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Food is medicine: How US policy is shifting toward nutrition for better health

  • Written by Dariush Mozaffarian, Dean, cardiologist, professor, Tufts University
Policymakers are responding to a growing recognition of food as medicine.udra11/Shutterstock.com

In this new year, millions of Americans will make resolutions about healthier eating. In 2019, could U.S. government leaders further resolve to improve healthier eating as well, joining public health experts in seeing that food is medicine?

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