3/17/25 –
Alma Rivera, 35, is expecting her first child next month. But during the pregnancy she developed gestational diabetes, so her doctor decided she and her baby would benefit from specialized nutrition counseling and access to food that’s good specifically to counter diabetes. The doctor sent her with a prescription to the University of Utah Health Food Pharmacy.
Oswald “Oz” Hutton, 60, of Salt Lake City, has battled hypertension, arthritis and chronic pain. What you eat makes a difference there, too, so the U.S. Marine Corps veteran opted into nutritional education and access to high quality produce courtesy of a program that’s a partnership between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Veterans Health Administration.
Those two programs — and scores of others — are part of the “Food Is Medicine” movement, the belief that what people eat helps determine their health on many levels…
