About Power Foods Kitchen
Power Foods Kitchen offers nutrition and cooking education that helps people feel more confident in the kitchen and more at ease with everyday food choices. Rooted in food-as-medicine principles, we honor health needs and cultural food traditions while making healthy eating practical, enjoyable, and realistic for real life.
We partner with nonprofits, healthcare organizations, and community-based groups to provide hands-on education across Greater Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Contact us to explore our services.
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Practical nutrition and cooking education for better health
Our Approach
We emphasize whole, minimally processed foods and plant-forward eating patterns while honoring cultural traditions, personal preferences, and real-life needs and resources.​
Our plant predominant programming puts vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts, and seeds front and center. This evidence-based framework is flexible, culturally adaptable, and aligned with guidance from leading organizations in lifestyle medicine, preventive health, and chronic disease management.
Programs focus on practical, sustainable strategies for healthy eating that work across a range of budgets and varying levels of food access.
Our Services
We empower people with the skills and confidence to put nutrition guidance into action.
Power Foods Kitchen operates as a contracted service provider. Programs are funded by partner organizations through existing budgets, grants, or health-related initiatives.
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A range of services are available to support groups and individuals. All education is non-clinical and designed to complement, not replace, medical care.
Multi-session, group format, using evidence-based frameworks such as Oldways Heritage Diets, or the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Culinary Medicine curriculum.
Interactive, short-format sessions focused on executing recipes, meal planning, label reading, building balanced plates, shopping on a budget, and other practical food skills.
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Individual coaching focused on cooking instruction, nutrition education, and behavior change. Services are offered by referral and designed to complement medical care, wellness programs, or community-based initiatives.
Our Founder
Tia Bradley is a certified health educator specializing in nutrition and cooking education. She translates nutrition science into everyday food choices and hands-on cooking skills, partnering with community organizations and healthcare-aligned programs to support sustainable lifestyle behavior change. ​
Tia's credentials:
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Bachelor of Arts in Communications
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Master of Science in Health Promotion
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Certified Health Education Specialist Certification (CHES)
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Culinary Coaching Certificate, Institute of Lifestyle Medicine​
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American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Food as Medicine Training
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Oldways, A Taste of African Heritage Training
Tia L. Bradley, M.S., CHES
Certified Health Educator & Cooking Coach
Founder, Power Foods Kitchen