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UFSC launches what it calls Santa Catarina's first culinary medicine course
The Federal University of Santa Catarina began its first culinary medicine course on 19 October. A nutrition professor teaches it in a dietary technique laboratory.
Why it matters: Students taking UFSC's new culinary medicine course are taught in the Health Sciences Centre's Dietary Technique Laboratory by a Department of Nutrition professor.
The Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in southern Brazil, said its first culinary medicine course began on Monday 19 October.
According to the university, classes take place in the Dietary Technique Laboratory of its Health Sciences Centre (CCS).
The course is taught by Manuela Mika Jomori, a Department of Nutrition professor who coordinates the Nutrição na Cozinha (Nutrition in the Kitchen) project, the university reported.
UFSC describes the course as unprecedented in the state of Santa Catarina.
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Sarah Williamson, Teaching, Digital and AI Editor
Students enrolled on the course have been receiving culinary medicine teaching in a dietary technique laboratory since 19 October, led by the coordinator of the university's Nutrition in the Kitchen project.
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