The Health and Wellness Ministries of Andrews Memorial Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church, in partnership with the renowned Uchee Pines Lifestyle Institute of Alabama in the United States (US), is set to host a special symposium aimed at teaching life-saving lifestyle changes to reverse non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Yesterday’s launch at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston saw medical, government and opposition representatives providing data-driven presentations on the state of the nation’s health, with a prognosis that is good for neither the young, ageing or disabled.
Dr Derria Cornwall, consultant radiologist and director of Health Ministries at Andrews Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church, l, said the symposium’s focus will teach individuals effective and inexpensive ways to reverse lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease; manage stress and improve sleep.
“The institute (Uchee Pines Lifestyle Institute) will be working with local medical doctors, lifestyle practitioners and counsellors to deliver a series of lectures and workshops and also to do personal medical consultations,” she told the launch.
