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HEALTH
NEWS
How The FDA is Becoming a Drug Company
Under the false pretense of improved food and drug safety the FDA is
re-inventing itself as a kingpin drug company. This charade has so far
hoodwinked virtually all members of Congress. The Senate has already
approved this FDA transformation. The House will bring similar legislation
out of committee this week, with a vote in the full House likely in July.
TCM To Treat Infertility
Traditional Chinese Medicine suggests that there are three main causes of
infertility: deficiency syndrome, stagnancy syndrome and heat syndrome. All
three syndromes can be treated with Chinese herbs, acupuncture or a
combination of both. These traditional Chinese approaches can also be, and
are often, combined with Western medicine in treating infertility. While
some scientists claim the drugs are too diluted to harm humans, they
acknowledge no one knows the dangers of lifetime exposure.
Pharmaceuticals Contaminating Public Water Supplies
Pharmaceuticals, including birth-control hormones and anti-seizure
medications, have been found in Lake Michigan and public water supplies,
according to a new study. It has been pointed out that even the smallest
amounts of pharmaceuticals, as well as substances such as anti-bacterial
soap, could harm aquatic life.
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.
EDITOR'S PICK - STEPS FOR GROWTH
NEXT STEP IN PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
The path to manifesting your highest self is within you. Steps To Growth
delivers what many people have thought about or put off for years. Only on
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is a 90-day interactive journey with integrated multimedia support and a
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Audio Program, Workbook and Goal-Achieving System, DVD Video, and an active
Journaling System that helps track your progress and sustain your
successes. The popularity continues to grow every year as more people try
it and recommend it. If you think it's time for the next step on that path
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WELLNESS and
HEALTHY LIVING
CONTINUING OUR 12-STAGE JOURNEY TO WELLNESS
This week our journey focuses on FEELING, the 6th of 12 keys to wellness in
the Wellness Inventory. We experience feelings and emotions from well
before the event of our birth. They can be intense, or frightening, or
wonderful. They can also be the most misunderstood, and consequently
mistreated, gifts we have as human beings. We judge them, repress them,
discount them, drug them, worship them, and run from them. Yet, what a bore
to be without them! Life fully lived is life filled with feeling!
Simply Well
Although there is a mass of conflicting data surrounding the components of
sound nutrition practices, in "Learn Ten Basics about Food" John W. Travis,
M.D., M.P.H., provides you with certain recommendations that are almost
universally accepted. He challenges you to pick one to implement into your
daily diet over the next few weeks.
Healthy
Computing
Sometimes when working we feel tired, sleepy, empty and in need of energy.
In "The Wave" Erik Peper, Ph.D. urges you to take a new moments away from
your work and recharge with a simple exercise.
WELLNESS INVENTORY CERTIFICATION TRAINING - ADVERTISEMENT
SUMMER CERTIFICATION TELE-CLASSES BEGIN IN JULY
The Summer Wellness Inventory Certification Training teleclasses begin on
July 10 and end on August 23, running for 7 weeks, with 2 teleclasses
weekly. The goal of the certification training is to create competence in
delivering the Wellness Inventory assessment and life-balance program
(www.WellPeople.com) to individual, group and organizational clients. The
training also focuses on the participants own personl development. Created
for wellness coaches, health practitioners, spa professionals, and
corporate wellness professionals, the training is approved by the
International Coach Federation for continuing coaching credits. Payment
plans available.
For more information contact Jim Strohecker at 310-823-9553 or
wellpeople.com/Certification.asp
NATURAL
ALTERNATIVES
Nutritional Medicine and Longevity
In "Homocysteine: The Key To Heart Attack, Stroke, & Cardiovascular
Disease" Richard A. Kunin, M.D. notes that homocysteine is a preventable
and treatable factor in blood vessel disease. In fact over 200 research
studies already provide a consensus that identifies this molecule as the
most important strategic factor in heart attacks and strokes, far more
powerful than cholesterol and fat. If the chemical pathways to its useful
end-products are impaired, homocysteine build-up causes more mischief than
any other physiologic "ortho"molecule. People with high homocysteine scores
are at greater risk for heart attack.
Healthy Alternatives
Headaches are a common complaint and a notoriously difficult one to treat
effectively. In "Headaches" George T. Lewith, M.A., M.R.C.G.P., M.R.C.P.
describes how the majority of headache sufferers obtain significant and
long lasting pain relief from acupuncture treatment. Migraines seem to
respond as well as, if not better than, other types of headache.
Women's Health Detective
Is sugar really harmful to your health? If so, does this include all kinds,
including fruit sugar (fructose), molasses, honey, raw sugar, maltose,
maple syrup, and other sweeteners? In "The Scoop On Sugar" Nan Kathryn
Fuchs, Ph.D. advises you to keep all sugars down, especially refined sugar.
Don't assume that if sugar is "natural," as in honey or fruit-juice
sweetened cookies, it's safe. It may be what you'd like to believe, but too
much of any sugar can and does affect your health.
