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<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">For months, Thuy Thanh Nguyen could not sleep. The refugee from the Vietnam War </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">and a communist gulag would cry for hours, snap at her husband and children, and throw things at them.</span></p>
Journalist Kate Long explores West Virginia's epidemics of chronic disease and obesity and the efforts to prevent them in an ongoing series called "The Shape We're In."
<p>A federally-funded health center, Cabin Creek Health Systems accepts patients whether they can pay or not. Freida Smith is one of their 14,000 patients.</p>
<div class="node-body"><div class="node-body"><div class="node-body"><div class="node-body"><div class="node-body"><div class="node-body"><div class="node-body"><p>Three years ago, when West Virginia was leading the nation in diabetes, the American Diabetes Association shut down its West Virginia office.</p><div>Now, officials have decided to bring the organization back to West Virginia.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<p>For people living with HIV or AIDS, nutrition is a key component of any treatment plan. But living in neighborhoods where healthy food options are few and far between can make it difficult to eat healthy. </p>
<p>Lestonnac Free Clinic, which provides free medical services to the poorest community in Orange County, was a relief for José Díaz García. (Article in Spanish)</p>
<p>Clementina Sánchez has been a patient at Lestonnac Free Clinic for about 6 years where she is treated for diabetes. Clementina doesn't have health insurance. (Article in Spanish)</p>
For people living with HIV or AIDS, nutrition is a key component of any treatment plan. With a weakened immune system, it is vital that they maintain optimum health by way of exercise and following the basics set forth in widely-accepted dietary guidelines. But living in neighborhoods where healthy food options are few and far between, with an outsize presence of fast-food outlets, can make it difficult to eat healthy.
