What if your psychiatrist prescribed lentils, leafy greens, and turmeric as well as SSRIs? For most of modern medicine, food and mental health have lived …
The Center for Food as Medicine & Longevity aims to bridge the gap between traditional medicine and the use of food as medicine in the prevention, treatment, and management of disease while also increasing access to these treatments, thereby creating a more equitable food system that will improve health outcomes.
Food For Change Program places year-round hydroponic farms where community life happens—high schools, senior centers, police precincts, and next, NYCHA housing. And we don’t run them for people; we run them with people.
The Center for Food as Medicine & Longevity aims to bridge the gap between traditional medicine and the use of food as medicine in the prevention, treatment, and management of disease while also increasing access to these treatments, thereby creating a more equitable food system that will improve health outcomes.
While diet has the potential to cause disease, it is also capable of building, maintaining, and restoring health.
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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” — Marcus Aurelius. Over the last several decades, …
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Seasonal spring fruits and vegetables are a welcome change after the harsh winter months! Read on to learn more about the health benefits of artichokes, …

