Food is Medicine Network Launched to Transform Nutrition and Health Outcomes
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Contributed by: Kate Gamble
Summary
The Food is Medicine National Network of Excellence has been established by a coalition of health systems, payers, and other stakeholders, including Tufts University and Kaiser Permanente, to enhance health outcomes through nutrition. Recognizing poor nutrition as a primary contributor to health issues in the U.S., costing $1.1 trillion annually, the network will focus on developing best practices for food-as-medicine interventions. Its members aim to create frameworks for evaluating these initiatives and will share research findings, such as programs providing healthy food vouchers for diabetic patients, to encourage broader adoption of these strategies among health systems and policymakers.
