NPPC News
10/02/2024 – Some state agricultural leaders and farm groups are beginning to rethink ‘food as medicine’ programs to better connect local agricultural systems with nutrition.…
10/02/2024 – Lessons from Massachusetts and Minnesota Many early discoveries of how poverty and other social risk factors shape the trajectory of disease are the…
10/02/2024 – TULSA, Okla. — A north Tulsa program is treating some health conditions with natural foods. At FreshRx Oklahoma, they believe sometimes the best…
10/01/2024 – What was missing from the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health? One organization shared what was missing on the agenda, including…
9/30/2024 – Food Is Medicine programs could be effective in treating, managing and preventing chronic disease, according to a growing body of research recently outlined by the American Heart…
9/29/2024 – By Amy Yutzy and Colleen Daywalt More than half of adults in the U.S. have one or more preventable diseases and the majority…
9/24/2024 – The general election campaign is underway, spotlighting former President Trump, the Republican nominee, and Vice President Harris, the Democratic nominee, as the viable…
9/23/2024 – Groundbreaking nutrition and cooking classes at UT Southwestern are curricular options for medical students and prescribed to patients. Physicians undergo at least seven…
9/20/2024 – Our diet impacts our health, as both health care and anti-hunger organizations have long understood. Now, they’re beginning to collaborate. he waiting room…
9/19/2024 – We are what we eat, and not enough Americans eat foods that promote health and wellness. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA),…
9/18/2024 – Abstract Paediatric fruit and vegetable prescription programmes hold promise in improving food security and dietary patterns among youth. However, programme success is largely…
9/18/2024 – According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 17 million households struggled at least once in 2022 to provide enough food for all its members…
9/16/2024 – Executive Summary Rising Health Care Costs and Declining Outcomes: A Call to Action for Texas The unsustainable escalation of health care costs, coupled…
9/13/2024 – A new statewide group is looking to help South Dakotans find access to healthy foods in an effort to decrease nutrition-related diseases through…
9/12/2024 – GLP-1 drugs are “the most effective drugs we’ve ever invented for obesity treatment,” but they “aren’t going to cure the obesity epidemic,” says…
9/11/2024 – An apple a day keeps the doctor away—right? This well-worn adage dates back over 100 years, yet consumption of—and, often, access to—fresh, healthy…
9/11/2024 – Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation in Virginia, a philanthropic arm of Elevance Health Foundation, announced today an additional $100,000 each to…
9/10/2024 – We can help ensure our pediatric patients have adequate nutrition to thrive It’s Monday at 1 a.m., and a 10-year-old girl comes back…
9/10/2024 – New Program Prescribes Medically Tailored Meals to Patients to Manage Chronic Conditions and Improve Health Outcomes Nourish, the leading food as medicine platform,…
9/10/2024 – According to the Centers for Disease Control, five of the top 10 leading causes of death in America are associated with preventable and…
9/10/2024 – Medical The American Heart Association hired Lewis-Burke Associates to lobby on a range of strategy, research and funding issues related to food as medicine, or the integration of
9/9/2024 – When the Food is Medicine initiative began at Augusta University, there were several moving parts to make sure the new program was ready to go…
9/05/2024 – Food insecurity, defined as the lack of consistent access to sufficient food for an active, healthy life, has been exacerbated in Tribal communities…
9/04/2024 – Most of us think of food as just that: food, or maybe food as fuel if you’re an athlete. But there’s a movement,…
9/03/2024 – Bonton Farms isn’t just growing fresh food; it’s growing a prescription for better health, leaning into its ‘food is medicine’ philosophy to improve the…
9/03/2024 – Abstract Objectives This study assesses the needs and feasibility of conducting a produce prescription (produce Rx) program in a pediatric dental clinic setting…
8/30/2024 – ABSTRACT Objective Outcomes from produce prescription (PPR) programs, an exemplar of a Food is Medicine intervention, have not been synthesized. The objective of this study…
8/29/2024 – “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” ― Hippocrates FRESHFARM and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital are thrilled to announce the August 2024 launch…
8/26/2024 – For decades, policy and public health experts have recognized that social determinants of health—factors like financial stability, job opportunities and housing security—account for 30% to…
8/16/2024 – The medical community is rapidly recognizing the idea that food is medicine, and the medically tailored meal intervention can support improved health outcomes… Read the full article at…
