Food as Medicine: How One Hospital Is Using Organic Produce to Help Heal Patients [1]

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A sign directs visitors and patients to the St. Luke’s Rodale Institute Organic Farm, adjacent to the hospital. Photo credit: Bill Noll

Coach Mark Smallwood, EcoWatch [3]
Waking Times [4]

In 431 B.C. Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”

More than 2500 years later, we are inundated with advertisements boasting the latest, greatest cure-all super drug. From a young age, we learn that it doesn’t matter how or what we eat, there is a quick fix around the corner for whatever ails us—whether we’re obese, have high bloo...