An August 2022 study by the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Centre and College of Medicine said,
“… Cooking Matters for Diabetes may be an effective method of improving diet-related self-care and health-related quality of life, especially among individuals living with food insecurity…”
“Teaching cooking skills has been shown to help reduce the burden of food insecurity. But broader skills required to get food on the table, such as meal planning, shopping, budgeting, food safety and nutrition, are also of critical importance,”
“We found that study participants ate more vegetables and fewer carbohydrates. We saw improvements, including significant changes in diabetes self-management activities and numerical lowering of A1C among food-insecure study participants. This is important, because food insecurity and a lack of access to nutritious food can make diabetes management and A1C control more difficult,”
“Many outcomes improved more substantially among individuals with food insecurity compared to those without. But during the post-intervention follow-up period, the food insecure group experienced greater regression, emphasizing the importance of sustained follow-up in populations made vulnerable related to one or more social determinants of health,”