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After ten years working in television news in Washington, DC, Geri quit the business to start a family and in 1997 founded GoodNewsNetwork.org, which quickly became the #1 site on Google for "good news". For more than 20 years, GNN.org has delivered positive news and inspiring stories from around the world as an antidote to the barrage of negativity in mainstream media. Featured on CBS News, BBC, Rolling Stone magazine, and NPR's All Things Considered, Geri was dubbed “The Good News Guru” by the Washington Post. From Health news to Heroes, World news to Animal rescues—and our new ‘Good Talks’ page, which aggregates the best motivational podcasts, GNN provides the ultimate grab bag of GOOD, with its daily dose of optimism and hope.
California Becomes First State To Feed Chronically Ill With Specially Prescribed Meals
Just like former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean launched a social program in his state for low-income children under six based on a fiscally conservative agenda to cut prison costs, California is looking to reduce its Medicaid health costs by feeding at-risk seniors better, healthier food.
California launched the program last week, with a coalition of nonprofits in every major county.
The charities and pantries, all of which are a part of the Food is Medicine coalition, will be providing specially prepared meals to 1,000 state Medicaid patients who suffer from congestive heart failure, cancer, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and renal disease.
The Golden State's initiative was inspired by a program in Philadelphia that was proven, through a research study, to have produced impressive benefits by using healthy food to treat the chronically ill.
The delivery of low-salt substitutes and other dietary choices recommended by doctors reduced annual healthcare costs by a whopping $120,000 per patient on average, compared to the control group in the study.
