Anne Harrington
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 Similarly, since the 1980s, some in the holistic health community have asked why are so many of us apparently vulnerable to cancer? Why do so many fail to recover? The answer they also offer is that too many people have failed to live emotionally honest lives. Cancer is a wake-up call from the body that makes clear just how steep is the price for all these too common failures of personality and courage.
The emergence of this way of talking about cancer in holistic health circles might seem a surprising one. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 For Life Extension members purchasing products, the company provides access to a toll-free phone line where members can speak with holistic health advisors and medical doctors about their individual health concerns. In addition to its natural product offerings, Life Extension publishes a fantastic monthly magazine. For more information on Life Extension, go to www.lef.org or call 1-800-226-2370.
Whole Grains
Just because a bread, cereal, or pasta product is brown in color, don't assume that it is a whole-grain product. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Most alternative practitioners employ a diverse, holistic health plan in their approach to preventing and treating CVD. Recent research supports the use of supplements like fish oil, oat bran, and plant sterols in combination with diet and exercise interventions as a way to favorably effect all lipid parameters,50 and diets focused on decreasing cholesterol have long-term success on par with statin therapy.51
Nutrition and Dietary Factors
Dietary habits are a fundamental area where we can exert a great deal of influence on our heart health.
Fats. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Conventional doctors who do not understand holistic health only look at what's happening locally; they think bacteria in the skin cause acne. We all have bacteria on and in our skin, so the presence of bacteria isn't the cause of acne. Do you think clear-skinned people have sterilized their facial skin? Hardly. If you are suffering from acne, try going dairy-free for thirty days and see for yourself just how much your acne is reduced or eliminated. |
Anne Harrington
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| The emergence of this way of talking about cancer in holistic health circles might seem a surprising one. In the 1970s, the prominent cultural critic Susan Sontag developed cancer herself and was horrified to discover that the old psychoanalytic belief in cancer as a disease of emotionally repressed people was still in wide public circulation. This was just ignorant talk, she snapped. People also used to believe there was a relationship between certain personality types and tuberculosis, until modern medicine discovered the bacterium actually responsible for the disease. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 According to the Kevala Center for holistic health, it's quite effective for cuts, burns, and insect bites, and it's a powerful antiviral agent as well and may even be useful in helping fight off infectious diseases such as flu and colds. The center recommends putting a couple of drops of the oil in a bowl of steaming water, covering your head, and inhaling for five to ten minutes to relieve congestion and fight infection. |
| Although the research on zinc for BPH is spotty, most complementary and holistic health practitioners recommend it. Zinc is absolutely essential to prostate health. Prostatic secretions contain a high concentration of zinc. |
Berkeley holistic health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| The environmental movement contributes to holistic health more than just awareness of the effects that air, water, food, modern living and the economy have on us. The environmental movement has also contributed its orientation towards perceiving whole systems and towards assessing direct and indirect effects from interventions in the short and long term. Differentiating short- and long-term solutions is particularly important in health care since many therapeutic measures may be effective in getting rid of symptoms... temporarily. |
| Humanistic Medicine and holistic health Care
Richard B. Miles
This article deals with the imminent changes in our evolving health-care system. As our views of health and medicine change, we must find ways to understand and deal with the issues raised by these changes. Richard Miles charts for us five basic categories of health care, further defining the difference between alternative methods and a truly holistic approach. |
| Nurses are definitely moving into holistic health," she feels. AHNA has grown to 800 members in two years.
"But we don't want to be a huge organization," she emphasizes. AHNA's purpose is to provide education and a support network for nurses moving in holistic directions, particularly by gaining scientific, academic credibility for holistic theories and techniques. |
| She maintains a private practice in preventive and holistic health counseling, and created the Omega Institute's workshop, "The New Nursing." She is co-founder of the nursing newsletter 21st-century Nurse, and is a free-lance journalist writing about health and politics for The Whole Life Times, Journal of the World Peace Council, and other publications.
She is currently a Masters candidate in Medical Anthropology at The New School for Social Research in New York City.
Shelly Kellman is a journalist, author, and photographer specializing in political, environmental, and health topics. |
Mike Adams
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 Therefore, CFS is one of those conditions where you're not actually treating the symptoms of the disease itself, but rather focusing on holistic health transformation. Once you are able to achieve that holistic health transformation, the Syndrome itself will automatically disappear. |
Dawson Church
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 Getting in touch with your body, for example—and really being present to the dysfunction that you've been pushing to the back of your mind for the last five years—may feel very uncomfortable for a while. holistic health aims to treat the whole person, rather than aiming a magic bullet at a particular problem. Your practitioner may treat a site a long way from the pain. Soul medicine looks for the root problem, rather than trying to make the symptom go away. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Many people lump all of the "alternative" medicines and activities into this concept, so holistic health comes to mean acupressure, acupuncture, herbal medicines, meditation, vitamin supplements, chiropractic care, yoga, aromatherapy, Feng Shui, massage and even sound therapy.
Conceptually, I believe in holistic health, but not as a catchphrase for every unconventional and oftentimes unproven medicine around. Food and nutrition, for example, are of primary importance to our health. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Another nonmedical philosophy of well-being is holistic health, which addresses the care of the whole person—body, mind, spirit, and environment. In practice, this means that every person is seen as a unique individual, and that particular individual is the focus of treatment rather than a particular disease. Disease is understood to be the result of physical, emotional, spiritual, social, or environmental imbalance. Healing therefore takes place naturally when these aspects of life are brought into proper balance. |
Tom Bohager
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 Fuller's interest in holistic health began over twenty years ago when her daughter became ill and was given only a short time to live. She discovered her daughter's illness was a result of her inability to properly digest, utilize, and eliminate food.
