When I started ANWAN Wellness, I envisioned a healthcare company that focused on disease
prevention and wellness. I was told time and time again that
there is no market for wellness but I persisted in my venture I
asked myself “how can there not be a market for wellness
when healthcare costs have continued to accelerate at an alarming rate?” Employer
sponsored healthcare benefits are being trimmed because of their high
cost and impact on the company’s bottom line. I reasoned
that if the cost of treating disease continued in the same manner,
prevention of these same illnesses must soon take center stage. The
increasing financial burdens being placed on employees will make them
more accountable for preventing disease instead of “fixing” the
problem with a pill or surgical procedure.
The real problem
that healthcare in this country faces is one of over utilization of
high cost, high technology services. Many of the prevalent diagnoses
are truly preventable though lifestyle modifications. Our main
approach is to educate clients on the most efficient, cost-effective
and prudent strategies to maintaining and improving their health. We
utilize the triad of good nutrition, exercise and spirituality. Lets
look at the nation’s number one killer “cardiovascular
disease”, the cause of heart attack, strokes and vascular disease.
The development of this disease was rare before the start of the twentieth
century when our lifestyle focus on natural, unprocessed foods, active
labor and a reliance on a supernatural being. With the industrialization
of our continent, we have become more sedentary, eat more adulterated
processed foods and have relied on technological advances in medicine
to cure all of our ailments.
ANWAN Wellness utilizes
a holistic approach to good health. We teach our clients that
they are responsible for their health and the activities that they
engage in with their bodies truly dictates how long they will live. The
body is a temple and must be treated with respect by feeding it the
nutrients, activity and relaxation that it craves to work with maximum
efficiency. Sure our genes play a role in what disease may develop
in our lives. However, we must also realize that many of these
diseases would not develop unless the environmental conditions allowed
them to emerge. For example, there are various types of
cancer that express themselves in overweight, stressed and smoking
individuals. If these same individuals did not gain excessive
body weight, smoke and had strategies to minimize stress in their lives,
the chance of developing cancer would be reduced to almost zero.
Our clients become
our partners in achieving our mutual goal of attaining good health.
They have at their fingertips, in the comfort of their own home, convenient
access to our healthcare professionals to respond to their questions
on how to achieve health. We provide them a personalized “blueprint” health
guide specifically developed from their health history, exercise ability
and spiritual focus. We work with their personal physician by
providing a copy of our health guide to the office so that every facet
of the clients care is coordinated and documented into the medical
charts. Our team of doctors, nurses, nutritionist, stress management
professionals, consultants, and personal trainers are available to
answer questions as they arise during the membership year. Quarterly
follow-up summaries are sent to each client to monitor progress in
their health guide improvement.
The key to good health
is through lifestyle modification focused on preventing disease. To
quote Ern Baxter, heart attack survivor, “if you don’t
take charge of your lifestyle your lifestyle will take charge of you”. We
provide clients with tools to take charge of their lifestyle and improve
their health outcome individually and the nation collectively.
