GIVE THE GIFT OF WELLNESS

Give a friend or loved one the "gift of wellness" this holiday season. The Wellness Inventory assessment and life-balance program is designed to help individuals gain personal insight into their 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. To order, go to WellPeople.com & click on the link "Give the gift of Wellness".

To order for your employees or staff contact 310-823-9553 or [email protected]. Happy holidays!

American Chemical Society Admits To Widespread Contamination of U.S. Water & Fish
Emerging contaminant threats to drinking water and the environment have been identified in a series of 40 new science studies. These studies are a first step in providing a comprehensive treatment of how synthetic chemicals are altering life on the planet. Some contend that wastewater treatment and water purification plants are releasing huge numbers of synthetic chemicals into the environment and into our bodies with unknown impacts on health.

Tai Chi as a Beneficial Exercise for Seniors
More and more seniors are becoming physically active--reaping the countless health benefits associated with regular exercise. If power walking and your run-of-the-mill strength building exercises are uninteresting, the no-impact Chinese exercise Tai Chi is an excellent way to tone muscle, increase endurance, and gain balance.

EPA Scientists File Mass Petition for Action on Global Warming — Majority of Entire EPA Workforce Calls for Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
In an unprecedented action, representatives for more than 10,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists are calling on Congress to take immediate action against global warming. The petition also calls for an end to censorship of agency scientists and other specialists on topics of climate change and the effects of air pollution.

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HEALTHY HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS

HealthWorld's Healthy Shopping Network offers a wide array of gifts to help friends, family and associates to bring a new dimension of wellness and healthy living to their lives. From Sounds True we offer leading edge audios such as The Breathing Box, The Detox Box, Dr. Weil's Mind/Body Tool Kit, Essential Qigong Training Course, Energy Medicine Kit, Healing Drum Kit, Self-Hypnosis Home Study Course and The Beginners Guide to Healthy Eating. Check out the relaxing & healing sounds of Steven Halpern's Inner Peace Music, as well as Aquasana water filters, and the all natural herbal sweetener, Sweetleaf Stevia. The Healthy Shopping Network has a healthy gift idea for you.

CONTINUING OUR 12-STAGE JOURNEY TO WELLNESS
This week our journey focuses on the power of SEX the 10th of 12 keys to wellness drawn from the Wellness Inventory whole person assessment program. The sexual revolution of the 70s had many positive effects on the social climate. It paved the way for more frank and open discussion of sex and sexual problems, made getting needed information on sexual matters easier, and has fostered a more tolerant attitude towards behaviors that once were condemned as unhealthy, deviant, or criminal. However, this new openness did not solve all our problems, and in fact, created new ones. This section will explore the many dimensions of our sexuality and suggest ways to expand our awareness of the precious aspect of life energy.

Keeping Fit
It is reported that the average American experiences a 7-pound weight gain between Thanksgiving and New Year's, then spends the next several weeks trying to lose as much of the excess as possible. Unfortunately, many people are unsuccessful in their weight reduction efforts, and wish that they had not added the holiday weight in the first place, says Dr. Wayne Westcott in "Survival Strategies For The Holiday Season." Most would agree that it is better to prevent unwanted weight gain than to remedy the situation later. Dr. Westcott offers a few suggestions and recommends an exercise emphasis during this critical time of year.

MOVIES THAT INSPIRE, HEAL AND TRANSFORM

The SPIRITUAL CINEMA CIRCLE offers a service that's unique and deeply needed. The CIRCLE gives you a way to bring hours of inspiring entertainment into your life each month, while making an important contribution to the world. In addition, it's an incredible bargain. If, like me, you love movies, but you find it harder and harder to go to theaters because of the violence, emptiness and overall lack of quality and imagination that most of the current crop represents, The CIRCLE is a wonderful opportunity.

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Understanding Homeopathy
Homeopathic medicines are often effective in treating measles, though medical attention should also be sought due to the possibility of complications from this disease. In "Measles" Dana Ullman, M.P.H. presents nine specific homeopathic remedies and explains how each can assist according to the stage and severity of a case of measles.

Healthy Alternatives
In "What Are Flower Remedies?" Leslie J. Kaslof reports the observations and research by a British physician in the early 1930's that led to the discovery of natural, non-habit forming preparations which gently assist the body in mobilizing its own internal healing capabilities.

