Collaborative food is medicine initiative launches in Mississippi delta sciencex.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sciencex.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A $6.6 million NIH grant will power a project co-led by Friedman School researchers that aims to reduce obesity and diabetes by increasing access to produce.
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A new grant from the National Institutes of Health to the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University will fund the collaborative develo
In Mississippi, Working to Treat Food Insecurity
Through a new program, health centers will give patients access to healthy food and educate them about how best to cook it.
Young gardeners pose at Coastal Family Health Center s children s garden. (Photo courtesy of Coastal Family Health Center)
At one of the oldest community health centers in the country – that’s Delta Health Center in Mississippi – there’s a story about a famous doctor who used to write prescriptions for food.
Dr. Jack Geiger, the founding father of the community health center movement, would send his patients to the grocery store to get healthy food. The grocer would fill the order and send the bill to the health center.