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Healthy Update Newsletter - Healthy.net
Healthy Update
Your Home for Healthy Living
April 7, 2008 - Vol. XVIII, Issue 12

Healthy Update provides the latest news, expert articles and resources on wellness, healthy living, and integrative medicine. A weekly service of HealthWorld Online since 1997.
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HEALTH NEWS

U.S. Diabetes Population Doubled in Past Decade With Continued Growth Fueled by 77 Million Pre-Diabetic Patient Population
Nearly 77 million Americans are estimated to be pre-diabetic or at increased risk for developing diabetes in the future, leading to a growing awareness about and increased use of the designation "pre-diabetes” in the health care market.     View more


Alzheimer's: Drugs may do more damage than the disease
Alzheimer's patients can quickly lose their verbal skills – but researchers fear it may have more to do with the anti-psychotic drugs they’re routinely given than the disease itself. The drugs may make the condition worse, researchers have discovered, and they don't seem to offer any long-term benefits.    View more


Hepatitis: Grapefruit can fight it as well as drugs
A grapefruit may be all it takes to fight chronic hepatitis C. Currently sufferers have to take a powerful drug such as pegylated interferon, which comes with a range of side effects from nausea, anemia, depression and skin rash.    View more


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EDITOR'S PICK - WELLNESS INVENTORY CERTIFICATION TRAINING

Summer Certification Classes Begin June 9
The Summer Wellness Inventory Certification Trainings begin on the week of June 9 and run for 8 weeks through the end of July. The training will be conducted as a live phone teleclass.
The goal of the certification training is to create competence in delivering the Wellness Inventory (www.WellPeople.com), a holistic assessment and life-balance 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 wellness professionals, the training is approved by the International Coach Federation for 20 CCEUs. Classes Monday and Thursday evenings. Payment plans available. View testimonials from graduates.

For more information contact Jim Strohecker at 310-823-9553 ([email protected]) or visit www.WellPeople.com/Certification.asp


WELLNESS & HEALTHY LIVING

Continuing our Wellness Journey - Sensing
This week our journey focuses on Sensing, the third of 12 keys to wellness in the Wellness Inventory. It is through the senses--seeing, touching, smelling, hearing, tasting--that we come to know and enjoy the world. Our abilities to work, to feel pleasure, to communicate with others, and to impact the world are directly related to our abilities to appreciate and use our sensory input efficiently and creatively.    View more


Simply Well - Set Goals for the Changes You Want to Make
Goal setting is a dynamic tool for getting things done, and helps you clarify what is important in your life. In "Set Goals for the Changes You Want to Make" John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H., explains the power in setting goals, and shows you how to tap into that power.     View more


Staying Healthy Tips - Elson Haas, MD
As a doctor, Elson M. Haas, M.D. views any problem from the deeper true causes, which most often have to do with lifestyle choices - the way we live. In "The Purification Process: Healing for Modern Times" Dr. Haas recommends cleaning up your act, your relationships, and your planet.      View more


AUDIO: ENERGY MEDICINE KIT - DONNA EDEN

Boost Your Energy Levels - Enhance Overall Health
Your body is incredibly intelligent, teaches Donna Eden. If you guide it correctly, it will begin to vitalize and heal itself almost immediately. With The Energy Medicine Kit, this acclaimed healer and energy medicine expert invites you to learn the unspoken language of your body to boost your energy levels, address many specific health problems, and fosteroverall 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.      View more          Listen to Audio Sample


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Our newsletter provides the information you need to help you lose pound after pound of unwanted fat. But here's one trick to achieving optimal weight: You have to follow the program. An article in The Journal of Family Practice (June 2006) suggests doctors recommend hypnosis for this issue. We wholeheartedly agree. Read more about the hypnosis program we recommend most. View More

NATURAL ALTERNATIVES

What Doctor's Don't Tell You: "Healing with Intention" - Lynn McTaggart
The latest evidence shows that the strongest medicine is not a conventional pill, a surgical technique or even an alternative treatment, but the power of the mind-and the 'contract' of belief between healer and patient. In Healing with Intention Lynn McTaggart provides strong scientific evidence of the power of the mind as the central mechanism in healing. Medical doctors already acknowledge the centrality of belief in healing through the widespread use of the placebo. Studies also show that the effect of a treatment is enhanced when the practitioner, as well as the patient, believes that the the treatment will work.    View more     Subscribe to WDDTY


Dr. Christine Horner's Natural Secrets for Breast Health
Most famous for making bones and teeth strong by helping the body to effectively use calcium and phosphorous, vitamin D has another notable talent. In "Breast Health Tip #6: Vitamin D" Christine Horner, M.D., F.A.C.S explains how vitamin D protects against and fights breast cancer. How it helps to make a woman's breast cells more resistant to toxins, decreases the ability of breast cells to divide, stops tumor cells from growing, causes the death of tumor cells, prevents new blood vessels from growing into a tumor, and boosts the immune system.      View more


Integrator Blog - Lab Company Teaches MDs/DCs/NDs How to Offer Integrative Services for Employers
It is common for major pharmaceutical companies to sponsor programs that seek to service employer interests. But recently Immunolabs, which supplies laboratory testing services for integrative practitioners, decided to devote resources toward helping these practitioners understand how to work with this stakeholder which is in turn seeing its profitability linked to having healthier employees. Here is an interview with Kauley Jones, the vice president who started the initiative.      View more
"The Integrator Blog" offers News, Reports, Opinions and Networking for the Business, Education, Policy and Practice of Integrative Medicine, CAM and Integrative Health Care, from Publisher/Editor John Weeks.


