(NaturalNews) These days, it's difficult to find examples of government
doing anything that makes sense. That's all the more reason why a
program embraced by New York City is newsworthy. Dubbed the "Fruit and
Vegetables Prescription Program," it allows doctors to "prescribe" fresh
fruit and vegetables to overweight or obese patients by giving them
"Health Bucks" that are redeemable at local farmer's markets.
See the announcement of this program at the Wholesome Wave website.
This
program makes New York City the largest U.S. city to officially
acknowledge that fruits and vegetables have a role to play in preventing
chronic degenerative disease -- an idea that the FDA insists is
delusional. According to the FDA, there is no such thing as any fruit,
vegetable, supplement or superfood that has any ability whatsoever to
prevent, treat or cure any disease.
Sure, the FDA's belief is ancient history in terms of present-day knowledge about nutrition and disease, but it's still federal policy.
And according to the FDA, the mere "prescribing" of a food as something
to prevent obesity automatically transforms that food into a "drug."
Under current FDA regulations, then, NYC is guilty of promoting
"unapproved drugs" which are really just fruits and vegetables. But
that's how FDA logic works.
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