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Review
. 2020 Jun 29:369:m2482.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.m2482.

Food is medicine: actions to integrate food and nutrition into healthcare

Sarah Downer  1 , Seth A Berkowitz  2   3 , Timothy S Harlan  4 , Dana Lee Olstad  5 , Dariush Mozaffarian  6
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Review

Food is medicine: actions to integrate food and nutrition into healthcare

Sarah Downer et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Sarah Downer and colleagues review new efforts to incorporate food and nutrition into prevention, management, and treatment of diet related disease in healthcare systems

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have the following interests to declare: SD reports organisational funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the MAC AIDS Fund, and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation. She sits on the American Cancer Society’s National Lung Cancer Roundtable (unpaid) and on the Advisory Board for the Aspen Institute Food and Society Program’s food is medicine initiative. Funding for SAB’s work on the studies cited in this article was provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under award number K23DK109200. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. SAB has also received funding from the Aspen Institute, the US Department of Agriculture, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Commonwealth Fund. He serves on the research advisory committee (unpaid) of the Social Intervention Research and Evaluation Network. TH reports past funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Humana Foundation; speaker fees from Optum, Omnia Education, beef.org, NACCME, DairyMAX; serves on the board of the Culinary Medicine Specialist Board; receives book royalties from Pritichett and Hull and Perseus; and is the owner and editor and chief of drgourmet.com and Dr Gourmet published materials. DLO reports research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the O’Brien Institute for Public Health, I Can For Kids Foundation, Alberta Innovates, Alberta Health Services, the Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research, the Calgary Centre for Clinical Research, SecondBite, the University of Calgary, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the Libin Cardiovascular Research Institute of Alberta. DM reports research funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Gates Foundation; personal fees from GOED, Nutrition Impact, Bunge, Indigo Agriculture, Motif FoodWorks, Amarin, Acasti Pharma, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, America’s Test Kitchen, and Danone; scientific advisory board, Brightseed, DayTwo, Elysium Health, Filtricine, HumanCo, and Tiny Organics; and chapter royalties from UpToDate. Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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