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WELCOME New Clients--> Healthy Food Prescriptions 2025
Welcome to the Healthy Food Prescriptions Program. We love to help you learn to control & reverse your Type 2 Diabetes. We are *NOW OPEN FOR REFERRALS* from local doctors & community clinics. Witness the transformational power of chef-quality medically tailored groceries, health monitoring, education & love.
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Healthy Food Prescription
Nutrition is both a cause and one of the most effective tools to help manage chronic disease.
Food is Medicine is poised to play a critical role in addressing the growing disease burdens and costs of diet-related illnesses in your community and across the nation. Americans recognize that healthy foods are important for both prevention and treatment of many health conditions, and public interest in Food is Medicine is high.(i) A focus on nutrition is largely missing from the health care system — contributing to the
rising disease burdens, costs, and inequities in diet-related illnesses in recent decades. The Healthy Food Prescriptions Program uses a Food Is Medicine protocol and program to treat uncontrolled diabetes in food-insecure families who are struggling to control their diabetes.
The goal is lifestyle change!
Our therapeutic intervention has been tested and researched for 8 years. Our research study evaluation revealed we do help our clients reverse their diabetes dropping HbA1C's by 0.8 points in 6 months.
We work hard to empower our clients to maximize their health and that of their family through lifestyle and behavior changes, healthy eating habits, and fresh, medically precise groceries.
Founding Father, Dr. Mozaffarian, Dean of Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and Living Hungry share the vision of using food-is-medicine to improve patient care for diet related, chronic disease. The Healthy Food Prescription protocol and program has been built combining best practices of Dr. Kurt Hager, previous food-as-medicine pilots around the U.S., and our Geisinger Food Farmacy model test-pilot operated by Living Hungry in 2017, to create the best possible intervention for low-income, diabetic patients.
Based in Nutrition Science Research
Living Hungry’s Founder, Maura Plante designed the Healthy Food Prescription (HFP) Program protocol by adopting the findings of Dr. Yujin Lee’s microsimulation study using healthy food incentives to evaluate the cost effectiveness of improving diet and health in Medicare and Medicaid.4 The HFP protocol is also informed by the findings of Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian and Dr. Renata Micha’s meta-analysis on the etiologic effects and optimal intakes of foods and nutrients for risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes published in April, 2017. 5 We used the results of these studies to help guide the type of foods offered in our program to maximize health outcomes
Food is Medicine.
We believe food has the power to pull Americans back from the inexorable track of the progressive disease of diabetes with the high risk of stroke, heart attack and early death. The burden of diabetes on Floridians is overwhelming. This is why Living Hungry CEO, Maura Plante launched the Healthy Food Prescriptions Program to use food-is-medicine to help her clients with uncontrolled diabetes ito stop struggling and finally learn how to to manage their disease and live well.
2025 HFP 2.0 Tech-Enabled:
The 2025 Healthy Foods Prescription 2.0 is updated to include digital communications, mobile app and website with nutrition tools for shopping, cooking, eating and enjoying healthier foods.
2025 Sponsor:
The Healthy Foods Prescription program, is a sponsored program of the Health Care District of Palm Beach County for eight years running from 2019-2025. Funding allocations include medically tailored groceries, cooking classes, evaluations and client screenings.
2025 Community Collaborative: 20 Partners
Living Hungry, The Health Care District of Palm Beach County, Blooming Health, Sifter, AI Nexus Healthcare, Extraordinary Charities, FIMI Tufts University, Sysco SEFL, Farmshare, UF/IFAS EFNEP Program, NOVA SE University- Public Health Interns, Foundcare, C. L. Brumback Clinic, FAU Clinics, Healthy Me, American Heart Association, PBA University School of Physician's Assistants, PBA University Volunteer Nurse Corps.