November 1, 2010 - Vol. 23, Issue 15
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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Sugary Beverages A Major Culprit In Childhood Obesity Epidemic
Empty calories now make up about 40 percent of the energy consumed by children in the United States, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. A large percentage of those empty calories come from sugar-sweetened drinks, such as fruit juice and soda, which have little to no nutritional value.
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Workplace Violence Significant Health Risk In Healthcare Work
A new study published online Tuesday 28th September in the Occupational and Environmental Health found that healthcare workers who are exposed to physical violence at work experience significantly more often low back pain and other musculoskeletal symptoms. View more
Military Calls for a New Holistic Paradigm for Total Force Fitness
Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman to the Joint Chiefs of Staff has called 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." The result is in a special supplement to Military Medicine, "Total Force Fitness for the 21st Century: A New Paradigm." The Wellness Inventory received a two page profile as the first of four "exemplar" assessments featured in the article, "A Survey of MultiDimensional Health and Fitness Indexes." View more
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WEBINAR: "CREATING WELLNESS" - NOVEMBER 4 (2-3 ET)
Are you ready to focus on creating wellness rather than focusing on disease and risk management? Are you looking for an innovative, holistic approach to wellness? 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. When: Thursday November 4, 2010 - 2:00-3:00 pm ET (1-2 CT, 12-1 MT, 11-12 PT)
Cost: Free Presenter: Jim Strohecker, President, HealthWorld Online, & co-creator, Wellness Inventory Certification Training |
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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 - 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 - "Breathe for Life - John W. Travis, MD, MPH
Many languages use the same word for both breath and spirit, or life force. In "Breathe for Life" John W. Travis, M.D., M.P.H., encourages you to start paying attention to your breathing as a form of relaxation, stress reduction, and healing. Breathing consciously not only will relieve tension and help quiet any fear, it can also relieve pain. So before you reach for the aspirins, the antacid tablets, or the telephone to call your doctor, do some breathing. View more
Healthy Computing: "Connect to Your Feet" - Erik Peper, Ph.D.
Immobility is one of the major contributors to discomfort at the computer as well as increased weight gain. People who unknowingly wiggle and move often tend to be less at risk for obesity and illness. Practice wiggling and moving through out the day to avoid immobility and chronic low level tension. Do the following movement to reduce immobility and tightness and observe how there is a link between your hand and your foot. Practice interrupting habitual tension patterns when you Connect to Your Feet. View more
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Are you ready to focus on creating wellness rather than focusing on disease and risk management? Are you looking for a fresh and innovative approach to employee wellness? The Wellness Inventory is a holistic assessment and life-balance program designed to help individuals to gain personal insight into their state of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. The program then offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into lasting changes in their lives, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing.
Created by wellness pioneer John W. Travis, MD, MPH, and e-health pioneer, HealthWorld Online, the Wellness Inventory is licensed in by companies and organizations in the corporate, healthcare, educational, and government sectors. Are you ready to create a "culture of wellness" in your company or organization?
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Women's Health Detective - "A Brand New Super Nutrient!" - Nan Kathryn Fuchs, PhD
A whole food supplement out-performs one that emphasizes a single ingredient because it contains co-factors and "minor" nutrients that haven't yet been studied or understood. In "A Brand New Super Nutrient!" Nan Kathryn Fuchs, Ph.D. discusses medicinal mushrooms on medicinal Chinese herbs. Medicinal mushrooms strengthen the body by acting like sponges, absorbing and removing chemotherapy agents, pharmaceutical drugs, heavy metals, and other toxins. Many herbs are also tonifying. View more
What Doctors Don't Tell You - "Healing with Intention"
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. View more
Integrator Blog - "The AMA's $70-Million Taxation without Representation: Is it Time for a 'CPT Party' Revolt?"
Integrative nursing leader Mary Jo Kreitzer, RN, PhD called my attention to a peculiar characteristic of US health care. The guild for MDs owns the means by which members of all the other guilds can get reimbursed by 3rd party payers. The means are the Current Procedural Technology (CPT) codes, the royalties from which earned the American Medical Association something in the area of $70-million of revenue in 2009. 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.
