CleanZone: Advanced Hygiene Program - Less Stress For Your Immune System
Until today, you had the same old options in the fight against your allergies. Now, fortunately, you have a brand new weapon to try. The Advanced Hygiene System is a safe and effective breakthrough method to enable you to defeat, allergies, colds, even supergerms with no side effects. Now you can emulsify pollens and other allergens from your hands, nails, and face and deny them entry into your body. The result? An allergy-free season is finally within your reach. Take a few minutes now...click on the link below... see why allergies no longer have to govern your life! www.healthy.net/cleanzone

Are Your Food Labels Deceiving You?
Consumers who simply glance at labels before they toss food into their grocery carts may not be eating what they think they are. Companies are trying to reposition the same old line of processed foods as nutritious and healthy by portraying wholesome ingredients on the fronts of packages, but not really putting those ingredients in any significant quantities in the box. Consumers particularly need to watch for artificial ingredients, rather than the real ingredients the food packaging suggests.

Congress May Order Insurers to Cover More Mental Illnesses
As the public stigma over mental illness fades, the U.S. Senate is poised to require health insurance companies to provide coverage for psychiatric disorders that is comparable to what they offer for other medical conditions. The legislation will confront the question of which types of mental illnesses should be covered.

Patients' Rights Debate Comes to A Head in House This Week
After two delays in as many weeks, crunch time arrives this week for the U.S. House Republican leadership and President Bush over proposed patients' rights legislation. The Republican leaders can put the legislation to a vote, or else brace for what could be a long, politically hot August, as Congress nears its scheduled Friday departure for a month-long recess. Unlike other long-stalled issues, such as campaign finance reform, the patient protection debate has a direct impact on people. Two rival proposals - one backed by the White House and one by a bipartisan group of lawmakers - would both regulate health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and insurers that provide health care for most Americans. The major difference is over whether to cap the amount of jury awards in personal injury lawsuits. For patients and their families, the legislation also could mean easier access to a pediatrician, the ability to pick a doctor, or the right to appeal an HMO decision to an independent medical board.

Dr. Galland's Integrated Medicine
Despite great advances in the treatment of infectious epidemics, trauma and critical care, modern medicine is failing in its mission. Childhood mortality rates around the world are rising and the major medical challenge of the twenty-first century--decreasing the burden of chronic illness and disability--is not being met. The reason lies in the faulty blueprint used to guide contemporary health care, according to Dr. Leo Galland in "The Foundation for Integrated Medicine Supporting Health Care for the Twenty-First Century."

Mind Body Health Newsletter
There is an accumulation of evidence that chronic hostility and chronic depression are major risk factors in heart disease. For many patients, it may be as important to learn and practice skills for managing these emotional states as it is to quit smoking, manage cholesterol, and exercise. In "Hostility, Depression and Heart Disease" David S. Sobel, M.D. outlines the statistics and suggested solutions.

Keeping Fit
Running and bicycling are complementary exercises that enable you to cross-train for better cardiovascular benefit and lower risk of overuse injuries. While running emphasizes the rear thigh and calf muscles, bicycling emphasizes the front thigh muscles, calf and shin muscles and activates upper body muscles. In "Bicycling At Its Best" Wayne L. Westcott Ph.D. covers important considerations for function and comfort, warm up and cool down suggestions, and how to make your ride more interesting and productive.

Care2 Ask Annie
In her latest column for environmentally conscious consumers Annie Berthold-Bond offers valuable tips for caring for your skin and hair during this hot summer season: How to diminiish age spots. An ancient Mayan beauty formula for an impossibly easy-to-make skin toner that rivals if not exceeds anything store-bought. Healing dry hair from the inside and outside.

ChildLife - Meeting Your Child's Nutritional Needs

Studies from around the world show that modern farming methods have resulted in depleted soil conditions and that foods grown on that soil no longer contain the full spectrum of essential nutrients needed for healthy development, strong immune function, and emotional and mental vitality. The ChildLife Nutritional Supplement Program offers doctor-developed nutritional formulas you can trust, to help provide your infant or child with the best possible start in life. Along with a healthful diet and careful nurturing, the ChildLife Nutritional Supplement Program will support your child through the formative years and help create a solid foundation for good health throughout life.

AllerSpray is a homeopathic solution of various herbs and amino acids including Dandelion and Histidine, which have a long history of use for relieving allergy symptoms. NatureWell, Inc. uses a proprietary process that enhances both the bio-effectiveness and the bio-availability of the solution. AllerSpray is designed to be sprayed under the tongue to promote rapid and effective absorption.

Healthy Bookstore
Are you trying to cope with an elderly loved one who: Makes unreasonable demands, wanting all of your time? Is obsessed with sickness and death, but refuses counseling? Has become depressed, manipulative, distrustful, critical or hostile? "Elder Rage or Take My Father...Please!: How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents" by Jacqueline Marcell will help you realize that you're not alone with your countless frustrations and conflicting emotions. Triumph with this devoted daughter as she mends her frail mother and finally turns her rebellious "Jekyll & Hyde" father around with the proper medications, tough love, and behavior modification - at 85 years old! You will discover: How to get a correct diagnosis and the proper medications. Behavior Modification techniques for handling difficult elders. Valuable advice and resources to make caring for your loved one easier.

