Recognizing the inextricable link between nutrition and health, stakeholders and policy makers are considering future health care coverage of clinically effective and cost-effective food-based ...

We look at food as medicine and we look at food as something that we can engage communities around,” Vickie Johnson, Cleveland Clinic’s executive vice president and chief community officer, told the ...

A spate of "Food Is Medicine" studies point to benefits of prescribing healthy food to people at risk of metabolic and diet-related diseases. A JAMA Internal Medicine study found a Rx Food program led ...

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The food as medicine movement has been picking up steam, with the White House gathering $8 billion in commitments for food programs, payers launching medically-tailored meal pilots and startups ...

It’s common knowledge that “food is the best medicine,” but local doctors tell KIRO 7 it’s much more than a phrase. “There’s a whole train of thinking and a whole body of work around ‘food as medicine ...

Second Harvest of Silicon Valley has won a $425,000 grant to help doctors screen up to 1,000 people over the next three years for food insecurity, ultimately connecting them with food distribution ...

In exchange for spending more on health care than any other high-income country, the US has the lowest rate of life expectancy and the highest rate of chronic disease. Diet-related conditions claim ...

As a community pediatrician with firsthand experience, I've observed an enduring curiosity among parents and caretakers about food, nutrition and health. I have also sadly met families who struggle to ...

RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again agenda receives an official White House endorsement in the form of a new commission as progress under the food as medicine movement will likely to continue The ...

Jul. 26—FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) — The Kentucky Department of Agriculture recently announced it is joining forces with the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) to develop a "Food is Medicine" campaign, ...

The idea that food is medicine has been around for centuries, even if there’s doubt about its origin story. (The Greek physician Hippocrates, the “father” of Western medicine, allegedly wrote, “Let ...