Experts Push to Expand Role of Nutrition in Medicine

10/08/25- 

Diet should be considered an important part of a patient’s treatment along with medication, surgery, and other options, several experts said Wednesday at a “Food Is Medicine” meeting sponsored by Tufts University.

“I would want to see, in 2030, food as a vital sign,” said Sean Hashmi, MD, a nephrologist at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group in Woodland Hills. “And if we could do that, if we could make it so simple as … eat more of this, eat less of this — it’s very basic at its core. And if we as physicians were able to prescribe food as we prescribe an ACE inhibitor, how powerful would that be?”………

 

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