Two Opportunities

I want to make you aware of a couple events we have planned to help promote health and wellness.  My experience is that people are either scared into making changes and moving toward wellness, or they are inspired to do so.  Unfortunately when fear is the factor, it generally means that you’re making decisions from a doctor’s office due to unfavorable tests or worse, from an emergency room.  While it’s never too late to make better choices and change, this is not the best way to do things.  We decided to bring two separate events to the community in hopes of enlightening and inspiring you to make the changes that result in better health and we’ve partnered with North Madison Christian Church to provide us with a big enough room and first-rate facility to accommodate as many people as possible.

The first event is something we’ve done before – we’re re-screening the Fed Up movie.  This film is still in some theaters and it’s the film that USA Today said, “Will change the way you think about eating.”  I’ve watched it twice and it will definitely enlighten you as to why our dietary choices are directly linked to our health (or disease) outcomes.  You truly are what you eat!  This movie was produced by Katie Couric’s team who set out to make it a regular segment for her show and decided what they uncovered was much too big for a segment piece.  The film focuses on the true causes of obesity and metabolic syndrome which is the syndrome that is a pre-cursor to heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes.  It’s worth the watch and I would encourage you to bring your kids as childhood obesity is on trial in this movie!  This will be shown in the main room at North Madison Christian (across from the hospital) on Wednesday, January 14^th at 6:30 p.m.

The following week, on Wednesday, January 21^st (at 6:30), we will be bringing in Dr. Denise Chranowski who runs a practice called Wellness Solution Centers in Newtown, Pennsylvania.  She has franchised her own wellness center to over 60 other centers across the U.S. and abroad.  Dr. Denise speaks all over the country on health and wellness and was gracious enough to come to our town!  I’ve asked her to speak on the subject of how to raise healthy families with emphasis on what specific steps we can take to ensure results.  I learned the last time that we screened Fed Up that people were excited and motivated to make change, but they really didn’t know how to get things going.  Dr. Denise is an expert at this!  This is by far the biggest thing we’ve ever done and I want to thank North Madison Christian for having the vision to include health and wellness as part of their mission for this community.  All are welcome to both events and there is no cost or obligation – this is about getting you and your family the health outcomes you really want!  You don’t need to R.S.V.P., but if you’d like more information, I encourage you to go to our webpage at rivertownchiro.com and sign in your name and email on the “newsletter sign-up” box of the home page and you will get updates of these events as well as future speakers we intend to bring to town.  I hope to see you there!