VA pilot studies teach veterans healing value of better food choices

11/06/25- 

“I was struggling with a weight problem. I was on medication, cholesterol medication. My diet wasn’t right. Just eating. Eating and eating and eating a lot of junk food,” says Kenny Joyner, a United States Marine Corps veteran. He consumed four ice cream sandwiches a day, he says, and little to no produce — maybe an apple once a month.

Joyner was living with chronic pain. After joining the Marines at 17, he’d spent years carrying 100-pound packs on his back; decades later, a degenerative disc coupled with joint disease left Joyner inactive, gaining weight and in need of a wheelchair….

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