JAMA Network April 12, 2024
In February, the head of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, JD, looked out at a packed audience and quoted a saying often attributed to the 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass. “‘It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men,’” Becerra said, before adding his own words: “We’re in the business of repairing broken men and women in this country instead of building strong children from the start.”
Becerra’s eloquence marked the launch of a first-ever summit at HHS and captured the fervor surrounding the meeting’s topic: food is medicine. The term broadly describes nutrition programs intended to treat or prevent diet-related diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Importantly, such programs are...
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