The Dr. Yum Project

We are a pediatrician-founded and led non-profit organization on a mission to help families and communities overcome barriers to eating well. We all experience a variety of barriers when trying to eat well. At the Dr. Yum Project, we offer solutions for overcoming the most pressing and prevalent barriers, including: ~ Misconceptions that healthy food must be expensive will not taste good and is too time-consuming ~ Lack of basic cooking skills ~ Lack of familiarity with fruits, vegetables, and other whole food ~ Lack of access to cooking tools/equipment ~ Decreased food access ~ Nutrition myths ~ Misconceptions about cultural foods ~ Homelessness and housing insecurity ~ Food insecurity ~ Lack of nutrition education in most medical professionals' training programs We accomplish our mission by: ~ Developing curricula for schools, like our research-based program “Dr. Yum’s Preschool Food Adventure” to help children and their families learn to cook and eat fresh fruits and vegetables. ~ Engaging with physicians and other healthcare providers locally and nationally at annual meetings like the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo annual meeting to serve as a resource for nutrition and food education for professionals to use in counseling their patients. ~Teaching people how to cook using more fruits, vegetables and other whole foods, both in-person and online ~ Partnering with organizations to help at-risk communities learn to cook and eat better.