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Alternative Medicine Taking Hold in Traditional Medical Schools

Alternative treatments are bounding their way to the medical forefront: According to a 2002 government survey of 31,000 people, more than one-third of American adults have tried alternative therapies such as:

Yoga, Herbs, Meditation, Acupuncture

In fact, interest in alternative therapies are becoming so prevalent that the University of Pennsylvania is collaborating with Tai Sophia Institute -- an alternative medical school in Washington D.C. -- to create a curriculum focused on teaching medical students about the wide range of natural treatment options available.

Tai Sophia will offer a master's degree program in complementary and alternative medicine starting in August; both schools will share faculty members and students.

What's the overall goal? That Penn medical school graduates will be able to communicate effectively with patients about how to guide alternative treatments into their overall care, said the co-founder of Tai Sophia.

Penn isn't the only university jumping on the bandwagon; universities nationwide are increasingly focusing on complementary and alternative medicine. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, more than 95 of America's 125 medical schools require some kind of complementary and alternative medicine coursework.

In addition, Penn and Tai Sophia have a few more plans up their sleeves:

They are also developing postgraduate and continuing education courses on complementary and alternative medicine.

Cardiologists at Penn's Presbyterian Medical Center are working with Tai Sophia to incorporate alternative therapies into traditional care for heart problems.

June 5, 2005 USA Today

LENA'S COMMENT: This is great news on one hand but not so great on the other. Medical schools are funded and run by the drug industry and therefore how accurate can their alternative schooling be? Adulterate comes to mind for me...

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Lupus Symptoms or Not?

The May 2005 issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism reports on a Canadian study in which researchers followed the medical records for nearly 10,000 lupus patients for eight years. During that period more than 400 cases of cancer were diagnosed. When the rates of cancer in the general population were compared to the test group, researchers concluded that lupus patients may have as much as four times the risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and a sharply increased risk of lung cancer as well as liver-related and blood-related cancers.

The authors of the study suggest that doctors of patients who have lupus should be on the lookout for swollen lymph nodes or sudden weight loss and should not dismiss these symptoms as simply lupus-related.

Lupus is conventionally treated with immune system suppressants, malaria medications and corticosteroids. In some cases these treatments decrease inflammation and address specific symptoms of lupus, but the side effects of the drugs can sometimes do more to complicate the condition rather than relieve it.

For many lupus patients there may be a safer way.

Omega-3 fish oils and supplements of copper have been shown to successfully address lupus symptoms in animal studies. And previous human studies have shown that lupus patients tend to have lower omega-3 levels compared to healthy people.

Yellow Sticks (Daucus carota,) Make The Eyes, Skin & More Healthier!

Easy to pack and perfect with that favorite dip, the crunchy texture and sweet taste of carrots is popular among both adults and children. Shipped around the country from California throughout the year.

The carrot has a thick, fleshy, deeply colored root, which grows underground, and feathery green leaves that emerge above ground. It is known scientifically as Daucus carota, a name that can be traced back to ancient Roman writings of the 3rd century. Carrots belong to the Umbelliferae family along with parsnips, fennel caraway, cumin and dill which all have the umbrella-like flower clusters that characterize this family of plants.

The carrot is an herbaceous plant containing about 87% water. The power and goodness of carrots have many important vitamins and minerals. They are rich in antioxidants Beta Carotene, Alpha Carotene, Phytochemicals and Glutathione, Calcium and Potassium, and vitamins A, B1, B2, C, and E, which are also considered antioxidants, protecting as well as nourishing the skin. They contain a form of calcium easily absorbed by the body. Finally they also contain Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorous and Sulphur, a real wonder drug!!

Also contain, in small amounts, essential oils, carbohydrates and nitrogenous composites. They are well-known for their sweetening, antianemic, healing, diuretic, remineralizing and sedative properties. In order to assimilate the greatest quantity of the nutrients present in carrots, it is important to chew them well.

