Eskanzi Health and IU School of Medicine partner to help fight food insecurity

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Eskenazi Health and IU School of Medicine are teaming up to help fight food insecurity by targeting patients with high blood pressure and showing them how to cook healthy, affordable meals.

INDIANAPOLIS — Fighting food insecurity can be a challenge, but one organization is tackling it with health at the forefront.

“This took five minutes and there’s enough servings for my family,” Mariah Adams, an Outpatient Clinical Dietitian with Eskenazi Health said. “It’s a program to help supply food resources and kitchen skills, while also giving participants information on how to help their blood pressure,” Adams said. “I was a little off track, but this program has helped a lot,” Jerome Williams, a patient who took part in the FoRKS pilot program, said.“Just the way my body is – I wake up in the morning and I feel a lot healthier. When I go to sleep, now that I am taking medicine and eating right, it’s good,” Williams said.“It was wonderful. All the pots and pans, they let us have. The staff was wonderful. It helped my kitchen out,” Williams said.

 

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