Meet Dr. Dona Cooper-Dockery, renowned physician, health advocate, and founder of @FoodaMED Vegan Restaurant and Emporium located in McAllen, TX.
FoodAMed Vegan Restaurant and Emporium was born out of a doctor’s desire and determination to stop or reduce the incidence of chronic disease using healthy nutrition. In 2010 Dr. Dona Cooper-Dockery, a practicing internist, realized that those suffering from diabetes, elevated cholesterol or heart disease would continue to have complications, despite being prescribed “the best drugs for chronic diseases”, and that she could do more for her patients through education on healthy lifestyle, than by using medications alone. Many studies list food as the number one risk factor for chronic diseases and death.
Dr. Cooper-Dockery experimented on herself and adopted a plant-based diet, which she credited for helping her lose 25 pounds and improving her blood pressure.
“I realized that as healthcare providers, many of us are not actually treating the cause of the problem. This is what I needed as the number one therapeutic approach in assisting patients to experience better health.”
– @DrDonaCooper, MD.
After Dr. Cooper-Dockery’s life transforming experience using food as medicine, she began to share the same with her patients. Many of her patients experienced significant improvement in their health, thus requiring reduction or complete elimination of medications. With such positive results on healthcare outcomes, Dr Cooper-Dockery opened the Cooper Wellness & Disease Prevention Center, where the focus is using healthy lifestyle modification to impact healthcare outcomes. The Cooper Wellness Center team uses a holistic approach to treating patients, including healthy nutrition, exercise, stress management and spiritual renewal.
