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11/17/2025

💙 New Research Alert! 💙

Our team just presented our poster “Food Insecurity and Cardiovascular Disease Among U.S. Adults” and the findings are powerful.

🍎 Adults facing food insecurity had:
• 2.7x higher risk of cardiovascular disease
• Higher risk of CHD, CHF, and stroke
• Overall CVD rates of 12% vs. 6% compared to food-secure adults

This reinforces a major truth: food access is heart health.
Improving food security can save lives and reduce preventable cardiovascular complications.

Huge shoutout to the amazing team behind this work

10/27/2025

Enriched experiences last week Friday at The Farmhouse with our amazing partners 🌾✨
At I-Thrive, we believe food is medicine and every visit reminds us how nature nourishes us from the ground up. 💚
-Thrive

10/09/2025

Happy Birthday to our incredible Principal Investigator, Dr. Bumi Ogungbe!
Your leadership, passion, and dedication to advancing impactful research inspire us every day.
Here’s to another year of groundbreaking discoveries and making a difference! 💚🎂

09/26/2025

Healthcare ❤️Medicine

06/05/2025

🎓 Thank you to the incredible graduates on the THRIVE team! Your hard work, passion, and dedication have a lasting impact. We’re so proud of you!

05/05/2025

Congratulations to our wonderful THRIVE team members for being recognized by the John’s Hopkins University School of Nursing for their exceptional research and leadership.🎉

🏆 Shoutout to Dr. Bunmi Ogungbe for Excellence in Community-Engaged Research and Care For Your Health, Inc (Executive Director: Anna Maria Izquierdo-Porrera) for Exceptional Community Partner in Research Recognition!
❤️You inspire us and we are appreciative of all your efforts in THRIVE and the community.

04/07/2025

Spring has sprung — and so has the produce!
Our THRIVE participants are diving into a vibrant box of seasonal goodness from Community FarmShare.

Think: crisp apples, rainbow carrots, juicy pears, and greens so fresh they still have their roots!
This is what Food is Medicine looks like—locally grown, nutrient-packed, and straight from Maryland’s soil.

04/04/2025

Another successful conference in the books for our THRIVE Food is Medicine team!
This time, we took on the Epidemiology Lifestyle Style conference in New Orleans and brought the heat with innovative strategies to tackle cardiovascular health disparities.

We presented and proposed impactful interventions focused on:
🥗 Promoting DASH diet adherence
🛌 Improving sleep habits
🏃‍♀️ Increasing physical activity
🩺 Encouraging regular screenings

Proud to be part of a team pushing for equitable, heart-healthy solutions!

04/01/2025

Check out our PI: Dr. Ogungbe talk more about Food is Medicine in the On the Pulse JHU podcast:

https://youtu.be/Yk0WGBALKO8?si=wSZ05jsVeJmx6WiA

“ Bunmi Ogungbe, PhD, MPH, RN, held the “Food as Medicine in the Black Community” summit at the Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. The summit convened over 150 thought leaders and changemakers to catalyze conversations around integrating the cultural diets of African diaspora foods and promoting Black-owned businesses within the growing “Food as Medicine” movement. In this episode, Dr. Ogungbe discusses some of the key outcomes from the summit, her involvement in the movement, and future goals.

Dr. Ogungbe is a cardiovascular epidemiologist dedicated to using her clinical, research, and public health expertise to improve cardiometabolic outcomes among populations experiencing social marginalization. She collaborates on several community-engaged multi-level interventions leveraging digital technologies to improve hypertension control and management of chronic conditions. She is an emerging leader in community-engaged research seeking to advance cardiovascular health equity, both locally in the US and globally.”

03/31/2025

Market Monday is lookin’ fresh!
Shoutout to Community FarmShare for blessing our THRIVE participants with these vibrant, local goodies straight from Maryland’s soil!

Did you know:
🥕 Purple carrots are packed with antioxidants
🥬 Swiss chard is full of vitamin K for bone health
🧅 Red onions have natural anti-inflammatory properties
🟣 Colorful cauliflower = different phytonutrients for your body

Start your week with something that’s as fun to eat as it is to look at!

03/14/2025

💚foodie fact friday💚 did you know that flaxseeds are good for your heart? these tiny seeds contain 1) lignans which reduce plaque build up and 2) omega-3s which may be useful in treating arrhythmia you can add these to your diet by getting seeded bread or sprinkling them over your cereal

03/11/2025

Happy Women’s History Month! The lovely ladies of the THRIVE team spent this past Saturday at a local church connecting with community members. What a great way to spend the weekend!

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