Two New York City hospitals are participating in a national program that allows doctors to prescribe fruits and vegetables to patients.  The patients they will be targeting with these prescriptions will be high-risk, low-income patients.  The patients prescriptions can be exchanged for "Health Bucks" to be spent at local farmers markets.

See what Free Beer and Hot Wings have to say about this novel new idea below.

There is a direct correlation between obesity, ignorance, and low income... Poverty in general.  It's all contected. - Zane

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