While the the idea that healthy eating can play a significant role in treating and preventing chronic disease is not a new one, only recently has it become more widely appreciated across the health care system.  Much of this greater appreciation can likely be attributed to the popularization of "food is medicine" approach as described by institutions such as Tufts University and others.  Additionally, a food is medicine pyramid visually depicts the role that food can play across a continuum from treatment to prevention.  Implied in the model is the notion that population-level healthy food policies and programs is perhaps the most effective way of preventing disease across vast segments of the population.

Helping individuals and communities seeking to implement food-based disease prevention programs is the focus of a new open-source textbook created by the UIniversity of Arizona Culinary Medicine Initiative.  The textbook features information about food-based disease prevention, recipes, case studies, videos, links to resources, and interactive learning activities.  This FREE textbook is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0, which means anyone can freely use, copy, download, print, adapt, and reshare it.  To access please visit https://opentextbooks.library....du/culinarymedicine/