West Virginia Health Right is on the move. Three mobile units now allow the agency to provide a dental clinic, a medical clinic and now a teaching kitchen to communities in even the most remote corners of the state.

With the most recent addition, the non-profit will be able to travel to parts of 34 counties to provide nutritional education, healthy cooking demonstrations and preventive health outreach such as blood pressure readings, body mass index checks and A1C/blood sugar tests.

“Food is medicine,” said West Virginia Health Right CEO Angie Settle. “It’s not just the prescriptions that a doctor writes you in the office. It’s what you’re putting in your mouth, and we have control over that. Yes, you can do it on a budget. Yes, it can be tasteful.”

Regarding the budgeting part of the e

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