FIM Programs Show Promise in Improving Diet Quality and Food Security

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For nearly two decades, Organic Soup Kitchen has quietly redefined what it means to nourish a community — one healing bowl at a time. Now, through its transformative new campaign, The Power of Real Food, the Santa Barbara nonprofit organization is deepening its impact and inviting a wider audience to consider a profound truth: food can be more than sustenance. It can be medicine. This message is deeply personal for executive director Anthony Car…

FIM programs show promise in improving diet quality and food security

Food is medicine (FIM) programs that incorporate healthy food into health care for people with or at high risk for chronic disease show great potential in improving diet quality and food security, but additional research is needed to understand clinical outcomes, according to a systematic review of randomized controlled trials in the U.S conducted by the American Heart Association.

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Food is medicine shows potential for improving diet quality and food security

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Food is Medicine: A Strategic Shift in State Health Policy

Across the country, Governors are driving a new phase of healthcare transformation—one that positions healthy food as a reimbursable, clinically relevant intervention to address chronic disease. While the connection between diet and health is well established, what’s emerging is the integration of food-based services into Medicaid and other healthcare delivery systems. Known as Food is Medicine (FIM), these interventions—including medically tail…