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When healthy food is difficult to access, chronic disease often follows, making food insecurity one of the major contributors of poor health in rural communities. Our analysis found that 149 rural Texas census tracts, with a combined population of about 480,000, have high or very high food insecurity vulnerability

About a dozen states offer “medically tailored meals” to people with conditions such as diabetes and heart disease who get their insurance through Medicaid. Such programs significantly improve the health of the people in them, according to a new study