“Food Is Medicine” Strategies for Nutrition Security and Cardiometabolic Health Equity

"Food Is Medicine" (FIM) represents a spectrum of food-based interventions integrated into health care for patients with specific health conditions and often social needs. Programs include medically tailored meals, groceries, and produce prescriptions, with varying levels of nutrition and culinary education. Supportive advances include expanded care pathways and payment models, e-screening for food and nutrition security, and curricular and accreditation requirements for medical nutrition education. Evidence supports positive effects of FIM on food insecurity, diet quality, glucose control, hypertension, body weight, disease self-management, self-perceived physical and mental health, and cost-effectiveness or…

• BA
  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• RF
  Rockefeller Foundation
• KP
  Kaiser Permanente
• NI
  National Institutes of Health