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Chasing Life

Food as Medicine

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Is it possible that the right foods could prevent and even treat cancer? Or that a healthy diet could alleviate your depression and anxiety? CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta heads into the kitchen to explore how food can actually be a powerful medicine for our bodies and minds. Plus, psychiatrist, nutritionist and professional chef Dr. Uma Naidoo shares what everyday foods we should be eating to improve our health, and cooks us a brain-healthy dish perfect for Thanksgiving. You can find her recipe here: https://cnn.it/3wPOr3A To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When patients at Boston Medical Center pick up their prescriptions, they may not be getting

0:08.6

what you think.

0:09.6

So we have peanut butter, banana, cucumbers, beans, raisins, banana squash, cabbage, eggplant,

0:17.4

some tuna fish, some mac and cheese, peas, bean peas.

0:24.4

Latchman Herellal has worked at BMC so-called food pharmacy since it first opened 20 years

0:30.4

ago.

0:31.4

Now this isn't your usual dry chicken, pudding cup, hospital food.

0:36.5

Patients with long-term health conditions are actually prescribed, bi-weekly groceries,

0:41.2

by their physicians.

0:42.9

The food pharmacy is in the basement of the hospital and it's almost like a mini grocery

0:47.2

store with walk-in freezers and shelves full of food and boxes of fresh vegetables.

0:52.8

Here's potatoes, onions and carrots and this family is ready to go.

1:01.3

The idea is so simple.

1:03.8

Patients are literally prescribed food by their doctors to help treat conditions like

1:08.6

hypertension, diabetes, obesity in heart disease.

1:12.2

The staff will look at the chart and they will tell them if the patient is diabetic,

1:15.3

hypertensive, we'll note white rice, regular pasta, so we'll give them brown rice,

1:21.8

or diabetic, you know, whole wheat pasta, so everything is healthy.

1:27.2

Everything here is free for the patients so they can eat healthy without having to worry

1:32.3

about the cost.

1:33.8

I'm so fascinated by this because this particular program is the first hospital-based

1:38.6

therapeutic food pharmacy in the country where food is medicine.

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