Wellness Newsletter, November, 2008

This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.

Scroll down to what interests you…

1. Your wellness message

2. Wellness Research:

a. Grapes May Prevent Heart, Blood Vessel, and other Inflammatory Disease

b. How Infant Feeding Practices Affect Later Obesity

c. Exercise May Prevent Fatty Liver Disease

d. Clock Shifts Affect Heart Attack Risk

e. Hazardous Ions in Wine

3. New Complementary/Wellness/Self-Care Book for Women

4. Being a participative consumer: new articles

5. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless
living

6. Wellness & Relationship Research Blog

7. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support
group

8. Herbs and Supplement information

9. A recent book for nurse educators

10. A recent book for nursing leaders and managers

11. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters

12. Unsubscribe information: click control End

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1. Your Wellness Message:

I fill the present with joy

2. Wellness Research

a Heart Disease and Grapes

Accumulating evidence shows that grape polyphenols work in many different ways to prevent cardiovascular and other "inflammatory-mediated" diseases.

Through their antioxidant effects, grape polyphenols help to slow or prevent cell damage caused by oxidation. Polyphenols decrease oxidation of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol)—a key step in the development of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Grape polyphenols also have other protective effects on the heart and blood vessels, including actions to reduce blood clotting, abnormal heart rhythms, and blood vessel narrowing. It's not yet clear exactly how these benefits of polyphenols occur, although there is evidence of effects on cellular signaling and on the actions of certain genes. The wide range of health-promoting effects suggests that several different, possibly interrelated mechanisms may be involved.

Studies in patients treated with grape seed extracts have shown improvements in blood flow and cholesterol levels. In other studies, drinking Concord grape juice has improved measures of blood flow in patients with coronary artery disease and lowered blood pressure in patients with hypertension.

Studies investigating the lower rates of heart disease in France—the so-called "French paradox"—first raised the possibility that red wine might have health benefits. The subsequent research reviewed by Drs. Leifert and Abeywardena helps build the case that grapes and grape products might be a useful part of strategies to lower the high rate of death from cardiovascular disease.

What to do:

Drink more Concord grape juice and eat red and/or purple grapes whenever possible

For more of the article, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/2008/10/081028103105.htm

b Breastfeeding and Obesity

Breastfeeding has a number of positive health benefits for baby: it can prevent ear infections and allergies, and lowers the risk of developing respiratory problems. It can also help prevent against obesity later in life, but the reason for this still isn't known.

In a recent study, researchers found breastfed children could more easily determine when they were full. Children who were bottle-fed with pumped breast milk were less likely to respond to the feeling of being full by the time they were preschool-aged. Also, children who had a lower response to fullness had a higher body mass index (BMI).

According to Isselmann, these results suggest a behavioral link between breastfeeding and obesity prevention, in that children who are breastfed grow to have more positive eating behaviors, which could help prevent obesity later in life.

What to do:

*Whether breastfeeding or bottle-feeding, rely on feedback cues from the infant for
fullness and hunger, not ounces on milk ingested.

For more about the study, click on:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081028074319.htm

c Exercise Prevents Fatty Liver Disease 100% in Animal Model

A new University of Missouri study indicates that the negative effects of skipping exercise can occur in a short period.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is a reversible condition that causes fat to accumulate in liver cells of obese people. As Westernized societies are experiencing a weight gain epidemic, the prevalence of the disease is growing, Ibdah said.

“Physical activity prevented fatty liver disease by 100 percent in an animal model of fatty liver disease,” said Frank Booth, a professor in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine and the MU School of Medicine and a research investigator in the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center. “In contrast, 100 percent of the group that did not have physical activity had fatty liver disease. This is a remarkable event. It is rare in medicine for any treatment to prevent any disease by 100 percent.”

What to do:

If you’re overweight/obese, exercise/do something physical every day. One day could make a difference. Even if you’re not overweight, exercise every day. It could help keep your liver healthy.

