Lifestyle Changes

By Ethel Hillier

Could comprehensive lifestyle changes be the answer to preventing or treating chronic health conditions?

There are more than 9 million Canadians living with diabetes or pre-diabetes. More than 20 people being newly diagnosed with the disease every hour of every day. www.diabetes.ca

Heart disease and stroke take 1 in 3 Canadians before their time and it is the #1 killer of women. www.heartandstroke.ca

"People often think that advances in medicine have to be a new drug, a new laser, or a surgical intervention to be powerful, something really high-tech and expensive.
They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lives each day, what we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke, how much we exercise, the quality of our relationships, can make such a powerful difference in our health, our well-being, and our survival, but they often do."                       Dean Ornish,MD pmri.org

During the past 30 years, four high profile doctors in the United States, have documented scientific research on preventing, treating and even reversing coronary artery disease and other chronic diseases by implementing comprehensive lifestyle changes. With family, community and health care support these changes can become a reality.

1. ornishspectrum.com - Dr. Dean Ornish, MD is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California. He received his medical training in internal medicine from Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

For over 33 years, Dr. Ornish has directed clinical research demonstrating, for the first time, that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery. Recently, Medicare (US) agreed to provide coverage for this program, the first time that Medicare has covered a program of comprehensive lifestyle changes.

2. heartattachproof.com - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD retired surgeon, researcher and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic. Recently featured on CNN's Special Report - "The Last Heart Attack" with CNN Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta MD. The 42 minute video is available for viewing on his site. The video explains his perspective and research conclusions in easy to understand terms.

3. nealbarnard.org - Neal Barnard, MD, is a clinical researcher, author and one of America’s leading advocates for health, nutrition, and higher standards in research.
As the principal investigator of several human clinical research trials, whose results are published in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals, Dr. Barnard has examined key issues in health and nutrition.
He is the founder and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and the president of The Cancer Project, a non-profit organization advancing cancer prevention and survival through nutrition education and research.

4. www.drfuhrman.com - Joel Fuhrman, MD is a boardcertified family physician, and nutritional researcher, who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods.

He is actively involved in scientific research on human nutrition, and has published in several peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is a leading experts in nutritional and natural healing in the United States. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1988), and has received the St. Joseph's Family Practice Resident's Teaching Award for his contribution to the education of residents.

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Ethel Hillier, B.A. Ed.
Publisher, The NL Wellness Guide
and thewellnessguide.com

Phone: 709-895-0371

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