Wellness Newsletter, March, 2009
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness Research:
a. Middle-Aged and Older Adult Not
Getting Sufficient Vitamins and Minerals
b. Cancer: No Level of Alcohol May Be Safe
c. Cancer: High Fat Diet May Increase Cancer Cell Spread (Metastasis)
d. Osteoporosis/Bone Mass: Mediterranean Diet Protects
e. Heart Disease/Cardiac Arrests: Learning to Deal with Anger May Help
Prevent
***For between newsletters’ updated wellness research, click on
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html * * *
3. Wellness Books, E-books, and new Self-Care Articles
*Complementary/Wellness/Self-Care Book for
Women
Plus plenty of other wellness and self-care
books/e-books
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Your Wellness Message:
I remain calm and peaceful
Wellness Research
a. Middle-Age and Older Adults Not Getting
Appropriate Amounts of Minerals and
Vitamin C
Micronutrients such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and vitamin C play essential roles in maintaining health. As older adults tend to reduce their food intake as they age, they often aren’t getting sufficient amounts of these minerals and vitamin C.
Using data drawn from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a prospective cohort study designed to investigate the prevalence, correlates and progression of subclinical cardiovascular disease, researchers examined over 6200 participants from 4 ethnic groups, Caucasian, African American, Hispanic and Chinese. Dietary intakes were determined from food frequency questionnaires and respondents were asked to provide amounts and frequencies of micronutrient consumption using label information from their supplements.
Over half of the population took supplements, and supplement users were more likely to be older, women, Caucasian and college-educated. Calcium and vitamin C supplements were most common. Although dietary intake of calcium, magnesium, potassium and vitamin C was similar between supplement users and non-users for both men and women, there were differences in median dietary intake levels between the different ethnic groups. Chinese Americans tended to have the lowest dietary intakes, particularly in calcium where both Chinese and African Americans had significantly lower dietary intakes of calcium than Caucasians and Hispanics.
The study also evaluated differences between multivitamins and high-dose supplements and found that potassium intake was very much below the RDA whether supplements were taken or not. This could point to a need to reformulate supplements to deliver higher potassium doses.
For more on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090301094252.htm
Cancer: No level of Alcohol May Be Safe
Low to moderate alcohol consumption among women is associated with a statistically significant increase in cancer risk and may account for nearly 13 percent of the cancers of the breast, liver, rectum, and upper aero-digestive tract combined, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The more than 1 million women in the study who drank alcohol consumed, on average, one drink per day, which is typical in most high-income countries such as the U.K. and the U.S. Very few drank three or more drinks per day. With an average follow-up time of more than 7 years, 68,775 women were diagnosed with cancer.
The risk of any type of cancer increased with increasing alcohol consumption, as did the risk of some specific types of cancer, including cancer of the breast, rectum, and liver. Women who also smoked had an increased risk of cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx, esophagus, and larynx. The type of alcohol consumed--wine versus spirits or other types--did not alter the association between alcohol consumption and cancer risk.
Each additional alcoholic drink regularly consumed per day was associated with 11 additional breast cancers per 1000 women up to age 75; one additional cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx; one additional cancer of the rectum; and an increase of 0.7 each for esophageal, laryngeal, and liver cancers. For these cancers combined, there was an excess of about 15 cancers per 1000 women per drink per day. (The background incidence for these cancers was estimated to be 118 per 1000 women in developed countries.)
For more on the study, click on: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224163555.htm
Cancer: High Fat Diet May Increase Spread of Cancer by 300%
Researchers at Purdue University have precisely measured the impact of a high-fat diet on the spread of cancer, finding that excessive dietary fat caused a 300 percent increase in metastasizing tumor cells in laboratory animals.
For more on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090225172639.htmenlarge
Osteoporosis/Bone Mass: Mediterranean Diet May Help
A study from the Harokopio University of Athens (Greece) suggests that adherence to a dietary pattern close to the Mediterranean diet, with high consumption of fish and olive oil and low red meat intake, has a significant impact in women skeletal health.
Diet is one of the modifiable factors for the development and maintenance of bone mass. The nutrients of most obvious relevance to bone health are calcium and phosphorus because they compose roughly 80% to 90% of the mineral content of bone; protein, other minerals and vitamins are also essential in bone preservation.
Traditional analysis has focused on the relation between a specific nutrient (e.g. calcium) and bone health. But, researchers of the Harokopio University of Athens, Greece, carried out a study in two hundred twenty adult Greek women, which is valuable for the understanding of the effect of meals, consisting of several food items, in skeletal mass.
They determined that adherence to a dietary pattern with some of the features of the Mediterranean diet, i.e., rich in fish and olive oil and low in red meat and products, is positively associated with the indices of bone mass.
These results suggest that this eating pattern could have bone-preserving properties throughout adult life.
For more on this topic, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218081747.htm
Heart Disease: Learning to Deal with Anger May Help
Before flying off the handle the next time someone cuts you off in traffic, consider the latest research that links changes brought on by anger or other strong emotions to future arrhythmias and sudden cardiac arrests, which are blamed for 400,000 deaths annually.
New research published in the March 3, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology finds that anger-induced electrical changes in the heart can predict future arrhythmias in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs).
In contrast to exercise, mental stress doesn't elevate one's heart rate much, suggesting that changes seen with mental stress may be due to a direct effect of adrenaline on the heart cells. Therefore, mental stress testing could provide an alternative to atrial pacing for patients unable to exercise, according to Dr. Lampert.
"More research is needed, but these data suggest that therapies focused on helping patients deal with anger and other negative emotions may help reduce arrhythmias and, therefore, sudden cardiac death in certain patients."
For more on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221235.htm
**For continually updated wellness research information, click on my research blog at www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.htm
3. Wellness and Self-Care Books & Article
a. New Self-Care Book
*Complementary Health for Women
A Comprehensive Treatment Guide for Major Diseases and Common Conditions
Presents research-based complementary and self-care treatments for over 30 acute and chronic conditions. Can be used by health care practitioners or consumers. For more information click on:
http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=10878
To purchase a discounted, personally autographed copy, click on: www.carolynchambersclark.com and scroll down until you find this book.
b. Wellness Books:
New Parenting Book
Empowering Your Indigo Child: A Handbook for Parents of Children of Spirit
By Wayne Dosick, PhD and Ellen Kaufman Dosick, MSW.
Provides hands-on healing techniques, scripted meditations, and other simple exercises that help a child release emotional wounds and celebrate who they are (and make life easier for parents.) Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com
or online at www.weiserbooks.com
*Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Holistic and complementary approaches to reducing anxiety, panic and related conditions. Purchase at a discount by clicking on www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive and holistic learning. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750 To purchase at a discount, click on
www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Creative Nursing Leadership & Management uses holistic and creative approaches to leadership and management. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
To purchase at a discount, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor & resources directory. For more information, click on: http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=12374
To purchase at a discount, click on: www.carolynchambersclark.com and scroll down.
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Fifth edition now available at http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=04588
Purchase discounted, personally signed copy at www.carolynchambersclark.com
Scroll down the page to find it.
Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches applies wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. For more information, click on:
http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=14075
Signed, authographed copies available by scrolling down the page at www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. For more information, click on http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=25042
To obtain a discounted, signed copy, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know includes research-based wellness and self-care strategies. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen. Or ask your local bookstore to order it. Discounted and autographed copies also available by going to www.carolynchambersclark.com
and scrolling down the page.
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Self-Help Group Sourcebook provides all the information you could possibly want on self-help groups from how to start one, find one, research, and listings of available self-help groups. For more information, go to www.selfhelpgroups.org
c. New Self-Care Articles:
Fungal infections: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id131.html
Pain: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id135.html
Blood clots: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id134.html
Epilepsy: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id136.html
d. Wellness E-books
Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts for from $1.99. Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)
4. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent issues of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
PLEASE tell your friends, family, clients or colleagues about this newsletter. Just have them go to www.carolynchambersclark.com click on my photo and sign up for their free subscription! If you like, copy this issue in its entirety and send it to them.
They can reply and put subscribe and their email address in the subject.
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
Stay Well!
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Latest Wellness Newsletter
Wellness Newsletter, February, 2009
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness Research:
a. Soy Intake Reduces Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Postmenopausal Women
b. St. John’s Wort as Effective as Antidepressants and More Tolerable for
Major Depression
c. Infections: Wearing a Mask Can Reduce Transmissions of Cold Viruses
d. Children: New Way to Help Them Deal with Bullying
e. Parenting: A New Danger for Children Talking on Cell Phones
f. Positive Effects of Breastfeeding Erased by Eating Fast Foods
***For between newsletters’ updated wellness research, click on
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html * * *
3. Wellness Books, E-books, and Self-Care Articles
*Complementary/Wellness/Self-Care Book for Women
Plus plenty of other wellness and self-care books/e-books
4. Wellness Newsletter Archives, click on
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
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1. Your Wellness Message:
I comfortably and easily release the old and welcome the new
2. Wellness Research
For continually updated research, visit my Research Blog
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html
a. Soy Foods Linked with a Lower Risk for Colorectal Cancer in
Postmenopausal Women
A perspective study published this month in the American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition showed that consumption of soy foods is associated with a lower risk for colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women.
"Soy and some of its constituents, such as isoflavones, have been shown to have cancer-inhibitory activities in experimental studies," write Gong Yang, from The study cohort consisted of 68,412 women aged 40 to 70 years and without cancer or diabetes at enrollment. In-person interviews using a validated food-frequency questionnaire evaluated usual soy food intake at baseline (1997-2000) and during the first follow-up (2000-2002). To minimize lifestyle changes related to preclinical disease, the first year of observation was excluded.
Compared with women in the lowest tertile of soy intake, those in the highest tertile had a multivariate relative risk (RR) of 0.67 (95% CI, 0.49 - 0.90; P for trend = .008). This inverse association was primarily confined to postmenopausal women. Findings were similar for soy protein and isoflavone intakes.
Limitations of this study include possible measurement error in assessing soy food intake.
For more about the study, click on http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/587587?sssdmh=dm1.426542&src=nldne
For more information, see: Am J Clin Nutr. 2009;89:577-583.
b. St. John’s Wort May Be As Effective as Standard Antidepressants and more Tolerable for Major Depression
A recent Cochrane systematic review (2008 [4]CD000448) evaluated the safety and efficacy of St. John’s wort extracts for major depression. St. John’s wort had significantly fewer dropouts due to the adverse effects than did antidepressants. In trials ranging from 4 to 12 weeks, with daily doses of 500-1,200 mg, response rates for St. John’s wort were similar to those for older antidepressants (tricyclics and tetracyclics: 48.5% vs. 48.8%) and for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs: 52% vs. 52%) and superior to placebos (53.6% vs. 36.2%) Note: serious drug interactions are possible when St. John’s wort is used with standard antidepressants and other medications.
c. Infections: Wearing a Mask Can Reduce Transmission of Cold Viruses
Masks play an important role in reducing transmission of cold viruses if they are worn properly.
At a day-to-day level, the study is also good news for parents of toddlers and young children.
"There is no effective treatment for the 90 or so common cold viruses that make families sick each winter, but masks could provide simple and effective protection," Professor MacIntyre said.
For more on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126082530.htm
d. Children: New Way to Learn to Deal With Bullying
A psychodynamic approach to bullying in schools has been successfully trialed by UCL (University College London) and US researchers. CAPSLE (Creating a Peaceful School Learning Environment) is a groundbreaking method focused more on the bystander, including the teacher, than on the bully or the victim.
In the first year of the study, teachers received a day of group training and students received nine sessions of self-defense. This training in martial arts with role-playing was designed to help children understand how they responded to victimization and how that victimization affected their capacity to think clearly and creatively. During the study, teachers were discouraged from making disciplinary referrals (such as sending someone to the principal’s office) unless absolutely necessary, and classes were asked to take 15 minutes at the end of the school day to reflect on the day’s activities. All classes would reflect on bully-victim-bystander relationships according to a structured format depicted in posters placed in all classrooms. Children would assess the extent to which they had succeeded in being reflective and compassionate. They would then make a classroom decision on whether or not a class banner should be posted outside the room to say that the classroom had had a good mentalizing day. The study found that children were much tougher on themselves than teachers would have been under similar circumstances.
