Culturally Tailored Navajo Meals Reduce Heart Failure Hospitalizations by More Than Half, Study Finds

A new study published in The Journal of The American Medical Association Internal Medicine reveals that a culturally tailored food is medicine program significantly reduced hospitalizations and emergency room visits among adults with heart failure in the Navajo Nation. The MUTTON-HF (Medically Utilized Tailored Traditional foods to Optimize Nutrition in Heart Failure) trial, funded by the American Heart Association’s Health Care by Food initiative with anchor funding from The Rockefeller Foundation, is the first randomized clinical trial to evaluate an Indigenous food is medicine intervention for cardiovascular health.