Happy Holidays!
Here’s your Wellness Newsletter, December, 2007
This newsletter provides research-based 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. Please forward it in its entirety to whomever you believe may benefit.
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Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Simple Pleasures Make People Happiest
b. Sugary Beverages May Increase Alzheimer’s Risk
c. Deficiency in Exposure to Sunlight Linked to Endometrial Cancer
d. The Significant Anti-Cancer Effect of Milk Thistle
e. Vitamin E Could Help 40% of Diabetics Ward off Heart Attack and Stroke
3. Wellness Books
4. Online Living Well with Menopause support group
5. Inexpensive self-care/wellness e-books
6. A new book for nurse educators
7. A new book for nursing leaders and managers
8. Archives of past Wellness Newsletter issues.
9. Wellness Events: Get your book published, get your event or book mentioned in the Wellness Newsletter, or meet me on my book tour.
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1. Wellness Message
May you be blessed with challenges and pains that are the gentlest possible wakeup calls.
Daniel Benor, MD
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2.Wellness News
a. Simple Pleasures Make People Happiest
A bar of chocolate, a long soak in the bath, a snooze in the middle of the afternoon, a leisurely stroll in the park. These are the things that make us the most happy, according to new research from The University of Nottingham. The study compared the happiness levels of lottery jackpot winners with a control group. Surprisingly, it wasn’t the flashy cars and the diamond jewelery that upped the jackpot winners’ happiness quotient. It was things like listening to music or reading a book that really made the difference. Those who described themselves as less happy didn’t choose the cost-free indulgences. The researchers concluded that spending time relaxing is the secret to a happy life.
Source: http://research.nottingham.ac.uk/NewsReviews/newsDisplay.aspx?id=389
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b. Sugary Beverages May Increase Alzheimer’s Risk
Although the exact mechanisms aren’t known, it has been determined that obesity and diabetes are both associated with higher incidence of Alzheimer’s, at least in mice. The sugar-fed mice gained about 17% more weight than controls, had higher cholesterol levels, and had worse learning and memory retention, and their brains contained over twice as many amyloid plaque deposits, an anatomical hallmark of Alzheimer’s. The human equivalence of the mouse diet would be roughly 5 cans of soda per day, although since mice have a higher metabolism, it may actually take less sugar for humans.
Source: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071208142559.htm
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c. Deficiency in Exposure to Sunlight Linked to Endometrial Cancer
Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California in San Diego have shown
that endometrial cancer incidence was highest at the highest latitudes in both hemispheres. Even after controlling for known variables such as cloud cover, meat intake, weight, skin pigmentation and others, the association remained strong. The researchers caution against using aggregate data for individuals and recommend further research studying individual reactions to vitamin D from sunlight, diet and supplements and the risk of endometrial cancer.
Note: this is the third environmental paper from this research team showing a strong association between vitamin D and cancer using global incidence data. The first illuminated a similar pattern for kidney cancer and the second, for ovarian cancer.
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071114162728.htm
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d. The Significant Anti-Cancer Effect of Milk Thistle (Silymarin)
Milk thistle has been widely used a folk remedy to protect the liver from drug or alcohol-related injury. Dr. Ke-Qin Hu and his research team at the University of California, Irvine, found that silibilin (a highly purified extract from milk thistle) mediates anti-liver cancer effects by: reducing cancer cell proliferation and cell cycle progression, enhancing programmed death of cancer cells and altering the structure of cancer cells. Their research suggests that silibinin could be used to prevent the development of liver cancer, one of the most common cancers worldwide.
Source: Lah, Cui & Hu. (2007). Effects and mechanism of silibinin on human hepatoma cell lines. World Journal of Gastroenterology 13 (4), 5299-5305.
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e. Vitamin E Could Help 40% of Diabetics Ward off Heart Attacks
Individuals diagnosed with diabetes who carry the haptoglobin 2-2 gene (40%) could significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and related deaths by taking 400 IU of vitamin E. In a group of 1.434 participants, individuals who took vitamin E had more than 50 percent fewer heart attacks, strokes and related deaths than those who took a placebo pill and showed no side effects.
A one-time genetic test for Hp2-2 is commercially available that could predict diabetic complications
Source American Technion Society (2007, November 24). Vitamin E could help 40% of diabetics ward off heart attacks. ScienceDaily. http://www.sciencedaily.com/realeases/2007/11/071123195803.htm
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3. Wellness Books
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
If you plan to age, prepare yourself - it's later than you think and the challenge of aging well should be taken seriously. Discover what aspects of aging can't be changed and guide the rest that can. Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life, written by the world's most prolific, outrageous, humorous and athletic expert on wellness. The book can be ordered from:http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.htmlAnchor-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.
This helpful self-care manual provides a mind, body, and spirit wellness approach to anxiety. Learn how to control anxiety and stress naturally. 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. You can also find this book by clicking on www.harpercollins.com
and writing Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*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 or to order, click on www.springerpub.com
and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
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 for symptoms as widely divergent as wandering, distractibility, poor communication, mood changes, disorientation, fatigue, frustration, aggression, limited social skills, lack of self-confidence, limited mobility, depression, lack of motivation, anxiety, and social withdrawal. For copies, contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com
or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills
Now in its 4th edition, this book focuses on an introduction to group work, basic group concepts and processes, working to achieve group goals, special group problems, beginning/guiding/terminating the group, supervision of group leaders and co-leadership, behavioral approaches for group leaders, recording and analyzing group process, groups for the old adults, working with focal groups, when the organization is the group, and when the community is the group. Go to Springer Publishing Company by clicking on www.springerpub.com
and write Carolyn chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches.
Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model for health and wellness promotion in communities, health promotion with changing and vulnerable populations, community self-assessment, principles of planning effective community programs, community mobilization and participation, evaluating community health programs, health promotion in rural settings, health promotion on the internet, nutrition and weight management, fitness and flexible movement, typical childhood communicable diseases; promoting community resilience, stress management, smoking cessation, violence prevention, environmental wellness, complementary health care practices, advanced communication skills with individuals and groups, working with groups, working with families, health promotion with African American women, establishing a lay health promotion program in a Hispanic community, diabetes programs in Hawaii, parish nursing, conducting a survey; the example of a youth service organization, violence prevention in schools; a model violence-prevention center, evaluating small community-based health promotion programs: lessons learned from Colorado Health Promotion Initiatives, health promotion in a homeless center. Available from Springer Publishing Company by clicking on www.springerpub.com
and writing Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success
This book not only provides an easy to follow blueprint for health and holistic aging, but the author is an exceptional role model for his program. Can you live a healthy and independent life to the age of 100? Can you enjoy positive relationships? Can you maintain a healthy environment? Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can 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. Ask for it at your local bookstore or find it online. Also visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information. Click on www.HealthyHolisticAging.com.
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases
Based on holistic assessments and interventions, this book uses 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, Parkinsons' Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Available from Springer Publishing Company by clicking on www.springerpub.com and writing Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know.
A self-care manual to help women learn about using hormones, and what to do if they'd rather not. Soon to be available in Spanish. Now in its third printing. Table of contents 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. Available from Harper Collins by clicking on http://www.harpercollins.com
and writing Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
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4. 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 5, and click on it.
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5. 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 left hand column of the web site to find them.)
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6. New Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators. Hot off the press and already in its second printing, this new book 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. Educator vignettes present situations that help integrate theory into practice for varied nurse educators from nursing faculty, clinical nurse leaders, graduate students in nursing education programs to staff development experts. 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. Find the book on the Jones & Bartlett web site by clicking on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750. Sample chapters and more information available at the web site.
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7. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
ISBN-10: 0763749761. 432 Pages. Will Publish: 02/07/2008 or sooner.
This book 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; and creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged.
For more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
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8. 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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9. Wellness Events
a. Get Your Book Published Workshop/Retreat.
Planning a small group workshop/retreat for anyone who wants to get a book published. Did you know that almost everybody wants to get a book published, but most people never do? This workshop/retreat can help you get a book published. For more information go to www.carolynchambersclark, click on my picture and indicate your preferences for an in-person or virtual experience.
b. Have a holistic or wellness book or activity/event you want mentioned in this newsletter? Contact me by clicking on my picture at www.carolynchambersclark.com and provide the particulars…title, author, year of pub, a short blurb, and where to get the book or the directions to the activity. Just follow the format I've used above for books and activities, please. That's Times Roman 12 point black ink only no underlining or bolding, please, and you only have a few lines to do all that. Don't forget your contact information. That will make my life a whole lot easier…Thanks in advance.
d. Book Tour Stop for Floridians
I'll be doing book talks at Richard’s Whole Food stores on anxiety or menopause, providing information on how to discover which particular foods and supplements will work for you, and giving away a free e-book in St. Petersburg (January 5th, 11 a.m., anxiety and stress), Pt. Charlotte (January 19th, 2 p.m. menopause), Venice (February 2nd, 2 p.m. menopause), and Osprey (March 1, 2 p.m. menopause).
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In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
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Here's your...
WELLNESS NEWSLETTER # 16, November, 2007
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This newsletter provides research-based 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. Please forward it on to colleagues, families, friends, clients, students and whomever you believe may benefit.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Is sugar intake related to diabetes after all?
b. Memory problems? Here are some tips from the American Academy of
Neurology. Now where did I put those car keys?
c. Which fruit may help prevent oral cancer?
d. What to eat to minimize chances of arthritis symptoms.
3. Wellness Books
4. Online Living Well with Menopause support group
5. Inexpensive self-care/wellness e-books
6. A new book for nurse educators
7. A new book for nursing leaders and managers
8. Archives of past Wellness Newsletter issues.
9. Wellness Events: Get your book published, transform your relationships, get
your event or book mentioned in the Wellness Newsletter, or meet me on my book tour.
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1. Wellness Message
Let us not look backward in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
2.
a. Is sugar intake related to diabetes after all?
According to a large study, a high sugar dietary pattern increases chronic inflammation, and raises the risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
Following 35,340 women in the Nurses’ Health Study and 89,311 women in the Nurses’ Health Study II, researchers from Harvard and the Massachusetts General Hospital found that an eating pattern high in sugar-sweetened soft drinks, refined grains, diet soft drinks, and processed meats was associated with an increased risk of diabetes.
Source: Schulze, Hoffman, Manson and colleagues. (2006). Dietary pattern, inflammation, and incidence of type 2 diabetes in women, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 82 (no 3), pp. 675-684.
What can be done to ward off diabetes?
* Eliminate sugar-sweetened soft drinks, refined grains, diet soft drinks, and processed meats
* Eat more cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and yellow vegetables), drink a glass of red wine now and then, and you can even have a cup or two of coffee.
* And if you don’t like those choices, you can have kale (delicious and full of calcium!),collards, cauliflower, bok choy (available in supermarkets and at Chinese restaurants), rutabaga, mustard greens (great in salads), radish, and watercress.
b. Memory problems? Hmm…where did I put those car keys? Here are some tips from the American Academy of Neurology.
*If you regularly consume omega-3 rich oil, such as flaxseed and walnut oil, you can reduce your risk of dementia/Alzheimer’s disease by 60 percent compared to those who don’t use these oils.
*It you eat fruits and vegetables daily you will reduce your risk of dementia by 30 percent compared to those who don’t regularly eat these foods.
*If you eat fish at least once a week, you can lower your risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 35-percent and dementia by 40-percent, but only if you don’t carry the gene that increases the risk of Alzheimer’s, the apolipoprotein E4. But never fear, because most of us don’t carry it, says study author Pascale Barberger-Gateau, PhD, of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, in Bordeaux, France.
Source: American Academy of Neurology (2007, November 13). Eating Fish, Omega-3 Oils, Fruits and Veggies Lowers Risk of Memory Problems. Retrieved November 14, 2007 from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071112163630.htm
Curry is also a good choice. Curcumin, from the curry spice turmeric, has been shown to possess potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties to reduce plaque that gathers in the brain and makes you forget. In one study, older adults who ate curry occasionally, often or very often had significantly better scores on the Mini-Mental State examination than those who never or rarely consumed curry. Get thee to an Indian restaurant, or just buy some Turmeric and sprinkle it on your salads, stews, soups or whatever. Good on rice, too!
Source: Ng and colleagues. (2006). Curry consumption and cognitive function in the elderly. American Journal of Epidemiology 164(9), 898-906.
c. Which fruit may help prevent oral cancer?
Drum roll, please. The answer is avocado. Yes, it’s a fruit, even though it doesn’t taste like one. According to researchers at Ohio State University, the delicious avocado kills and prevents pre-cancerous cells from developing into actual cancers. Without killing healthy cells. Quite a feat.
