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Can a Food-As-Medicine App Extend Chronic Health Management at the Grocery Store?

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Sidebar: Dr. Lustig’s book, Metabolical, is must-reading if you are keen to better understand the interrelationship between nutrition, metabolism, inflammation, and immunity). The philosophy underneath Foogal is that “Our health is in our hands,” and the best medicine we have is food.

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027. That’s the Holy Grail and vision in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.