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Prescriptions for Healthy Food? What to Know About the ‘Food Is Medicine’ Movement

As an internist in the public primary care clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Hilary Seligman often asked her patients about their diets. One conversation that stands out involved a man in his 50s, a longtime patient she had just diagnosed with prediabetes. Asked to describe his meals, he revealed that his daily lunch was a sandwich of Spam between two cinnamon rolls. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “It really shocked me,” says Seligman.

 

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