The programme was found to generate more positive bystanding behaviours, greater empathy for victims, and less favourable attitudes towards aggression in CAPSLE schools. In these schools, fewer children were nominated by their peers as aggressive, victimized, or engaging in aggressive bystanding compared with the control schools. This was confirmed by behavioural observation of less disruptive and off-task classroom behaviour in CAPSLE schools.
CAPSLE made no attempt to focus on helping disturbed children individually or picking them out for treatment. It did not set explicit rules against bullying, nor did it advocate any special treatment for bullying children. Nevertheless, over time the study found that bullies came to be disempowered, initially complaining that the programme was boring and should be stopped until gradually the social system tended to recruit them into more helpful roles. For example, a fifth grade bully who was “humping” the school trophy case to display his sexual prowess to much younger children became a helper of kindergarteners who were upset and helped them with tasks like tying shoelaces.
For more on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090125193150.htm
e. Parenting: A New Danger for Children Talking on Cell Phones
Children who talk on cell phones while crossing streets are at a higher risk for injuries or death in a pedestrian accident, said psychologists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in a new study that will appear in the February issue of Pediatrics.
For more on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126112429.htm
f. Breastfeeding Effects Erased by Eating Fast Food
Many studies have shown that breastfeeding appears to reduce the chance of children developing asthma. But a newly published study led by a University of Alberta professor has found that eating fast food more than once or twice a week negated the beneficial effects that breastfeeding has in protecting children from the respiratory disease.
For more on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127083638.htm
**For continually updated wellness research information, click on my research blog at www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.htm
3. Wellness and Self-Care Books & Article
a. New Self-Care Book
*Complementary Health for Women
A Comprehensive Treatment Guide for Major Diseases and Common Conditions
Presents research-based complementary and self-care treatments for over 30 acute and chronic conditions. Can be used by health care practitioners or consumers. For more information click on:
http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=10878
To purchase a discounted, personally autographed copy, click on: www.carolynchambersclark.com and scroll down until you find this book.
b. Wellness Books:
New Parenting Book
Empowering Your Indigo Child: A Handbook for Parents of Children of Spirit
By Wayne Dosick, PhD and Ellen Kaufman Dosick, MSW.
Provides hands-on healing techniques, scripted meditations, and other simple exercises that help a child release emotional wounds and celebrate who they are (and make life easier for parents.) Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com
or online at www.weiserbooks.com
*Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Holistic and complementary approaches to reducing anxiety, panic and related conditions. Purchase at a discount by clicking on www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive and holistic learning. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750 To purchase at a discount, click on
www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Creative Nursing Leadership & Management uses holistic and creative approaches to leadership and management. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
To purchase at a discount, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor & resources directory. For more information, click on: http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=12374
To purchase at a discount, click on: www.carolynchambersclark.com and scroll down.
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Fifth edition now available at http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=04588
Purchase discounted, personally signed copy at www.carolynchambersclark.com
Scroll down the page to find it.
Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches applies wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. For more information, click on:
http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=14075
Signed, authographed copies available by scrolling down the page at www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. For more information, click on http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=25042
To obtain a discounted, signed copy, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know includes research-based wellness and self-care strategies. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen. Or ask your local bookstore to order it. Discounted and autographed copies also available by going to www.carolynchambersclark.com
and scrolling down the page.
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Self-Help Group Sourcebook provides all the information you could possibly want on self-help groups from how to start one, find one, research, and listings of available self-help groups. For more information, go to www.selfhelpgroups.org
c. New Self-Care Articles:
Fungal infections: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id131.html
Pain: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id135.html
Blood clots: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id134.html
Epilepsy: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id136.html
d. Wellness E-books
Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts for from $1.99. Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)
4. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent issues of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
PLEASE tell your friends, family, clients or colleagues about this newsletter. Just have them go to www.carolynchambersclark.com click on my photo and sign up for their free subscription! If you like, copy this issue in its entirety and send it to them.
They can reply and put subscribe and their email address in the subject.
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
Stay Well!
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness Research:
a. Soy Intake Reduces Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Postmenopausal Women
b. St. John’s Wort as Effective as Antidepressants and More Tolerable for
Major Depression
c. Infections: Wearing a Mask Can Reduce Transmissions of Cold Viruses
d. Children: New Way to Help Them Deal with Bullying
e. Parenting: A New Danger for Children Talking on Cell Phones
f. Positive Effects of Breastfeeding Erased by Eating Fast Foods
***For between newsletters’ updated wellness research, click on
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html * * *
3. Wellness Books, E-books, and Self-Care Articles
*Complementary/Wellness/Self-Care Book for Women
Plus plenty of other wellness and self-care books/e-books
4. Wellness Newsletter Archives, click on
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
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1. Your Wellness Message:
I comfortably and easily release the old and welcome the new
2. Wellness Research
For continually updated research, visit my Research Blog
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a. Soy Foods Linked with a Lower Risk for Colorectal Cancer in
Postmenopausal Women
A perspective study published this month in the American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition showed that consumption of soy foods is associated with a lower risk for colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women.
"Soy and some of its constituents, such as isoflavones, have been shown to have cancer-inhibitory activities in experimental studies," write Gong Yang, from The study cohort consisted of 68,412 women aged 40 to 70 years and without cancer or diabetes at enrollment. In-person interviews using a validated food-frequency questionnaire evaluated usual soy food intake at baseline (1997-2000) and during the first follow-up (2000-2002). To minimize lifestyle changes related to preclinical disease, the first year of observation was excluded.
Compared with women in the lowest tertile of soy intake, those in the highest tertile had a multivariate relative risk (RR) of 0.67 (95% CI, 0.49 - 0.90; P for trend = .008). This inverse association was primarily confined to postmenopausal women. Findings were similar for soy protein and isoflavone intakes.
Limitations of this study include possible measurement error in assessing soy food intake.
For more about the study, click on http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/587587?sssdmh=dm1.426542&src=nldne
For more information, see: Am J Clin Nutr. 2009;89:577-583.
b. St. John’s Wort May Be As Effective as Standard Antidepressants and more Tolerable for Major Depression
A recent Cochrane systematic review (2008 [4]CD000448) evaluated the safety and efficacy of St. John’s wort extracts for major depression. St. John’s wort had significantly fewer dropouts due to the adverse effects than did antidepressants. In trials ranging from 4 to 12 weeks, with daily doses of 500-1,200 mg, response rates for St. John’s wort were similar to those for older antidepressants (tricyclics and tetracyclics: 48.5% vs. 48.8%) and for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs: 52% vs. 52%) and superior to placebos (53.6% vs. 36.2%) Note: serious drug interactions are possible when St. John’s wort is used with standard antidepressants and other medications.
c. Infections: Wearing a Mask Can Reduce Transmission of Cold Viruses
Masks play an important role in reducing transmission of cold viruses if they are worn properly.
At a day-to-day level, the study is also good news for parents of toddlers and young children.
"There is no effective treatment for the 90 or so common cold viruses that make families sick each winter, but masks could provide simple and effective protection," Professor MacIntyre said.
For more on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126082530.htm
d. Children: New Way to Learn to Deal With Bullying
A psychodynamic approach to bullying in schools has been successfully trialed by UCL (University College London) and US researchers. CAPSLE (Creating a Peaceful School Learning Environment) is a groundbreaking method focused more on the bystander, including the teacher, than on the bully or the victim.
In the first year of the study, teachers received a day of group training and students received nine sessions of self-defense. This training in martial arts with role-playing was designed to help children understand how they responded to victimization and how that victimization affected their capacity to think clearly and creatively. During the study, teachers were discouraged from making disciplinary referrals (such as sending someone to the principal’s office) unless absolutely necessary, and classes were asked to take 15 minutes at the end of the school day to reflect on the day’s activities. All classes would reflect on bully-victim-bystander relationships according to a structured format depicted in posters placed in all classrooms. Children would assess the extent to which they had succeeded in being reflective and compassionate. They would then make a classroom decision on whether or not a class banner should be posted outside the room to say that the classroom had had a good mentalizing day. The study found that children were much tougher on themselves than teachers would have been under similar circumstances.
The programme was found to generate more positive bystanding behaviours, greater empathy for victims, and less favourable attitudes towards aggression in CAPSLE schools. In these schools, fewer children were nominated by their peers as aggressive, victimized, or engaging in aggressive bystanding compared with the control schools. This was confirmed by behavioural observation of less disruptive and off-task classroom behaviour in CAPSLE schools.
CAPSLE made no attempt to focus on helping disturbed children individually or picking them out for treatment. It did not set explicit rules against bullying, nor did it advocate any special treatment for bullying children. Nevertheless, over time the study found that bullies came to be disempowered, initially complaining that the programme was boring and should be stopped until gradually the social system tended to recruit them into more helpful roles. For example, a fifth grade bully who was “humping” the school trophy case to display his sexual prowess to much younger children became a helper of kindergarteners who were upset and helped them with tasks like tying shoelaces.
For more on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090125193150.htm
e. Parenting: A New Danger for Children Talking on Cell Phones
Children who talk on cell phones while crossing streets are at a higher risk for injuries or death in a pedestrian accident, said psychologists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in a new study that will appear in the February issue of Pediatrics.
For more on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126112429.htm
f. Breastfeeding Effects Erased by Eating Fast Food
Many studies have shown that breastfeeding appears to reduce the chance of children developing asthma. But a newly published study led by a University of Alberta professor has found that eating fast food more than once or twice a week negated the beneficial effects that breastfeeding has in protecting children from the respiratory disease.
For more on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127083638.htm
**For continually updated wellness research information, click on my research blog at www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.htm
3. Wellness and Self-Care Books & Article
a. New Self-Care Book
*Complementary Health for Women
A Comprehensive Treatment Guide for Major Diseases and Common Conditions
Presents research-based complementary and self-care treatments for over 30 acute and chronic conditions. Can be used by health care practitioners or consumers. For more information click on:
http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=10878
To purchase a discounted, personally autographed copy, click on: www.carolynchambersclark.com and scroll down until you find this book.
b. Wellness Books:
New Parenting Book
Empowering Your Indigo Child: A Handbook for Parents of Children of Spirit
By Wayne Dosick, PhD and Ellen Kaufman Dosick, MSW.
Provides hands-on healing techniques, scripted meditations, and other simple exercises that help a child release emotional wounds and celebrate who they are (and make life easier for parents.) Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com
or online at www.weiserbooks.com
*Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Holistic and complementary approaches to reducing anxiety, panic and related conditions. Purchase at a discount by clicking on www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive and holistic learning. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750 To purchase at a discount, click on
www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Creative Nursing Leadership & Management uses holistic and creative approaches to leadership and management. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
To purchase at a discount, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor & resources directory. For more information, click on: http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=12374
To purchase at a discount, click on: www.carolynchambersclark.com and scroll down.
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Fifth edition now available at http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=04588
Purchase discounted, personally signed copy at www.carolynchambersclark.com
Scroll down the page to find it.
Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches applies wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. For more information, click on:
http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=14075
Signed, authographed copies available by scrolling down the page at www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. For more information, click on http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=25042
To obtain a discounted, signed copy, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know includes research-based wellness and self-care strategies. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen. Or ask your local bookstore to order it. Discounted and autographed copies also available by going to www.carolynchambersclark.com
and scrolling down the page.
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Self-Help Group Sourcebook provides all the information you could possibly want on self-help groups from how to start one, find one, research, and listings of available self-help groups. For more information, go to www.selfhelpgroups.org
c. New Self-Care Articles:
Fungal infections: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id131.html
Pain: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id135.html
Blood clots: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id134.html
Epilepsy: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id136.html
d. Wellness E-books
Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts for from $1.99. Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)
4. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent issues of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
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In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
Stay Well!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Wellness Newsletter, November, 2008
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
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1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness Research:
a. Grapes May Prevent Heart, Blood Vessel, and other Inflammatory Disease
b. How Infant Feeding Practices Affect Later Obesity
c. Exercise May Prevent Fatty Liver Disease
d. Clock Shifts Affect Heart Attack Risk
e. Hazardous Ions in Wine
3. New Complementary/Wellness/Self-Care Book for Women
4. Being a participative consumer: new articles
5. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless
living
6. Wellness & Relationship Research Blog
7. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support
group
8. Herbs and Supplement information
9. A recent book for nurse educators
10. A recent book for nursing leaders and managers
11. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters
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2. Wellness Research
a Heart Disease and Grapes
Accumulating evidence shows that grape polyphenols work in many different ways to prevent cardiovascular and other "inflammatory-mediated" diseases.
