Prescribing food as medicine is more cost effective

A new study suggests that prescriptions for healthy foods cold help lower the risk of expensive chronic illnesses like cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Medicare and Medicaid patients. Researchers from Tufts University using computer models to calculate that prescribing healthy food to patients could prevent as many as 3.28 million medical conditions such as heart attacks and strokes and save more than $100 billion in healthcare costs. Read article here…

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