Carrots are nutritional heroes; they store a goldmine of nutrients. No other vegetable or fruit contains as much carotene as carrots, which the body converts to vitamin A. This is a truly versatile vegetable and contains an extraordinary pectin fiber that has been found to have cholesterol-lowering properties.

Clearly a raw carrot has more goodness in it when it is raw and therefore you would assume it is the healthiest way to eat it. But unless the carrot is juiced or chewed extremely well when then consumed, the body does not easily break down the goodness because of the cellular nature of the carrot.

So in reality, unlike most other vegetables (not all), carrots are more nutritious when eaten cooked than eaten raw (except when juiced raw). Because raw carrots have tough cellular walls, the body is able to convert less than 25 per cent of their beta carotene into vitamin A. Cooking, however, partially dissolves cellulose-thickened cell walls, freeing up nutrients by breaking down the cell membranes. So long as the cooked carrots are served as part of a meal that provides some fat the body can absorb more than half of the carotene. Carrots are usually cut into pieces and eaten after boiling or steaming, but done in this way, half the proteins and soluble carbohydrates will be lost, so it is more advisable to cook them whole and then cut up.

Experiments show that eating lightly-cooked carrots is much more beneficial than eating raw carrots, which confirms the ancient wisdom in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have always recommended that their patients eat lightly-cooked carrots in order to get the best nutritional absorption. Recent research by Dr. Xiangdong Wang at Tufts University shows that beta carotene can change in the human body into a substance called retinoic acid, which is widely used to treat cancers.

Often overlooked, but found in carrots, is alpha carotene. According to an article in NCI Cancer Weekly (Nov. 13, 1989), Michiaki Murakoshi, who leads a team of biochemists at Japan's Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, contends that alpha carotene may be more powerful than beta carotene in inhibiting processes that may lead to tumor growth. Murakoshi indicates that neuroblastoma (cancer) cells coated with carotenoids experience a drop in N-myc activity compared to untreated cells. N-myc is a gene that codes for cell growth-stimulating proteins and can contribute to cancer formation and growth. Alpha carotene was found to be about ten times more inhibitory toward N-myc activity than beta carotene. Murakoshi concludes that all types of carotenoids should be studied for possible health benefits.

Carrots benefit our bodies by:
*Boosting immunity (especially among older people).
*Reducing photosensitivity (beta-carotene protects the skin from sun damage).
*Improving symptoms of HIV.
*Easing alcohol withdrawal symptoms.
*Helping to heal minor wounds and injuries.
*Reducing the risk of heart disease.
*Reducing the risk of high blood pressure.
*Cleansing the liver, and when consumed regularly, can help the liver excrete fats and bile.
*Fighting bronchitis.
*Fighting infection (vitamin A keeps cell membranes healthy, making them stronger against disease-causing microorganisms)
*Improving muscle, flesh, and skin health.
*Helping fight anemia.
*Reducing acne.
*Improving eye health.

Have you ever seen a purple, white, yellow, or red carrot? Most people haven't, even though such carrots have existed for hundreds of years. You may see them in the future. Recent research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that pigments in these colorful carrots, which taste just like regular carrots, may help prevent heart disease and cancer, and reduce cholesterol. Studies examining the health benefits of fruits and vegetables are revealing the disease-preventive powers of the pigments that give plants their distinctive colors.

Orange carrots get their color from beta carotene, a pigment the body converts to vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency, although rare in the United States, poses a major public health problem in developing countries second only to protein malnutrition.

According to the World Health Organization, vitamin A deficiency partially or totally blinds nearly 350,000 children from more than 75 countries every year. Roughly 60 percent of these children die within months of going blind. However, vitamin A deficiency is preventable.

Healthful juice of our family's choice

12 large carrots
2 large apples (I usually use Fuju Apples but any sweet will do)
½" piece of ginger root.

Wash carrots, ginger root and apples well before juicing!
Juice carrots and ginger root together then the apples.
Tasty refreshing and healthy!

