BETTER VISION
THROW YOUR GLASSES AWAY FOR LIFE!

In less than eight weeks you could be reading or driving without your glasses or contact lenses...and without surgery or strenuous eye exercises. Now, thanks to an exciting program developed at the internationally acclaimed Cambridge Institute for Better Vision, you may be able to discard your glasses - for life!

Topical Oxygen Helps Hard-to-Heal Wounds Heal Faster and Better
A new study suggests that brief exposures to pure oxygen not only help chronic and other hard-to-heal wounds heal completely, such exposures also help wounds heal faster.

Study is First to Confirm Link between Exercise and Changes in Brain
The idea that fitness improves cognition in the aging is not new. However a recent study is the first to show - using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging - anatomical differences in gray and white matter between physically fit and less fit aging humans.

Meditation May Boost Immune System
A study conducted by university researchers is the first to suggest that meditation may have positive biological effects on the body's ability to fight infection and disease. Also, the meditation group exhibited increased activity in the left side of the frontal part of the brain, indicating lower anxiety levels and a more positive emotional state.

DR. WERBACH'S NUTRITION RESEARCH CLASSIC NOW ON CD!

Nutritional Influences on Illness is your instant access to the scientific literature on nutritional medicine -- over 4,200 pages of nutrition research on specific health conditions. Compiled over the last 15 years by renowned nutritional medicine expert Melvyn Werbach, M.D., the CD is designed for health practitioners, researchers & proactive consumers, covering the 100 health conditions in a masterful, easy-to-read style. Additional sourcebooks available. SPECIAL: Previously $395, CD is now only $99!

WELLNESS INVENTORY - Understanding the Whole Person
Designed to support you in increasing your wellbeing and promoting personal growth, the Wellness Inventory guides you through 12 key areas of your life -- from eating, breathing & working to communication and sexuality. Exclusive offer to Healthy Update subscribers: www.WellnessInventory.net

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Conscious Relationships
Are you trying to figure out whether to stay in or leave a troubled relationship? Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks urge you to tune in deeply within yourself to answer some key questions. First - Does the pain I feel overshadow the sense of possibility?" In "Should I Go or Should I Stay? Part 2" they suggest that you ask this second question after transporting yourself to an imaginary future a year from now.

Healthy Stress
In "The Effects of Stress" Leon Chaitow N.D., D.O., M.R.O. explains how stress of a psychological or emotional nature can produce marked changes in the musculo-skeletal system, profoundly influencing the overall functioning of the body. He shows how osteopathy can be an important component of a comprehensive, non-drug approach to stress management.

RECOMMENDED READING
Healthy Bookstore - Breathing Ecstasy

"Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment" by Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D. is a user-friendly road map for human emotion. Seligman doesn't just preach the merits of happiness, he also presents brief tests to help readers increase the happiness quotient in their own lives. Trying to fix weaknesses won't help, rather, incorporating strengths such as humor, originality and generosity into everyday interactions with people is a better way to achieve happiness.

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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--and developing the ability to remain consistently peaceful and centered, despite life's ups and downs. Click here

Dr. Galland's Integrated Medicine
A large body of research over the past ninety years has demonstrated the preventive value of eating foods fermented with Lactobacilli or their cousins, Bifidobacteria. In "Using Friendly Flora" Leo Galland, M.D. explains how eating these friendly bacteria prevents intestinal infection due to viruses or pathogenic bacteria, preserves intestinal permeability in the face of infection or other types of injury, can prevent antibiotic-induced diarrhea and travelers diarrhea, and can lower serum cholesterol levels.

Healthy Alternatives
Curious about chelation therapy? In "Position Paper on EDTA Chelation Therapy" the American College for Advancement in Medicine offers in-depth background on this often controversial treatment protocol.

