Food As Medicine: How one Hospital Is Using Organic Produce to Help Heal Patients

Farmer Lynn Trizna provides food to all 6 hospitals in the Rodale Institute / St. Luke's University Health Network (Photo:  Bill Noll)

Food as Medicine: How One Hospital Is Using Organic Produce to Help Heal Patients
by Coach Mark Smallwood, EcoWatch, 22 August 2014

In 431 B.C. Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”

More than 2500 years later, we are inundated with advertisements boasting the latest, greatest cure-all super drug. From a young age, we learn that it doesn’t matter how or what we eat, there is a quick fix around the corner for whatever ails us—whether we’re obese, have high blood pressure or bad cholesterol—just to name a few of the issues plaguing our society.

It now seems almost revolutionary to think that we can change our health by changing the food we eat.

But, one hospital in Pennsylvania thought just that.

In 2014, Rodale Institute, in partnership with St. Luke’s University Health Network, launched a true farm to hospital food program.
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