CREATE A WELLNESS FOCUS FOR YOUR PRACTICE OR BUSINESS

Two Certification Trainings are being offered for the Wellness Inventory Assessment & Life Balance Program this winter. The 12 week tele-classes start January 10th and 11th. The goal of the certification training is to create competence in delivering the program to individual and organizational clients. Created for wellness coaches, health practitioners, spa professionals, and corporate wellness professionals and consultants, the training is approved by the International Coach Federation for continuing coaching credits. Monthly weekend intensive trainings are also offered in Asheville, NC.

The Wellness Inventory Assessment & Life Balance Program is licensed to coaches, health practitioners, wellness centers, spas, corporate wellness programs, hospitals, and universities.

For more information on the Wellness Inventory Certification Trainings, contact Jim Strohecker at 310-823-9553 or [email protected], or go to: wellpeople.com/Certification.asp

What Every Worker Should Know About Electronic Medical Records
Are you aware that the privacy rule actually permits over 600,000 doctors, insurers, and others to share individuals' electronic medical records—without consent—for purposes related to treatment, payment, or health-care operations, a very broad category. Now several major corporations are planning to digitize their workers' health records and store them in a multimillion-dollar database. There is no guarantee of privacy.

Despite Lack of Science and Strong Public Concern, FDA Expected to OK Food From Cloned Animals
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to release a preliminary safety assessment that clears the way for marketing of meat and dairy products from cloned animals for human consumption. The assessment and the agency's expected endorsement of cloned food comes despite widespread concern among scientists and food safety advocates over the safety of such products. The move to market cloned milk and meat also flies in the face of dairy and food industry concern and recent consumer opinion polls showing that most Americans do not want these experimental foods.

Breast Cancer: Rates Drop Dramatically as Women Stop Taking HRT
Millions of women stopped taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopausal symptoms following a series of studies that linked it to a range of serious diseases, including breast cancer. The rate of new breast cancer cases in 2003 in the USA suddenly dropped dramatically. Scientists reckon it's because fewer women are taking HRT.

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SWEETLEAF LIQUID STEVIA - EXCITING NEW FLAVORS!

SweetLeaf Flavored Liquid Stevia is all natural, zero calories, no carbs, and infinitely flavorful. At only a penny per drop, you can easily dress up the taste of water, coffee, tea, yogurt, cocktails, whip cream, smoothies, ice cubes, and nearly anything else. The uses are endless! Try our original flavors - Apricot Nectar, Chocolate Raspberry, Lemon Drop, English Toffee, Vanilla Creme, and Valencia Orange - and our great new flavors - Milk Chocolate, Peppermint, Root Beer, Grape, Cinnamon, and Dark Chocolate!

Go to healthyshopping.com/sweetleaf and scroll down to Liquid Stevia Flavors.

CONTINUING OUR 12-STAGE JOURNEY TO WELLNESS
This week our journey focuses on the power of TRANSCENDING, the 12th of 12 keys to wellness drawn from the Wellness Inventory whole person assessment program. The final form of energy in the wellness energy system is a subtle one that has only recently been given scientific credence. It is the realm of the transcendent or the spiritual (a word that's only now becoming acceptable in everyday speech). The human ability to transcend ordinary consciousness is actually an age-old gift that opens mind and heart to the potential of love, and to the miracle and magnificence of the moment, so often forgotten in the daily grind of our busy lives.

Healthy Computing
Working under stress with rapid, repetitive, sustained hand movements may contribute to loss of motor control and degradation of the somatosensory organization of the hand. In "Rediscover Fine Control" Erik Peper, Ph.D. shows you that developing fine motor control that can be much easier when it is done in the spirit of play and discovery versus correct performance.

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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AIDS AND THE STEROID CONNECTION

In this What Doctors Don't Tell You column a serious look is focused on Dr Mohammed Ali Al-Bayat's work with the shocking suggestion that prescription drugs, particularly steroids, may be a major cause of AIDS. Also, if HIV were indeed the cause of a precipitous decline in T cells, it follows that treatment with antiviral drugs would delay the progression of AIDS by preventing HIV replication in the cells. However, an investigation into the AIDS literature reveals an astonishing finding: the majority of AIDS patients who participated in the four major zidovudine (AZT) treatment clinical trials in the US during 1987-1992 were HIV-negative prior to AZT treatment.

Visit the "What Doctor's Don't Tell You" archives with over 5,000 cutting edge articles at: www.healthy.net/Search/WDDTY.asp

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Nutritional Medicine and Longevity
In "What is Orthomolecular Medicine?" Richard A. Kunin, M.D. defines it as a strategy for the maintenance of health and the treatment of disease by varying the amounts of substances normally found in the body, such as vitamins and minerals. Orthomolecular medicine is nutritional biochemistry applied to understanding health and treating disease.

