Health records from 68 adults link plant-based grocery support to lower blood pressure and weight

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A study of health records from 68 adults associated grocery support for plant-based foods with lower blood pressure and weight. The findings add longer-term evidence to research on food-based interventions for chronic conditions such as hypertension and type 2 diabetes.

Providing people with nutritious foods can improve the management of chronic metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension. However, most studies of "Food Is Medicine" programs have only looked at their short-term impacts—on the scale of weeks to months.