By Raquel Daisy

Photos courtesy of Dr. Errol Bryce

Fort Worth, Texas (August 10, 2011) – NTSP physician, Dr. Errol Bryce, decided to become a doctor to answer one seemingly simple yet complex question: why do people die? In his quest to find this answer, he is teaching people how to lead healthier and longer lives.

Life changed for Dr. Bryce at the age of 17 when his father passed away unexpectedly at only 39 years of age. Dr. Bryce was studying engineering at the time and on that day made the decision to walk away from engineering and study medicine. Since then, he has made it his mission to combine faith and evidence-based medicine to help others live longer and healthier lives.

Guided by the philosophy of Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard University, Dr. Bryce developed New Steps to Health, a program that introduces positive habits that lead to healthy living. “To make people change, you have to take them through a process,” says Dr. Bryce. Since applying this method to his own life, Dr. Bryce has lost 40 pounds and now takes his message about healthy living on the road to people in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.

New Steps to Health involves introducing participants to better habits in gradual doses. Participants learn how to go from just thinking about changing their bad habits to actually taking action to change. “Only 10 percent of all who need to make a change will make it and stick to it,” said Dr. Bryce. “Most wellness programs are using incentives and rewards and that method provides limited success.” The difference in Dr. Bryce’s program is he works with people no matter what stage they are in during the change process. He takes seminar participants through the following steps to help them make and stick to a healthy lifestyle change:

1. Change negative thinking
2. Overcome emotional fears
3. Change habits

The three-day seminars are followed by weekly follow-up sessions with Dr. Bryce. Participants gather together twice a week for three weeks to help reinforce the methods they were taught during the seminar.

Aside from his private practice, Dr. Bryce still manages to find time to spend with his family. He conducts healthy living seminars twice a month, is an adjunct clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of North Texas and is currently writing a book. Dr. Bryce recently conducted one of his seminars in his home country Jamaica and has upcoming seminars scheduled for New York and Fort Worth. His future goals include conducting further research in the effectiveness of his New Steps to Health method with a cohort trial study. His lifetime goal is to reach the age of 100 and still practicing medicine.

Dr. Bryce is a physician of internal medicine with Texas Healthcare in Fort Worth. He served as Chief of Medicine at Baylor All Saints in Fort Worth for four years. He has been a member of NTSP since 2004 and participates in the Care N’ Care Medicare health plans. Dr. Bryce was born and raised in Jamaica. He attended medical school at the University of Montemorelos and externship in endocrinology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He completed his residency at Wilson Memorial Regional Medical Center in New York where he graduated with Best Resident honors. Dr. Bryce was recently featured in the article “Doctor mixes faith, medicine in seminars to help people live healthier lives” published in the July 1, 2011 issue of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

For more information about Dr. Bryce’s New Steps seminars, visit newstepstohealth.com.

For more information about NTSP, visit www.ntsp.com.