date:Sep 18, 2021
d overweight and $604 billion from food-related noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cancer and diabetes.
But while those drivers of health, including hunger and nutrition, became part of the conversation, they havent really become part of the medical system, apart from scattered pilot programs and state experiments.
Thats what some health groups, advocates and researchers are trying to change now. They want to make food insecurity part of the actual metrics u