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Diabetes: Try Green Tea Instead
If you suffer from diabetes, drink plenty of green tea every day. It's just as effective - and far safer - than the world's leading anti-diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), which also increases the risk of heart attack by 43 per cent. Green tea was first mooted as a successful treatment for diabetes 70 years ago, and recent studies among humans have found that the more green tea you drink, the better.

Back Pain: Acupuncture Is The Best Thing You Can Do
Acupuncture is the best way of alleviating chronic back pain - and it's far better than any conventional treatment. Twice as many back pain sufferers benefited from acupuncture as those who took a painkiller - and they enjoyed months without pain afterwards.

Bottled Water: Now They Can Put Fluoride In It
Watch out for that 'healthy' bottled water you're drinking - it might contain fluoride. America, the world's largest market, is now allowing 'natural' bottled water to be fluoridated. The decision has been made by the USA's Food and Drug Administration - and its decision surprisingly goes against the advice of the American Dental Association to mothers that they should not mix fluoridated water into formula or foods for a child younger than one year.

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CONTINUING OUR 12-STAGE JOURNEY TO WELLNESS
This week our journey focuses on FEELING, the 6th of 12 keys to wellness in the Wellness Inventory. We experience feelings and emotions from well before the event of our birth. They can be intense, or frightening, or wonderful. They can also be the most misunderstood, and consequently mistreated, gifts we have as human beings. We judge them, repress them, discount them, drug them, worship them, and run from them. Yet, what a bore to be without them! Life fully lived is life filled with feeling!

Simply Well
With the experts disagreeing among themselves, it's no wonder that nutrition has become almost as controversial as religion or politics. In "Develop Personal Nutritional Awareness" John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H., guides you to develop awareness of your body and its nutritional needs. You learn to observe what types and quantities of food and what eating environments support your overall wellbeing, and which don't.

LEARN TO RELIEVE HEADACHES WITH GUIDED IMAGERY

Tired of headaches? Through the use of guided imagery, Dr. Martin L. Rossman has helped thousands over the past three decades find safe, effective relief without drugs or other costly treatment. On Headache Relief, you join Dr. Rossman to learn proven guided imagery exercises that work with both simple tension headaches and severe migraines. Three guided sessions on CD cover body-mind relaxation, pain relief,and the remarkable "inner healer" method for working with thoughts, feelings, and actions to impact health.

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MIND POWER RX - OPTIMAL MIND SUPPORT

Developed by Ray Sahelian, M.D., bestselling author of Mind Boosters: Natural Supplements that Enhance Your Mind, Memory, and Mood, Mind Power Rx helps improve mental alertness and wakefulness along with boosting mental stamina. Many people notice being more focused and able to concentrate better. The dozen or more herbs and nutrients found in Mind Power Rx support neurotransmitter function, improve blood flow to the brain, support enzymatic and metabolic function in nerve cells, and act as neuronal antioxidants.

If you have tried single brain nutrients or combinations that left you unsatisfied, overstimulated, or on edge and restless, it is time you do yourself a favor and try Mind Power Rx, a highly popular and respected, doctor-formulated formula with 18 different herbs and nutrients balanced delicately to provide smooth and healthy mind support.

From Fatigued to Fantastic
In "10 Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy" Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D. offers a number of tips that, if followed during pregnancy, can help both baby and mother stay healthy. He includes recommendations on nutrition, vitamins, minerals and other common sense tips that can lead to a happier, healthier and more vital pregnancy.

Healthy Alternatives
Rather than merely suppressing symptoms, osteopathic medicine addresses the underlying disturbances in the body's mechanisms. In asthma, medications are prescribed to cause dilation of the bronchioles. However, in "Osteopathic Treatments Effective in Managing Childhood Asthma" Mary Anne Morelli, D.O., F.A.C.O.P. speaks from personal experience to explain how, through properly applied manipulation, the body can be stimulated to release its own supply of these same chemicals.

Dr. Christine Horner's Natural Secrets for Breast Health
Many herbs used in Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as other common spices and herbs including ginseng, licorice root, rosemary, black cohosh, hops, and chaste tree berry are effective natural medicines against breast cancer. In "Breast Health Tip #16: Herbs" Christine Horner, M.D., F.A.C.S shows how researchers have just begun to scratch the surface of discovering the vast and wondrous intelligence contained in plants.

Healthy Child
In "Skin Rashes" the American Institute for Preventive Medicine notes that most rashes are harmless and clear up on their own within a few days. However, a few may need medical attention. Guidelines are offered for determining the difference.

