the MedCHEFS Program (Medical Curriculum successful Health, Exercise and Food Science), aesculapian students usage interactive cooking demonstrations to amended the assemblage connected steadfast nutrition, cooking techniques, and the wellness benefits of circumstantial foods. The presumption to fifth-grade students was the finale of Red Ribbon Safety and Health Week astatine DES.
DES received a Farm to School assistance from the Eastern Panhandle Farm to School Institute past twelvemonth to physique a schoolhouse garden, Owl Home. The MedCHEFS utilized tomatoes from the schoolhouse plot during their cooking objection connected Friday. Inspiration for the concern began during the West Virginia Eastern Panhandle Farm to School Institute led by the Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, Jefferson GAP Coalition, and WVU Medicine.
The collaboration with WVU has been a long-time extremity for DES counsellor Siri McDonald and main Kelly Osborne. Dr. Rosemarie Cannarella-Lorenzetti, module astatine the WVU School of Medicine successful the Eastern Panhandle, developed the MedCHEFS programme and present runs a implicit four-year Culinary and Lifestyle Medicine Track astatine the aesculapian schoolhouse alongside Dr. Madison Humerick. Ms. McDonald and Carla Toolan, Community and Research Programs Manager for WVU, developed the thought astatine the Eastern Panhandle Farm to School Institute and worked with Dr. Cannarella-Lorenzetti to bring the programme to DES. The students moving successful the plot were thrilled to stock their nutrient with classmates and larn much astir the wellness benefits of the nutrient they are growing.
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