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Smoking used to be the leading cause of death in the US. Now, it’s poor diet, according to Anand Parekh, chief medical adviser at the think tank Bipartisan Policy Center.
He and others spoke about the growing trend of treating food with the same level of importance as medicine in a person’s health outcomes at a recent summit in Washington, D.C., hosted by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The idea, known as “food as medicine,” has been pushed into focus by the Biden administration since 2022, with the hopes of incentivizing the private sector to do more.
That includes everything from public-private partnerships for food delivery and health screenings, to...
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