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HEALTH NEWS
How Lack of Sleep Affects Behavior
A new poll on sleep habits suggests that millions of Americans are in a bad mood, short-tempered and prone to overeat because they are tired. The National Sleep Foundation Poll finds that people say they're more likely to make mistakes, get impatient when waiting, or get upset with their children when they haven't gotten enough sleep the night before. Those who got fewer than six hours of sleep on weekdays were twice as likely to describe themselves as stressed or sad.
Asthma Campaign: Poor Diet in the Womb Raises Risk of Illness
Newborn babies could be at much greater risk of developing asthma if their mothers eat food which is low in vitamin E during pregnancy. The team of scientists involved in the study believe they are close to discovering which foods will help guard against asthma - marking a major breakthrough in the battle to combat the condition. Some caution against believing diet alone causes asthma. The disease is felt to be caused by a combination of factors including childhood infections, pollution in the home and in the outside environment. Other experts believe genetics play a key role in a child's susceptibility to the condition.
White House CAM Commission Makes Final Report Public
The final report of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (WHCCAMP) was made available to the public in an html version on the official WHCCAMP web site. This report, the culmination of two years of work by the 20-member commission, has predictably brought out the critics of CAM. The Commission's recommendations for more funds spent on CAM research may have hit at a bad time due to cuts in non-military spending since 9/11 OR the preventive and cost-savings health strategies might appeal to the cost-effective consciousness of some influential sectors of the government.
To keep up-to-date with news in the world of health and medicine, visit our Healthy News and our Healthy News Archive.
EDITOR'S PICK - NEW ONLINE WELLNESS TEST
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Healthworld is pleased to share a preview of its leading edge online Wellness Inventory, based on the pioneering work of wellness leader and author Jack Travis, M.D. The Wellness Inventory is the most comprehensive, interactive online wellness test on the market today. This online experience provides 120-questions to create an authentic personal profile of your total wellness. There is nothing else like it!
You are invited to take this test as a preview to its official release next month. Be on the leading edge and challenge yourself to assess your total wellness in new ways.
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FREE GIFTS! By completing the Wellness Inventory you will be eligible to receive $250 in products from HealthWorld's e-stores including a copy of Dr. Travis' new book, Simply Well: Choices for a Healthy Life; the Sound Health Collection (4 CD set) from Steven Halpern's Inner Peace Music; Sweetleaf Stevia (natural sweetener); Teeccino herbal coffee; and products from Phenomena and Pain Defense. For more about these products see the links in the Healthy Shopping section below.
The new online version allows the user to assess their Wellness Score in 12 key areas of life -- Self-Responsibililty & Love, Breathing & Relaxing, Sensing, Eating, Moving, Feeling, Thinking, Playing & Working, Sex, Finding Meaning, and Transcending. The online version calculates the user's Wellness Scores in each of these key areas and includes easily accessible commentaries on each of 120 wellness statement at the core of the Inventory, allowing for deeper exploration of key issues in one's life. Dr. Travis, widely regarded as one of the founders of the wellness movement in America, is author of the seminal Wellness Workbook and opened the first wellness center in the U.S. in Mill Valley, CA in 1975. Share it with your friends and let us know what you think. To take the test, go to www.healthy.net/well
COLUMNS FROM THE EXPERTS
The Healer Within
The presence of special breathing practices in the ancient cultures has always been a mystery to people in the Western world. In "Extending the Inhalation" Dr. Roger Jahnke explains that even with deep breathing there is still some lung capacity left following the exhalation. In this method the fullest extent of filling and emptying of the lungs is enacted. Breathe in until you think the lungs are filled. Then take in 3 more short breaths, to full lung capacity. Following the emptying of the lungs on the exhalation, expel three additional breaths. At both extremes, inhalation and exhalation, the benefit may be multiplied by briefly holding the breath.
