Operation Food Search expands study of food for health benefits

Operation Food Search, a St. Louis-based nonprofit hunger relief organization, has begun a three-year study to demonstrate the economic and health benefits of providing healthy food to pregnant women. The organization began a two-year pilot of the program, Fresh Rx: Nourishing Healthy Starts, in late 2018 to eliminate food insecurity, and other social determinants of health, during pregnancy and postpartum in low-income women, as well as improve birth outcomes for mothers and babies. The prog ram…
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