D’Ambrosio, the lead author who collaborated with researchers in the College of Pharmacy, found that phytochemicals extracted from avocados target multiple signaling pathways and increase the amount of reactive oxygen within the cells, leading to cell death in pre-cancerous cell lines.
Their studies suggest that individual and combinations of phytochemicals from the avocado fruit may offer an advantageous dietary strategy in cancer prevention---and they’re delicious, too!
Avocados are also chock-full of vitamin C, folate, vitamin E, fiber and unsaturated fats (needed to keep brain and body functioning).
Source: Ding and colleagues. (2007). Chemopreventive characteristics of avocado fruit. Seminars in Cancer Biology 17(5), 386-397.
d. What to eat to minimize chances of arthritis symptoms.
People who already have arthritis or don’t want to develop it, can do plenty of things to relieve symptoms. Here are some:
1. Eat like the Mediterraneans do: this means lots of fish, fruit, vegetables, and legumes(dried beans and peas and peanut butter).
2. Use extra virgin olive oil as your only oil. It contains olecanthal which has an anti-inflammatory effect similar to ibuprofen, but without the bad effects.
3. Focus on red, orange, and yellow fruits and veggies. They contain carotenoids that reduce inflammation. Researchers from the UK found that people whose diets are rich in these foods are significantly less likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis.
4. Avoid the green parts of the nightshade fruits (potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant. Let your green peppers ripen to yellow or red and they won’t contain solanine (a toxin), and don’t eat the green parts of potatoes, tomatoes, or eggplant.
5. Lose a pound. Losing even 1 pound---can make a huge difference in discomfort because it reduces the load on the knees. (One pound reduces the load by 4pounds.)
6. Exercise regularly. Losing 5% of body weight and doing moderate types of exercise provides the best overall improvement in pain and function. Even if weight is lost, a lack of regular vigorous physical activity doubles the odds of experiencing a decline in the ability to perform basic daily activities.
7. Eat bing cherries. One study found that sweet cherries have anti-inflammatory effects that may be beneficial for the management and prevention of inflammatory disease like arthritis, asthma, and Crohn’s disease.
8. Eat those unsaturated fatty acids available in fish, fish oils, evening primrose oil and sunflower oil are anti-inflammatory substances that may protect you from the inflammatory condition known as arthritis.
*For more arthritis information, go to www.carolynchambersclark.com/id36.html
Sources:
McKellar and colleagues. (2007). A pilot study of a Mediterranean-type diet intervention in female patients with rheumatoid arthritis living in areas of social deprivation in Glasgow. Annals of Rheumatic Diseases 66(9), 1239-1243.
Kelley and colleagues. (2006). Consumption of bing sweet cherries lowers circulating concentrations of inflammation markers in healthy men and women. The Journal of Nutrition 136 (4), 981-987.
Lunn & Theobald. (2006). The health effects of dietary unsaturated fatty acids. Nutrition Bulletin 31, 178-224.www.uaf.edu/ces/publications/freepubs/FGV-00337.html
3. Wellness Books
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
If you plan to age, prepare yourself - it's later than you think and the challenge of aging well should be taken seriously. Discover what aspects of aging can't be changed and guide the rest that can. Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life, written by the world's most prolific, outrageous, humorous and athletic expert on wellness. The book can be ordered 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.
This helpful self-care manual provides a mind, body, and spirit wellness approach to anxiety. Learn how to control anxiety and stress naturally. 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. You can also find this book by clicking on www.harpercollins.com and writing Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*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 or to order, click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
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 for symptoms as widely divergent as wandering, distractibility, poor communication, mood changes, disorientation, fatigue, frustration, aggression, limited social skills, lack of self-confidence, limited mobility, depression, lack of motivation, anxiety, and social withdrawal. For copies, contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills
Now in its 4th edition, this book focuses on an introduction to group work, basic group concepts and processes, working to achieve group goals, special group problems, beginning/guiding/terminating the group, supervision of group leaders and co-leadership, behavioral approaches for group leaders, recording and analyzing group process, groups for the old adults, working with focal groups, when the organization is the group, and when the community is the group. Go to Springer Publishing Company by clicking on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches.
Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model for health and wellness promotion in communities, health promotion with changing and vulnerable populations, community self-assessment, principles of planning effective community programs, community mobilization and participation, evaluating community health programs, health promotion in rural settings, health promotion on the internet, nutrition and weight management, fitness and flexible movement, typical childhood communicable diseases; promoting community resilience, stress management, smoking cessation, violence prevention, environmental wellness, complementary health care practices, advanced communication skills with individuals and groups, working with groups, working with families, health promotion with African American women, establishing a lay health promotion program in a Hispanic community, diabetes programs in Hawaii, parish nursing, conducting a survey; the example of a youth service organization, violence prevention in schools; a model violence-prevention center, evaluating small community-based health promotion programs: lessons learned from Colorado Health Promotion Initiatives, health promotion in a homeless center. Available from Springer Publishing Company by clicking on www.springerpub.com and writing Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success
This book not only provides an easy to follow blueprint for health and holistic aging, but the author is an exceptional role model for his program. Can you live a healthy and independent life to the age of 100? Can you enjoy positive relationships? Can you maintain a healthy environment? Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can 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. Ask for it at your local bookstore or find it online. Also visit Dr. Helvie’s web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information. Click on www.HealthyHolisticAging.com.
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases
Based on holistic assessments and interventions, this book uses 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, Parkinsons’ Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Available from Springer Publishing Company by clicking on www.springerpub.com and writing Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You That You Need To Know.
A self-care manual to help women learn about using hormones, and what to do if they'd rather not. Soon to be available in Spanish. Now in its third printing. Table of contents 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. Available from Harper Collins by clicking on http://www.harpercollins.com and writing Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
4. Online Menopause Support/Information Group
Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com, write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to #5, and click on it.
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5. Inexpensive e-books for you, family, clients, or colleagues
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 left hand column of the web site to find them.)
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6. New Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators. Hot off the press and already in its second printing, this new book 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. Educator vignettes present situations that help integrate theory into practice for varied nurse educators from nursing faculty, clinical nurse leaders, graduate students in nursing education programs to staff development experts. 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. Find the book on the Jones & Bartlett web site by clicking on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750 and looking for Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators. Sample chapters and more information available at the web site.
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7. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
ISBN-10: 0763749761. 432 Pages. Will Publish: 02/07/2008 or sooner.
This book 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; and creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged.
For more information or a review copy, click on http://www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
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8. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter
To read recent past issue of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
_______________________________________________________________________
9. Wellness Events
a. Get Your Book Published Workshop/Retreat.
Planning a small group workshop/retreat for those of you who want to get a book
published. Did you know that almost everybody wants to get a book published, but
most people never do? This workshop/retreat can help you get a book published. For more information go to www.carolynchambersclark and click on my picture.
b. Transform Your Relationships
Give a holiday gift to yourself. Saturday, December 1st, 2007 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Arts and Minds Center, 3138 Commodore Plaza. Coconut Grove, FL. Contact: Dr. Maureen Duffy 305.335.8043 or Dr. Patricia Munhall 305.461.2459. Fees: $75.00 per person
Feel stuck in the same old ways or bored with the same arguments? Dr. Maureen Duffy will help you improve the quality of your relationship with a partner or spouse. You will learn how to develop shared histories and rituals and avoid toxic behaviors. Learn to tune in, heal past and present wounds, and have a positive relationship.
c. Have a holistic or wellness book or activity/event you want me to mention in this newsletter? Contact me by clicking on my picture at www.carolynchambersclark.com and provide the particulars, or just reply to this email with the info…title, author, year of pub, a short blurb, and where to get the book or the directions to the activity. Just follow the format I’ve used above for books and activities, please. That’s Times Roman 12 point black ink only no underlining or bolding, please, and you only have a few lines to do all that. Don’t forget your contact information. That will make my life a whole lot easier…Thanks in advance.
d. Book Tour Stop for Floridians
If you (or any of your friends or family) will be anywhere near Englewood, Florida on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 2 p.m. I’ll be doing an anxiety book talk and book signing at Richard’s Whole Foods and giving away a free health-related e-book. I’ll be showing you how to choose the right foods and supplements especially for you and your body. Come and visit! Call for reservations and/or directions anytime from 10-6 p.m. M-Sat at (941) 473-0278.
I’ll be doing book talks on anxiety and menopause in Port Charlotte, Bradenton, Venice, and St. Petersburg after the first of the year…stay tuned!
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PLEASE SEND THIS NEWSLETTER ON to friends, family, clients or colleagues who might benefit. My only request is that you send it in its entirety.
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
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Stay Well!
WELLNESS NEWSLETTER # 16, November, 2007
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This newsletter provides research-based 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. Please forward it on to colleagues, families, friends, clients, students and whomever you believe may benefit.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Is sugar intake related to diabetes after all?
b. Memory problems? Here are some tips from the American Academy of
Neurology. Now where did I put those car keys?
c. Which fruit may help prevent oral cancer?
d. What to eat to minimize chances of arthritis symptoms.
3. Wellness Books
4. Online Living Well with Menopause support group
5. Inexpensive self-care/wellness e-books
6. A new book for nurse educators
7. A new book for nursing leaders and managers
8. Archives of past Wellness Newsletter issues.
9. Wellness Events: Get your book published, transform your relationships, get
your event or book mentioned in the Wellness Newsletter, or meet me on my book tour.
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1. Wellness Message
Let us not look backward in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
2.
- Wellness News
a. Is sugar intake related to diabetes after all?
According to a large study, a high sugar dietary pattern increases chronic inflammation, and raises the risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
Following 35,340 women in the Nurses’ Health Study and 89,311 women in the Nurses’ Health Study II, researchers from Harvard and the Massachusetts General Hospital found that an eating pattern high in sugar-sweetened soft drinks, refined grains, diet soft drinks, and processed meats was associated with an increased risk of diabetes.
Source: Schulze, Hoffman, Manson and colleagues. (2006). Dietary pattern, inflammation, and incidence of type 2 diabetes in women, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 82 (no 3), pp. 675-684.
What can be done to ward off diabetes?
* Eliminate sugar-sweetened soft drinks, refined grains, diet soft drinks, and processed meats
* Eat more cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and yellow vegetables), drink a glass of red wine now and then, and you can even have a cup or two of coffee.
* And if you don’t like those choices, you can have kale (delicious and full of calcium!),collards, cauliflower, bok choy (available in supermarkets and at Chinese restaurants), rutabaga, mustard greens (great in salads), radish, and watercress.
b. Memory problems? Hmm…where did I put those car keys? Here are some tips from the American Academy of Neurology.
*If you regularly consume omega-3 rich oil, such as flaxseed and walnut oil, you can reduce your risk of dementia/Alzheimer’s disease by 60 percent compared to those who don’t use these oils.
*It you eat fruits and vegetables daily you will reduce your risk of dementia by 30 percent compared to those who don’t regularly eat these foods.
*If you eat fish at least once a week, you can lower your risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 35-percent and dementia by 40-percent, but only if you don’t carry the gene that increases the risk of Alzheimer’s, the apolipoprotein E4. But never fear, because most of us don’t carry it, says study author Pascale Barberger-Gateau, PhD, of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, in Bordeaux, France.
Source: American Academy of Neurology (2007, November 13). Eating Fish, Omega-3 Oils, Fruits and Veggies Lowers Risk of Memory Problems. Retrieved November 14, 2007 from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071112163630.htm
Curry is also a good choice. Curcumin, from the curry spice turmeric, has been shown to possess potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties to reduce plaque that gathers in the brain and makes you forget. In one study, older adults who ate curry occasionally, often or very often had significantly better scores on the Mini-Mental State examination than those who never or rarely consumed curry. Get thee to an Indian restaurant, or just buy some Turmeric and sprinkle it on your salads, stews, soups or whatever. Good on rice, too!
Source: Ng and colleagues. (2006). Curry consumption and cognitive function in the elderly. American Journal of Epidemiology 164(9), 898-906.
c. Which fruit may help prevent oral cancer?
Drum roll, please. The answer is avocado. Yes, it’s a fruit, even though it doesn’t taste like one. According to researchers at Ohio State University, the delicious avocado kills and prevents pre-cancerous cells from developing into actual cancers. Without killing healthy cells. Quite a feat.
D’Ambrosio, the lead author who collaborated with researchers in the College of Pharmacy, found that phytochemicals extracted from avocados target multiple signaling pathways and increase the amount of reactive oxygen within the cells, leading to cell death in pre-cancerous cell lines.
Their studies suggest that individual and combinations of phytochemicals from the avocado fruit may offer an advantageous dietary strategy in cancer prevention---and they’re delicious, too!
