Seventh-day Adventist health leaders in Fiji are partnering with the government to tackle one of Fiji's biggest problems: lifestyle disease.
Tag: chip
The 10,000 Toes tally has hit $200,000 thanks to generous support.
More than 50 people, the majority of them non-Adventist, recently graduated from CHIP programs across Fiji.
Dr Michael Greger, from nutritionfacts.org, discusses the return on investment for educating employees about healthy eating and living.
A community-based education program educating physicians and patients alike about the power of nutrition as medicine.
The most well-published community-based lifestyle intervention in the medical literature is also one of the most effective.
The Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) has attempted to take the pioneering lifestyle medicine work of Pritikin and Ornish and spread it out into the community.
“The aim is to influence the governments right across the Pacific and I think we are making big, bold advances in that area.”
Leaders from the Seventh-day Adventist Church and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints met to discuss Fiji's lifestyle disease crisis.
Local churches will become “wellness hubs” in an effort to tackle the country’s lifestyle disease epidemic.
