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HEALTH NEWS
Bastyr University Rolls Out New Herbal Medicine BS Program
The first accredited herbal sciences degree program in the U.S. rolled out this fall. Bastyr University initiated the academic program in response to the growing demand for herbal studies expertise faced by the health care industry. Today's herbalists must rigorously know their botany and ethnobotany, chemistry and pharmacology. Such academic emphasis by such a well-respected natural sciences university makes gallant strides in supporting the scientific integrity of herbology as a valid form of health care. Degreed students are prepared to enter the herbal products industry or pursue further education in fields such as naturopathic medicine, public health, pharmacognosy, ethnobotany and medical herbology.
Elderly People Do Benefit from Vitamin Supplements
People over 65 years old can benefit from a daily multivitamin and mineral supplement, according to a review of studies on nutritional interventions for older adults conducted by a medical school. Available evidence suggests these supplements are likely to enhance immune function and may boost vaccine responses in healthy older adults, and reduce the risk of infectious illness in both healthy and frail elders.
Alternative Treatments Fill the Emotional Gaps for Cancer Patients
More and more patients are stepping outside the circle of conventional cancer therapy for some aspects of their treatment. And they are finding that conventional medicine bows to their wishes. If conventional doctors are secure in what they do, then they aren't threatened by alternative medicine. They concede that some cancer patients in need of emotional support, relief from unrelenting nausea, even hope, are finding it outside of traditional medicine.
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COLUMNS FROM THE EXPERTS
The Healer Within
Every original culture on the planet earth has a system of "hands on" healing. In western cultures this is generally called massage. As the movement toward alternatives to drugs and surgery progresses massage will emerge as one of our primary new, while actually ancient, therapeutic modalities. Hospitals, and even corporations, are hiring massage therapists to help with healing and to prevent the negative impacts of stress. In "Self-Applied Massage of the Feet" Dr. Roger Jahnke explains how to do self-applied massage to the feet.
Mind Over Matter
How does humor lead to success? In "Laugh in the face of adversity: I’m not kidding" Barry Bittman, M.D. reminds us the answer lies in one of the greatest, time-tested applications of humor known for thousands of years and practiced in just about every culture - the use of humor as a coping mechanism.
Understanding Homeopathy
It is sometimes difficult, literally and figuratively, to stomach gas, heartburn, and indigestion pains. Although we may want to curse at our digestive tract, the fact of the matter is that our digestive symptoms are actually defenses of the body in its best efforts to defend and heal ourselves. In "Homeopathic Medicines For Indigestion, Gas, And Heartburn: Natural Remedies You Can Stomach" Dana Ullman, M.P.H. outlines common symptoms, what they indicate, and which specific homeopathic remedies are appropriate to consider.
Echoes of Silence
We have all experienced anxiety. It is our internal interpretive response to a situation, real or imagined, which leads us to believe that something bad is going to happen. But, anxiety isn't real. It is imaginary. In "Anxiety" Robert Rabbin explains that to be free from anxiety requires that we see it, not just understand it. We have to be able to see that our response has nothing to do with anything. It exists purely within our own imagination: part fear, part insecurity, and part past decisions about how life is.
HEALTHY SHOPPING
HealthWorld Sound Health Collection (4 CD's)
From Steven Halpern's Inner Peace Music
Inner Peace Music features the recordings of Steven Halpern, an internationally acclaimed composer, recording artist, author and educator whose music is specifically composed to support relaxation, wellness and personal excellence. For over 25 years, he has promoted the healing powers of music through his innovative compositions, selling over 4 million albums worldwide and bringing his music into homes, hospices, hospitals, and schools worldwide. We have conferred with Steven to select four of his classic compositions:
Serenity Suite: (Music & Nature)
Music for Sound Healing: (The Definitive Collection)
Recollections (soulful Violin & piano duet w/ Daniel Kobialka)
Chakra Suite (Balances the 7 vital energy centers)
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Breakthrough in Immune Enhancement!
Phenomena's ImmunAlive System
An exciting breakthrough in immune enhancement and disease prevention, the ImmunAlive System combines the most powerful natural immune-boosters available to protect and support your body's defense system. The ImmunAlive System combines four powerful ingredients to sustain and build your immune system, detoxify the body, remove free-radicals and prevent the cellular and genetic damage that can lead to premature aging, cancer and degenerative disease. Save 10% on full system.
