Herman Johnson never imagined that something as simple as fruits and vegetables could change his life. A retired Army veteran from Houston, Texas, Johnson had struggled with weight issues for years, ...

"Food is Medicine" is an important movement, but only a culture-wide shift will turn around our poor diet-driven health ...

Amanda Bank ([email protected]), Center for Health Care Strategies, Seattle, Washington. State Medicaid agencies are increasingly developing Food Is Medicine programs with the aim of improving health ...

Recognizing the inextricable link between nutrition and health, stakeholders and policy makers are considering future health care coverage of clinically effective and cost-effective food-based ...

The push to put nutrition at the forefront of hospitals, schools and farms throughout the U.S. has been a rare point of agreement between the Trump White House and its Democratic predecessor, but some ...

Your health is directly influenced by the food choices you make. Unfortunately, the typical American diet often lacks the nutrients needed to promote long-term health and wellness. The concept of ...

Growing up in India, when Lavanya Reddivari had a cold, her mother would give her a remedy called haldi doodh in Hindi: warm ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Hospitals across Kentucky are getting a healthy boost thanks to a new partnership between the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) and the Department of Agriculture. In the ...

CHICAGO – Current conversations about the future of food tend to focus on the incorporation of such technologies as precision fermentation and artificial intelligence, as well as the use of more ...

The idea that food is medicine has been around for centuries, even if there’s doubt about its origin story. (The Greek physician Hippocrates, the “father” of Western medicine, allegedly wrote, “Let ...

There is strong evidence that medically tailored meals lead to not only improvements in diet quality and quality of life, but also to a reduction in costly and ...

In the 1960s, Dr. Jack Geiger and a group of health professionals started a community health center in the Mississippi Delta, where children were dying from infectious diarrhea and malnutrition.