Through their antioxidant effects, grape polyphenols help to slow or prevent cell damage caused by oxidation. Polyphenols decrease oxidation of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol)—a key step in the development of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Grape polyphenols also have other protective effects on the heart and blood vessels, including actions to reduce blood clotting, abnormal heart rhythms, and blood vessel narrowing. It's not yet clear exactly how these benefits of polyphenols occur, although there is evidence of effects on cellular signaling and on the actions of certain genes. The wide range of health-promoting effects suggests that several different, possibly interrelated mechanisms may be involved.
Studies in patients treated with grape seed extracts have shown improvements in blood flow and cholesterol levels. In other studies, drinking Concord grape juice has improved measures of blood flow in patients with coronary artery disease and lowered blood pressure in patients with hypertension.
Studies investigating the lower rates of heart disease in France—the so-called "French paradox"—first raised the possibility that red wine might have health benefits. The subsequent research reviewed by Drs. Leifert and Abeywardena helps build the case that grapes and grape products might be a useful part of strategies to lower the high rate of death from cardiovascular disease.
What to do:
Drink more Concord grape juice and eat red and/or purple grapes whenever possible
For more of the article, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/2008/10/081028103105.htm
b Breastfeeding and Obesity
Breastfeeding has a number of positive health benefits for baby: it can prevent ear infections and allergies, and lowers the risk of developing respiratory problems. It can also help prevent against obesity later in life, but the reason for this still isn't known.
In a recent study, researchers found breastfed children could more easily determine when they were full. Children who were bottle-fed with pumped breast milk were less likely to respond to the feeling of being full by the time they were preschool-aged. Also, children who had a lower response to fullness had a higher body mass index (BMI).
According to Isselmann, these results suggest a behavioral link between breastfeeding and obesity prevention, in that children who are breastfed grow to have more positive eating behaviors, which could help prevent obesity later in life.
What to do:
*Whether breastfeeding or bottle-feeding, rely on feedback cues from the infant for
fullness and hunger, not ounces on milk ingested.
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081028074319.htm
c Exercise Prevents Fatty Liver Disease 100% in Animal Model
A new University of Missouri study indicates that the negative effects of skipping exercise can occur in a short period.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is a reversible condition that causes fat to accumulate in liver cells of obese people. As Westernized societies are experiencing a weight gain epidemic, the prevalence of the disease is growing, Ibdah said.
“Physical activity prevented fatty liver disease by 100 percent in an animal model of fatty liver disease,” said Frank Booth, a professor in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine and the MU School of Medicine and a research investigator in the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center. “In contrast, 100 percent of the group that did not have physical activity had fatty liver disease. This is a remarkable event. It is rare in medicine for any treatment to prevent any disease by 100 percent.”
What to do:
If you’re overweight/obese, exercise/do something physical every day. One day could make a difference. Even if you’re not overweight, exercise every day. It could help keep your liver healthy.
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081029141047.htm
d Clock Shifts Affect Heart Attack Risks
Adjusting the clocks to summer time on the last Sunday in March increases the risk of myocardial infarction in the following week. In return, putting the clocks back in the autumn reduces the risk, albeit to a lesser extent. This according to a new Swedish study.
“There’s a small increase in risk for the individual, especially during the first three days of the new week,” says Dr Imre Janszky, one of the researchers behind the study. “The disruption in the chronobiological rhythms, the loss of one hour’s sleep and the resulting sleep disturbance are the probable causes.”
The team also observed that the readjustment back to winter time on the last Sunday in October, which gives us an extra hour’s sleep, is followed by a reduction in the risk of heart attack on the Monday. The reduction for the whole week is, however, less than the increase related to the summer adjustment.
According to the scientists, the study provides a conceivable explanation for why myocardial infarction is most common on Mondays, as demonstrated by previous research.
“It’s always been thought that it’s mainly due to an increase in stress ahead of the new working week,” says Dr Janszky. “But perhaps it’s also got something to do with the sleep disruption caused by the change in diurnal rhythm at the weekend.”
What to do:
• Go to bed one hour early when the switch to daylight savings time occurs
• If you can, slowly shift your clock to daylight savings time; use increments
of fifteen minutes or less when possible
• Take a political action tack if you can; provide information to your congressional representative that clock shifts may not be healthy
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030075647.htm
e Before You Have that Glass of Wine…Hazardous Ions in Wine
Potentially hazardous levels of metal ions are present in many commercially available wines. An analysis of reported levels of metals in wines from sixteen different countries found that only those from Argentina, Brazil and Italy did not pose a potential health risk owing to metals.
Excess intake of metal ions is credited with pathological events such as Parkinson's disease. In addition to neurological problems, these ions are also believed to enhance oxidative damage, a key component of chronic inflammatory disease which is a suggested initiator of cancer".
These results also question a popular belief about the health-giving properties of red wine: that drinking red wine daily to protect from heart attacks is often related to levels of 'anti-oxidants'. However the finding of hazardous and pro-oxidant metal ions creates a major question mark over these supposed protective benefits. The authors recommend that, "Levels of metal ions should appear on wine labels, along with the introduction of further steps to remove key hazardous metal ions during wine production".
What to do:
*Check the country of origin of the wine before imbibing
*Drink grape juice instead
For more of the article, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081029203031.htm
3. New Women’s Wellness/Complementary Health/ Self-Care Book Available
Complementary Health for Women
A Comprehensive Treatment Guide for Major Diseases and Common Conditions
Presents only research-based treatments. Can be used for self-care by women or by health care practitioners
working with women who report/wish to prevent or reduce symptoms/problems with:
Abdominal Pain, AIDS/HIV, Allergies, Alzheimer's Disease, Anxiety, Arthritis,
Bladder Infection, High Blood Pressure, Bone Issues, Breast Cancer, Breast Feeding Issues,
Cervical Cancer, Cholesterol (Elevated), Colon Cancer, Constipation, Crohn's Disease,
Depression, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Diverticular Disease, Endometriosis, Falls,
Gallstones, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Headache, Heart Disease,
Incontinence, Insomnia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Liver Inflammation, Menopause,
Migraines, Nausea & Vomiting, Obesity, Osteoporosis, Ovarian Cancer, Pancreatitis,
PMS, Post-Partum Issues, Pregnancy, Respiratory Health, Triglycerides (elevated),
Ulcerative Colitis, Urinary Tract Infection, Vaginal Issues
Click on following line for more information:
http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=10878#Author+Biographies
4. Self-care articles
a. stevia, a safe, healthy, and no-calorie sweetener
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id129.html
b. nutritional deficiencies tied to major causes of death:
what consumers can do
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id130.html
c. kidney stone self-care:
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id51.html
5. Wellness Books:
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. For more information, click on: http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=12374
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Fifth edition now available at http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=04588
Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. For more information, click on:
http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=14075
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Click on: http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=25042
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen. Or ask your local bookstore to order it. Autographed copies also available at www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
6.Wellness & Relationship Research Blog
Need your daily infusion of wellness? Go to new Research Blog and find both cutting edge research, in easily-digestible bites, and practical tips for improving the quality of your life or someone else’s. To access, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html
7. Online Menopause Support/Information Group
Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free and allows group members to remain anonymous.) Anyone can also sign up on my web site at http://www.carolynchambersclark.com/id74.html
8. New! Herbs and Supplements
Looking for quality herbs and supplements at fair prices? Go to http://www.iherb.com and use the following referral code for $5.00
discount on first order: HOL667.
9. Wellness E-books
Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts! Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)
10. Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750
11. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
12. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent issues of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
PLEASE tell your friends, family, clients or colleagues about this newsletter. Just have them go to www.carolynchambersclark.com click on my photo and sign up for their free subscription! If you like, copy this issue in its entirety and send it to them.
They can reply and put subscribe and their email address in the subject.
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
Stay Well!
To subscribe, go to www.carolynchambersclark.com and click on photo.
Wellness Newsletter, October, 2008
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Probiotics May Protect Against Type 1 Diabetes
b. Exercise May Help Pregnant Women Stop Smoking
c. Curcumin (Curry Spice) May Reduce the Size of a Hemorrhagic Stroke
d. Honey Kills Bacteria In All Its Forms
e. Acupressure May Reduce Anxiety in Children Facing Surgery
3. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless
living
4. Herbs and Supplements
5. Wellness & Relationship Research Blog
6. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support
group
7. Being a participative consumer
8. A recent book for nurse educators
9. A recent book for nursing leaders and managers
10. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters
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1. Wellness Message
All is well in my world.
2. Wellness News
a Probiotics May Protect Against Type 1 Diabetes
The results of a recent study suggest that exposure to some forms of bacteria (especially friendly bacteria found normally in the gut or in probiotics) might actually help prevent onset of Type I diabetes.
"This understanding may allow us to design ways to target the immune system through altering the balance of friendly gut bacteria and protect against diabetes."
For more information, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080921162048.htm
b Exercise May Help Pregnant Women Stop Smoking
Exercise could be a useful tool in helping pregnant women to give up smoking, according to new research. Despite the warnings, 17% of women in the UK and 20% of women in the US still admit to smoking during pregnancy.
Most attempts to give up smoking unaided end in failure. The most successful methods of stopping smoking involve a combination of nicotine replacement and behavioural therapy, but there are concerns that nicotine replacement may harm the fetus. Exercise can reduce the cravings experienced by smokers and there is some evidence to show that it can help non-pregnant women to quit.
Michael Ussher and colleagues from St George’s, University of London conducted two pilot studies into whether physical exercise could feasibly help pregnant women quit smoking.
For both studies, pregnant women over 18, who smoked at least a cigarette a day, were recruited 12 to 20 weeks into pregnancy. In one study, women did supervised exercise once a week for six weeks; in the other, women did two sessions of exercise a week for six weeks, then one session a week for three weeks. The participants were also encouraged to do additional exercise on their own and all received advice and counselling towards stopping smoking and becoming more active.
A quarter of the 32 women recruited for the studies gave up smoking before giving birth. This is similar to the number of non-pregnant smokers that quit using nicotine replacement. Furthermore, participants reported other positive benefits including weight loss, improved self-image and reduced cravings.
For more information, please click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080922193650.htm
c Curcumin (Curry Spice) May Reduce the Size of a Hemorrhagic Stroke
This active ingredient of the Indian curry spice, turmeric, not only lowers your chances of getting cancer and Alzheimer's disease, but may reduce the size of a hemorrhagic stroke, say Medical College of Georgia researchers.
"We found that curcumin significantly decreases the size of a blood clot, but we're not sure why it happens," says one of the researchers. He thinks it may be because curcumin is a potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant.
Timing is critical for patients who often don't know they have had a stroke and may not be seen by a physician for several hours. "Usually, patients can experience other symptoms like seizures, vision or cognitive problems, so they come to the (emergency room) fairly quickly under most circumstances," says Dr. Dhandapani. "Many patients also arrive due to head trauma and are seen within an hour or so. However, treating these injuries, even after an hour, can be tricky."
For more information, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080922135229.htm
d Honey Kills Bacteria In All Its Forms
Honey is very effective in killing bacteria in all its forms, especially the drug-resistant biofilms that make treating chronic rhinosinusitis difficult, according to research presented during the 2008 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO, in Chicago, IL.
The study, authored by Canadian researchers at the University of Ottawa, found that in eleven isolates of three separate biofilms (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and methicicillin-resistant and -suseptible Staphylococcus aureus), honey was significantly more effective in killing both planktonic and biofilm-grown forms of the bacteria, compared with the rate of bactericide by antibiotics commonly used against the bacteria.
For more information, go to:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080923091335.htm
e Acupressure May Reduce Anxiety in Children Facing Surgery
An acupressure treatment applied to children undergoing anesthesia noticeably lowers their anxiety levels and makes the stress of surgery more calming for them and their families, UC Irvine anesthesiologists have learned.
In this study, Kain and his Yale colleagues applied adhesive acupressure beads to 52 children between the ages of 8 and 17 who were to undergo endoscopic stomach surgery. In half the children, a bead was applied to the Extra-1 acupoint, which is located in the midpoint between the eyebrows. In the other half, the bead was applied to a spot above the left eyebrow that has no reported clinical effects.
