Food as Medicine: The Healing Power of Food Today, we’re seeingancient dietary traditions, such as theslow food movementgain in popularity. Like many healers of her time, our namesake Hildegard was keenly aware of hownutritional treatment and lifestyle impacted health. Though much of the inner...
The paper, “The Effect of an Intensive Food-as-Medicine Program on Health and Health Care Use: A Randomized Clinical Trial,” was published recently inJAMA Internal Medicine. The authors are Doyle; Marcella Alsan, a professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School; Nicholas Skelley, a pr...
“Food-as-medicine programs differ in their design, and one explanation for the lack of health improvement in glycemic control is that providing healthy ingredients still may leave participants with the obstacle of preparing the meal.” With these findings, the investigators stress the need for futu...
In their paper, "Effect of an Intensive Food-as-Medicine Program on Health and Health Care Use—A Randomized Clinical Trial,"publishedinJAMA Internal Medicine, the team details arandomized clinical trialof 349 type 2 diabetes patients with previous food insecurity to assess if short-term access t...
Hippocrateswas right when he said, “let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” But are you wondering how to use food as medicine? Here are a few tips for you to follow. Food has tremendous power to influence your health and wellbeing. This is because unless you ingest someth...
One food-as-medicine program not only prescribes food for treatment but teaches patients how to cook it. ① In the big picture, says Dr. Richard Afable, CEO and president of St. Joseph Hoag Health, medical institutions across the state are starting to make a philosophical switch to becoming...
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So teaching people about which foods are healthy and how to prepare them, she says, can actually transform a patient's life. And beyond that, it might transform the health and lives of that patient's family. “What people eat can be medicine or poison,” Rea says. “As a physician, ...
This book explores the convergence between food and medicine and the diverse ways in which these two penetrate each other in traditional and indigenous cultures. In drawing on current research and methodologies at the interface between the biological and social sciences, insights into an underexplored ...
Inspired by the “Food as Medicine” movement, Abbott is helping people with diabetes in Stockton, Calif., by delivering healthy food boxes to their doorsteps.