Why Lifestyle Matters?
What's so special about a Lifestyle Matters seminar?


We hear a lot about how diet and lifestyle affects risk for chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. The Lifestyle Matters series helps you understand and learn simple strategies that can help you:
- Lower stress and depression levels
- Improve memory, learning, and mood
- Lower dementia risk
- Lose weight and keep it off without severe diets or gimmicks
- Reduce your risk for lifestyle diseases
- Overcome food cravings and food addictions
- Overcome substance and behavioral addictions
The Lifestyle Matters materials are designed to help you improve physical health, mental function, overcome addictions, and discover the keys to wholeness of body, mind, and spirit.
Topics Available
Simple Solutions: Diet and Stress
Can a faulty diet increase stress, irritability, and risk for depression? How do diet and lifestyle affect immune function and stress system activity? Learn the latest from science on how to cope with stress and lower your stress proneness, while decreasing disease risk, improving immune function, and increasing energy! Discover how simple lifestyle changes can have a dramatic effect on your ability to deal with life's daily stressors. Learn how to lower stress--one bite at a time!
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Foods for Thought: Nutrition's Link with Mood, Memory, Learning, and Behavior
Can what you eat and other lifestyle choices influence how you think, act, and feel? Are lifestyle diseases linked with impaired mental processing, and learning? Is restoration possible? Learn how to eat better, feel better, and think better! No matter what your age, discover how to energize your whole system and make your mental engine "purr" instead of "ping."
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Living Free: Finding Freedom from Habits that Hurt
Habits are friends when they are good ones. But habits can become chains. Once a habit has hijacked the brain, is there any way of escape? Living Free examines how addictions work, and outlines practical keys for breaking any bad habit. Topics covered are obesity and food addictions, substance addictions, prescription addiction, smoking and alcohol addiction, entertainment and internet addictions, and behavioral addictions such as gambling and pornography. Don't let bad habits hold you hostage - learn how to get free and stay free!
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Life-changing Materials for Personal Growth and
Community Outreach
The Lifestyle Matters books, videos, and CD audiobooks combine the latest scientific knowledge with simple, practical applications. We know you want information that not only shows you why lifestyle is important in mental and physical health; you also want practical, easy, inexpensive steps to implement change!
Books
- colorful, user-friendly workbook
- personal application sheets at the end of each chapter
- handy charts and tables
- special nutrition and lifestyle inserts
- delicious, easy plant-based recipes
- inspiring stories of those who have made lifestyle changes
- full scientific referencing
- thought questions from the Bible after each chapter
DVDs
- dynamic instructional video
- lively interviews with specialists
- inspiring stories of people who have made lifestyle changes
- practical cooking segments
- special information features
Cookbooks
- delicious, easy, plant-based recipes
- serving suggestions and tips
- menu planners and special features
- eight short health presentations
CD Audio books
- double CD audiobook read by the authors
- helpful hints included
- refreshing music between chapters
Presenter's Packages for Conducting a Seminar (available in 3 topics)
Each Lifestyle Matters Presenter's Package contains a(n):
- Colorful book
- Seminar DVD
- CD audio book
- Guilt-free Gourmet cookbook
- Training DVD
- Presenter's CD with a self-prompted multimedia presentation of the topic. The Multimedia CD presentation includes a beautiful, fully scripted presentation of the topic in a condensed and expanded version.
- Facilitator's Notebook. This notebook includes everything you need to hold a series of meetings using the workbook and video, including color handouts, planning guides, session instructions, program content, advertising information, and order forms.
- Presenter's CD option to print copies of the contents of the Facilitator's Notebook so that you can provide copies for other team members as well as handouts for participants.
- Training DVD that shows you how to do your own program step-by-step.
- Advertising. Each module includes attractive and colorful invitations and posters that you can purchase to make advertising your program easy and effective.
- Introductory DVD for presenters
- Free issue of Balance magazine
- Convenient carrying case
Lifestyle Matters: Personal, Powerful, Versatile
The Lifestyle Matters materials are versatile, easy-to-use, interesting, fun, and practical. But most of all, they are life-changing! Here's how you can use them:
- for personal growth and education
- with friends and family
- as gifts for special occasions or events
- in neighborhood outreach
- for church or community health education
- in schools or medical settings
- in businesses for employee health
- in workshops or study groups
- in conjunction with a cooking school
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