Welcome to another episode of Heart 2 Heart: Conversations to Heal a Broken Heart with Dr. Columbus Batiste.

Dr. Columbus Batiste is a board-certified Interventional Cardiologist who has been an active lifestyle and whole food plant-based advocate for over a decade. His dedication to the science of lifestyle has led him to participate in multiple research studies and review articles which have confirmed the benefit of a plant-based diet.

To bring the science to his patient’s bedside, Dr. Batiste crafted a unique program in which he performed gave bi-monthly lectures and a monthly cooking class entitled: CATH lab. The CATH lab is a procedural room where Interventional Cardiologists bring patients to provide treatment to open vessels and stop heart attacks in while they are occurring. Dr. Batiste re-purposed the Cath lab and transformed the name into Cooking Alternative To Health (CATH) a series of cooking classes, that provided attendees information on how to maintain flavor and combine foods to restore blood flow and alleviate symptoms through with the power of nutrition. Dr. Batiste has additionally explored the science regarding the relationship between mental health and relationships in heart disease.

March is National Nutrition Month. This episode of Heart 2 Heart dives into the matrix that steers us into the food choices we make also known as Commercial Determinants of Health. In this episode Dr Batiste is joined by Dr. Travis Masterson. Dr. Masterson is currently the Broadhurst Career Development Professor for the Study of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Nutritional Sciences where he directs the Health, Ingestive Behavior, and Technology Laboratory. His work focuses on how technology impacts eating behaviors and health outcomes and conversely how technology can be used to better measure and understand these outcomes. Currently, his lab has been monitoring and evaluating the effects of influencer food marketing on livestreaming entertainment platforms, such as Twitch.tv, and the effects that this type of marketing can have on food purchasing ad eating behaviors.

You can follow Dr.Masterson on the following social media

Twitter: @NutritionCues

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