Healthy Update, the bi-monthly e-newsletter of HealthWorld Online(www.healthy.net), provides news and resources from leading experts in the world of alternative medicine, healthy living, and Self-Managed Care™.
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"HealthWorld is proud to announce the launch of our newly designed site. We have vastly improved the navigation, layout and overall experience for our users," according to James Strohecker, co-founder of HealthWorld. "Many of our users come directly from queries on search engines or from the over 24,000 links to various pages on HealthWorld from other web sites, so most do not enter via the home page. For this reason we realized that every page in HealthWorld needed to act as a "home page" to allow any user entering the site from links or search engines to have full access to what we have to offer. Due to our members demand and results of our surveys, we have decided to retain the original "Health Village" home page which has served so well as a familiar and welcoming entryway for our users since our launch in March 1996. Please come and experience the new site at www.healthy.net. We welcome your comments and look forward to years of being your "Home of Self-Managed Care" for years to come!"
HealthWorld Welcomes Greenmarketplace.com as E-Commerce Partner
In our effort to provide the highest quality information, products as services to our community, we are constantly looking for companies with vision and integrity who can provide the highest quality healthy living products that are natural, non-toxic, and eco-friendly. With all of our environmental health challenges, it is essential that we not add to the load through the products we put in our bodies and use in our homes. We are pleased to add GreenMarketplace.com as a key E-Commerce partner. GreenMarketplace.com takes e-commerce to a higher level by only offering products that meet the highest environmental, social and animal-friendly standards. At the same time, they are careful to offer prices that are fair to consumers. They aim to be a model of environmental and social responsibility -- demonstrating that commerce can be green AND successful. Their green mission extends from their amazing selection and detailed product information, to the very box in which you receive your order. Please take our invitation to visit this visionary company's online store.
Executive Health: The Skill of Thriving under Pressure
Stress can destroy lives or be a prime motivator at work, depending on how it is handled. Do you have the skill of thriving under pressure? Many people enjoy that rush of adrenaline. But too many 18-hour days, buzzed by adrenaline, lead to the body's stress chemicals going into overdrive. Over time, these will damage the immune system.
Panel Examines Alternative Medicines
A new presidential commission is traveling the country on a two-year quest to determine how to help doctors and consumers sort out what works, what doesn't, and what's too risky, and to integrate alternative remedies that do prove effective into mainstream health care. The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy is charged with determining how to ensure doctors and patients learn the available evidence - and if something works, how to pay for it.
Study Says Men Help Men Exercise
For college men, exercise works on the buddy system: If their friends exercise, they do. This was not true for women, who relied more on support from their families. And a researcher thinks college women do less exercise than men do because the female buddy system isn't as strong as the men's. This study was an attempt to get a handle on what motivates young adults to exercise, because too few do, and many of the exercisers drop out after they graduate.
Head Off Health Hassles by Organizing Now
Along with resolutions to exercise, eat right and save those tax receipts in the year ahead, think about adding one more: Getting your health care house in order. As managed care becomes the rule of the land, good, up-to-date record keeping may be your best protection against medical snafus. Create a separate file folder for each family member. Add all health data and documentation. Review your health plan benefits. Meet with your primary care physician to review your health care needs and schedule your annual screenings and immunizations.
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medicine, visit our Daily Health
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Dr. Galland's Integrated
Medicine
Epidemics of parasitic infection from contaminated water and of bacterial food poisoning from chicken or hamburger serve notice that the U.S. food and water supply is not safe, according to Leo Galland, M.D. Pesticides and preservatives provide no protection from the current crop of microbes and pose health hazards of their own. In the column "Eating Safely in a Polluted World: You Don't Have to Choose Between Microbes and Chemicals!" Dr. Galland offers several simple, effective measures you can follow to protect yourself and those you love from the effects of eating contaminated food and water--avoiding both microbial and chemical contaminants in food and drink and building resistance to them if you are exposed.
The Healer Within
Every original culture on the planet earth has a system of "hands on" healing. In western cultures this is generally called massage. As the movement toward alternatives to drugs and surgery progresses massage will emerge as one of our primary new, while actually ancient, therapeutic modalities. Hospitals, and even corporations, are hiring massage therapists to help with healing and to prevent the negative impacts of stress. In this column "Self-Applied Massage" Dr. Roger Jahnke explains how to effectively perform self-applied massage.
Mind Over Matter
Music can bring you joy. The column "Music-Making: practical piano tuning insights" by Barry Bittman, M.D. alerts us that music training can impact brain function. In addition to boosting problem solving abilities, music-making has been shown to affect our biology through the mind-body connection. Dr. Bittman sites a number of studies, including one on the potential biological benefits of group drumming music therapy for reversing specific immune system effects of the classical stress response.
Mind Boosters
Huperzine A is an extract from a club moss, whose action has been attributed to its ability to strongly inhibit the enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine in the synaptic cleft. In the column "Huperzine A" Ray Sahelian, M.D. reports that this appears to be a promising alternative to cholinesterase inhibitor drugs used in Alzheimer's disease, and promising for senile memory disorders.
Understanding Homeopathy
Involuntary urination is ironically a problem experienced at both ends of a person's life, both during infancy and aging. Older adults have difficulty with bladder control usually because of either urinary tract disease, nervous system dysfunction, allergic response, ruptured disk, or psychological stress. Women tend to experience involuntary urination after childbirth, surgery, or inflammation of the urethra, while men tend to get it if they have a prostate problem. In the column "Homeopathic Medicines For Involuntary Urination" Dana Ullman, M.P.H. explains the common causes of this condition, and outlines homeopathic remedies that may resolve the problem, rather than just eliminate the symptom.
