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Why Food Could Be the Best Medicine of All
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 902" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://time.com/5534352/food-best-medicine/" target="_blank"><strong>Why Food Could Be the Best Medicine of All - Time</strong></a></p><p></p><p>When Tom Shicowich’s toe started feeling numb in 2010, he brushed it off as a temporary ache. At the time, he didn’t have health insurance, so he put off going to the doctor. The toe became infected, and he got so sick that he stayed in bed for two days with what he assumed was the flu. When he finally saw a doctor, the physician immediately sent Shicowich to the emergency room. Several days later, surgeons amputated his toe, and he ended up spending a month in the hospital to recover.</p><p> </p><p>Shicowich lost his toe because of <a href="http://time.com/5368373/type-2-diabetes-blood-pressure/" target="_blank">complications of Type 2 diabetes</a> as he struggled to keep his blood sugar under control. He was overweight and on diabetes medications, but his diet of fast food and convenient, frozen processed meals had pushed his disease to life-threatening levels.</p><p></p><p>After a few more years of trying unsuccessfully to treat Shicowich’s diabetes, his doctor recommended that he try a new program designed to help patients like him. Launched in 2017 by the Geisinger Health System at one of its community hospitals, the Fresh Food Farmacy provides healthy foods–heavy on fruits, vegetables, lean meats and low-sodium options–to patients in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and teaches them how to incorporate those foods into their daily diet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 902, member: 1"] [URL='http://time.com/5534352/food-best-medicine/'][B]Why Food Could Be the Best Medicine of All - Time[/B][/URL] When Tom Shicowich’s toe started feeling numb in 2010, he brushed it off as a temporary ache. At the time, he didn’t have health insurance, so he put off going to the doctor. The toe became infected, and he got so sick that he stayed in bed for two days with what he assumed was the flu. When he finally saw a doctor, the physician immediately sent Shicowich to the emergency room. Several days later, surgeons amputated his toe, and he ended up spending a month in the hospital to recover. Shicowich lost his toe because of [URL='http://time.com/5368373/type-2-diabetes-blood-pressure/']complications of Type 2 diabetes[/URL] as he struggled to keep his blood sugar under control. He was overweight and on diabetes medications, but his diet of fast food and convenient, frozen processed meals had pushed his disease to life-threatening levels. After a few more years of trying unsuccessfully to treat Shicowich’s diabetes, his doctor recommended that he try a new program designed to help patients like him. Launched in 2017 by the Geisinger Health System at one of its community hospitals, the Fresh Food Farmacy provides healthy foods–heavy on fruits, vegetables, lean meats and low-sodium options–to patients in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and teaches them how to incorporate those foods into their daily diet. [/QUOTE]
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