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Walking?
Which of the following in NOT a direct benefit of a regular walking regimen?
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May 4, 2009 - Vol. 20, Issue 16
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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Historic U.S. Government Summit on Integrative Medicine Convenes
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is considered America`s preeminent body of physicians, scientists, and academicians interested in health and medical issues. It is a part of the United States National Academies, which also includes the National Academy of Sciences. On February 25-27, 2009, the IOM convened a "Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public" at its headquarters in Washington, DC. Approximately 600 people participated in this historic meeting which included a wide variety of experts in integrative medicine as well as people in leading positions in government, industry, and academia. This is an excellent report on the summit from Dana Ullman, MPH, one of the world's foremost experts and advocates for homeopathy.
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Five things to change in your life to avert diabetes
There are five simple lifestyle changes you can make that will dramatically lower your risk of diabetes – and may even mean you’ll never develop it. Researchers have discovered there are five major risk factors for type II diabetes, often referred to as the ‘lifestyle disease’, and each one on its own can cause the disease. Eliminating, or making improvements, in all five areas could bring your risk level to zero.
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Omega-3 supplements cut heart failure risk
Eat a fatty fish dish – such as salmon – once a week, and take omega-3 supplements every day, and you will reduce your risk of heart failure. Taking omega-3 supplements had the most dramatic protective effect, but eating fatty fish every week also helps. Interestingly, eating more than one portion of fatty fish every week didn’t seem to lower the risk any further.
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Continuing our Wellness Journey - Finding Meaning
This week our journey focuses on the power of Finding Meaning, the 11th of
12 keys to wellness drawn from the Wellness Inventory whole person
assessment program. Finding meaning appears to be a unique human need. It is one of the most complex uses of energy in that it involves almost all of the previous energy forms. Since the beginning of time philosophers have asked these basic questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? What do I want? What is real? What is true? This section encourages you to find a deeper meaning in your life that can provide a powerful focus for directing your life-energy.
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Simply Well - "Prevent Accidents" - John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H.
Commonsense safety is easily overlooked as an integral part of a personal
wellness program. In "Prevent Accidents" John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H., reminds us that most accidents - both in the home and on the road - are easily preventable. He offers a memory jogger to encourage you to take
action where you need it. View more
Staying Health Tips - "The Purification Process: Healing for Modern Times" - 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
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Dr. Christine Horner's Natural Secrets for Breast Health - "Breast Health Tip #20: Avoid Red
Meat"
Research has shown beyond a scientific doubt that eating red meat is a
serious risk factor for breast cancer. In "Breast Health Tip #20: Avoid Red
Meat" Christine Horner, M.D., F.A.C.S explains how the dangers comes from
structural changes when meat is cooked at high temperatures. To replace
meat in your diet she offers delicious vegetable-based meat-substitute
cuisine options.
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Understanding Reiki - "Reiki Training" - Pamela Miles
Reiki training teaches us how to learn Reiki. The Reiki master teaches us how to practice, and our practice teaches us Reiki. The more we practice, the deeper our understanding, respect, and love for this gentle, powerful healing practice. It is almost a technique-less technique, yet there is a subtle art to it, and significant discipline required to do less. View more
Integrator Blog - Wayne Jonas, MD on Obama's White House Office of Health Reform: No Clear Commitment to Health and Wellness
On March 5, 2009, Barack Obama convened a White House Forum on Health Reform in which the administration underscored its commitment to take on the nation's crisis in its medical processes. A month later, on April 8, 2009, Obama acted again by establishing the White House Office of Health Reform. For perspective on these developments and what they mean to integrative practice, the Integrator turned to Wayne Jonas, MD, president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, where Jonas has led the development of the ambitious, and long overdue, Wellness Initiative for the Nation (WIN). In this invited column, Jonas notes shortcomings of current thinking and the pressing need for an "Executive office to focus specifically on developing policies and programs for lifestyle-based chronic disease prevention and management, integrative health care practices and health promotion." This posting also includes the full Executive Order.
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the Business, Education, Policy and Practice of Integrative Medicine, CAM
and Integrative Health Care, from Publisher/Editor John Weeks.
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The LifeQuake Phenomenon: How to Thrive (Not Just Survive) in Times of Personal and Global Upheaval - Toni Galardi
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 - "Onions" - Brigitte Mars
Onions are members of the Lily Family, making them relatives of garlic and leeks and scallions. Onions help prevent blood platelet aggregation, have a cleansing effect upon the lymphs and warm the kidney's yang. They contain anti-cancer phytochemicals and are considered a supreme food in preventing stomach and skin cancer and tumor growth. Onions are used to treat anxiety, flu, atherosclerosis, asthma, blood clots, bronchitis, colds, coughs, diabetes, hay fever, hypoglycemia, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, insomnia, obesity, pneumonia, rheumatism, sinus congestion, and urinary infections. They are antibiotic, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiviral, diuretic, expectorant, laxative, liver stimulating, sedative, and tonic. They contain beta-carotene, vitamin B, C, potassium, selenium, and sulfur.
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Fabulous Functional Foods - "Lentil-Zucchini Mash With Nigella Seeds And Roasted Sesame Oil" - scar Umahro Cadogan
Originally made to be a topping for oven baked onions, Danish chef Oscar Umahro Cadogan's recipe for "Lentil-Zucchini Mash With Nigella Seeds And Roasted Sesame Oil" can also be used like mashed potatoes or as a spread. Try adding chili, coriander, fresh basil, fish sauce, sesame seeds, or other condiments.
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The Healer Within: "The Abdominal Lift" - Roger Jahnke, OMD
The technique described by Dr. Roger Jahnke in "The Abdominal Lift" is a traditional yoga practice called Uddhiyana bandha. He describes exactly how to position and move your body, and suggestions for repetitions.
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Mind/Body Health - "Halting Time Pressure" - David Sobel, MD
Time pressure can have powerful effects on the body. Our brain regards clocks, deadlines, and interrupted schedules as a threat, and calls up the "fight or flight" stress response, notes David Sobel, M.D. in ""Halting Time Pressure.". The incessant struggle to do more and more in less and less time also makes us more likely to respond with toxic anger to anyone or anything slowing us down. We feel we're not accomplishing what we should and self esteem plummets. We feel exhausted and overwhelmed all the time, denying ourselves the satisfaction of a job well done. Personal relationships suffer. We don't have time for the real conversations and intimacy that help buffer stress and increase our resistance to disease. Because of the added tension and worry about getting things done, we may lose sleep. We slip into bad habits, eating too much or too little or relying on junk food. We avoid exercise, light up a cigarette or turn to alcohol, caffeine, or pills to rev up or calm down.
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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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Upcoming Health & Wellness Events
6th Annual Nutrition & Health Conference
State of the Science and Clinical Applications
May 10-13, 2009
Chicago, IL USA
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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
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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]
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