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News Articles
- Pardon the Disruption: Can Grocers’ Food Assortment Become the Pharmacy of the Future?: Grocery Dive. May 4, 2022
- ‘Food Is Just as Important as Medicine’ Says North Wales Hospital Catering Boss: Deeside. April 30, 2022
- ‘Food as Medicine’ Program to Help U.P. Residents in Need Get Local Produce: Upper Michigan Source. April 26, 2022
- Marigold Market Among the Farmers Markets Working to Make Fresh Produce More Accessible: Athens Banner-Herald. April 25, 2022
- Personalized Health Programs Are Coming to Grocery Stores: Grocery Dive. April 25, 2022
- 5 NYC Hospital Programs That Use Food to Address Chronic Diseases: NYCFoodPolicy.org. April 6, 2022
- 22 Global Medical Professionals Practicing Food as Medicine: Food Tank, April 2022
- 14 Organizations and Initiatives Bringing Better Food to Hospitals: Food Tank, April 2022
- Nonprofit Receives $60,000 to Expand ‘Food is Medicine’ Program: News Channel 5. October 21, 2021
- Nashville Food Bank Receives $60K to Expand Program: WKRN. October 18, 2021
- Food as Medicine: How MSK Is Helping Latinx Cancer Patients Eat Right: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. October 4, 2021
- FMI Releases ‘Food as Medicine Opportunity in Food Retail’ Report: Progressive Grocer. September 24, 2021
- The Chef Who Ditched Fine Dining to Cook for Cancer Patients: GrubStreet. August 19, 2021
- Can Tom Colicchio Help Fix Hospital Food? That’s the Goal of His New Fast-casual Restaurant: The Washington Post. July 7, 2021
- St. Joseph’s Receives $500,000 Grant for ‘Food is Medicine’ Initiative: St. Joseph’s Health. June 22, 2021
- New Prescribable Tool Helps Healthcare Practitioners Heal Patients Through Food: PR Newswire. May 24, 2021
- Food Prescription Programs: Future Potential and Current Obstacles: University of Pennsylvania Leonard David Institute of Health Economics. May 2021
- New ‘Food is Medicine’ Program Helps North Tulsans Get Healthy Foods for Over a Year: Fox News. April 2021
- Benson Hill Doubles Down on Plant-based Ingredients with New Business Units: Food Dive. March 18, 2021
- Healthfirst Gives Members Access to Healthy Foods and Produce Through GrowNYC: Healthfirst. March 3, 2021
- The Food as Medicine Movement Is Gaining Momentum in Dallas: D Magazine. February 8, 2021
- Fresh Rx Launches Farm-to-Table Fine Dining and Delivery Experiences: Jupiter Magazine. December 22, 2020.
- Veggies as Medicine: Food Prescriptions to Improve Health, Address Inequities: The Rockefeller Foundation. December 16, 2020
- Missouri Food Bank Makes a Business Case for Food as Medicine. The Counter. November 13, 2020
- Medicare and Medicaid Look into Food Subsidies to Keep You Healthy: Verywell Health. October 22, 2020
- This Shorewood Naturopathic Doctor is Offering Cooking Workshops Because Food is a ‘Powerful Medicine‘: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. September 28, 2020
- Food as Medicine Program: Delivering Greater Food Security and Access in North Minneapolis: PR Newswire. July 8, 2020
- Doctor’s Tip: Food as Medicine — Your Body’s Five Defense Systems: Post Independent. March 9, 2020
- Kroger is Testing ‘Food as Medicine’ With Food Prescriptions for Customers: The Spoon. February 4, 2020
- Kroger Puts ‘Food as Medicine’ to the Test: Supermarket News. February 3, 2020
- Food to Prevent and Treat Chronic Kidney Disease: Fresenius Medical Care. September 3, 2019
- ‘Food Is Medicine’ Report Outlines Menu of Options. WBUR. June 18, 2019
- Food as Medicine: Doctors are Prescribing Broccoli and Bananas Alongside Beta Blockers. The Washington Post. May 17, 2019
- Dr. William Li Reveals New Thinking on Food as Medicine at Sentara Healthcare’s ‘Nutrition as Medicine Conference’: The Angiogenesis Foundation. November 15, 2018
- Helping Clients with Chronic Kidney Disease: God’s Love We Deliver. October 3, 2018
- New York Doctor Prescribes Food As Medicine: CBS Minnesota. May 4, 2018
- How Geisinger Treats Diabetes by Giving Away Free, Healthy Food: Harvard Business Review. October 25, 2017
- Want to Fix America’s Health Care? First, Focus on Food: The Conversation. September 12, 2017
- Food Is Medicine: The Diet of Medicinal Foods, Science & History: Dr. Axe. September 6, 2017
Medically Tailored Meals
News Articles
- Medically Tailored Meals Become a Covered Service Option in California: Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center. August 10, 2021
- Territory Foods Serves Up $22M Series B To Expand Meal Delivery: Crunchbase News. April 13, 2021
