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Live Well
Live Well Details and key programs
LIFE GIVES US REMARKABLE CHANCES TO GROW, learn and thrive. By tapping the expertise of clinicians, counselors, educators and entrepreneurs, 1440 Multiversity help individuals meet health challenges and maintain balance as they embrace their best self.
Healing in Healthcare
Healthcare workers on today’s front lines face a profound and unrecognized threat to their well-being: moral injury. These wounds never fully heal which means the workers and their patients are likely to continue to suffer the consequences. To provide hope for these critical providers, 1440 is proud to introduce the Healing Our Healthcare Heroes Initiative and is available to design custom programs for any organization that would like to support this work. Learn more: 1440.org/HOHH
Palliative Care
1440 Multiversity is committed to supporting the care given to patients who have a serious or life-threatening disease to manage their care and maintain or improve their quality of life by attending to the whole person, not just their disease. The physical and emotional effects of cancer and other diseases may be very different from person to person. We believe this work provides comfort and support to patients and palliative care specialists, and is enhanced by raising awareness to the importance of holistic care for the patient, their family and caregivers, who all face the physical, emotional, social and spiritual issues and side effects of the cancer experience or that of other life-threatening diseases. Grant funding and individual scholarships are provided to all who support or wish to collaborate in this critical work of creating hope for living well. Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives
Learning, discovery and communication are central components to living well, and 1440 encourages organizations and faculty experts who engage in this mission-aligned work to host events and facilitate programs over a broad spectrum of disciplines crucial to the health and well-being of individuals and populations around the world. The 1440 Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives program is an immersive learning experience designed to address the complex issues of food insecurity and its impact on individuals; educate health care professionals on how to successfully engage their patients to use food (not drugs) as medicine; and transform attendees into advocates and role models for healthy food and lifestyle choices. Learn more: 1440.org/HealthyKitchens
Healing Our Mind & Body
1440 is committed to helping those suffering from depression, anxiety, suicide, self-harm, post-traumatic stress and other disorders to learn to better achieve an independent work-life balance that benefits the mind, body and spirit. In doing so, we hope to maximize their quality of life in every way. We are proud to offer and facilitate a variety of programs and are available to design custom programs for any organization that supports this work in a holistic manner that benefits sustained longterm healing and a healthy productive lifestyle.
DR. DAVID EISENBERG
Live Well in Action Dr. David Eisenberg: Food is Medicine
AS PART OF ITS LIVE WELL COMMITMENT, 1440 Multiversity enjoys an active strategic partnership with the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative – launched by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition, The Culinary Institute of America, and Dr. David Eisenberg, the director of culinary nutrition at Harvard. The principle teachings within this partnership have allowed 1440 Multiversity to implement industry-leading philosophies and best practices into its culinary work. Dr. Eisenberg recently spoke with 1440 Multiversity about his path to developing this critical work; we invite you to read the full interview at 1440.org/TKC.
1440 Multiversity: How have you come to be so passionate and involved in supporting teaching kitchens? Dr. Eisenberg: On paper, I’m a Harvard-trained doctor, boardcertified internal medicine. I practiced primary care for about 20 years, and I’ve been a clinical teacher and researcher on the faculty at Harvard since 1984. Also, I am the son and grandson of Jewish bakers from Brooklyn. As a child, I spent almost every weekend learning to cook and bake at my father’s side. The power of making delicious food for others is something that I learned so early on that it has been a part of everything I’ve done. Sadly, when I was 10, my father died suddenly of a heart attack. He died six weeks after his mother and my mother’s mother, all of unrelated diseases. And about a year later, my other living grandfather died. My mother was left with four children, ranging in age from one to 13. I was the second, age 10. And it was horrible As a result of that tragic time, I wanted to study medicine because I couldn’t understand what had happened. 1440: Is it challenging to prove efficacy of preventative medicine? Dr. Eisenberg: Back in 1971, the concept of prevention was nowhere to be found in the premedical curriculum or in medical school. When I went to Harvard Medical School, nobody was studying the impact of what we ate, how we moved or how our mind-body connection impacted our physiology or our health. So, I decided to learn Chinese and go to China. I became the first person to document in The New England Journal of Medicine the frequency with which Americans were using all these therapies. That catapulted my career and helped me do some of the early research on acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage and mindbody work. I was the recipient of the first large National Institutes of Health grant to build a center of excellence at Harvard looking at complementary, alternative and integrative medicine. Now, remember, I’m a baker’s son. So, in 1998, I approached the top cooking school in the U.S., the Culinary Institute of America, and said, “It’s been my observation that nobody in medicine, meaning doctors, knows anything about nutrition. And even fewer people know anything about cooking or shopping for food and making delicious, healthy food.” And, I said, “I would like to teach my colleagues about nutrition, shopping, and cooking as well as lifestyle.” They said, “That’s great, because we want to teach our chefs about nutrition. They don’t understand the science.”
We shook hands, myself and the head of the nutrition department, Professor Walter Willett, and we launched a conference called Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives, which has been given 15 times since 2006, always sold out. That’s where I met 1440 Multiversity Executive Chef Kenny Woods, and he introduced me to co-creators Joanie and Scott Kriens.
Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives is presented to 400 people a year at the Culinary Institute in Napa, California, where participants learn the science behind what they should be eating more of or less of and why. We teach how to translate the science into healthy, delicious, and sustainable recipes, the kind of food Chef Kenny makes at 1440. Then we talk about mindfulness and its role in eating, cooking, enjoying food and living; exercise; and strategies to change behavior when you’re stuck. 1440 is the hosting site for world-class scientists, public health experts, physicians, and thought leaders in the health and sustainability world to come together and share their research. I can’t think of a more appropriate site for such a conference. •
—MICHELLE MALDONADO, 1440 LEADERSHIP CENTER FACULTY MEMBER