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081001130006
3. Wellness Books:
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Go to www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the page
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen for information.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
4. New! Herbs and Supplements
Looking for quality herbs and supplements at fair prices? Go to http://www.iherb.com and use the following referral code for $5.00
discount on first order: HOL667.
5.Wellness & Relationship Research Blog
Need your daily infusion of wellness? Go to new Research Blog and find both cutting edge research, in easily-digestible bites, and practical tips for improving the quality of your life or someone else’s. To access, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html
6. Online Menopause Support/Information Group
Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free and allows group members to remain anonymous.) Anyone can also sign up on my web site at http://www.carolynchambersclark.com/id74.html
7.Wellness E-books & New Articles
New self-care articles:
Medical tests: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id129.html
Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts! Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)
8. Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750
9. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
10. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent past issue of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
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In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
Stay Well!
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Wellness Newsletter, September, 2008
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Eating fish can prevent silent brain lesions
b. Older adults may not ask important questions of surgeons
c. New dangers of drinking while pregnant
d. Living with a partner reduces risk of Alzheimer’s
e. Breast-self-exam: another viewpoint
3. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless
living
4. Herbs and Supplements
5. Wellness & Relationship Research Blog
6. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support
group
7. New self-care articles on creativity and ovarian cysts, wellness preparation for
surgery and post-surgery, and gallbladder conditions
8. A recent book for nurse educators
9. A recent book for nursing leaders and managers
10. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters
11. Wellness Event: Free Mind-Body Medicine
Update
1. Wellness Message
Open the door to comfort in your life. Ask for it from yourself and others today.
Lafia, Comfort and Joy
2. Wellness News
a. Eating Fish Can Prevent Silent Brain Lesions
Eating fish that contain high levels of DHA and EPA nutrients, including salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines, and anchovies, may help lower the risk of cognitive decline and stroke in healthy older adults, according to a new study.
Eating these fish 3 or more times a week was associated with a nearly 26 percent lower risk of having silent brain lesions that can cause dementia and stroke compared to people who did not eat fish regularly. Eating just one serving of this type of fish per week led to a 13 percent lower risk.
But not fried fish; that provides no protection.
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080804165312.htm
b. Older Adults May Not Ask Questions of Surgeons
The decision to undergo surgery can be particularly difficult and confusing for older adults. In a study published in the July 2008 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Richard M. Frankel, Ph.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine, and colleagues report that older patients and their surgeons do not communicate effectively when exploring surgical treatment options.
What to do if surgery is suggested?
Here are some questions to ask the surgeon:
*What is the expected quality of life after surgery?
*How many of these surgeries have you conducted and what have been the outcomes?
*What other treatments are available that are less intrusive?
Because the idea of surgery can be frightening and create high anxiety, most people do not ask these questions. The best method may be to write them down and recite them when speaking with the surgeon, and then re-ask them if the answer isn’t complete.
For more information on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731140135.htm
c. New Dangers for Drinking While Pregnant
Pregnancy and Drinking Linked to Cleft Lip/Palate
A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, shows that pregnant women who drink 5 or more drinks at a sitting in early in their pregnancy increase the likelihood that their babies will be born with oral clefts (lip or palate).
Women who drank at this level on three or more occasions during the first trimester were
three times as likely to have infants born with oral cleft.
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731140032.htm
d. Living with a Partner Reduces Risk of Alzheimer’s
Living with a spouse or a partner decreases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s by 50% and other dementia diseases according to a study presented for the first time yesterday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD 2008), the world’s largest in the field, held in Chicago.
Previous research has shown that an active lifestyle, both intellectually and socially, can decrease the risk of developing dementia; since a shared life often entails considerable social and intellectual stimulation, the point of inquiry of this present study was whether living with a spouse or a partner can help to ward off dementia.
Living alone their entire adult life doubles the risk
Divorce in midlife and remaining single triples the risk
Widows and widowers who continued to live alone ran the greatest risk; they were six times more apt to show signs of Alzheimer’s
Social and intellectual stimulation and trauma appear to be the important factors.
What to do to prevent some of the considerable costs of dementia care?
* offer counseling for unresolved trauma
* provide intellectual and social stimulation
* encourage older adults to attend social functions and engage in crossword puzzles,
reading, learning a language or other new information
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731073549.htm
e. Breast Self-Exam: Another Viewpoint
My special thanks to Jane M. Armer, RN, PhD, Professor and Director Nursing Research, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and
Verna Adwell Rhodes, RN, EdS, FAAN who wrote me about this topic.
The question whether the aggregated published research suggests that breast self examination is beneficial was explored in a meta-analysis of 12 studies including a total of 8118 patients with breast cancer that related the practice of breast self examination to regional lymph node state or tumor diameter. Based on the six studies for which data were available, 39% of patients (1115/2852) who reported having done breast self examination at least once before their illness had evidence of cancer in the lymph nodes compared with 50% of women (1348/2713) who had not done the examination. Logistic regression analysis showed this difference to be significant (odds ratio 0.66, confidence interval 0.59 to 0.74). Combining six studies which reported the circumstances of detection disclosed that 42% of women (272/652) who found their tumor while doing breast self examination had evidence of cancer in the nodes compared with 46% of women (871/1901) who found the tumor accidentally; this difference was not significant. Analysis of eight studies which used the diameter of the tumor to indicate the extent of disease tended to confirm the findings on lymph node state, in particular the benefit of premorbid breast self examination. Significantly fewer women who had practiced the examination before the illness (56%; 1205/2137) had tumors of 2 cm or more diameter compared with women who had not practiced the examination (66%; 1500/2260). The combined odds ratio for that analysis was 0.56, confidence interval 0.38 to 0.81. These findings appear to be good evidence of the benefit of encouraging women to practice self examination of the breasts regularly.
Source: Self examination of the breast: is it beneficial? Meta-analysis of studies investigating breast self examination and extent of disease in patients with breast cancer.
D. Hill, V. White, D. Jolley, and K. Mapperson Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Carlton, Victoria, Australia. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1833942
3. Wellness Books:
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Go to www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the page
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen for information.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
4. New! Herbs and Supplements
Looking for quality herbs and supplements at fair prices? Go to http://www.iherb.com and use the following referral code for $5.00
discount on your first order: HOL667.
5.Wellness & Relationship Research Blog
Need your daily infusion of wellness? Go to my new Blog and find both cutting edge research, in easily-digestible bites, and practical tips for improving the quality of your life or someone else’s. To access, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html
6. Online Menopause Support/Information Group
Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free and allows group members to remain anonymous.) Anyone can also sign up on my web site at http://www.carolynchambersclark.com/id74.html
7. Wellness E-books & New Articles
New self-care articles:
Surgery/Post –Surgery www.carolynchambersclark.com/id126.html
Ovarian Cysts www.carolynchambersclark.com/id127.html
Gallbladder www.carolynchambersclark.com/id124.html
Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts! Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)
8. Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750
9. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
10. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent past issue of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
11. Wellness Events
New Free Mind-Body Medicine Update. Available for downloading at http://www.mindbodymedicineupdate.com
PLEASE tell your friends, family, clients, students or colleagues about this newsletter. Just have them go to www.carolynchambersclark.com click on my photo and sign up for their free subscription! If you like, copy this issue in its entirety and send it to them. They can subscribe by clicking on reply and putting subscribe and their email address in the subject.
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
Stay Well!
To subscribe to the Wellness Newsletter, go to www.carolynchambersclark.com and click on photo.
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness Research:
a. Grapes May Prevent Heart, Blood Vessel, and other Inflammatory Disease
b. How Infant Feeding Practices Affect Later Obesity
c. Exercise May Prevent Fatty Liver Disease
d. Clock Shifts Affect Heart Attack Risk
e. Hazardous Ions in Wine
3. New Complementary/Wellness/Self-Care Book for Women
4. Being a participative consumer: new articles
5. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless
living
6. Wellness & Relationship Research Blog
7. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support
group
8. Herbs and Supplement information
9. A recent book for nurse educators
10. A recent book for nursing leaders and managers
11. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters
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1. Your Wellness Message:
I fill the present with joy
2. Wellness Research
a Heart Disease and Grapes
Accumulating evidence shows that grape polyphenols work in many different ways to prevent cardiovascular and other "inflammatory-mediated" diseases.
Through their antioxidant effects, grape polyphenols help to slow or prevent cell damage caused by oxidation. Polyphenols decrease oxidation of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol)—a key step in the development of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Grape polyphenols also have other protective effects on the heart and blood vessels, including actions to reduce blood clotting, abnormal heart rhythms, and blood vessel narrowing. It's not yet clear exactly how these benefits of polyphenols occur, although there is evidence of effects on cellular signaling and on the actions of certain genes. The wide range of health-promoting effects suggests that several different, possibly interrelated mechanisms may be involved.
Studies in patients treated with grape seed extracts have shown improvements in blood flow and cholesterol levels. In other studies, drinking Concord grape juice has improved measures of blood flow in patients with coronary artery disease and lowered blood pressure in patients with hypertension.
Studies investigating the lower rates of heart disease in France—the so-called "French paradox"—first raised the possibility that red wine might have health benefits. The subsequent research reviewed by Drs. Leifert and Abeywardena helps build the case that grapes and grape products might be a useful part of strategies to lower the high rate of death from cardiovascular disease.
What to do:
Drink more Concord grape juice and eat red and/or purple grapes whenever possible
For more of the article, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/2008/10/081028103105.htm
b Breastfeeding and Obesity
Breastfeeding has a number of positive health benefits for baby: it can prevent ear infections and allergies, and lowers the risk of developing respiratory problems. It can also help prevent against obesity later in life, but the reason for this still isn't known.
In a recent study, researchers found breastfed children could more easily determine when they were full. Children who were bottle-fed with pumped breast milk were less likely to respond to the feeling of being full by the time they were preschool-aged. Also, children who had a lower response to fullness had a higher body mass index (BMI).
According to Isselmann, these results suggest a behavioral link between breastfeeding and obesity prevention, in that children who are breastfed grow to have more positive eating behaviors, which could help prevent obesity later in life.
What to do:
*Whether breastfeeding or bottle-feeding, rely on feedback cues from the infant for
fullness and hunger, not ounces on milk ingested.
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081028074319.htm
c Exercise Prevents Fatty Liver Disease 100% in Animal Model
A new University of Missouri study indicates that the negative effects of skipping exercise can occur in a short period.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is a reversible condition that causes fat to accumulate in liver cells of obese people. As Westernized societies are experiencing a weight gain epidemic, the prevalence of the disease is growing, Ibdah said.
“Physical activity prevented fatty liver disease by 100 percent in an animal model of fatty liver disease,” said Frank Booth, a professor in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine and the MU School of Medicine and a research investigator in the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center. “In contrast, 100 percent of the group that did not have physical activity had fatty liver disease. This is a remarkable event. It is rare in medicine for any treatment to prevent any disease by 100 percent.”
What to do:
If you’re overweight/obese, exercise/do something physical every day. One day could make a difference. Even if you’re not overweight, exercise every day. It could help keep your liver healthy.
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081029141047.htm
d Clock Shifts Affect Heart Attack Risks
Adjusting the clocks to summer time on the last Sunday in March increases the risk of myocardial infarction in the following week. In return, putting the clocks back in the autumn reduces the risk, albeit to a lesser extent. This according to a new Swedish study.
“There’s a small increase in risk for the individual, especially during the first three days of the new week,” says Dr Imre Janszky, one of the researchers behind the study. “The disruption in the chronobiological rhythms, the loss of one hour’s sleep and the resulting sleep disturbance are the probable causes.”
The team also observed that the readjustment back to winter time on the last Sunday in October, which gives us an extra hour’s sleep, is followed by a reduction in the risk of heart attack on the Monday. The reduction for the whole week is, however, less than the increase related to the summer adjustment.
According to the scientists, the study provides a conceivable explanation for why myocardial infarction is most common on Mondays, as demonstrated by previous research.
“It’s always been thought that it’s mainly due to an increase in stress ahead of the new working week,” says Dr Janszky. “But perhaps it’s also got something to do with the sleep disruption caused by the change in diurnal rhythm at the weekend.”
