Had a wonderful time for an hour and a half today with Coach Marla and Chris on the Winning Life Through Pain radio show! Normally interviews are just a few minutes and I barely get a chance to get the title of the book out but today was a nice long conversation about the book in particular and the world of complementary and alternative therapies in general.
If you'd like to check it out: Winning Life Through Pain
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
New Podcast - Pilates
Join me for an interesting 20-minute conversation with Trent McEntire, President of the Board of Directors for the Pilates Method Alliance. You'll learn who Joseph Pilates was and how his process of physical education is both exercise and therapy.
Go to Pilates.
Go to Pilates.
Friday, June 18, 2010
New Podcast - NAET
Just added the newest podcast to the UnBreak Your Health library. This one features Dr. Devi Nambudripad the creator of Nambudripad Allergy Elminiation Technique or NAET talking about how her own search for better health led to the development of the process in 1983.
Sorry there's been such a gap between shows #60 and #61 ... got tied up getting the second edition of UnBreak Your Health out!
Sorry there's been such a gap between shows #60 and #61 ... got tied up getting the second edition of UnBreak Your Health out!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Correction
Even though I did not mention him by name, the Treasurer for the Association of Health Care Journalists has requested a correction to my last blog. He simply retweeted the article on Forbes.com by Steven Salzberg about cutting off funding for NCCAM.
I will leave it to my readers to decide if retweeting such an article is an endorsement or simply intellectual curiousity about the current attitudes about health care in America or about our fiscal problems.
I will leave it to my readers to decide if retweeting such an article is an endorsement or simply intellectual curiousity about the current attitudes about health care in America or about our fiscal problems.
NCCAM and AHCJ
I used to be a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists but didn't renew my membership because it was completely in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry and the American Medical Association. There simply was no room in the organization's view for complementary and alternative medicine.
That anti-CAM perspective was demonstrated again today by the posting on Forbes.com by the Treasurer of the association supporting the article to abolish the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) which is part of NIH. He claims it is a waste of taxpayer money to learn more about CAM.
Why would we want to learn why billions of people around the world have used CAM for thousands of years? Maybe it will help us understand why America spends more on health care than any other nation on earth and yet ranks #30 in longevity, worse in many other categories.
For those of us who owe our lives, or at least the quality of our life, to CAM, the war between the profit-minded medical industry and the world of natural alternatives continues. We don't mind those who only want the world of drugs and surgery to have what they want, why are they so afraid to let us have more natural alternatives?
NOTE: The following post "Correction" is added below at the request of the unnamed person in this blog.
Even though I did not mention him by name, the Treasurer for the Association of Health Care Journalists has requested a correction to my last blog. He simply retweeted the article on Forbes.com by Steven Salzberg about cutting off funding for NCCAM.
I will leave it to my readers to decide if retweeting such an article is an endorsement or simply intellectual curiousity about the current attitudes about health care in America or about our fiscal problems.
That anti-CAM perspective was demonstrated again today by the posting on Forbes.com by the Treasurer of the association supporting the article to abolish the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) which is part of NIH. He claims it is a waste of taxpayer money to learn more about CAM.
Why would we want to learn why billions of people around the world have used CAM for thousands of years? Maybe it will help us understand why America spends more on health care than any other nation on earth and yet ranks #30 in longevity, worse in many other categories.
For those of us who owe our lives, or at least the quality of our life, to CAM, the war between the profit-minded medical industry and the world of natural alternatives continues. We don't mind those who only want the world of drugs and surgery to have what they want, why are they so afraid to let us have more natural alternatives?
NOTE: The following post "Correction" is added below at the request of the unnamed person in this blog.
Even though I did not mention him by name, the Treasurer for the Association of Health Care Journalists has requested a correction to my last blog. He simply retweeted the article on Forbes.com by Steven Salzberg about cutting off funding for NCCAM.
I will leave it to my readers to decide if retweeting such an article is an endorsement or simply intellectual curiousity about the current attitudes about health care in America or about our fiscal problems.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Second Edition Printed
Just received the first box of books and I'm excited! The second edition of UnBreak Your Health looks GREAT! Working with my publisher the new cover is a very bold update of the original, matches the new, user-friendly format.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Second Edition First Radio Show
Wow, didn't expect the e-mails to radio shows to produce an interview so quickly! With the approval of the proof for the second edition I thought it was time to contact the shows I'd been on before and let them know the new book was days away from the first print run.
Rochelle Herman at WTMY in Tampa/Sarasota, Florida e-mailed back that she'd love to have me on the following day. She was surprised to learn that hers was the first show in the nation to break the news about the newest edition of UnBreak Your Health. We had a little technology hiccup that delayed the start of the conversation but it all worked well in the end.
THANKS Rochelle!
Rochelle Herman at WTMY in Tampa/Sarasota, Florida e-mailed back that she'd love to have me on the following day. She was surprised to learn that hers was the first show in the nation to break the news about the newest edition of UnBreak Your Health. We had a little technology hiccup that delayed the start of the conversation but it all worked well in the end.
THANKS Rochelle!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Surgery Center Infections
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that surgery centers have serious problems with infection control. The study was done in response to an outbreak in Nevada of hepatitis C where 63,000 surgery center patients had to be notified.
The new study found 67% of the centers studied had at least one lapse in infection control and 57% were cited for deficiencies. Some of the centers in the study hadn't been inspected 12 years.
There are more than 5,000 outpatient surgery centers in the U.S. today performing more than 6 million procedures annually.
The new study found 67% of the centers studied had at least one lapse in infection control and 57% were cited for deficiencies. Some of the centers in the study hadn't been inspected 12 years.
There are more than 5,000 outpatient surgery centers in the U.S. today performing more than 6 million procedures annually.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
New Second Edition!
It's close enough now I guess I can let the cat out of the bag and tell you that the second edition of my award-winning book UnBreak Your Health will be coming out in a matter of days! Featuring a new, user-friendly format, this version includes 339 new and updated listings in 150 different categories.
One of the new additions is a podcast note with each listing where we have a program. It explains who was on the show and the topics covered. It was actually amazing to me to see all of the leaders in the world of complementary and alternative medicine who've been on my podcast program.
The website has been updated (only a little prematurely) at UnBreak Your Health if you'd like to learn more.
One of the new additions is a podcast note with each listing where we have a program. It explains who was on the show and the topics covered. It was actually amazing to me to see all of the leaders in the world of complementary and alternative medicine who've been on my podcast program.
The website has been updated (only a little prematurely) at UnBreak Your Health if you'd like to learn more.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Bad News To Better Health
Would you be surprised to learn there is bad news to having better health? While you'd enjoy better health now a new study finds that you'll also be living longer as a result ... and that's going to cost you. A lot.
A report from Boston College's Center for Retirement Research finds that a longer life also means more illnesses later that can cost as much as $105,000. Naturally the health insurance industry has seized on this information to sell more long-term care insurance.
So if you want to help relieve the strain on Social Security then keep eating hamburgers every day and start smoking. Just think of all the money it will save you ... and you'll be helping all the rest of us that are working hard every day to be healthier!
A report from Boston College's Center for Retirement Research finds that a longer life also means more illnesses later that can cost as much as $105,000. Naturally the health insurance industry has seized on this information to sell more long-term care insurance.
So if you want to help relieve the strain on Social Security then keep eating hamburgers every day and start smoking. Just think of all the money it will save you ... and you'll be helping all the rest of us that are working hard every day to be healthier!
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