For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081029141047.htm


d Clock Shifts Affect Heart Attack Risks

Adjusting the clocks to summer time on the last Sunday in March increases the risk of myocardial infarction in the following week. In return, putting the clocks back in the autumn reduces the risk, albeit to a lesser extent. This according to a new Swedish study.

“There’s a small increase in risk for the individual, especially during the first three days of the new week,” says Dr Imre Janszky, one of the researchers behind the study. “The disruption in the chronobiological rhythms, the loss of one hour’s sleep and the resulting sleep disturbance are the probable causes.”

The team also observed that the readjustment back to winter time on the last Sunday in October, which gives us an extra hour’s sleep, is followed by a reduction in the risk of heart attack on the Monday. The reduction for the whole week is, however, less than the increase related to the summer adjustment.

According to the scientists, the study provides a conceivable explanation for why myocardial infarction is most common on Mondays, as demonstrated by previous research.

“It’s always been thought that it’s mainly due to an increase in stress ahead of the new working week,” says Dr Janszky. “But perhaps it’s also got something to do with the sleep disruption caused by the change in diurnal rhythm at the weekend.”

What to do:

• Go to bed one hour early when the switch to daylight savings time occurs
• If you can, slowly shift your clock to daylight savings time; use increments
of fifteen minutes or less when possible
• Take a political action tack if you can; provide information to your congressional representative that clock shifts may not be healthy

For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030075647.htm

e Before You Have that Glass of Wine…Hazardous Ions in Wine

Potentially hazardous levels of metal ions are present in many commercially available wines. An analysis of reported levels of metals in wines from sixteen different countries found that only those from Argentina, Brazil and Italy did not pose a potential health risk owing to metals.


Excess intake of metal ions is credited with pathological events such as Parkinson's disease. In addition to neurological problems, these ions are also believed to enhance oxidative damage, a key component of chronic inflammatory disease which is a suggested initiator of cancer".

These results also question a popular belief about the health-giving properties of red wine: that drinking red wine daily to protect from heart attacks is often related to levels of 'anti-oxidants'. However the finding of hazardous and pro-oxidant metal ions creates a major question mark over these supposed protective benefits. The authors recommend that, "Levels of metal ions should appear on wine labels, along with the introduction of further steps to remove key hazardous metal ions during wine production".

What to do:

*Check the country of origin of the wine before imbibing
*Drink grape juice instead

For more of the article, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081029203031.htm


3. New Women’s Wellness/Complementary Health/ Self-Care Book Available

Complementary Health for Women
A Comprehensive Treatment Guide for Major Diseases and Common Conditions

Presents only research-based treatments. Can be used for self-care by women or by health care practitioners
working with women who report/wish to prevent or reduce symptoms/problems with:
Abdominal Pain, AIDS/HIV, Allergies, Alzheimer's Disease, Anxiety, Arthritis,
Bladder Infection, High Blood Pressure, Bone Issues, Breast Cancer, Breast Feeding Issues,
Cervical Cancer, Cholesterol (Elevated), Colon Cancer, Constipation, Crohn's Disease,
Depression, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Diverticular Disease, Endometriosis, Falls,
Gallstones, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Headache, Heart Disease,
Incontinence, Insomnia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Liver Inflammation, Menopause,
Migraines, Nausea & Vomiting, Obesity, Osteoporosis, Ovarian Cancer, Pancreatitis,
PMS, Post-Partum Issues, Pregnancy, Respiratory Health, Triglycerides (elevated),
Ulcerative Colitis, Urinary Tract Infection, Vaginal Issues

Click on following line for more information:
http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=10878#Author+Biographies

4. Self-care articles

a. stevia, a safe, healthy, and no-calorie sweetener
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id129.html

b. nutritional deficiencies tied to major causes of death:
what consumers can do
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id130.html

c. kidney stone self-care:
www.carolynchambersclark.com/id51.html

5. Wellness Books:

Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm

*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.

