Where doctors can prescribe a healthy diet

Some of the healthy foods distributed via the Food Farmacy programme in a special Thanksgiving edition at the Oak Lawn hospital. — TNS

For the past five years, Advocate Health Care in the United States has provided patients with fresh fruit, vegetables and protein, out of its Calumet Heights and Hazel Crest, Illinois, hospitals as part of its Food Farmacy.

The programme, designed to improve the diets of patients who either struggle to access fresh food or have long neglected to incorporate produce in their diet, is expanding to its hospital in Oak Lawn, also in the US state of Illinois.