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At Season Health, we collaborate with chefs from communities that mirror the diversity of our patients. Our Culinary Council guides our recipe development and is made up of chefs representing the cuisines of the African American, Native American, Mexican, and other Latin American communities. Today, we’re excited to introduce you to Culinary Council member, Chef Nicolás Alfonso Ugaz-Valencia, MPH, who brings a deep passion for the cuisines of Latin America and his family home of Peru. We recently spoke with Chef Nicolás about how he uses healthy ingredients to transform traditional dishes, making them both nutritious and delicious. This is an approach we are proud to thread through our recipes and meals at Season. By offering recipes that feature familiar dishes made with accessible, culturally-relevant ingredients, we make healthy eating both practical and appealing. Thank you to Chef Nicolás for his expertise and insights - read the full blog post below and learn about his process of evolving his favorite Peruvian recipes while maintaining the roots and flavors of each dish. #foodasmedicine #culturallyrelevantmeals #peruviancuisine https://lnkd.in/ge3Z8gY7

A new study published this week by the Food as Medicine Institute at the The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University shows that, while diet quality has improved slightly between 1999 and 2020, significant disparities exist and the proportion of American adults with an ideal diet remains extremely low, at 1.58%. Dariush Mozaffarian, director of the Food as Medicine Institute, said: “While we’ve seen some modest improvement in American diets in the last two decades, those improvements are not reaching everyone, and many Americans are eating worse. Our new research shows that the nation can’t achieve nutritional and health equity until we address the barriers many Americans face when it comes to accessing and eating nourishing food.” At Season Health, we are working to address the barriers that prevent Americans from accessing food and nutrition care. Through our tech-powered platform, we are able to provide clinical care and improve nutritional and health equity — delivering food to every zip code in the US via local grocery stores and our medically-tailored meal partners. We invite you to read the article below and reach out to us at [email protected] to discuss how we can improve nutritional equity for your patients while improving their health outcomes. #foodasmedicine #nutrition #registereddietitian https://lnkd.in/gpCAnnzr

Birth complications are continuing to rise in the US, with increasing calls to manage this national crisis. According to the NIH, nutrition is the main determinant of fetal development, with malnutrition linked to complications ranging from preeclampsia to preterm delivery. Providers across the country are challenged to find scalable ways to connect their patients to nutrition counseling covered by insurance and support patients in accessing healthy foods throughout their pregnancies. Season Health partnered with Medical Associates Clinic—a multi-specialty integrated payer-provider in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin—to deliver a clinical nutrition intervention for patients experiencing high-risk pregnancies. We are proud to share that through our program, patients experienced improved outcomes, including a decrease in NICU stays and pre-term births Read our case study by clicking below and reach out to us at [email protected] to discuss clinical nutrition interventions for your patients experiencing high-risk pregnancy. https://lnkd.in/gyve_avi #highriskpregnancy #foodasmedicine #nutrition

For Food is Medicine (or Food as Medicine) to scale, it must be grounded in the larger context of a patient’s health-care journey. Food Is Medicine care goes beyond the provision of healthy food and includes nutrition and medication plans, as well as lifestyle and behavior changes. Learn more about the opportunities for the future of FIM care from the Milken Institute in this report, published this week. #foodismedicine #foodasmedicine #nutritioncare https://lnkd.in/e2YpMknP

The Food as Medicine movement is gaining momentum, particularly around tech-enabled nutrition support, according to this recently published report from Rock Health. Here are our top two takeaways from the report, along with Season Health's approach for solving these challenges. 1. Consumers want to eat healthier, but need guidance: According to the report, 50% of consumers find it hard to understand what foods are best for their health and 68% receive conflicting information about what foods they should eat or avoid. How do we solve for this at Season? Through personalized nutrition care from our nationwide network of Registered Dietitians. 2. Payers want to control rising costs of diet-related disease: Rock Health reports that payers are grappling with the costs of treating the nearly 50% of Americans with diet-related disease while addressing rapidly increasing food insecurity, which is now the reality in 12.8% of U.S. households. How do we solve for this at Season? Our programs allow payers to drive behavior change in their patient populations by shifting patients’ relationship with food, improving health outcomes and quality of life, and offering an alternative to expensive medications like GLP-1s. Read the full report below and reach out to us to discuss how we are connecting the dots and driving outcomes by pairing clinical guidance with tech-enabled access to food for patients nationwide. Email us at [email protected] #foodasmedicine #registereddietitian #nutritioncare https://lnkd.in/gfy6cBxi

🤝 Meet Dan. After years of on-again, off-again weight loss and challenges managing both pre-diabetes and diabetes, Dan joined Season Health and connected with his registered dietitian, Victor. With Victor’s support and clinical expertise, Dan was empowered to make shifts in both his mindset and his eating habits, leading to sustained weight loss, management of his diabetes, and most importantly — optimism about his future. At Season, every patient receives this type of expert, compassionate, evidence-based care. With access to our nationwide network of registered dietitians in addition to medically-tailored meals and groceries, patients like Dan have exactly what they need to improve their health outcomes and change their lives. Watch Dan’s full story below. Email us at [email protected] to support your patients like Dan. #foodasmedicine #nutritioncare #registereddietitian 

Season Health is proud to be a Praia Health Ecosystem Partner, providing an accessible, comprehensive Food-as-Medicine program for patients through the Praia Health Consumer Platform. Learn more about Praia here: https://lnkd.in/g5Z9dxxc #foodasmedicine #clinicalnutrition #registereddietitian

The Season Health team is headed to the Food as Medicine Summit in Chicago tomorrow and Wednesday. We're proud to be a Knowledge Partner of the event as we collectively move Food as Medicine from research to action and discuss how to leverage partnerships as we scale this work. If you're headed to the conference, mark your calendars: Partnering to Study Food-as-Medicine’s True Impact Tuesday, May 21 at 4:50 p.m. This dynamic 15-minute conversation will feature Season Health CEO Josh Hix and Jessica Rigler, Staff VP Population Health & Innovation at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. Together, Josh and Jessica will walk through the partnership process, presenting key insights from our partnership journey – including our successes, challenges overcome, essential points of collaboration, and demonstrated clinical impact. If you'll be at the Summit and would like to connect, email us at [email protected] #foodasmedicine #clinicalnutrition #diabetescare https://lnkd.in/dweft9W

Season Health is a proud sponsor of tomorrow’s Arizona State of Reform conference, and we are looking forward to connecting with practitioners, thought leaders, and policymakers for a unified conversation about healthcare. Headed to the conference? Join us for a panel at 1 p.m., Increasing Health Equity Through Population & Community Health, which includes Season’s VP of Business Development, Erik Meek. Erik will be joined by Seth Dubry, MD, Melissa (Rutala) Kotrys, Jessica Yanow and Cameron Adams in a discussion about upstream solutions to addressing health equity and population health - including accessibility to food-as-medicine. Reach out to us at [email protected] if you would like to connect at the conference. #foodasmedicine #healthpolicy #clinicalnutrition https://lnkd.in/g887ewtY