*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com

*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. For more information, click on: http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=12374

*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com

*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com

*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.

*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Fifth edition now available at http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=04588

Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. For more information, click on:
http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=14075

*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com

*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com

*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Click on: http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=25042

*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen. Or ask your local bookstore to order it. Autographed copies also available at www.carolynchambersclark.com

*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com

6.Wellness & Relationship Research Blog

Need your daily infusion of wellness? Go to new Research Blog and find both cutting edge research, in easily-digestible bites, and practical tips for improving the quality of your life or someone else’s. To access, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html

7. Online Menopause Support/Information Group

Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free and allows group members to remain anonymous.) Anyone can also sign up on my web site at http://www.carolynchambersclark.com/id74.html

8. New! Herbs and Supplements

Looking for quality herbs and supplements at fair prices? Go to http://www.iherb.com and use the following referral code for $5.00
discount on first order: HOL667.

9. Wellness E-books

Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts! Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)

10. Book for Nurse Educators

*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750

11. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management

Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767

12. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter

To read recent issues of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html

PLEASE tell your friends, family, clients or colleagues about this newsletter. Just have them go to www.carolynchambersclark.com click on my photo and sign up for their free subscription! If you like, copy this issue in its entirety and send it to them.
They can reply and put subscribe and their email address in the subject.

In Wellness,

Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor

Stay Well!

To subscribe, go to www.carolynchambersclark.com and click on photo.


Wellness Newsletter, October, 2008

This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.

Scroll down to what interests you…

1. Your wellness message

2. Wellness news:

a. Probiotics May Protect Against Type 1 Diabetes

b. Exercise May Help Pregnant Women Stop Smoking

c. Curcumin (Curry Spice) May Reduce the Size of a Hemorrhagic Stroke

d. Honey Kills Bacteria In All Its Forms

e. Acupressure May Reduce Anxiety in Children Facing Surgery

3. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless
living

4. Herbs and Supplements

5. Wellness & Relationship Research Blog

6. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support
group

7. Being a participative consumer

8. A recent book for nurse educators

9. A recent book for nursing leaders and managers

10. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters

11. Unsubscribe information: click control End

1. Wellness Message

All is well in my world.

2. Wellness News

a Probiotics May Protect Against Type 1 Diabetes

The results of a recent study suggest that exposure to some forms of bacteria (especially friendly bacteria found normally in the gut or in probiotics) might actually help prevent onset of Type I diabetes.

"This understanding may allow us to design ways to target the immune system through altering the balance of friendly gut bacteria and protect against diabetes."

For more information, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080921162048.htm


b Exercise May Help Pregnant Women Stop Smoking

Exercise could be a useful tool in helping pregnant women to give up smoking, according to new research. Despite the warnings, 17% of women in the UK and 20% of women in the US still admit to smoking during pregnancy.

Most attempts to give up smoking unaided end in failure. The most successful methods of stopping smoking involve a combination of nicotine replacement and behavioural therapy, but there are concerns that nicotine replacement may harm the fetus. Exercise can reduce the cravings experienced by smokers and there is some evidence to show that it can help non-pregnant women to quit.

Michael Ussher and colleagues from St George’s, University of London conducted two pilot studies into whether physical exercise could feasibly help pregnant women quit smoking.

For both studies, pregnant women over 18, who smoked at least a cigarette a day, were recruited 12 to 20 weeks into pregnancy. In one study, women did supervised exercise once a week for six weeks; in the other, women did two sessions of exercise a week for six weeks, then one session a week for three weeks. The participants were also encouraged to do additional exercise on their own and all received advice and counselling towards stopping smoking and becoming more active.

A quarter of the 32 women recruited for the studies gave up smoking before giving birth. This is similar to the number of non-pregnant smokers that quit using nicotine replacement. Furthermore, participants reported other positive benefits including weight loss, improved self-image and reduced cravings.

