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Healthcare professional showing a patient a meal plan on a tablet — illustrating nutrition interventions for chronic disease care

How Nutrition Interventions Improve Outcomes in Chronic Disease Care

Prado Content team

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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Clinical team planning medically tailored meals for a heart failure patient at discharge

Inside the Kitchen: What Really Drives MTM Success in Heart Failure Care

Prado Content team

October 9, 2023

A 2025 JAHA implementation study reveals what enables and blocks medically tailored meals in acute heart failure: workflow integration, RD champions, payer clarity—and the logistics hurdles to fix.

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Heart failure patient at home with medically tailored meal and telehealth nutrition support.

Heart Failure Care at Home: What Medically Tailored Meals Really Deliver

Prado Content team

October 9, 2023

Systematic review shows MTMs may reduce HF readmissions and improve nutrition—what clinicians should do now.

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Patient with type 2 diabetes checking glucose at home beside medically tailored meals.

Early Trial Shows Promise for Medically Tailored Meals in Type 2 Diabetes

Prado Content team

October 9, 2023

A 2024 pilot shows medically tailored meals + counseling improve food security and engagement in T2D patients.

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Infographic representing a systematic review of 14 Food-as-Medicine randomized trials.

Evidence Check: What 14 Randomized Trials Really Say About “Food as Medicine”

Prado Content team

October 9, 2023

14 U.S. trials show Food-as-Medicine—what works, what’s promising, and prescribing guidance.

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Oncology patient in infusion suite with dietitian and medically tailored meal tray.

Can Food Improve Cancer Care? New Data on Medically Tailored Meals

Prado Content team

October 9, 2023

Oncology studies: medically tailored meals may support nutrition, adherence, and reduce unplanned care.

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Across 49 States, Medically Tailored Meals Could Save Millions: State-Level Modeling

Prado Content team

October 9, 2023

Health Affairs: MTMs could save costs in nearly every state—implications for healthcare providers, payers, and policymakers.

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Does Meal “Dose” Matter in Heart Failure? The MEDIMEALS Trial (7 vs 21 Meals/Week)

Prado Content team

October 9, 2023

Post-discharge heart failure trial: MTMs improve nutrition, diet adherence, and sarcopenia risk—7 vs 21 meals/week similar.

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