If you're looking to make a healthy lifestyle change there's a program in town that may be able to help.
CHIP (Coronary Health Improvement Project) is a 40 day inspiring, educational program designed to teach how to make the "major diet and lifestyle changes" that are necessary to reverse or normalize Obesity, Heart Disease, Adult Onset Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, Osteo-porosis, Digestion Problems and Constipation and much more says local volunteer Director Glenda Nischuk.
"CHIP offers participants the complete education they need in order to make wise diet and lifestyle changes and to stick with them.
"It's easy to just tell people they need to make 'major diet and lifestyle changes', but how to accomplish that is not so easy. When a person understands how their body works and what the foods that they eat do to their body, they have the education they need to understand not only WHY they need to make these changes, but HOW to do it.
With knowledge comes power, says Nischuk "and with the power CHIP participants get from the program, they are able to easily make the changes that are necessary AND stick with them."
Local CHIP program participants meet two evenings a week and one weekend afternoon for five weeks with Video Presentations by the dynamic health lecturer Dr. Hans Diehl, DrHSc, MPH, FACN.
"Before and after blood draws and health screenings let you see the difference that YOU can make in just 40 days!"
CHIP also offers presentations by local health professionals, Heart Healthy meal samples each evening, Grocery Store Tours, Reference Materials, Monthly Alumni Meetings and a Graduation Banquet for family and friends.
Parkland CHIP has over 50 graduates who have experienced an average of:
A 17 per cent Cholesterol drop with some drops up to 25 per cent.
Weight losses averaged seven pounds, with losses as high as 29 pounds.
Blood Pressure, Triglycerides, and Heart Rates also showed dramatic improvement.
Diabetics showed great improvement and were able to lower insulin or drop their need for for it completely in just eight weeks by continuing on the program with guidance from their physician.
"There are no drugs, no gimmicks, just a straight forward inspiring education on how to make healthy choices so that you can enjoy a lifetime of better health," says Nischuk.
"I have taken on this task, because I am a believer in the CHIP program and I have seen first hand the great results that people can achieve by making CHIP their new lifestyle."
Nischuk is currently studying to be Nutritional Consultant Practitioner and will be working out of the Better Living Centre.
Free Introductory/Registration Meetings for CHIP have been scheduled for Tuesday, September 6 at 7:00 p.m. at the Better Living Centre, 272 Broadway St. W., Wednesday, September 7 at 3:30 and 7 p.m. at the same location and Thursday, September 8 3:30 and 7 p.m. at the Yorkton Seventh-day Adventist Church, Lower Level Fellowship Hall, 384 Gladstone Ave. S.
To pre-register for an information session or learn more information, call 783-3366 or 7782-7641.
