|
America's Worst Enemy?
What is the leading cause of death in the United States?
|
|
Healthy Update Newsletter - Healthy.net
|
Healthy Update
|
Your Home for Healthy Living |
|
|
May 12, 2008 - Vol. XVIII, Issue 17
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.
Healthy Update archives
|
| SPONSOR - WELLNESS INVENTORY CERTIFICATION TRAINING
|
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.
For more information contact Jim Strohecker at 310-823-9553 (jim@healthy.net) or visit www.WellPeople.com/Certification.asp
|
Seniors Benefit from Tai Ji
Movement is a key to health at any age but is particularly important for older people. More and more seniors are becoming physically active--reaping the countless health benefits associated with regular exercise. Since it is both entertaining to practice and effective, the no-impact Chinese exercise Tai Ji is an excellent way to tone muscle, increase endurance, and gain balance.
In a recent study in Annals of Behavioral Medicine, researchers concluded that the movements associated with Tai Ji helped seniors improve their physical functioning.
View more
Flaxseed and Other Natural Remedies for Hot Flashes and Menopausal Symptoms
Hot flashes, night sweats, and mood swings are just a few of the symptoms women in their 40's and 50's have suffered from menopause. New techniques like hormone replacement therapy have emerged as common remedies. But there are other natural remedies besides HRT (hormone replacement therapy) that can help control these symptoms. View more
Stroke: Magnesium supplements reduce your risk
You can reduce your risk of stroke by taking magnesium supplements, a new study has discovered. But you should be over 60 before you begin supplementing – as it may have the reverse effect in anyone younger. And your risk gets lower with the amount of magnesium you take, researchers found. So people who took the most magnesium every day were in the lowest risk group of all. View more
More health news...
To keep up-to-date with
news in the world of health and medicine, visit Healthy News and the Healthy News
Archive.
|
| EDITOR'S PICK - NATURAL EYE CARE
|
Free Teleconference on Visual Longevity
This free 20-30 minute teleconference will be on Thursday evening, May 15th at 8:00 PM. It is led by Dr. Marc Grossman, leading authority on natural eye care discussing ways to preserve vision naturally through nutrition, diet, exercise and lifestyle changes. Dr. Grossman, author of 5 books on natural eye care, has been a practicing eye doctor for over 28 years. Just sign up for this free teleconference and start learning how you can take action to help preserve your vision now and for the future.
This is the first of an ongoing series focusing on a range of topics such as macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts, eye floaters, dry eyes. The schedule will be posted in our free monthly newsletter and on our website.
To register for the free teleconference cick here
|
| WELLNESS & HEALTHY
LIVING
|
Continuing our Wellness Journey - Intimacy
This week our journey focuses on the power of Intimacy, the 10th of 12 keys to
wellness drawn from the Wellness Inventory whole person assessment program. In our modern culture, the word "intimate" has informally become synonymous with sexual intercourse. What we mean here is more in line with the dictionary definition, relating to your deepest and private nature or a close, long-term association with another person. This can be a sexual, sensual, or platonic relationship. Learning to effectively deal with conflict, respect and assert boundaries, and to connect responsibly is essential to building the trust that is essential in intimacy. Studies have shown that intimacy is a major component in one's health and happiness. View more
Simply Well - "Prevent Accidents" - John W. Travis, MD, MPH
Commonsense safety is easily overlooked as an integral part of a personal
wellness program. In "Prevent Accidents" John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H., reminds us that most accidents - both in the home and on the road - are easily preventable. He offers a memory jogger to encourage you to take
action where you need it. View more
Peak Vitality - "Personal Mythology"
The term "mythology" mythology is not only intellectual, it is attitudinal and emotional. Mythology combines the unconscious as well as one’s conscious inclinations, and it involves symbols (such as mandalas and crucifixes) and metaphors (such as “running with the wind”) in addition to straightforward language. Beliefs are very intellectual. We can ask if a myth is "functional" or "dysfunctional." Does the myth support our life and well-being or does it lead to fanaticism, depression, or constant anxiety? A basic guideline could be that functional myths are those that enhance our vitality, while dysfunctional myths are those that hamper our vitality.
Join Dr. Stanley Krippner and learn about what may be stopping you from reaching the peak of any area of your life: physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. Buy a copy NOW of Peak Vitality in our bookstore and get a myriad authors like Dr. Krippner, that will coach you on your overall well being.
Read Dr. Kripper's chapter, "Personal Mythology" Order Peak Vitality
|
| AUDIO: LIVING WITH INTENTION - LYNNE MCTAGGART
|
A Master Course on the Science and Practice of Harnessing Intention
Is intention simply wishful thinking, or is it a force that can actually change the world around you? Nobody has made a more comprehensive investigation of the power of the mind to influence the universe than Lynne McTaggart. Her conclusion: thought does shape reality, but much depends on how skillfully the thinker can use his or her intention. With Living with Intention, this groundbreaking author builds upon her findings from The Field to explore what makes mind "over" matter work, what can interfere with its effectiveness, and how you can use focused thought to enhance your life, help those around you, and transform your world. 6 CDs
View more
|
| ADVERTISEMENT - BRAIN BALANCE
|
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
|
What Doctors Don't Tell You - "Hope for Alzheimer's?"
