Pregnant women and new mothers in Dane County will be studied this year on diabetes prevention.
The new study will involve daily meal deliveries like chicken taco bowls and coconut curry tofu delivered twice daily during a Public Health Madison & Dane County study focused on type 2 diabetes prevention.
“It’s a study that’s trying to identify if… providing them with these meals in addition to some of this content regarding healthy lifestyle, healthy meals, exercise, weight loss for some, if this will prevent diabetes or prediabetes one year after they deliver,” Kristin Schwenn, a public health nurse who does home visits, told the Wisconsin State Journal.
The “food is medicine” approach is part of a nationwide study called Pathways to Health, of which several entities nationwide are participating. It is led by researchers at Northwestern, California Polytechnic and Brown universities.