Avocados are also chock-full of vitamin C, folate, vitamin E, fiber and unsaturated fats (needed to keep brain and body functioning).
Source: Ding and colleagues. (2007). Chemopreventive characteristics of avocado fruit. Seminars in Cancer Biology 17(5), 386-397.
d. What to eat to minimize chances of arthritis symptoms.
People who already have arthritis or don’t want to develop it, can do plenty of things to relieve symptoms. Here are some:
1. Eat like the Mediterraneans do: this means lots of fish, fruit, vegetables, and legumes(dried beans and peas and peanut butter).
2. Use extra virgin olive oil as your only oil. It contains olecanthal which has an anti-inflammatory effect similar to ibuprofen, but without the bad effects.
3. Focus on red, orange, and yellow fruits and veggies. They contain carotenoids that reduce inflammation. Researchers from the UK found that people whose diets are rich in these foods are significantly less likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis.
4. Avoid the green parts of the nightshade fruits (potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant. Let your green peppers ripen to yellow or red and they won’t contain solanine (a toxin), and don’t eat the green parts of potatoes, tomatoes, or eggplant.
5. Lose a pound. Losing even 1 pound---can make a huge difference in discomfort because it reduces the load on the knees. (One pound reduces the load by 4pounds.)
6. Exercise regularly. Losing 5% of body weight and doing moderate types of exercise provides the best overall improvement in pain and function. Even if weight is lost, a lack of regular vigorous physical activity doubles the odds of experiencing a decline in the ability to perform basic daily activities.
7. Eat bing cherries. One study found that sweet cherries have anti-inflammatory effects that may be beneficial for the management and prevention of inflammatory disease like arthritis, asthma, and Crohn’s disease.
8. Eat those unsaturated fatty acids available in fish, fish oils, evening primrose oil and sunflower oil are anti-inflammatory substances that may protect you from the inflammatory condition known as arthritis.
*For more arthritis information, go to www.carolynchambersclark.com/id36.html
Sources:
McKellar and colleagues. (2007). A pilot study of a Mediterranean-type diet intervention in female patients with rheumatoid arthritis living in areas of social deprivation in Glasgow. Annals of Rheumatic Diseases 66(9), 1239-1243.
Kelley and colleagues. (2006). Consumption of bing sweet cherries lowers circulating concentrations of inflammation markers in healthy men and women. The Journal of Nutrition 136 (4), 981-987.
Lunn & Theobald. (2006). The health effects of dietary unsaturated fatty acids. Nutrition Bulletin 31, 178-224.www.uaf.edu/ces/publications/freepubs/FGV-00337.html
3. Wellness Books
Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
If you plan to age, prepare yourself - it's later than you think and the challenge of aging well should be taken seriously. Discover what aspects of aging can't be changed and guide the rest that can. Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life, written by the world's most prolific, outrageous, humorous and athletic expert on wellness. The book can be ordered 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.
This helpful self-care manual provides a mind, body, and spirit wellness approach to anxiety. Learn how to control anxiety and stress naturally. 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. You can also find this book by clicking on www.harpercollins.com and writing Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*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 or to order, click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
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 for symptoms as widely divergent as wandering, distractibility, poor communication, mood changes, disorientation, fatigue, frustration, aggression, limited social skills, lack of self-confidence, limited mobility, depression, lack of motivation, anxiety, and social withdrawal. For copies, contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills
Now in its 4th edition, this book focuses on an introduction to group work, basic group concepts and processes, working to achieve group goals, special group problems, beginning/guiding/terminating the group, supervision of group leaders and co-leadership, behavioral approaches for group leaders, recording and analyzing group process, groups for the old adults, working with focal groups, when the organization is the group, and when the community is the group. Go to Springer Publishing Company by clicking on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches.
Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model for health and wellness promotion in communities, health promotion with changing and vulnerable populations, community self-assessment, principles of planning effective community programs, community mobilization and participation, evaluating community health programs, health promotion in rural settings, health promotion on the internet, nutrition and weight management, fitness and flexible movement, typical childhood communicable diseases; promoting community resilience, stress management, smoking cessation, violence prevention, environmental wellness, complementary health care practices, advanced communication skills with individuals and groups, working with groups, working with families, health promotion with African American women, establishing a lay health promotion program in a Hispanic community, diabetes programs in Hawaii, parish nursing, conducting a survey; the example of a youth service organization, violence prevention in schools; a model violence-prevention center, evaluating small community-based health promotion programs: lessons learned from Colorado Health Promotion Initiatives, health promotion in a homeless center. Available from Springer Publishing Company by clicking on www.springerpub.com and writing Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success
This book not only provides an easy to follow blueprint for health and holistic aging, but the author is an exceptional role model for his program. Can you live a healthy and independent life to the age of 100? Can you enjoy positive relationships? Can you maintain a healthy environment? Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can 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. Ask for it at your local bookstore or find it online. Also visit Dr. Helvie’s web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information. Click on www.HealthyHolisticAging.com.
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases
Based on holistic assessments and interventions, this book uses 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, Parkinsons’ Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Available from Springer Publishing Company by clicking on www.springerpub.com and writing Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You That You Need To Know.
A self-care manual to help women learn about using hormones, and what to do if they'd rather not. Soon to be available in Spanish. Now in its third printing. Table of contents 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. Available from Harper Collins by clicking on http://www.harpercollins.com and writing Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.
4. Online Menopause Support/Information Group
Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com, write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to #5, and click on it.
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5. Inexpensive e-books for you, family, clients, or colleagues
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 left hand column of the web site to find them.)
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6. New Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators. Hot off the press and already in its second printing, this new book 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. Educator vignettes present situations that help integrate theory into practice for varied nurse educators from nursing faculty, clinical nurse leaders, graduate students in nursing education programs to staff development experts. 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. Find the book on the Jones & Bartlett web site by clicking on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750 and looking for Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators. Sample chapters and more information available at the web site.
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7. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management
ISBN-10: 0763749761. 432 Pages. Will Publish: 02/07/2008 or sooner.
This book 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; and creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged.
For more information or a review copy, click on http://www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767
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8. 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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9. Wellness Events
a. Get Your Book Published Workshop/Retreat.
Planning a small group workshop/retreat for those of you who want to get a book
published. Did you know that almost everybody wants to get a book published, but
most people never do? This workshop/retreat can help you get a book published. For more information go to www.carolynchambersclark and click on my picture.
b. Transform Your Relationships
Give a holiday gift to yourself. Saturday, December 1st, 2007 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Arts and Minds Center, 3138 Commodore Plaza. Coconut Grove, FL. Contact: Dr. Maureen Duffy 305.335.8043 or Dr. Patricia Munhall 305.461.2459. Fees: $75.00 per person
Feel stuck in the same old ways or bored with the same arguments? Dr. Maureen Duffy will help you improve the quality of your relationship with a partner or spouse. You will learn how to develop shared histories and rituals and avoid toxic behaviors. Learn to tune in, heal past and present wounds, and have a positive relationship.
c. Have a holistic or wellness book or activity/event you want me to mention in this newsletter? Contact me by clicking on my picture at www.carolynchambersclark.com and provide the particulars, or just reply to this email with the info…title, author, year of pub, a short blurb, and where to get the book or the directions to the activity. Just follow the format I’ve used above for books and activities, please. That’s Times Roman 12 point black ink only no underlining or bolding, please, and you only have a few lines to do all that. Don’t forget your contact information. That will make my life a whole lot easier…Thanks in advance.
d. Book Tour Stop for Floridians
If you (or any of your friends or family) will be anywhere near Englewood, Florida on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 2 p.m. I’ll be doing an anxiety book talk and book signing at Richard’s Whole Foods and giving away a free health-related e-book. I’ll be showing you how to choose the right foods and supplements especially for you and your body. Come and visit! Call for reservations and/or directions anytime from 10-6 p.m. M-Sat at (941) 473-0278.
I’ll be doing book talks on anxiety and menopause in Port Charlotte, Bradenton, Venice, and St. Petersburg after the first of the year…stay tuned!
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PLEASE SEND THIS NEWSLETTER ON to friends, family, clients or colleagues who might benefit. My only request is that you send it in its entirety.
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
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Stay Well!
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Book Tour Success!
Had a great time at Richard's Whole Foods yesterday, showing people how to muscle test to see which supplements and foods are best for them, and selling and signing books. One woman brought her husband and he was shocked to see how badly he tested for sugar, one of his favorite foods.
Yes, this is a new venue for me and one well worth pursuing if you have written a health-related book. The people who come are healthstore purchasers and quite sophisticated and willing to participate. Everyone who came bought a book and one person bought a copy of LIVING WELL WITH MENOPAUSE for herself and another as a Christmas gift for a family member. (I offered a special deal if they bought more than one book.)
Here are some tips if you plan to explore the healthfood store market. Provide copy for the manager and request that they make small bag stuffers announcing your book talk or health talk and put them in purchases of their customers. Although it poured that day, and Floridians hate to go out in the rain, I had a good core group of active, informed, and intelligent people who made my day.
November 3rd I do two booktalks at the Sarasota Book Festival and plan to stop in at two huge healthfood stores in that town and see if I can't set up something there. Oh, and I did raffle off an e-book and give everyone who came a free one-year's subscription to my Wellness Newsletter.
Cheers,
Carolyn
Yes, this is a new venue for me and one well worth pursuing if you have written a health-related book. The people who come are healthstore purchasers and quite sophisticated and willing to participate. Everyone who came bought a book and one person bought a copy of LIVING WELL WITH MENOPAUSE for herself and another as a Christmas gift for a family member. (I offered a special deal if they bought more than one book.)
Here are some tips if you plan to explore the healthfood store market. Provide copy for the manager and request that they make small bag stuffers announcing your book talk or health talk and put them in purchases of their customers. Although it poured that day, and Floridians hate to go out in the rain, I had a good core group of active, informed, and intelligent people who made my day.
November 3rd I do two booktalks at the Sarasota Book Festival and plan to stop in at two huge healthfood stores in that town and see if I can't set up something there. Oh, and I did raffle off an e-book and give everyone who came a free one-year's subscription to my Wellness Newsletter.
Cheers,
Carolyn
Monday, October 15, 2007
Here's your...
WELLNESS NEWSLETTER # 15, October, 2007
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This newsletter provides research-based information and tells you about books, e-books, and web sites that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care skills. Please share it with colleagues, families, friends, clients, students and whomever you think could benefit.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
*Consumer alert: aluminum products
a. Get enough calcium and vitamin D: It could prevent the spread of breast
cancer
b. Calm down to reduce heart disease and recurrence of breast cancer
c. Backache? Try acupuncture
d. Take enough vitamin E if you want results
e. Take your vitamin C to stop cancer
3. Books to keep you (and others) well
4. Online living well with menopause support group
5. Inexpensive self-care/wellness e-books for you, family, friends, or clients
6. A new book for nurse educators
7. A new book to help holistic nurses
8. To find archives of past Wellness Newsletter issues.
9. Wellness Events
10. Book Tour Stop for Floridians
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1. WELLNESS MESSAGE:
I forgive all past mistakes and press on to future achievements.
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2. WELLNESS NEWS
Consumer alert:
Last month, we counseled to use deodorants rather than antiperspirants and suggested mineral rock salts as one alternative. As colleague, founder of the American Holistic Medical Association and Holos University (www.hugs-edu.org) and super-MD/PhD Norm Shealy pointed out, some mineral rock salts may contain aluminum. (thanks, Norm!) So, to be safe, please read the ingredients in any deodorant, or for that matter, any product you buy.
a. Get your calcium every day! It could prevent the spread of breast cancer
According to researchers at the ANZAC Research Institute in Concord, Australia, a strong skeleton is less likely to be penetrated by metastasizing cancer cells. Although they used a mouse model, they found that a calcium deficiency could increase the tendency of advanced breast cancer to target bone.
Their findings have implications for women at high risk for developing breast cancer. Many are calcium deficient due to low calcium dietary intake or due to vitamin D deficiency.
Source: October 1, 2007 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Some good sources of calcium are: broccoli, kale, salmon with bones, sardines, seafood, green leafy vegetables, almonds, asparagus, blackstrap molasses, cabbage, collards, dandelion greens, figs, goat’s milk, kelp, mustard greens, oats, prunes, sesame seeds, tofu, turnip greens, watercress, whey, and yogurt.
Exposing the face and arms to the sun for fifteen minutes 3 times a week will ensure adequate amounts of vitamin D.
Source: Balch and Balch, Prescription for nutritional Healing, Avery.
b. Calm down to reduce heart disease and recurrence of breast cancer
Stress will do it. Research is coming out daily to show stress effects on physical conditions. Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston concluded prehypertensive men and women are at increased risk of developing coronary heart disease.
