date:Apr 15, 2022
To US citizens with limited resources, healthy foods [are perceived] as luxury items. That has downstream implications for obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases, says Hilary Seligman, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). And she, like many others, believe its time for the healthcare sector to step up.
Recent research seeks to assess the impact of the food as medicine tactic. One response to this call has been produce prescription programs (PPRs)