Food Banks Working With Physicians To “Prescribe” Healthy Food To Help People Improve Their Health.

reports food banks in the US are increasingly promoting “food as medicine” in part by working with physicians who can write “prescriptions” for food to improve their patients’ health. A recent survey done by a national network of food banks found that many households that rely on them have a family member with high blood pressure or diabetes. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FOOD_AS_MEDICINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-09-25-13-13-31