ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS
Our Lab Rules
Our Lab Rules
Our Lab Rules
What happens after the food arrives that actually supports sustainable diet change led by the patient’s own expertise. This is not a panel. Not a webinar. Not a charity model. It’s a marketplace of proven adoption models already driving real health outcomes — brought into the Lab to be tested, challenged, refined, and strengthened in real time. All voices heard.
Our PI's
Our Lab Rules
Our Lab Rules
Principal Investigators:
Maura Plante, MS Psychology, Living Hungry
&
Deborah Kennedy, PhD & Chef, Food Coach Academy
Our Process
Our Lab Rules
Our Community
1. Attend the Webinar to learn from clients, patients, eaters, humans, and the experts in education and health change models
2. Ask Questions
3. Video posted to Rumble, comments collected and discussion in next edition.
4. Program Knowledge Base, top 5 takeaways and PI opinion in the How To Heal Substack
Our Community
Our Lab Rules
Our Community
Question everything. Attendees are invited to question the models, adapt, cross-pollinate, synergize and extrapolate useful information to apply to their FIM programs for better positive health outcomes faster and longer through the eyes of the heroes changing their health and the lens of how humans heal.
IN THE FIM BEHAVIOR CHANGE LAB | 6 Roles
Principal Investigators
Two outspoken PIs in lab coats walk into a system that forgot to complete the human-in-the-loop. Not to prescribe. Not to perform. But to return power to the patient. The FIM Behavior Δ Change Lab is a living laboratory where Food Is Medicine closes the loop — where access becomes adoption and measurable biomarker change is built
Humans
Change Agents. These are the heroes on their journey back to health. Every voice carries equal weight. Patients. Community members. Peers. Community Health Workers and the Behavior change professionals. No head of the table. No silent stakeholders. No condescension. No extraction. No “vampire research.” We reject models that study communities without building power within them. Our humans are the drivers of their own health and in the How To Heal Lab, they teach us what it takes to heal.
Nutrition & Culinary Education
Lets move Food Is Medicine from access to adoption. Nutrition education, culinary medicine, Teaching Kitchens teach us how. By honoring food culture, heritage, and wallet together we center behavior change as the root cause. We advance short-, medium-, and long-term lifestyle shifts that lead to measurable, sustainable biomarker improvements across FIM programs and networks.
Body Systems & Tech Education
We can restore our body systems when we understand how they work. We curate a living, go-to repository of body education and technology apps, tools and change agents with proven adoption models in Food Is Medicine interventions that work at rendering health.
Belonging & Coaching
We challenge the boundaries of the field.
We push beyond food-only paradigms and overlooking the humans in the loop thinking. The Lab convenes movers and shakers who are redefining belonging and connected lives in Food Is Medicine — testing assumptions, completing the peer to peer learning loop, word of mouth, and reshaping community as the playground sandbox for adoption, dignity, and belonging to become the standard.
You
You complete the loop as well.
Every participant in this Lab is a co-designer. Patients, community members educate the behavior change professionals — all sit at the same table with equal authority. We eliminate language, structures, and systems that diminish or distance the people most affected = "Othering" ends here.