{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Food Is Medicine, Let\u2019s Treat It That Way (feat. Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian)","description":"Eighty-five percent of all U.S. health care spending goes toward managing chronic diseases connected to poor diet and nutrition. Yet most doctors receive little to no meaningful training in nutrition. As a result, food and nutrition remain absent from doctor\u2013patient conversations, with medications the default option for most ailments. On the new episode of The Dose podcast, Dr. Joel Bervell talks with Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, director of the Food Is Medicine Institute at Tufts University, about why that gap exists, what it will take to close it, and what\u2019s presently working. Increasingly, doctors are beginning to prescribe produce or meals medically tailored to a patient\u2019s condition, with the cost covered by the patient\u2019s health plan. And a growing number of states are currently testing or planning to test food-as-medicine programs through Medicaid. Meanwhile, a third of U.S. medical schools have committed to meaningful nutrition education for doctors, something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. \u201cFood is the single biggest challenge and opportunity, not just in health care, but also in our economy and the environment,\u201d says Dr. Mozaffarian. \u201cAnd it\u2019s all fixable.\u201d ","author_name":"The Dose","author_url":"https:\/\/thedose.show","html":"