Women's Health Detective
Since so many illnesses begin with chronic inflammation, we would all be wise to counteract it as early as possible. In "Inflammation – The Silent Killer (Part Two)" Nan Kathryn Fuchs, Ph.D. discusses finding the right anti-inflammatory nutrients. She recommends starting with taking extra antioxidants like essential fatty acids, vitamins C and E, and flavonoids (compounds found in vitamin C).

Holistic Healthcare For Children
Children are naturally inquisitive, explorative, demonstrative, and sensitive. Unfortunately,the majority of schools demand that children conform to more or less rigid expectations for behavior and admonish any significant deviations. In "Attention Problems in Children" Randall Neustaedter, O.M.D. offers parents tips toward greater understanding of the child's true nature, plus natural treatment options for when more is needed.

Healthy Woman Update
Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are two kinds of eating disorders. "Eating Disorders (Anorexia Nervosa & Bulimia)" American Institute for Preventive Medicine offers symptoms and treatment options, and stresses that eating disorders are too complex and physically harmful to be treated with self-care alone.

Find an Alternative Healthcare Professional
Looking for a practitioner specializing in complementary and integrative health care? Search the Holistic Health Care section which includes the American Holistic Health Association and American Association for Health Freedom member databases in HealthWorld's Find a Practitioner Network. The network contains searchable directories with over 17,000 professionals from 20 leading professional associations in complementary/alternative and integrative medicine.

Healthy Bookstore - Changing for Good

From deep within the ore, great changes must be made to reveal the hidden diamond. Similar hard work is just as essential in changing human behavior, especially addictive behavior, according to the authors. "Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward" by James O. Prochaska, Ph.D., John C. Norcross, Ph.D., and Carlo C. DiClemente, Ph.D. distinguishes itself from the many other self-help materials available by espousing a sound therapeutic approach based on the authors' years of professional work with people in all sorts of damaging behavioral patterns, including smoking, overeating, alcohol abuse, and toxic relationships. The six steps to change, the social processes one must understand while changing, and the criteria used to measure success will prove useful to all self-helpers.

Raw Food Materia Medica
Kale is a member of the Mustard Family, making it a relative of broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower. Kale benefits the stomach and calms lung congestion. It has been used to treat constipation, obesity, dental problems, pyorrhea, arthritis, gout, skin disorders, ulcers and to rejuvenate the liver.

Fabulous Functional Foods
Imagine a bread every bit as substantial and savory as wholegrain bread, but containing no grains. Danish chef Oscar Umahro Cadogan brings us this recipe for "Hazelnut Bread" which is suitable for people allergic to gluten, those following the "Specific Carbohydrate Diet", and those following other low carbohydrate diets. The large amount of flaxseed provides plenty of Omega-3 PUFAs and phytoestrogens.

DRINK, SHOWER, BATHE - LIVE IN PURE, HEALTHY WATER!

The Rhino Whole House water Filtration System from Aquasana is the ultimate home appliance, and is now available Factory Direct. Healthy water throughout the entire household for about 60¢ a day!

This deluxe, high capacity system has the highest certified capacity of any Whole House Water Filtration System in America! Previously only available through Plumbing Contractors and Home Builders, priced at $1,595. Now you can buy "Factory Direct" at big savings!

Other gift ideas from Aquasana - Water and shower filtration systems: www.healthyshopping.com/Aquasana

Echoes of Silence
In "Pulling the Trigger" Robert Rabbin presents a challenging dilemma and explains that we must learn to face adversity and despair with strength and insight and resolve to not be crushed. We must all learn for ourselves that there is always a part of us that is not in pain, that is not hopeless, that is not sinking in despair. We can learn about this when we see that another's pain is not different from ours, and that to speak or act to reduce another's pain is to free us from our own pain.

Mind-Body-Spirit
To talk interpersonally--that your consciousness can have an effect on other persons and events--is a major paradigm shift. In "Prayer as a Healing Force" Larry Dossey, M.D speaks as one who believes in the connection between body, mind and spirit. He quotes the famous study tracking heart attack patients. The prayed-for group had fewer deaths, faster recovery, less intubations, and used fewer potent medications.