Healthy Woman Update
Cystitis is an inflammation of the wall and lining of the urinary bladder
that may be due to bacterial infection or to mechanical abrasion from
microcrystals of calcium phosphate in urine. In "Cystitis" David L.
Hoffmann, B.Sc. (Hons), M.N.I.M.H. discusses causes plus herbal and
lifestyle treatment approaches.
Find an Alternative Healthcare
Professional
Looking for a practitioner specializing in flower colonics? Search the
Colon Hydrotherapy section which includes the International Association of
Colon Hydrotherapy member database in HealthWorld's Find a Practitioner
Network. The network contains searchable directories with over 17,000
professionals from 20 leading professional associations in
complementary/alternative and integrative medicine.
RECOMMENDED
READING
Healthy Bookstore - The Miracle of Magnesium
More than seventy-five years ago, medical scientists declared magnesium to
be an essential nutrient, indispensable to life. When this mineral is part
of your diet, you are guarding against–and helping to alleviate–health
threats such as heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, depression,
arthritis, and asthma. In "The Miracle of Magnesium" Carolyn Dean, M.D.,
N.D., an authority on this mineral who has used it with dramatic success in
her own practice, explains the vital role that magnesium plays in the
control of many serious ailments–from painful muscle spasms and bladder
problems to traumatic brain injury and complications of pregnancy and
childbirth.
HEALTHY
KITCHEN
Raw Food Materia Medica
Rutabagas are believed to be a mutation of a wild cabbage and turnip, all
members of the Mustard Family. They are warming and liver stimulating.
Rutabagas have been recommended to treat constipation, improve digestive
disorders and to rid the body of intestinal worms. In general, foods in the
Mustard Family are all rich in the antioxidant dithiolthiones, sulfur and
indoles, all found to have anti-cancer activity. Rutabagas are high in
beta-carotene; contain some vitamin C, B complex, calcium, potassium, fiber
and carbohydrates.
Vegetarian Recipe
Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine offers you a vegetarian
recipe for "White Bean Dip with Lemon and Garlic."
PEAK VITALITY ANTHOLOGY - ADVERTISEMENT
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Chopra, Lynne, McTaggart, Julia Cameron, Mehmet OZ, Christiane Northrop,
Eckhart Tolle, Prince Charles, Michael Beckwith, Mariel Hemingway, Candace
Pert, and others!
What if we could exceed the upper limits of wellness? What would happen
if, rather than focusing on being physically well, we imagined ourselves
physically vibrant?
The editors at Elite Books are exploring just that question in a new
anthology, Peak Vitality: Raising the Threshold of Abundance in Our
Material, Spiritual, and Emotional Lives (Fall 2007). In it, leading edge
scientists, psychologists, physiologists, health practitioners, exercise
physiologists, etc. call us to examine the thresholds of our thinking,
feeling, and experiencing in order to achieve a state of vibrance!
Do you have something compelling to contribute? If so, then Jeanne House,
primary editor of Peak Vitality, wants to speak with you! A select few
chapters in this groundbreaking book will be written by New Voices- voices
on the leading edge. They will be coached through the entire process, from
idea conception through the final draft, and add a valuable credential to
their list of accomplishments.
Interested yet? See www.peakvitality.org and
www.thenewvoices.com. Or contact the Editor, Jeanne House at
jeanne@authorspublishing.com
MIND-BODY-SPIRIT
Mind/Body Health
Patients often only communicate symptoms such as pain, wheezing, swelling,
and itching. Physicians often remain unaware of how the symptoms impact the
patient’s life. Similar symptoms may have very different importance for
different patients. It is critical that you communicate not only your
symptoms but how important that symptom is to you and what it means to you.
How much does the symptom interfere with your life, work, recreation,
relationships, and plans? Your doctor isn't a mind-reader, notes David
Sobel, M.D. in "Tips for Communicating with Your Doctor."
Spiritual Wellness
If, in the name of spirituality, we turn away from the challenge of
psychological growth, we end up neglecting a vital area of development. In
"Entering the Shadow, Do Not Turn Away" Philip Goldberg provides excellent
reasons why shying away from the shadow side of our psyches is not a good
idea. He shows us how we are better served if we look into our shadows with
unabashed honesty and usher what we find into the light. Once it is visible
we can see it for what it is - a part of ourselves that we can learn from
and dance with.
PHYSICIAN FORMULAS - ADVERTISEMENT
MIND POWER RX - OPTIMAL MIND SUPPORT
Developed by Ray Sahelian, M.D., bestselling author of Mind Boosters:
Natural Supplements that Enhance Your Mind, Memory, and Mood, Mind Power Rx
helps improve mental alertness and wakefulness along with boosting mental
stamina. Many people notice being more focused and able to concentrate
better. The dozen or more herbs and nutrients found in Mind Power Rx
support neurotransmitter function, improve blood flow to the brain, support
enzymatic and metabolic function in nerve cells, and act as neuronal
antioxidants.