For more information, please click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080922193650.htm


c Curcumin (Curry Spice) May Reduce the Size of a Hemorrhagic Stroke

This active ingredient of the Indian curry spice, turmeric, not only lowers your chances of getting cancer and Alzheimer's disease, but may reduce the size of a hemorrhagic stroke, say Medical College of Georgia researchers.

"We found that curcumin significantly decreases the size of a blood clot, but we're not sure why it happens," says one of the researchers. He thinks it may be because curcumin is a potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant.

Timing is critical for patients who often don't know they have had a stroke and may not be seen by a physician for several hours. "Usually, patients can experience other symptoms like seizures, vision or cognitive problems, so they come to the (emergency room) fairly quickly under most circumstances," says Dr. Dhandapani. "Many patients also arrive due to head trauma and are seen within an hour or so. However, treating these injuries, even after an hour, can be tricky."

For more information, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080922135229.htm


d Honey Kills Bacteria In All Its Forms

Honey is very effective in killing bacteria in all its forms, especially the drug-resistant biofilms that make treating chronic rhinosinusitis difficult, according to research presented during the 2008 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO, in Chicago, IL.

The study, authored by Canadian researchers at the University of Ottawa, found that in eleven isolates of three separate biofilms (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and methicicillin-resistant and -suseptible Staphylococcus aureus), honey was significantly more effective in killing both planktonic and biofilm-grown forms of the bacteria, compared with the rate of bactericide by antibiotics commonly used against the bacteria.

For more information, go to:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080923091335.htm


e Acupressure May Reduce Anxiety in Children Facing Surgery

An acupressure treatment applied to children undergoing anesthesia noticeably lowers their anxiety levels and makes the stress of surgery more calming for them and their families, UC Irvine anesthesiologists have learned.

In this study, Kain and his Yale colleagues applied adhesive acupressure beads to 52 children between the ages of 8 and 17 who were to undergo endoscopic stomach surgery. In half the children, a bead was applied to the Extra-1 acupoint, which is located in the midpoint between the eyebrows. In the other half, the bead was applied to a spot above the left eyebrow that has no reported clinical effects.

For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081001130006


3. Wellness Books:

Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm

*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.

*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com

*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.

*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com

*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com

*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.

*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Go to www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.

Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the page

*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com

*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com

*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen for information.

*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.

*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com

4. New! Herbs and Supplements

Looking for quality herbs and supplements at fair prices? Go to http://www.iherb.com and use the following referral code for $5.00
discount on first order: HOL667.

5.Wellness & Relationship Research Blog

Need your daily infusion of wellness? Go to new Research Blog and find both cutting edge research, in easily-digestible bites, and practical tips for improving the quality of your life or someone else’s. To access, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html

6. Online Menopause Support/Information Group

Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free and allows group members to remain anonymous.) Anyone can also sign up on my web site at http://www.carolynchambersclark.com/id74.html

7.Wellness E-books & New Articles

New self-care articles:

Medical tests: www.carolynchambersclark.com/id129.html

Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts! Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)

8. Book for Nurse Educators

*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750

9. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management

Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767

10. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter

To read recent past issue of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html

PLEASE tell your friends, family, clients or colleagues about this newsletter. Just have them go to www.carolynchambersclark.com click on my photo and sign up for their free subscription! If you like, copy this issue in its entirety and send it to them.
They can reply and put subscribe and their email address in the subject.

In Wellness,

Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor

Stay Well!

To subscribe, go to www.carolynchambersclark.com and click on photo


Wellness Newsletter, September, 2008

This free newsletter provides up-to-date research-based wellness and self-care information and tells you about books, e-books, web sites and events that can enhance well-being, promote health, and help develop self-care, teaching/learning and leadership skills.

