Prescribing Healthy Foods Would Save Lives (and Money), New Study Shows

‘Take two apples and call me in the morning.’ Offsetting the costs of healthy foods by 30 percent through health insurance would reduce Medicare and Medicaid costs significantly, according to new research from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. The study, which was published in the journal PLOS Medicine and forms part of the Food Policy Review and Intervention Cost-Effectiveness (Food-PRICE) research initiative, reinforces the idea of food as powerful preventative medicine. Researchers reached their conclusions by modeling two different scenarios using a validated micro-simulation model called…

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