Find an Complementary/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.    Find Bodywork practitioners              Find a Practitioner Home


RECOMMENDED READING

How to Talk With Your Doctor: The Guide for Patients and Their Physicians Who Want to Reconcile and Use the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine - Ronald L. Hoffman, MD
How to Talk with Your Doctor is a book for patients and doctors alike. It arms patients with the tools and knowledge they need to communicate better with physicians about using the best high-tech and alternative treatments while also helping doctors balance their skepticism of complementary and alternative approaches with open-mindedness. Part One looks at how doctors are trained, what practicing medicine is really like, and why so many physicians still resist nonconventional approaches. It also looks at how growing interest in alternative treatments is changing the practice of medicine and how it might change even further--for the better. Part Two offers a blueprint for patient and doctor for maintaining optimal health and dealing with chronic illness. It also explores complementary and conventional options for preventing and treating specific conditions.      View more              Bookstore Home


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HEALTHY KITCHEN

There's a Yogi in the Kitchen!
Want to create a complete curry meal? In "Lessons in Curry III" Siri-Veda Kaur Khalsa offers recipes for a traditional yogurt-based curry and accompanying dishes - Pakora Curry, Black Chana with Mustard Oil, and Lemon Rice.     View More


Nutrition Tips
Vegetable oils should contribute a higher percentage of the total fat in our diet than they currently do, as this would increase the proportion of polyunsaturated to saturated fats, which is helpful. In "Oils" Elson M. Haas, M.D. presents benefits of different types of oil, cautions regarding how an oil is processed, and when heat adversely affects the chemical structure.      View More


MIND-BODY-SPIRIT

The Healer Within - Roger Jahnke, OMD
The self-applied health enhancement methods movements are meant to be the seeds of your own inventiveness. In "Gentle Movements and Postures, Part II" Dr. Roger Jahnke reminds you not to sabotage your mastery by thinking they must be done a certain way. Make it up, make it fun, spread the word. Learn from others, add favorites, steal from the masters; they are always willing to share. Bring the breath and relaxation practices together with the effort of the movements, that is the balance. When you have made contact with the extent to which gentle movement has a profound health effect, you have become a part of the solution to the medical crisis.        View more


Mind Over Matter
"Healing" means "to make sound or whole, or to restore to health." It also refers to causing an undesirable condition to be overcome. In the context of mind-body medicine, what affects the mind clearly and indistinguishably affects the body and visa versa. In "Healing: An Individual Perspective" Barry Bittman, M.D. points out our tendency to ignore what is really bothering us. He urges us to better deal with the issues that stress us. Take time to stop and contemplate the way we really feel. Get in touch with our feelings. Ask ourselves whether it's the issue or our perspective that's causing us pain.      View more


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PROFESSIONAL'S CORNER

Wellness Inventory Certification Training - Spring Intensives
The Wellness Inventory Certification Training Intensive is a comprehensive weekend program that accelerates your own personal growth process, offering you an opportunity to make real changes in your life, while providing competence in delivering the Wellness Inventory assessment and life-balance program. The intensive provides a unique coaching skill-set to maximize the program's effectiveness in helping your clients change their lives. Weekend intensives are offered in Asheville, North Carolina April 13-15, and May 11-13, 2008.
For more information contact: 310-823-9553 or [email protected]. Or click here


Imagery, Suggestion, and Mind/Mind Medicine - Conference Webcast
Academy for Guided Imagery in co-operation with 20 other co-sponsoring organizations, including the Wellness Inventory, present "Imagery, Suggestion, and Mind/Body Medicine: 2008." This historic conference will be held as an online webcast that will first reach an international audience on May 15-18, 2008. Presenters include many HealthWorld advisory board members and contributors Kenneth R. Pelletier, PhD, MD(hc); James S. Gordon, MD; Martin Rossman, MD; David S. Sobel, MD, MPH, Daniel J. Benor, MD, Eric Peper, PhD; David E. Bresler, PhD, LAc; Hyla Cass, MD; as well as Effie Poy Yew Chow, PhD, RN, LAc; Jeanne Achterberg, PhD; Dennis Jaffe, PhD; Stanley Krippner, PhD; Dean Ornish, MD; and (hopefully) Andrew Weil, among others.

Healthy Update subscribers are eligible for a 10% discount off conference registration fees when they enter our Co-Sponsor Discount Code - WIN0508.
For more information click here


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  • GLOBAL HEALTH CALENDAR

    Featured Events

    Building Biology Conference
    Nashville, Tennessee  USA
    April 19-20, 2008
    Organization: Institute for Building Biology and Ecology
    Contact: 727-461-4371 or [email protected].
    Website: http://www.BuildingBiology.net


    Upcoming Health & Wellness Events

    5th Annual Nutrition & Health Conference: State of the Science and Clinical Application
    Phoenix, AZ USA
    April 13-16, 2008
    Organization: University of Arizona, College of Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons - 520-626-7832

    The National Conference on Healthcare Consumerism
    Las Vegas, NV USA
    May 4-7, 2008
    Organization: Consumer Health World - 804-266-7422 x7408

    6th Annual Integrative Medicine for Health Care Organizations Conference
    Phoenix, AZ USA
    May 15-17, 2008
    Organization: Health Forum - 312-893-6897

    18th Annual ISSSEEM Conference
    Boulder, CO USA
    June 19-26, 2008 
    Contact: The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine - 303-425-4625

    National Wellness Conference
    Stevens Point, WI USA
    June 12-17, 2008 
    Contact: National Wellness Institute - 800-243-8694

    Open Your Heart in Paradise
    Two Hawaiian Retreats with Ram Dass and Friends

    Hawaii (Big Island) USA
    November 5-10, 2008 
    Hawaii (Molokai) USA
    December 10-15, 2008 
    Contact: Ram Dass Center for Spiritual Studies - 760-228-1717

    For more leading health events visit www.healthcalendar.com


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