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Alma Rivera, 35, is expecting her first child next month. But during the pregnancy she developed gestational diabetes, so her doctor decided she and her baby would benefit from specialized nutrition counseling and access to food thatās good specifically to counter diabetes. The doctor sent her with a prescription to the University of Utah Health Food Pharmacy.
Oswald āOzā Hutton, 60, of Salt Lake City, has battled hypertension, arthritis and chronic pain. What you eat makes a difference there, too, so the U.S. Marine Corps veteran opted into nutritional education and access to high quality produce courtesy of a program thatās a partnership between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Veterans Health Administration.
Those two programs ā and scores of others ā are part of the āFood Is Medicineā movement, the belief that what people eat helps determine their health on many levels.
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āIf you think about the drivers of health, dietary risk factors are shown to be the most important modifiable risk factor for chronic disease and death. Yet in health care, we donāt really talk about that much,ā said Dr. Amy Locke, whose many titles include chief wellness officer at University of Utah Health, professor and co-director of the Driving Out Diabetes Initiative at the Osher Center for Integrative Health.
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Read more about the āFood Is Medicineā movement and how itās affecting healthcare in Utah.
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