- Food Is Medicine Coalition Calls for Systemic Change to Integrate Medically Tailored Meals into Clinical Structure of Healthcare: PR Newswire. April 5, 2021
- The MANNA Institute Seeks Proposals for Critical Research for Patients with Non-Terminal Cancer: Associated Press. February 5, 2021
- McGovern, Walorski, Pingree, Marshall Introduce Legislation to Pilot Medically Tailored Meals: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree Press Release. May 19, 2020
- If Food is Medicine, These are the Labs: New York Times. August 21, 2018
- Cod and ‘Immune Broth’: California Tests Food as Medicine: New York Times. May 11, 2018
- In a Test, Cancer Hospital Customizes Diet to Help Patients: Wall Street Journal. December 6, 2016
- Food as Medicine: Study Sets Out to Prove Its Effectiveness: ASCO Post. October 25, 2016
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “I Was Able to Eat What I Am Supposed to Eat”– Patient Reflections on a Medically-Tailored Meal Intervention: A Qualitative Analysis: BMC. 2020
- Association Between Receipt of a Medically Tailored Meal Program and Health Care Use: JAMA Internal Medicine. June 1, 2019
- Medically Tailored Meals as a Prescription for Treatment of Food Insecure Type 2 Diabetics: Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews. 2019
- Medically Tailored Meal Delivery for Diabetes Patients with Food Insecurity: a Randomized Cross-over Trial: Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2018
- Meal Delivery Programs Reduce The Use Of Costly Health Care In Dually Eligible Medicare And Medicaid Beneficiaries: Health Affairs. April 2018
- Food as Medicine: A Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of Home Delivered, Medically Tailored Meals (HDMTM) on Quality of Life (QoL) in Metastatic Lung and Non-colorectal GI Cancer Patients: Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2016
Food Prescriptions
News Articles
- Hospital Launches Food Pharmacy Program for Patients: Foodservice Director. April 19, 2022
- Memphis Hospital Starting ‘Food Pharmacy’ Program to Give Food to Patients: Fox. April 13, 2022
- Proof in Produce: Voucher Program May Help Diabetes Patients Manage Their Health: EurekAlert! October 19, 2021
- Produce Prescription Programs: Keys to Better Health, Less Disease?: Medscape. July 23, 2021
- Central Ohio Nonprofit’s ‘Farmacy in the City’ Program in South Linden to Combine Diet, Medicine: The Columbus Dispatch. October 28, 2020
- Allowing Pharmacists To “Prescribe” Produce To Help Lower Blood Pressure: CDC.gov. September 24, 2019
- Pharmacy Prescribe Product to Low Income New Yorkers with High Blood Pressure: NYC.gov. July 17, 2019
- Food as Medicine: Doctors are Prescribing Broccoli and Bananas Alongside Beta Blockers: Washington Post. May 17, 2019
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Current Landscape of Produce Prescription Programs in the US: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2022
- Dietary Impact of Produce Prescriptions for Patients With Hypertension: Preventing Chronic Disease. November 15, 2018
Nutrition Incentive Programs
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- A Supermarket Double-Dollar Incentive Program Increases Purchases of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Among Low-Income Families With Children: The Healthy Double Study: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. March 2018
- Veggie Rx: An Outcome Evaluation of a Healthy Food Incentive Programme: Public Health Nutrition. August 19, 2016
Culinary Medicine
News Articles
- Culinary Medicine is Delicious: WFLA. April 28, 2022
- Culinary Medicine: Teaching Patients and Healthcare Students How to Impact Health Through Improved Nutrition and Cooking Skills: Integrative and Complementary Therapies. April 18, 2022
- Food for Thought: Food is Medicine: First Coast Living. June 7, 2021
- Med School Cookbook is Just What the Doctors Ordered: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 14, 2021
- Hospitals Need to Understand that Good Food is Medicine: The Telegraph. October 29, 2020
- Medical School Has New Requirement for Students to Graduate: University of Maryland Medical Center. November 7, 2019
- If Food is Medicine, Why Isn’t it Taught at Medical Schools?: The Counter. October 14, 2019
- Food as Medicine: Integrating Nutrition Education Into the Medical Education Curriculum: Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine. August 15, 2018
- Setting a Course for Food as Medicine: ACP Internist. June 2018
- Using Food as Medicine: Gastrointestinal Specialists, Inc. 2015
- Physicians and Chefs Cook Up Healthy Curriculum: Medscape Medical News. July 17, 2014
