California Study to Examine the Influence of a Healthy Diet on Patients

MonteCarloMethod writes: Per The New York Times, the state of California is funding an experiment through The Ceres Project to test the influence of a healthy diet on the recovery of state Medicaid patients with long term serious illnesses.

Over the next three years, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, and Stanford will assess whether providing 1,000 patients who have congestive heart failure or Type 2 diabetes with a healthier diet and nutrition education affects hospital readmissions and referrals to long-term care, compared with 4,000 similar Medi-Cal patients who don’t get the food.