What Does “Food Is Medicine” Really Mean?

by Chef Dr. Robert Graham

Let’s start prescribing food as medicine

Let’s start prescribing food as medicine. While food cannot replace medication entirely, food can be a tool to help maintain, preserve, prevent, reverse and treat disease. Chronic diseases, such as heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes, are the leading contributors to deaths and high healthcare costs for many families across the country. Controlling or even preventing chronic diseases would make a substantial difference in our everyday health and reduce family health care costs…