Men with high trait anger scores had a 1.7 times greater odds for developing hypertension and a 90 percent increase in the risk of progression to coronary heart disease. Both men and women with high levels of long-term psychological stress had 1.68 times greater odds for developing coronary heart disease than those with low or moderate stress. The researchers suggest that treatment of anger and psychological stress may have a beneficial effect on slowing progression of prehypertension to hypertension and coronary heart disease.
Source: Player and associates (playerm@musc.edu), Psychosocial factors and progression from prehypertension to hypertension or coronary heart disease, Annals of Family Medicine, volume 5, pp. 403-411, 2007.
Stress can also impact breast cancer recurrence. Women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer who have also endured previous traumatic or stressful events see their cancer recur nearly twice as fast as other women.
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Stanford University School of Medicine interviewed 94 women from the San Francisco Bay area and categorized their life experiences as either traumatic or stressful, and compared them with a control group of women who had not faced similar situations. Traumatic events included childhood sexual abuse, rape, suicide of a family member or life-threatening injury. Stressful events included adoption, parent’s death, living with their mother-in-law, earthquake, divorce and having a family member imprisoned. They found a dramatic difference between women who experienced traumatic events and those who didn’t. Women who faced physical or sexual abuse or life-threatening situations saw their metastic tumors return after about 2.5 years, compared with women who led more peaceful life (5 years).
Researchers analyzed cortisol levels from saliva samples of participants. Cortisol is produced when the body faces periods of stress, and evidence is growing that abnormally prolonged cortisol production inhibits immune response. According to Dr. Palesh, the lead researcher, this could make the body more susceptible to recurrence of cancer. Extended periods of stress and trauma and the associated cortisol production can interfere with the body’s ability to fight off cancer progression.
Source: Palesh and colleagues, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, September, 2007.
For some ideas about reducing anxiety and stress no matter what your physical condition or life experiences, see LIVING WELL WITH ANXIETY below.
c. Back ache? Try acupuncture
Low back pain is the second most common pain for which physician treatment is sought and a major reason for absenteeism and disability. Six months of acupuncture treatment (two 30-minute sessions a week of needling fixed points to a depth of 5 millimeters to 40 millimeters based on traditional Chinese medicine) appears to be more effective than conventional therapy (medication, physical therapy and exercise) or sham acupuncture (inserting needles superficially into the lower back avoiding all known verum points or meridians) to treat low back pain.
The researchers wrote that both forms of acupuncture are superior to conventional treatment, suggesting a common underlying mechanism that may act on pain generation, transmission of pain signals or processing of pain signals by the central nervous system.
Source: Archives of Internal Medicine, September 24, 2007, pp. 1892-1898.
d. Take enough vitamin E if you want results
In lab, animal and human studies, there’s evidence that vitamin E can reduce oxidative stress, inhibit formation of atherosclerotic lesions, slow aortic thickening, lower inflammation, and reduce platelet adhesion. All of these are important to a healthy hearth and blood vessels.
New research from Vanderbilt University Medical Center demonstrated that the levels of vitamin E needed to protect you and reduce oxidative stress are far higher than those used in clinical trials In a new study and commentary in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, researchers concluded that the levels of vitamin E necessary to reduce stress are about 1,600 to 3,200 I.U. daily, which is 4-8 times more than those used in almost all past clinical trials and needed to be given for 16 weeks to suppress oxidative stress.
e. Take your vitamin C to stop cancer
Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C---and potentially other antioxidants---can indeed inhibit the growth of some tumors.
The Hopkins study, led by Chi Dang, M.D., PhD, professor of medicine and oncology and Johns Hopkins Family professor in Oncology Research, unexpectedly found that the antioxidants’ role may be to destabilize a tumor’s ability to grow under oxygen-starved conditions. Their work is detailed in the September 12, 2007 issue of Cancer Cell.
Other studies have discredited the value of vitamin C and cancer. A new study showed that when fat is in the stomach, vitamin C does not reduce cancer risk.
Reference: Fat transforms ascorbic acid from inhibiting to promoting acid-catlysed N-nitrosation. Online First Gut 2007; doi:10.1136/gut.2007.12857.
Their findings imply that vitamin C may best be taken on an empty stomach or with foods that do not contain fat, such as fruits and vegetables.
Some of the better sources of antioxidants are foods, including berries, apples with peels, cherries, green and red pears, fresh or dried plums, pineapple, kiwi, artichokes, spinach, red cabbage, red and white potatoes with peels, sweet potatoes, broccoli, walnuts, almonds, oat-based products.
Source: Mayo Clinic Health Letter, September 13, 2007.
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3. Books to keep you (and others) well
Now for the books that can help you and others get well and stay well…
* Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007. If you plan to age, prepare yourself - it's later than you think and the challenge of aging well should be taken seriously. Discover what aspects of aging can't be changed and guide the rest that can. Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life, written by the world's most prolific, outrageous, humorous and athletic expert on wellness. The book can be ordered 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. This helpful self-care manual provides a mind, body, and spirit wellness approach to anxiety. Learn how to control your anxiety and stress naturally. Contents include how to self-diagnose your 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. Free sample chapter or a personalized autographed copy at http://home.earthlink.net/~cccwellness/id28.html---or ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don’t find it on the shelf. You can also find this book at www.harpercollins.com or www.amazon.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. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.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 for symptoms as widely divergent as wandering, distractibility, poor communication, mood changes, disorientation, fatigue, frustration, aggression, limited social skills, lack of self-confidence, limited mobility, depression, lack of motivation, anxiety, and social withdrawal. For copies, contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills
Now in its 4th edition, this book focuses on an introduction to group work, basic group concepts and processes, working to achieve group goals, special group problems, beginning/guiding/terminating the group, supervision of group leaders and co-leadership, behavioral approaches for group leaders, recording and analyzing group process, groups for the old adults, working with focal groups, when the organization is the group, and when the community is the group. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.com
*Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches
Focuses on wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model for health and wellness promotion in communities, health promotion with changing and vulnerable populations, community self-assessment, principles of planning effective community programs, community mobilization and participation, evaluating community health programs, health promotion in rural settings, health promotion on the internet, nutrition and weight management, fitness and flexible movement, typical childhood communicable diseases: promoting community resilience, stress management, smoking cessation, violence prevention, environmental wellness, complementary health care practices, advanced communication skills with individuals and groups, working with groups, working with families, health promotion with African American women, establishing a lay health promotion program in a Hispanic community, diabetes programs in Hawaii, parish nursing, conducting a survey: the example of a youth service organization, violence prevention in schools: a model violence-prevention center, evaluating small community-based health promotion programs: lessons learned from Colorado Health Promotion Initiatives, health promotion in a homeless center. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.com
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success
This book not only provides an easy to follow blueprint for health and holistic aging, but the author is an exceptional role model for his program. Can you live a healthy and independent life to the age of 100? Can you enjoy positive relationships? Can you maintain a healthy environment? Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can 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. Ask for it at your local bookstore or find it online. Also visit Dr. Helvie’s web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information. Click on www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*The American Holistic Nurses’ Association Guide to Common Chronic Conditions
Primarily for clients, but also serves as a useful guide for nursing and other health care students who want to know about self-care options that complement medical approaches. Focuses on 20 conditions including: AIDS, allergies, Alzheimer’s Disease, arthritis, cancer, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, diabetes, digestive problems, fibromyalgia, heart and blood vessel disorders, kidney disease, liver and gallbladder conditions, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, sleep disorders. Find it at www.amazon.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases
Based on holistic nursing assessments and interventions, this book helps nurses and nursing students use 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, Parkinsons’ Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or click on book cover
*Holistic Assertiveness Skills for Nurses
Useful for nursing students, practitioners, educators, or leaders who are highly stressed and could benefit from stress reduction and nutritional, physical fitness, touch, and other approaches related to assertiveness, gender issues, anger, time management, criticism, career, and nursing leadership. Readers report they refer to the book often for empowerment and to learn new skills to apply in their work and home settings. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or click on book cover or ask your local bookstore to order it.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You That You Need To Know. A self-care manual to help women learn about using hormones, and what to do if they'd rather not. Table of contents 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 together: your menopause success plan. For a free sample chapter or an autographed copy find this book at http://home.earthlink.net/~cccwellness/id23.html---Or ask your local bookstore to order it for you (if it’s not on the shelf).
4. Don’t Forget about the Menopause Support/Information Group
If you or a friend, colleague, or client could benefit from support and information during menopause, sign up for the living well with menopause group at www.health.groups.yahoo.com/group/livingwellwithmenopause. (Copy and paste this address in your browser if hitting control and then clicking your mouse doesn’t get you there.)
Know someone in the throes of menopause or starting to show signs of menopause---sleep problems, irritability, anxiety (or even panic attacks), hot flashes? This may be a helpful group. It’s a new group, but there are some articles and questions/answers already posted. No one need identify themselves and Yahoo keeps their email address a secret. Please share this information with anyone who could benefit---including spouses and partners who may want to learn more about menopause. ____________________________________________________________________
5. Inexpensive e-books for you, family, clients, or colleagues
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, success in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective. Give someone you care about a gift of wellness! Inexpensive, but effective. Find them all at www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the left hand column of the web site to find them.)
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6. New Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators. Hot off the press, this new book 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. Educator vignettes present situations that help integrate theory into practice for varied nurse educators from nursing faculty, clinical nurse leaders, and graduate students in nursing education programs to staff development experts. Presents in-depth 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.
Find the book on the Jones & Bartlett web site by clicking on www.jbpub.com/catalog/0763749753 Sample chapters and more information available.
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7. *NEW BOOK FOR HOLISTIC NURSES AHNA/ANA Holistic Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice Pages: 135 Cover: Paperback © 2007. The most recent version of the Holistic Nursing Standards, this book is a foundational volume that articulates the essentials of holistic nursing, its activities and accountabilities at all practice levels and settings. It serves as an essential resource for nurses, other care providers, educators, researchers, administrators and those in funding, legal, policy and regulatory activities. To learn more or order, call (800) 278-2462 Ext. 10. To order online today, visit www.ahna.org/public/public.html
________________________________________________________________________8. *ARCHIVES OF THE WELLNESS NEWSLETTER
To read recent past issue of The Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
9.*WELLNESS EVENTS
The open U of the International Institute for Human Understanding Presents November 3, Saturday Workshop 9:30-4 PM The Dynamics of Understanding Self, Relationships, Communication, and Meaning: Re-invent your life, relationships, professional situation and every human endeavor. You will learn the power of intersubjectivity, with its potential for understanding and also for conflict. You will learn about intersubjective conjunction, disjunction and perceptual disparity. Knowing the power of these interpretations, and recognizing when they are occurring is the key to successful relationships with the self and others. Internationally known author, speaker, advanced registered nurse practitioner and psychoanalyst, Dr. Patricia Munhall will be facilitating the workshop. Guaranteed to be a fun, lively and an awakening experience. Details can be found on the website: www.iihu.org or e-mail pmunhall@aol.com
Event will be held at the Arts and Minds Center, 3138 Commodore Plaza, Coconut Grove, Miami, FL 33133.
Have you written a book you want others to know about? Contact Book Tour and they’ll put it on their web site along with any speaking engagements you have coming up. Here’s the address: http://booktour.com/signup?referrer=985. Tell them I sent you.
If you have a holistic or wellness book or activity/event you want me to put a blurb about in my newsletter, contact me by clicking on my picture at www.carolynchambersclark.com and provide the particulars, or just reply to this email with the info…title, author, year of pub, a short blurb, and where to get the book or the directions to the activity. Just follow the format I’ve used above for the other books and activities, please. That’s Times Roman 12 point black ink only no underlining or bolding, please. If you send a book cover or other logo, make sure it’s the size of the others on this page so I don’t have to resize. That will make my life a whole lot easier…Thanks in advance.
10. *BOOK TOUR STOPS FOR FLORIDIANS
a. If you (or any of your friends or family) will be anywhere near Englewood, Florida on Saturday, October 20, 2007, at 2 p.m. I’ll be doing a menopause book talk and book signing at Richard’s Whole Foods and giving away a free related e-book. Come and visit! Call for reservations and directions: 10-6 pm at (941) 473-0278.
b. If you (or any friends, colleagues, or family) will be anywhere near Sarasota, Florida on Saturday November 3, 2007 between 10 and 10:30 a.m. or 1:00 and 1:30 p.m., I be doing a book talk, giving away a free e-book, and signing my book, LIVING WELL WITH ANXIETY. For more information, email the Executive Director of the Sarasota Reading Festival about the Wellness Pavilion location at srfdirector@comcast.net.
c. If you (or any of your friends or family) will be anywhere near Englewood, Florida on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 1 p.m. I’ll be doing an anxiety book talk and book signing at Richard’s Whole Foods and giving away a free related e-book. Come and visit! Call for reservations and/or directions: 10-6 p.m. M-Sat (941) 473-0278.
