Health food/health care.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief Article

Patients visiting Kaiser Permanente's Oakland, Calif., Medical Center may want to take a grocery list along. Promoting the idea that good health begins with good eating, the health care provider started a first-in-the-nation food market offering only healthy food, such as wholegrain pasta, crackers, cereals and breads; organic fruits and vegetables; tofu; and frozen buffalo and grass-fed beef. All the market's inventory is approved by Kaiser's physician-in-chief, who runs a weight-management program at the center. The 2-year-old market now draws an estimated 500...