Dr. Anand Parekh
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Right, right.
Right, right.
Right, right.
But you've got to train the doctors.
But you've got to train the doctors.
But you've got to train the doctors.
Before you jump on there, just to show you how powerful that is, what you just said, that if you get food prescriptions, the impact can be profitable. Why would the government want to pay for food? It seems like a waste of money. People have to eat anyway.
Before you jump on there, just to show you how powerful that is, what you just said, that if you get food prescriptions, the impact can be profitable. Why would the government want to pay for food? It seems like a waste of money. People have to eat anyway.
Before you jump on there, just to show you how powerful that is, what you just said, that if you get food prescriptions, the impact can be profitable. Why would the government want to pay for food? It seems like a waste of money. People have to eat anyway.
But Geisinger did a study where they actually took very treatment-resistant type 2 diabetics who were poorly controlled, the most food-insecure, They were costing an average of $248,000 a year and they gave them $2,400 of food and some support, social support and help to use the food and learn what they're doing.
But Geisinger did a study where they actually took very treatment-resistant type 2 diabetics who were poorly controlled, the most food-insecure, They were costing an average of $248,000 a year and they gave them $2,400 of food and some support, social support and help to use the food and learn what they're doing.
But Geisinger did a study where they actually took very treatment-resistant type 2 diabetics who were poorly controlled, the most food-insecure, They were costing an average of $248,000 a year and they gave them $2,400 of food and some support, social support and help to use the food and learn what they're doing.
And they reduced their cost to 48,000, an 80% cost reduction while improving dramatically the health And so it's a no-brainer, but you can't get Medicare to cover a fruit and vegetable prescription.
And they reduced their cost to 48,000, an 80% cost reduction while improving dramatically the health And so it's a no-brainer, but you can't get Medicare to cover a fruit and vegetable prescription.
And they reduced their cost to 48,000, an 80% cost reduction while improving dramatically the health And so it's a no-brainer, but you can't get Medicare to cover a fruit and vegetable prescription.
We don't focus on, you wrote that we spend about a billion and a half on nutrition research and about 60 billion on all the drug and other research. So it's like,
We don't focus on, you wrote that we spend about a billion and a half on nutrition research and about 60 billion on all the drug and other research. So it's like,
We don't focus on, you wrote that we spend about a billion and a half on nutrition research and about 60 billion on all the drug and other research. So it's like,
I heard some scary thing. We spend more on animal pet care and food than we do on education for our kids.
I heard some scary thing. We spend more on animal pet care and food than we do on education for our kids.