Health Affairs March 19, 2024
What would it look like to bring family meals into obesity medicine? Given that most Americans do not meet federal nutrition recommendations and nearly 75 percent of adults are overweight or have obesity, food should be a more significant part of the conversation about solutions to address these growing problems.
Incorporating culinary medicine and other food is medicine (FIM) interventions into obesity medicine, facilitated by digital behavior change platforms, creates an opportunity for comprehensive obesity treatment. This integration can reimagine, enhance, and democratize existing interventions (see exhibit 1), enabling them to better address systematic disparities and inequities associated with nutrition insecurity.
Exhibit 1: Food with medicine: enhancing obesity medicine—as defined by the Obesity Medicine Association’s four treatment pillars—with food is...
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