Prescription Dinner: Can Meals Be Medicine?

We've all heard that what you eat affects your health—but doctors
prescribing dinner? It's real: Medically tailored meals are
specifically designed to treat conditions such as kidney disease,
diabetes, and heart disease, as well nourish people going through
chemotherapy and radiation. Today, in a handful of places around
the US, eligible patients can receive them for free, prescribed by
their medical provider and reimbursed by their health insurance.
There's even legislation in Congress that would roll this program
out nationwide. This episode, Gastropod investigates: how do
medically tailored meals work? From the science of how
nutritionally designed dinners can affect disease progression, to
the economics behind why it makes sense for taxpayers and insurers
to invest in food, to the tricky logistics of bringing prescription
meals to the masses, listen in now for the scoop on one of the
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