food as medicine

SNAC-K is a longitudinal study of Swedish adults designed to study the impact of aging and chronic illness. The research cohort was a randomly sampled subgroup of 2,473 Swedish adults 60 or older evaluated at six-year intervals for over 15 years.

Commodity crops can be easily stored for years without significant loss in nutritional and caloric value; moreover, the infrastructure for their storage and long-haul movement is well established.

The study, reported in JAMA Internal Medicine, looked at a program designed for patients with Type II diabetes and hemoglobinA1c (HbA1c) levels of 8.0% or higher who self-reported “food insecurity.” HBA1c is a measure of long-term glucose control,

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I am a huge fan of The Fourth Turning, a consideration of whether there is a cycle to history – are our times linear, circular, or, as they claim, spiral?

Given modern medical advances extending survival rates for chronic diseases like cancer along with the population aging at an exponential rate, companies are seeing opportunities for niche markets.