August 30, 2010 - Vol. 23, Issue 6
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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Military Going Holistic? Wellness Inventory Featured in Pentagon Report, "Total Force Fitness for the 21st Century: A New Paradigm"
 In the special supplement to the August issue of Military Medicine, Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff calls for a "21st century definition of fitness that recognizes the importance of a more holistic paradigm that balances performance and readiness with health and well-being." Charged by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to define "total force fitness" and to identify metrics that can measure it, "A Survey of Multidimensional Health and Fitness Indexes" discusses the findings of an assessment of the literature on existing, multidimensional measures of wellness. The Wellness Inventory is profiled as the first of four "exemplar" assessments in the article.
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Mindfulness meditation increases well-being in adolescent boys
'Mindfulness', the process of learning to become more aware of our ongoing experiences, increases well-being in adolescent boys, a new study reports. After the trial period, the 14 and 15 year-old boys were found to have increased well-being, defined as the combination of feeling good (including positive emotions such as happiness, contentment, interest and affection) and functioning well. View more
CDC Study Finds Annual Cost of Motor Vehicle Crashes Exceeds $99 Billion
In a one-year period, the cost of medical care and productivity losses associated with injuries from motor vehicle crashes exceeded $99 billion – with the cost of direct medical care accounting for $17 billion, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. View more
WEBINAR: "CREATING WELLNESS" - SEPTEMBER 22 (7-8 ET)
Learn how the Wellness Inventory program (www.WellPeople.com), a whole person model for sustainable lifestyle change, can support your clients, patients, or employees in improving their level of overall personal wellbeing. Health practitioners, nurses, social workers, wellness and life coaches, as well as fitness, spa, and wellness professionals welcome.
To register, contact: http://tinyurl.com/CreatingWellness-Register For more information, contact jim@healthy.net or call 310-823-9553. Please provide your full name, email address and phone number. When: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 7:00-8:00 pm ET (6-7 ct, 5-6 MT, 4-5 PT)
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| EDITOR'S PICK - ASEA: ADVANCING LIFE |
 Magical Molecules that Restore Health
One of the most important keys to healthy aging and wellbeing is maintaining a healthy balance within the cells of your body. For the first time ever because of a major scientific breakthrough you can now put the magical molecules back into your cells so they can do what they are meant to do: heal and restore the body to optimal health.
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| WELLNESS & HEALTHY LIVING |
 Continuing our Wellness Journey - Thinking
This week our journey focuses on the power of Thinking, the 7th of 12 keys to wellness drawn from the Wellness Inventory whole person assessment program. This stage of the journey relates thinking to physical and mental health, and offers some creative options for using thinking to improve your wellbeing. View more
Simply Well - "Keep Friendship Alive" - John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H.
People need people. And often they don't realize how great their need is until some moment of great joy or deep sorrow. In "Keep Friendship Alive" John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H., explains why one of the healthiest things you can do for yourself is to cultivate vibrant friendships - the kind that will supply you with the genuine support everyone needs, friendships in which you can dare to reveal your feelings, act spontaneously, care, touch, and serve. View more
Staying Healthy Tips - "10 Tips for Eating Healthy at Work & School" - Elson Haas, MD
Everyday choices impact the quality of your health. In "10 Tips for Eating Healthy at Work & School" Elson M. Haas, M.D. addresses how to effectively change habits to those that support your health, vitality, and optimum weight. View more
Spas and the Global Wellness Market report from the Stanford Research Institute Estimates $1.9 Trillion Global Wellness Market
The "Spas and the Global Wellness Market" does an excellent job of defining wellness as multi-dimensional and holistic, laying out the history of the movement, as well as current wellness market trends, while identifying a "wellness cluster" of nine related industries comprising the wellness market. The Stanford Research Institute estimates this wellness cluster to be a $1.9 trillion global industry.  The findings are very supportive of our wellness philosophy and shows a growing marketplace for our Wellness Inventory program, not only through the cluster of nine industries, but in the global spa industry. The philosophy of wellness pioneer and Wellness Inventory creator, John W. Travis, MD, MPH, appears to have had a strong influence on the report. The authors dedicate a full page to Dr. Travis concept of wellness and outline his pivotal role in the development of the wellness movement in United States (p.5, 71). Dr. Travis' Wellness Inventory program and Wellness Workbook are described as "foundational tools for wellness development." The authors encourage the spa industry to embrace Dr. Travis' concept of the Illness-Wellness Continuum and indicate that they used it as a key framing device for the entire report (p. 59). The image of the Illness-Wellness Continuum appears twice in the report, and it was also adapted on p. 7 for the "Wellness Cluster" diagram of the nine industries comprising the wellness market, by changing the two ends of the continuum from "Premature Death" and "High Level Wellness" to "Reactive" and "Proactive". The report also indirectly refers to one of the Wellness Inventory's strengths in helping spas create customized programs for their guests through the whole person assessment, and the ability to customize the 12 wellness resource centers with a spa's own services, classes, workshops, products and programs when it states, "Help consumers understand and select the spa's wellness offerings by utilizing wellness assessment tools to create individually tailored packages of services/products within the context of the different dimensions of wellness." (p vii) The spa industry may take a closer look at the Wellness Inventory, a holistic assessment and life-balance program, and how it can effectively within a spa's guest engagement strategy, customizing of spa programs according to the clients needs and motivations as seen through the 12 dimensions of wellness, and providing an ongoing holistic welness program that one can begin at the spa and take home with them to continue the spa wellness experience through ongoing wellness coaching support. Read more on the report. |
