- Researchers have used computer models to calculate that prescribing healthy food to patients could prevent as many as 3.28 million medical conditions such as heart attacks and strokes, and save more than $100 billion in health-care costs https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-prescribing-healthy-food-could-save-billions-of-dollars-in-health-care-costs-2019-03-21?mod=mw_theo_homepage 3 comments science