We invite you to visit all of our Healthy e-Stores:
ChildLife (Nutritional Supplements for Kids) - www.healthy.net/childlife
CleanZone (Advanced Hygiene System) - www.healthy.net/cleanzone
NatureWell (Allergy & Eye Products) - www.healthy.net/naturewell
PainDefense (Joint & Muscles Formula) - www.healthy.net/paindefense
Teeccino (Caffeine-Free Herbal Coffee) - www.healthy.net/teeccino

Featured Center
HealthWorld Online's Health Conditions Center is the authoritative resource for information on alternative and conventional approaches to over 300 health conditions. Nationally known experts in a wide range of alternative health systems provide thousands of authoritative articles, columns and interviews, as well as Real-time audio messages on specific health conditions from nutritional, naturopathic and homeopathic perspectives.

Healthy Woman Update
The number one reason most women nurse is for the health of their child. In " Breast Milk: The Perfect Food" Lauri M. Aesoph N.D. shares the research documenting the benefits of breast milk for your baby; the perfect food, the immunity advantage, no more ear infections, enhanced intelligence and mother benefits, too.

Healthy Kitchen - Healthy Recipes
Many ancient cultures recognized that all disease begins in the colon and they developed different ways to keep the colon healthy. The August "There's a Yogi in the Kitchen" column offers "Flourishing Flora...The yogi's way to a healthy colon." It includes simple ways you can begin to build healthier flora in your colon and a variety of homemade yogurt recipes.

Find a Professional
The Professional Referral Network contains searchable directories for 20 leading professional associations in complementary and integrative health care, with over 16,000 professionals. Looking for a healthcare professional specializing in homeopathic remedies? The Homeopathy section includes the Council for Homeopathic Certification and Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians member databases.

Featured Natural Medicine School
Australasian College of Herbal Studies offers approved career training through comprehensive distance education and residential programs - training graduates for careers as aromatherapists, herbalists, natural health consultants, product manufacturers and retailers, and many other exciting careers in natural health. Students may also take programs for general interest and increased personal awareness and health. Each department offers introductory, certificate and diploma level programs.For more information: schools.naturalhealers.com/australasian/

To search a directory of natural medicine schools go to: healthy.net/univ/profess/schools/med

Global Health Calendar -- Hot Picks

Remembering Psyche-Your Incarnated Soul
A 6-Day Healing and Training Intensive in Soul-Based Psychology
with Jacquelyn Small
Dahlonega, GA USA
August 17-23, 2001
Contact: Eupsychia Institute - 800-546-2795

American Association of Naturopathic Physicians
16th Annual Convention & Exposition
Tucson, AZ USA
August 22-25, 2001
Contact: American Association of Naturopathic Physicians - 703-610-0270

Pain Management: A Challenge for the New Millennium
12th Annual Clinical Meeting
Arlington, VA USA
September 6-9, 2001
Contact: American Academy of Pain Management - 209-533-9744

Ten-day Intensive Course on Traditional Tibetan Medicine - in English
Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh INDIA
September 14-October 2, 2001
Contact: Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute
- 808-326-3711 - traditionaltibetanmedicine.com

WholeLife Expo
Dallas, TX USA
September 21-23, 2001
Contact: WholeLife - 800-551-3976 - www.wholelife.com

Edmonton Health Show
Edmonton, Alberta CANADA
September 22-23, 2001
Contact: Canadian National Health Shows - 604-885-0960

WholeLife Expo
Boston, MA USA
September 28-30, 2001
Contact: WholeLife - 800-551-3976 - www.wholelife.com

Natural Products Expo East
Washington, DC USA
October 11-14, 2001
Contact: New Hope Natural Media 866-458-4935

ANA Fall Nutraceuticals and Medicine Conference
Nashville, TN USA
October 12-13, 2001
Contact: American Nutraceutical Association and
Foundation for Care Management - 800-566-3622

Comprehensive Cancer Care:
Integrating Complementary and Alternative Therapies
Arlington, VA USA
October 17-21, 2001
Contact: Center for Mind-Body Medicine - 202-966-7338 -
cmbm.org/conferences/conferencehome.htm

WholeLife Expo
Los Angeles, CA USA
October 19-21, 2001
Contact: WholeLife - 800-551-3976 - www.wholelife.com

Bioneers - Revolution from the Heart of Nature
Marin Center, San Rafael, CA USA
October 19-21, 2001
Contact: Bioneers - 877-BIONEER - www.bioneers.org

Global Holistic Health Summit on Holistic and Integrated Medicine for the 21st Century
Bangalore, Karnataka INDIA
November 11-16, 2001
Contact: International Holistic Health Association - 91-80-2279698