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April 28, 2008 - Vol. XVIII, Issue 15
Healthy Update provides the latest news, expert articles and resources on wellness, healthy living, and integrative medicine. A weekly service of HealthWorld Online since 1997.
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Summer Certification Classes Begin June 9
The Summer Wellness Inventory Certification Trainings begin on the week of June 9 and run for 8 weeks through the end of July. The training will be conducted as a live phone teleclass.
The goal of the certification training is to create competence in delivering the Wellness Inventory (www.WellPeople.com), a holistic assessment and life-balance program, to individual, group, and organizational clients. The training also focuses on the participants own personal development. Developed for wellness coaches, health practitioners, spa professionals, and wellness professionals, the training is approved by the International Coach Federation for 20 CCEUs. Classes Monday and Thursday evenings. Payment plans available. View testimonials from graduates.
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Antioxidants and Cancer: Researcher admits she got it wrong
It was news when it was first revealed three years ago - and it was news again last week: antioxidant vitamins can speed up the development of cancer. But the researcher who first published the study has now admitted that she got it wrong. The researchers, led by Isabelle Bairati from the Quebec Research Centre, who published the 2005 study, have re-analysed their original data, and have discovered they got it wrong. The only people in the study who were seeing their cancer return were smokers who refused to kick the habit while they were receiving radiation therapy or chemotherapy. View more
Parkinson's: Pesticides found to be a major cause
Pesticides may be a direct cause of Parkinson's disease, a new study has found. As a result, farmers and people living on farms who are regularly exposed to the chemicals may be at greater risk than people in the general population. Herbicides and insecticides - and especially those that contain organochlorine and organophosphorous compounds - 'significantly' increase the risk of Parkinson's, the researchers said. View more
Rosemary and Herbs Can Help Fight Cancer
A recent USDA study revealed that many popular herbs are a great source of natural antioxidants--compounds that help neutralize free radicals--more so than those reported for berries, fruits and vegetables. Research has shown that rosemary can help prevent cancer and age-related skin damage. The two key ingredients in Rosemary--caffeic acid and rosemarinic acid--are potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agents, which help protect the body's cells from damage by free radicals. View more
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| EDITOR'S PICK - WHAT DOCTORS DON'T TELL YOU
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A Second Opinion on Health You Can Trust & Use With Confidence
What Doctors Don't Tell You is a monthly journal that gives you the knowledge you need to lead a healthy life. It is s the complete review of health problems and safer, proven ways of treating them - what works and what doesn't work in conventional and complementary/alternative medicine (CAM). WDDTY's in-depth research and insights have earned the highest praise from all over the world. National newspapers have described it as "the best health journal in the world".
And now it's available for immediate download for just $29.95 a year, a savings of over 75% on the print subscription. Take out an annual subscription, and you'll receive the next 12 issues straight to your PC as
a downloadable PDF file. Serving your health needs since 1989. Subscribe in April and receive the current issue with a special report about health authorities deliberately covering up the truth about MMR vaccine dangers.
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Continuing our Wellness Journey - Intimacy
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Simply Well - "" - John W. Travis, MD, MPH
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Healthy Computing: Good Working Positions
Incorrect working positions increase the risk of stress and strain on the muscles, tendons, and skeletal system while computing. To maintain health and reduce your risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders, place yourself in Good Working Positions, according to Dr. Erik Peper.
Optimize your performance and prevent computer-related injuries with Healthy Computing Tips. View more
Peak Vitality - "Mastering Your Cells" - Bruce Lipton
Cell biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton teaches us the secret to love, health, and prosperity. In his chapter in Peak Vitality: Raising the Threshold of Abundance in Our Material, Spiritual and Emotional Lives, Lipton writes: "Learning how to harness our minds to promote growth is the secret of life, which is why I refer to the new science as The Biology of Belief. As we become more conscious and rely less on subconscious automated programs, we become the masters of our fates rather than the 'victim' of our programs. In this way we can rewrite old, limiting perceptions and actively transform the character of our lives so that they are filled with the love, health, and prosperity that are our true birthrights. Get your copy of Peak Vitality in our store today!
Read Dr. Lipton's chapter from Peak Vitality "Mastering Your Cells"
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| AUDIO: HEALING DRUM KIT - CHRISTINE STEVENS
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Drumming for Personal Wellness
With a venerable history as a healing art, it's no surprise that scientists
are now finding measurable positive immune system changes following one-hour drumming sessions. With The Healing Drum Kit, internationally acclaimed music therapist Christine Stevens shows you how to use the art of drumming to ignite your creativity, release tension and anxiety, exercise the body, and communicate with a power beyond words. Whether relaxing to the gentle lub-dub of a heartbeat, exploring sacred rhythms from around the globe, or simply drumming away stress, people of all ages will experience and enjoy the full spectrum of this ancient art, with The Healing Drum Kit. Includes: 10" Remo frame drum, 2 drumming CDs (2.5 hours), 78-pageguidebook, 24 Rhythm cards.
