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When you need to stretch a dollar and feed your family, it’s often cheaper and easier to purchase foods that aren’t the healthiest for you, resulting in a short term hunger fix with long-term health consequences. But what if low-income patients were able to get a “prescription” for free, healthy, plant-based foods from their doctor and fill that prescription right at their health clinic? That’s what’s happening at the Massachusetts General Hospital Revere Food Pantry, which provides plant-based foods for patients with food insecurity, along with educational cooking classes that teach them how to prepare healthy meals with what the
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