DR. ANDREW WEIL'S MIND-BODY TOOL KIT

The evidence is overwhelming: you can tap the power of your mind to directly influence your health, using clinically proven tools that anyone can master.

With Dr. Andrew Weil's Mind-Body Tool Kit, listeners join the best-selling author along with three renowned colleagues and friends - all leading specialists in alternative medicine - to experience a potent prescription of self-healing practices.

Congress Set To Override State Medical-Privacy Rights
On May 24, the U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health voted 8-5 to approve a bill (H.R. 4157) that will likely be used to override your state medical-privacy rights. The legislation empowers unelected bureaucrats from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to decide how much or how little privacy you can have. If HHS decides to override your state medical-privacy rights, no state law or state lawmaker will be able to protect you from the politics of the Washington D.C. beltway and the lobbyists of health plans, government, and data corporations who want your private data at no cost and at their own discretion.

One-Third Of Adults With Diabetes Still Don’t Know They Have It
The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in U.S. adults age 20 and older has risen to 6.5 percent, according to researchers. Nearly 22 percent of people age 65 and older have diabetes. About 2.8 percent of U.S. adults — one-third of those with diabetes — still don't know they have it. Of adults age 20 and older about 26 percent have impaired fasting glucose, a form of pre-diabetes. If your blood glucose is high but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes, losing weight and increasing physical activity will greatly lower your risk of getting type 2 diabetes.

Toxic Dentistry May Be Major Threat To Health
Most of us have heard about the epidemic of prescription drugs and the associated hospitalizations and deaths from toxic medicines, that have made modern medicine the leading cause of death, ahead of heart disease and cancer. Bringing dentistry into the equation may raise some eyebrows. Yet perhaps the heavy toxic assault from fluoride, mercury amalgams and hidden tooth decay make matters worse for our over all health.

MORE HEALTH NEWS...
To keep up-to-date with news in the world of health and medicine, visit our Healthy News and our Healthy News Archive.

ALL NATURAL HERBAL SWEETENER - ZERO CALORIES, ZERO CARBOHYDRATES, ZERO GLYCEMIC INDEX, AND ZERO CHEMICALS

Artificial sweeteners are born in a test tube - Stevia is born in a rain forest. Used worldwide as an no-calorie herbal sweetener, the leaves of the Stevia plant has a refreshing taste that can be 30 times sweeter than sugar. SweetLeaf SteviaPlus is now available in convenient packets or powder form. Also try SteviaClear liquid for sweetening beverages and cooking.

Continuing Our 12-Stage Journey to Wellness
This week our journey focuses on the power of FINDING MEANING, the 11th of 12 keys to wellness drawn from the Wellness Inventory whole person assessment program. Finding meaning appears to be a unique human need. It is one of the most complex uses of energy in that it involves almost all of the previous energy forms. Since the beginning of time philosophers have asked these basic questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? What do I want? What is real? What is true? This section encourages you to find a deeper meaning in your life that can provide a powerful focus for directing your life-energy.

Ask Dr. Orloff About Intuitive Healing
In "Step Three of Intuitive Healing: Sensing Subtle Energy" Judith Orloff, M.D. explains the dynamics of empathy: the more people per square foot, the more our energy fields intersect--thus the tendency to become overloaded in high-density areas. This aspect of intuition is the most neglected and misunderstood.

MASTERS IN INTEGRATIVE STUDIES OPENS POSSIBILITIES

California Institute for Integral Studies recently launched a new master’s degree program in Integrative Health Studies. The program prepares graduates to take leadership roles in the new field of integrative health, which bridges complementary and alternative healing traditions and Western science and medicine. Graduates work locally and globally in health care administration, health policy making and planning, and health education and research. Class meetings are designed for working professionals and are scheduled on weekends and evenings. Admissions deadline is July 1. Scholarships are available. Call 415.575.6153 for more information or visit www.ciis.edu/academics/ihl.htm

Integrative Dentistry
Millions of people at some point in their lives are concerned about bad breath. In 85% of cases it is due to bacteria in the mouth, not gastrointestinal problems as touted by manufacturers of many "cures." In "Bad Breath" Flora Parsa Stay, D.D.S. exposes the negative effects of many common products and gives practical data on real causes and what you can do to diminish or prevent mouth odor problems.

Healthy Alternatives
The ideal posture is one in which the different segments of the body, the head, neck, chest and abdomen are balanced vertically one upon the other so that the weight is borne mainly by the bony framework with a minimum of effort and strain on muscles and ligaments. In "Posture and Correct Body Use" Leon Chaitow, N.D., D.O., M.R.O. points out abuses from repetitive stress and incorrect standing, sitting, and sleeping positions - along with how osteopathy offers corrective options.