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PLEASE SEND THIS NEWSLETTER ON to friends, family, clients or colleagues who might benefit. My only request is that you send it in its entirety
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
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WELLNESS NEWSLETTER # 15, October, 2007
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This newsletter provides research-based information and tells you about books, e-books, and web sites that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care skills. Please share it with colleagues, families, friends, clients, students and whomever you think could benefit.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
*Consumer alert: aluminum products
a. Get enough calcium and vitamin D: It could prevent the spread of breast
cancer
b. Calm down to reduce heart disease and recurrence of breast cancer
c. Backache? Try acupuncture
d. Take enough vitamin E if you want results
e. Take your vitamin C to stop cancer
3. Books to keep you (and others) well
4. Online living well with menopause support group
5. Inexpensive self-care/wellness e-books for you, family, friends, or clients
6. A new book for nurse educators
7. A new book to help holistic nurses
8. To find archives of past Wellness Newsletter issues.
9. Wellness Events
10. Book Tour Stop for Floridians
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1. WELLNESS MESSAGE:
I forgive all past mistakes and press on to future achievements.
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2. WELLNESS NEWS
Consumer alert:
Last month, we counseled to use deodorants rather than antiperspirants and suggested mineral rock salts as one alternative. As colleague, founder of the American Holistic Medical Association and Holos University (www.hugs-edu.org) and super-MD/PhD Norm Shealy pointed out, some mineral rock salts may contain aluminum. (thanks, Norm!) So, to be safe, please read the ingredients in any deodorant, or for that matter, any product you buy.
a. Get your calcium every day! It could prevent the spread of breast cancer
According to researchers at the ANZAC Research Institute in Concord, Australia, a strong skeleton is less likely to be penetrated by metastasizing cancer cells. Although they used a mouse model, they found that a calcium deficiency could increase the tendency of advanced breast cancer to target bone.
Their findings have implications for women at high risk for developing breast cancer. Many are calcium deficient due to low calcium dietary intake or due to vitamin D deficiency.
Source: October 1, 2007 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Some good sources of calcium are: broccoli, kale, salmon with bones, sardines, seafood, green leafy vegetables, almonds, asparagus, blackstrap molasses, cabbage, collards, dandelion greens, figs, goat’s milk, kelp, mustard greens, oats, prunes, sesame seeds, tofu, turnip greens, watercress, whey, and yogurt.
Exposing the face and arms to the sun for fifteen minutes 3 times a week will ensure adequate amounts of vitamin D.
Source: Balch and Balch, Prescription for nutritional Healing, Avery.
b. Calm down to reduce heart disease and recurrence of breast cancer
Stress will do it. Research is coming out daily to show stress effects on physical conditions. Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston concluded prehypertensive men and women are at increased risk of developing coronary heart disease.
Men with high trait anger scores had a 1.7 times greater odds for developing hypertension and a 90 percent increase in the risk of progression to coronary heart disease. Both men and women with high levels of long-term psychological stress had 1.68 times greater odds for developing coronary heart disease than those with low or moderate stress. The researchers suggest that treatment of anger and psychological stress may have a beneficial effect on slowing progression of prehypertension to hypertension and coronary heart disease.
Source: Player and associates (playerm@musc.edu), Psychosocial factors and progression from prehypertension to hypertension or coronary heart disease, Annals of Family Medicine, volume 5, pp. 403-411, 2007.
Stress can also impact breast cancer recurrence. Women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer who have also endured previous traumatic or stressful events see their cancer recur nearly twice as fast as other women.
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Stanford University School of Medicine interviewed 94 women from the San Francisco Bay area and categorized their life experiences as either traumatic or stressful, and compared them with a control group of women who had not faced similar situations. Traumatic events included childhood sexual abuse, rape, suicide of a family member or life-threatening injury. Stressful events included adoption, parent’s death, living with their mother-in-law, earthquake, divorce and having a family member imprisoned. They found a dramatic difference between women who experienced traumatic events and those who didn’t. Women who faced physical or sexual abuse or life-threatening situations saw their metastic tumors return after about 2.5 years, compared with women who led more peaceful life (5 years).
Researchers analyzed cortisol levels from saliva samples of participants. Cortisol is produced when the body faces periods of stress, and evidence is growing that abnormally prolonged cortisol production inhibits immune response. According to Dr. Palesh, the lead researcher, this could make the body more susceptible to recurrence of cancer. Extended periods of stress and trauma and the associated cortisol production can interfere with the body’s ability to fight off cancer progression.
Source: Palesh and colleagues, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, September, 2007.
For some ideas about reducing anxiety and stress no matter what your physical condition or life experiences, see LIVING WELL WITH ANXIETY below.
c. Back ache? Try acupuncture
Low back pain is the second most common pain for which physician treatment is sought and a major reason for absenteeism and disability. Six months of acupuncture treatment (two 30-minute sessions a week of needling fixed points to a depth of 5 millimeters to 40 millimeters based on traditional Chinese medicine) appears to be more effective than conventional therapy (medication, physical therapy and exercise) or sham acupuncture (inserting needles superficially into the lower back avoiding all known verum points or meridians) to treat low back pain.
The researchers wrote that both forms of acupuncture are superior to conventional treatment, suggesting a common underlying mechanism that may act on pain generation, transmission of pain signals or processing of pain signals by the central nervous system.
Source: Archives of Internal Medicine, September 24, 2007, pp. 1892-1898.
d. Take enough vitamin E if you want results
In lab, animal and human studies, there’s evidence that vitamin E can reduce oxidative stress, inhibit formation of atherosclerotic lesions, slow aortic thickening, lower inflammation, and reduce platelet adhesion. All of these are important to a healthy hearth and blood vessels.
New research from Vanderbilt University Medical Center demonstrated that the levels of vitamin E needed to protect you and reduce oxidative stress are far higher than those used in clinical trials In a new study and commentary in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, researchers concluded that the levels of vitamin E necessary to reduce stress are about 1,600 to 3,200 I.U. daily, which is 4-8 times more than those used in almost all past clinical trials and needed to be given for 16 weeks to suppress oxidative stress.
e. Take your vitamin C to stop cancer
Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C---and potentially other antioxidants---can indeed inhibit the growth of some tumors.
The Hopkins study, led by Chi Dang, M.D., PhD, professor of medicine and oncology and Johns Hopkins Family professor in Oncology Research, unexpectedly found that the antioxidants’ role may be to destabilize a tumor’s ability to grow under oxygen-starved conditions. Their work is detailed in the September 12, 2007 issue of Cancer Cell.
Other studies have discredited the value of vitamin C and cancer. A new study showed that when fat is in the stomach, vitamin C does not reduce cancer risk.
Reference: Fat transforms ascorbic acid from inhibiting to promoting acid-catlysed N-nitrosation. Online First Gut 2007; doi:10.1136/gut.2007.12857.
Their findings imply that vitamin C may best be taken on an empty stomach or with foods that do not contain fat, such as fruits and vegetables.
Some of the better sources of antioxidants are foods, including berries, apples with peels, cherries, green and red pears, fresh or dried plums, pineapple, kiwi, artichokes, spinach, red cabbage, red and white potatoes with peels, sweet potatoes, broccoli, walnuts, almonds, oat-based products.
Source: Mayo Clinic Health Letter, September 13, 2007.
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3. Books to keep you (and others) well
Now for the books that can help you and others get well and stay well…
* Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007. If you plan to age, prepare yourself - it's later than you think and the challenge of aging well should be taken seriously. Discover what aspects of aging can't be changed and guide the rest that can. Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life, written by the world's most prolific, outrageous, humorous and athletic expert on wellness. The book can be ordered 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. This helpful self-care manual provides a mind, body, and spirit wellness approach to anxiety. Learn how to control your anxiety and stress naturally. Contents include how to self-diagnose your 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. Free sample chapter or a personalized autographed copy at http://home.earthlink.net/~cccwellness/id28.html---or ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don’t find it on the shelf. You can also find this book at www.harpercollins.com or www.amazon.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. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.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 for symptoms as widely divergent as wandering, distractibility, poor communication, mood changes, disorientation, fatigue, frustration, aggression, limited social skills, lack of self-confidence, limited mobility, depression, lack of motivation, anxiety, and social withdrawal. For copies, contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership Skills
Now in its 4th edition, this book focuses on an introduction to group work, basic group concepts and processes, working to achieve group goals, special group problems, beginning/guiding/terminating the group, supervision of group leaders and co-leadership, behavioral approaches for group leaders, recording and analyzing group process, groups for the old adults, working with focal groups, when the organization is the group, and when the community is the group. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.com
*Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches
Focuses on wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model for health and wellness promotion in communities, health promotion with changing and vulnerable populations, community self-assessment, principles of planning effective community programs, community mobilization and participation, evaluating community health programs, health promotion in rural settings, health promotion on the internet, nutrition and weight management, fitness and flexible movement, typical childhood communicable diseases: promoting community resilience, stress management, smoking cessation, violence prevention, environmental wellness, complementary health care practices, advanced communication skills with individuals and groups, working with groups, working with families, health promotion with African American women, establishing a lay health promotion program in a Hispanic community, diabetes programs in Hawaii, parish nursing, conducting a survey: the example of a youth service organization, violence prevention in schools: a model violence-prevention center, evaluating small community-based health promotion programs: lessons learned from Colorado Health Promotion Initiatives, health promotion in a homeless center. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.com
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success
This book not only provides an easy to follow blueprint for health and holistic aging, but the author is an exceptional role model for his program. Can you live a healthy and independent life to the age of 100? Can you enjoy positive relationships? Can you maintain a healthy environment? Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can 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. Ask for it at your local bookstore or find it online. Also visit Dr. Helvie’s web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information. Click on www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*The American Holistic Nurses’ Association Guide to Common Chronic Conditions
Primarily for clients, but also serves as a useful guide for nursing and other health care students who want to know about self-care options that complement medical approaches. Focuses on 20 conditions including: AIDS, allergies, Alzheimer’s Disease, arthritis, cancer, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, diabetes, digestive problems, fibromyalgia, heart and blood vessel disorders, kidney disease, liver and gallbladder conditions, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, sleep disorders. Find it at www.amazon.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases
Based on holistic nursing assessments and interventions, this book helps nurses and nursing students use 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, Parkinsons’ Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or click on book cover
*Holistic Assertiveness Skills for Nurses
Useful for nursing students, practitioners, educators, or leaders who are highly stressed and could benefit from stress reduction and nutritional, physical fitness, touch, and other approaches related to assertiveness, gender issues, anger, time management, criticism, career, and nursing leadership. Readers report they refer to the book often for empowerment and to learn new skills to apply in their work and home settings. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or click on book cover or ask your local bookstore to order it.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You That You Need To Know. A self-care manual to help women learn about using hormones, and what to do if they'd rather not. Table of contents 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 together: your menopause success plan. For a free sample chapter or an autographed copy find this book at http://home.earthlink.net/~cccwellness/id23.html---Or ask your local bookstore to order it for you (if it’s not on the shelf).
4. Don’t Forget about the Menopause Support/Information Group
If you or a friend, colleague, or client could benefit from support and information during menopause, sign up for the living well with menopause group at www.health.groups.yahoo.com/group/livingwellwithmenopause. (Copy and paste this address in your browser if hitting control and then clicking your mouse doesn’t get you there.)
Know someone in the throes of menopause or starting to show signs of menopause---sleep problems, irritability, anxiety (or even panic attacks), hot flashes? This may be a helpful group. It’s a new group, but there are some articles and questions/answers already posted. No one need identify themselves and Yahoo keeps their email address a secret. Please share this information with anyone who could benefit---including spouses and partners who may want to learn more about menopause. ____________________________________________________________________
5. Inexpensive e-books for you, family, clients, or colleagues
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, success in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective. Give someone you care about a gift of wellness! Inexpensive, but effective. Find them all at www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the left hand column of the web site to find them.)
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6. New Book for Nurse Educators
*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators. Hot off the press, this new book 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. Educator vignettes present situations that help integrate theory into practice for varied nurse educators from nursing faculty, clinical nurse leaders, and graduate students in nursing education programs to staff development experts. Presents in-depth 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.
Find the book on the Jones & Bartlett web site by clicking on www.jbpub.com/catalog/0763749753 Sample chapters and more information available.
