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    PHARM TO TABLE

    Instead of pills, some doctors are prescribing good food.
    by MADDIE OATMAN Dec 01, 2017 3 minutes

    SIX YEARS AGO, James Stancil, 62, a former long-haul trucker, decided to move from Iowa back to his hometown of San Francisco to live with his aging mother. There was just one problem: His enlarged heart, high blood pressure, and diabetes made his body so swollen he couldn’t get on an airplane. Doctors had to drain 75 pounds of fluid before he was well enough to fly. By the time he walked into a public health clinic near his

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