Eat Carrots as often as possible!
Lena

Getting it right for the majority is important, which is what the YMCA's are doing for out-of-shape people, who are intimidated by the gym or health club...

YMCAs Offer Customized Workout Program
Jun 26, 2005
By DANIEL YEE

ALPHARETTA , Ga. (AP) - When Kelley Belkeir joined a gym a year ago, she went once and never returned. It was too intimidating for the out-of-shape 44-year-old. All around her were uncomfortable stares from sleek, toned hard-bodies. She felt no one at the gym would help her.

Months later, she tried again - this time at her local YMCA, taking advantage of its customized Coach Approach program. Offered at only 14 YMCAs around the country, the program seeks to keep exercise novices from dropping out by providing a scientifically-based regimen that matches the difficulty of workouts with a participant's tolerance.

The approach has worked for Belkeir. By sticking to her workout routine, the stay-at-home mom has dropped a pants size, avoided cholesterol medicine, and now can keep up with her 3-year-old son, Phillip, without losing her breath.

"It's important to me that I just feel better. You carry yourself better when you exercise," said Belkeir, who had stopped routinely exercising when she was pregnant with Phillip.

Coach Approach was created three years ago in Atlanta by Jim Annesi, a former tennis pro, because so many people quit traditional fitness programs not long after they join. Up to 65 percent of new gym members drop out in the first six months, according to the most recent data, a U.S. study published in 2003 in the European Journal of Sports Science.

Annesi began working on this problem a decade ago as an exercise science and sports studies researcher at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Fitness club owners came to him, puzzled by all the people who join and then quit merely after a few weeks.

To stay in business, gym owners were forced to repeat a tired cycle of continually replacing dropouts with new enrollees.

"Dropouts continued to be cited as the number one concern for wellness facility managers year after year," said Annesi, now director of wellness advancement for the Metro Atlanta YMCA.

The problem, he said, is that most fitness clubs focus on what works best for the 20 percent of club members who need no prodding. That means pushing many exercise sets and repetitions.

"It was an emphasis on getting quick physiological results and basically leaving people to their own resources," Annesi said. "With Coach Approach, we're trying to first build the exercise habit, then looking to physiological change that could last for a lifetime."

But too much exercise too quickly easily wears novices out, quickly discourages them and makes exercise a dreaded task instead of the enjoyable pursuit it should be, Annesi said.

Coach Approach is designed to satisfy novice exercisers so they stick with it beyond six months. YMCA officials say the program's dropout rate is half that of traditional programs - with only about 30 percent quitting within six months.

"It helps to have people engaged," said Madelyn Fernstrom, director of the Weight Management Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, who is not affiliated with the YMCA program. "If it was so easy, people would be thin and fit and running to the gym. Short of that, people say, 'I like a little reinforcement. It's nice that people are interested in my progress.'"

YMCA has been expanding the program to about three cities a year, and Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Philadelphia and Washington are among those that now offer it.

Under the program, YMCA officials assess a new member's tolerance of exercise pain, self-management ability and the support the person has to help him continue.

Then they set exercise goals that are regularly are tweaked based on levels of fatigue, stress and exhaustion afterward.

The trick, Annesi says, is to provide a level that challenges but doesn't discourage someone from continuing.

"What we're really trying to do initially is build a sense of competence and you want to pair exercise with pleasant after-exercise feelings," Annesi said.

Electronic displays on treadmills and other machines keep track of a participant's goal and serve as reminders of how much to shoot for that session. Members get friendly e-mails celebrating accomplished goals or reminders if they've missed workouts a few times in a row.

The YMCA helped Belkeir figure out the best time to exercise: The mother of two used to arrive in the evenings, but found it too stressful when she had other worries, such as what to plan for the dinner. Now she exercises three mornings a week.

And she's carried her fitness routines home, where she has small weights and regularly uses the family treadmill, which once served as a glorified clothes rack. "I even exercise on vacation," she says.

