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Beyond Chicken Soup: Prescribing Food As Medicine

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Medical residents Bryn Chowchuvech, Bari Laskow and Tiffany Ho discuss strategy for making their spaghetti dish. (Ruby de Luna/KUOW)
Medical residents Bryn Chowchuvech, Bari Laskow and Tiffany Ho discuss strategy for making their spaghetti dish. (Ruby de Luna/KUOW)

When doctors write prescriptions, it’s usually for medication. A Seattle doctor wants her colleagues to prescribe food as medicine — and help patients change what they eat.

Ruby de Luna from Here & Now contributor KUOW reports.

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Ruby de Luna, health reporter for KUOW. She tweets @kuowruby.

This segment aired on September 14, 2016.

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