Healthy food prescriptions could save billions in healthcare costs

To prevent cardio vascular disease, people should eat more subsidized fruits and vegetables, as a new study shows.

So, to stop disease before it starts, some researches are pushing doctors to prescribe healthy foods and insurance companies to cover, which helps patients actively convert to a health.

These types of programs work would prevent hundreds of thousands of diabetes cases and generally prevent millions of cases.

Food is a key element of healthcare, and even if we spend a lot on it, the results still not good because we are not investing in prevention.

It doesn’t mean that only healthy food can be used to treat individual conditions or diseases but it can help to manage disease before it starts.

The new model provide analytics referring to the outcome of two policy scenarios: in the first one covers 30% of costs when it comes to fruits and veggies under Medicare and Medicaid.

The second one does the same but in addition to that covers with the same proportions whole grains and seafoods.

The model as a whole included things such as socioeconomics, demographics and health risk factors of people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid, and that data on the decreasing of prices changes healthy food purchasing behaviors and subsidy costs.

Study shows that subsidizing fruits and vegetables would prevent heart attacks and deaths, so a healthy food would prevent cardio vascular events, and save a lot of health care costs.

It costs money and it is also cost effective such as paying for medicines to prevent high blood pressure. So when you give people healthy food, it saves money.

The ground efforts to implement similar interventions are the key to understanding the impact of food subsidies and prescriptions. We hope that in the near future, a doctor could write a prescription for food because these food as medicine approaches are gaining traction as Mozaffarian says.

The discussions regarding health focused food subsidies show that the real obstacles to healthy food are majorly financial. “Food security is a money issue”, Nguyen says. “If you have the money, you can get healthy food.” While low access to food isn’t an issue to neglect , research shows that adding grocery stores doesn’t actually help with augmenting healthy food consumption for people and hence their health. “It’s not to say access isn’t an issue, but often times in low income communities, it’s not the main thing,”

Food prescription and subsidy program that decrease costs of healthy foods can actually help? And are programmed to stop healthcare issues from unfolding.

In better terms if what worries us is high blood sugar, making sure healthy food is accessible to people can be used as a solution to tackle health problems before doctor visits and high-tech medicine are called upon. If we’re focused on making sure people are checking their blood sugar levels on the regular.