Scroll down to what interests you…

1. Your wellness message

2. Wellness news:

a. Eating fish can prevent silent brain lesions

b. Older adults may not ask important questions of surgeons

c. New dangers of drinking while pregnant

d. Living with a partner reduces risk of Alzheimer’s

e. Breast-self-exam: another viewpoint

3. Wellness Books: from aging with grace to fearless
living

4. Herbs and Supplements

5. Wellness & Relationship Research Blog

6. Online “Living Well with Menopause” support
group

7. New self-care articles on creativity and ovarian cysts, wellness preparation for
surgery and post-surgery, and gallbladder conditions

8. A recent book for nurse educators

9. A recent book for nursing leaders and managers

10. Archives of past Wellness Newsletters

11. Wellness Event: Free Mind-Body Medicine
Update

1. Wellness Message

Open the door to comfort in your life. Ask for it from yourself and others today.

Lafia, Comfort and Joy

2. Wellness News


a. Eating Fish Can Prevent Silent Brain Lesions

Eating fish that contain high levels of DHA and EPA nutrients, including salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines, and anchovies, may help lower the risk of cognitive decline and stroke in healthy older adults, according to a new study.

Eating these fish 3 or more times a week was associated with a nearly 26 percent lower risk of having silent brain lesions that can cause dementia and stroke compared to people who did not eat fish regularly. Eating just one serving of this type of fish per week led to a 13 percent lower risk.

But not fried fish; that provides no protection.

For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080804165312.htm


b. Older Adults May Not Ask Questions of Surgeons

The decision to undergo surgery can be particularly difficult and confusing for older adults. In a study published in the July 2008 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Richard M. Frankel, Ph.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine, and colleagues report that older patients and their surgeons do not communicate effectively when exploring surgical treatment options.
What to do if surgery is suggested?

Here are some questions to ask the surgeon:

*What is the expected quality of life after surgery?

*How many of these surgeries have you conducted and what have been the outcomes?

*What other treatments are available that are less intrusive?

Because the idea of surgery can be frightening and create high anxiety, most people do not ask these questions. The best method may be to write them down and recite them when speaking with the surgeon, and then re-ask them if the answer isn’t complete.

For more information on the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731140135.htm


c. New Dangers for Drinking While Pregnant

Pregnancy and Drinking Linked to Cleft Lip/Palate
A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, shows that pregnant women who drink 5 or more drinks at a sitting in early in their pregnancy increase the likelihood that their babies will be born with oral clefts (lip or palate).

Women who drank at this level on three or more occasions during the first trimester were
three times as likely to have infants born with oral cleft.

For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731140032.htm


d. Living with a Partner Reduces Risk of Alzheimer’s

Living with a spouse or a partner decreases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s by 50% and other dementia diseases according to a study presented for the first time yesterday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD 2008), the world’s largest in the field, held in Chicago.

Previous research has shown that an active lifestyle, both intellectually and socially, can decrease the risk of developing dementia; since a shared life often entails considerable social and intellectual stimulation, the point of inquiry of this present study was whether living with a spouse or a partner can help to ward off dementia.

Living alone their entire adult life doubles the risk
Divorce in midlife and remaining single triples the risk
Widows and widowers who continued to live alone ran the greatest risk; they were six times more apt to show signs of Alzheimer’s

Social and intellectual stimulation and trauma appear to be the important factors.

What to do to prevent some of the considerable costs of dementia care?

* offer counseling for unresolved trauma
* provide intellectual and social stimulation
* encourage older adults to attend social functions and engage in crossword puzzles,
reading, learning a language or other new information

For more about the study, click on:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731073549.htm

e. Breast Self-Exam: Another Viewpoint

My special thanks to Jane M. Armer, RN, PhD, Professor and Director Nursing Research, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and
Verna Adwell Rhodes, RN, EdS, FAAN who wrote me about this topic.

