Verna’s CHIP chat

Add comment February 18th, 2009

In a few months short of 40 years at the Register Star, I’ve listened to a lot of stories because I had to.

This Sunday, I’m going to listen to one because I want to. The Coronary Health Improvement Project (CHIP) is bringing Appleton, Wis., florist Verna Van Nuland to the YMCA of Rock River Valley’s Northest Branch at 8451 Orth Road from 4:30 to 6 p.m., and I want to hear her story.

The local CHIP organization, of course, has been advertising the appearance so I already know part of it. She was on the express route to inspecting daisy roots and had already made her funeral arrangements and written a goodbye letter to family and friends when a doctor suggested the CHIP eating program to her.

She’s lost 75 pounds, bicycled over 1,300 miles and gotten rid of a boatload of medications since then. In short, she got her life back.

There’s no getting around it that CHIP, when adhered to completely, is a vegan eating plan. It’s tough. I know, because I tried it. But no one says you have to do it all the time every day. I still try to have totally vegetarian days every week and most of the time I make it.

The point is that the evidence that CHIP is definitely onto something good is growing all the time.

Hey, there’s no football on this Sunday and I don’t think they’re televising spring training yet, so why not give CHIP a looksee.