Yet food, one of the most powerful drivers of health, is rarely treated as medicine. The concept of food as medicine isn’t new, said UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Culinary Medicine Program director and internal medicine physician Dr Jaclyn Albin in the United States. “They found that people who were delivered healthy meals stayed out of the hospital,” she said. The 2025 report identified food insecurity and nutrition among the top three health-related problems in the Dallas and Rockwall counties. Overall, treating food as medicine must be a priority for health providers hoping to change the tides in medical care and prevention of preventable diseases, Dr Albin said.

Source: The Star March 22, 2026 09:31 UTC