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HEALTH NEWS
Window on the World: Part 1 - Imagine an Oncology Clinic
Imagine an oncology clinic where many of the cancer patients appear surprisingly healthy - a glint in their eye, most with hair, and very lively. And the outpatient clinic also seats healthy patients - still returning some five to 10 years later... You're at Shugua Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in China. And that's exactly what a group of acupuncture and Oriental medicine students from Bastyr University witnessed. The TCM doctors there have discovered ways to marry Western medicine with TCM to treat cancer more successfully. The result: healthy patients, and unheard of remission rates. Read more about these students' observations in China.
Sales of Vitamins, Dietary Supplements Growing
Even if you ate the 100 percent best diet, the food itself doesn't have many essential vitamins and minerals. The vitamins and minerals in mass-produced food are incomplete. It's not surprising that sales of vitamins and other dietary supplements is dramatically increasing. However, you still need to eat as healthy a diet as you can.
Mind Over Medicine
It has long been suspected that your head could help your health. Now the scientists agree. Mind-body medicine is now a respected area of research, with growing evidence to suggest that the way we think has a real impact on health. One reason is that science now has the technology to demystify stress and explain its impact on the body in medical terms. When it comes to getting healthy and staying healthy, cleaning up your head is almost as important as cleaning out your arteries.
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
Experience the Most Comprehensive Personal Wellness Assessment available anywhere - FREE!
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Healthworld is pleased to share a preview of the online
Wellness Inventory, based on the seminal work of wellness
pioneer and author John W. Travis, M.D. The Wellness
Inventory is the most comprehensive, interactive online
wellness test on the market today. This online experience of
120 wellness questions allows you to create an authentic
personal profile of 12 key areas your life. There is nothing
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You are invited to take this test as a preview to its
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Simply Well: Choices for a Healthy Life - new book from Dr. John Travis
Sound Health Collection: (4 CD set) from Steven Halpern's Inner Peace Music
Sweetleaf Stevia: All Natural products for cooking and sweetening beverages
Teeccino: 3 cans of Teeccino herbal coffee & SwissGold Coffee Brewer
Here, There & Beyond: Rapid Relief & Serene Spray (Essential Oil Formulas)
Phenomena: (Natural Health & Beauty Technology) - $100 of products
For more about these products see the links in the Healthy
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WHAT DOES THE WELLNESS INVENTORY MEASURE?
As a participant you will be able to assess your Wellness Score in 12 key areas of life: Self-Responsibility & Love, Breathing & Relaxing, Sensing, Eating, Moving, Feeling, Thinking, Playing & Working, Sex, Finding Meaning, and Transcending. The program calculates your Wellness Scores in each of these key areas and includes easily accessible commentaries on each of 120 wellness statements at the core of the test, enabling deeper exploration of key issues in your life.
Dr. Travis, a member of the HealthWorld Advisory Board, is
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 the Wellness Inventory with your friends and let us
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COLUMNS FROM THE EXPERTS
Dr. Galland's Integrated
Medicine
Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in your body, a necessary co-factor for hundreds of enzymes, and the most critical mineral of all for coping with stress. Stress-related diseases which run rampant through modern society, like heart attacks and high blood pressure, are often accompanied by magnesium deficiency. Unfortunately, most Americans consume diets that fail to meet the government's RDA for magnesium, and magnesium intake is even lower than average among people who develop heart disease, according to Dr. Leo Galland in "Magnesium: The Stress Reliever."
Mind Body Health Newsletter
Patients undergoing surgery often experience a loss of control, feeling more like victims than participants. Anxiety, fear of the unknown, fear of pain, dependency, uncertainty, and helplessness are common emotions which can intensify the perception of pain associated with invasive medical procedures. Physical and psychological stress can also contribute to prolonged postoperative recovery and a suppressed immune system, reports Dr. David Sobel in "Guided Imagery Speeds Surgical Recovery." Guided imagery may also help patients strengthen their immune system and enhance their own healing according to recent studies.
Keeping Fit
If you enjoy rowing, canoeing, or kayaking, then the information in "Better Rowing Through Strength Training" by Wayne L. Westcott Ph.D. should be most helpful for improving your rowing/paddling performance and reducing your risk of muscle overuse/imbalance injuries. A chart shows the recommended strength exercises and training order for increased rowing/paddling power.
Staying Healthly Tips
Spring is the season of re-birth. In "10 Tips for Staying Healthy in Spring" Elson M. Haas M.D. offers you practical and refreshing things you can do to be sure you are healthy and able to truly enjoy this special time of the year.
HEALTHY SHOPPING
Kick The Sugar Habit This Holiday Season!
Stevia - The Natural Herbal Sweetener
Stevia, one of the most beneficial plants on earth, is used throughout the world as a no-calorie sweetener. Native to Paraguay, it is a small green plant bearing leaves which have a delicious and refreshing taste that can be 30 times sweeter than sugar. SweetLeaf?rand SteviaPlus?a nutritional supplement available in convenient packets and powder form, uses only a small amount of stevia to produce its remarkably refreshing taste. In fact, you can reduce your sugar use by 2 teaspoons for each packet of SteviaPlus?ue to its natural and intense sweetness! Sweetleaf also offers stevia in a convenient liquid form.
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Werbach's Nutritional Influences on Illness Now On CD
The Ultimate Nutritional Medicine Resource
Compiled over the last 15 years by internationally known nutritional medicine expert Melvyn Werbach, M.D., Nutritional Influences on Illness is your instant access to the scientific literature on nutritional medicine, with over 4,200 pages of nutrition research on specific health conditions. Designed for health practitioners, supplement formulators, researchers and other professionals whose business it is to keep abreast of our knowledge of how diet and nutrients influence the course of illness, this CD covers more than 100 health conditions in the masterful, easy-to-read style that made the book Nutritional Influences on Illness internationally famous. Other nutritional medicine sourcebooks are available. SPECIAL: Previously $395, CD is now only $99!
Inner Peace Music Yoga Collection -
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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
class)
Listen to Sample: "Eternity"
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HEALTHY BOOKSTORE
Healthy Bookstore
"Prescription for Nutritional Healing: A Practical A-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, and Food Supplements" by nutritionist Phyllis A. Balch and James F. Balch, M.D. has long been considered one of the most trusted, comprehensive sources on the mind-boggling array of vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other dietary supplements now available. Working from the premise that a good diet promotes good health, this third edition of PNH still starts with the basics: consume fresh produce, grains, and lean meats; avoid foods that are processed or high in saturated fat; cook using glass, stainless steel, or iron--never aluminum; and drink filtered water. The third edition adds now-accepted remedies, the newer supplements to hit the market, expanded data on alternative therapies, and a hefty section on pain control. The bulk of the book remains the more than 250 health conditions--from everyday problems (such as insect bites and bad breath) to serious diseases (including bulimia, cancer, and AIDS) - and the nutritional protocols the Balchs recommend for treatment.
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