The question whether the aggregated published research suggests that breast self examination is beneficial was explored in a meta-analysis of 12 studies including a total of 8118 patients with breast cancer that related the practice of breast self examination to regional lymph node state or tumor diameter. Based on the six studies for which data were available, 39% of patients (1115/2852) who reported having done breast self examination at least once before their illness had evidence of cancer in the lymph nodes compared with 50% of women (1348/2713) who had not done the examination. Logistic regression analysis showed this difference to be significant (odds ratio 0.66, confidence interval 0.59 to 0.74). Combining six studies which reported the circumstances of detection disclosed that 42% of women (272/652) who found their tumor while doing breast self examination had evidence of cancer in the nodes compared with 46% of women (871/1901) who found the tumor accidentally; this difference was not significant. Analysis of eight studies which used the diameter of the tumor to indicate the extent of disease tended to confirm the findings on lymph node state, in particular the benefit of premorbid breast self examination. Significantly fewer women who had practiced the examination before the illness (56%; 1205/2137) had tumors of 2 cm or more diameter compared with women who had not practiced the examination (66%; 1500/2260). The combined odds ratio for that analysis was 0.56, confidence interval 0.38 to 0.81. These findings appear to be good evidence of the benefit of encouraging women to practice self examination of the breasts regularly.

Source: Self examination of the breast: is it beneficial? Meta-analysis of studies investigating breast self examination and extent of disease in patients with breast cancer.
D. Hill, V. White, D. Jolley, and K. Mapperson Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Carlton, Victoria, Australia. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1833942


3. Wellness Books:

Aging Beyond Belief by Wellness Guru, Don Ardell, 2007.
Aging Beyond Belief includes 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life. Order from http://www.wholeperson.com/x-selfhelp/aging.html#Anchor-Aging-47857 or Don's web site: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/index.htm

*Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know. Contents include how to self-diagnose anxiety, wellness approaches (nutrition, herbs, environmental changes, exercise, other anxiety-reducing and healing measures), relationships, purpose and spirituality, creating your own anxiety plan and finding and working with the right practitioner. Ask your local book store to order LWW Anxiety if you don't find it on the shelf.

*Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. Available from orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com

*Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice. Includes concepts and issues, economic and practice issues, education issues, legal/legislative/health policy issues, historical perspectives, conditions (from a-z), influential substances, practices and treatments, contributor directory, and resources directory. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.

*The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again. How to break through illusions of limitation, have everything you want and become truly conscious. For more information go to www.conari.com

*The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist’s Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Celiac Disease, Headaches, IBS, and Deal with Food Allergies. Orders
at orders@redwheelweiser.com or oneline at www.conari.com

*Garden Therapy Guidelines for Special Needs by Judith Gammonley, ARNPBC, EdD, LCP includes how to use garden therapy with those who are memory impaired, brain injured, or who struggle with developmental or physical challenges. Contact Dr. Gammonley at goodgam@aol.com or phone her at (727) 784-2449.

*Group Leadership Skills provides theory, concepts and practical applications for the new or seasoned group leader with task, work, social, therapeutic, focal or focus groups. Go to www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box.

Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches. Focuses on applying wellness and holistic concepts to community work and includes a model and self-assessment for health and wellness with changing and vulnerable populations, in rural settings, on the internet, with individuals and groups, families, African American women, Hispanic communities, diabetes programs, parish nursing, schools, and homeless centers and more. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the page

*Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success. Carl Helvie, RN, DrPH says you can live to be 100, and at age 74, he's a perfect example of the right things to do. He has no chronic illnesses and is among the 11% of the age 65-and-overs who take no prescribed medications. The book cites overwhelming scientific evidence that good diet, exercise, adequate sleep, prayer, meditation, positive relationship with others and a clean and safe environment can ensure successful aging. Visit Dr. Helvie's web site where you can also obtain the book as well as other helpful information at www.HealthyHolisticAging.com

*Her Inspiration, subtitled, Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful and Have Fun, this book is full of quotes and thoughts from hundreds of women to encourage, motivate, and support you as you make your way. Order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com

*Holistic Nursing Approach to Chronic Diseases. Provides a holistic approach to AIDS/HIV, Allergies/Asthma, Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Cancer, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Diabetes, Digestive Problems, Fibromyalgia, Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, overweight/obesity, pain, Parkinson’s Disease, and/or sleep disorders. Click on www.springerpub.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen for information.

