Culinary And Lifestyle Medicine Education for Cancer Risk Reduction in Survivors of Breast Cancer

There are gaps in care after cancer treatment, Many breast cancer survivors face ongoing challenges related to weight gain, metabolic dysfunction, reduced quality of life, and increased risk of chronic disease after finishing cancer treatment. Culinary interventions focusing on participants with breast cancer and survivors have been growing in popularity and and these studies show the positive effects that a healthy diet can have on the risk and recurrence, mortality, and quality of life. These studies have laid the groundwork to develop the Cancer CALM (Culinary And Lifestyle Medicine) program for healthcare providers in training and serves as an education intervention. This program provides dietary and lifestyle cancer risk reduction (CRR) strategies using a lecture series and hands-on culinary experience. The long-term goal of this is to give future physicians the knowledge to use these strategies into their future clinical practice. The purpose of this study is to determine if its is possible to deliver the Living Cancer Calm intervention and have participants apply risk reduction strategies between sessions. This study includes 4 in-person culinary medicine sessions and 4 virtual group nutrition education sessions. Participants will be asked to complete surveys before and after the program. 44 participants will be recruited in this study.