The pharmaceutical companies have spectacularly failed to move beyond the 'chemical imbalance' view of Alzheimer's disease. But new evidence points to brain poisoning-by processed foods and heavy metals-as likely causes, and many alternatives offer sound possibilities of treatment without the side-effects of the current drugs on offer. View more
Healthy Child Update - "Keep Your Kids Healthy This Season" - Lauri M. Aesoph, N.D
Parents take heart. Contrary to popular belief, there is plenty you can do when your child gets a cold or the flu. In "Keep Your Kids Healthy This Season" Lauri M. Aesoph, N.D. offers natural medicine remedies to treat your sick youngster and suggestions on prevention.
View more View Healthy Child Center
Integrator Blog - My Meeting with the U.S. Leader for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research
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.
Find a Naturopathic Practitioner
Looking for a practitioner specializing in naturopathic medicine? Search the Naturopathic Medicine section which includes the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians 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.
Find Naturopathic Practitioners
Find a Practitioner Home
|
Baking with Agave Nectar
Even before its health benefits were being touted on Oprah's daytime show, agave nectar was finding fans among dessert lovers seeking to reduce or eliminate processed sugar in their diets. In Baking with Agave Nectar, natural foods chef Ania Catalano shows how to creatively integrate this up-and-coming natural sugar substitute into every sweet tooth's repertoire through a variety of delectable recipes. From breakfast goodies (Pumpkin Muffins, Stuffed French Toast) to cookies (Chewy Double Chocolate Meringue) to desserts (Bread Pudding Soufflés with Bourbon Sauce, Pear Frangipane Tart), Catalano makes agave nectar accessible and appealing to health-conscious bakers of all levels.
View more
Bookstore Home
|
| ADVERTISEMENT - HYPNOSIS NETWORK
|
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
|
Raw Food Materia Medica - "Apples" - Brigitte Mars
Apples are members of the Rose Family and relatives of peaches and pears.
They are high in pectin, a soluble fiber and thus help lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, especially the harmful lipo-density proteins. Apples stabilize blood sugar levels, benefiting both hypoglycemia and diabetes. They improve arthritis pain, edema, gout, morning sickness, asthma, catarrh, hardening of the arteries, skin diseases, liver and gall bladder sluggishness, rheumatism, and weight loss. Apples are antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, astringent and diuretic.
View More View Complete Raw Food Materia Medica
Vegetarian Recipes
Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine offers you a vegetarian
recipe for "No-Cholesterol French Toast."
View More
|
Ask Dr. Orloff About Intuitive Healing - "Step Two of Intuitive Healing: Be In Your Body"
Our adjustment to the body is a spiritual issue that can lead to better psychological adjustment while we're here on earth. In "Step Two of Intuitive Healing: Be In Your Body" Judith Orloff, M.D. reminds us that intuitive healing is always body-interactive. Our physical self, our emotions, a healthy body or an organ with disease - our capacity to heal strengthens as we become one with it all.
View more
Mind Over Matter - Barry Bittman, MD
Forget the excuses and put on your sneakers. In "Diabetes and Heart Disease: Reducing the Risk" Barry Bittman, M.D. reports new research showing that not drugs but exercise may enable diabetics to lower their risk of heart disease by helping to prevent clotting. Also, the association between high insulin levels and the PAI-1 antigen was noted in pre-diabetics - people who are expected to develop diabetes at a later time. That could be any one of us!
View more
|
| ADVERTISEMENT - LIVING WITH INTENTION WORKSHOPS
|
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.
View more
|
Wellness Inventory Certification Training - Summer & Fall 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.
For more information click here
More Professional Resources
Compounding
Pharmacy Directory
Diagnostic
Laboratory Directory
Nutritional Medicine
Sourcebooks and Textbooks
Botanical Medicine
Sourcebooks & Textbooks
The Natural Standard: The
Authority on Integrative Medicine
|
Featured Events
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
Organization: Living The Field
Contact: cs@livingthefield.com or by phone (International +44 870 444 9886)
Website: http://www.theintentionworkshops.com
'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.
Stillness Moves(TM) 1: Introduction
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
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
For more leading health events visit www.healthcalendar.com
|
| KEY SITES IN HEALTHWORLD ONLINE
|
Publisher/Executive Editor: James Strohecker, Co-founder, President, HealthWorld Online -
jim@healthy.net
Sponsorship: If you are interested in sponsoring an issue of Healthy
Update, contact sponsor@healthy.net.
Suggestions & Comments: We
welcome your suggestions and comments to help us provide the highest quality and most useful
service. Email suggestions to info@healthy.net
Tell a Friend to subscribe to Healthy Update! Healthy Update archives
Unsubscribe: If you no longer wish to receive Healthy Update, please click here to unsubscribe.
HealthWorld Online, Inc.
4049 Lyceum Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90066
|
|
|
|
|
|
|