Healthy Man Update
In "Alternative Approaches to Prostate Cancer" Michael Schachter M.D., F.A.C.A.M. states that there are significant differences between the complementary and conventional approaches to the management and treatment of prostate cancer. He recommends that all prostate cancer patients use alternative cancer therapies before starting conventional treatment. If conventional treatment is used, adding alternative therapies can reduce the side effects and improve the results.

Find an Alternative Healthcare Professional
The Professional Referral Network contains searchable directories for 20 leading professional associations in complementary and integrative health care, with over 17,000 professionals. Looking for a healthcare professional specializing in visualization? The Guided Imagery section includes the Academy for Guided Imagery member database.

L-CARNITINE...UNLOCK YOUR ENERGY POTENTIAL
L-Carnitine is a vitamin-like nutrient whose function in the human body is to ensure the production of energy from fat. Clinical research suggests that L-Carnitine supplementation safely helps promote a healthy heart, aids in weight management and enhances sports performance, including post-exercise recovery. L-CARNIPURE L-Carnitine is the only commercially available L-Carnitine free from D-Carnitine and is manufactured in a FDA registered facility. The key to unlocking your energy potential? "L-Carnitine"

Nutrition Tips
Our dietary habits?that is, the way we eat?probably influence our health even more than the foods we choose to eat. In "Foods, Diets, and The Environment" Elson M. Haas M.D. instructs you how to have a Foot Habit Interview with yourself. Armed with this information, you move on to identifying habits you may want to change, and some tips for looking at the combinations of the foods you select.

Vegetarian Recipe
Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine offers you a recipe for "Tomato and Lentil Soup."

NAKED RAIN SHOWER FILTERS -
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The Naked Rain Experience is like showering in bottled water - keeping the skin and body freshly hydrated with clean refreshing water. Using patented technologies, Naked Rain Filtre Spas remove chlorine, sediment and odors, all without losing water pressure. Easy installation....No tools, No pipe tape - only your hands are required to install in just minutes.

Echoes of Silence
In "Soul in the Workplace" Robert Rabbin presents the concept of looking inside of our own self for how to enrich our experience of work and to enhance our work environments with meaning and purpose, vision and values, creativity and inspiration, joy and deep human connection.

Music and Wellness
Deep within the essence of who we are there's a sound, a vibration, an emanation that expresses life from every cell. In "Deep Within: Drumming as a Healing Strategy" Barry Bittman, M.D. shares how he offers music as a therapeutic intervention to his patients suffering from some of the most challenging illnesses imaginable.

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Featured Natural Medicine School
Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington offers natural health education, research and clinical services. Students learn traditional therapies and philosophies as well as cutting edge diagnostic procedures and research. Bastyr students earn degrees in naturopathic medicine, acupuncture and Oriental medicine, herbal sciences, nutrition and more. Bastyr is an accredited private institution and internationally recognized as a two-decade pioneer in the development of science-based natural medicine. For more information: schools.naturalhealers.com/bastyr

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Food As Medicine
Panama City, FL USA
March 7-13, 2003
Contact: Center for Mind Body Medicine - 202-966-7338

ECA NYC '03
Fitness Convention and Trade Show
New York, NY USA
March 14-16, 2003
Contact: eca world fitness - 800-ECA-EXPO

Comprehensive Cancer Care
Integrating Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Washington, DC USA
April 9-13, 2003
Contact: Center for Mind Body Medicine - 202-966-7338

Sedona Spring Purification & Wellness Retreat with Dr. Elson Haas
Sedona, AZ USA
April 9-14, 2003
Contact: Wellness Tours - 800 231-9811

29th Annual Conference of the National Center for Homeopathy
Philadelphia, PA USA
April 10-15, 2003
Contact: National Center for Homeopathy - 877-624-0613

Tenth Annual AOMA Conference & Expo
Tampa, FL USA
May 2-5, 2003
Contact: Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance - 800-814-5956

10th International Symposium on Functional Medicine
Tucson, AZ USA
May 21-25, 2003
Contact: The Institute for Functional Medicine - 800-228-0622