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Julie Kliger
Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Healthcare Solutions
Enterprise Technology and Digital Transformation Co-Leader
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Yes, actually, Food Is Medicine. Coupled with case management, cooking classes, nutrition education and prescribing fresh, wholesome food, improves diabetes by all clinical measures... So while the biotech and digital health industries might be getting more “sunlight “ for what it can do to help our health care systems, good old fashion “boring yet basic” health improvement takes the winners circle for realizing great patient benefits without breaking the bank. Selected Excerpt : “Food-insecure adults are two to three times more likely to have diabetes than adults who are food secure. And food insecurity is widespread; more than one in eight American adults and one in six children is food insecure. People with severely limited incomes often turn to inexpensive, easily accessible food that is rich in calories and poor in nutrients, which can cause and exacerbate diabetes.”
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