Many U.S. health care providers have been experimenting with “food is medicine” programs, which provide free, healthy food to patients — sometimes for a year or more.
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This is the largest analysis to date of produce prescription programs, which are one variety of these efforts. They let patients with diet-related illnesses get apples, broccoli, berries, cucumbers and other kinds of fruits and vegetables for free. In Los Angeles, Boise, Houston, Minneapolis and other places where the programs we studied were located, participants selected the produce of their choice at grocery stores or farmers markets using electronic cards or vouchers.
Participants in these programs ate more fruits and vegetables. They were also one-third less likely to
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