Dr. Christine Horner's Natural Secrets for Breast Health
Significantly lowering your risk of breast cancer isn't difficult. In "Breast Health Tip #3: B Vitamins" Christine Horner, M.D., F.A.C.S explains how two types of B vitamins -- folic acid and B12 -- help to lower the risk of breast cancer by protecting your DNA from making mistakes that can lead to cancer.

Healthy Man Update
In "Prostatitis" David L. Hoffmann, B.Sc. (Hons), M.N.I.M.H. addresses infection of the prostate gland, including a specific combination of herbal remedies.

Find an Alternative Healthcare Professional
The Professional Referral Network contains searchable directories for 20 leading professional associations in complementary and integrative health care, with over 17,000 professionals. Looking for a healthcare professional specializing in naturopathy? The Naturopathic Medicine section includes the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians member database.

Healthy Bookstore - The Sunfood Diet Success System

"The Sunfood Diet Success System" by David Wolfe provides up to date information on organic and wild harvested foods, the benefits of a sunfood diet, and demonstrates how to transition into this healthy way of eating for a full energy filled lifestyle change. It gives clear examples of what to eat and what not to eat and more importantly why. It describes the pitfalls one may encounter when on a raw food diet and how to correct them.

Nutrition Tips
Fresh vegetables have life force and are a major contributor to health and vitality. In "Vegetables" Elson M. Haas, M.D. reminds us that most vegetables are very high in water and necessary vitamins and minerals and are low in fat and protein. Thus, they are a perfect complement to animal protein meals to help supply the needed nutrients that aid the digestion and utilization of those concentrated foods.

Vegetarian Recipe
Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine offers you a vegetarian recipe for "Chocolate Cake."

WANT MORE BALANCE, HEALTH & WELLBEING IN YOUR LIFE?

Rising healthcare costs and cuts to employee health benefits are driving us all to one conclusion - we must take a greater responsibility for maintaining our health & wellbeing. The Wellness Inventory helps you do just that. The online program helps you to focus on the areas of your life that you can make the greatest impact in creating a higher level of health and wellbeing, and supports you in making those changes. Bring more balance into your life! To learn more, go to www.mywellnesstest.com/HealthyUpdate.asp

The Healer Within
In "Every Seventh Breath Full and Relaxed" Dr. Roger Jahnke describes a technique that brings the consciousness of the breath and the benefits of breath practice to as much of one's daily activities as possible. This method spreads the benefits of breath practice, pervasively, throughout the day.

Mind-Body-Spirit
Meditation and related relaxation techniques have been scientifically shown to be highly beneficial to health. In "Meditation and Relaxation" Daniel Redwood, D.C. walks you through a number of approaches to meditation, and includes specific instructions to get you started.

DRINK, SHOWER, BATHE - LIVE IN PURE, HEALTHY WATER!

The Rhino Whole House water Filtration System from Aquasana is the ultimate home appliance, and is now available Factory Direct. Healthy water throughout the entire household for about 60¢ a day!

This deluxe, high capacity system has the highest certified capacity of any Whole House Water Filtration System in America! Previously only available through Plumbing Contractors and Home Builders, priced at $1,595. Now you can buy "Factory Direct" at big savings!

HEALTH PRACTITIONERS & LIFE COACHES
Whole Person Wellness Assessment for Your Practice
Are you looking for a tool to:
* Attract new clients
* Bring a wellness dimension to your practice
* Assess your client's wellness needs
* Determine the areas they are motivated to change
* Create personalized wellness plans
* Help clients achieve their wellness goals
* Develop new profit centers

The Wellness Inventory may serve your wellness needs.

For more information, visit: www.WellPeople.com
(wellness@healthy.net - 310-823-9553)

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Aquasana (Home Water Filtration Systems) -
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Third Line Press (Nutritional Medicine CD) -
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GLOBAL HEALTH CALENDAR

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Holism in Action: Building Integrated Health Care
2006 AHMA & AHNA Annual Conference
St. Paul, MN USA
June 7-10, 2006
Contact: American Holistic Medical Association & American Holistic Nurses Association - 505-292-7788

Food as Medicine
Baltimore, MD USA
June 10-16, 2006
Contact: Center for Mind-Body Medicine - 202-966-7338

The Cutting Edge of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine
ISSSEEM 16th Annual International Conference
Boulder, CO USA
June 22-28, 2006
Contact: International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine - 303-425-4625

NNFA 2006
Las Vegas, NV USA
July 14-16, 2006
Contact: National Nutritional Foods Association - 714-460-7732

31st Annual National Wellness Conference
The Power of Supportive Relationships
Stevens Point, WI USA
July 15, 20, 2006
Contact: National Wellness Institute, Inc. - 800-243-8694

Consumer Health World
(Conferences include: CDHCC, NHWPC, TETHIC, BoomerBusiness)
Washington, DC
December 11-13, 2006
Contact: Transmarx, LLC - 804-225-7458

For more leading health events visit www.healthcalendar.com

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