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Patient Centered Medical Home Cooking: Community Culinary Workshops for Multidisciplinary Teams: Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. January 8, 2021
- Nutrition from the Kitchen: Culinary Medicine Impacts Students’ Counseling Confidence: BMC Medical Education. February 4, 2021
- Health Sciences Librarians Supporting Health and Nutrition Education in a Culinary Medicine Curriculum: Journal of the Medical Library Association. October 1, 2020
- Culinary Medicine and Nature: Foods That Work Together: American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. January 7, 2020
- Multisite Culinary Medicine Curriculum Is Associated With Cardioprotective Dietary Patterns and Lifestyle Medicine Competencies Among Medical Trainees: American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. 2020
- Advancing Nutrition Education, Training, and Research for Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Attending Physicians, and Other Clinicians: Building Competencies and Interdisciplinary Coordination: Advances in Nutrition. November 15, 2019
- Culinary Medicine: Advancing a Framework for Healthier Eating to Improve Chronic Disease Management and Prevention: Clinical Therapeutics, October 2019
- Culinary Medicine and the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist: Time for a Leadership Role: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, October 2019
- Culinary Medicine and Community Partnership: Hands-on Culinary Skills Training to Empower Medical Students to Provide Patient-Centered Nutrition Education: Medical Education Online. June 27, 2019
- Culinary Medicine: An Evaluation to Assess the Knowledge, Attitudes, Behaviors and Confidence of 1st Year Medical Students in a Culinary Medicine Teaching Kitchen: Clemson University TigerPrints. May 2019
- A Novel Culinary Medicine Course for Undergraduate Medical Education: American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. January 24, 2019
- Cooking Up Health: A Novel Culinary Medicine and Service Learning Elective for Health Professional Students: Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. January 2019
- Culinary Medicine Basics and Applications in Medical Education in the United States: Nestle Nutrition Institute Workshop Series. 2019
- Development and Implementation of a Student-Led Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum: American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. December 29, 2018
- Impact of Culinary Medicine Elective on Medical Students’ Culinary Knowledge and Skills: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. September 11, 2018
- Resetting the Table for UK Health: Meals as Medicine Set to Revolutionise General Practice: British Journal of General Practice. August 2018
- Health-related Culinary Education: A Summary of Representative Emerging Programs for Health Professionals and Patients: Global Advances in Health and Medicine. January 1, 2016
- What Is Culinary Medicine and What Does It Do?: Population Health Management 2016
Dietary Supplements
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Continued Risk of Dietary Supplements Adulterated With Approved and Unapproved Drugs: Assessment of the US Food and Drug Administration’s Tainted Supplements Database 2007 Through 2021: Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. March 14, 2022
News Articles
- What the Science Says About the Health Benefits of Vitamins and Supplements: Time. April 28, 2022
- What’ Sup?: Snaxshot. April 28, 2022
- Half of Parents Regularly Give Their Children Dietary Supplements, Study Results Show: Pharmacy Times. April 24, 2022
Nutraceuticals
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Review on Nutraceuticals: Phase Transition From Preventive to Protective Care: Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine. April 18, 2022
- Butein Inhibits the Proliferation of Breast Cancer Cells Through Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species and Modulation of ERK and p38 Activities: Molecular Medicine Reports. August 7, 2021
- Promising Prospects of Probiotics and Postbiotics Derived from Lactic Acid Bacteria as Pharma Foods: Probiotic Bacteria and Postbiotic Metabolites: Role in Animal and Human Health. April 12, 2021
- Functional Food Center’s Vision on Functional Food Definition and Science in Comparison to FDA’s Health Claim Authorization and Japan’s Foods for Specified Health Uses: Functional Foods in Health and Disease. November 2020
- Nutraceuticals in Neurological Disorders: International Journal of Molecular Science. June 22, 2020
