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April 20, 2009 - Vol. 20, Issue 14
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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More Americans Acquiring Medical Infections and Experiencing Medical Errors
A new Consumer Reports poll finds that 18 percent of Americans say they or an immediate family member have acquired a dangerous infection following a medical procedure and more than one-third report that medical errors are common in everyday medical procedures. The new poll, which assessed people’s experiences with the health care system, also found that only half of adults participate in routine preventive medical testing.
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Home birth no more dangerous than hospital delivery
Giving birth at home is no more dangerous than being in hospital, a major new study has found. Researchers in Holland – where home birth is very common – found that neither mother nor baby was at greater risk from a home birth provided the pregnancy was seen as being low risk.
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Homeopathy relieves side effects of cancer therapies
Homeopathy isn’t quite the quack medicine its critics claim. It can help relieve some of the side effects of cancer therapy, the prestigious Cochrane Collaboration has discovered. Calendula ointment eases skin irritations after radiotherapy, and Traumeel, a combination of 14 homeopathic medicines, helps relieve mouth sores caused by chemotherapy.
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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.
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Continuing our Wellness Journey - Intimacy
This week our journey focuses on the power of Intimacy, the 10th of 12 keys to wellness drawn from the Wellness Inventory whole person assessment program. In our modern culture, the word "intimate" has informally become synonymous with sexual intercourse. What we mean here is more in line with the dictionary definition, relating to your deepest and private nature or a close, long-term association with another person. This can be a sexual, sensual, or platonic relationship. Learning to effectively deal with conflict, respect and assert boundaries, and to connect responsibly is essential to building the trust that is essential in intimacy. Studies have shown that intimacy is a major component in one's health and happiness.
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Simply Well - "Move for the Health of It — Do Something Aerobic" - John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H.
If you have resisted exercise in the past, it is especially important that you design a program you can live with and stay with — a gentle, step-by-step program that will appeal to your fun-loving inner child or provide companionship or quiet time alone. In "Move for the Health of It—Do Something Aerobic" John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H., provides you practical tips for creating just such a program.
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The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Good Eyesight - Martin Sussman
The visual system - the eyes, muscles, nerves and vision centers of the brain - is one of the most complex and highly demanding systems of the body. More than 25% of the nutrition your body absorbs goes to feed the visual system. The visual system consumes one third of all the oxygen that you take in. Metabolism in the eyes is faster than anywhere else in the body. It's not surprising, then, that proper nutrition plays an extremely important role in preventing and treating all of the common eye problems - myopia, presbyopia, cataract, macular degeneration and glaucoma. Part 1 of 2.
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Holistic Healthcare for Children - "Preschoolers Use of Cigarettes and Alcohol" - Randall Neustaedter, OMD
Although parents often believe that young children do not think about tobacco or alcohol, prevention of these behaviors should probably begin with 2 or 3 year-olds. In "Preschoolers Use of Cigarettes and Alcohol" Randall Neustaedter, O.M.D. cites the disturbing results of a recent study on the impact of parental actions and the media on children, and urges parents to evaluate their own behavior as role models to create healthy habits in their very impressionable children.
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Integrative Dentistry - "Bulimia and Oral Health" - Flora Parsa Stay, DDS
Bulimia nervosa is most commonly diagnosed in women between the ages of 18 and 30, who have had a history of obesity. This eating disorder as well as being a psychiatric disorder affects the whole body physically and specially the oral health. Due to the physical changes that result in the oral structures, many times dentists are the first to diagnose bulimia", according to Flora Parsa Stay, DDS in "Bulimia and Oral Health". View more
David Cundiff, MD: Bias Issues Inherent in Bravewell's Focus on Evidence-Based Medicine in Reform
In this response to the Bravewell Collaboration's listing of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and reimbursement reform as key factors in any healthcare transformation, David Cundiff, MD points out that "randomized controlled clinical trials and other tools of EBM are mostly funded by special interests and interpreted by researchers paid by those special interests." Thus "the evaluation of EBM trials is and will remain controversial." Cundiff, author Money Driven Medicine, argues that one-third of the HEDIS measures which shape insurer decisions on what get covered, are "highly questionable." Sponsors of these measures, Cundiff notes, include a who's who of major pharmaceutical firms. Can one even imagine a level playing field for an evidence-based inclusion of integrative, natural therapeutic approaches?
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Enhance Childbirth Process with Guided Imagery
A woman's body is perfectly designed to bring a baby into this world, teaches Dr. Martin L. Rossman, and women who prepare themselves for childbirth experience shorter labors, less discomfort,and fewer complications. On Preparing for Childbirth, Dr. Rossman - a leading expert in therapeutic guided imagery - teaches you three proven exercises to allow the natural process of labor and delivery to take place while feeling focused, confident,and well-prepared.
