Today CMS sent a memo to every hospital in America: align patient meals with the new dietary guidelines or risk Medicare and Medicaid eligibility. Real food. Real protein. No more ultra-processed trays for patients trying to heal. This comes one week after I posted about how broken hospital food is — and now the federal government is saying the same thing. Nearly 90% of healthcare spending treats chronic disease driven by diet. It’s about time we stopped feeding patients the food that made them