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Brain Balance a Natural Remedy for Depression
Brain Balance is a unique formula designed to ensure the proper levels and balance of the neurotransmitters in the brain - resulting in reduced anxiety, elevated mood, and improved focus and concentration.
Most antidepressant medications - and herbs like St. Johns Wort - move neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine out of the pre-synaptic neuron and into the synapse. It’s important to understand that they do not add any molecules of serotonin to the brain’s supply.
Brain Balance gives your brain the raw materials it needs to actually make more serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, and GABA. View More
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What Doctors Don't Tell You - "Low-Down on Low-Fat Milk"
For years, low-fat cow's milk has been enthusiastically promoted as the perfect health drink, providing adults with 'essential' vitamins and minerals, but without the so-called heart-unhealthy fat found in whole milk. However, new research suggests that low-fat milk could actually be doing us more harm than good, increasing the risk of serious health problems-from infertility to prostate cancer. Worse, scientists hypothesize that stripping the fat from milk-to make the drink supposedly healthier-could be the very reason for its toxic effects.
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Natural Standard Bottom Line Monograph - Stevia
We are pleased to announce that we will be featuring a monthly monograph on a key food, herb, or supplement from Natural Standard, the leader in providing high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Each monograph will include background, scientific evidence for its' use, traditional use, recommended dosing, safety, interactions, and scientific references.
The first monograph in the series is on Stevia. Extracts of leaves from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni have been used for many years in traditional treatment of diabetes in South America. Stevia rebaudiana standardized extracts are used as natural sweeteners or dietary supplements in different countries for their content of stevioside or rebaudioside A. These compounds possess up to 250 times the sweetness intensity of sucrose, and do not have any calories.
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Integrator Blog - "Pamela Snider on How Integration is a Balance of Accountability and Soul"
Few people in what was "alternative medicine" are very comfortable with the idea of becoming more "integrated" into the broken and often misdirected disease-based dominant school of medicine. Yet inclusion is alluring, for service and income reasons. Long-time integrative care leader Pamela Snider, ND talks about the balance of "accountability and soul" in the advance of the integration process. View more
"The Integrator Blog" offers News, Reports, Opinions and Networking for the Business, Education, Policy and Practice of Integrative Medicine, CAM and Integrative Health Care, from Publisher/Editor John Weeks. View Integrator Blog Archives
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Improving Your Bedside Manner by Jacquelyn Small
In Improving Your Bedside Manner: A Handbook for Physicians to Develop Therapeutic Conversations with their Patients, Jacquelyn Small
Immensely thoughtful, practical, and succinctly organized, each chapter offers provocative, reflective examples of how physicians can communicate better with patients as well as improve their own self awareness. The book is helpfully divided into 10 chapters, each of which provides a definition of a specific professional communication skill, background about a professional characteristic, and provides model and toxic examples of how sensitive, critical clinical conversations take place.
"Any healthcare professional who aspires to become a healer instead of a mere technician should read this book." Larry Dossey, MD
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Could Your Mind Be Keeping You Fat?
Our newsletter provides the information you need to help you lose pound after pound of unwanted fat. But here's one trick to achieving optimal weight: You have to follow the program. An article in The Journal of Family Practice (June 2006) suggests doctors recommend hypnosis for this issue. We wholeheartedly agree. Read more about the hypnosis program we recommend most. View More
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Chef Teton's Essential Cuisine: Making Every Bite Count - "Feeding Our Children Consciously"
After years of dietary advice from a range of different sources, American’s know that food from the Earth, and not the factory, is what their families need to build a strong foundation. But still the food on many family forks does little to nourish them. While most know what healthy foods are, few know how to include them in their diet. View More
VIDEO: Susan shares a great dessert recipe:
Nut Cream Berries!
Editor's Note: We are pleased to have our longtime friend, Susan Campbell (Chef Teton), to be providing a new column every three weeks on eating consciously, with the freshest, organic ingredients, and with great recipes. Each column will also feature a video of a wonderful recipe or cooking demonstration. Enjoy!
Raw Food Materia Medica - Watermelon
Watermelon is a member of the Gourd Family. It is considered a rejuvenating blood tonic and very alkalinizing, and is also antibacterial, antioxidant, anticoagulating, a digestive aid, diuretic, and laxative. Watermelon lubricates the intestines and has an affinity for the bladder, kidney, stomach and heart. It is a good source of beta-carotene, vitamin C, potassium, and silicon.
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The Role of the Teacher - Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.
Last month, my first and most important spiritual teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, passed away. It had been many years since I’d seen him, and the event made me think back to the long hours I spent learning from him and the honor of being made a teacher in his lineage. Despite his great wisdom and unfailing compassion, Maharishi was capable of human foibles. At one time that realization had been disillusioning, but now, with the benefit of maturity and reflection, it made me even more grateful for all that he contributed to my life, and to the world. In any event, his passing made me reflect on the ambiguous role of authority figures on the spiritual path.