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Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less - Marc Lesser
A certain kind of busyness is crucial to life, allowing us to earn a living, create art, and achieve success. But too often it consumes us and we become crazy busy, nonstop busy, and we expend extraneous effort that gets us nowhere. Marc Lesser’s new book shows us the benefits of doing less in a world that has increasingly embraced more — more desire, more activity, more things, more exhaustion. Less is about stopping, about the possibility of finding composure in the midst of activity. The ideas and practices that Lesser outlines offer a radical yet simple approach to transforming a lifestyle based on endless to-do lists into a more meaningful approach that is truly more productive in every sense.
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Raw Food Materia Medica - "Cherimoya" - Brigitte Mars
Cherimoya, also known as "Custard apple" is native to the tropics of South America. Its genus name is from an ancient Incan word, annona and means "year's harvest." It is a member of the Anonaceae (Custard Apple) Family and relative of Soursop. Inside the spiky yellow green skin is a lush white flesh with a delicious flavor, similar to a combination of banana, blueberry and pineapple. Cherimoyas are cooling. They have been used to remedy acidosis, bad breath, constipation, kidney and bladder inflammation. Cherimoyas are high in vitamin C, calcium, and iron. View More
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Positively (Divine) Peanut Butter Pie
The Peanut Butter pie is my sons’ favorite pie from my book, Sensational Stevia Desserts. It’s so good you'll want to double this recipe! Serve one and freeze the other for later use…unless of course you and your guests are craving for more. Just be sure to use all-natural, organic peanut butter for best results and better health.
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Ask Dr. Orloff About Intuitive Healing - "Five Steps to Intuitive Healing"
Intuition is something that can be taught. The magic of intuition is that it insists you live in the moment with no expectations, a continuing freshness. In "Five Steps to Intuitive Healing" Judith Orloff, M.D. brings you five steps that can be applied to any issue you'll ever confront from
healing your body, to riding a roller-coaster of emotions to sexual awakening. These five steps can bring you the joy and clarity you've been searching for.
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Mind Over Matter - "Feeling Good: Reaching the Top of Your Game" - Barry Bittman, MD
Living in a fast-paced society takes it's toll, yet isn't there more to living than simply existing? In "Feeling Good: Reaching the Top of Your Game" Barry Bittman, M.D. challenges you to make attitude adjustments and take time for introspection to uncover what is needed for the delicate balance that enables you to feel your best. Playing the game of life with greater ease and joy than you've ever imagined is certainly worth the effort.
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Trainings are scheduled for April 24-26, June 19-22, July 24-26, and August 29-31, 2009. An alternative to our 13 week teleclass training, the goal of the intensive is to focus on the participant's own personal development, while creating wellness coaching skills and competence in implementing the Wellness Inventory (www.WellPeople.com) program with your clients. Created for wellness coaches, health practitioners, and wellness professionals, the training is approved by the International Coach Federation for 20 CCEUs. All intensives take place in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina.
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Featured Events
2009 National Wellness Conference
Pathways to Optimal Well-being: Exercising Strengths/Increasing Real Happiness
July 18-23, 2009
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
In an environment where things may not be completely in your control, your happiness quotient is. There is a way of living and thinking that can lead not only to increased happiness, but also a healthier, longer life. Join us at the 34th Annual National Wellness Conference to explore this amongst many
other issues facing wellness and health promotion professionals today.
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HealthEnomics San Diego 2009 - National Meeting
May 6, 2009
San Diego, CA USA
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Contact: 804-266-7422 ext. 7419 | [email protected]
Upcoming Health & Wellness Events
6th Annual Nutrition & Health Conference
State of the Science and Clinical Applications
May 10-13, 2009
Chicago, IL USA
www.nutritionandhealthconf.org
Contact: 520.626.3488 | [email protected]
Integrative and Holistic Nursing: Bringing Healing to You and Your Patients
May 15-16, 2009
La Jolla, CA
Contact: 858-652-5400 | [email protected]
11th International Conference on Energy Psychology
May 28-June 1, 2009
Orlando Florida
www.energypsych.org
American Holistic Nurses Association 29th Annual Conference
Reflective Practice: Creating Sacred Space
June 11-14, 2009
Madison, WI
Contact: (800) 278-2462
Web site: www.ahna.org
American Holistic Medical Association 2009 Convention & Exhibition
Reflective Practice: Creating Sacred Space
November 5-7, 2009
Cleveland, OH
Contact: (216) 292-6644 | [email protected]
Web site: www.holisticmedicine.org
For more leading health events visit www.healthcalendar.com
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