{"id":312160,"date":"2026-10-22T20:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312160\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:18:49","slug":"woman-trades-in-doctors-coat-to-help-deliver-hundreds-of-thousands-of-pounds-of-produce-to-people-in-need-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312160\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman trades in doctor\u2019s coat to help deliver hundreds of thousands of pounds of produce to people in need | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALISBURY TWP., Pa. &#8211; She traded in her doctor&#8217;s coat to make sure people everywhere have access to food, and now she&#8217;s making it her life&#8217;s mission.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s delivering hundreds of thousands of pounds of produce each year to people right in our own backyard.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Meagan Grega, Co-Founder of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kellyn.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kellyn Foundation<\/a>, visited 69 News at Sunrise to tell us why access to food is so critically important.<\/p>\n<p>She spent years as a doctor in the office seeing patients. As a primary care doctor, she said she spent the majority of her time taking care of people that had diabetes, hypertension, or diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>She found that she was not able to get to the root of the problem for chronic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was very frustrating,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said she realized she needed to get out of the clinic and meet people where they are to help them thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Grega and her partner Eric Ruth created the Kellyn Foundation in 2007 and launched the Healthy Neighborhood Immersion Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cEat Real Food\u2019 Mobile Market goes out into Lehigh Valley neigborhoods to bring fresh produce, grocery staples, and delicious plant-powered meals, Grega said.<\/p>\n<p>The market aims to increase accessibility to healthy food.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TWP., Pa. &#8211; She traded in her doctor&#8217;s coat to make sure people everywhere have access to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,5705,127604,71911,127603,127602],"class_list":["post-312160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-charity","tag-dr-meagan-grega","tag-food-access","tag-kellyn-foundation","tag-produce-delivery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}