“How do you wipe out the nation’s heart disease epidemic?” According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, one of the best approaches for preventing the disease in the first place is the “CHIP program,” which tells people to eat more whole plant foods, and less meat, dairy, eggs, and processed junk. It is considered to be “a premier lifestyle intervention targeting chronic disease that has been offered for more than 25 years,” through which more than 50,000 individuals have gone. And, most CHIP classes are run by volunteers, “sourced primarily through the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, which has an interest in positively influencing the health of their local community.” Why the Adventists? Well, they have “a health philosophy built around [a] biblical notion that the human body” should be treated as a temple, and many of the participants of the program are Adventists, too. Is that why the program works so well—because they just have faith? You don’t know, until you put it to the test….
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