What to do:
• Go to bed one hour early when the switch to daylight savings time occurs
• If you can, slowly shift your clock to daylight savings time; use increments
of fifteen minutes or less when possible
• Take a political action tack if you can; provide information to your congressional representative that clock shifts may not be healthy
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030075647.htm
e Before You Have that Glass of Wine…Hazardous Ions in Wine
Potentially hazardous levels of metal ions are present in many commercially available wines. An analysis of reported levels of metals in wines from sixteen different countries found that only those from Argentina, Brazil and Italy did not pose a potential health risk owing to metals.
Excess intake of metal ions is credited with pathological events such as Parkinson's disease. In addition to neurological problems, these ions are also believed to enhance oxidative damage, a key component of chronic inflammatory disease which is a suggested initiator of cancer".
These results also question a popular belief about the health-giving properties of red wine: that drinking red wine daily to protect from heart attacks is often related to levels of 'anti-oxidants'. However the finding of hazardous and pro-oxidant metal ions creates a major question mark over these supposed protective benefits. The authors recommend that, "Levels of metal ions should appear on wine labels, along with the introduction of further steps to remove key hazardous metal ions during wine production".
What to do:
*Check the country of origin of the wine before imbibing
*Drink grape juice instead
For more of the article, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081029203031.htm
3. New Women’s Wellness/Complementary Health/ Self-Care Book Available
Complementary Health for Women
A Comprehensive Treatment Guide for Major Diseases and Common Conditions
Presents only research-based treatments. Can be used for self-care by women or by health care practitioners
working with women who report/wish to prevent or reduce symptoms/problems with:
Abdominal Pain, AIDS/HIV, Allergies, Alzheimer's Disease, Anxiety, Arthritis,
Bladder Infection, High Blood Pressure, Bone Issues, Breast Cancer, Breast Feeding Issues,
Cervical Cancer, Cholesterol (Elevated), Colon Cancer, Constipation, Crohn's Disease,
Depression, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Diverticular Disease, Endometriosis, Falls,
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Incontinence, Insomnia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Liver Inflammation, Menopause,
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Ulcerative Colitis, Urinary Tract Infection, Vaginal Issues
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4. Self-care articles
a. stevia, a safe, healthy, and no-calorie sweetener
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id129.html
b. nutritional deficiencies tied to major causes of death:
what consumers can do
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id130.html
c. kidney stone self-care:
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id51.html
5. Wellness Books:
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. For more information, click on: http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=12374
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Fifth edition now available at http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=04588
Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. For more information, click on:
http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=14075
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Click on: http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=25042
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen. Or ask your local bookstore to order it. Autographed copies also available at www.carolynchambersclark.com
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
6.Wellness & Relationship Research Blog
Need your daily infusion of wellness? Go to new Research Blog and find both cutting edge research, in easily-digestible bites, and practical tips for improving the quality of your life or someone else’s. To access, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html
7. Online Menopause Support/Information Group
Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free and allows group members to remain anonymous.) Anyone can also sign up on my web site at http://www.carolynchambersclark.com/id74.html
8. New! Herbs and Supplements
Looking for quality herbs and supplements at fair prices? Go to http://www.iherb.com and use the following referral code for $5.00
discount on first order: HOL667.
9. Wellness E-books
Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts! Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)
10. Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750
11. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
12. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent issues of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
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Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
Stay Well!
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Wellness Newsletter, October, 2008
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Probiotics May Protect Against Type 1 Diabetes
b. Exercise May Help Pregnant Women Stop Smoking
c. Curcumin (Curry Spice) May Reduce the Size of a Hemorrhagic Stroke
d. Honey Kills Bacteria In All Its Forms
e. Acupressure May Reduce Anxiety in Children Facing Surgery
3. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless
living
4. Herbs and Supplements
5. Wellness & Relationship Research Blog
6. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support
group
7. Being a participative consumer
8. A recent book for nurse educators
9. A recent book for nursing leaders and managers
10. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters
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1. Wellness Message
All is well in my world.
2. Wellness News
a Probiotics May Protect Against Type 1 Diabetes
The results of a recent study suggest that exposure to some forms of bacteria (especially friendly bacteria found normally in the gut or in probiotics) might actually help prevent onset of Type I diabetes.
"This understanding may allow us to design ways to target the immune system through altering the balance of friendly gut bacteria and protect against diabetes."
For more information, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080921162048.htm
b Exercise May Help Pregnant Women Stop Smoking
Exercise could be a useful tool in helping pregnant women to give up smoking, according to new research. Despite the warnings, 17% of women in the UK and 20% of women in the US still admit to smoking during pregnancy.
Most attempts to give up smoking unaided end in failure. The most successful methods of stopping smoking involve a combination of nicotine replacement and behavioural therapy, but there are concerns that nicotine replacement may harm the fetus. Exercise can reduce the cravings experienced by smokers and there is some evidence to show that it can help non-pregnant women to quit.
Michael Ussher and colleagues from St George’s, University of London conducted two pilot studies into whether physical exercise could feasibly help pregnant women quit smoking.
For both studies, pregnant women over 18, who smoked at least a cigarette a day, were recruited 12 to 20 weeks into pregnancy. In one study, women did supervised exercise once a week for six weeks; in the other, women did two sessions of exercise a week for six weeks, then one session a week for three weeks. The participants were also encouraged to do additional exercise on their own and all received advice and counselling towards stopping smoking and becoming more active.
A quarter of the 32 women recruited for the studies gave up smoking before giving birth. This is similar to the number of non-pregnant smokers that quit using nicotine replacement. Furthermore, participants reported other positive benefits including weight loss, improved self-image and reduced cravings.
For more information, please click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080922193650.htm
c Curcumin (Curry Spice) May Reduce the Size of a Hemorrhagic Stroke
This active ingredient of the Indian curry spice, turmeric, not only lowers your chances of getting cancer and Alzheimer's disease, but may reduce the size of a hemorrhagic stroke, say Medical College of Georgia researchers.
"We found that curcumin significantly decreases the size of a blood clot, but we're not sure why it happens," says one of the researchers. He thinks it may be because curcumin is a potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant.
Timing is critical for patients who often don't know they have had a stroke and may not be seen by a physician for several hours. "Usually, patients can experience other symptoms like seizures, vision or cognitive problems, so they come to the (emergency room) fairly quickly under most circumstances," says Dr. Dhandapani. "Many patients also arrive due to head trauma and are seen within an hour or so. However, treating these injuries, even after an hour, can be tricky."
For more information, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080922135229.htm
d Honey Kills Bacteria In All Its Forms
Honey is very effective in killing bacteria in all its forms, especially the drug-resistant biofilms that make treating chronic rhinosinusitis difficult, according to research presented during the 2008 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO, in Chicago, IL.
The study, authored by Canadian researchers at the University of Ottawa, found that in eleven isolates of three separate biofilms (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and methicicillin-resistant and -suseptible Staphylococcus aureus), honey was significantly more effective in killing both planktonic and biofilm-grown forms of the bacteria, compared with the rate of bactericide by antibiotics commonly used against the bacteria.
For more information, go to:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080923091335.htm
e Acupressure May Reduce Anxiety in Children Facing Surgery
An acupressure treatment applied to children undergoing anesthesia noticeably lowers their anxiety levels and makes the stress of surgery more calming for them and their families, UC Irvine anesthesiologists have learned.
In this study, Kain and his Yale colleagues applied adhesive acupressure beads to 52 children between the ages of 8 and 17 who were to undergo endoscopic stomach surgery. In half the children, a bead was applied to the Extra-1 acupoint, which is located in the midpoint between the eyebrows. In the other half, the bead was applied to a spot above the left eyebrow that has no reported clinical effects.
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081001130006
3. Wellness Books:
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Go to www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the page
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen for information.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
4. New! Herbs and Supplements
Looking for quality herbs and supplements at fair prices? Go to http://www.iherb.com and use the following referral code for $5.00
discount on first order: HOL667.
5.Wellness & Relationship Research Blog
Need your daily infusion of wellness? Go to new Research Blog and find both cutting edge research, in easily-digestible bites, and practical tips for improving the quality of your life or someone else’s. To access, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html
6. Online Menopause Support/Information Group
Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free and allows group members to remain anonymous.) Anyone can also sign up on my web site at http://www.carolynchambersclark.com/id74.html
7.Wellness E-books & New Articles
New self-care articles:
Medical tests: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id129.html
Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts! Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)
8. Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750
9. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
10. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent past issue of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
PLEASE tell your friends, family, clients or colleagues about this newsletter. Just have them go to www.carolynchambersclark.com click on my photo and sign up for their free subscription! If you like, copy this issue in its entirety and send it to them.
They can reply and put subscribe and their email address in the subject.
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
Stay Well!
To subscribe, go to www.carolynchambersclark.com and click on photo
Wellness Newsletter, September, 2008
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Eating fish can prevent silent brain lesions
b. Older adults may not ask important questions of surgeons
c. New dangers of drinking while pregnant
d. Living with a partner reduces risk of Alzheimer’s
e. Breast-self-exam: another viewpoint
3. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless
living
4. Herbs and Supplements
5. Wellness & Relationship Research Blog
6. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support
group
7. New self-care articles on creativity and ovarian cysts, wellness preparation for
surgery and post-surgery, and gallbladder conditions
8. A recent book for nurse educators
9. A recent book for nursing leaders and managers
10. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters
11. Wellness Event: Free Mind-Body Medicine
Update
1. Wellness Message
Open the door to comfort in your life. Ask for it from yourself and others today.
Lafia, Comfort and Joy
2. Wellness News
a. Eating Fish Can Prevent Silent Brain Lesions
Eating fish that contain high levels of DHA and EPA nutrients, including salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines, and anchovies, may help lower the risk of cognitive decline and stroke in healthy older adults, according to a new study.
Eating these fish 3 or more times a week was associated with a nearly 26 percent lower risk of having silent brain lesions that can cause dementia and stroke compared to people who did not eat fish regularly. Eating just one serving of this type of fish per week led to a 13 percent lower risk.
But not fried fish; that provides no protection.
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080804165312.htm
b. Older Adults May Not Ask Questions of Surgeons
The decision to undergo surgery can be particularly difficult and confusing for older adults. In a study published in the July 2008 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Richard M. Frankel, Ph.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine, and colleagues report that older patients and their surgeons do not communicate effectively when exploring surgical treatment options.
What to do if surgery is suggested?
Here are some questions to ask the surgeon:
*What is the expected quality of life after surgery?
*How many of these surgeries have you conducted and what have been the outcomes?
*What other treatments are available that are less intrusive?
Because the idea of surgery can be frightening and create high anxiety, most people do not ask these questions. The best method may be to write them down and recite them when speaking with the surgeon, and then re-ask them if the answer isn’t complete.
For more information on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731140135.htm
c. New Dangers for Drinking While Pregnant
Pregnancy and Drinking Linked to Cleft Lip/Palate
A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, shows that pregnant women who drink 5 or more drinks at a sitting in early in their pregnancy increase the likelihood that their babies will be born with oral clefts (lip or palate).
Women who drank at this level on three or more occasions during the first trimester were
three times as likely to have infants born with oral cleft.
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731140032.htm
d. Living with a Partner Reduces Risk of Alzheimer’s
Living with a spouse or a partner decreases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s by 50% and other dementia diseases according to a study presented for the first time yesterday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD 2008), the world’s largest in the field, held in Chicago.
Previous research has shown that an active lifestyle, both intellectually and socially, can decrease the risk of developing dementia; since a shared life often entails considerable social and intellectual stimulation, the point of inquiry of this present study was whether living with a spouse or a partner can help to ward off dementia.
Living alone their entire adult life doubles the risk
Divorce in midlife and remaining single triples the risk
Widows and widowers who continued to live alone ran the greatest risk; they were six times more apt to show signs of Alzheimer’s
Social and intellectual stimulation and trauma appear to be the important factors.
What to do to prevent some of the considerable costs of dementia care?
* offer counseling for unresolved trauma
* provide intellectual and social stimulation
* encourage older adults to attend social functions and engage in crossword puzzles,
reading, learning a language or other new information
For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731073549.htm
e. Breast Self-Exam: Another Viewpoint
My special thanks to Jane M. Armer, RN, PhD, Professor and Director Nursing Research, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and
Verna Adwell Rhodes, RN, EdS, FAAN who wrote me about this topic.
