BECOME A CERTIFIED WELLNESS INVENTORY FACILITATOR OR COACH

The Winter Wellness Inventory Certification Training teleclass begins Wednesday January 10 and runs for 12 weeks. 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, the training is approved by the International Coach Federation for continuing coaching credits. Enrollment is still open. Payment plans available.

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

What's In Your Milk? An Expose on the Dangers of Genetically Engineered Milk
Does the milk you buy contain rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone), a genetically engineered, potent variant of the natural growth hormone produced by cows? Extensive research is showing that FDA claims that this Monsanto product is safe and indistinguishable from natural milk are untrue.

Study Finds Many Patients Don't Understand Their Prescription Medicine Labels
Many people still don't fully understand the seemingly simple label instructions on their prescription medication. The most common mistake made by patients is misinterpreting dosage instructions (a tablespoon versus a teaspoon), followed by misunderstanding the dose frequency. The potential for patient mistakes rises as Americans' countertops fill with ever more bottles of prescription medicines.

FDA Does Not Use Advisory Committees Effectively in Approving New Drugs, Public Citizen Writes in Lancet Medical Journal
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not using its own advisory committees effectively when considering the approval of new drugs. The study of drug advisory committee meetings found that the FDA overrules the findings of its own advisory panels 28 percent of the time, a figure higher than is generally assumed. The FDA often allows drug companies to make an oral presentation without a countervailing FDA view.

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CAMEXPO EAST, THE INTERNATIONAL COMPLEMENTARY AND NATURAL HEALTHCARE CONFERENCE AND EXPO

CAMEXPO East the International Complementary and Natural Healthcare Conference and Expo will be held from February 8-10 in New York City at the New York Marriott Marquis. Improve patient care with the most cutting edge complementary, alternative and integrative approaches and products. Conference areas of focus include Functional Medicine, Food-as-Medicine, Pediatric Heath, Women's Heath, Traditional Healing, and Mind-Body Medicine. Choose from more than 30 sessions and earn up to 12.5 CME credits (certified by the NYU Post-Graduate Medical School, New York).

To register, or for more information including a full conference schedule, visit: www.camexpoeast.com

Simply Well
In order to stay happy and healthy, your soul needs nourishment, just as your body does. In "Find Your Center-Learn to Meditate" John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H., offers practical tips to re-collect your scattered parts and bring them back together. Try they out and discover which ones work for you.

Ask Dr. Orloff About Intuitive Healing
You have guidance and protection all around you, from the moment you are born to the day you die. Call it your guardian angels, your ancestors, a higher power, or simply love, you are not as alone as you may think. In "Step Four of Intuitive Healing: Ask For Inner Guidance" Judith Orloff, M.D. presents tips for how you can request inner guidance. She cautions you to have fun and not to try too hard.

Conscious Relationship Coach
Your children go through specific developmental stages--prenatal, birth, bonding/nursing, exploring, toilet-training, sexual development and more. In "Parenting: Pain (Sometimes), Possibility (Always)" Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks remind you that being with your children as they go through these stages pushes to the surface any unresolved issues from those stages in you.

BECOME A CERTIFIED WELLNESS INVENTORY FACILITATOR OR COACH

The Wellness Inventory Certification Training Intensive is a comprehensive weekend program that provides you in-depth personal experience and practical knowledge of the Wellness Inventory assessment and life-balance program. The intensive accelerates your own personal growth process offering you an opportunity to make real changes in your life. It also provides a unique coaching skill-set to maximize the program's effectiveness in helping your clients change their lives. The goal of the course is to create competence in delivering the program to both individual and organizational clients. The intensive is an option to the 12 week teleclass format. Weekend intensives will be offered in Asheville, North Carolina January 19-21, February 9-11, March 9-11 and April 13-15, 2007

For more information contact Jim Strohecker at 310-823-9553 or [email protected], or go to: wellpeople.com/Intensive.asp

ANTACIDS: THEY INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF PNEUMONIA

Many of us have taken an antacid or some other mild over-the-counter remedy for a minor gastric problem - but astonishing new research has discovered that we increase our chances of catching pneumonia every time we do. The antacids reduce gastric acid secretion, which allows bacteria and viruses to migrate into the respiratory tract, possibly leading to pneumonia. The researchers reckon that people who take antacids are nearly twice as likely to develop pneumonia as those who rarely, if ever, take them.

