We’ll guide you in making sustainable lifestyle choices that lead to better health.

Better adherence and clinical outcomes than have ever been reported.

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Ornish Spectrum – Prevention Program

Participants learn about the clinically proven and scientifically validated, Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease, through its trained and compassionate staff.

The Ornish Spectrum is a program that helps you make healthy, sustainable lifestyle changes in:

Participants will also learn about the whole foods, low fat nutrition plan that is tailored by the program’s registered dietitician.

This plan features:

• recipes
• cooking demonstrations to enjoy
• eating out tips
• nutrition label reading

Patients have better adherence and clinical outcomes than have ever been reported from a program of comprehensive lifestyle changes.

Here are the latest findings from all of the 3,780 patients who went through our program at Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield in Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and West Virginia as of October 2011:

• Overall attendance after 1 year was 87.9%;
• 45.2% of these patients had heart disease– 34.0% had type 2 diabetes, and the others had only risk factors (high blood pressure, cholesterol, or weight), yet adherence was comparable in all categories of patients (85-90% after 1 year);
• The average patient lost 13.3 pounds in the first 12 weeks and 15.9 pounds after 1 year;
• Significant reductions in systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and LDL-cholesterol after 12 weeks were still significant after 1 year;
• Exercise capacity increased from 8.7 to 10.6 METS after 12 weeks (18% increase) and to 10.8 METS after one year (24% increase);
• Significant reductions in depression and hostility (the emotions most strongly linked with heart disease) after 12 weeks that were still significant after 1 year;
• Hemoglobin A1C in diabetics decreased from 7.4% at baseline to 6.5% after 12 weeks and 6.8% after one year (complications of diabetes such as blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, and amputations can be prevented when hemoglobin A1C is less than 7.0%);
• 96.5% of patients reported improvement in severity of angina (chest pain) after 1 year.

Ornish Certified Sites with the Spectrum Prevention Program

*We are just beginning to train and certify programs, so the site network will be growing significantly in the next few months.

If you are interested in learning more about certified sites that offer the Spectrum Prevention Program, please submit the below form.

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