The Ultimate Nutritional Medicine Database is Here!
Dr. Werbach's Nutritional Influences on Illness Now on CD ROM!
HealthWorld is proud to announce that we are now offering the ground-breaking work Nutritional Influences on Illness on CD ROM from our own advisory board member, Melvyn Werbach, M.D. Fifteen years in the making, Nutritional Influences on Illness is your instant access to the scientific literature on nutritional medicine, with over 4,200 pages of nutrition research. Designed for health practitioners, supplement formulators, researchers and other professionals whose business it is to keep abreast of our knowledge of how diet and nutrients influence the course of illness, this CD covers more than 100 health conditions in the masterful, easy-to-read style that made the book Nutritional Influences on Illness internationally famous. For more sourcebooks from Dr. Werbach on nutritional medicine...www.healthy.net/thirdline
Deep Meditation At The Push Of A Button!
Centerpointe Holosync Audio Technology
Powerful personal growth program based on Holosync audio technology, recommended by many personal growth leaders, prominent doctors. Free online demo. If you are interested in dramatically accelerating your mental, emotional, and spiritual growth...experiencing, without effort or training, states of deep and peaceful meditation, but without the struggle>
ChildLife's Essential's "Daily Maintenance Group" provides your child with basic nutritional supplementation for health of the body, brain, immune system and digestion. The Daily Maintenance Group includes a liquid Multi-Vitamin & Mineral supplement (8 fl oz), liquid Vitamin C (4 fl oz) for the health of the body and immune system, essential fatty acids (8 fl oz) for a healthy brain and Colostrum Plus with Probiotics (90 capsules) for healthy digestion. Save 10%! Normally $60.80, yours for only $54.80!
HealthWorld Travels The World!
Ireland: An International Healing Conference - with Joan Borysenko and Neal Donald Walsch
July 11-18, 2002
Ireland is the site of the fourth travel program entitled, "An International Healing Conference" (July 11-18, 2002) with Joan Borysenko (author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind) and other transformational leaders on an odyssey of healing unlike any undertaken before. Healers see the body, mind and spirit as one interdependent unit and believe all three must work in harmony to maintain positive health. The presentations are uniquely informative, and many include practical hands-on healing techniques that you can take home with you. By removing yourself from your everyday world and immersing yourself in the mythic imagery and setting that Ireland provides, you take a quantum leap in a new journey on the healing path. July 11-18, 2002. Call 800-234-TOUR.
´arch 16-23, 2002
Machu Pichu & Peru - Land of the Children of the Sun - with John Gray
May 14-21, 2002
China - International Healing Tour - with John Gray
November 4-11, 2002
Healthy Bookstore
"Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory" by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. shows us how we can work to improve memory and diminish the effects of age-associated memory loss, keeping our minds youthful, creative, and dynamic. Brain Longevity offers a four-step plan based on both Eastern and Western medical traditions, including the latest research on brain chemistry. It reveals how the right diet, exercise, meditation, and supplements can revitalize and regenerate your mind and memory.
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PainDefense - Joint & Muscles Formula
Phenomena - ImmunAlive System
SweetLeaf - Stevia-Natural Sweetener
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Third Line Press - Nutritional Medicine Sourcebooks
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NEWS FROM THE VILLAGE
Featured Center
HealthWorld Online's Natural Health Clinic is the Internet's authoritative resource for information on over 200 health conditions and conventional and alternative therapies. In our Natural Medicine Audio Clinic, highly-qualified health professionals provide Real-time audio messages on specific health conditions from nutritional, naturopathic and homeopathic perspectives. The Health Clinic also contains information and resources about family health care, including self-care, women's, children's and men's health, as well as emergency and first aid, consumer laboratory tests, as well as referral databases to alternative health professionals.
Healthy Man Update
As horrific as the AIDS epidemic is, it has had one silver lining: it has implanted into the awareness of the medical community and the general public the importance of the body's immune system. By strengthening a person's own defenses, the body is best enabled to defend itself. In "AIDS" Dana Ullman, M.P.H. talks about what homeopathy has to offer to those interested in a different approach to infectious disease than simply attacking a pathogen.
Healthy Kitchen - Healthy Recipes
Do you have a sweet tooth that is causing you to have a hard time keeping your New Year's Resolution to lose those extra pounds you collected over the holiday season? Check out "Stevia Recipes" with recipes for muffins and cookies made with the all natural, low calorie sweetener stevia.
