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“We always tie the topic of conversation back to a asked to stand up and
medical issue, so that students and community members start dancing. We told
can learn the connection between lifestyle choices under them, ‘This is what
their control and how (that) relates to their personal happens when you eat
health issues,” she said. healthy. You feel like
you have a lot of
Students are also reaching out to the community in other energy.’ They had a
ways. Planting Seeds of Change is a service learning great time doing that.”
project involving local elementary schools. Lebanon
students help plant seeds, weed the garden and harvest At Samaritan Lebanon
the crops, and the food is used in the cafeteria. Community Hospital,
COMP-Northwest
“It’s a full-circle understanding of where food comes students work one-on-
from,” Dreibelbis said. one with diabetes
patients. They check in
WesternU students demonstrate how to cook the fresh
produce for sale at the farmers’ market and provide with patients once a
shoppers with recipes. The demonstrations have week to see if they’re
impacted sales to the point that market vendors ask following their health
which item they will be demonstrating so they can bring plan by exercising and
extra supplies. eating healthier. Leanora Merwin, DO ’17, (left) and Claire Donley, DO
’17, teach children about nutrition dressed as a banana
By talking to them for and carrot.
“It helps farmers, as well, and ties us more closely to the
community. We really feel we’re a resident of this small 10-15 minutes per
community,” Dreibelbis said. “We are neighbors. We week, the program “Treating the Cause” is making a
want to be a good citizen in the small town of Lebanon difference, Donley said.
and give back to the community.” “Medicine mostly revolves around an acute model,
especially in the U.S. If you have meningitis, we can treat
COMP-
Northwest you. If you have a broken leg, we can put a splint on it,”
students Donley said. “When it comes to chronic disease in
are taking medicine, that’s where we fail. The biggest killers out
their there can be prevented, and it’s through lifestyle
healthy medicine, through eating better, exercise and stress
living management. If we start at our school, getting our future
message to physicians ready for this, we will be able to educate
children in patients in a sincere way.”
the That change is also evident on COMP-Northwest’s
Lebanon
Katy Bochat, DO ’17, talks to students campus. Students are eating well and exercising more,
as part of Planting Seeds of Change. school Donley said.
district.
First-year students Leanora Merwin and Claire Donley “It’s really interesting how a cultural shift in a small
dressed up as a banana and carrot and taught elementary environment changes people’s behaviors,” she said. “You
school students about nutrition. see people around you eating well. In lectures, you learn
about nutrition. It’s great to be involved at a school
“We talked about everything from atoms to plaque tackling all this at the core. It’s really going to take this
building up in your arteries, as well as the benefits of grassroots movement for the change we need to see in
eating really well,” Donley said. “The fifth-graders were medicine.” – Rodney Tanaka
18 Western University of Health Sciences
medical issue, so that students and community members start dancing. We told
can learn the connection between lifestyle choices under them, ‘This is what
their control and how (that) relates to their personal happens when you eat
health issues,” she said. healthy. You feel like
you have a lot of
Students are also reaching out to the community in other energy.’ They had a
ways. Planting Seeds of Change is a service learning great time doing that.”
project involving local elementary schools. Lebanon
students help plant seeds, weed the garden and harvest At Samaritan Lebanon
the crops, and the food is used in the cafeteria. Community Hospital,
COMP-Northwest
“It’s a full-circle understanding of where food comes students work one-on-
from,” Dreibelbis said. one with diabetes
patients. They check in
WesternU students demonstrate how to cook the fresh
produce for sale at the farmers’ market and provide with patients once a
shoppers with recipes. The demonstrations have week to see if they’re
impacted sales to the point that market vendors ask following their health
which item they will be demonstrating so they can bring plan by exercising and
extra supplies. eating healthier. Leanora Merwin, DO ’17, (left) and Claire Donley, DO
’17, teach children about nutrition dressed as a banana
By talking to them for and carrot.
“It helps farmers, as well, and ties us more closely to the
community. We really feel we’re a resident of this small 10-15 minutes per
community,” Dreibelbis said. “We are neighbors. We week, the program “Treating the Cause” is making a
want to be a good citizen in the small town of Lebanon difference, Donley said.
and give back to the community.” “Medicine mostly revolves around an acute model,
especially in the U.S. If you have meningitis, we can treat
COMP-
Northwest you. If you have a broken leg, we can put a splint on it,”
students Donley said. “When it comes to chronic disease in
are taking medicine, that’s where we fail. The biggest killers out
their there can be prevented, and it’s through lifestyle
healthy medicine, through eating better, exercise and stress
living management. If we start at our school, getting our future
message to physicians ready for this, we will be able to educate
children in patients in a sincere way.”
the That change is also evident on COMP-Northwest’s
Lebanon
Katy Bochat, DO ’17, talks to students campus. Students are eating well and exercising more,
as part of Planting Seeds of Change. school Donley said.
district.
First-year students Leanora Merwin and Claire Donley “It’s really interesting how a cultural shift in a small
dressed up as a banana and carrot and taught elementary environment changes people’s behaviors,” she said. “You
school students about nutrition. see people around you eating well. In lectures, you learn
about nutrition. It’s great to be involved at a school
“We talked about everything from atoms to plaque tackling all this at the core. It’s really going to take this
building up in your arteries, as well as the benefits of grassroots movement for the change we need to see in
eating really well,” Donley said. “The fifth-graders were medicine.” – Rodney Tanaka
18 Western University of Health Sciences