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"The Way of Qigong" With Ken Cohen
"Chi" can be defined as life energy and Qi Gong as working with chi. In "The Way of Qigong" Russell DiCarlo interviews Ken Cohen, a master in the art of Qigong. While Qigong is a universal concept, the Chinese are unique in having developed a systematic and very sophisticated way of purifying and accumulating chi for self-healing. Ken Cohen discusses personal benefits of qigong in general and how it can be used when healing is needed.
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Interviews on the
Leading Edge
Featured Center
The Healthy Woman Center provides a powerful resource of over 130 articles and Real Audio tapes from leading experts in natural health care for women such as Susan Lark, M.D., Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, and Honora Lee Wolfe. The Center provides daily Women's Health News from the leading newswires, self-care and alternative therapies such as herbal medicine, homeopathy and Chinese medicine for dozens of women's health concerns, a Daily Women's Health Expert feature from a leading authority in women's health, a women's health bookstore, as well as women's health products from leading eco-friendly companies.
Healthy Recipes
Whole salmon is an amazing sight, and once the smell hits you you'll want to sink your teeth into it. Danish chef Oscar Umahro Cadogan brings us a recipe for "Whole Salmon filled with Pumpkin and Coriander" for those interested in cooking extremely tasty and healthy food.
Healthy Bookstore
With allergy problems reaching alarming, epidemic levels, horticulturist Thomas L. Ogren set out to investigate the role that urban landscaping plays in this urgent health crisis. What he discovered was startling: The vastly disproportionate cultivation of all-male plant varieties produces large amounts of intensely irritating airborne pollen. "Allergy-Free Gardening : The Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Landscaping," an extensively researched, comprehensive, plant-by-plant reference alerts gardeners and landscapers to this long-ignored problem and helps them make landscaping choices that can drastically reduce their exposure to harmful allergens.
Healthy Child Update
When your child has a sore throat, do you need to be concerned? The column "Childhood Sore Throat" prepared by the American Institute of Preventive Medicine offers specific guidelines to evaluate the situation. Does your child have a bacterial or viral sore throat? Should you take your child to the doctor immediately, or try some self-care tips? Important information can reassure parents.
Healthy Woman Update
Our culture has been programming modern women to experience fear in relation to pregnancy and to expect pain and complications during delivery. In the column "Pregnancy and Delivery" Emmett Miller M.D. presents an approach that focuses on the elimination of fear, substituting in its place positive conditioning, a positive environment, and positive expectations.
Find a Practitioner
The Professional Referral Network contains searchable directories for 20 leading professional associations in complementary and integrative health care, with over 16,000 professionals. Looking for a healthcare professional specializing in natural medicine? The Naturopathic Medicine section includes the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians member database.
Medical Cybrarian Research Service
Need information right NOW? The HealthWorld Online Medical Cybrarian provides just the information you need, and there is no extra charge for speedy turnaround from request to report!
The Cybrarian offers you personalized research service, searching the Internet, books, MEDLINE and other databases, to find EXACTLY the information you require. The Cybrarian can custom design research for individual patients or healthcare professionals, as well as healthcare industry business people, including information on diseases, treatments, products, market research or statistics for alternative, complementary and conventional medicine. For reasonable fees, the Cybrarian carefully gathers and selects the information or points you to useful web sites and other sources, with the speed and searching techniques acquired from many years of professional research.
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Community--Join our Discussion Forums
The Issues in Integrative Health Care Forum has a request for a man, close to death from possible work related arsenic poisoning, who needs treatment options. Do you have suggestions for him to consider?
Join in the ongoing discussion in our "Health Freedom," "The Vaccination Question," "Genetically Modified Foods," "Issues in Integrated Health Care," "Mind-Body-Spirit Health," and "Qigong and Taiji" forums.
Association Network -- Hot Pick
The International Association for Colon Hydrotherapy (I-ACT) was established to heighten the awareness of the colon hydrotherapy profession, ensure continuing and progressive education in the field of colon hydrotherapy and implement professionalism beyond reproach. I-ACT advocates the highest standards of education and professional conduct to assure properly administered colon hydrotherapy.
Visit International Association for Colon Hydrotherapy
Global
Health Calendar -- Hot Picks
Victoria Health Show
Victoria, British Columbia CANADA
January 20-21, 2001
Contact: Canadian National Health Shows - 604-885-0960
Omega in Boston
The Mind/Body Connection in Health with Christiane Northrup, MD
Boston, MA USA
February 3, 2001
Contact: Omega Institute for Holistic Studies - 800-944-1001
Biofeedback Foundation of Europe Annual Meeting
Workshops on Biofeedback applications for various problems
Prien am Chiemsee, Bayern GERMANY
February 15-19, 2001
Contact: Biofeedback Foundation of Europe - 31 20 44 22 631
Nutritional Therapy in Medical Practice
With Alan Gaby, MD, Donald Brown, ND, Allan Warshowsky, MD
Brooklyn, NY USA
February 24-26, 2001
Contact: Nutrition Seminars - 253-639-5681
Natural Products Expo West
Anaheim, CA USA
March 7-11, 2001
Contact: New Hope Natural Media - 303-939-8440
The Bach Flower Essences®
Introductory Weekend Seminar
Philadelphia, PA USA
March 24-25, 2001
Contact: Nelson Bach USA, Ltd. - 800-334-0843
Mind/Body Training in Optimism, Humor and Cognitive Restructuring
Boston, MA USA
March 26-29, 2001
Contact: Center for Training in Mind/Body Medicine - 617-632-9542
Editor, Healthy Update: James Strohecker, Co-founder, President, HealthWorld Online - [email protected]
Associate Editor: Suzan Walter, Director, HealthWorld Online Global Health Calendar, Speakers Network, Professional Referral Network, Association Network - [email protected]
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