Produce Prescriptions Sound Good, but Data to Support Them Are Lacking—That Could Soon Change

In February, the head of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, JD, looked out at a packed audience and quoted a saying often attributed to the 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass. “‘It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men,’” Becerra said, before adding his own words: “We’re in the business of repairing broken men and women in this country instead of building strong children from the start.”