Free event at Kent church will address minority health

A free event to address nutrition, diabetes and heart disease will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the United Church of Christ, 1400 E. Main St., Kent.

Carmen Blakely, an associate professor in the College of Education, Health, and Human Services at Kent State University, will speak.

Blakely works with more than 1,000 students per year and teaches science of human nutrition, human nutrition and dietary food modification-nutrition for older adults. She has extensive experience as a clinical registered dietician and nutritionist specializing in adult/adolescent and childhood weight management, neurology and nutrition and nephrology and nutrition and has lectured widely on health disparities.

Free food, educational activities and giveaways will be provided.

The event is part of a series of community conversations on minority health and is paid in part by the Ohio Commission on Minority Health Grant.

For information or to join the Minority Health Task Force, visit CACPortage.net or contact task force members Renee Romine, Frank Hairston, David Shea or Leah Schmidt.

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