Something as simple as grocery delivery could help improve the health of people with type 2 diabetes, according to researchers.

In their study published in Circulation, the team of U.S. health insurance and medical services provider Kaiser Permanente, the Food is Medicine Institute at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and the George Institute for Global Health found that medically tailored food delivered to adults with type 2 diabetes not only improved their blood-sugar control but food and nutrition security.

“This trial shows that food-based support can help patients with low incomes lower their blood sugar levels above and beyond the health care they receive,” says the study’s lead author, Claudia Nau, a researcher with Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation. “Our findings suggest that addressing access to healthy food can play a meaningful role in diabetes care for patients, particularly those facing economic and social barriers.”

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