Clinics Team Up With ECU, Food Lion For Better Nutrition

Two of our member clinics in Eastern North Carolina are teaming up with East Carolina University and Food Lion Feeds in June to help low-income uninsured and underinsured residents in Eastern North Carolina learn how to eat their way to better health.

Two events planned for June 8 in Grantsboro and June 18 in Goldsboro were expected to feature fresh produce, live healthy-cooking demonstrations, distribution of Food Lion gift cards and a chance to enroll as a patient with either Hope Clinic in Bayboro or WATCH in Goldsboro.

The June 8 event marked the debut of a new mobile teaching kitchen that ECU’s Farm2Clinic program is using to bring hands-on cooking demonstrations and nutrition education to underserved communities where poor nutrition figures in higher rates of diabetes, hypertension and high blood pressure.

The new mobile kitchen replaces an older unit ECU used over the past three years for its Fresh Start program, which brought fresh produce, cooking demos, one-on-one nutrition counseling and group learning experiences to diabetic patients of several NCAFCC clinics in Eastern North Carolina.