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Integrative Dentistry
It is important not to take oral symptoms, such as bleeding when brushing or flossing, or other seemingly harmless signals, as not important. In "Medical Disease Manifestations in the Mouth" Flora Parsa Stay, D.D.S. explains how numerous medical conditions give early warning symptoms in the mouth.

Healthy Alternatives
The intent of acupuncture therapy is to promote health and alleviate pain and suffering. The method by which this is accomplished, though it may seem strange and mysterious to many, has been time tested over thousands of years and continues to be validated today. In "Acupuncture Facts" the California State Oriental Medicine Association offers you a brief history and overview of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

Dr. Christine Horner's Natural Secrets for Breast Health
Flaxseeds have more potent medicinal qualities—especially those that fight breast cancer—than any other known edible plant. In "Breast Health Tip #19: Flaxseeds" Christine Horner, M.D., F.A.C.S explains three notable distinctions; First, flax is the richest plant source of omega-3 fatty acids. Second, flax has abundant fiber. Third, flax has at least 100 times more lignans than any other known edible plant. Lignans are natural plant compounds that help to give stiffness to the structure of plants. They also possess extraordinary anticancer properties.

Healthy Man Update
In "N-Acetylcysteine (NAC): An Old Nutrient Attracts New Research" Richard A. Passwater, Ph.D. explains how glutathione and its sulfur-containing precursors are important in keeping our bodies nourished, our immune systems healthy, and in protecting us against cancer and heart disease. The role of NAC becomes critical when normal glutathione production pathways are impaired, as for example, by HIV and AIDS.

Find an Alternative Healthcare Professional
Looking for a practitioner specializing in progressive treatment of the eyes? Search the Vision Care/Vision Training section which includes the Optometric Extension Program 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 - Soul Mind Body Medicine

"Soul Mind Body Medicine: The Complete Soul Healing System for Optimum Health and Vitality" by Dr. Zhi Gang Sha is a revolutionary new book that puts breakthrough healing science at your fingertips. It moves beyond the familiar concept of "mind over matter" to the new frontier in health and healing for the 21st century: "soul over matter." This book teaches a truth so simple and yet so very profound: The Soul Can Heal. It explains how to tap into the soul's limitless powers of unconditional love and forgiveness for healing and manifestation.

Nutrition Tips
The winter diet is often the richest, warmest, and heaviest of the seasonal diets. It includes more cooked foods, fewer fresh foods and cold drinks, and more teas and soups to keep the body warmer. And, of course, we may need more rest and dream time in the winter. In "Winter 4-Day Menu Plan" Elson M. Haas, M.D. provides food recommendations, menu plans, and specific recipes.

Vegetarian Recipe
Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine offers you a vegetarian recipe for "Quick Black Bean Soup."

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.

Echoes of Silence
In the business world they have a production scheduling term "just-in-time manufacturing," where goods are manufactured to coincide with receipt of orders for those goods. In "Just-In-Time Knowing" Robert Rabbin applies this concept to life - where one learns to trust that one will know what one needs to know when one needs to know it. By honoring the living present, you receive its treasure of wisdom that cannot be known ahead of time, but just in time.

Wholistic Spiritual Healing
How does the body take on the mind's problems? In "The Body (Part 3)" Daniel J. Benor, M.D. offers answers, focusing on psychological and bioenergetic connections with the body. If you repeat a word or phrase to yourself, or if it is said to you by an authority figure, it may become imprinted in your unconscious mind.

ESSENTIAL QIGONG TRAINING COURSE WITH KEN COHEN

In the qigong tradition, serious students commit to a 100-day training retreat to learn this cornerstone practice of traditional Chinese healing. Now, for the first time, qigong training is available in a comprehensive home-study curriculum taught by renowned China scholar and qigong master Ken Cohen. With The Essential Qigong Training Course, you will learn more than 70 qigong practices- some rarely taught outside of China-for harnessing the massive power of qi (literally, the "vital breath," or energy of the universe) to create vitality, spiritual balance, and physical health.

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 EVENT --
CAMEXPO WEST
Bringing the Entire Complementary and Natural Healthcare Community Together
New York, NY USA
February 8-10, 2007
Contact: Complementary and Natural Healthcare Conference and Expo - 207-842-5504

-- UPCOMING HEALTH & WELLNESS 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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