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The power to reverse chronic disease starts starts with applying nutrition principles with confidence in real-world practice.

Diet-related chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and obesity are reaching epidemic levels in both adults and children. Traditional care models aren’t reversing the trend, but nutrition-based interventions are powerful, practical, and underutilized.

Leading the nation in food as medicine education

For over 20 years, ACLM has equipped clinicians and healthcare institutions with education, tools and strategies to integrate food as medicine principles into everyday care. Our evidence-based approaches support:

Chronic disease remission

reduced cost & medication reliance

Increased clinician & patient satisfaction

Food as medicine courses for clinicians

Increase your knowledge with evidence-based courses developed by leading experts in treatment, reversal and prevention of diet-related diseases. Explore a range of core topics delivered online and designed for immediate application.

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Food as Medicine for Type 2 Diabetes Remission

3 HR CME/CE/MOC

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Food as Medicine for Preconception, Pregnancy, and Postpartum

3 HR CME/CE/MOC

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Food as Medicine for Cancer Risk Reduction

2 HR CME/CE/MOC

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Calorie Density: A Simple Yet Powerful Approach to Weight Loss

1.25 HR CME/CE/MOC

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Food As Medicine

Medscape article

Give it staying power

“The momentum for Food as Medicine (FAM) is an opportunity to demonstrate the potential of nutritious food to make a lasting impact on health and chronic disease. We need to wrap around this effort a healthcare workforce educated and trained in nutrition as a therapeutic intervention. That is how we can give FAM staying power.”

–  Cate Collings, MD, DipABLM, ACLM Past-president

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Institutional training & systems change

ACLM partners with hospitals, health plans, employers and academic institutions to train interprofessional teams at scale, support integration of food as medicine approaches into clinical workflows, align with value-based care goals, and demonstrate measurable outcomes. Connect with our team to learn more.

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Who we work with:

Ensuring interventions work

ACLM advances the science of lifestyle medicine through original research, evidence reviews, and practical tools that support clinical excellence. Our work focuses on outcomes-based research, clinical guidance, and resources that translate evidence into meaningful patient care.

Evidence overwhelmingly supports that prescriptive whole food, plant-predominant dietary interventions are efficacious for treating—and even reversing—chronic diseases among adults and children alike.

The objective of this Expert Consensus Statement is to assist clinicians in achieving remission of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in adults using diet as a primary intervention. Evidence-informed statements agreed upon by a multi-disciplinary panel of expert healthcare professionals were used.

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ACLM sponsored and edited a special issue on Food as Medicine in Frontiers in Nutrition, with over 20 peer-reviewed scientific articles relevant to the use of food and nutrition in clinical practice.

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An important new study by ACLM has found that there is considerable agreement among major organizations regarding the benefit of consuming minimally processed whole plant foods to treat and prevent chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

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Read the Scientific Paper

In a 22-article supplement to the Journal of Family Practice introducing the field and implementation of lifestyle medicine to family medicine physicians, two articles focused on nutrition: “Nutrition and Disease Prevention” and “An Approach to Nutritional Counseling.” Log-in to ACLM Connect to access these articles.

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Putting food as medicine into practice

Food as medicine holds the transformative power to effect patient outcomes. By integrating evidence-based dietary interventions into practice, clinicians can shift from a reactive model focused on treating symptoms to a proactive approach centered on treating, preventing and even reversing chronic diseases.

Patient resources

ACLM offers free downloadable print resources like our Food as Medicine Jumpstart Guide with recipes, tips, and guidance to help support you in integrating food as medicine into patient care.

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Diet Screener

ACLM’s brief questionnaire will allow your patients to track their usual diet over the last 4 weeks. Download and use the PDF version or use the design elements to build your own screener.

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Institutional Partnerships

ACLM offers institutional support through a range of programs, including our Health Systems Council, Innovators Council and curriculum integration within higher education.

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Clinician Tools

ACLM members receive access to peer-support networks, clinical integration tools, implementation roadmaps, and more to support systematic utilization of food as medicine principles.

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Culinary Medicine Program

Free Curriculum with Videos and Manual

Providing healthcare professionals with a strong foundation in Culinary Medicine

This program includes what constitutes a healthy diet and how to find, obtain, and prepare healthy and delicious food — it is a key part of supporting patients in achieving better health outcomes and putting food as medicine into practice. Access this comprehensive, complimentary curriculum.

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