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Many health care providers nationwide are prescribing food instead of medicine to tackle the obesity epidemic. Doctors in more than a dozen states are moving away from recommending surgery or pills, and participating in programs that offer healthy food to patients struggling with medical issues related to their weight. One hospital in central Pennsylvania is taking the effort even further, reports CBS News’ Jan Crawford. At Geisinger Hospital in central Pennsylvania, food deliveries turn medical professionals into temporary grocers. It’s all part of a new Fresh Food Pharmacy, now open in the heart of coal country, where shuttered mines have contributed to high unemployment and rising poverty, which has made healthy eating a low priority.   The program was created by Dr. Andrea Feinberg, Geisinger’s medical director for 텍사스 홀덤 health and wellness. “We have a higher incidence of obesity, a higher incidence of diabetes and food insecurity,” Feinberg said. According to Feinberg, the program is offering people hope and a “new way to look at diabetes.” “There are pockets of communities around the United States where the word has not gotten out that food is really medicine,” she explained. The pilot program, which started just nine months ago, currently serves more than 60 patients and their families, providing healthy food free of charge to more than 200 people each week along with nutrition classes and cooking advice. But...

(CBS/AP) BEIRUT – The death toll from a car bomb in Syria’s largest city has risen to 30, state media said Monday, as the new international envoy to the country said the Syrian people are desperate to see peace and stability. The Sunday night blast ripped through the northern city of Aleppo, which has become one of the main battlegrounds of the country’s civil war. Activists say at least 23,000 people have been killed since the conflict erupted in March 2011. More in After the Arab Spring On Monday, the new U.N.-Arab League envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, said he will travel to Syria this week to meet with regime officials as well as civil society. “I answer to no one except the Syrian people,” Brahimi told reporters in Cairo, where he was meeting with Arab League officials and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. “Syrians aspire to peace, stability and to realizing their goals of freedom and political progress.” Inside a secret Syrian rebel TV channelKofi Annan: The man in the middleWatch: Syrian child survives blast that killed entire family (WARNING: Graphic) Brahimi, who is tasked with brokering a diplomatic solution to the conflict, replaced former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who stepped down in August in frustration after his six-point peace plan collapsed. Also on Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world’s foremost human rights body to keep up the pressure...