Open Your Heart to others!

Help get the word out! Please cut & post the meeting announcement on this page for others to see at your doctor's office, library, supermarket, etc.

OSGGR
c/o Abby Stern
4 Sand Brook Road
Pittsford, NY 14534

The next Tony Grana Night. . .

• • • will be on Wednesday, August 13th

4:30 - 6:30 P.M.

Bring a friend. Taste special dishes from Ornish Cookbooks. Try Ornish Desserts & Appetizers.

Sit with and meet other Ornish members.

Call for reservations at 467-4360

Located in the Rubino Plaza

1292 E. Ridge Rd., Irondequoit

Join us in the Chandelier Room!!

OSGGR will be meeting at the Monroe Community Hospital on East Henrietta Road beginning in September. The September newsletter will give the details and a map.

OSGGR is a nonprofit organization based on Dr. Dean Ornish's book Reversing Heart Disease by diet, exercise, stress reduction and psychosocial methods. Please join us at the OSSGR meetings.

OUR SECOND ANNUAL PICNIC!!!

Sunday, August 10th

Perinton Park

Time: From 1:00 p.m. til...

Supper around 4:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Call Bob Klein at 288-6538 to reserve your spot.

Details below!

Meetings are held on the second Monday of the month at Monroe Community Hospital.

Members - Free Guests -$3.00 For additional information, call Ed Ehlers at 336-9847,

or visit our web page at http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/2435/

We're having our 2nd Annual

Ornish Friendly Picnic

on Sunday, August 10th

in the beautiful Perinton Park.

Directions to the Lodge: Take Fairport Rd. to O'Connor Rd. (There's a Kitchen Concepts sign on the corner. Follow the road past the first parking lot. Turn at the next right into the second parking lot. Go to the indoor lodge.

Call: Bob Klein at 288-6538 Bob will let you know what to bring i.e. salad, or main dish, or dessert.

Drinks, cups, tablecloths, and the wonderful Montana Mills Breads, snacks will be provided.

Please remember to bring your table service, a dish to pass,

& chairs if you want to sit next to the canal.

Supper will be around 4:30 p.m.

During the afternoon, meet friends,

Walk the canal path.

Tennis courts, Basketball Hoop,

playground for the kids , and bocci ball are all available.

Yoga relaxation techniques.

Bring your favorite board game,

i.e. chess, checkers, scrabble.

Come rain or shine. The picnic lodge is protected.

For Our Crowd Mixer--How good are you

at hiding the obvious?

Choose from a paper clip, safety pin, rubber band, toothpick, or twister for pastic bags. Just incorporate any one of these items somewhere on you but not under your clothing. Then, others will try to find it.

A New Meeting Location

Join us

Monday, September 8th

in our new meeting room

in the

Monroe Community Hospital

Chandelier Room

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MISSION STATEMENT OF OSGGR

(Ornish Support Group of Greater Rochester)

We of the Ornish Support Group of Greater Rochester believe the results of the Ornish study are important and that heart disease can be reversed by following the four areas discussed in Dr. Ornish's book:

1. Diet 2. Exercise 3. Stress Reduction 4. Psychosocial Support

It is our intent to proactively share with members of the Greater Rochester Community who can benefit from the healing importance of the four areas, our success stories, our healthy programs, and our approaches to taking responsibility for our own health .

Membership in the Ornish Support Group is open to anyone who has an interest in improved health through diet, exercise, stress reduction and group interaction.

Membership in this nonprofit group includes a monthly newsletter and invitations to monthly meetings and group events.

Goal: To have 100 members by the end of 1996 and eventually have over 1,000 members. This force can initiate change in Rochester and create unlimited opportunities for improved health of our population.

Goal: To have 100 members by the end of 1996 and eventually have over 1,000 members. This force can initiate change in Rochester and create unlimited opportunities for improved health of our population.

Objectives:

1. Have a steering committee that includes the following professionals: Nutritionist, Physician, Exercise Specialist, Yoga Instructor, and Group Support Specialist

2. Have interesting monthly meetings with expert speakers in one or more of the four areas

3. Publish monthly newsletters

4. Obtain favorable publicity from the news media

5. Inform physicians and other health practitioners about our group and encourage them to refer their patients to our meetings

6. Document and publish the success stories in our group through both anecdotal and statistical data

7. Encourage medical insurance companies to support our efforts

8. Develop programs with restaurants to increase their selection of low fat vegetarian meals

9. Encourage smaller individual groups to form and follow the four basic guidelines

10. Work closely with the Vegetarian Society and other non-profit groups that have similar agendas

11. Encourage cooking classes and have reci- pes on low fat vegetarian cooking

12. Develop a library of related books and tapes to lend and sell to our membership at monthly meetings

13. Conduct lectures on our programs and our successes to other groups, such as, senior citizens, church groups, retirees, etc.

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Florence Kaplow, Newsletter Editor