If food is medicine, how about a prescription for blueberries? N.S. researchers hope that’s the future – CBC
Dalhousie University study speaks to the larger trend of food prescribing gaining traction in Canada
Feb 23, 2026
Jim Grove loves blueberries — and that’s a good thing, considering that for the next year, he’s required to eat a cup of them every day.
“I’m up to 35 pounds now, I think, in blueberries. That’s what I’ve eaten since the start,” he said, before blending yet another smoothie in his home in Halifax.
Grove, 67, has just come from an appointment, during which he underwent a series of physical tests and answered numerous questions like whether he could do his own banking, count backwards in multiples of six and list as many animals as possible in one minute.
At the end of all that, a research co-ordinator handed Grove a large box of frozen Nova Scotia wild blueberries.
“Here are your blueberries for the next two weeks,” she said.
