American Heart Association Health Care by Food

The American Heart Association’s Health Care by Food™ initiative is coordinating scientific research, public policy advocacy and stakeholder education to advance food is medicine interventions that incorporate healthy food into health care to treat, manage and prevent diet-related diseases. Our mission is to invest in research to strengthen the evidence base of healthy food interventions so that millions of patients can receive a more holistic approach to diet and health, health care professionals have tools to prescribe food is medicine programs and payors have sufficient evidence for reimbursing food is medicine interventions.