Study by Public Health Institute shows people with diabetes were able to lower A1C levels, better self-manage diabetes, and improve overall diet and food security at 12 months
Abbott’s Healthy Food Rx program provides home-delivered healthy food boxes to help address diabetes; part of broader collaboration to address social barriers and expand access to health in Stockton, Calif.
ABBOTT PARK, Ill. and OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — A study of Abbott’s (NYSE: ABT) Healthy Food Rx, a food as medicine program that provides home-delivered medical prescriptions of healthy food to help address diabetes, showed clinically important benefits for…
People with jaundice can consume foods and drinks that help improve digestion and metabolism, protect the liver from further damage, and improve liver health.
Jaundice is a buildup of bilirubin in the blood. Bilirubin is a yellow pigment released during the breakdown of red blood cells. Too much of this pigment causes the skin, eyes, and gums to turn yellow.
The liver typically filters bilirubin out of the blood, so jaundice indicates the liver is not working correctly.
This article discusses what people with jaundice can eat, drink, or avoid to help protect the liver.
A person’s diet plays a…
Public settings, such as schools, childcare centers, nursing homes, hospitals and correctional facilities and all other institutions of public institutions, can play a key role in ensuring people are provided with healthy food and helping prevent the 8 million annual deaths currently caused by unhealthy dieters.
A new WHO Action framework for developing and implementing public food procurement and service policies for a healthy diet aims to increase the availability of healthy food through setting nutrition criteria for food served and sold in public settings. The action framework also aims to reduce preventable diseases and deaths from high consumption of…
Most Americans don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables. The reasons for this are complex but one particular challenge for many communities is a lack of access to healthy foods in areas sometimes called food deserts. Along with driving up healthcare costs, living in a food desert also diminishes people’s overall quality of life. Some racial groups experience a greater impact than others — especially in low-income neighborhoods where finding affordable and healthy food is extremely challenging. Rural areas also lack large grocery stores that stock healthy foods like fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, legumes and whole grains. Many residents of…