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Shop with Your Doc is part of a broader and still growing movement in US medicine to shift the focus away from simply treating disease toward caring for the whole person.It is meant to help people make educated,healthy choices,one grocery cart at a time.Across the country,hospitals are setting up food banks and medical schools are putting cooking classes on the curriculum.Nonprofits are connecting medical centers with community resources to ensure that low-income Americans have access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
For centuries,Western medicine’s mission was to cure disease.”But over the past generation,two significant trends are of concern to the medical community,”says Timothy Harlan,executive director of Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans.Healthcare costs began to increase sharply,and relatively inexpensive, poor-quality food became more common.”There’s a very straightforward link between people improving their diets and improving the condition that they have,”Dr·Harlan says.
The connection drove the medical and nonprofit communities to rethink their approach 10 health.What emerged(浮现)was the concept of the”social determinants of health”-the concept of taking into account the biological,physical,and socioeconomic circumstances surrounding a patient.A healthy person isn’t just someone who is free from disease,the theory goes;he or she also enjoys”a state of complete mental,physical and social well-being.”
The question the medical community now faces is how to get patients-especially low-income families-to recognize these determinants and make it possible for them to eat and live healthier.In Boston,medical experts responded by creating an on-site pantry(食品室)at Boston Medical Center.Since its founding in 2002,the pantry has evolved into a kind of nutrition center when primary care providers at BMC send patients food.Today the pantry, which gets 95 percent of its stock from the Greater Boston Food bank,hosts free cooking classes and serves about 7,000 people a month.The Greater Boston Food Bank has also launched its own initiatives(倡议),striking partnerships with four community health centers across the state to offer free mobile produce markets.The organization also helped develop toolkits(软件包)that map local pantries,markets that accept government food vouchers(代金券),and other resources.
At Tulane in New Orleans,Harlan is leading the development of a curriculum that combines medicine with the art of food preparation.His philosophy:Doctors who know their way around a kitchen are better at helping their patients.And empowering(增强自主权) patients to take charge of their own diets is one way to help them deal with the incredible costs of health care,Harlan says.The curriculum has since been adopted at 35 medical schools around the United States.”Chipping away at bad habits is a good place to start getting patients to think about the choices they make for themselves and their families,”says Dr Maureen Villasenor,the Orange County pediatrician(儿科医生).
1.The aim of Shop with Your Doc is to________.
A.help patients relax before an operation
B.assist patients in finding food fit for them
C.control people’s food consumption in supermarkets
D.persuade low-income families to take more fruits and vegetables
2.Paragraph 2 mainly talks about___________.
A.the role Western medicine has been playing
B.how a new concept of health came into being
C.medical communities’worries about food safety
D.why low-income families are less reliable on healthcare
3.What do we know about the Greater Boston Food Bank?
A.Its cooking classes are free of charge.
B.It treats many a patient from BMC.
C.It helps people locate pantries and markets.
D.It was founded at the beginning of the 21st century.
4.What can be inferred about the curriculum developed by Harlan?
A.It appeals to a number of us medical schools.
B.It is specially designed for doctors in communities.
C.Its content has little to do with medicine.
D.Its philosophy is questioned by Dr.Maureen Villasenor.
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