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| Dr. Joel Fuhrman |
Dr. Joel Fuhrman promotes healthy eating
More than 100 people attended the fifth annual Siruno Stroke Prevention Program on Nov. 8 at the Caribou Inn and Convention Center. For the second year in a row, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, a board certified family physician and internationally regarded nutritional expert, spoke about healthy nutrition and using good food choices to reduce the risk for stroke, heart attack, cancer and other chronic illness.
The Saturday program topped off three days of presentations by Fuhrman. On Nov. 6, he addressed students and community members at the University of Maine at Presque Isle’s ‘University Guest Lecture Series’ and on Friday, Fuhrman presented at the Grand Round’s luncheon for health care professionals.
Bill Flagg, director of community relations and development at Cary Medical Center, who coordinated the program, said that the Siruno Program is growing through collaboration.
“We reached some 250 people through our collaboration with the University of Maine at Presque Isle and Pines Health Services,” said Flagg. “The turnout for the UMPI lecture was one of the strongest I have seen and a number of Pines providers turned out for the Grand Rounds program. The community program was outstanding and demonstrated a real hunger for information that Dr. Fuhrman had to share.”
Fuhrman, who is a best-selling author, talked about his new book, “The End of Diabetes”, and explained how with a proper nutritional program individuals can prevent and even reverse Type 2 diabetes. He presented research on the benefits of eating green vegetables, beans, onions, mushrooms, berries and seeds, what he calls “gbombs.”
“Eating a diet rich in these foods with all of the micronutrients they provide can really improve the quality of life as we get older and dramatically reduce the risk for many of the chronic diseases we often think come with aging. It does not have to be this way.”
Fuhrman, who is often a guest on the Dr. Oz Show, talked about the importance of including nuts and seeds in the diet and that the fats in these foods are healthy fats and are needed by the body and the brain. He presented case studies of many patients he has treated using his nutritional approach who have lost hundreds of pounds and reversed the disease process and who are living healthy lives into their 90s.
“Wouldn’t we all want to live out our golden years with a high quality of life?,” asked Fuhrman. “By eating right and staying active this can be a reality for more and more people, we just have to make the right choices and make the changes these choices demand.”
In addition to his presentation, Fuhrman answered questions and signed books during the program. He has written nine books. His book “Eat to Live” has sold more than a million copies and has been translated into multiple languages. His latest books “The End of Diabetes” and “The End of Dieting” are on The New York Times best-seller list. The books are available in the gift shop at Cary Medical Center.
Fuhrman praised Cary Medical Center for making this information available to the community and encouraged members of the community who attended his program to take the challenge and be role models for their family, friends and neighbors so that Aroostook County could become the healthiest county in America.
The Siruno Stroke Prevention Program made it possible for Cary Medical Center to bring Dr. Fuhrman to Aroostook County. The program was created by the family of Dr. Cesar Siruno, a longtime general surgeon at Cary Medical Center who suffered a major stroke and died on Jan. 1, 2009. At the time of his death, the family made a generous contribution to the Jefferson Cary Foundation to establish a permanent fund for the ongoing promotion of stroke prevention.
For more information contact the office of community relations at Cary Medical Center at 498-1112.