The question whether the aggregated published research suggests that breast self examination is beneficial was explored in a meta-analysis of 12 studies including a total of 8118 patients with breast cancer that related the practice of breast self examination to regional lymph node state or tumor diameter. Based on the six studies for which data were available, 39% of patients (1115/2852) who reported having done breast self examination at least once before their illness had evidence of cancer in the lymph nodes compared with 50% of women (1348/2713) who had not done the examination. Logistic regression analysis showed this difference to be significant (odds ratio 0.66, confidence interval 0.59 to 0.74). Combining six studies which reported the circumstances of detection disclosed that 42% of women (272/652) who found their tumor while doing breast self examination had evidence of cancer in the nodes compared with 46% of women (871/1901) who found the tumor accidentally; this difference was not significant. Analysis of eight studies which used the diameter of the tumor to indicate the extent of disease tended to confirm the findings on lymph node state, in particular the benefit of premorbid breast self examination. Significantly fewer women who had practiced the examination before the illness (56%; 1205/2137) had tumors of 2 cm or more diameter compared with women who had not practiced the examination (66%; 1500/2260). The combined odds ratio for that analysis was 0.56, confidence interval 0.38 to 0.81. These findings appear to be good evidence of the benefit of encouraging women to practice self examination of the breasts regularly.
Source: Self examination of the breast: is it beneficial? Meta-analysis of studies investigating breast self examination and extent of disease in patients with breast cancer.
D. Hill, V. White, D. Jolley, and K. Mapperson Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Carlton, Victoria, Australia. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1833942
3. Wellness Books:
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Go to www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the page
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen for information.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
4. New! Herbs and Supplements
Looking for quality herbs and supplements at fair prices? Go to http://www.iherb.com and use the following referral code for $5.00
discount on your first order: HOL667.
5.Wellness & Relationship Research Blog
Need your daily infusion of wellness? Go to my new Blog and find both cutting edge research, in easily-digestible bites, and practical tips for improving the quality of your life or someone else’s. To access, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html
6. Online Menopause Support/Information Group
Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free and allows group members to remain anonymous.) Anyone can also sign up on my web site at http://www.carolynchambersclark.com/id74.html
7. Wellness E-books & New Articles
New self-care articles:
Surgery/Post –Surgery www.carolynchambersclark.com/id126.html
Ovarian Cysts www.carolynchambersclark.com/id127.html
Gallbladder www.carolynchambersclark.com/id124.html
Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts! Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)
8. Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750
9. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
10. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent past issue of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
11. Wellness Events
New Free Mind-Body Medicine Update. Available for downloading at http://www.mindbodymedicineupdate.com
PLEASE tell your friends, family, clients, students or colleagues about this newsletter. Just have them go to www.carolynchambersclark.com click on my photo and sign up for their free subscription! If you like, copy this issue in its entirety and send it to them. They can subscribe by clicking on reply and putting subscribe and their email address in the subject.
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
Stay Well!
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
Wellness Newsletter, August, 2008
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Breast self-exams don’t prevent deaths
b. X-rays linked to prostate cancer
c. Protect children/grandchildren from obesity, heart disease and diabetes
d. Losing weight…more information on the best way to do it
e. You can lower fossil fuel use by 50% and it’s easy!
3. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless
living
4. New! Wellness & Relationship Blog
5. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support
group
6. Self-care/wellness e-books
7. A new book for nurse educators
8. A new book for nursing leaders and managers
9. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters
10. Wellness Event: Free Mind-Body Medicine
Update
1. Wellness Message
Take time today to visit a place that’s special to you.
It could be a real place or a place in your imagination.
Make sure it’s someplace that gives you comfort and peace.
2. Wellness News:
a. Breast self-exams don’t prevent deaths
It is a staple of women's health advice and visits to the OB/GYN: the monthly breast self-exam to check for lumps or other changes that might signal breast cancer. A review of recent studies says there is no evidence that self-exams actually reduce breast cancer deaths.
Instead, the practice may be doing more harm than good, since it led to almost twice as many biopsies that turned up no cancer in women who performed the self-exams, compared to women who did not do the exams.
In the two large studies of 388,535 women in Russia and China included in the review, women who used self-breast exams had 3,406 biopsies, compared with 1,856 biopsies in the group that did not do the exams. At the same time, there was no significant difference in breast cancer deaths between the two groups.
For more information, click on: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715204852.htm
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b. X-rays linked to prostate cancer
A new study showed that men who had a hip or pelvic X-ray or barium enema 10 years previously were two and a half times more likely to develop prostate cancer than the general population. And the link appeared to be stronger in men who had a family history of the disease.
The exposure to radiation was part of normal medical procedures which were performed 5, 10 or 20 years before diagnosis. Procedures included hip and leg X-rays, for example taken after an accident, and barium meals and enemas which are used to diagnose problems with the digestive system.
The results of the study have been published online in the British Journal of Cancer.
For more about the study, click on
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715093737.htm
c. Protecting children from obesity, heart disease and diabetes
A new study found that children older than 11 aren’t getting the recommended level of 60 minutes or more of physical activity
What to do?
1. Make sure local school systems provide needed exercise by ensuring children receive periodic recess breaks and daily active physical education.
2. Ask local governments to provide safe biking and walking routes around schools.
3. Institute family walks with your children or grandchildren. Even 15 minutes a day can provide health benefits. On weekends go on family outings centered on longer walks or biking.
4. Obtain a copy of the We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity and
Nutrition), a science-based national education program from the National
Institutes of Health to help children ages 8-13 maintain a healthy
weight. We Can! provides tips, evidence-based curricula and other
resources for parents and community programs to help children and their
families make better food choices increase physical activity, and reduce
recreational screen time.
More information is available at http://wecan.nhlbi.nih.gov or toll-free
at 866-35-WE CAN (866-359-3226).
For more information on the study, go to
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715161927.htm
d. Losing weight...What's the best way?
Low-carbohydrate and Mediterranean diets may be just as effective in achieving weight loss as the standard, medically prescribed low-fat diet, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It depends on the
purpose of losing weight, which one may be right.
Reduce cholesterol? The low-carbohydrate food regime may be best.
Decrease fasting glucose? The Mediterranean diet is probably best.
Reduce inflammation and improve liver function? Low-fat, low-carbohydrate and Mediterranean food plans will do the trick.
According to the researchers who compared these three methods, “The improvement in levels of some of these biomarkers continued until the 24-month point, although maximum weight loss was achieved by 6 months. This suggests that healthy diet has beneficial effects beyond weight loss."
For more about the study, go to:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080716171134.htm
e. Eating Less Meat and Junk Food Can Cut Fossil Fuel Use by 50%
Worried about global warming and dependence on foreign oil for fuel? There are many things you can do to reverse this.
A new study finds that a healthier diet and a return to traditional farming can help reduce energy consumption in US food system by 50 percent.
An estimated 19 percent of total energy used in the USA is taken up in the production and supply of food. Currently, this mostly comes from non-renewable energy sources which are in short supply. It is therefore of paramount importance that ways of reducing this significant fuel consumption in the US food system are found.
This is totally under control of you, the consumer!
What to do?
*Eat less. The average American consumes an estimated 3,747 calories a day, a staggering 1200-1500 calories over recommendations. Traditional American diets are high in animal products, and junk and processed foods in particular, which by their nature use more energy than that used to produce staple foods such as potatoes, rice, fruits and vegetables. By just reducing junk food intake and converting to diets lower in meat, you can have a massive impact on fuel consumption as well as improving your health.
*Move towards more traditional, organic farming methods by buying only organically produced foods. This would help because conventional meat and dairy production is extremely energy intensive. Similarly, in crop production, reduced pesticide use, increased use of manure, cover crops and crop rotations improve energy efficiency.
* The most dramatic reduction in energy used for food processing would come about if you reduced your demand for highly processed foods. This would also help cut down food miles and its related fuel cost as US food travels an average of 2,400 km before it is consumed.
This study argues strongly that the consumer is in the strongest position to contribute to a reduction in energy use. As individuals embrace a ‘greener’ lifestyle, an awareness of the influence their food choices have on energy resources might be added encouragement for them to buy good, local produce and avoid highly processed, heavily packaged and nutritionally inferior food. As well as leading to a cleaner environment, this would also lead to better health.
For more information, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080723094838.htm
3. Wellness Books:
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Go to www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the page
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen for information.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
4. New! Wellness & Relationship Blog
Need your daily infusion of wellness? Go to my new Blog and find both cutting edge research, in easily-digestible bites, and practical tips for improving the quality of your life or someone else’s. To access, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html
5. Online Menopause Support/Information Group
Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free and allows group members to remain anonymous.) Anyone can also sign up on my web site at http://www.carolynchambersclark.com/id74.html
6. Wellness E-books
Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts! Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)
7. New Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750
8. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
9. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent past issue of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
10. Wellness Events
New Free Mind-Body Medicine Update. Available for downloading at http://www.mindbodymedicineupdate.com
PLEASE tell your friends, family, clients or colleagues about this newsletter. Just have them go to www.carolynchambersclark.com click on my photo and sign up for their free subscription! If you like, copy this issue in its entirety and send it to them.
They can reply and put subscribe and their email address in the subject.
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
Stay Well!
Wellness Newsletter, July, 2008
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Creating a wellness environment
b. Fructose raises cholesterol and uric acid
c. Which drugs increase risk of falling?
d. How to slow aging
e. Eating the right fish
f. Modify cardiovascular disease through diet
g. Best ways to lose weight
3. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless living
4. New! Wellness & Relationship Blog
5. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support group
6. Self-care/wellness e-books
7. A new book for nurse educators
8. A new book for nursing leaders and managers
9. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters
10. Wellness Events: Free Mind-Body Medicine Update
1. Wellness Message
Touch gives comfort. A simple hug. A kiss on the cheek. A stroke on the arm. A handshake. A pat on the back. You connect through touch, and it is an instant source of comfort. How are you inviting touch into your life?
Colette Lafia, Comfort and Joy
2. Wellness News:
a. Creating a Wellness Environment
In the June 4 edition of Environmental Science and Technology, researchers at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia warn that pesticides may damage a rainbow trout's sense of smell, making it difficult to find mates and avoid predators. Because the trout are closely related to salmon, the findings suggest that pesticides may be a cause of plummeting salmon stocks in Canada and the US. Keith Tierney, a toxicologist at University of Windsor, Ontario, explained how steelhead rainbow trout exposed to low levels of agricultural pesticides lost the ability to perceive a predator's scent. "You can imagine if a fish is unable to detect just how close it is to a [wading] bear, it's a problem," Tierney told the New Scientist. Tierney's team measured the water quality in a river south of Vancouver and found "no fewer than 40 chemicals," most at trace concentrations. After trout were exposed to a weak mixture of the 10 most abundant pesticides -- including atrazine and diazinon -- for four days, they lost the ability to sense changes in the concentration of an amino acid called L-serine. The damage appeared permanent -- "the protein that detoxifies harmful chemicals appears overwhelmed by the pesticides."
The General Services Administration (GSA) has begun using organic fertilizer on the grounds of all its federal buildings in the National Capital Region covering parts of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the District of Columbia, and stretches of Virginia and Maryland. GSA Regional Administrator Tony Reed explains that using sustainable practices was a way of "enriching our landscapes at the same time we are helping to clean up Chesapeake Bay." According to Beyond Pesticides, "chemical fertilizer, pesticides, animal manure, and poultry litter are major sources of excess nitrogen and phosphorus that cause water quality problems in the Chesapeake Bay." The pollutants feed massive algae blooms that rob the bay of dissolved oxygen, creating "dead zones" that kill fish and other aquatic life. "GSA's switch to all-organic fertilizer sets a good example of the kind of steps we all need to take to restore the health of the Chesapeake Bay," said EPA Regional Administrator Donald S. Welsh. GSA has also introduced an Integrated Pest Management program to replace the spraying of toxic insecticides in 30 million square feet in approximately 7,000 federal buildings. Meanwhile, more than four acres of the capital's National Mall now are receiving organic lawn care from the National Park Service.
What can you do?
If the national government can enhance the environment, so can your local government. Get active, send them this article and/or write editorials in your paper. The environment is yours. Take charge!
But it’s not only pesticides at governmental levels that need to be addressed. Schools, homes, rivers, lakes, and even the ocean can be hotbeds of run-off from pesticides, which can harm your neurological system and harm our source of healthy fish.