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7. *NEW BOOK FOR HOLISTIC NURSES AHNA/ANA Holistic Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice Pages: 135 Cover: Paperback © 2007. The most recent version of the Holistic Nursing Standards, this book is a foundational volume that articulates the essentials of holistic nursing, its activities and accountabilities at all practice levels and settings. It serves as an essential resource for nurses, other care providers, educators, researchers, administrators and those in funding, legal, policy and regulatory activities. To learn more or order, call (800) 278-2462 Ext. 10. To order online today, visit www.ahna.org/public/public.html
________________________________________________________________________8. *ARCHIVES OF THE WELLNESS NEWSLETTER
To read recent past issue of The Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
9.*WELLNESS EVENTS
The open U of the International Institute for Human Understanding Presents November 3, Saturday Workshop 9:30-4 PM The Dynamics of Understanding Self, Relationships, Communication, and Meaning: Re-invent your life, relationships, professional situation and every human endeavor. You will learn the power of intersubjectivity, with its potential for understanding and also for conflict. You will learn about intersubjective conjunction, disjunction and perceptual disparity. Knowing the power of these interpretations, and recognizing when they are occurring is the key to successful relationships with the self and others. Internationally known author, speaker, advanced registered nurse practitioner and psychoanalyst, Dr. Patricia Munhall will be facilitating the workshop. Guaranteed to be a fun, lively and an awakening experience. Details can be found on the website: www.iihu.org or e-mail pmunhall@aol.com
Event will be held at the Arts and Minds Center, 3138 Commodore Plaza, Coconut Grove, Miami, FL 33133.
Have you written a book you want others to know about? Contact Book Tour and they’ll put it on their web site along with any speaking engagements you have coming up. Here’s the address: http://booktour.com/signup?referrer=985. Tell them I sent you.
If you have a holistic or wellness book or activity/event you want me to put a blurb about in my newsletter, contact me by clicking on my picture at www.carolynchambersclark.com and provide the particulars, or just reply to this email with the info…title, author, year of pub, a short blurb, and where to get the book or the directions to the activity. Just follow the format I’ve used above for the other books and activities, please. That’s Times Roman 12 point black ink only no underlining or bolding, please. If you send a book cover or other logo, make sure it’s the size of the others on this page so I don’t have to resize. That will make my life a whole lot easier…Thanks in advance.
10. *BOOK TOUR STOPS FOR FLORIDIANS
a. If you (or any of your friends or family) will be anywhere near Englewood, Florida on Saturday, October 20, 2007, at 2 p.m. I’ll be doing a menopause book talk and book signing at Richard’s Whole Foods and giving away a free related e-book. Come and visit! Call for reservations and directions: 10-6 pm at (941) 473-0278.
b. If you (or any friends, colleagues, or family) will be anywhere near Sarasota, Florida on Saturday November 3, 2007 between 10 and 10:30 a.m. or 1:00 and 1:30 p.m., I be doing a book talk, giving away a free e-book, and signing my book, LIVING WELL WITH ANXIETY. For more information, email the Executive Director of the Sarasota Reading Festival about the Wellness Pavilion location at srfdirector@comcast.net.
c. If you (or any of your friends or family) will be anywhere near Englewood, Florida on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 1 p.m. I’ll be doing an anxiety book talk and book signing at Richard’s Whole Foods and giving away a free related e-book. Come and visit! Call for reservations and/or directions: 10-6 p.m. M-Sat (941) 473-0278.
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PLEASE SEND THIS NEWSLETTER ON to friends, family, clients or colleagues who might benefit. My only request is that you send it in its entirety
In Wellness,
Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
Wellness Newsletter, September, 2007
Here's your...
WELLNESS NEWSLETTER # 14
September, 2007
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This newsletter provides research-based information and tells you about books, e-books, and web sites that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care skills. Please share it with colleagues, families, friends, clients, students and whomever you think could benefit.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Diet linked to colorectal polyps/colon cancer
b. Food to quell menopause complaints
c. Alzheimer’s linked to stress
d. Aluminum correlated with breast cancer
e. Two or more drinks/day linked with endometrial cancer
f. Calcium alone reduces bone fractures in people over age 503. Books to keep you (and others) well
4. Online living well with menopause support group
5. Inexpensive self-care/wellness e-books for you, family, friends, or clients
6. A new book for nurse educators
7. A new book to help holistic nurses
8. To find archives of past Wellness Newsletter issues.
9. Have a wellness book or event you want others to know about?
10. Book Tour Stop for Floridians
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1. WELLNESS MESSAGE:
I spend all my time improving myself
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2. WELLNESS NEWS
a. Diet linked to colorectal polyps/colon cancer.Researchers at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston examined food-frequency questionnaires for women enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study and estimated choline content in their diets. Greater amounts of choline, including red meat, eggs, poultry and dairy products, were associated with an increased risk of colorectal polyps, which can, but do not always, lead to colorectal cancer.
Source: Journal of The National Cancer Institute, August 8, 2007.
Another study from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (August 15. 3007) examining the effect of the Western diet (red meat, fatty products such as French fries, refined grains and desserts) on colon cancer patients found that eating this diet may be increasing their chance of disease relapse and early death.
Although other studies have shown the relationship between diet and lifestyle and risk for developing colon cancer, Jeffrey Meyerhardt, MD, MPH of Dana-Farber said “This is the first large observation study to focus on the role of diet in recurrence of the disease. Our results suggest that people treated for locally advanced colon cancer can actively improve their odds of survival by their dietary choices.”
Participants in this study were enrolled in a large, phase III clinical trial sponsored by the National Cancer Institute of follow-up (“adjuvant”) chemotherapy, had their tumors surgically removed within the two months prior to enrolling in the study. They reported their dietary intake on specially designed questionnaires at two different time points---during the period they were receiving chemotherapy and six months after the completion of chemotherapy.”
Meyerhard and colleagues identified a prudent dietary patterns including high intakes of fruits and vegetables, poultry, and fish. If you’re eating a Western diet, now’s the time shift toward a more prudent dietary pattern.
Yet another study showed which fruits and vegetables may be especially helpful. Researchers at Ohio State University tested foods of the red, purple and blue color, containing high amounts of anti-cancer anthocyanins. They found these foods to slow the growth of colon cancer cells in rats and in human colon cancer cells. They chose the following foods and tested them based on their extremely deep colors and therefore high anthocyanin content: grapes, radishes, purple corn, purple carrots, chokeberries, and bilberries. Although the researchers didn’t test other red, purple and blue colored vegetables, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries may also be beneficial.
b. Food to quell menopause complaints.
Researchers from the University of Messina in Italy assessed the effects of genistein (a phytoestrogen isoflavone found in soy products) on bone metabolism in 389 postmenopausal women with a bone mineral density (BMD) less than 0.795 grams/centimeter squared at the femoral neck who had no significant other conditions, in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
The researchers found that BMD significantly increased in the soy participants and decreased in the placebo recipients.
Source: Annals of Internal Medicine, June 19, 2007, 839-847.
Menopausal women are at a relatively high risk for memory loss, high blood pressure and diabetes. A decade ago, the standard treatment for these problems was long-term hormone replacement (HRT). Since then, studies have shown that use of HRT is associated with significant effects including heart disease, breast cancer, and more.
Some naturally occurring component of plants (dietary polyphenols) have been shown to have beneficial effects similar to HRT but without the negative effects. Grapes, soy and kudzu are dietary polyphenols tested by physiologist J. Michael Wyss, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham on memory, blood pressure and pre-diabetes.
The researchers found grape polyphenols enhanced short-term (working memory) and long-term (reference memory), grape seed reduced salt-sensitive high blood pressure, soy-deprived animals increased arterial blood pressure, and kudzu root extract reduced high blood pressure and reduced insulin resistance (a precursor to type 2 diabetes) by 20-50%.
Source: The role of estrogens and polyphenols in hypertension and diabetes, Sex and gender in cardiovascular-renal physiology and pathophysiology, August 9-12, 2007, Austin, TX.
c. Alzheimer’s linked to stress.
High stress and levels lead to increased memory decline. Research appearing in the September 1, 2007 issue of Biological Psychiatry presented evidence that in 91 older, healthy adults (mean age 78.8 years) with high stress who carried the APOE gene, were most likely to show memory impairment. The APOE gene contributes to the risk for memory loss related to Alzheimer’s disease. In this study, those individuals experiencing with high stress and who were positive for APOE showed the greatest memory impairment.
The researchers believe chronic stress may interact with the risk genotype to promote age-related memory impairment. These findings raise the possibility that psycho-social interventions, such as relaxation therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapies that teach people how to stay calm when experiencing stressors, may preserve memory function in older adults.
This suggests that all of us, APOE gene or not, could benefit from learning and practicing stress reduction measures.
d. Aluminum correlated with breast cancer.
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women and the leading cause of death among women aged 35-54. Aluminum is a metalloestrogen, is genotoxic, and has been shown to be carcinogenic. The confirmed presence of aluminum in breast tissue biopsies highlights its potential as a possible factor in the cause of breast cancer.
The major constituent of antiperspirant is aluminum salts, which have long been associated with breast cancer and other human disease. In a study of women who had undergone mastectomies and biopsies, a research team led by Dr. Chris Exley of the Birchall Centre for Inorganic Chmistry and Materials at Keele University in the United Kingdom, measured the aluminum content of breast tissues. They found a high concentration of aluminum near the underarm where the highest density of application of antiperspirant could be assumed. There is evidence from previous studies that the skin is permeable to aluminum when applied as antiperspirant.
Source: News release, Keele University, September 2, 2007.
A preventive measure for all women is to cease using antiperspirants. The human body was meant to sweat as a temperature-reducing measure. A wellness approach seeks to work with natural processes, not stunt them. Evidence is accumulating that trying to artificially stop such a natural body process with aluminum salts could result in breast cancer. Weigh the importance of a wet underarm vs. breast cancer. Which is more important?
Instead of antiperspirants, try various deodorants and find one that works for you. Many people find a mineral salt “rock” beneficial and others find an aloe-based deodorant works. *NOTE: always read ingredient label to make sure it contains no unwanted substances.
e. Two or more drinks/day and endometrial cancerThe findings from a study led by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) will appear in the International Journal of Cancer. This is the first prospective study to report a significant association between 2 or more alcoholic beverages a day and endometrial cancer. This amount of alcohol may double your risk of endometrial cancer.
Endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of the female reproductive system. Veronica Wendy Setiawan, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC said, “It’s important for women, especially postmenopausal women, to know and understand the consequences of high alcohol consumption. It does not affect just the liver, but alcohol has been associated with breast cancer and now endometrial cancer.”
The researchers drew on data form the Multiethnic Cohort Study (MEC) an epidemiological study of more than 215,000 people from Los Angeles and Hawaii. They followed 41,574 postmenopausal African-American, Japanese-American, Latina, Native-Hawaiian and White women for 8 years. Data on alcohol intake and endometrial cancer risk factors were obtained from a baseline questionnaire.
This discovery is important,” says Brian Henderson, MD, dean of the school of medicine at USC, “because it suggests that changes to certain lifestyle choices may potentially help alter risk of disease.”
All women should think twice before having that second drink. One glass of wine may be relaxing, but two or more could increase the risk of breast and endometrial cancers. Sparkling grape juice is a nice alternative.
f. Calcium alone reduces bone fractures in people over age 50
Calcium supplemention alone, or in combination with vitamin D supplementation, reduces the risk of fractures in people aged 50 and over by 12% concluded researchers at the University of Western Sydney who conducted a pooled analysis of previous trials (meta-analysis) of 17 studies featuring 62,365 people all aged over 50 years and published their results in the August 25th issue of The Lancet.
When participants took their supplements regularly, there was a 24% fracture risk reduction. Risk reduction improved with calcium doses of over 1200 mg (compared with doses of less than 1200 mg; 20% versus 6% reduction), and with vitamin D doses of 800 IU (international units) or more than with doses less than 800 IU (16% reduction versus 13% reduction). The treatment effect was also greater in elderly individuals who lived in institutions, had a low bodyweight, had a low calcium intake, or were at a higher baseline rate (before study began) than other individuals.
The authors believed those in institutions may have benefited more due to assistance with dosing regimen from nurses who made sure patients took their supplements.
