SynthesisAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2021
Healthy Food Prescription Programs and their Impact on Dietary Behavior and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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A Prescription for Health Equity: A Healthcare Provider-based Produce Prescription Program for People With Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
Comparison of Produce Prescription Benefit Dosage on Redemption
Addressing Food-Insecurity: Plant-Based Food Prescription Program to Improve Health Food Access
Who cites it
90 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 144 citations in OpenAlex.
- Examining Food Security, Fruit and Vegetable Intake, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Outcomes of Produce Prescription (PPR) Programs: A Systematic Review.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2024Pooled it
- The Impact of Providing Material Benefits to Improve Access to Food on Clinical Parameters, Dietary Intake, and Household Food Insecurity in People with Diabetes: A Systematic Review with Narrative Synthesis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Pooled it
- A Systematic Literature Review of Nutrition Interventions Implemented to Address Food Insecurity as a Social Determinant of Health.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Interventions for Obesity Among Adults With Food Insecurity.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingPooled it
- Feasibility and Effects of a Produce Prescription Program (PRx) in People With Type 2 Diabetes and Low Socioeconomic Status: A Randomised Controlled Pilot Trial.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2026Trial
- Medically tailored meals in lung cancer care: patient experiences from the NutriCare Clinical Trial.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2026Trial
- Households Provided Free Produce Require Intensive Intervention to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Reduce Plate Waste: A Randomized Trial.The Journal of nutrition · 2026Trial
- Experiences of people with diabetes receiving a voucher for healthy foods: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2026Trial
- Family meals on prescription as treatment for childhood obesity-a randomized controlled trial.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Trial
- Pilot study of a heart-healthy food box intervention for Native Americans with uncontrolled hypertension: methods and results from the Chickasaw Healthy Eating Environments Research Study.Health education research · 2024Trial
- "I don't have to choose between everything": Self-reported fruit and vegetable affordability, purchasing shifts, and healthcare utilization among produce prescription program participants in North Carolina.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Food insecurity in the development of metabolic diseases.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2026Review
- Higher and Lower Intensity Outreach to Increase Enrollment in a Medicaid Food Is Medicine Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Produce Prescription Program Enrollment and Benefit Use among Patients with Diabetes and at Risk for Food Insecurity.The Journal of nutrition · 2026Observational
- Structural Drivers of Neighborhood Food Access: Implications for Policy Change.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2026Article
- Comparing patient and provider perspectives on a rural, multilevel, community-engaged Food is Medicine intervention.Health affairs scholar · 2026Article
- Breaking Bread, Breaking Barriers: Qualitative Insights into Support and Challenges in Culinary Medicine and Medical Nutrition Therapy Delivery for Diabetes Management.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2026Article
- Innovations in Food Is Medicine Through Centering Cultural Connections and Local Food Systems.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Evaluation of the Feasibility and Construct Validity of a Novel Method to Measure Household Fruit and Vegetable Procurement in Low-Income Community Settings.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2026Article
- An Implementation Blueprint for a Pilot Produce Prescription Program in a Northeastern U.S. State.Global implementation research and applications · 2026Article
30 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The enormous burden of diet-related chronic diseases has prompted interest in healthy food prescription programs. Yet, the impact of such programs remains unclear. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of healthy food prescription programs and evaluate their impact on dietary behavior and cardiometabolic parameters by meta-analysis. A systematic search was carried out in Medline, Embase, Scopus, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases since their inception to 3 January, 2020 without language restriction. A systematic search of interventional studies investigating the effect of healthy food prescription on diet quality and/or cardiometabolic risk factors including BMI, systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), or blood lipids was carried out. Thirteen studies were identified for inclusion, most of which were quasi-experimental (pre/post) interventions without a control group (n = 9). Pooled estimates revealed a 22% (95% CI: 12, 32; n = 5 studies, n = 1039 participants; I2 = 97%) increase in fruit and vegetable consumption, corresponding to 0.8 higher daily servings (95% CI: 0.2, 1.4; I2 = 96%). BMI decreased by 0.6 kg/m2 (95% CI: 0.2, 1.1; I2 = 6.4%) and HbA1c by 0.8% (95% CI: 0.1, 1.6; I2 = 92%). No significant change was observed in other cardiometabolic parameters. These findings should be interpreted with caution in light of considerable heterogeneity, methodological limitations of the included studies, and moderate to very low certainty of evidence. Our results support the need for well-designed, large, randomized controlled trials in various settings to further establish the efficacy of healthy food prescription programs on diet quality and cardiometabolic health.
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