Hawaiʻi Business Magazine: Building Hawai‘i’s Health Care Future

Using food as medicine is a powerful way to tackle one of the most significant social determinants of health, especially in communities facing food insecurity.

The Food is Medicine movement is gaining momentum in the health care field, with meal and grocery distribution programs, produce prescriptions, and more. And it all stems from the principle that better nutrition not only leads to healthier lives, it promotes equitable and preventive health care and reduces the risk of chronic diseases.

“I think health care is catching on to the fact that food is a primary health care intervention. It’s a form of primary health,” says Lucas McKinnon, managing director of the Hawaiʻi Good Food Alliance.