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3. Books to keep you (and others) well
Now for the books that can help you and others get well and stay well…
* Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007. If you plan to age, prepare yourself - it's later than you think and the challenge of aging well should be taken seriously. Discover what aspects of aging can't be changed and guide the rest that can. Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life, written by the world's most prolific, outrageous, humorous and athletic expert on wellness. The book can be ordered 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. This helpful self-care manual provides a mind, body, and spirit wellness approach to anxiety. Contents include how to self-diagnose your 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. Free sample chapter or a personalized autographed copy at http://home.earthlink.net/~cccwellness/id28.html---or ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don’t find it on the shelf. You can also find this book at www.harpercollins.com or www.amazon.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. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.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 for symptoms as widely divergent as wandering, distractibility, poor communication, mood changes, disorientation, fatigue, frustration, aggression, limited social skills, lack of self-confidence, limited mobility, depression, lack of motivation, anxiety, and social withdrawal. For copies, contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership SkillsNow in its 4th edition, this book focuses on an introduction to group work, basic group concepts and processes, working to achieve group goals, special group problems, beginning/guiding/terminating the group, supervision of group leaders and co-leadership, behavioral approaches for group leaders, recording and analyzing group process, groups for the old adults, working with focal groups, when the organization is the group, and when the community is the group. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.com
*Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness ApproachesFocuses on wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model for health and wellness promotion in communities, health promotion with changing and vulnerable populations, community self-assessment, principles of planning effective community programs, community mobilization and participation, evaluating community health programs, health promotion in rural settings, health promotion on the internet, nutrition and weight management, fitness and flexible movement, typical childhood communicable diseases: promoting community resilience, stress management, smoking cessation, violence prevention, environmental wellness, complementary health care practices, advanced communication skills with individuals and groups, working with groups, working with families, health promotion with African American women, establishing a lay health promotion program in a Hispanic community, diabetes programs in Hawaii, parish nursing, conducting a survey: the example of a youth service organization, violence prevention in schools: a model violence-prevention center, evaluating small community-based health promotion programs: lessons learned from Colorado Health Promotion Initiatives, health promotion in a homeless center. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.com
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success
This book not only provides an easy to follow blueprint for health and holistic aging, but the author is an exceptional role model for his program. Can you live a healthy and independent life to the age of 100? Can you enjoy positive relationships? Can you maintain a healthy environment? Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can 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. Ask for it at your local bookstore or find it online. Also visit Dr. Helvie’s web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information. Click on www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*The American Holistic Nurses’ Association Guide to Common Chronic ConditionsPrimarily for clients, but also serves as a useful guide for nursing and other health care students who want to know about self-care options that complement medical approaches. Focuses on 20 conditions including: AIDS, allergies, Alzheimer’s Disease, arthritis, cancer, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, diabetes, digestive problems, fibromyalgia, heart and blood vessel disorders, kidney disease, liver and gallbladder conditions, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, sleep disorders. Find it at www.amazon.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic DiseasesBased on holistic nursing assessments and interventions, this book helps nurses and nursing students use 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, Parkinsons’ Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.com
*Holistic Assertiveness Skills for Nurses
Useful for nursing students, practitioners, educators, or leaders who are highly stressed and could benefit from stress reduction and nutritional, physical fitness, touch, and other approaches related to assertiveness, gender issues, anger, time management, criticism, career, and nursing leadership. Readers report they refer to the book often for empowerment and to learn new skills to apply in their work and home settings. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.com or ask your local bookstore to order it.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You That You Need To Know. A self-care manual to help women learn about using hormones, and what to do if they'd rather not. Table of contents 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 together: your menopause success plan. For a free sample chapter or an autographed copy find this book at http://home.earthlink.net/~cccwellness/id23.html---Or ask your local bookstore to order it for you (if it’s not on the shelf).
4. Don’t Forget about the Menopause Support/Information Group
If you or a friend, colleague, or client could benefit from support and information during menopause, go to www.yahoogroups.com and sign up for the living well with menopause group at www.health.groups.yahoo.com/group/livingwellwithmenopause.
Know someone in the throes of menopause or starting to show signs of menopause---sleep problems, irritability, anxiety (or even panic attacks), hot flashes? This may be a helpful group. It’s a new group, but there are some articles and questions/answers already posted. No one need identify themselves and Yahoo keeps their email address a secret. Please share this information with anyone who could benefit---including spouses and partners who may want to learn more about menopause. ____________________________________________________________________
5. Inexpensive e-books for you, family, clients, or colleagues
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, success in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective. Give someone you care about a gift of wellness! Inexpensive, but effective. Find them all at www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the left hand column of the web site to find them.)
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6. New Book for Nurse Educators *Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators. Hot off the press, this new book 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. Educator vignettes present situations that help integrate theory into practice for varied nurse educators from nursing faculty, clinical nurse leaders, graduate students in nursing education programs to staff development experts. 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.
Find the book on the Jones & Bartlett web site by clicking on www.jbpub.com and looking for Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators. Sample chapters and more information available at the web site.
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7. *NEW BOOK FOR HOLISTIC NURSES AHNA/ANA Holistic Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice Pages: 135 Cover: Paperback © 2007. The most recent version of the Holistic Nursing Standards, this book is a foundational volume that articulates the essentials of holistic nursing, its activities and accountabilities at all practice levels and settings. It serves as an essential resource for nurses, other care providers, educators, researchers, administrators and those in funding, legal, policy and regulatory activities. To learn more or order, call (800) 278-2462 Ext. 10. To order online today, visit www.ahna.org/public/public.html
________________________________________________________________________8. *ARCHIVES OF THE WELLNESS NEWSLETTER
To read recent past issue of The Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html
9. *HAVE A BOOK OR EVENT YOU WANT OTHERS TO KNOW ABOUT?
Have you written a book you want others to know about? Contact Book Tour and they’ll put it on their web site along with any speaking engagements you have coming up. Here’s the address: http://booktour.com/signup?referrer=985
If you have a holistic or wellness book or activity/event you want me to put a blurb about in my newsletter, contact me by clicking on my picture at www.carolynchambersclark.com and provide the particulars, or just reply to this email with the info…title, author, year of pub, a short blurb, and where to get the book or the directions to the activity. Just follow the format I’ve used above for the other books, please. That’s Times Roman 12 point. That will make my life a whole lot easier…Thanks in advance.
10. *BOOK TOUR STOPS FOR FLORIDIANS
a. If you (or any of your friends or family) will be anywhere near Englewood, Florida on Saturday, October 20, 2007, at 2 p.m. I’ll be doing a menopause book talk and book signing at Richard’s Whole Foods and giving away a free related e-book. Come and visit! Call for reservations and directions: 10-6 pm at (941) 473-0278.
b. If you (or any friends, colleagues, or family) will be anywhere near Sarasota, Florida on Saturday November 3, 2007 between 10 and 10:30 a.m. or 1:00 and 1:30 p.m., I be doing a book talk, giving away a free e-book, and signing my book, LIVING WELL WITH ANXIETY. For more information, email the Executive Director of the Sarasota Reading Festival about the Wellness Pavilion location at srfdirector@comcast.net.
c. If you (or any of your friends or family) will be anywhere near Englewood, Florida on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 1 p.m. I’ll be doing an anxiety book talk and book signing at Richard’s Whole Foods and giving away a free related e-book. Come and visit! Call for reservations and/or directions: 10-6 p.m. M-Sat (941) 473-0278.
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ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor
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WELLNESS NEWSLETTER # 14
September, 2007
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This newsletter provides research-based information and tells you about books, e-books, and web sites that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care skills. Please share it with colleagues, families, friends, clients, students and whomever you think could benefit.
Scroll down to what interests you…
1. Your wellness message
2. Wellness news:
a. Diet linked to colorectal polyps/colon cancer
b. Food to quell menopause complaints
c. Alzheimer’s linked to stress
d. Aluminum correlated with breast cancer
e. Two or more drinks/day linked with endometrial cancer
f. Calcium alone reduces bone fractures in people over age 503. Books to keep you (and others) well
4. Online living well with menopause support group
5. Inexpensive self-care/wellness e-books for you, family, friends, or clients
6. A new book for nurse educators
7. A new book to help holistic nurses
8. To find archives of past Wellness Newsletter issues.
9. Have a wellness book or event you want others to know about?
10. Book Tour Stop for Floridians
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. WELLNESS MESSAGE:
I spend all my time improving myself
_____________________________________________________________________________
2. WELLNESS NEWS
a. Diet linked to colorectal polyps/colon cancer.Researchers at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston examined food-frequency questionnaires for women enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study and estimated choline content in their diets. Greater amounts of choline, including red meat, eggs, poultry and dairy products, were associated with an increased risk of colorectal polyps, which can, but do not always, lead to colorectal cancer.
Source: Journal of The National Cancer Institute, August 8, 2007.
Another study from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (August 15. 3007) examining the effect of the Western diet (red meat, fatty products such as French fries, refined grains and desserts) on colon cancer patients found that eating this diet may be increasing their chance of disease relapse and early death.
Although other studies have shown the relationship between diet and lifestyle and risk for developing colon cancer, Jeffrey Meyerhardt, MD, MPH of Dana-Farber said “This is the first large observation study to focus on the role of diet in recurrence of the disease. Our results suggest that people treated for locally advanced colon cancer can actively improve their odds of survival by their dietary choices.”
Participants in this study were enrolled in a large, phase III clinical trial sponsored by the National Cancer Institute of follow-up (“adjuvant”) chemotherapy, had their tumors surgically removed within the two months prior to enrolling in the study. They reported their dietary intake on specially designed questionnaires at two different time points---during the period they were receiving chemotherapy and six months after the completion of chemotherapy.”
Meyerhard and colleagues identified a prudent dietary patterns including high intakes of fruits and vegetables, poultry, and fish. If you’re eating a Western diet, now’s the time shift toward a more prudent dietary pattern.
Yet another study showed which fruits and vegetables may be especially helpful. Researchers at Ohio State University tested foods of the red, purple and blue color, containing high amounts of anti-cancer anthocyanins. They found these foods to slow the growth of colon cancer cells in rats and in human colon cancer cells. They chose the following foods and tested them based on their extremely deep colors and therefore high anthocyanin content: grapes, radishes, purple corn, purple carrots, chokeberries, and bilberries. Although the researchers didn’t test other red, purple and blue colored vegetables, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries may also be beneficial.
b. Food to quell menopause complaints.
Researchers from the University of Messina in Italy assessed the effects of genistein (a phytoestrogen isoflavone found in soy products) on bone metabolism in 389 postmenopausal women with a bone mineral density (BMD) less than 0.795 grams/centimeter squared at the femoral neck who had no significant other conditions, in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
The researchers found that BMD significantly increased in the soy participants and decreased in the placebo recipients.
Source: Annals of Internal Medicine, June 19, 2007, 839-847.
Menopausal women are at a relatively high risk for memory loss, high blood pressure and diabetes. A decade ago, the standard treatment for these problems was long-term hormone replacement (HRT). Since then, studies have shown that use of HRT is associated with significant effects including heart disease, breast cancer, and more.
Some naturally occurring component of plants (dietary polyphenols) have been shown to have beneficial effects similar to HRT but without the negative effects. Grapes, soy and kudzu are dietary polyphenols tested by physiologist J. Michael Wyss, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham on memory, blood pressure and pre-diabetes.
The researchers found grape polyphenols enhanced short-term (working memory) and long-term (reference memory), grape seed reduced salt-sensitive high blood pressure, soy-deprived animals increased arterial blood pressure, and kudzu root extract reduced high blood pressure and reduced insulin resistance (a precursor to type 2 diabetes) by 20-50%.
Source: The role of estrogens and polyphenols in hypertension and diabetes, Sex and gender in cardiovascular-renal physiology and pathophysiology, August 9-12, 2007, Austin, TX.
c. Alzheimer’s linked to stress.
High stress and levels lead to increased memory decline. Research appearing in the September 1, 2007 issue of Biological Psychiatry presented evidence that in 91 older, healthy adults (mean age 78.8 years) with high stress who carried the APOE gene, were most likely to show memory impairment. The APOE gene contributes to the risk for memory loss related to Alzheimer’s disease. In this study, those individuals experiencing with high stress and who were positive for APOE showed the greatest memory impairment.
The researchers believe chronic stress may interact with the risk genotype to promote age-related memory impairment. These findings raise the possibility that psycho-social interventions, such as relaxation therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapies that teach people how to stay calm when experiencing stressors, may preserve memory function in older adults.
This suggests that all of us, APOE gene or not, could benefit from learning and practicing stress reduction measures.
d. Aluminum correlated with breast cancer.
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women and the leading cause of death among women aged 35-54. Aluminum is a metalloestrogen, is genotoxic, and has been shown to be carcinogenic. The confirmed presence of aluminum in breast tissue biopsies highlights its potential as a possible factor in the cause of breast cancer.
The major constituent of antiperspirant is aluminum salts, which have long been associated with breast cancer and other human disease. In a study of women who had undergone mastectomies and biopsies, a research team led by Dr. Chris Exley of the Birchall Centre for Inorganic Chmistry and Materials at Keele University in the United Kingdom, measured the aluminum content of breast tissues. They found a high concentration of aluminum near the underarm where the highest density of application of antiperspirant could be assumed. There is evidence from previous studies that the skin is permeable to aluminum when applied as antiperspirant.