Mind Over Matter
Solutions for shaping a healthy future are challenging at best … especially for our nation's adolescents. A study is shedding new light and hope in this arena where we need to make a difference. In "Adolescent Development: become your child's mentor" Barry Bittman, M.D. details the benefits when adolescents have an adult in their life they can turn to for help and advice – an adult mentor.
Understanding Homeopathy
Homeopathic medicine is a natural pharmaceutical science that uses various plants, minerals or animals in very small dose to stimulate the sick person's natural defenses. The medicines are individually chosen for their ability to cause in overdose the similar symptoms the person is experiencing. "Homoios" in Greek means similar and "pathos" means disease or suffering. Since one's symptoms are actually efforts of the organism to reestablish homeostasis or balance, it is logical to seek a substance that would, in overdose, cause the similar symptoms the person is experiencing. The medicines, thus, go with, rather than against, the person's natural defenses. In "Ten Most Frequently Asked Questions on Homeopathic Medicine" Dana Ullman answers common questions about homeopathy.
Echoes of Silence
A kind of knowing we call wisdom, or insight, or realization, comes easily into the mind when it becomes still and falls into Silence. In "A Journey to Silence" Robert Rabbin explains that this kind of knowing is pure revelation, a clarity untouched by thoughts or words or images. When we allow this knowing into our minds, our very lives become as clear as this knowing, as quiet as this Silence.
HEALTHY SHOPPING
Inner Peace Music Yoga Collection -
Music for Your Yoga Practice
The Inner Peace Yoga Collection includes three classic CDs
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* Music for Yoga (Helps quiet the mind & deepen the breath)
* Chakra Suite (Balances the 7 vital energy centers)
* Music for Savasana (For deep relaxation at end of yoga
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HEALTHY BOOKSTORE
Healthy Bookstore
Completely revised and expanded with descriptions of 1250 herbal products from mainland China, with 80 pages of color photos for identification "Chinese Herbal Patent Medicines" by Jake Fratkin includes California Food and Drug Branch lab analysis for heavy metals and pharmaceuticals, and a list of endangered animals according to the World Wildlife Fund. Besides being a thorough reference work, it includes much of Dr. Fratkin's 25 year clinical practice, and is an invaluable guide to the use of Chinese herbal medicine.
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Natur-Leaf - www.healthy.net/asp/stores/NaturLeaf/
PainDefense (Joint & Muscles Formula) - www.healthy.net/paindefense
Phenomena (Skincare, Weight Mgt, Imunnity) - www.healthy.net/phenomena/
SweetLeaf (Stevia-Natural Sweetener) - www.healthy.net/sweetleaf
Teeccino (Caffeine-Free Herbal Coffee) - www.healthy.net/teeccino
Third Line Press (Nutritional Medicine CD) - www.healthy.net/thirdline
Vitamin Store - www.vitacost.com/asp/default.asp?ID=Healthy01
NEWS FROM THE VILLAGE
Healthy Home
With the arrival of warmer spring weather, many of you are packing away your winter clothes. Are you hesitant to use moth balls because it is so difficult to get rid of the odor when you are ready to unpack the clothes? In "Removing Moth Ball Odor" Annie Berthold-Bond of Care2 reports how many people have tried baking soda, white vinegar, as well as many days of fresh air, with little or no effect. Annie provides you with a safe process that does work. Check out her "natural ozone" option - sunshine!
Featured Center
The Healthy Woman Center provides a powerful resource of over 130 articles and Real Audio tapes from leading experts in natural health care for women such as Susan Lark, M.D., Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, and Honora Lee Wolfe. The Center provides daily Women's Health News from the leading newswires, self-care and alternative therapies such as herbal medicine, homeopathy and Chinese medicine for dozens of women's health concerns, a Daily Women's Health Expert feature from a leading authority in women's health, a women's health bookstore, as well as women's health products from leading eco-friendly companies.