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Healthy Living with Natural Medicine - "The Mystery of Estrogen: The Good, The Bad and why it has gotten so ugly!" - Holly Lucille, ND, RN
Is estrogen good? Is estrogen bad? Do I need it? These are just some of the questions I seem to be getting daily in my practice as the "story" about hormones gets increasingly confusing. Let's take a deeper look at an not so simple category: estrogen! View more
Women's Health Detective - "How Calcium and Magnesium Can Slow Down Aging" - Nan Kathryn Fuchs, PhD
If you're like most women and take 1,500 mg of calcium and half as much magnesium, you've got it all backwards. You're getting too much calcium and not enough magnesium. In "How Calcium and Magnesium Can Slow Down Aging" Nan Kathryn Fuchs, Ph.D. shares important facts. Magnesium is neeed to carry calcium into your bones. The same ratio of calcium to magnesium you take to keep your bones strong and flexible will also keep you young at heart. When you're under stress, increase your magnesium and keep calcium levels reasonable, not high. View more
Integrator Blog - "Pictures at an Exposition: A Report on the 25th Anniversary Convention of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians"
The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), the national professional association for the nation's 4000 naturopathic physicians, celebrated its 25th anniversary conference in Portland, Oregon in August. This report offers snapshots of the profession at a challenging juncture. Included here are: perspectives of modern elders Jared Zeff and Joe Pizzorno; budget issues amidst a declining economy and advancing public interest; announcement of Bastyr University's plans for a new California campus; kick-off for a new Naturopathic Physicians Research Institute led by Carlo Calabrese; meeting of senior editors on the Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine project; and some commentary. View more
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Chef Teton's Essential Cuisine: Making Every Bite Count - "Feeding Our Children Consciously"
After years of dietary advice from a range of different sources, American's know that food from the Earth, and not the factory, is what their families need to build a strong foundation. But still the food on many family forks does little to nourish them. While most know what healthy foods are, few know how to include them in their diet. View More
Raw Food Materia Medica - "Oranges" - Brigitte Mars
Oranges are native to the Citrus Family. They are alkaline, cooling, sweet, sour, moistening, and cleansing. They are alterative, antioxidant, antifungal, antiseptic, antiviral, cardiac tonic, carminative, circulatory stimulant, and immune tonic. Oranges have been used to help prevent bladder, breast, cervical, esophageal, lung, pancreatic, rectal, and stomach cancer. They are also used to treat arthritis, rheumatism, asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, colds, fever, flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis, arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, broken capillaries, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and constipation.
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Healing Power of the Mind - "Fighting Cancer From Within" - Martin L. Rossman, MD
When you are diagnosed with cancer, you can find yourself over-whelmed with emotions at a time when you most need to keep your wits about you. In "Fighting Cancer From Within" Martin L. Rossman, M.D. reminds you that you have will, imagination, and powerful natural healing abilities within you that you can stimulate by the way you use your mind. View more
Wholistic Spiritual Healing - "Intuition (Part 4 of 5 parts)" - Daniel J. Benor, MD
In "Intuition (Part 4 of 5 parts)" Daniel J. Benor, M.D. explains that living organisms have biological energy fields (biofields) around them. The biofields reflect the condition of the organism. Healers (and many others) can sense these fields with their hands. It is possible to access information about a person through the biofields regarding their physical, emotional, mental, relational, and spiritual states. View more |
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14 Week Teleclass (Live phone teleconference)
September 7 - December 7, 2010 2010
www.CertifyWellness.com
Three new Wellness Inventory Certification Trainings is scheduled to commence on September 7-9, 2010. The class will run for 14 weeks and be conducted via a live phone teleconference. The goal of the training is to accelerate your own personal growth process, while creating wellness coaching skills and competence in delivering the Wellness Inventory program to your clients, patients, students, or employees, and supporting sustainable lifestyle change. Developed for wellness coaches, nurses, social workers, health practitioners, therapists, and fitness, spa, and wellness professionals, the training is approved by the International Coach Federation for 28 CCEUs. Daytime and evening classes. Payment plans available.
For more information or to register, call 310-823-9553 or email jim@healthy.net
2010 ICF Annual International Conference
October 27-30, 2010
Fort Worth Convention Center
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Registration will open May 2010.
International Coach Federation
Phone: 888.423.3131
Email: icfheadquarters@coachfederation.org
Web site: www.coachfederation.org/conferences-and-events/
Health, Wellness and Society
January 20-22, 2011
Berkeley, CA USA
International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society
Email: support@health-conference.com
Web site: http://healthandsociety.com/conference-2011/
Integrative Healthcare Symposium
March 4-6, 2011
New York, NY USA
Diversified Business Communication
Email: info@ihsymposium.com
Web site: www.ihsymposium.com Please join us March 4-6, 2011 at the Hilton New York. Be sure to continue checking this site for updates and announcements on what promises to be the best Integrative Healthcare Symposium to date.
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