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‘Food Equity Can’t Be a Side Gig’: How Food as Medicine is Becoming A Core Team Capability

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As the food as medicine movement grows, some payers and healthcare organizations are carving out specific roles and teams dedicated to food and nutrition. Doing so can be beneficial considering the significant impact diet can have on health outcomes.

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Health Exec: Food-as-Medicine Will Change How Healthcare Is Delivered With or Without GLP-1s

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During a panel discussion on GLP-1s at the Abarca Forward conference, one health executive stressed the importance of a food-as-medicine approach.

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Food insecurity is a healthcare issue. Here are 5 ways healthcare can proactively address food insecurity

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People who experience food insecurity also experience health issues such as obesity, diabetes, depression, high levels of stress, anxiety, and long-term consequences due to less access and affordability to nutritious food.

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How Can the Healthcare Industry Make It Easier for Patients To Make Healthier Food Choices?

MedCity News

It shouldn’t be so hard for Americans to access healthy foods, said Dr. Elizabeth Klodas, founder of healthy food company Step One Foods, during a Tuesday panel at the MedCity INVEST conference in Chicago. There should be incentives for food companies and better nutrition education for Americans.

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New Partnership Brings ‘Food Is Medicine’ Programs to Veterans

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The Rockefeller Foundation is funding two produce prescription pilot programs at VA healthcare systems in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Houston, Texas.

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Disruption in healthcare is coming

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America’s profit-riddled healthcare-industrial complex consumes 17% of GDP, equivalent to $3.6trn a year. However, changes are slowly being implemented that could lower healthcare costs. Healthcare is ripe for disruption, but any attempt to disrupt our state of healthcare has been met with pushback and challenges.

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How the food allergy sector is benefitting from health tech’s recent boom

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For the 32 million individuals in the US with food allergies, more research into symptoms, causes, and treatments has been long sought after, but historically underfunded. per person being spent on food allergy research. Luckily for those with food allergies, the food allergy sector has benefitted from this influx of funding.

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