The Prado Journal

Advancing food as healthcare through science, innovation, and clinical practice.

Clinical Evidence

The data behind food-as-medicine

Fast food compared with provider-guided whole-food meals, highlighting long-term healthcare costs of ultra-processed dietsThe Hidden Cost of Cheap Food—and How to Stop Paying It

Discover the 5-step clinical engagement model designed to make food-as-medicine scalable, evidence-based, and provider-led.

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Structured meal plan on a plate next to a stethoscope representing clinical nutrition for metabolic health.

Ultra-Processed Foods Are Fueling Disease — How Prado Can Help

Discover the 5-step clinical engagement model designed to make food-as-medicine scalable, evidence-based, and provider-led.

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Clinician reviewing nutrition therapy workflow on tablet — illustrating a 5-step clinical engagement model for food-as-medicine care

The 5-Step Clinical Engagement Model That Should Define the Future of Food-as-Medicine

Discover the 5-step clinical engagement model designed to make food-as-medicine scalable, evidence-based, and provider-led.

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Ready to Bring Nutrition-Based Remission to Your Practice?

Integrate medically tailored meal programs—ranging from low-carb to meal-replacement options—directly into your care model. Enable patients to pay with HSA/FSA funds and reduce their out-of-pocket costs while improving outcomes.

Recent Blogs

Healthcare Providers
Food Operators
Patients & Customers

2 min

Why Clinics Struggle to Turn Nutrition Into a Repeatable Program

Prado Content team

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January 21, 2026

Prescribing GLP-1s is easy. Sustaining outcomes is not—especially without structured nutrition support.

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Healthcare Providers
Patients & Customers

3 min

GLP-1 Adherence Breaks After Month Three—Here’s Why

Prado Content team

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January 5, 2026

Prescribing GLP-1s is easy. Sustaining outcomes is not—especially without structured nutrition support.

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Food as Medicine
Health Economics & Policy

3 min

The Hidden Cost of Cheap Food—and How to Stop Paying It

Prado Content team

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December 31, 2025

Discover the 5-step clinical engagement model designed to make food-as-medicine scalable, evidence-based, and provider-led.

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Food as Medicine
Nutrition-based healthcare

5 min

Ultra-Processed Foods Are Fueling Disease — How Prado Can Help

Prado Content team

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December 11, 2025

Discover the 5-step clinical engagement model designed to make food-as-medicine scalable, evidence-based, and provider-led.

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Food as Medicine
Nutrition-based healthcare

5 min

The 5-Step Clinical Engagement Model That Should Define the Future of Food-as-Medicine

Prado Content team

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December 4, 2025

Discover the 5-step clinical engagement model designed to make food-as-medicine scalable, evidence-based, and provider-led.

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Food as Medicine
Care Providers

5 min

Boosting Treatment Adherence Through Food-as-Medicine Programs

Prado Content team

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November 27, 2025

HSAs reduce patient cost burden, increase adherence, and expand options for nutrition-based care. Here’s how healthcare providers can leverage them.

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Food as Medicine
Clinical Evidence

5 min

How Nutrition Interventions Improve Outcomes in Chronic Disease Care

Prado Content team

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November 25, 2025

HSAs reduce patient cost burden, increase adherence, and expand options for nutrition-based care. Here’s how healthcare providers can leverage them.

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Healthcare Providers
Food Operators

2 min

Why HSAs Matter for Healthcare Providers & Patient Outcomes

Prado Content team

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November 18, 2025

HSAs reduce patient cost burden, increase adherence, and expand options for nutrition-based care. Here’s how healthcare providers can leverage them.

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Nutrition prescriptions
Food as Medicine

2 min

How Prado Makes Food as Medicine Affordable for All

Jon Carter

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November 14, 2025

Discover how Prado empowers healthcare providers to prescribe nutritious meals that are affordable, accessible, and evidence-based.

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Nutrition prescriptions
Food as Medicine

2 min

Prescribe Food as Medicine: Boost Patient Health & Revenue

Prado Content team

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November 12, 2025

Learn how healthcare providers can prescribe food as medicine to improve patient outcomes and generate revenue compliantly.

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Ready to Ready to start your food as medicine business? your Food Business?

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