The Nash Health Care Foundation awarded a $13,500 grant to Nash-Rocky Mount Schools for the Friends Unraveling Nutrition (FUN) program. This program provides nutrition education and information for students who are overweight and obese. Since the FUN program was started in 2005, around 40 percent of participants have shown improvements in weight, blood pressure, physical activity and proper nutrition.

The Nash Health Care Foundation seeks to extend the scope of wellness in the community. The Foundation solicits, safeguards and disperses funds for health care, health education, wellness, and disease and injury prevention. The Foundation also focuses on ways to improve the health of area youth in an effort to battle the alarming trend of childhood obesity that can lead to multiple health problems, including type 2 diabetes.

Don Mucci, far left, executive director of the Nash Health Care Foundation, presents the grant to (from left) Wayne Doll of Nash-Rocky Mount Schools; Angie Miller, the healthful living coordinator for Nash Rocky-Mount Schools, and Superintendent Richard A. McMahon.

For more information on the Nash Health Care Foundation, visit the link on this Web site.