Our Mission
Healthy Lifestyle Choices Global Institute is committed to inspiring, facilitating, organizing, developing, and establishing Lifestyle and Health Education Centers that prevent, reverse, and treat lifestyle induced diseases before a higher level of acute or chronic complication are necessary.
Who We Are
Healthy Lifestyle Choices Global Institute is a multi-faceted, charitable, faith based, non-profit tax-exempt 501 c3 organization. HLCGI endeavors to establish Lifestyle and Health Education Centers and to educate and conduct seminars all over the world on all continents. HLCGI was established in 1993 to provide Health Education, Disease Prevention and Lifestyle Improvement principles where needed. Today, the increase in lifestyle-induced diseases and a worldwide economic downturn makes the Lifestyle and Health Education Center model is vitally important in empowering others to manage their healthcare better. Globally, this type of specialized institution, whether homelike or larger in scope can assist in improving health and diminishing healthcare cost. Over the past decade HLCGI established: a Childhood Obesity Program in Rural Southern USA. During mission trips outside the USA, HLCGI was invited to present Lifestyle Intervention topics on cancer and vaccine alternatives for the USA Embassy and the Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) in Zambia., In 2013 HLCGI presented the first accredited Continuing Medication Education and Continuing Education Units (CME/CEU) program in Lifestyle Intervention with Natural Remedies for professionals. This event was held at the Jamaica Queens Hospital in New York, with an encouragement to continue. Today, through a special partnership the home base for this unique CME/CME program is at the Uchee Pines Institute, Seal Alabama. Biannually individuals from locations around the world participate to receive scientifically researched Natural Remedy therapies training.
Lifestyle and Health Education Centers are specialized institutions from their inception. They are designed to address three important and distinct features. Medically, they are places where a primary emphasis is placed on prevention and reversal using mental/emotional hygiene, physical medicine, and nutritional/diet therapy. Educationally, they are places where an earnest endeavor is made to cure the immediate malady, as well as instruct the patient in basic principles of health which can be carried home, and if possible to generate in the mind an enthusiasm to carry out these principles in future living. Spiritually/Inspirationally, they are places where these health principles are presented in a faith-based setting, with the hope of furnishing the patient/guest with an incentive to live in harmony with physical laws and find release from the tensions of life in a fellowship with the Almighty. The unique distinctions of the Health Education and Lifestyle Center give it a special ministry.
We are pleased to say that our mission and vision has expanded to address the needs in all of society.
Our Vision
Our vision is to see a thriving network of Lifestyle and Health Education Centers around the world. In these facilities, scientifically researched lifestyle interventions and changes are based on the fundamental principles proven to help guests achieve optimum health with the use of simple, natural methods, such as exercise, vegetarian nutrition, hydrotherapy, massage, the rational and judicious use of some herbs and supplements, and firm faith in the Divine Healer.
Today, people are suffering from illnesses, ailments, and diseases of the modern world. Long-term health studies have demonstrated that to a great extent they can be prevented and reversed by lifestyle education and management.
Healthy Lifestyle Choices Global Institute (HLCGI), its partners, and affiliates have provided preventive medicine for over 75 years and offer specially designed health programs which have demonstrated consistent success in:
- Weight reduction and control
- Heart disease reversal
- Hypertension Reversal
- Diabetes control and reversal
- Smoking cessation
- Stress resolution
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Respiratory Diseases
- Cancer
What We Do
HLCGI’s overarching commitment is the organization and establishment of Lifestyle and Health Education Centers worldwide. These specialized centers care about the mental/emotional, physical, social, and spiritual needs of individuals.
PARTNERS IN MINISTRY:
Healthy Lifestyle Choices Global Institute is part of a network of diverse ministries striving to accomplish a common goal for mental/emotional, physical, and spiritual healing. This is accomplished through a strong alliance and network of leadership. HLCGI’s primary feature includes teams of healthcare specialists in educational, ministerial and medical lines. These specialists include teacher/educators, administrators, pastors, Bible and literature workers, physicians, nurses, social workers, nutritionist, and many other medical missionary volunteers and workers who are willing to link and interact globally to establish Lifestyle and Health education Centers to train/educate on how to live an abundant and healthy life.
GLOBAL INTERACTION:
Our partners and affiliates are important. Their utilization of resource material for community outreach, such as HER expo material, Reversing Diabetes, Depression recovery, hydrotherapy and natural remedies training seminars, and more, will draw the community. Also, students and graduates of worldwide academies, colleges, universities, medical centers, and existing Lifestyle Centers/Medical Missionary Training Programs such as: The Pattern Lifestyle Center, Wildwood Lifestyle Center, Uchee Pines Institute, Eden Valley Lifestyle Center, Weimar Lifestyle Center and College, M.E.E.T Ministry, Amazing Facts College of Evangelism, and other institutions have assisted in global outreach endeavors. Other support organizations Maranatha, Outpost Centers International (OCI), and Adventist Laymen and Services Institute (ASI) are globally situated to unite in this effort. This united team effort can make a difference internationally. Even in those challenging locales where healthcare is limited or non-existent. Currently, One-Day Buildings are being considered as small Health Education and Lifestyle Centers, where health education, disease prevention, and lifestyle improvement can occur. This Global Interaction contributes to the benefits of unity.
Where We Work
IMAGINE A PLACE IN YOUR FAVORITE PART OF THE WORLD
HLCGI has received requests to establish Lifestyle and Health Education Centers from around the world. HLCGI prayerfully considers each request then sets an annual plan. In 2020-2022 we anticipate the establishment of centers in the United States, Sint Maarten, Cape Verde, Seychelles, Zimbabwe, and Asia. The organization has stand-by capacity to add other locales as establishment criteria are in place. In locations where healthcare is limited or non-existent, small homelike centers will be established using the One-Day buildings’ model. They can operate as feeders for the larger Lifestyle and Health Education Centers.
Even though a Global Network of lifestyle centers may not have the same visual identity in shape, size, and sophistication, all of the centers are undergirded by the same Mental, Physical, and Spiritual principles. The unique style and flavor of each center will most likely be shaped by local situations.
Our Governance
Healthy Lifestyle Choices Global Institute, Inc. (HLCGI) is led by a Board of Directors with all of the powers of governing, directing, and overseeing the management of the organization. The corporate governance principles of Healthy Lifestyle Choices Global Institute, Inc., are composed of a series of documents adopted by the Board of Directors. The documents are periodically reviewed to ensure they continue to meet the needs of the organization and reflect current industry best practices.