Everyone knows that eating healthy is good for your health. But should we think of food as a type of medicine? A paper by Ridberg et al. (2025) People examine public perceptions of various interventions to improve their health.
Health systems are rapidly deploying food, there are drug intervention, which include nutritional services in medical care, as part of a person’s care plan to prevent or treat the disease. These interventions include the therapeutically sewn food, … medically produced grocery items, … and prescriptions, which are vouchers or debit cards that write for health care provider patients, mainly to roasted for fruits and vegetables … Performance projects, semi-compact interventions, and randomized testing have been found to ease the food.
So do people really believe that food is medicine? A survey of over 3,000 American adults found that it is a case that most people associate high quality food with health results.
Survey respondents considered food and health as significant and interaction issues. Nearly two-thirds agreed that dietary conditions are the most expensive health conditions in America …
The IGHTY percent of the respondents agreed that their health depends on what they eat regularly, and almost the same percentage agreed that dietary conditions are a top priority in front of the health of the American population …
About 90 percent of the agreeed that eating more healthy food is important to prevent the onset of many health conditions,
However, food -related care is rarely provided by health care provider or health systems.
Experiences of respondents in primary health care encounters … often do not include food and nutritional communication or access to licensed registered dietists. At least more than half of his primary care providers gave clear advice about food and nutrition …
More than half of the respondents reported that they had discovered one or more dietary chronic conditions … however, only 38.1 percent of the respondents reported that they could easily see a licensed registered dietitians. If they wanted, they wanted their health plan, and 16.8 percent saw licensed dietists in the previous year.
Why are people not eating healthy? Cost, Culture and Facilities:
When the respondents were asked about the factors that limit their ability to eat healthy food, the most common cause was the cost; 82.8 percent believed that healthy foods were often or sometimes very expensive … almost several (79.1 percent) stated that traditional foods in his family were often or sometimes not very healthy; More than half said that there was a shortage of often or sometimes healthy food options in their specific purchasing places (56.5 percent), that stores or food panties with healthy foods were far away (55.9 percent),
While most people believe that food is medicine, our healthcare system currently does not treat it.
