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Large insurance companies also provided public health education for blacks in the south.  The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and various other insurance companies have impacted members of the black community that would have otherwise been overlooked by existing public health efforts.  Blacks had available written materials from these companies that educated them on basic matters of disease prevention such as nutrition and hygiene.