Healthy Alternatives
The start of a new year is a typical time to consider a new diet. In "Types of Diets" Elson M. Haas, M.D. explains some common and not so well known diets: omnivorous, carnivorous, lacto-ovo-vegetarian, vegan, macrobiotic, raw foods, natural hygiene, fruitarian, fasting, weight reduction, warrior's, natural food, paleolithic, and industrialized.

Women's Health Detective
As our planet becomes more polluted, and the quality of our food deteriorates, we search for ways to get and stay healthy. In "Mushrooms: The Key to a Healthy Immune System" Nan Kathryn Fuchs, Ph.D. shares her view that out of all the many immune-supporting supplements out there, she thinks that medicinal mushrooms are the key to vitality and wellness. When you are exposed to bacteria or viruses with similar shaped compounds, your body remembers that mushrooms can produce the antibodies you need to fight these harmful invaders.

Holistic Healthcare For Children
Allergies affect about 38%of all Americans, and about 5% of the US population has asthma. The highest proportion of asthma is among children age 5 to 14, a total of 5 million children. In "Allergies And Asthma In Children" Randall Neustaedter, O.M.D. presents the case that allergies can be significantly improved, and even cured, with holistic treatment options, such as homeopathy, nutrition, and Chinese herbs. Plus, the important connection between emotions and the immune system should not be neglected.

Healthy Woman Update
In "Natural Treatments for Abnormal Pap Smears" Sally LaMont, N.D offers natural options for a woman to consider if she gets an abnormal pap smear result. Since these cellular changes may be caused by a virus, systemic treatment which strengthens the immune system can be essential to any permanent cure.

Find an Alternative Healthcare Professional
Looking for a practitioner specializing in flower colonics? Search the Colon Hydrotherapy section which includes the International Association of Colon Hydrotherapy member database 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 - Integral Health

Everyone agrees that the mind/body connection is a critical component in healing and well-being. But how do you activate that connection? Rather that looking outside ourselves for new remedies, techniques, and programs, in "Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishings" Elliott S. Dacher, M.D. says we have to redirect our vision from outside to inside. This book provides the vision and the map that shows how to achieve integral health as well as its many fruits.

Raw Food Materia Medica
Limes are members of the Citrus Family. They improve energy circulation and stimulate bile production. They are considered antioxidant, antiseptic, and astringent. Limes help improve arthritis, colds, constipation, fever, flu, gallstones, high blood pressure, obesity, phlegm, edema, liver function, and uterine and anal prolapsed. Limes are high in vitamin C, bioflavonoids, and potassium.

There's a Yogi in the Kitchen!
You have heard the expression, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." In "Something Worth Crying Over!" Siri-Ved Kaur Khalsa offers a new one to remember: "An onion a day keeps disease away!" Onions' job is to keep the blood pure, improve digestion, and promote liver detoxification. She includes several "yogic remedies" that employ onion.

DR. ANDREW WEIL'S MIND-BODY TOOL KIT

The evidence is overwhelming: you can tap the power of your mind to directly influence your health, using clinically proven tools that anyone can master.

With Dr. Andrew Weil's Mind-Body Tool Kit, listeners join the best-selling author along with three renowned colleagues and friends - all leading specialists in alternative medicine - to experience a potent prescription of self-healing practices.

Mind/Body Health
The decision to seek care is more determined by anxiety, worry, stress, lack of confidence, lack of information, job dissatisfaction, and unhealthy lifestyles than it is by the presence or absence of physical disease. In "Meditation Reduces Medical Costs" David S. Sobel, M.D. presents the research that supports it is reasonable to think that mind/body interventions which address the underlying distress that prompts visits to physicians, might reduce distress and medical expenses.

Music and Wellness
In "One Happy Family: Notes of Camaraderie" Barry Bittman, M.D. relates the story of an elementary school music teacher in western Pennsylvania, who combines love for children with opportunities for recreational music-making that builds bridges on solid foundations of camaraderie, caring, nurturing and creative expression. Perhaps if every child in our nation began each day with an interactive program that taught tolerance, respect and appreciation for one another, we would not have school violence.

UNDERSTANDING OUR CELL'S INNATE INTELLIGENCE

In the tradition of Carl Sagan, Rachel Carson, and Stephen Hawking, a new voice has emerged with the unique gift of translating cutting-edge science into clear, accessible language -- Dr. Bruce Lipton. With The Wisdom of Your Cells, this internationally recognized authority on cellular biology takes listeners on an in-depth exploration into the microscopic world, where new discoveries and research are revolutionizing the way we understand life, evolution, and consciousness. On this full-length audio course, Dr. Lipton shares his lucid and startling insights about the building blocks of life, and how each one of our cells has far greater innate intelligence than we once believed.

WELLNESS INVENTORY CERTIFICATION TRAINING
WINTER TELECLASSES & INTENSIVES

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]

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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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