In one neighborhood in Chicago, where children have extremely high asthma rates, parents inspected local schools and discovered pesticides were being sprayed in the classrooms. Because pesticides can harm neurological systems, they may contribute to low test scores at some inner-city schools. If you’re using pesticides in your home, switch to boric acid and other safe alternatives and make sure your children and grandchildren aren’t being exposed to pesticides in schools or on beaches.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------b. High fructose intake may worsen levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, and uric acid as well as increase the risk for obesity and cardiovascular disease according to Medscape J Med. Published online July 9, 20008
Where is fructose found?
You’d be surprised! Read the label of everything you drink or eat. It could be in there. It’s in sodas, energy drinks, many cereals (even from the health food store!), many energy bars, and could be in that package of cookies or cake, for starters.
If you want something sweet, try the real thing, e.g., a banana, an apple, some strawberries. Just make sure they’re not in fructose-sweetened juice. Off the tree or the vine or bush is best. And yes, fructose is in there, too, but it’s the real thing, not a synthetic replicant.
The mystery is that real fruit reduces heart disease and just about every other chronic disease, while synthetic fructose may worsen them. Yes, Virginia, real is better…
source: www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/fruits.html
c. Which Drugs Increase Risk Of Falling?
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a list of prescription drugs that increase the risk of falling for patients aged 65 and older who take four or more medications on a regular basis.
"Falls are the leading cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries for adults 65 and older, and research suggests that those taking four or more medications are at an even greater risk than those who don't -- perhaps two to three times greater," said Susan Blalock, Ph.D., an associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
The medications on the list cover a wide range of common prescription antidepressants, seizure medications, painkillers and more. The common denominator among them is that they all work to depress the central nervous system, which can make patients less alert and slower to react. Many over-the-counter medications can also contribute to falls.
"Some allergy medications, sleep aids and some cold and cough remedies can have the same effects as prescription drugs," Ferreri said. "Always let your doctor know what over-the-counter medications you are taking and be sure to read the labels. Anything that can cause drowsiness can put you at increased risk of falling."
If you see a drug you are taking on the list, talk to your health care practitioner about the risk of falling and possible alternative medications that have a less sedating effect.
To download a list of the prescription medications that increase the risk of falls for patients 65 and older, http://uncnews.unc.edu/images/stories/news/health/2008/drugslist.pdf
For details, click on http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080709122343.htm
Both the list of prescription drugs and some of the study's finding were published in the June issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy.
d. Slowing Aging Is Best Way To Fight Diseases In 21st Century
A group of aging experts from the United States and the United Kingdom suggest that the best strategy for preventing and fighting a multitude of diseases is to focus on slowing the biological processes of aging.
"The traditional medical approach of attacking individual diseases -- cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease -- will soon become less effective if we do not determine how all of these diseases either interact or share common mechanisms with aging," says S. Jay Olshansky, professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and senior author of the commentary.
“Middle-aged and older people are most often impacted by simultaneous but independent medical conditions. A cure for any of the major fatal diseases would have only a marginal impact on life expectancy and the length of healthy life, “Olshansky said.
The authors suggest that a new paradigm of health promotion and disease prevention could produce unprecedented social, economic and health dividends for current and future generations if the aging population is provided with extended years of healthy living.
Existing interventions, such as exercise and good nutrition, may provide the tools for slow aging and lifelong well-being.
For more details, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080708200624.htm
e. Eating Fish? Avoid Tilapia
Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
The researchers say the combination could be a potentially dangerous food source for some patients with heart disease, arthritis, asthma and other allergic and auto-immune diseases that are particularly vulnerable to an "exaggerated inflammatory response." Inflammation is known to cause damage to blood vessels, the heart, lung and joint tissues, skin, and the digestive tract.
But, the article says, the recommendation by the medical community for people to eat more fish has resulted in consumption of increasing quantities of fish such as tilapia that may do more harm than good, because they contain high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, also called n-6 PUFAs, such as arachidonic acid.
For more information, click on: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080708092228.htm
f. Leading Worldwide Cause Of Cardiovascular Disease May Be Modified By Diet
New research indicates that an increased intake in minerals such as potassium, and possibly magnesium and calcium by dietary means may reduce the risk of high blood pressure and decrease blood pressure in people with hypertension. A high intake of these minerals in the diet may also reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke.
Potassium, specifically, has been hypothesized as one reason for the low cardiovascular disease rates in vegetarians, as well as in populations consuming primitive diets (generous in potassium and low in sodium). In isolated societies consuming diets high in fruits and vegetables, hypertension affects only 1 percent of the population, whereas in industrialized countries which consume diets high in processed foods and large amounts of dietary sodium, 1 in 3 persons have hypertension. Americans consume double the sodium and about half of the potassium that is recommended by current guidelines.
Diets that emphasize fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy products, including the landmark Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) trial, have been advocated by the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure, the American Heart Association, the European Society of Hypertension, the World Health Organization and the British Hypertension Society.
These findings are published in a supplement appearing with the July issue of The Journal of Clinical Hypertension.
For more information, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080708104525.htm
g. Trying to lose weight?
Keeping a food diary can double weight loss according to a study from Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research. The findings, from one of the largest and longest running weight loss maintenance trials ever conducted, will be published in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
In addition to keeping food diaries and turning them in at weekly support group meetings, participants were asked to follow a heart-healthy DASH (a Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low-fat or non-fat dairy, attend weekly group sessions and exercise at moderate intensity levels for at least 30 minutes a day. After six months, the average weight loss among the nearly 1,700 participants was approximately 13 pounds. More than two-thirds of the participants (69 percent) lost at least nine pounds, enough to reduce their health risks and qualify for the second phase of the study, which lasted 30 months and tested strategies for maintaining the weight loss.
"More than two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. If we all lost just nine pounds, like the majority of people in this study did, our nation would see vast decreases in hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease and stroke," said study co-author Victor Stevens, Ph.D., a Kaiser Permanente researcher. For example, in an earlier study Stevens found that losing as little as five pounds can reduce the risk of developing high blood pressure by 20 percent.
"Keeping a food diary doesn't have to be a formal thing. Just the act of scribbling down what you eat on a Post-It note, sending yourself e-mails tallying each meal, or sending yourself a text message will suffice. It's the process of reflecting on what you eat that helps us become aware of our habits, and hopefully change our behavior," says Keith Bachman, MD, a Weight Management Initiative member. "Every day I hear patients say they can't lose weight. This study shows that most people can lose weight if they have the right tools and support. And food journaling in conjunction with a weight management program or class is the ideal combination of tools and support."
For more details, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080708080738.htm
Weight Watchers vs. Fitness Centers
A University of Missouri researcher examined the real-life experiences of participants to determine which program helps people lose pounds, reduce body fat and gain health benefits. The answer is that both have pros and cons and that a combination of the two produces the best results.
“Overweight, sedentary women joining a fitness center with the intent of weight loss or body fat change will likely fail without support and without altering their diets,” the researchers said. “Nearly 50 percent of people who start an exercise program will quit within six months.”
For details, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702101351.htm
3. Wellness Books:
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again.
How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Go to www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
*Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the page
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen for information.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
4. New! Wellness & Relationship Blog
Need your daily infusion of wellness? Go to my new Blog and find both
cutting edge research, in easily-digestible bites, and practical tips for
improving the quality of your life or someone else’s.
Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html
5. Online Menopause Support/Information Group
Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free.
6. Wellness E-books
Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective. Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)
7. New Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750
8. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
9. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent past issue of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
10. Wellness Events
New Free Mind-Body Medicine Update. Available for downloading at http://www.mindbodymedicineupdate.com
PLEASE tell your friends, family, clients or colleagues who might benefit about this newsletter. Just have them go to www.carolynchambersclark.com, click on my photo and sign up for their free subscription! If you like, copy this issue in its entirety and send it to them. They can subscribe by replying and placing Subscribe and their e-mail address in the Subject box.
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
Stay Well!
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Breast self-exams don’t prevent deaths
b. X-rays linked to prostate cancer
c. Protect children/grandchildren from obesity, heart disease and diabetes
d. Losing weight…more information on the best way to do it
e. You can lower fossil fuel use by 50% and it’s easy!
3. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless
living
4. New! Wellness & Relationship Blog
5. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support
group
6. Self-care/wellness e-books
7. A new book for nurse educators
8. A new book for nursing leaders and managers
9. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters
10. Wellness Event: Free Mind-Body Medicine
Update
1. Wellness Message
Take time today to visit a place that’s special to you.
It could be a real place or a place in your imagination.
Make sure it’s someplace that gives you comfort and peace.
2. Wellness News:
a. Breast self-exams don’t prevent deaths
It is a staple of women's health advice and visits to the OB/GYN: the monthly breast self-exam to check for lumps or other changes that might signal breast cancer. A review of recent studies says there is no evidence that self-exams actually reduce breast cancer deaths.
Instead, the practice may be doing more harm than good, since it led to almost twice as many biopsies that turned up no cancer in women who performed the self-exams, compared to women who did not do the exams.
In the two large studies of 388,535 women in Russia and China included in the review, women who used self-breast exams had 3,406 biopsies, compared with 1,856 biopsies in the group that did not do the exams. At the same time, there was no significant difference in breast cancer deaths between the two groups.
For more information, click on: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715204852.htm
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b. X-rays linked to prostate cancer
A new study showed that men who had a hip or pelvic X-ray or barium enema 10 years previously were two and a half times more likely to develop prostate cancer than the general population. And the link appeared to be stronger in men who had a family history of the disease.
The exposure to radiation was part of normal medical procedures which were performed 5, 10 or 20 years before diagnosis. Procedures included hip and leg X-rays, for example taken after an accident, and barium meals and enemas which are used to diagnose problems with the digestive system.
The results of the study have been published online in the British Journal of Cancer.
For more about the study, click on
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715093737.htm
c. Protecting children from obesity, heart disease and diabetes
A new study found that children older than 11 aren’t getting the recommended level of 60 minutes or more of physical activity
What to do?
1. Make sure local school systems provide needed exercise by ensuring children receive periodic recess breaks and daily active physical education.
2. Ask local governments to provide safe biking and walking routes around schools.
3. Institute family walks with your children or grandchildren. Even 15 minutes a day can provide health benefits. On weekends go on family outings centered on longer walks or biking.
4. Obtain a copy of the We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity and
Nutrition), a science-based national education program from the National
Institutes of Health to help children ages 8-13 maintain a healthy
weight. We Can! provides tips, evidence-based curricula and other
resources for parents and community programs to help children and their
families make better food choices increase physical activity, and reduce
recreational screen time.
More information is available at http://wecan.nhlbi.nih.gov or toll-free
at 866-35-WE CAN (866-359-3226).
For more information on the study, go to
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715161927.htm
d. Losing weight...What's the best way?
Low-carbohydrate and Mediterranean diets may be just as effective in achieving weight loss as the standard, medically prescribed low-fat diet, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It depends on the
purpose of losing weight, which one may be right.
Reduce cholesterol? The low-carbohydrate food regime may be best.
Decrease fasting glucose? The Mediterranean diet is probably best.
Reduce inflammation and improve liver function? Low-fat, low-carbohydrate and Mediterranean food plans will do the trick.
According to the researchers who compared these three methods, “The improvement in levels of some of these biomarkers continued until the 24-month point, although maximum weight loss was achieved by 6 months. This suggests that healthy diet has beneficial effects beyond weight loss."
For more about the study, go to:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080716171134.htm
e. Eating Less Meat and Junk Food Can Cut Fossil Fuel Use by 50%
Worried about global warming and dependence on foreign oil for fuel? There are many things you can do to reverse this.
A new study finds that a healthier diet and a return to traditional farming can help reduce energy consumption in US food system by 50 percent.
An estimated 19 percent of total energy used in the USA is taken up in the production and supply of food. Currently, this mostly comes from non-renewable energy sources which are in short supply. It is therefore of paramount importance that ways of reducing this significant fuel consumption in the US food system are found.
This is totally under control of you, the consumer!
What to do?
*Eat less. The average American consumes an estimated 3,747 calories a day, a staggering 1200-1500 calories over recommendations. Traditional American diets are high in animal products, and junk and processed foods in particular, which by their nature use more energy than that used to produce staple foods such as potatoes, rice, fruits and vegetables. By just reducing junk food intake and converting to diets lower in meat, you can have a massive impact on fuel consumption as well as improving your health.