Source: News release, Keele University, September 2, 2007.
A preventive measure for all women is to cease using antiperspirants. The human body was meant to sweat as a temperature-reducing measure. A wellness approach seeks to work with natural processes, not stunt them. Evidence is accumulating that trying to artificially stop such a natural body process with aluminum salts could result in breast cancer. Weigh the importance of a wet underarm vs. breast cancer. Which is more important?
Instead of antiperspirants, try various deodorants and find one that works for you. Many people find a mineral salt “rock” beneficial and others find an aloe-based deodorant works. *NOTE: always read ingredient label to make sure it contains no unwanted substances.
e. Two or more drinks/day and endometrial cancerThe findings from a study led by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) will appear in the International Journal of Cancer. This is the first prospective study to report a significant association between 2 or more alcoholic beverages a day and endometrial cancer. This amount of alcohol may double your risk of endometrial cancer.
Endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of the female reproductive system. Veronica Wendy Setiawan, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC said, “It’s important for women, especially postmenopausal women, to know and understand the consequences of high alcohol consumption. It does not affect just the liver, but alcohol has been associated with breast cancer and now endometrial cancer.”
The researchers drew on data form the Multiethnic Cohort Study (MEC) an epidemiological study of more than 215,000 people from Los Angeles and Hawaii. They followed 41,574 postmenopausal African-American, Japanese-American, Latina, Native-Hawaiian and White women for 8 years. Data on alcohol intake and endometrial cancer risk factors were obtained from a baseline questionnaire.
This discovery is important,” says Brian Henderson, MD, dean of the school of medicine at USC, “because it suggests that changes to certain lifestyle choices may potentially help alter risk of disease.”
All women should think twice before having that second drink. One glass of wine may be relaxing, but two or more could increase the risk of breast and endometrial cancers. Sparkling grape juice is a nice alternative.
f. Calcium alone reduces bone fractures in people over age 50
Calcium supplemention alone, or in combination with vitamin D supplementation, reduces the risk of fractures in people aged 50 and over by 12% concluded researchers at the University of Western Sydney who conducted a pooled analysis of previous trials (meta-analysis) of 17 studies featuring 62,365 people all aged over 50 years and published their results in the August 25th issue of The Lancet.
When participants took their supplements regularly, there was a 24% fracture risk reduction. Risk reduction improved with calcium doses of over 1200 mg (compared with doses of less than 1200 mg; 20% versus 6% reduction), and with vitamin D doses of 800 IU (international units) or more than with doses less than 800 IU (16% reduction versus 13% reduction). The treatment effect was also greater in elderly individuals who lived in institutions, had a low bodyweight, had a low calcium intake, or were at a higher baseline rate (before study began) than other individuals.
The authors believed those in institutions may have benefited more due to assistance with dosing regimen from nurses who made sure patients took their supplements.
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3. Books to keep you (and others) well
Now for the books that can help you and others get well and stay well…
* Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007. If you plan to age, prepare yourself - it's later than you think and the challenge of aging well should be taken seriously. Discover what aspects of aging can't be changed and guide the rest that can. Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life, written by the world's most prolific, outrageous, humorous and athletic expert on wellness. The book can be ordered 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. This helpful self-care manual provides a mind, body, and spirit wellness approach to anxiety. Contents include how to self-diagnose your 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. Free sample chapter or a personalized autographed copy at http://home.earthlink.net/~cccwellness/id28.html---or ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don’t find it on the shelf. You can also find this book at www.harpercollins.com or www.amazon.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. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.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 for symptoms as widely divergent as wandering, distractibility, poor communication, mood changes, disorientation, fatigue, frustration, aggression, limited social skills, lack of self-confidence, limited mobility, depression, lack of motivation, anxiety, and social withdrawal. For copies, contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.
*Group Leadership SkillsNow in its 4th edition, this book focuses on an introduction to group work, basic group concepts and processes, working to achieve group goals, special group problems, beginning/guiding/terminating the group, supervision of group leaders and co-leadership, behavioral approaches for group leaders, recording and analyzing group process, groups for the old adults, working with focal groups, when the organization is the group, and when the community is the group. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.com
*Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness ApproachesFocuses on wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model for health and wellness promotion in communities, health promotion with changing and vulnerable populations, community self-assessment, principles of planning effective community programs, community mobilization and participation, evaluating community health programs, health promotion in rural settings, health promotion on the internet, nutrition and weight management, fitness and flexible movement, typical childhood communicable diseases: promoting community resilience, stress management, smoking cessation, violence prevention, environmental wellness, complementary health care practices, advanced communication skills with individuals and groups, working with groups, working with families, health promotion with African American women, establishing a lay health promotion program in a Hispanic community, diabetes programs in Hawaii, parish nursing, conducting a survey: the example of a youth service organization, violence prevention in schools: a model violence-prevention center, evaluating small community-based health promotion programs: lessons learned from Colorado Health Promotion Initiatives, health promotion in a homeless center. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.com
*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success
This book not only provides an easy to follow blueprint for health and holistic aging, but the author is an exceptional role model for his program. Can you live a healthy and independent life to the age of 100? Can you enjoy positive relationships? Can you maintain a healthy environment? Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can 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. Ask for it at your local bookstore or find it online. Also visit Dr. Helvie’s web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information. Click on www.HealthyHolisticAging.com
*The American Holistic Nurses’ Association Guide to Common Chronic ConditionsPrimarily for clients, but also serves as a useful guide for nursing and other health care students who want to know about self-care options that complement medical approaches. Focuses on 20 conditions including: AIDS, allergies, Alzheimer’s Disease, arthritis, cancer, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, diabetes, digestive problems, fibromyalgia, heart and blood vessel disorders, kidney disease, liver and gallbladder conditions, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, sleep disorders. Find it at www.amazon.com
*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic DiseasesBased on holistic nursing assessments and interventions, this book helps nurses and nursing students use 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, Parkinsons’ Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.com
*Holistic Assertiveness Skills for Nurses
Useful for nursing students, practitioners, educators, or leaders who are highly stressed and could benefit from stress reduction and nutritional, physical fitness, touch, and other approaches related to assertiveness, gender issues, anger, time management, criticism, career, and nursing leadership. Readers report they refer to the book often for empowerment and to learn new skills to apply in their work and home settings. Available from Springer Publishing Company www.springerpub.com or www.amazon.com or ask your local bookstore to order it.
*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You That You Need To Know. A self-care manual to help women learn about using hormones, and what to do if they'd rather not. Table of contents 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 together: your menopause success plan. For a free sample chapter or an autographed copy find this book at http://home.earthlink.net/~cccwellness/id23.html---Or ask your local bookstore to order it for you (if it’s not on the shelf).
4. Don’t Forget about the Menopause Support/Information Group
If you or a friend, colleague, or client could benefit from support and information during menopause, go to www.yahoogroups.com and sign up for the living well with menopause group at www.health.groups.yahoo.com/group/livingwellwithmenopause.
Know someone in the throes of menopause or starting to show signs of menopause---sleep problems, irritability, anxiety (or even panic attacks), hot flashes? This may be a helpful group. It’s a new group, but there are some articles and questions/answers already posted. No one need identify themselves and Yahoo keeps their email address a secret. Please share this information with anyone who could benefit---including spouses and partners who may want to learn more about menopause. ____________________________________________________________________
5. Inexpensive e-books for you, family, clients, or colleagues
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, success in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective. Give someone you care about a gift of wellness! Inexpensive, but effective. Find them all at www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the left hand column of the web site to find them.)
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6. New Book for Nurse Educators *Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators. Hot off the press, this new book 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. Educator vignettes present situations that help integrate theory into practice for varied nurse educators from nursing faculty, clinical nurse leaders, graduate students in nursing education programs to staff development experts. 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.
Find the book on the Jones & Bartlett web site by clicking on www.jbpub.com and looking for Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators. Sample chapters and more information available at the web site.
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7. *NEW BOOK FOR HOLISTIC NURSES AHNA/ANA Holistic Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice Pages: 135 Cover: Paperback © 2007. The most recent version of the Holistic Nursing Standards, this book is a foundational volume that articulates the essentials of holistic nursing, its activities and accountabilities at all practice levels and settings. It serves as an essential resource for nurses, other care providers, educators, researchers, administrators and those in funding, legal, policy and regulatory activities. To learn more or order, call (800) 278-2462 Ext. 10. To order online today, visit www.ahna.org/public/public.html
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9. *HAVE A BOOK OR EVENT YOU WANT OTHERS TO KNOW ABOUT?
Have you written a book you want others to know about? Contact Book Tour and they’ll put it on their web site along with any speaking engagements you have coming up. Here’s the address: http://booktour.com/signup?referrer=985
If you have a holistic or wellness book or activity/event you want me to put a blurb about in my newsletter, contact me by clicking on my picture at www.carolynchambersclark.com and provide the particulars, or just reply to this email with the info…title, author, year of pub, a short blurb, and where to get the book or the directions to the activity. Just follow the format I’ve used above for the other books, please. That’s Times Roman 12 point. That will make my life a whole lot easier…Thanks in advance.
10. *BOOK TOUR STOPS FOR FLORIDIANS
a. If you (or any of your friends or family) will be anywhere near Englewood, Florida on Saturday, October 20, 2007, at 2 p.m. I’ll be doing a menopause book talk and book signing at Richard’s Whole Foods and giving away a free related e-book. Come and visit! Call for reservations and directions: 10-6 pm at (941) 473-0278.
b. If you (or any friends, colleagues, or family) will be anywhere near Sarasota, Florida on Saturday November 3, 2007 between 10 and 10:30 a.m. or 1:00 and 1:30 p.m., I be doing a book talk, giving away a free e-book, and signing my book, LIVING WELL WITH ANXIETY. For more information, email the Executive Director of the Sarasota Reading Festival about the Wellness Pavilion location at srfdirector@comcast.net.
c. If you (or any of your friends or family) will be anywhere near Englewood, Florida on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 1 p.m. I’ll be doing an anxiety book talk and book signing at Richard’s Whole Foods and giving away a free related e-book. Come and visit! Call for reservations and/or directions: 10-6 p.m. M-Sat (941) 473-0278.
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
We won!
Yes, we won first place in the Fool for Love Contest with our paranormal entry.
Now we wait to see if an agent might want to represent us now that we've won a contest.
This is exciting!
Stay well and enjoy....
Now we wait to see if an agent might want to represent us now that we've won a contest.
This is exciting!
Stay well and enjoy....
Friday, June 22, 2007
Finalist in Writing Contest
Yes, it's been a lot of years since I finaled in a writing contest---then again, I haven't applied for a while either.
Just received notice from the Virginia Romance Writers Fool for Love Contest that our book, If You're Sending Me Back to Earth---At Least Give Me My Stilettos---makes me and my writing partner finalists in the paranormal category.
The best that could happen is the book gets represented by the agent who is reading it. The worst---we get a specific critique on what we can fix to make it perfect. Sounds like a win-win situation.
Amazing how just one little e-mail can wipe out all those rejection letters and make me feel hopeful again.
Hope your day is as fantastic as mine!
Hopefully,
Carolyn
Just received notice from the Virginia Romance Writers Fool for Love Contest that our book, If You're Sending Me Back to Earth---At Least Give Me My Stilettos---makes me and my writing partner finalists in the paranormal category.
The best that could happen is the book gets represented by the agent who is reading it. The worst---we get a specific critique on what we can fix to make it perfect. Sounds like a win-win situation.
Amazing how just one little e-mail can wipe out all those rejection letters and make me feel hopeful again.
Hope your day is as fantastic as mine!
Hopefully,
Carolyn
Thursday, May 24, 2007
New E-books
Have been working furiously to complete new e-books on topics from helping your kids with homework to permanent weight loss. Of course, I still have my e-books available for adhd, helping your child with math concepts, helping your child with reading, thyroid, acne, great body, bladder spasms/infections, couple communication, depression relief, natural diuretics, pain-free, healing vegetables, healthy hair, perimenopausal bleeding, and pregnancy.
Your can find all of them by clicking on Wellness & Relationships
Also, come visit me at Enhance Your Wellness where you can read the latest issues of my Wellness Newsletter and sign up to receive upcoming issues!
Stay Well,
Carolyn
Your can find all of them by clicking on Wellness & Relationships
Also, come visit me at Enhance Your Wellness where you can read the latest issues of my Wellness Newsletter and sign up to receive upcoming issues!
Stay Well,
Carolyn
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