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Beaumont Health System,
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
invite you to the premiere of the
Beaumont Lecture Series
at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts
6600 West Maple Road, West Bloomfield

To Life, To Health!

Adat Shalom debuts L'Chaim, its
mind, body and spirit program.

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Wednesday, Oct. 17
7 p.m.

Welcome by Robert Folberg, M.D.
Founding Dean, Oakland University
William Beaumont School of Medicine

Introducing Brian Berman, M.D.
Pediatrician-in-Chief,
Beaumont Children's Hospital

Remarks by Jeffrey Maisels, M.D.
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Oakland University William Beaumont
School of Medicine

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Keynote address by Michael Frogel, M.D.

Meeting the Unique Needs
of Children in Disasters:
Lessons Learned
from the Israeli Experience

Dr. Frogel is an internationally recognized expert
in emergency and disaster preparedness.

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Free Admission

Reception immediately following

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16 October 4 • 2012

Rabbi

Dr. Joel Kahn

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re you sick and tired of
being sick and tired? Are
you looking for increased
vitality, well-being and energy? L'Chaim
(To Life) is a health enhancement learn-
ing program coming to Adat Shalom
Synagogue this month.
Based on the Daniel Plan developed
by internationally known Drs. Mehmet
Oz, Daniel Amen and Mark Hyman,
EChaim is a five-week program of small
group sessions on Monday evenings
beginning Oct. 15.
L'Chaim combines nutrition, health,
spirituality and community small group
learning sessions where participants
can discover ways to take charge of
their own health. The program will
focus on physical and spiritual issues
led by Adat Shalom members Dr. Joel
Kahn, a cardiologist, and Dr. Stacey
Francis, a chiropractic kinesiologist,
along with Rabbis Aaron Bergman and
Rachel Shere.
L'Chaim is based on the following
principles:
1.Connect for success: Get in touch
with your health and with others.
2. Rely on God's power: Willpower is
not enough.
3. Eat delicious whole foods: Imagine
the Garden of Eden as your food source.
4. Move your way to health: The
more exercise, the more energy.
5. Think sharper and smarter: Better
brain health equals better life.
6. Heal for life: Make a game plan for
permanent changes that heal.
"I am so excited to be involved in
bringing LChaim to Adat Shalom
Synagogue Kahn said. "In my cardiol-
ogy practice, I see the root causes of
disease like poor nutrition, stress, lack
of sleep and exercise, and how these
affect the joy and vitality of my patients.
This program teaches health enhance-
ment and energy based on the idea that
a vibrant and healthy individual can
also be a more active person.
"I am proud of Adat Shalom for being
the first Jewish congregation in the U.S.
to bring this program to its members

Rabbi Shere

Dr. Stacey

Francis

and the community!'
Kahn began training with Drs.
Amen and Hyman months ago, and
became quite familiar with the Daniel
Plan, which began about 11/2 years
ago at Saddleback Church in Southern
California. He had asked them if he
could bring it to Detroit, but they asked
him to wait a bit.
Then Rabbi Shere approached Kahn
about the Daniel Plan, which she had
been studying. Kahn again approached
the doctors and they agreed.
Though some of the videos from the
Daniel Plan are evangelical in nature and
will not be used, videos and articles by
Drs. Oz, Amen and Hyman are medical
in nature and will be used for EChaim.
The Daniel Plan comes from the Old
Testament Book of Daniel, in which
Daniel and his sons are offered rich,
greasy food before they are to face the
lions. Daniel declines and asks only for
water and vegetables. When the time
comes to fight, Daniel and his sons are
much more fit than the guards.
"We're bringing Daniel back home
Kahn said of the synagogue-based
L'Chaim.
Rabbis Shere and Bergman will
handle the theology and find plenty of
Jewish references to healthy eating and
living, says Kahn. The doctors will deal
with medical discussions.
Francis explains, "The EChaim pro-
gram will teach how absolutely bril-
liant your body and spirit can be when
given the right tools in a supportive
community."
The first EChairn session on Oct. 15
will meet from 7-9 p.m. Continuing
sessions on Oct. 22 and 29 and Nov. 12
and 19 will meet from 7-8:30 p.m., all at
the Farmington Hills synagogue.
Register by email to charwood@
adatshalom.org. There is an $18 fee
(checks made out to Adat Shalom) that
may be mailed to the synagogue, 29901
Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills, MI
48334 or brought to the first session.
Also, go to http://lchaimadatshalom.
weebly.com/index.html.

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