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The Healer Within - Roger Jahnke, OMD
The self-applied health enhancement methods movements are meant to be the seeds of your own inventiveness. In "Gentle Movements and Postures, Part II" Dr. Roger Jahnke reminds you not to sabotage your mastery by thinking they must be done a certain way. Make it up, make it fun, spread the word.
Learn from others, add favorites, steal from the masters; they are always willing to share. Bring the breath and relaxation practices together with the effort of the movements, that is the balance. When you have made
contact with the extent to which gentle movement has a profound health effect, you have become a part of the solution to the medical crisis.
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Living with Intention with Lynne McTaggart
'Living with Intention' is the first of a series of workshops being held by Lynne McTaggart, author of bestsellers The Field and The Intention Experiment. The workshops bring together the latest discoveries of quantum physics with spiritual practices in an exciting new synthesis for conscious living. They will teach you how to harness the power of intention in your everyday life and become your own master of intention.
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Wellness Inventory Certification Training - Spring & Summer Intensives
The Wellness Inventory Certification Training Intensive is a comprehensive weekend program that accelerates your own personal growth process, offering you an opportunity to make real changes in your life, while providing competence in delivering the Wellness Inventory assessment and life-balance program. The intensive provides a unique coaching skill-set to maximize the program's effectiveness in helping your clients change their lives. Weekend intensives are offered in Asheville, North Carolina May 23-25 and June 20-22, 2008.
For more information contact: 310-823-9553 or info@WellPeople.com. Or click here
Imagery, Suggestion, and Mind/Mind Medicine - Conference Webcast
Academy for Guided Imagery in co-operation with 20 other co-sponsoring organizations, including the Wellness Inventory, present "Imagery, Suggestion, and Mind/Body Medicine: 2008." This historic conference will be held as an online webcast that will first reach an international audience on May 15-18, 2008. Presenters include many HealthWorld advisory board members and contributors Kenneth R. Pelletier, PhD, MD(hc); James S. Gordon, MD; Martin Rossman, MD; David S. Sobel, MD, MPH, Daniel J. Benor, MD, Eric Peper, PhD; David E. Bresler, PhD, LAc; Hyla Cass, MD; as well as Effie Poy Yew Chow, PhD, RN, LAc; Jeanne Achterberg, PhD; Dennis Jaffe, PhD; Stanley Krippner, PhD; Dean Ornish, MD; and (hopefully) Andrew Weil, among others.
Healthy Update subscribers are eligible for a 10% discount off conference registration fees when they enter our Co-Sponsor Discount Code - WIN0508.
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Living with Intention Workshops
Chicago, IL USA - May 16 -18, 2008
London, UK - May 31-June 1, 2008
Portland/Vancouver, Washington USA August 8-10, 2008
Boston/Cape Cod USA - October 31-Nov 2, 2008
'Living with Intention' is the first of a series of workshops being held by Lynne McTaggart, author of bestsellers The Field and The Intention Experiment. The workshops bring together the latest discoveries of quantum physics with spiritual practices in an exciting new synthesis for conscious living. They will teach you how to harness the power of intention in your everyday life and become your own master of intention.
Organization: Living The Field
Contact: cs@livingthefield.com or by phone (International +44 870 444 9886)
Website: http://www.theintentionworkshops.com
Stillness Moves(TM) 1: Introduction
Sedona, AZ - May 9-10, 2008
Chicago, IL - May 17-18, 2008
Boston, MA - June 7-8, 2008
Boulder, CO - June 21 - 22, 2008
Swiss Alps Retreat - July 13-20, 2008
Experience a radical shift in the way you approach your body and movement. Enter profound relaxation. Flow and unwind through unexplored transitions. Realize new potential. Move through areas and in ways that postures, exercise routines or your habits don’t touch. Access deeper layers of perception, flexibility and strength. Tap into a source of intimate wisdom. View Complete Schedule.
Organization: Stillness Moves School of Embodiment
Contact: +1 (928) 274-0386
Website: http://www.stillnessmoves.com
Upcoming Health & Wellness Events
The National Conference on Healthcare Consumerism
Las Vegas, NV USA
May 4-7, 2008
Organization: Consumer Health World - 804-266-7422 x7408
6th Annual Integrative Medicine for Health Care Organizations Conference
Phoenix, AZ USA
May 15-17, 2008
Organization: Health Forum - 312-893-6897
18th Annual ISSSEEM Conference
Boulder, CO USA
June 19-26, 2008
Contact: The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine - 303-425-4625
National Wellness Conference
Stevens Point, WI USA
June 12-17, 2008
Contact: National Wellness Institute - 800-243-8694
Open Your Heart in Paradise
Two Hawaiian Retreats with Ram Dass and Friends
Hawaii (Big Island) USA
November 5-10, 2008
Hawaii (Molokai) USA
December 10-15, 2008
Contact: Ram Dass Center for Spiritual Studies - 760-228-1717
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