Wholesome Wave, a nonprofit founded by chef Michel Nischan, is renowned in social justice circles for its success in bringing healthy food to those who need it most. The organization pioneered the ...

Take two of these apples and call me in the morning. A promising new program in New York City has doctors prescribing fruits and vegetables to obese or overweight patients and families to tackle the ...

Before attending nutrition education counseling at Horizon House in Wilmington, Natisha Clanton ate fast food almost daily. “I hated vegetables,” she said. Felicia Lewis felt the same way. “I didn’t ...

I was recently asked to talk about Wholesome Wave's new Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program (FVRx) at the Roots of Change Conference in Los Angeles. We partner with Roots of Change and they throw ...

Can an apple a day really keep the doctor away? As it turns out, there’s more truth than myth to this sage saying. Not only are apples a low calorie food with tons of vitamin C, they also contain ...

Alaijah Borden was 10 years old and significantly overweight when Dr Sundari Periasamy, a paediatrician at Harlem Hospital Center in New York, enrolled the middle-schooler in an innovative programme ...

Less known is that for the last six years, Wholesome Wave has worked quietly on an equally ambitious initiative: getting healthcare providers to write prescriptions for produce, rather than just pills ...