HEALTH INSURANCE STINKS, RIGHT? WRONG. ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IS THE KEY TO MAKING IT WORK

Are you frustrated by health insurance? The costs increase every year, and the hardest hit are the self-employed and underinsured. I've arranged for HealthWorld subscribers to receive a SPECIAL FREE REPORT that will help you understand some excellent options to health insurance frustration. This report gives you ideas to reduce health insurance costs dramatically, and it especially formulated for people who use Alternative medicine in their everyday lives.

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Individualized Health Solutions
Extensive clinic research of the major biochemical systems that affect your mind, body and emotions has helped create an effective bio-chemically based assessment tool to determine an individual's inherent multi vitamin, mineral and amino acid needs. Individual Health Solutions, LLC can clinically apply a series of biochemical based tests to pin point the precise balance of the 30 most important vitamin, mineral and amino acid nutrients the body needs to function optimally each day.

Survey: U.S. Employers Turning to Wellness Programs to Manage Health Care Costs
Businesses are increasingly turning to wellness programs to get a handle on rising health care costs. Most believe these programs will have a long-term impact but few short-term benefits. Employers large and small see the potential in encouraging employees to lead healthier lifestyles by eating better, exercising more and not smoking.

Looks like the EU Outmaneuvered the U.S.
International trade regulations for vitamin and mineral supplements are scheduled for finalization in July 2005. These could have been modeled after the lenient United States' approach. However, retracing events of the last fifteen years reveals how the EU tenaciously fought the U.S. every step of the way to emerge victorious in getting their restrictive rules as the international standard. You are encouraged to be better informed and more vigilant for positive actions to protect health freedoms in the U.S., particularly from the power of outside trade regulations.

MORE HEALTH NEWS...
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INTERVIEW WITH HEALTHWORLD CO-FOUNDER, JIM STROHECKER

Dr. Michelle Gottlieb will interview HealthWorld Online president and co-founder, Jim Strohecker, about the Wellness Inventory program on "Wellness Talk Radio - Balance & Change" on Thursday July 7, 2005 from 10-11 am PST. The Wellness Inventory is a pioneering "whole person" assessment program designed to help you gain personal insight into your state of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. The program offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into lasting changes in your life, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing. The program is also licensed to corporate wellness programs, spas, health practitioners, life coaches and hospitals.

To listen to interview live on World Talk Radio

Simply Well
Have you ever started a program of self-change, then discovered you were not keeping up with your ambitious plans? In "Heal with Compassion" John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H., reports that it is natural to set high initial goals and then have to reevaluate their feasibility. Self-compassion is a way to handle disappointment and frustration and keep moving ahead with your efforts to change.

Ask Dr. Orloff About Intutive Healing
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.

Healthy Home
The setting of a picnic is usually outdoors, and therein lies its allure and challenge. In "Care2’s Top Ten Ways to be Eco-Friendly While on a Picnic" Annie B. Bond of Care2 offers ten ways to enrich your picnic experience of the habitat and wildlife you encounter, and to reduce your impact on the environment.

ACCESS THE BOOKS THAT CHANGED MILLIONS OF LIVES

When you join the Transformational Book Circle, each month you get a life-changing book - one that profoundly impacted the life a transformational leader such as Neale Donald Walsch, Deepak Chopra, Louise Hay, Jack Canfield, Gay Hendricks and others who went on to change the lives of millions. Along with your book, each month you also get a CD with experiential exercises and other features that invoke deep reflection and personal growth. The books and CDs are yours to keep.

From Fatigued to Fantastic
People with Restless Leg Syndrome have the sensation that they need to continually move their legs. There are both natural and prescription approaches to treating RLS. In "Restless Leg Syndrome And Periodic Leg Movement Disorder" Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D. summarizes those that have been found to be most successful.

Healthy Alternatives
When chelation unclogs circulatory obstructions this affects almost the entire system, and a host of factors which could rapidly set the degenerative ball rolling again if they remained behind. In "Diet and Exercise During (and After) Chelation Therapy" Leon Chaitow, N.D., D.O., M.R.O. explains that the changes needed to keep the new-found circulatory improvement (after chelation therapy or surgery) are the very ones which would have prevented the circulatory decline in the first place.

Dr. Christine Horner's Natural Secrets for Breast Health
Eating proper amounts of certain types of fats called omega-3 fatty acid reduces your risk of breast cancer and if you have breast cancer, they will help you fight your disease. In "Supplement Your Diet with Omega-3 Fatty Acids" Christine Horner, M.D., F.A.C.S addresses the four main benefits: decrease the strength of estrogen in the breast tissue, quell the cancer-promoting fires of chronic inflammation, cause breast tumors to shrink in size and prevent them from metastasizing or spreading.

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 naturopathy? The Naturopathic Medicine section includes the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians member database.

