An apple a day may be just what the doctor ordered.
, which all have a big impact on health, Hager said. Some people may decide to forgo good-quality food in order to pay for housing, utilities and medications.The concept of"food as medicine" is catching on, however. At a White House conference last fall, partners discussed a policy proposal for eradicating hunger in the next 10 years in the United States.
For this study, researchers looked at about 1,800 children and nearly 2,100 adults who participated in a food prescription program operated by the nonprofit Wholesome Wave between 2014 and 2020. The data included 22 produce prescription sites across 12 U.S. states. "It remains possible some of the improvements we saw could be due to other changes, like changes in medication, perhaps more exercise, but we hope that our findings add to the momentum to continue to evaluate these programs with stronger research moving forward," Hager said.
Both measures of blood pressure improved. Systolic pressure—top number in a blood pressure reading and a measure of the pressure in your arteries when your heart beats—dropped more than 8 millimeters of mercury . Diastolic blood pressure, the pressure between heartbeats, decreased nearly 5 mm Hg among adults who hadBlood sugar, as measured by HbA1C levels, decreased by 0.29 to 0.58 percentage points among adults with diabetes.
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