UK collaboration tackles diabetes through food-as-medicine programs

ASHLAND – A University of Kentucky collaboration is addressing food insecurity and diet-related chronic diseases such as diabetes by reducing the barriers to healthy foods. The UK Cooperative Extension Service at the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, along with local and statewide healthcare providers, community organizations, farmers, public leaders, and nutrition and dietetics professionals, are all working together to promote “food is medicine” programs across the Commonwealth. As a part of this effort in Ashland, UK King’s Daughters, in partnership with Greenup County Extension, hosted Dining with Diabetes, a free, four-week “food is medicine” workshop that helps community members with diabetes to learn about healthier foods and affordable food choices.

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