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Upcoming Workshop: Acupuncture for Pain Relief
Are you or someone you love suffering from acute or chronic pain? Learn how the 5,000 year-old practice of acupuncture reduces pain quickly, safely, and effectively without any harmful side-effects. Acupuncture is also proven to decrease pain and inflammation post-surgery, and promote faster healing. A brief history and basic principles of acupuncture will be discussed. ...
Breaking News! Cholesterol Lowering Medications Linked to Diabetes and Brain Related Disease
Breaking News! Have you seen the recent media attention to the dangers of statins (cholesterol lowering medications)? The FDA has finally forced the pharmaceutical industry to publicly acknowledge the very serious health risks of using these drugs. Specifically, cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Lipitor, Zocor, and Crestor actually increase your risk of developing diabetes and brain ...
Resolution: Reducing Stress
Everyone experiences some sort of stress in life. Be it emotional, physical, spiritual, or mental, it has direct effects on our thoughts, actions, and well-being. Sometimes we feel anxious, other times excited and motivated during stressful times. What’s most interesting to me is that the exact same stress inducing activity may cause opposite responses in ...
Resolution: Smoking Cessation
I hope you enjoyed the newsletter last week and have negotiated some time with yourselves to adopt some form of exercise into your busy schedules. Even if you are not trying to lose weight, exercise improves all aspects of health, and should be included in your daily activity. Now, on to the next resolution… Smoking ...
Resolution: Weight Loss
Calories in, Calories out… is that really all it takes? It sounds like a nice plan; and, for those just looking to lose a little weight, it might help… a little. The truth is that the body does actually consider the source of those calories and chooses which nutrients are most readily available for energy, ...
Resolutions
Happy New Year! Thank you all for supporting us in 2011. Let’s look forward to an even better 2012. This new year is our opportunity to learn from past experiences, both good and bad, and create more abundance in our lives. I hope you have spent some time this week to reflect on the past, ...
Commentary on Healthy Cholesterol
It’s been a while since I last wrote an article for our newsletter, but Jenna’s post last week spurred some thought on the topic of cholesterol. So, here are my thoughts… According to the most recent data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 22 percent of Americans 45 years and older take ...
Meet Our New Acupuncturist!
Thank you for giving me the space in which to introduce myself. My name is Miriam Tamara Derman and I’m a registered nurse and a licensed acupuncturist and herbologist. I am also a shiatsu practitioner and an instructor of shiatsu. I studied Chinese Medicine at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, graduating in 2007 with a ...
9000 NEEDLES
9000 NEEDLES… A story of hope, courage and one family’s unconventional journey towards stroke recovery Last week, I was honored to be part of an “expert panel” for a screening of the movie 9000 NEEDLES, which was presented by Mindful Metropolis in Chicago. This community event was educational and inspiring for both the “experts” and ...
Consider the Source
Did anyone see the headlines last week stating “Multivitamins and Supplement use Increase Mortality in Women”? If not, here is a link to the article posted on MSN.com. (http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/10/8256866-some-common-vitamin-supplements-could-increase-death-risk-study-finds) In light of this recent media catastrophe, I would like to present a discussion of how the conclusions and reporting in the current JAMA article Dietary ...