The fitness habit has extended to Belkeir's 15-year-old daughter, Chelsea, who has started exercising at the YMCA and at home.

More important, the Alpharetta, Ga., mom she feels better.

"If I come in sluggish and not jazzed, I find my energy level has increased immediately" after a workout, she says, as she sets the controls to a YMCA treadmill and putting the earbuds of her iPod in place. "I'm not Superwoman on a treadmill - I just want to get my heart rate elevated. That is what is most important."

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The Race to Alaska Before It Melts
By TIMOTHY EGAN
Published: June 26, 2005

THEY stood and gawked at the great blue mass of shrinking ice. Behold: a frozen landscape giving it up to a midnight sunset. The scene at the receding edge of the Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska was part festive gathering, part nature tour with an apocalyptic edge. Dressed in tank tops and shorts - beachwear, in fact - on this freakishly warm day in early June, people moved ever closer to the rope line near the glacier as it shied away, practically groaning and melting before their eyes.

A product of the late ice age, the glacier looked old and tired on this hot day. There was a sense of loss, some people said, at watching this giant recoil. There were oohs and aahs but also more hushed tones, expressions of fear that the big land was somehow diminished, a little less wild. Just a few years ago, the spot where these tourists stood, on dry ground marked by Park Service signs, had been under ice.

Alaska is changing by the hour. From the far north, where higher seas are swamping native villages, to the tundra around Fairbanks, where melting permafrost is forcing some roads and structures to buckle in what looks like a cartoon version of a hangover, to the rivers of ice receding from inlets, warmer temperatures are remaking the Last Frontier State.

That transformation was particularly apparent at the visitor center here, where rangers were putting the finishing touches on a display that sought to explain the changing landscape of the country's northernmost state. The sign said, "Glimpses of an Ice Age past. Laboratory of climate change today," and it explained how the Exit Glacier has been shrinking over the years, and what scientists are learning as the state heats up.

Out in the fjords, kayakers paddled into bays newly opened by other receding glaciers. They came to see the ice, a tour guide explained, to paddle around something that had been moving toward a tidewater destiny for thousands of years. And many of them were in a hurry. Glacial pace, in Alaska, no longer means slow.

"Things are melting pretty fast around here," said Jim Ireland, the chief ranger for Kenai Fjords. Climate change, he said, "has become one of the major new themes for this park."

In ambition, in the scale of its scenic extremes, in the pure size and wonder of its fish and wildlife, Alaska has never been anything less than flamboyant. It is, after all, more than two times the size of Texas, with a shoreline, more than 33,000 miles, that exceeds that of all other states combined. And as Alaska morphs through a period of warmer weather, it is doing so with characteristic extravagance.

The old Alaska, the Alaska of forbidden expanses and adrenaline-surging encounters with brawnier ends of the food chain, still exists of course. But a larger drama - of this land losing some of its icy inheritance - is playing out as well.

The sea-level edge of the Exit Glacier, just outside the town of Seward and one of the most visited bodies of ice in the north, has receded by nearly 1,000 feet over the last 10 years, park rangers say. In Prince William Sound and farther south in Glacier Bay National Park, where the cruise ship industry does a thriving business based on active walls of ice, many glaciers have pulled their toes out of the water and shriveled up the valleys. This process has created another attraction: the instant landscape. Take away the ice, add rain and sunshine to the debris left behind and, presto, Stage 1 of creation.

To some visitors who fear that global warming is to blame for the accelerated pace of change, there is a sense of urgency in their travel planning. They seem to be fearful that if they don't get to Alaska soon, they will never see the full glory of the state's frozen magnificence.

"One of the things we hear a lot from people is that they want to see Alaska before it's gone," said Hugh Rose, a tour guide, geologist and photographer who lives in Fairbanks. "The melting, the warmer temperatures, the changing patterns of wildlife and the land - they've become huge topics of conversation among guides and our clients."

TIMOTHY EGAN reports for The New York Times from Seattle.