Multisite Culinary Medicine Curriculum Is Associated With Cardioprotective Dietary Patterns and Lifestyle Medicine Competencies Among Medical Trainees.

Adherence to Mediterranean dietary patterns reduces the incidence of cardiovascular disease and other major chronic diseases. We aimed to assess the association between participation in kitchen-based nutrition education and Mediterranean diet intake and lifestyle medicine counseling competencies among medical trainees. The Cooking for Health Optimization with Patients (CHOP) curriculum is a hands-on cooking-based nutrition education program implemented at 32 medical programs (4125 medical trainees) across the United States.

Etiological Role of Diet in 30-Day Readmissions for Heart Failure: Implications for Reducing Heart Failure-Associated Costs via Culinary Medicine.

. Reducing the under-30-day readmission for heart failure (HF) patients is a modifiable quality-of-care measure, yet the role of diet in HF readmissions and cost-effective HF care remain ill-defined. .

Surface Topography Effects of Globular Biomolecules on Hydration Water.

Hydration water serves as a microscopic manifestation of structural stability and functions of biomolecules. To develop bio-nanomaterials in applications, it is important to study how the surface topography and heterogeneity of biomolecules result in their diversity of the hydration dynamics and energetics. We here performed molecular dynamics simulations combined with the steered molecular dynamics and umbrella sampling to investigate the dynamics and escape process associated with the free energy change of water molecules close to a globular biomolecule, i.

A model for ultra-fast charge transport in membrane proteins.

Isolated proteins have recently been observed to transport charge and reactivity over very long distances with extraordinary rates and near perfect efficiencies in spite of their site. This is not the case if the peptide is in water, where the efficiency of charge hopping to the next site is reduced to approximately 2%. Here, water is not an ideal solvent for charge transport.