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Speakers at the Food As Medicine summit warned that scaling food-as-medicine programs faces investment, infrastructure and community buy-in challenges.

Among the biggest challenges to scaling food as medicine are the long-term investment needed to show results, the wide variation in patient needs and infrastructure that often fails to match real-world access and user needs, experts said. Perhaps the biggest challenge is getting buy-in from patients.

5/21/2026 · 1 source