Decades of healthy eating advice have failed to stem the tide of lifestyle-related disease. Could prescribing healthy food help?<\/p>\n
Bianca Nogrady<\/p>\n
Sun 18 Sep 2022 18.30 BST<\/p>\n
Emma\u2019s type 2 diabetes diagnosis turned her life upside down. \u201cIt is like having a baby that never grows up,\u201d she says. \u201cIt is nagging at you as soon as you wake up.\u201d Every single morsel of food has to be carefully chosen in case it sends her blood sugar levels spiking, which could cause her to pass out or worse.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0ideal diet\u00a0for someone with Emma\u2019s condition would include lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, wholegrains, nuts and seeds, lean meat and fish, and reduced-fat dairy. That diet\u00a0has been shown to\u00a0slow down or even reverse the progression of type 2 diabetes and help prevent it happening in the first place. But that has been a diet she has struggled to access.<\/p>\n
What if such a diet could be prescribed in the same way as medication, as a prescriptive intervention, subsidized by government, readily available and with plenty of support and information, to help prevent or treat disease? The idea of \u201cfood as medicine\u201d is gaining traction around the world as scientists and doctors look for ways to use food in a targeted fashion to improve health.<\/p>\n
Read the whole article by the original source through the link below:<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/sep\/19\/food-as-medicine-could-prescribing-fruit-and-vegetables-become-part-of-healthcare<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Food as medicine: could prescribing fruit and vegetables become part of healthcare? Decades of healthy eating advice have failed to stem the tide of lifestyle-related disease. Could prescribing healthy food help? Bianca Nogrady Sun 18 Sep 2022 18.30 BST Emma\u2019s type 2 diabetes diagnosis turned her life upside down. \u201cIt is like having a baby…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112,113,42,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-living-el","category-medicine-el","category-on-line-ps","category-self-care-el","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3000-1.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87S9d-xm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}