01/20/26-
When Leora Porter’s doctor told her she was pre-diabetic a couple of years ago, she said she didn’t take it too seriously at first.
At the time, she was out of a job and focused on how she would support her two children.
“I had so many other things going on,” said Porter, a Cleveland Heights resident. “You know, I wanted to make sure that we still had a house to go to. I needed a job.”
But Porter was open to a program that a nurse at her doctor’s office told her about: Because she was at risk of developing diabetes, she could receive coupons to shop for free fruits and vegetables at produce and farmers markets around Cleveland. The goal was to help prevent diabetes by eating healthier foods…….
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