Find an Alternative Healthcare Professional
Looking for a practitioner specializing in bodywork? Search the Bodywork and Somatic Therapies section which includes the American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia, Hellerwork International, and The Trager Institute 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 - 12 Essential Minerals for Cellular Health

Cell salts (tissue salts) exist in every human body. They are the inorganic biochemical elements found in the blood and tissues. They are the builders and the catalysts for many essential processes, including assimilation and detoxification. "12 Essential Minerals for Cellular Health: An Introduction to Cell Salts" by David R. Card presents a short, simple and readily accessible summary of the internal and external therapeutic uses of the twelve essential cell salts. The therapeutic use of cell salts has been extremely popular in Europe (especially in Germany) for decades. Today, homeopathic practitioners and naturopathic doctors in the United States and other countries are reviving the use of cell salts in successfully treating a spectrum of disease conditions. The word is out -- cell salts work!

Nutrition Tips
In "The Trouble With Fad Diets" the staff of What Doctors Don't Tell point out the pros and comes of popular diets. You are advised that it is unwise to go on a diet that eliminates essential fatty acids, along with saturated fats. The body cannot produce essential fats, so the only source of these is from what we eat. Totally fat free diets have resulted in joint stiffness, skin problems and mood swings.

There's a Yogi in the Kitchen!
Regardless of what ingredients are used, if the cook's consciousness is not prayerful, loving, or joyful ... that food will not be a healing food. Period. It is important to have a state of mind that is free of anger when you are preparing any meal. Instead be filled with heartfelt love for those (including the self!) who will be eating the food, joy in its preparation, and, most importantly, a sense of the Divine coming into the food. In The Yogi's Secret Ingredient" Siri-Ved Kaur Khalsa shows why restaurant food becomes so tiring. It only satisfies the belly; rarely does it elevate, nurture and heal.

WHAT IS YOUR NUTRITIONAL IQ?

Our diet is one of the most important determinants of our overall health and wellbeing. Yet, with all of the conflicting nutritional information being provided to the public through the media and other sources, there are many nutritional myths that have come to be accepted by many people. Test your knowledge of diet in the quiz, "Nutritional Myths that Don't Hold Water."

Mind Over Matter
Once a primordial element of survival, fear can sometimes evolve into a roadblock that impedes our progress. How do we respond? In "Facing Our Fears: Navigating the Path to Wholeness" Barry Bittman, M.D. queries "What is our next step? Do we grow stronger and more confident, or do we give in to what we have the potential to overcome? Do we seek and accept the help and guidance we need to positively shape our lives?"

Special Free Video Mini Classes For You!
HealthWorld columnist, Dr. Judith Orloff, is offering a special yearlong series of free video mini-courses on youtube.com based on the materials in her bestselling books, "Guide to Intuitive Healing," "Positive Energy" and "Second Sight". In "Dr. Orloff's Living Room Series," she helps you build the power within, offering expert information you can immediately put to use in your life! Lessons include, "How to Tap Into Your Intuition," "The Art of Remembering and Interpreting Dreams," and "How to Protect Your Energy in an Overwhelming World." Go to www.youtube.com/judithorloffmd and enjoy the mini-courses now showing. Subscribe to her free newsletter to get updates as new courses post, www.drjudithorloff.com

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2008 WELLNESS CERTIFICATION TRAININGS

The next Wellness Inventory Certification Training begins on February 20, 2008. Classes will be conducted as a live phone teleclass and run for 13 weeks. The goal of the certification training is to develop competence in delivering the Wellness Inventory (www.WellPeople.com), a pioneering wellness and lifestyle program, to individual, group and organizational clients. The training also focuses on the participants own personal development. Developed for wellness coaches, health practitioners, spa professionals, and corporate wellness professionals, the training is approved by the International Coach Federation for continuing coaching credits. Daytime and evening classes (Wednesdays 1:00-2:30 ET, Thursdays 7:00-8:30 ET). Space is limited. Payment plans available.

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GLOBAL HEALTH CALENDAR

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-- FEATURED EVENT --
Integrative Healthcare Symposium
New York, NY USA
January 17-19, 2008
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-- UPCOMING HEALTH & WELLNESS EVENTS --
Mind-Body Medicine Professional Training Program
New Orleans, LA USA
September 28-October 3, 2007
Contact: The Center for Mind-Body Medicine - 202-966-7338

Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine – Transformation: Individuals in Balance; Families in Harmony
Chantilly, VA USA
October 18-21, 2007
Contact: Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation - 212-274-1079

9th Annual Energy Psychology Conference, Toronto
Visions of the Future Mind
Toronto, ON CANADA
October 25-27, 2007
Contact: Meridian Seminars - 416-221-5639

National Wellness, Prevention and Fitness Conference
From Case Management to Care Management
Washington, DC USA
December 3-5, 2007
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