{"id":21910,"date":"2025-01-17T12:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/richmond-city\/?p=21910"},"modified":"2025-01-17T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:15:52","slug":"not-backwards-in-my-health-but-forwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/richmond-city\/2025\/01\/17\/not-backwards-in-my-health-but-forwards\/","title":{"rendered":"“Not backwards in my health but forwards\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

For RHHD Community Health Worker Ethan Satterwhite, making healthy changes is a personal and professional resolution.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ethan began working at the Mosby Resource Center in the summer of 2024. At <\/span>RHHD\u2019s Resource Centers<\/span><\/a>, Community Health Workers like Ethan help neighborhood residents connect to care and find support for related needs like transportation and housing. Ethan recognized right away that food access\u2014and especially healthy food access\u2014was an important part of his job.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt matters what we put in our body,\u201d Ethan says. \u201cFood is another kind of health prevention. It can be a way of boosting our immune systems.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ethan knows that healthy foods can be expensive, and that making changes to our diets can be hard. Whether he\u2019s talking to clients or building his own healthy practices, Ethan uses some of these strategies to take small steps forward:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n