MedCity News February 17, 2025
Tufts University, Kaiser Permanente and several other healthcare organizations recently launched the Food is Medicine National Network of Excellence. The network aims to develop, assess and share the best practices in the food-is-medicine space.
There is both a health case and a business case for why a balanced diet is important. Lack of good nutrition is the number one driver of poor health outcomes in the U.S. And suboptimal diets result in $1.1 trillion in annual costs to the economy, accounting for both healthcare expenses and lost productivity.
Recognizing this, payers, health systems and other stakeholders have been ramping up their own individual food-as-medicine efforts. For example, Kaiser Permanente and Highmark Health have both committed millions of dollars for food...
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