Health Affairs April 1, 2025
Abstract
A collective of Black, Indigenous, and people of color–centered organizations is bringing an equity focus to food as medicine.
Millions of Americans grapple every day with the significant challenges and risks of diet-related health conditions. Among them, Black, Latino, Indigenous, and other minoritized communities are no exception to those trends. Yet some say that a relatively new but rapidly growing movement seeking to address those conditions, known as “food as medicine” or by other, similar terms, too often fails to recognize the potential contributions of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC)-centered organizations. A group of BIPOC-led food organizations and consultants is looking to change that.
One key motivator, says Benjamin Perkins, founder and CEO of Upstream Impact Solutions...
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