Healthy Alternatives
Most Americans choose their food for reasons of taste, cost, convenience and psychological gratification. All those reasons are okay, as long as we do not forget the real reason that we eat: to nourish the cells of the body with essential ingredients from the diet. In "Nutrition Medicine - Know the Laws of Nutrition" Patrick Quillin Ph.D., R.D. condenses volumes of nutrition information into several easy-to-follow rules that can become your navigation instruments in choosing the right foods.
Association Network -- Hot Pick
The American Herbalists Guild (AHG) is a peer-review organization for professional herbalists specializing in the medicinal use of plants. AHG promotes excellence in herbalism, serves as an information referral center for the herbal community, and serves as a liaison that interfaces with professional associations and regulatory agencies.
Visit www.americanherbalist.com
Featured Natural Medicine School
Academy for Five Element Acupuncture in Hallandale, Florida is a nationally accredited school offering training in acupuncture and Chinese herbology. Their educational program emphasizes a distinct style of Five Element acupuncture training, originally taught in Leamington, England in the late 1960's. The Licentiate in Acupuncture training program is a four academic year program of 2,628 hours which can be completed in three calendar years. For more information: schools.naturalhealers.com/fiveelement/
To search a directory of natural medicine schools go to:
www.healthy.net/schools
GLOBAL HEALTH CALENDAR
Global
Health Calendar -- Hot Picks
Integrative Medicine Conference
For physicians, nurses, physician assistants, etc.
Galveston Island, TX USA
January 17-19, 2002
Contact: Gulf Coast Conferences - 281-319-4646
Pain Standard and CAM: Optimizing Pain Management through Approprite Integration of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
Seattle, WA USA
January 25, 2002
Contact: Northwest Integrated Healthcare 2010 and Group Health Cooperative - 206-364-0500
Caribbean Medical Cruise for Complementary/Alternative Therapies
Fort Lauderdale, FL USA
February 3-10, 2002
Contact: The Institute of Integrated Medicine Inc. - 519-451-9048
The Power of Herbs: Tenth Anniversary Weekend Celebration
Bronx, NY USA
January 26-27, 2002
Contact: The New York Botanical Garden - 718-817-8616
Applied Therapeutic Humor in Clinical, Educational, and Business Settings: Pre-Conference Humor and Education
Baltimore, MD USA
February 1-3, 2002
Contact: Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor - 602-995-1454
Caribbean Medical Cruise for Complementary/Alternative Therapies
Depart from Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale, FL USA
February 3-10, 2002
Contact: The Institute of Integrated Medicine Inc. - 519-451-9048
International Symposium on the Role of Botanicals in Women's Health
New Brunswick, NJ USA
February 16-18, 2002
Contact: American Herbal Products Association - 301-588-1171
eca myc 02 - Fitness Convention
New York, NY USA
March 1-3, 2002
Contact: eca world fitness - 800-ECA-EXPO
Natural Products Expo West 2002
Anaheim, CA USA
March 7-10, 2002
Contact: New Hope Natural Media - 303-939-8440
Nutracon
Exploring the nature of science
Anaheim, CA USA
March 11-13, 2002
Contact: New Hope Natural Media - 866-458-4935
Sixth Annual Alternative Therapies Symposium and Exhibition
The Therapeutic Relationsip: Scientific, Cultural, and Personal Perspectives
San Diego, CA USA
March 14-17, 2002
Contact: InnoVision Communications - 760-633-3910
Equinox 2002: Recovering Lost Wisdom In Egypt At The Great
Pyramid And Sphinx - With Neale Donald Walsch
Cairo, Al Qahirah EGYPT
March 16-23, 2002
Contact: Power Places Tours & Conferences, Inc. - 800-234-TOUR
National Center for Homeopathy 2002 Annual Conference
Also featuring a special Post-conference workshop with Nandita Shah
Phoenix, AZ USA
April 11-16, 2002
Contact: National Center for Homeopathy - 703-548-7790
International Scientific Conference on Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine Research
Boston, MA USA
April 12-14, 2002
Contact: Harvard Medical School Dept of Continuing Education - 781-245-3010
Integrative Pain Medicine
New York, NY USA
April 19-20, 2002
Contact: Columbia Univ. College of Physicians & Surgeons, Rosenthal Ctr for Complementary & Alternative Med - 212-543-9542
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