DENVER — For years, we've known food insecurity goes hand in hand with health issues and diseases. But for many, access to fresh produce, whole grains and proteins are just not in the budget. Food Bank of the Rockies has a program that's helping change that, called Food for Health .
By partnering with healthcare organizations in the Colorado, they're helping identify people dealing with health challenges who are having a hard time accessing the right foods. Once they're matched, Food Bank of the Rockies brings healthy foods directly to people in the program. And it's already making a difference.
There's one delivery Sherri King is always happy to see on her front steps. "I look forward to it every Thursday!" King said. King is a Food for Health program recipient.
"I open it like a Christmas present! It's Christmas every Thursday," she said. The contents are always different and always nourishing. "Last time we got potatoes, a lot of canned stuff, lemons.
What else did we get over there? We got a baby watermelon!" King said. "It's just, you know, food that everybody needs." The foods now showing up at her door weekly are ones she wasn't always getting in her diet before.
"Sometimes groceries are not in my budget because you've got rent, you've got phone, you got all these other bills. And food? Food is last," King said. That's a conversation that came up a few months back when she was in the hospital with kidney stones.
"I was talking to the nurse about food and how I'm havi.