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 End of Life: Nursing Solutions for Death with Dignity - Lynn Keegan and Carole Ann Dick
This professional clinical guide presents nursing administrators and critical care nurses in acute care agencies, nursing homes, and hospice and palliative care settings with detailed implementation strategies for accommodating dying persons and their loved ones as they make the transition from physical life.
Written by nurses for nurses, the text promotes compassionate end-of-life care and provides a roadmap to changing the death experience of patients and their families into one that is peaceful, personal, and dignified. Experienced and respected nursing professionals Drs. Lynn Keegan and Carole Ann Drick have designed a text that encourages deep self-reflection and asks readers rethink the question of where and how terminally ill patients experience dying and death.
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Chef Teton's Essential Cuisine - "Let's Get Tropical with Coconut Oil!"
One of the areas where we can shift our tastes slightly and make a significant impact on our health is by steering away from the traditional ground crops providing us with corn, soy, safflower and vegetable oils. Coconut oil research has now cracked open benefits of this life-giving tropical delight: better thyroid function, a stronger immune system, smoother skin, and better blood sugar regulation, even for diabetics.
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Raw Food Materia Medica - "Winter Squash" - Brigitte Mars
Winter Squash is a member of the Gourd Family. Winter squashes are warm, alkaline, and sweet. They are nourishing to deficiency, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, energy and immune tonics. Squashes clear toxins from the body, nourish the stomach and spleen. Their high antioxidant content helps prevent bladder, lung, skin, and stomach cancers, stroke and heart disease. They have been used to improve vision, reduce cataracts, treat bladder infections, lower cholesterol, improve dry skin, and promote weight gain. Winter squashes are high in beta-carotene, vitamin C, folic acid, magnesium, potassium, sodium, carbohydrates, and fiber.
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Mind-Body Health
In "Reducing Stress Reduces Heart Disease" David S. Sobel, M.D. reports on a study of patients with heart disease where it was found that relaxation, taming hostility, and helping people change the way they look at life's challenges can reduce their risk of having further heart problems by 75% compared to people given only usual medical care and medications. Reducing stress proved even more beneficial than getting exercise. View more
The Healer Within - "Alternate Nostril Breathing" - Roger Jahnke, O.M.D.
The technique described by Dr. Roger Jahnke in "Alternate Nostril Breathing" has been employed by practitioners of Yoga in India for thousands of years who were aware of the significance of balancing the breath in both nostrils and employed this knowledge to enhance health and consciousness. It has been found through the application of current neuro-science, that the practice of alternate nostril breathing helps to balance the right and left hemispheres of the brain. View more |
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October 27-30, 2010
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November 4, 2010
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AANMC Naturopathic Informational Forum
November 13, 2010
New York, NY
Web site: http://www.aanmc.org/register/forum2.php?forum=75 Join the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges for a free forum at the SLC Center to listen in on a series of presentations and panel discussions with leading professionals in the field of naturopathic medicine. Hear from current students and meet with admissions officers from naturopathic medical colleges.
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/
Wellness Inventory Certification Training
14 Week Teleclass (Live phone teleconference)
February 15 - May 17, 2011
www.CertifyWellness.com
Three new Wellness Inventory Certification Trainings is scheduled to commence on February 15-17, 2011. The classes 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
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.
36th Annual National Wellness Conference
Growing Wellness
July 18-21, 2011
Pre-conference Workshops - July 16-17, 2011
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI USA
National Wellness Institute
Email: nwc@nationalwellness.orgm
Web site: http://nationalwellness.org/index.php?id_tier=90 Presented by the National Wellness Institute (NWI) -- formed in 1977 to realize the mission of providing health promotion and wellness professionals unparalleled resources and services that fuel professional and personal growth -- the Conference is a "wellness immersion" built upon the premise that professional development and personal growth are interdependent and should be enhanced equally. The Conference environment is a special place where wellness professionals can participate in "best practices" learning opportunities and intensive skill-building programs, and develop networking communities. It is a place where messages for hope, peace, and optimal living are shared with a unique blend of people from all walks of life. Inspiring and rewarding, participants leave with the tools for change.
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