- Nutraceuticals: An Integrative Approach to Starve Parkinson’s Disease: Brain, Behavior, & Immunity- Health. February 2020
- Differences Between Phytosterols with Different Structures in Regulating Cholesterol Synthesis, Transport and Metabolism in Caco-2 Cells: Journal of Functional Foods. 2020
- Nutrient and Genetic Biomarkers of Nutraceutical Treatment Response in Mood and Psychotic Disorders: A Systematic Review: Nutritional Neuroscience. August 9, 2019
- The Frontier Between Nutrition and Pharma: The International Regulatory Framework of Functional Food Supplements and Nutraceuticals: Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. March 29, 2019
- Nutraceuticals- Shedding Light on the Grey Area Between Pharmaceuticals and Food: Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology. April 18, 2018
- Nutraceuticals: A Review: Dermatology and Therapy. February 6, 2018
- A Brief History of the Opioid Epidemic and Strategies for Pain Medicine: Pain and Therapy. 2018
- Antibiotics Associated Disorders and Post-biotics Induced Rescue in Gut Health: Current Pharmaceutical Design. 2018
- Nutraceutical, Anti-Inflammatory, and Immune Modulatory Effects of β-Glucan Isolated from Yeast: BioMed Research International. August 23, 2017
- A Current Look at Nutraceuticals- Key Concepts and Future Prospects: Trends in Food Science & Technology. April 2017
- “Benifuuki” Green Tea, Containing O-methylated EGCG, Reduces Serum Low-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Lectin-like Oxidized Low-density Lipoprotein Receptor-1 Ligand Containing Apolipoprotein B: A Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Randomized Trial: Journal of Functional Foods. August 2016
- Neuro-nutraceuticals: Further Insights into their Promise for Brain Health: Neurochemistry International. May 2016
- Advances in Microalgae-Derived Phytosterols for Functional Food and Pharmaceutical Applications: Marine Drugs. July 9, 2015
- Natural Forms of Vitamin E: Metabolism, Antioxidant, and Anti-inflammatory Activities and Their Role in Disease Prevention and Therapy: Free Radical Biology and Medicine. July 2014
- Nutraceuticals: A Re-emerging Health Aid: International Conference on Food, Biological and Medical Sciences. January 24, 2014
- Positive Effects of Durian Fruit at Different Stages of Ripening on the Hearts and Livers of Rats Fed Diets High in Cholesterol: European Journal of Integrative Medicine. September 2011
- Bioactive Steroids from the Brown Alga Sargassum Carpophyllum: Journal of Asian Natural Products Research. September 9, 2010
- Identification of Campesterol from Chrysanthemum coronarium L. and its Antiangiogenic Activities: Phytotherapy Research. September 20, 2007
- Anti-oxidant Activities of Fucosterol from the Marine Algae Pelvetia siliquosa: Archives of Pharmacal Research: 2003
- Phytosterols, Phytostanols, and Their Conjugates in Foods: Structural Diversity, Quantitative Analysis, and Health-promoting Uses: Progress in Lipid Research. November 2002
Government Actions and Policies
Policies and Positions
- Goal 2: Department of Economic and Social Affairs: United Nations
- Health Equity: CDC
- H.R.6774 – 116th Congress (2019-2020): Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act of 2020
- Information on the Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meal Demonstration Pilot Act: Food is Medicine Coalition
- Trans Fat: FDA
News Articles
- States Are Advancing Healthy Food Policies in 2020: National Academy for State Health Policy. February 18, 2020
- What’s on the Dinner Plate? States Look at “Food as Medicine” Idea: Atlanta Journal-Constitution. October 26, 2018
- Food is Medicine: How US Policy is Shifting Towards Nutrition for Better Health: The Conversation: January 18, 2019
- Reps. Tim Ryan and Rosa DeLauro Request GAO Report on Food Policy and Public Health: Press Release from Congressman Tim Ryan. June 8, 2018
- Link to the requesting letter
- Bipartisan Members of Congress Launch Food is Medicine Working Group to Highlight Impacts of Hunger on Health: Press Release from Congressman Jim McGovern. January 17, 2018
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- How to Enhance the Good Health and Well-Being of Canadians: Effective Food and Meal-Based Guidelines and Policies That Fit the Facts and Face the Future: Canadian Food Studies. 2022
- Role of Government Policy in Nutrition—Barriers to and Opportunities for Healthier Eating: BMJ. June 13, 2018
- Food Policies for Physical and Mental Health: BMC Psychiatry. May 9, 2014
- “Cheeseburger Bill” Protects Food Industry: The Lancet. March 20, 2004
