To see how powerful Dr. Alvenia Moody Fulton’s impact was in her day, we must look back more than six decades and view a world (particularly in African-American communities) in which the vast majority of people were enslaved to obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. In the 1950s, if you stood at a Chicago street corner and insisted that the eating and drinking habits of typical U.S. citizens was killing them slowly, the average passerby would have called you crazy. Remaining sedentary and consuming fried foods and fatty meats were absolutely ordinary and seemingly unchangeable for most people—and so were the health consequences that came along with this way of life. Many felt bound to their unhealthy eating habits and lifestyle choices. Fulton lived (1893-1999) to break people free from poor health, especially people who were impoverished or marginalized.