Healthy Bookstore - Stevia Sweet Recipes

A complete recipe book using the herbal sweetener, Stevia - an herbal sweetener which, in its extracted form, is over 200 times sweeter than sugar! "Stevia Sweet Recipes: Sugar-Free-Naturally" by Jeffrey Goettemoeller provides over a hundred recipes, developed in the Goettemoeller family kitchen, using Stevia as the sweetener. Learn how to incorporate this amazing herb into your own recipes, and begin to sweeten your cookies, cakes, pies, puddings, jellies, jams, sauces and more the natural way -- with Stevia!

Nutrition Tips
In summer, we consume more liquids and raw, fresh fruits and vegetables, salads, and a lighter diet in general, and we are usually more active. This is a good season to experiment with special diets, such as fasting, or a raw food diet. In "Summer 4-Day Menu Plan" Elson M. Haas, M.D. provides special "summer" menus, plus 13 menus.

Vegetarian Recipe
Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine offers you a vegetarian recipe for "White Bean Dip with Lemon and Garlic."

OLA LOA - A NUTRITIONAL BREAKTHROUGH

Ola Loa Energy is an effervescent, great tasting multi-vitamin vitamin powder that provides quick recovery from stress, sports and the rigors of daily life, with all the natural energy boosters and a doctor's selection of strategic nutrients providing greater absorption. Designed by renowned nutrition pioneer, Richard A. Kunin, M.D., Ola Loa is so gentle on the body it can be taken anytime. Just place Ola Loa Tropical Power Powder into an empty glass, add a few ounces of water or juice, and watch it stir itself. Enjoy the Ola Loa feeling!

FREE SHIPPING on orders of 3 or more boxes.

Mind Over Matter
While reaching a state of being absolutely worry-free seems just about impossible, reducing worries to a manageable level is well within your grasp. In "Learning to be: Worry-free" Barry Bittman, M.D. discusses a simple seven step approach that has the potential to progressively help you build peace of mind.

Spiritual Wellness
"You can get something from a book," said the Sufi scholar Idries Shah. "That something may be so important as to lead you to the recognition of the real thing." In "Buried Treasures" Philip Goldberg shares some highly worthy books. These hidden treasures can illuminate your path and at the same time remind you that reading, study, analysis and all your other intellectual pursuits, valuable as they are, can take you only to the doorstep of the Sacred. To enter, you have to leave the mind behind.

ENERGY MEDICINE KIT - DONA EDEN

Acclaimed healer and energy medicine expert, Donna Eden, invites you to learn the unspoken "language" of your body-to boost your energy levels, address many specific health problems, and foster overall health. You begin by learning a powerful "Daily Energy Practice" that combines simple movements, pressure point massage, and breathwork to create a reservoir of "vital life force" that you can draw upon throughout the day. With guidance on DVD and CD, Eden teaches you over 30 specific "on-the-spot" energy healing exercises to strengthen your immune system, alleviate fatigue and chronic pain, focus and sharpen your mind, stabilize your emotional energies, and much more.

The Energy Medicine Kit includes: DVD, CD, 43 cards, guidebook, crystal.

ASSOCIATION NETWORK -- HOT PICK

The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) website offers resources and information regarding disease prevention, health restoration, curricula and contacts for naturopathic medical education, affiliated state associations, naturopathic physician referral database, political action, and links to other organizations that share the AANP mission to transform the medical paradigm to a true health care delivery system.

HEALTH PRACTITIONERS & LIFE COACHES -
Whole Person Wellness Program for Your Practice
Are you looking for a tool to:
* Build your practice
* Bring a dimension of wellness to your work
* Determine your client's readiness for change
* Set up personalized wellness programs
* Track your client's wellness progress
* Enhance patient health & wellbeing
* Create new profit centers

The Wellness Inventory may be your answer.

For more information, visit: WellnessInventory.net
([email protected] - 310-823-9553)

Botanical Medicine Sourcebooks & Textbooks

What Doctor's Don't Tell You (newsletter)

15th Annual ISSSEEM Conference
Consciousness & Healing:
Essential shifts for personal, social, and global transformation
Arlington, VA USA
July 6-11, 2005
Contact: Institute of Noetic Sciences - 800-583-3063

30th Annual National Wellness Conference
Putting Wellness to Work
Stevens Point, Wbr>I USA
July 9-14, 2005
Contact: National Wellness Institute, Inc. - 800-243-8694

NNFA 2005
Las Vegas, NV USA
July 15-17, 2005
Contact: National Nutritional Foods Association - 800-966-6632

Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine
East Rutherford, NJ USA
October 6-9, 2005
Contact: TCM World Foundation - 888-826-6909

The International Complementary and Natural Healthcare Conference and Expo
Los Angeles, CA USA
October 7-9, 2005
Contact: Diversified Business Communications - 203-656-2001

MindBodySpirit Medicine Professional Training Program
Integrate the best mind, body, and spirit techniques into your practice
San Francisco, CA USA
October 23-29, 2005
Contact: Center for Mind-Body Medicine - 202-966-7338

For more leading health events visit www.healthcalendar.com