HEALING DRUM KIT FROM SOUNDS TRUE

With a venerable history as a healing art, it's no surprise that scientists are now finding measurable positive immune system changes following one-hour drumming sessions. With The Healing Drum Kit, internationally acclaimed music therapist Christine Stevens shows you how to use the art of drumming to ignite your creativity, release tension and anxiety, exercise the body, and communicate with a power beyond words. The Healing Drum Kit includes:

* A quality 10" REMO frame drum that can be played by hand or with included mallet
* 24 Rhythm Cards featuring World Rhythms from Africa to Japan; Life Rhythms for whole-body healing; and Spirit Rhythms that liberate creative energy
* 2 CDs of music for solo play or "drum circle jams"
* Spiral-bound study guide with scientific evidence on drumming for wellness, drum blessings from various traditions, playing tips, resources for starting a drum circle, and more

"Christine Stevens has put together a terrific kit that can introduce you to the magic, fun, and healing power of drumming. I recommend it." -- Andrew Weil, M.D.

WELLNESS INVENTORY CERTIFICATION TRAINING
WINTER TELECLASSES & INTENSIVE

Wellness Inventory Certification Trainings will be offered this winter via tele-class (phone teleconference). There will be two 12 week teleclasses. One is on Wednesdays from 1:00-2:30 ET (starting January 10) and the other is on Thursdays from 7:00-8:30 pm ET (starting January 11).

Designed for wellness coaches, life coaches, wellness professionals, and health practitioners, the course is approved by the International Coach Federation for continuing coaching credit. The Wellness Inventory is a holistic assessment and life balance program that is licensed to coaches and wellness practitioners, wellness centers, spas, corporate wellness programs, hospitals, and educational institutions.

Certification Trainings will also be delivered via weekend Intensive format on January 19-21, February 9-11, and March 9-11, April 13-15 and May 11-13 2007 in Asheville, NC.

For more information on the Wellness Inventory and the winter trainings go to: wellpeople.com/Certification.asp

Or, contact Jim Strohecker at 310-823-9553 or [email protected]

MORE PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES

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GLOBAL HEALTH CALENDAR

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-- FEATURED EVENTS --
Mind-Body Medicine Professional Training Program
New Orleans, LA USA  
January 27-February 1, 2007
Contact: The Center for Mind-Body Medicine - 202-966-7338

7th Destination Health: Renewing Mind, Body and Soul
Kauai, HI USA
March 11-16, 2007 
Contact: Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine - 858-587-4404

5th Annual Integrative Medicine for Healthcare Organizations Conference
San Diego, CA USA
April 12-14, 2007
Contact: Health Forum and the American Hospital Association - 707-644-1181

The 4th Annual World Health Care Congress
Washington, DC USA
April 22-24, 2007 
Contact: World Congress - 781-939-2438

For more leading health events visit www.healthcalendar.com

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HEALTHY SHOPPING NETWORK
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American Botanical Council (Botanical Medicine Tests) -
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Aquasana (Home Water Filtration Systems) -
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Bookstore (Health and Wellness) -
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ChildLife (Nutrition for Kids) -
HealthyShopping.com/childlife
Here, There & Beyond (Essential Oils) -
HealthyShopping.com/heretherebeyond
Inner Peace Music (Steven Halpern) -
HealthyShopping.com/innerpeace
MigraSpray (Natural Migraine Relief) -
HealthyShopping.com/MigraSpray
Natur-Leaf (Anti-Aging Products) -
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Nutraceutics (Anti-Aging, Women's Health) -
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Ola Loa (Drink Your Vitamins) -
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PainDefense (Joint & Muscles Formula) -
HealthyShopping.com/paindefense
Remo HealthRHYTHMS (Drumming for Wellness) -
HealthyShopping.com/remo
Sounds True (Audios - Wisdom for the Inner Life) -
HealthyShopping.com/SoundsTrue
SweetLeaf (Stevia-Natural Sweetener) -
HealthyShopping.com/sweetleaf
Teeccino (Caffeine-Free Herbal Coffee) -
HealthyShopping.com/teeccino
Third Line Press (Nutritional Medicine CD) -
HealthyShopping.com/thirdline

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