Meals on prescription: study tests food as diabetes medicine
NCT ID NCT04264572
First seen Nov 01, 2025 · Last updated Jun 23, 2026 · Updated 35 times
Summary
This study tested whether providing medically tailored meals and nutrition counseling via telehealth can improve blood sugar control in adults with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes. Researchers enrolled 600 patients and compared those who received the meals and counseling to those who received usual care. The goal was to see if these interventions could help patients manage their diabetes better and potentially lead to insurance coverage for such programs.
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107, United States
What this could mean
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Active substance
Medically tailored meals and telehealth nutrition counseling
What this could lead to
If successful, this approach could provide a practical, reimbursable way to help people with diabetes better manage their blood sugar through diet and education.
What could go wrong
This is a completed pragmatic trial, but results may not apply to everyone with diabetes, and the interventions require access to technology and food storage.
Conditions
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