With this new knowledge, her research turned to Dr. Edward Howell's work on plant enzymes. Her daughter began plant-based enzyme supplementation and experienced rapid and lasting results. After her daughter's recovery, Dr. |
Dawson Church
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| Walking into the clinic, the first thing the visitor sees is a wide hall, with a fountain and beautiful artwork, which then opens up into a large room with comfortable couches, an altar, another fountain, and a holistic health library On the way, there is a glass-fronted herbal dispensary, and a receptionist's desk. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 He is a researcher, writer, speaker, and educator, as well as a health care practitioner.
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ABRAM HOFFER, M.D., PH.D., received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and his M.D. from the University of Toronto. He was director of psychiatric research for the Province of Saskatchewan from 1950 to 1967. In private practice since 1967, specializing in the treatment of schizophrenia and cancer, he helped introduce orthomolecular medicine, in which vitamins are used as a primary treatment modality. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If dogs can smell cancer, it's not unreasonable that some people might be able to detect it as well. Some holistic health practitioners that I know tell me that they can smell cancer in patients. That's because cancer emits a specific odor, and a lot of people who are using deodorant are simply trying to cover up odors that could actually serve as a health indicator.
Most Americans can't imagine going through a day without using deodorant. That's because they stink so bad that they feel obligated to apply toxic deodorant products to their bodies every single day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: There is this prevention and holistic health component that you mentioned, the mind-body medicine. Then you also have the background and the knowledge to be able to treat patients in acute situations, and save their life through conventional techniques. I need to acknowledge the value to that as well.
Goodman: Absolutely. You feel good when someone comes and unfortunately, they're there with a heart attack because the artery's blocked. But you can go in and put in catheters and little metal tubes called stents, and open up the artery and create blood flow again. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Western doctors, of course, completely dismiss the entire system of Ayurvedic medicine as quackery, ignoring its many thousands of years of safe, effective use on literally billions of people, and overlooking its enormous knowledge base of wisdom and experience in supporting balanced, holistic health.
Exotic systems / emerging systems: Many "undiscovered" systems of natural medicine are slowly making their way to Western societies. |
Berkeley holistic health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| In both modalities, the practitioner helps the client to set aside distractions and limitations, to find and use his/ her resources and abilities, and to make the appropriate choices.
Both Ericksonian hypnosis and N.L.P. are true holistic modalities. Their fundamental philosophies involve trust in the individual, and confidence in each person's inner ability to generate and maintain healthful change.
The safe normal sounds around me help me go into self-hypnosis to the depth that is right for me. |
Mike Adams
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| Once you are able to achieve that holistic health transformation, the Syndrome itself will automatically disappear. |
Berkeley holistic health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| Dr. Gordon writes about experimenting on himself and discovering various tools, including acupuncture, meditation, yoga, Tai Chi, bioenergetics, fasting, and physical exercises. Dr. Gordon came to "regard illness... as an opportunity for personal growth and change," and "the physician as a catalyst and guide in this process."
In addition to these major contributions, also included are shorter items by: Malcolm Todd, M.D., a past president of the American Medical Association; Lawrence LeShan, Ph.D. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1Michael T. Murray, ND
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| According to the American holistic health Association:4
Rather than focusing on illness or specific parts of the body, holistic health considers the whole person and how it interacts with its environment. It emphasizes the connection of body, mind, and spirit. holistic health is based on the law of nature that a whole is made up of interdependent parts. The earth is made up of systems, such as air, land, water, plants, and animals. If life is to be sustained, they cannot be separated, for what is happening to one is also felt by all of the other systems. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| Conceptually, I believe in holistic health, but not as a catchphrase for every unconventional and oftentimes unproven medicine around. Food and nutrition, for example, are of primary importance to our health. The process of eating is perhaps the most intimate encounter we have with our world; it is a process in which what we eat becomes part of our body. But other experiences also are important, such as physical activity, emotional and mental health and the well-being of our environment. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 American holistic health Association www.ahha.org (714) 779-6152
Orthomolecular Medicine www.orthomed.org (415) 922-6462
A. Get treated by a bioenergetic synchronization technique practitioner.
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B. Get a chiropractic adjustment.
Check your local yellow pages for a chiropractor.
Association for Network Care www.associationfornetworkcare.com (303) 678-8101
American Chiropractic Association www.amerchiro. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 For all these fasts, it is safest to have supervision from an experienced holistic health practitioner.
Personal Experience of the Forty-Day Spiritual Fast
The forty-day Spiritual Fast was profound for this one. There was not any specific idea of what was wanted from the fast except to enhance the Divine Love Communion. It was approached with some degree of curiosity and a clear sense of an inner direction to do it. Creating the time and space for it to happen in the middle of a busy health practice and family responsibilities was one of the first tasks of this Spiritual Fast. |
| Nutritional groups such as the live-food (raw food) movement, sproutarians, and now the holistic health movement, have all, at least indirectly, refuted the narrow materialistic conceptualization of nutrition. In these health movements there is an implicit assumption that we need to look at the subtle energy qualities of food and the human body. This awareness is shared by many healing systems around the world. In the ancient Indian sciences of Yoga and Ayurvedic medicine, for example, subtle body and subtle food energy is termed prana. In Chinese medicine it is called chi. |
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