Farmed Fresh for Mississippi & America

Farmed Fresh for Mississippi & America

Harvesting Wellness, Transforming Lives

Revolutionizing healthcare by directly providing high-quality, nutritious food to underserved individuals and families.

Purpose-built Solutions

Designing Programs That Solve Food and Health Problems.

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Assess Needs

Work with health plans & organizations to understand the health needs of their focus population, demographic-specific risks, and desired outcomes.

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Design Program

Build a robust nutritional intervention program using evidence-based methods and drawing on clinical expertise.

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Implement Solution

Work with focus populations to enroll members in medical nutrition therapy programs.

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Monitor Outcomes

Measure, evaluate, and report program effectiveness data to provide recommendations for meeting and adapting health organization goals.

Tailored Nutrition for Better Health

Specialized Menus for:

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Diabetes

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Cardiac

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Renal

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Cancer/Immune Support

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Low Sodium

Medically-Tailored Nutrition can result in dramatic reduction in the “silent killers” such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and improve brain, eye, heart, and kidney health.

Financial Impact of Food as Medicine

16% decrease

in healthcare costs

$10,754/month reduction

in individual healthcare costs after three months

55% reduction

in average monthly healthcare costs

Mitigates $138 billion/year

in workforce productivity equalling $47 trillion between 2011 and 2030

Reduces 66%

productivity loss

Prevent 10 Million tons

of farm food waste

Food as Medicine

Providing healthful food as a treatment:

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40% decrease in Diabetes related risks1

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34.6% reduction of Heart Disease cases2

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18.8% reduction of Stroke cases2

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18.8% reduction in Hypertension cases2

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5.8 million fewer cases of “mental disorders”2

2. [Platkin, C. Cather, A. Butz, L. Garcia, I. Gallanter, M. Leung MM, Food As Medicine: Overview and Report: How food and Diet impact the Treatment of Disease and Disease Management Center for Food as Medicine and Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center, March 30, 2022, available at moodmedcenter.org and nycfoodpolicy.org https://foodmedcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/foodasmedicine.pdf]↩