Keys to Wellness: BTC Launches Outreach into Holistic, Medical Communities-- Late Spring 2007

In a free slide show/talk at BTC Sunday, April 29, award-winning Canadian journalist Eugénie Francoeur lines up hard evidence on the efficacy of a different kind of healthcare model. Author of the upcoming book Forever Healthy: The Okinawa Project, Francoeur explores an ancient self-help system—with physical, mental, social, and spiritual components—that accounts for Okinawans being the world’s record holders for longevity with wellness.

The integrated health model has many transferable features. Such disease prevention, Francoeur says, could be the best and cheapest form of health insurance.

The research Francoeur shines a light on documents also the health impact on Okinawans who step outside this Shangra-La. Life expectancy of emigrés who adopted a new lifestyle dropped 17 years. Okinawan youth attracted to the fast-food style at the US-Okinawan airbase are introducing Western-style ailments to the culture. BTC outreach for this event has extended to a wide range of area holistic and medical organizations as well as journalistic sources. A representative of the global network of journalists called Images & Voices of Hope, Francoeur will be speaking also to the potential impact of “good” news, or newsworthy research with a practical influence on people’s lives.