About 2,400 years after Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, declared food was medicine, we are finally getting his point.And in the United States, 90% of people are metabolically unhealthy, which puts them at risk for developing chronic illnesses, cardiovascular disease, or compromising organ health.
“If all eligible patients received access to medically tailored meals, in just the first year of service 1,594,000 hospitalizations could be avoided for a net cost savings of $13.6 billion.”That is the basis behind the Food is Medicine movement, which views nutrition not as a replacement for pharmaceuticals but as a nutrition aid to help prevent, manage, and treat illness.
In 1997, as AIDS patients were living longer, there was a shift in the program to help clients nutritionally manage the side effects of their medications.