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An analysis recently published in the British Medical Journal argues for increased implementation of "food is medicine" interventions in the health care system. The article was co-authored by Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, who mostly recently argued in the New England Journal of Medicine that food insecurity is known to be a health equity issue that disproportionately affects racial/ethnic minorities and those with lower incomes and rural communities. Thus, food insecurity is now playing a big role in the COVID-19 pandemic and associated health outcomes.


Berkowitz has conducted a number of studies on health-related social needs and their effect on health outcomes, published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Sarah Downer, JD, from the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School is the first author of the BMJ study, along with Timothy Harlan, MD, at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dana Lee Olstad, Ph.D., at the Cumming School of Medicine at University of Calgary, and Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, MPH, DrPH, from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

The world is facing an epidemic of diet-related chronic diseases with one in five deaths attributed to a suboptimal diet, more than any other risk factor including tobacco, according to the authors. An emerging body of research suggests that nutrition interventions delivered in the health care system may be associated with improved outcomes.

"Food is medicine" is an initiative around integrating specific food and nutrition interventions in, or closely coordinated with, the health care system. These interventions include medically tailored meals, medically tailored groceries, and produce prescriptions. According to the authors, clinicians should be knowledgeable enough to recognize a patient's nutritional needs and understand the impact of available services. However, this is not the case in many countries, including the United States.

"Nutrition training delivered across disciplines holds the promise of more effective patient nutrition education and treatment," the authors write. "Clinicians should have familiarity with validated nutrition assessment tools, the range of availability food is medicine interventions, and the systems and incentive structures that enable and encourage their use in clinical practice."

The benefits of the approach include offering patients greater ability to follow dietary recommendations and alleviating budget constraints that might prevent them from affording medications or paying bills. They also suggest that with these interventions, clinicians might see better disease management and fewer hospital admissions.

"As health care systems continue to evolve to tackle the global crisis of nutrition related diseases, food is medicine interventions should be held to rigorous standards when decisions about implementation, coverage, and care are made," the authors write. "Food as medicine can no longer be excluded as outside or ancillary to health care delivery."

Who would control this system? It better not be the government.

Who would control this system? It better not be the government.

This is old news, the Republicans have warned us of this since the Obama care bill of 2012, that this kind of thing would be coming.

We already know politicians punish the masses, so, starvation as a motivator for the masses to get in lock step, seems like a thing.

History shows this is a thing, using "healthcare" as the label is the only thing new. It's why we have to fight the power.

There are people in politics, or the elite media, the ones who think they are better than everybody else, and historically, we know, if some of these type people are not stopped, they would likely subdue multitudes of people for the lust for Power!
And keeping food from others, to cause malnutrition and threat of starvation, it is done all around the world.

The democrats are the ones that nationalized healthcare, in 2012, 1/3rd of the US economy. They are just getting started, If, someone else decides whether you can get healthcare, then soon the powerful, with a lust for more, would seek to decide whether you can eat!

And if they can control whether you can eat, you pretty much don't have any freedom or liberty at that point.

The problem is, they'll think, they are doing the right thing, because, science and for your own good, and,
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