Medical Endorsements
T. Colin Campbell, PhD (Author of "The China Study")
"I have often told audiences around the U.S. that CHIP is the premier community based program in the country. I have observed the program first hand on several occasions and I could hardly be more positive. Every community in the country should know about the CHIP program and give it a try."
"This CHIP Program, to my way of thinking, can potentially affect the treatment of Western diseases in a more cost-effective and outcome-effective manner better than any other strategy I know."
Denis Burkitt, MD, England (Discoverer of Burkitt's Lymphoma)
"The concept that Western diseases are lifestyle related, and therefore potentially preventable and reversible, is the most important medical discovery of the 20th century."
"Honouring a Scientific Giant"
"Prevention or Treatment"
William P. Castelli, MD, NIH (Former Director - Framingham Heart Study)
"I would like to take this opportunity to recommend Dr. Diehl (and the CHIP Program). Throughout his life, Dr. Diehl has been a keen worker on the health maintenance side of medicine. Through his writing, seminars, and programs, he has brought a very powerful message to all who would listen in how to use diet and exercise, reflection on the more important things in life, to prevent the number one killer in our society--atherosclerotic diseases--such as heart attacks, strokes, peripheral vascular diseases and cancers."
Roger Greenlaw, MD, Rockford, IL (Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois, Medical Director, SwedishAmerican Centre for Complementary Medicine)
"As Medical Director of the SwedishAmerican Health System's Center for Complementary Medicine and Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Illinois College of Medicine-Rockford, I have personally witnessed the transformation CHIP participants experience in arresting, reversing, and preventing chronic Western diseases. Indeed, CHIP has been recognized as a significant contributor to the Rockford community's overall health and has been awarded an "Excellence in Academic Medicine" grant from the state of Illinois."
"A Word From the Medical Director of the SwedishAmerican Centre for Complementary Medicine"
Dr. Michael Jacobson, PhD, Washington D.C. (Executive Director - Center for Science in the Public Interest)
"Saving 400 Lives at a Time"
"Cutting Cholesterol in Kalamazoo"
Dean Ornish, MD, San Francisco, CA (Professor of Medicine, University of California)
Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr., MD, Cleveland, OH (Cleveland Clinic, Preventive CardiologyConsultant)
"If implemented on a national scale, the CHIP program could improve the health status of people in North America more than all the efforts of modern technological medicine combined."
"Coronary Plaque Meltdown"
"Requiem for Palliative Cardiology"
"Eliminating Heart Disease"
Neal Barnard, MD, Washington D.C. (President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)
"Having spoken at CHIP graduations, I have great respect for the program's structure, content, detailed guidance, and practical focus. I feel privileged to be a co-sponsor of this program and am pleased to highly recommend CHIP to any community."
"Reversing Diabetes Efficiently"
"Women, Cancer and Diet"
Kimberley (Satellite Dialysis Centre Medical Officer Broome Regional Aboriginal Medical Service)
"With the burden of ill-health associated with heart disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity and cancer, CHIP is a program desperately needed by people in our communities. As one who has completed CHIP as a participant I can vouch for the validity and value of what the program teaches. It is challenging, easy, affordable and fun to implement. The results have been evident in programs run in Western Australia, NSW and Queensland since 2003 and now in New Zealand.
Dr Christabelle Nath B.Sc.(MED) M.B.B.S. ((UNSW) F.R.A.C.G.P)
CHIP teaches about better lifestyle choices and how to implement them through changes in diet, physical activity and smoking cessation. The information it provides has strong scientific backing. It builds understanding of cause and effect relationships with the lifestyle diseases. The practical help given in healthy food selection and food preparation is just what many need. The support the program offers is most beneficial. I recommend that all who are able to enroll for CHIP, do so. There are few, if any, who will not benefit from it."
Dr W T Hurlow (MBChB, M Fam Med, Dip Obs and Gynae, FRCNZGP, Medical Director Southcare Medical Centre, Hawera NZ Director Hauora Taranaki PHO, March, 2008)
"The CHIP (Coronary Health Improvement Program) has been one of the best discoveries I have made as a primary care doctor trying to deal with the epidemic of lifestyle diseases I face every day in my family practice (these include coronary vessel disease and angina, diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, gastric reflux, arthritis, sleep apnoea and obesity). CHIP has become a most effective way of dealing with these diseases with amazing results. It also has improved the wellbeing and quality of health for those who have embraced its principles and benefits have even been experienced by those over 75 yrs of age.
A concept that doctors have believed for years is that patients seldom really make significant changes in their lifestyles which are sustained and effective therefore it is best to medicate in an upward spiral. Also doctors have very little nutritional knowledge and training and so often can be as ignorant as their patients when it comes to nutrition and health and what constitutes an optimal diet.
CHIP is the tool I have found which has changed all of this. It is a scientific validated program, has been published in reputable medical journals, is brilliantly designed and presented by Dr H Diehl a leading public health researcher and educator in the USA. The CHIP program is well laid out and presented, supports lifestyle change as a personal choice and provides the necessary group support to affect this change.
I have received numerous letters from medical specialists complementing the amazing changes and the sustained improvement in health parameters they are seeing in my patients who have become CHIPPERS. These include local specialists in Internal medicine, Endocrinology, Cardiology and Rheumatology.
The local community and friends of CHIPPERS are also noticing the improvements and many have adopted the CHIP lifestyle despite having never attended the program. This program is powerful!What I have also appreciated is that this program is not another money making scam and is not making someone rich at the expense of the public. The programs are run as not for profit and as a community health project."
Scientific Articles
The results of CHIP programs in North America have been published in leading peer reviewed medical journals since 1998. These include results from a large randomised clinical trial conducted in Rockford, Illinois. In the next few weeks we will be uploading the links to medical journals. Above there are the links to a few of these scientific articles.
Media
Because of CHIPS success there has been significant medai attention both in New Zealand and internationally. In the next few weeks we will be uploading some of the media coverage of CHIP.
Taranaki Daily - When Chips can be healthy - August 2009