Cabinet Peaks Medical Center offering PREVENT program

Cabinet Peaks Medical Center is once again offering PREVENT, a program developed to reduce the risk of developing diabetes and other chronic health conditions.

Implementing healthy, sustainable changes to the daily nutrition and learning how to implement physical activity that is enjoyable can ultimately help people lose weight and feel better.

Prevent is a lifestyle program that teaches and encourages you to make the modifications that can change the way you feel. It is taught by Nicole Kapan, Registered Dietician and Lifestyle Coach with over 27 years of nutrition experience.

Throughout the course, she will provide you with nutrition, exercise, and behavior strategies to enhance the way you feel and reduce the risk of lifelong disease that walk hand in hand with unhealthy lifestyle choices. Prevent offers a group setting as well as individualized care to support, encourage, and provide accountability along the way.

It also provides educational tools, blood sugar and cholesterol testing, body fat measurements (optional), and a 6-month gym membership -stipulations may apply.

Kapan is happy to be starting classes again this year.

“The PREVENT program began in Lincoln County over 11 years ago and has helped countless local people learn how to live longer, healthier lives. I am pleased we can continue to share this course with the public,” she stated.

The next PREVENT program begins on Sept. 20 and will be held every Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

For those who are interested, call the Cabinet Peaks Diabetes and Nutrition Education Department at 283-7316.

The local PREVENT program is sponsored by Cabinet Peaks Medical Center and the Montana Cardiovascular Disease and Prevention Program.