*Living Well with Menopause: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need To Know. This self-care manual includes: menopause: a natural process, medical treatment, nutrition, herbs, environmental actions, exercise, other stress reduction and healing measures, relationships, finding and working with the right practitioner, and putting it all together: your menopause success plan. Click on http://www.harpercollins.com and write Carolyn Chambers Clark in the search box at the top of the screen.

*Prayers for Healing. Edited by Maggie Oman, with an Introduction by the Dalai Lama and Foreword by Larry Dossey, this little book invites you into a wonderful healing space. Contributors include Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Marianne Williamson, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, and even traditional Native American truths. For inspiration, order from orders@redwheelweiser.com or online at www.conari.com

4. New! Herbs and Supplements

Looking for quality herbs and supplements at fair prices? Go to http://www.iherb.com and use the following referral code for $5.00
discount on your first order: HOL667.

5.Wellness & Relationship Research Blog

Need your daily infusion of wellness? Go to my new Blog and find both cutting edge research, in easily-digestible bites, and practical tips for improving the quality of your life or someone else’s. To access, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id33.html

6. Online Menopause Support/Information Group

Anyone who could benefit from support and information during menopause can go to www.yahoogroups.com and write living well with menopause in the search box, scroll down to Living Well with Menopause and click on it. (You will have to sign up for a yahoo e-mail address to join but it’s free and allows group members to remain anonymous.) Anyone can also sign up on my web site at http://www.carolynchambersclark.com/id74.html

7. Wellness E-books & New Articles


New self-care articles:

Surgery/Post –Surgery www.carolynchambersclark.com/id126.html
Ovarian Cysts www.carolynchambersclark.com/id127.html
Gallbladder www.carolynchambersclark.com/id124.html


Available e-books include ADHD, acne, bladder spasms/bladder infections, couple communication, depression relief, great body, headaches, healing veggies, healing with affirmation & imagery, healthy hair, helping with homework, natural diuretics, pain free, parenting, peri-menopausal bleeding, permanent weight loss, pregnancy, helping children be successful in school, teaching math concepts, thyroid, and whole brain thinking. All are from a wellness, self-care perspective and make great gifts! Click on www.carolynchambersclark.com (Scroll down the home page to find them.)

8. Book for Nurse Educators

*Classroom Skills for Nurse Educators provides ways to promote interactive learning even in large classes, while teaching asynchronously online and more…also introduces creative ways to use role playing, simulations, simulation games, group methods, peer learning, value clarification, perceptual exercises, journal writing and poetry. Presents indepth analysis and tips for overcoming the teaching/learning problems that can interfere with the learning process, and even shows how to develop your own learning materials (including simulations and games) in simple but effective ways. Sample chapters and more information at www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749750

9. Creative Nursing Leadership & Management

Provides relevant theory and ties it to practice by allowing learners to use critical thinking activities in a safe classroom environment. Perfect for upper-level undergraduate nursing leadership courses (and for more advanced leaders), the text focuses on creating leadership opportunities and creative solutions; using information technology; managing resources and change; delegation and succession: developing staff; creative political, legal, ethical, effective, and safe interventions to keep staff engaged. For sample chapters and more information click on www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763749767

10. Archives of the Wellness Newsletter

To read recent past issue of the Wellness Newsletter, click on www.carolynchambersclark.com/id103.html

11. Wellness Events

New Free Mind-Body Medicine Update. Available for downloading at http://www.mindbodymedicineupdate.com

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In Wellness,

Carolyn Chambers Clark
ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHN-BC
Editor

Stay Well!

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