Healthy Man Update
Jock itch is definitely a condition worth your while to prevent. Symptoms are redness, itching and scaliness in the groin and thigh area. Clothing stored in dark, poorly ventilated conditions and then worn again without being laundered, provides the ideal environment in which the fungi thrive. Unfortunately, treatment can take up to two weeks to work. The article "Jock Itch" prepared by the American Institute of Preventive Medicine outlines self-help tips to relieve jock itch that are also guidelines for prevention.
Healthy Recipes - There's a Yogi in the Kitchen
Many ancient cultures recognized that all disease begins in the colon and they developed different ways to keep the colon healthy. The "There's a Yogi in the Kitchen" column "Flourishing Flora...The yogi's way to a healthy colon" includes simple ways you can begin to build healthier flora in your colon and a variety of homemade yogurt recipes.
Healthy Alternatives
There are over eighty different types of massage therapy and bodywork. Many are variations on each other, often developed by a practitioner who is trained in one particular approach and then goes on to develop his or her own variety, with its own new "brand name." In "Varieties and Techniques of Massage and Bodywork" William Collinge M.P.H., Ph.D. explains the unique qualities for Traditional European Massage, Contemporary Western Massage, Structural/ Functional/ Movement Integration, Oriental Methods and Energetic Methods (Non-oriental).
Association Network -- Hot Pick
Physicians' Association for Anthroposophical Medicine (PAAM) promotes anthroposophical medicine, which draws from all that is available in diagnostics
and therapeutics in orthodox medicine, adding to this what we can understand about the human being's soul and spiritual dimensions. Individual temperament and biographical aspects are taken into account as natural medications such as tinctures and homeopathics are prescribed along with various therapies. Treatment for illnesses ranging from minor infections to depression to cancers can be fortified with this approach.
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Featured Natural Medicine School
American Institute of Vedic Studies in Santa Fe, NM offers a 250 hour home study program which covers all the main aspects of Ayurvedic theory, diagnosis and practice, with special emphasis on herbal medicine and on dietary therapy. It also goes in detail into Yoga philosophy and Ayurvedic psychology, showing an integral approach of mind-body medicine. For more information: schools.naturalhealers.com/aivs/
To search a directory of natural medicine schools go to:
www.healthy.net/schools
GLOBAL HEALTH CALENDAR
Global Health Calendar
National Center for Homeopathy 2002 Annual Conference
Also featuring a special Post-conference workshop with Nandita Shah
Phoenix, AZ USA
April 11-16, 2002
Contact: National Center for Homeopathy - 703-548-7790
An Evening with Dr. Andrew Weil: A 'Wisdom of the Sages' Event
Marriott Hotel, Center City at 7:30pm
Philadelphia, PA USA
April 18, 2002
Contact: Mind Body Spirit Expo - 215-627-0102
Anatriptic Arts Expo 2002
A Showcase of Hands-On Healing at Ft. Mason Center
May 3-5, 2002
San Francisco, CA USA
Contact: Anatriptic Arts Expo - 866-854-3976
Holistic Medicine Scientific Conference
Breaking Down Barriers - Building Bridges
Toronto, Ontario CANADA
May 15-18, 2002
Contact: American Holistic Medical Association - 703-556-9728
65th Annual Natural Products Trade Show and Convention
NNFA MarketPlace 2002: Let's Get Down To Business
Las Vegas, NV USA
June 7-0, 2002
Contact: National Nutritional Foods Association - 800-966-6632
12th Annual ISSSEEM Conference
The Co-Creation Process in Energy Medicine: A Synergy of
the Sciences & the Healing Arts
Boulder, CO USA
June 14-19, 2002
Contact: International Society for the Study of Subtle
Energies & Energy Medicine - 303-425-4625
KEY SITES IN HEALTHWORLD ONLINE
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
James Strohecker, Co-founder, President, HealthWorld Online - jim@healthy.net
SENIOR EDITOR:
Suzan Walter, Director, HealthWorld Online Global Health Calendar, Speakers Network, Professional Referral Network, Association Network - swalter@healthy.net
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Nancy Shaw, Communications Director - nancys@healthy.net
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