Advances in Food Science, Processing and Technology

Food Pharmacy

Poor diet makes some health conditions much worse. Some diseases are better treated by a change in diet than by a pill. But nutritional advice is impossible to follow when a patient is too poor to know where the next meal is coming from or lives in a place without easy access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Many patients may not know, moreover, how to prepare the right foods to get their chronic diseases under control. Then here comes the food pharmacy in to play, where in a recent entrant in the growing food-as-medicine movement, based on the idea that hospitals and other health care providers can take a more active role in promoting diets that can help in patient treatment.