*Move towards more traditional, organic farming methods by buying only organically produced foods. This would help because conventional meat and dairy production is extremely energy intensive. Similarly, in crop production, reduced pesticide use, increased use of manure, cover crops and crop rotations improve energy efficiency.
* The most dramatic reduction in energy used for food processing would come about if you reduced your demand for highly processed foods. This would also help cut down food miles and its related fuel cost as US food travels an average of 2,400 km before it is consumed.
This study argues strongly that the consumer is in the strongest position to contribute to a reduction in energy use. As individuals embrace a ‘greener’ lifestyle, an awareness of the influence their food choices have on energy resources might be added encouragement for them to buy good, local produce and avoid highly processed, heavily packaged and nutritionally inferior food. As well as leading to a cleaner environment, this would also lead to better health.
For more information, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080723094838.htm
3. Wellness Books:
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Go to www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the page
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen for information.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
4. New! Wellness & Relationship Blog
Need your daily infusion of wellness? Go to my new Blog and find both cutting edge research, in easily-digestible bites, and practical tips for improving the quality of your life or someone else’s. To access, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html
5. Online Menopause Support/Information Group
Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free and allows group members to remain anonymous.) Anyone can also sign up on my web site at http://www.carolynchambersclark.com/id74.html
6. Wellness E-books
Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts! Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)
7. New Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750
8. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
9. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent past issue of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
10. Wellness Events
New Free Mind-Body Medicine Update. Available for downloading at http://www.mindbodymedicineupdate.com
PLEASE tell your friends, family, clients or colleagues about this newsletter. Just have them go to www.carolynchambersclark.com click on my photo and sign up for their free subscription! If you like, copy this issue in its entirety and send it to them.
They can reply and put subscribe and their email address in the subject.
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
Stay Well!
Wellness Newsletter, July, 2008
This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Creating a wellness environment
b. Fructose raises cholesterol and uric acid
c. Which drugs increase risk of falling?
d. How to slow aging
e. Eating the right fish
f. Modify cardiovascular disease through diet
g. Best ways to lose weight
3. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless living
4. New! Wellness & Relationship Blog
5. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support group
6. Self-care/wellness e-books
7. A new book for nurse educators
8. A new book for nursing leaders and managers
9. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters
10. Wellness Events: Free Mind-Body Medicine Update
1. Wellness Message
Touch gives comfort. A simple hug. A kiss on the cheek. A stroke on the arm. A handshake. A pat on the back. You connect through touch, and it is an instant source of comfort. How are you inviting touch into your life?
Colette Lafia, Comfort and Joy
2. Wellness News:
a. Creating a Wellness Environment
In the June 4 edition of Environmental Science and Technology, researchers at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia warn that pesticides may damage a rainbow trout's sense of smell, making it difficult to find mates and avoid predators. Because the trout are closely related to salmon, the findings suggest that pesticides may be a cause of plummeting salmon stocks in Canada and the US. Keith Tierney, a toxicologist at University of Windsor, Ontario, explained how steelhead rainbow trout exposed to low levels of agricultural pesticides lost the ability to perceive a predator's scent. "You can imagine if a fish is unable to detect just how close it is to a [wading] bear, it's a problem," Tierney told the New Scientist. Tierney's team measured the water quality in a river south of Vancouver and found "no fewer than 40 chemicals," most at trace concentrations. After trout were exposed to a weak mixture of the 10 most abundant pesticides -- including atrazine and diazinon -- for four days, they lost the ability to sense changes in the concentration of an amino acid called L-serine. The damage appeared permanent -- "the protein that detoxifies harmful chemicals appears overwhelmed by the pesticides."
The General Services Administration (GSA) has begun using organic fertilizer on the grounds of all its federal buildings in the National Capital Region covering parts of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the District of Columbia, and stretches of Virginia and Maryland. GSA Regional Administrator Tony Reed explains that using sustainable practices was a way of "enriching our landscapes at the same time we are helping to clean up Chesapeake Bay." According to Beyond Pesticides, "chemical fertilizer, pesticides, animal manure, and poultry litter are major sources of excess nitrogen and phosphorus that cause water quality problems in the Chesapeake Bay." The pollutants feed massive algae blooms that rob the bay of dissolved oxygen, creating "dead zones" that kill fish and other aquatic life. "GSA's switch to all-organic fertilizer sets a good example of the kind of steps we all need to take to restore the health of the Chesapeake Bay," said EPA Regional Administrator Donald S. Welsh. GSA has also introduced an Integrated Pest Management program to replace the spraying of toxic insecticides in 30 million square feet in approximately 7,000 federal buildings. Meanwhile, more than four acres of the capital's National Mall now are receiving organic lawn care from the National Park Service.
What can you do?
If the national government can enhance the environment, so can your local government. Get active, send them this article and/or write editorials in your paper. The environment is yours. Take charge!
But it’s not only pesticides at governmental levels that need to be addressed. Schools, homes, rivers, lakes, and even the ocean can be hotbeds of run-off from pesticides, which can harm your neurological system and harm our source of healthy fish.
In one neighborhood in Chicago, where children have extremely high asthma rates, parents inspected local schools and discovered pesticides were being sprayed in the classrooms. Because pesticides can harm neurological systems, they may contribute to low test scores at some inner-city schools. If you’re using pesticides in your home, switch to boric acid and other safe alternatives and make sure your children and grandchildren aren’t being exposed to pesticides in schools or on beaches.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------b. High fructose intake may worsen levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, and uric acid as well as increase the risk for obesity and cardiovascular disease according to Medscape J Med. Published online July 9, 20008
Where is fructose found?
You’d be surprised! Read the label of everything you drink or eat. It could be in there. It’s in sodas, energy drinks, many cereals (even from the health food store!), many energy bars, and could be in that package of cookies or cake, for starters.
If you want something sweet, try the real thing, e.g., a banana, an apple, some strawberries. Just make sure they’re not in fructose-sweetened juice. Off the tree or the vine or bush is best. And yes, fructose is in there, too, but it’s the real thing, not a synthetic replicant.
The mystery is that real fruit reduces heart disease and just about every other chronic disease, while synthetic fructose may worsen them. Yes, Virginia, real is better…
source: www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/fruits.html
c. Which Drugs Increase Risk Of Falling?
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a list of prescription drugs that increase the risk of falling for patients aged 65 and older who take four or more medications on a regular basis.
"Falls are the leading cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries for adults 65 and older, and research suggests that those taking four or more medications are at an even greater risk than those who don't -- perhaps two to three times greater," said Susan Blalock, Ph.D., an associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
The medications on the list cover a wide range of common prescription antidepressants, seizure medications, painkillers and more. The common denominator among them is that they all work to depress the central nervous system, which can make patients less alert and slower to react. Many over-the-counter medications can also contribute to falls.
"Some allergy medications, sleep aids and some cold and cough remedies can have the same effects as prescription drugs," Ferreri said. "Always let your doctor know what over-the-counter medications you are taking and be sure to read the labels. Anything that can cause drowsiness can put you at increased risk of falling."
If you see a drug you are taking on the list, talk to your health care practitioner about the risk of falling and possible alternative medications that have a less sedating effect.
To download a list of the prescription medications that increase the risk of falls for patients 65 and older, http://uncnews.unc.edu/images/stories/news/health/2008/drugslist.pdf
For details, click on http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080709122343.htm
Both the list of prescription drugs and some of the study's finding were published in the June issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy.
d. Slowing Aging Is Best Way To Fight Diseases In 21st Century
A group of aging experts from the United States and the United Kingdom suggest that the best strategy for preventing and fighting a multitude of diseases is to focus on slowing the biological processes of aging.
"The traditional medical approach of attacking individual diseases -- cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease -- will soon become less effective if we do not determine how all of these diseases either interact or share common mechanisms with aging," says S. Jay Olshansky, professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and senior author of the commentary.
“Middle-aged and older people are most often impacted by simultaneous but independent medical conditions. A cure for any of the major fatal diseases would have only a marginal impact on life expectancy and the length of healthy life, “Olshansky said.
The authors suggest that a new paradigm of health promotion and disease prevention could produce unprecedented social, economic and health dividends for current and future generations if the aging population is provided with extended years of healthy living.
Existing interventions, such as exercise and good nutrition, may provide the tools for slow aging and lifelong well-being.
For more details, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080708200624.htm
e. Eating Fish? Avoid Tilapia
Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
The researchers say the combination could be a potentially dangerous food source for some patients with heart disease, arthritis, asthma and other allergic and auto-immune diseases that are particularly vulnerable to an "exaggerated inflammatory response." Inflammation is known to cause damage to blood vessels, the heart, lung and joint tissues, skin, and the digestive tract.
But, the article says, the recommendation by the medical community for people to eat more fish has resulted in consumption of increasing quantities of fish such as tilapia that may do more harm than good, because they contain high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, also called n-6 PUFAs, such as arachidonic acid.
For more information, click on: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080708092228.htm
f. Leading Worldwide Cause Of Cardiovascular Disease May Be Modified By Diet
New research indicates that an increased intake in minerals such as potassium, and possibly magnesium and calcium by dietary means may reduce the risk of high blood pressure and decrease blood pressure in people with hypertension. A high intake of these minerals in the diet may also reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke.
Potassium, specifically, has been hypothesized as one reason for the low cardiovascular disease rates in vegetarians, as well as in populations consuming primitive diets (generous in potassium and low in sodium). In isolated societies consuming diets high in fruits and vegetables, hypertension affects only 1 percent of the population, whereas in industrialized countries which consume diets high in processed foods and large amounts of dietary sodium, 1 in 3 persons have hypertension. Americans consume double the sodium and about half of the potassium that is recommended by current guidelines.
Diets that emphasize fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy products, including the landmark Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) trial, have been advocated by the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure, the American Heart Association, the European Society of Hypertension, the World Health Organization and the British Hypertension Society.
These findings are published in a supplement appearing with the July issue of The Journal of Clinical Hypertension.
For more information, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080708104525.htm
g. Trying to lose weight?
Keeping a food diary can double weight loss according to a study from Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research. The findings, from one of the largest and longest running weight loss maintenance trials ever conducted, will be published in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
In addition to keeping food diaries and turning them in at weekly support group meetings, participants were asked to follow a heart-healthy DASH (a Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low-fat or non-fat dairy, attend weekly group sessions and exercise at moderate intensity levels for at least 30 minutes a day. After six months, the average weight loss among the nearly 1,700 participants was approximately 13 pounds. More than two-thirds of the participants (69 percent) lost at least nine pounds, enough to reduce their health risks and qualify for the second phase of the study, which lasted 30 months and tested strategies for maintaining the weight loss.
"More than two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. If we all lost just nine pounds, like the majority of people in this study did, our nation would see vast decreases in hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease and stroke," said study co-author Victor Stevens, Ph.D., a Kaiser Permanente researcher. For example, in an earlier study Stevens found that losing as little as five pounds can reduce the risk of developing high blood pressure by 20 percent.
"Keeping a food diary doesn't have to be a formal thing. Just the act of scribbling down what you eat on a Post-It note, sending yourself e-mails tallying each meal, or sending yourself a text message will suffice. It's the process of reflecting on what you eat that helps us become aware of our habits, and hopefully change our behavior," says Keith Bachman, MD, a Weight Management Initiative member. "Every day I hear patients say they can't lose weight. This study shows that most people can lose weight if they have the right tools and support. And food journaling in conjunction with a weight management program or class is the ideal combination of tools and support."
For more details, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080708080738.htm
Weight Watchers vs. Fitness Centers
A University of Missouri researcher examined the real-life experiences of participants to determine which program helps people lose pounds, reduce body fat and gain health benefits. The answer is that both have pros and cons and that a combination of the two produces the best results.
“Overweight, sedentary women joining a fitness center with the intent of weight loss or body fat change will likely fail without support and without altering their diets,” the researchers said. “Nearly 50 percent of people who start an exercise program will quit within six months.”
For details, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080702101351.htm
3. Wellness Books:
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm
*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.
*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com
*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again.
How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com
*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
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*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Go to www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.
*Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the page
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
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*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com
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Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free.
6. Wellness E-books
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7. New Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750
8. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
9. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
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In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
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