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Healthy Update
Your Home for Healthy Living
October 12, 2009 - Vol. 21, Issue 13

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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Wellness Inventory With the discussion around health care reform highlighting the need for wellness and prevention, the focus of many healthcare practices in the future will shift from treating disease to creating wellness. For many professionals this new focus on "wellness medicine" will be a clear departure from current disease-focused practices.

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HEALTH NEWS

Olive oil prevents, and may combat, Alzheimer's
The olive oil you put on your salad seems to possess the ability to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease, and even to combat it if you already have it. The magic ingredient in extra-virgin olive oil is oleocanthal, a compound that alters the structure of neurotoxins that contribute to the debilitating effects of Alzheimer’s.     View more


Relaxation and better breathing could reduce asthma attacks
Asthma sufferers could reduce the number of attacks just by learning to relax and change the way they breathe, researchers have discovered. Most asthma sufferers tend to hyperventilate during an attack, but breathing fast and deeply make the problem worse, and it lowers the body’s carbon dioxide levels.      View more


Isolation can make cancer worse
Cancer could be made worse if you’re living an isolated life. Breast cancer tumour growth increases among those who live alone, and who rarely go out and socially mix with others. Our social interaction could have a profound affect on a range of chronic diseases, and not just breast cancer, believe researchers.      View more


Ask the Experts - Interview with Jim Strohecker, Publisher of Healthy Update - "Wellness is the New Healthy High" - Tuesday October 13
This interview with wellness expert, Jim Strohecker, is part of the monthly "Ask the Experts" series sponsored by Signature Supplements. The topic for the interview will be utilizing wellness tools to promote greater health, well being, optimal living and getting high naturally! Exploring what makes you feel and look great! We are honored to be included this month in the Ask the Expert series. Join us and interviewer Gary Sandman. The call is Tuesday October 13 at 8:00 pm EST. Click to register and receive the call in information:     Register


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MindPower 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.     View more.


WELLNESS & HEALTHY LIVING

Continuing our Wellness Journey - Communicating
Wellness Inventory This week our journey focuses on the power of Communicating, the 9th of 12 keys to wellness drawn from the Wellness Inventory whole person assessment program. This section focuses almost exclusively on verbal communication, exploring the dynamics of how people talk to themselves and one another. It also looks at the breakdowns in communication that can occur. As you come to understand and appreciate this process, you may simultaneously understand and appreciate yourself. The clearer the channel (you), the better the possibilities for a meaningful encounter--a dynamic energy exchange.      View more


Simply Well - "Just Say No" - John W. Travis, MD, MPH
While an attitude of openness to life is definitely health-promoting, saying yes to life means saying no a good deal of the time, too. People who are afraid of disapproval from others will say yes regardless of their true feelings to avoid rocking the boat. In "Just Say No" John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H., explains the health promoting benefits for appropriately saying no.      View more


365 Prescriptions for the Soul - Prescription #359: Joyfulness
How much time do you spend a day visualizing joy? Everything you do affects your well-being, so why not choose to be joyful? We tend to spend more time visualizing and reliving past unpleasantries and those we expect in the future.      View more

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NATURAL ALTERNATIVES

What Doctors Don't Tell You - "Sickeningly Sweet: A WDDTY Special Report"
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a sweetener that has revolutionized the processed food and drink industry - but a new study has found that it may be a bigger source of mercury than fish. There's been a quiet revolution taking place in the food-manufacturing industry since the 1980s, and it's one that could be damaging our health and making us overweight.     View more


From Fatigued to Fantastic - "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome" - Jacob Teitelbaum, MD
Carpal tunnel syndrome is characterized by pain, numbness, and tingling that occurs in one or both hands. It often wakes people from their sleep, leaving them feeling like they have to "shake their hands out" to make the pain and symptoms go away. This syndrome is caused by the compression of a nerve (the median nerve) as it goes through a narrow tunnel in the wrist formed by the carpal bone, hence the name carpal tunnel syndrome.      View more


Integrator Blog - NCCAM's 2009 Grants with Obama's Recovery Money: The List of 52 Awards Totaling $17.8-Million
Curious about the portion of Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds that were distributed through the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine? What has this "stimulus package" money meant to CAM research?      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.


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RECOMMENDED READING

Deep Medicine - William Stewart, MD
The core thesis of Deep Medicine is that everything we think, feel or do either fosters health or detracts from it. If we are responsible for our own well-being, we need to look closely at our daily choices. Dr. Stewart explains, "Health-creating change is not simply a 10-step program or an 8-week course but a lifelong challenge. Making healthy choices and sustaining them is vital to our well being." Deep Medicine connects our personal health with everything that surrounds us. It integrates direct healing plans and protocols with lifelong learning and practice in an effort to create an optimal path to health. It is this integration that provides the greatest potential for meaningful, lasting, and truly transformative living.
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HEALTHY KITCHEN

Raw Food Materia Medica - "Kumquat " - Brigette Mars
Kumquat looks like a miniature orange and like its relative, is a member of the Citrus Family. Kumquats are warm, pungent, sweet, and sour and promote chi circulation. They have been used to treat fevers, gallstones, indigestion, hernial pain, stomachache, hepatitis, high blood pressure, prolapse of the uterus and anus, asthma, catarrh, cough, pneumonia, respiratory congestion, and whooping cough, They are mucolytic. They are high in vitamin C, most of which is in the peel, as well as vitamin E.      View More
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Fabulous Functional Foods - "Garlic, Miso and Parsley Soup" - Oscar Umahro Cadogan
Danish chef Oscar Umahro Cadogan has created a lovely "Garlic, Miso and Parsley Soup" that will do as a small meal or as an appetizer. It goes very well with steamed fish or dense bread made from whole flour, and can also be served cold. Garlic, chili, and fennel seeds bring warmth to the soup and your body, making it perfect for cold fall and winter days.      View More

MIND-BODY-SPIRIT

The Healer Within: "Full Chest and Abdominal Breathing" - Roger Jahnke, OMD
The presence of special breathing practices in the ancient cultures has always been a mystery to people in the Western world. In "Full Chest and Abdominal Breathing" Dr. Jahnke explains a method that activates all of the primary benefits of therapeutic breath practice when done slowly and fully, with intention, concentration and relaxation.      View more


Mind Over Matter - "Diabetes and Heart Disease: Reducing the Risk" Barry Bittman, M.D.
Forget the excuses and put on your sneakers. 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

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PROFESSIONAL'S CORNER

Incorporate a Wellness Dimension into Your Healthcare Practice
Wellness Inventory With the health care reform date emphasizing wellness and prevention, the focus of many healthcare practices in the near future will be to support people in creating wellness rather than treating disesase. For many professionals this will be a clear departure from the disease-focused practices with which they are familiar. A new breed of health professional will be practicing "wellness medicine" and utilizing wellness coaches (or be trained as coaches themselves) to encourage self-responsiblity for our own health and wellbeing, and to support us in mapping our own personal wellness solutions.
The Wellness Inventory, a pioneering assessment and life-balance program, offers professional licensing to health professionals, wellness professionals, therapists, social workers, wellness coaches, and life coaches. We also offer a Certification Training to certify professionals as Wellness Inventory Facilitators or Wellness Inventory Coaches.     
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