Help Everyone Assess Risk Today: LEnten Nutrition Study (HEART-LENS)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of community health screening, health education and nutritional intervention on risk factors for cardiovascular disease in a predominantly African American population. The health fair and intervention will take place in a church that typically improves their lifestyle by "giving up for Lent" certain foods or habits. Participation in this nutrition intervention is voluntary and each participant will sign an informed consent along with a waiver. On the waiver, the participant can agree to have all testing performed but can withdraw consent at any time or decide to have only some of the testing. It was hypothesized that a community-based health screening and nutritional intervention will have a positive impact on the participants by: 1. Measuring baseline risk factors 2. Educating them about their individual risk for heart disease 3. Providing education on healthy lifestyle 4. Providing a nutritional intervention for 40 days with home- delivered plant-based meals nutrition that has been shown to lower cardiac risk factors 5. Repeating the risk factor assessment at the end of the intervention, to demonstrate the degree of, if any, reduction in cardiac risk as assessed by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) Risk Calculator 6. Motivating at-risk subjects to seek continued appropriate medical care and to institute more permanent relevant lifestyle changes (e.g., diet, exercise, medication compliance).