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Food is Medicine (FIM) is the provision of healthy food — most often medically tailored meals, medically tailored groceries, and produce prescriptions — to prevent, manage, or treat specific health conditions in coordination with the health care sector (Rockefeller Foundation). It is a clinical-delivery and policy framework, not a claim that food replaces medical, psychiatric, or psychological treatment.
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The Center for Nutritional Psychology. (2026). Food is Medicine. In Encyclopedia of Nutritional Psychology. The Center for Nutritional Psychology.
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