If you have tried single brain nutrients or combinations that left you
unsatisfied, overstimulated, or on edge and restless, it is time you do
yourself a favor and try Mind Power Rx, a highly popular and respected,
doctor-formulated formula with 18 different herbs and nutrients balanced
delicately to provide smooth and healthy mind support.
PROFESSIONAL'S
CORNER
WELLNESS INVENTORY CERTIFICATION TRAINING - SUMMER TELE-CLASS
The Summer Wellness Inventory Certification Training teleclasses begin on
July 10 and end on August 23, running for 7 weeks, with 2 teleclasses
weekly. The goal of the certification training is to create competence in
delivering the Wellness Inventory assessment and life-balance program
(www.WellPeople.com) to individual, group and organizational clients. The
training also focuses on the participants own personl development. Created
for wellness coaches, health practitioners, spa professionals, and
corporate wellness professionals, the training is approved by the
International Coach Federation for continuing coaching credits. Payment
plans available.
For more information contact Jim Strohecker at 310-823-9553 or
/wellpeople.com/Certification.asp
THE NATIONAL WELLNESS CONFERENCE - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PERSONAL RENEWAL
Every summer an ever-expanding family of health and wellness promotion
professionals come together for the National Wellness Conference.
The Conference is a "wellness immersion" built upon the premise that
professional development and personal growth are interdependent and can be
enhanced equally. The Conference environment is a special place where
like-minded professionals can participate in "best practices" learning
opportunities, intensive skill building programs, and develop networking
communities. Inspiring and rewarding, participants leave with the tools for
change.
This year's Conference, titled "Creating and Sustaining Wellness Cultures"
features keynote speakers, former Arkansas Governor, Mike Huckabee, Former
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Louis W.
Sullivan, MD, and internally recognized pharmacologist and author Candace
Pert, PhD. July 14-21, 2007 Stevens Point, Wisconsin USA.
MORE PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES
Botanical Medicine Sourcebooks & Textbooks
Compounding Pharmacy Directory
Diagnostic Laboratory Directory
Nutritional Medicine Sourcebooks and Textbooks
The Natural Standard: The Authority on Integrative Medicine
GLOBAL HEALTH
CALENDAR
-- FEATURED EVENT --
32nd Annual National Wellness Conference
Creating and Sustaining Wellness Cultures
Stevens Point, WI USA
July 12-21, 2007
Contact: National Wellness Institute - 800-243-8694
-- UPCOMING HEALTH & WELLNESS EVENTS --
Food As Medicine
Baltimore, MD USA
June 23-29, 2007
Contact: The Center for Mind-Body Medicine - 202-966-7338
FoodMed
The Second International Conference on Healthy Food in Healthcare
Boston, MA USA
June 28-29, 2007
Contact: Institute for a Sustainable Future - 218-525-7806
Living in Joy, Passion and Purpose
Health and Wellness Spa Retreat at Rancho LaPuerta
Tecate, MEXICO
July 21-28, 2007
Contact: OSECRAFT Ventures - 860-673-0163
35th Annual Cancer Convention: Alternative Therapies
For the General Public and Professionals
Universal City, CA USA
September 1-3, 2007
Contact: Cancer Control Society - 323-663-7801
Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine – Transformation: Individuals in Balance; Families in Harmony
Chantilly, VA USA
October 18-21, 2007
Contact: Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation - 212-274-1079
For more leading health events visit www.healthcalendar.com
HEALTHY SHOPPING - PRODUCTS & SERVICES FOR HEALTHY LIVING
HEALTHY SHOPPING NETWORK
HealthyShopping.com
American Botanical Council (Botanical Medicine Tests) -
HealthyShopping.com/ABC
Aquasana (Home Water Filtration Systems) -
HealthyShopping.com/Aquasana
Bookstore (Health and Wellness) -
HealthyShopping.com/books
ChildLife (Nutrition for Kids) -
HealthyShopping.com/childlife
Here, There & Beyond (Essential Oils) -
HealthyShopping.com/heretherebeyond
Inner Peace Music (Steven Halpern) -
HealthyShopping.com/innerpeace
MigraSpray (Natural Migraine Relief) -
HealthyShopping.com/MigraSpray
Natur-Leaf (Anti-Aging Products) -
HealthyShopping.com/NaturLeaf
Nutraceutics (Anti-Aging, Women's Health) -
HealthyShopping.com/nutraceutics
Ola Loa (Drink Your Vitamins) -
HealthyShopping.com/OlaLoa
PainDefense (Joint & Muscles Formula) -
HealthyShopping.com/paindefense
Sounds True (Audios - Wisdom for the Inner Life) -
HealthyShopping.com/SoundsTrue
SweetLeaf (Stevia-Natural Sweetener) -
HealthyShopping.com/sweetleaf
Teeccino (Caffeine-Free Herbal Coffee) -
HealthyShopping.com/teeccino
Third Line Press (Nutritional Medicine CD) -
HealthyShopping.com/thirdline
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's Global Health Calendar,
Speakers Network, Professional Referral Network, Association
Network - swalter@healthy.net
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Nancy Shaw,
Communications Director, HealthWorld Online - nancy@healthy.net
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