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KamaAina

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4. Funny you should mention veggies and diabetes.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 07:23 PM
Jan 2016
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_29440965/free-fruits-and-veggies-for-lowincome-diabetics

Medical and food charities here teamed up Wednesday to offer a new kind of prescription to help low-income diabetics: free fruits and vegetables.

Samaritan House Redwood City Free Clinic partnered with Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties to launch its new "food pharmacy," perhaps the first of its kind in California to provide nutritious food to low-income patients with type 2 diabetes who otherwise would have trouble buying it....

Michelson and Bart Charlow, Samaritan House's CEO, modeled the program after a food pantry pioneered at Boston Medical Center in 2001.

According to Latchman Hiralall, the Boston food pantry's manager, food pharmacies are based on simple logic: People are more likely to follow the diet that doctors recommend if they can get those foods for free immediately after their appointments. Today, Boston Medical Center's Preventive Food Pantry serves 7,000 people per month. San Francisco General Hospital has also received funds to start a similar pantry.


Hey, I know! Let's make low-cost fruits and veggies available to poor people before they become diabetic!

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