Food as Medicine Watch for the week of May 26

𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿.𝗼𝗿𝗴 𝗢𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀

• Nutritional Psychiatry: Georgia Ede, MD (foodmedcenter.org)

• Ceres Community Project: Medically Tailored Meals (foodmedcenter.org)

• Chefs Who Cook Well and Do Good: Daniel Humm (foodmedcenter.org)

𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗔𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁

𝘍𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

• Redefining Hospital Food with a Focus on Healthy, Local Ingredients at Lancaster General Hospital (Penn Medicine News)

• Opinion: What if Doctors Prescribed Produce? (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

• How Office Cafeterias Could Help Save on Health Care Spending (Tufts News)

• NYC Produce Prescription Program to Combat Food Insecurity, SDOH (Patient Engagement Hit)

• Good-Health Reads: Food-as-Medicine Chef June Pagan (Whole Foods Magazine)

• New Hartford Healthcare ‘Food Farmacy’ Aims to Improve Health Outcomes (Connecticut Public Radio)

• University Hospitals Opens Fourth Food for Life Market (Newswise)

• Weighing the Risks: Researcher Looking at Toxic Health Messages on TikTok (CBC)

𝘐𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴

• Industry Funded Study of the Week: Cranberries (Food Politics)

• Behind the Dangerous DIY Baby Formula Recipes on Social Media (Bloomberg)

• Don’t Trust The Headlines Making Huge Health Claims About a Single Food. Here’s Why (Science Alert)

• Healthy Eating for Kids: What Parents Need to Know (Healthline)

• 26 Mediterranean Diet Dinners You Can Make in 30 Minutes or Less (Eating Well)

• Pharmacist Medication Insights: Signs of Taking Too Much Vitamin D (Pharmacy Times)

• Health Benefits of Dietary Fibers Vary (NIH Research Matters)

• What Are the Benefits of Bergamot Supplements? (Medical News Today)

• Liz Richardson: What’s in Your Diet Supplements? Even the FDA Doesn’t Always Know (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

• Can CBD, Herbal Supplements Affect the Heart? (Medical News Today)

• 4 Dairy Companies With the Worst Food Quality Practices (Eat This, Not That!)

• Pesticides in Our Food System (FoodPrint)

𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 (𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦)

• Experts Endorse Plant-Based Diet for Type 2 Diabetes Remission (Medscape)

• Healthy Diet Lowers Risk of Getting COVID by 41% Says Harvard Study; Expert Says Go For Mix-Match Option (News Nine)

• Healing Foods for Common Health Woes (Consumer Reports)

• New Cookbook Boosts Protein Diet to Help People Beat Cancer (Troy Media)

• Does the Mediterranean Diet Combat Fatty Liver Disease? (Healthline)

• 23 Mediterranean Diet Breakfasts That Can Help Reduce Inflammation (Eating Well)

• Nutritionally-Rich Organic Diet With Gut Microbial Diversity (Physician’s Weekly)

• American College of Lifestyle Medicine Publishes Consensus Statement With Multiple Society Support on Use of Diet as a Primary Intervention to Achieve Diabetes Remission (PRNewswire)

• Fight Inflammation With Good Nutrition (Daily Herald)

• Curry On, Masala Lovers! Indian Spices Control Hypertension, Good for Heart, Says Study (Times Now)

• A High-Fiber Diet May Reduce the Risk of Dementia (SciTechDaily)

• How to Follow the Interstitial Cystitis Diet (Healthline)

• This Diet Could Stop Colorectal Cancer, New Study Says (Eat This, Not That!)

• Pompe Disease and Nutrition: A Starter Guide (Healthline)

• Why Do My Armpits Smell? And Would Using Glycolic Acid on Them Really Work? (Canadian Inquirer)

• What Foods Should a Person With Osteoporosis Avoid? (Medical News Today)

• Antioxidant Effects on Dementia Risk May Differ (NIH Research Matters)

• Food Insecurity and Depression (News Medical)

• Nutrition for Trying to Get Pregnant (News Medical)

• The Low-Sodium Diet for Heart Failure (Health Essentials)

• Considering Intermittent Fasting for RA? Here’s What to Know (Verywell Health)

• Eye on Education: A Child’s Diet Affects Academic Success in School (Daily Republic)

• What You Should Actually Eat and Drink After Giving Blood (The Takeout)

𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵-𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥

• The Meat and Dairy Farmers Who Are Going Vegan (BBC)

• Plant-Based Proteins Are No Longer a Side Dish in Diets (The Economist)

• Fast Food Finds the Easiest Way to Go Vegan (The Takeout)

• The Plant-Based Future of Food Doesn’t Always Taste That Great (Vox)

• Shake Shack Testing Non-dairy Shakes in New York City (amNY)

• This Famous British Plant-Based Burger Chain Is Opening in NYC (TimeOut)

• The FDA Is Coming for Your Almond Milk (Mother Jones)

• The Best Veggie Burger for Anybody and Everybody (FoodPrint)

• The New Plant-Based Food Innovations Taking Over Menus (Mashed)

• How to Grill Plant-Based Meats for the Best Texture and Flavor (Washington Post)

• A Vegan Hot Dog Cart Is Parked Outside This Baseball Stadium (The Beet)

• New Trendy Junk Foods: Vegan Cake, Eggplant Ice Cream and More (Today)

• India Is Heading Toward a Plant-Based Future (Hindu Business Line)

• The Vegan Diet Is Becoming A Trend In India, Is It Recommended For Growing Kids? (NDTV)

𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗔𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀

Navigating the various resources available about the food as medicine movement can be extremely difficult. To help anyone interested in learning more about food as medicine, from healthcare professionals to laypeople, policymakers to patients, the Center for Food as Medicine has compiled Research Guides full of academic studies, news articles, books, and more.

Access the Resource Guides HERE.

𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗔𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁

• Fruit and Vegetable Intake Is Inversely Associated With Severity of Inattention in a Pediatric Population With ADHD Symptoms: The MADDY Study (Nutritional Neuroscience)

• Diet Quality and Risk and Severity of COVID-19: A Prospective Cohort Study (Gut)

• White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health Priorities (Food is Medicine Coalition)

• Fermented Food: Should Patients With Cardiometabolic Diseases Go Back to an Early Neolithic Diet? (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition)

• Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables by Students of a Federal Educational Institution During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Research, Society and Development)

• Dietary Cholesterol Causes Inflammatory Imbalance and Exacerbates Morbidity in Mice Infected with Influenza A Virus (Journal of Immunology)

• Comparative Phytochemical Analysis of Four Medicinal Plants Traditionally Used for Malaria Therapy in Nigeria (World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences)