Scientists are continually working on new approaches to breast cancer, a disease that poses innumerable intellectual challenges for those in the laboratory as well as for doctors tending patients at their bedsides. This is not to say that current treatment modalities do not work — they do. More women are surviving breast cancer today than at any other point in history. Read the rest of this entry »
Older women may have a new weapon in their fight against coronary heart disease (CHD). A study in the May 1 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine reports that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) lowers their levels of the type of cholesterol which leads to CHD.
Many of your members may have trouble losing weight because they eat out in restaurants too often. Americans are beginning to eat out more than ever, averaging four to five times a week, because dining out has become more convenient and affordable. Restaurants are responding to the demand for meals at an affordable price by giving customers larger portions, usually two to three times larger than servings recommended by the American Diabetic Association. While the bigger portions are more affordable, many Americans have trouble controlling food intake, and often eat everything on their plates. Increased food intake results in an excess of calories and fat, which eventually leads to an increase in weight. Read the rest of this entry »
Obesity and being overweight have long been linked to a variety of diseases, but they, along with lack of exercise, have now also been connected to cancer. In fact, up to one-third of breast, colon and kidney tumors can be attributed to being overweight and a lack of sufficient physical activity, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer.
Becoming a distributor requires no prior training in either health or nutrition — only submission of a one-page application and payment of a $35 fee.
NSP’s distributor kit consists of a wire-bound book called “A Systems Guide to Natural Health” and a loose-leaf binder labeled “The People-To-People Health Business.” The latter contains a congratulatory form letter, a product catalog, a policies and procedures manual, four different price lists, distributor applications, order forms, a receipt book, and flyers concerning products, payment plans, discounts for new distributors, and group insurance.
The form letter states: “Less expensive products are available from competitors and may appear similar; however, these products are often formulated down to a price, rather than up to a standard.” It refers to benefits such as “holistic health insurance” for managers. “Herb combinations,” according to the product catalog, “take advantage of the synergistic properties inherent in herbs to achieve superior nutritional impact. Thus, a combination of herbs can often address a broad spectrum of nutritional needs unsatisfied by a single herb alone.” In contrast, the “sidebar” begins in boldface: “saponins, oils, alkaloids and esters, that’s what herbs are made of.” The catalog states that NSP’s Chinese herbal combination products are based on the “five element model” and on the principles of yin and yang.
The policies and procedures manual features a 15-point code of ethics, which includes: “I will not make any false or therapeutic claims concerning any NSP product” and “I will service a minimum of 10 retail customers each month.” The manual also states: “If a customer asks for permission to return a product that he/she is dissatisfied with, verify that it has been used for a reasonable length of time.” Distributors are advised to separate “educational” and sales or recruiting activities. They are further advised against conducting herb lectures where products or sales aids are stored. The apparent purpose of this advice is to encourage distributors to make claims in their lectures that could create legal difficulty for the company if placed on product labels.
The Systems Guide, published in 1988, contains about 80 pages. About half of the book describes various body systems and the products NSP relates to them. For each system, there are “key,” “primary” and “complementary” products. Key products combine ingredients to “provide comprehensive nutritional support” for the body system. Primary products are combinations “designed to provide more specialized support for the particular system.”
The circulatory system’s key product is Mega-Chel, which contains 12 vitamins, nine chelated minerals, choline, inositol, PABA, bioflavonoids, fish oils, adrenal substance, thymus substance and spleen substance. The “primary” circulatory products include CoQ-10 Plus; Bugleweed Liquid Herb; Capsicum, Garlic and Parsley; and herbal mixtures (BP-X, GC-X, GGC, ATC, HS-II, and I-X) that contain from three to 14 ingredients. The complementary products include butcher’s broom root, capsicum, garlic, hawthorn berries, liquid chlorophyll, magnesium, omega-3 fatty acids and yellow dock root. Each of these products is said to provide “nutritional support” for the circulatory system.
Barbara Frankel, a career coach in Great Neck, N.Y., often asks her clients to begin by making a fantasy list of 10 things they would love to be — initially eliminating any concerns about nuts-and-bolts reality — things like education, age, competition or salary. The whole idea is to get the ideas flowing.
So, that’s the way she started with a new client, Barbara Kaiser, 42, then a stay-at-home mom living in a rural Texas setting, but one who was yearning for something more. When Kaiser’s discomfort reached a level she could no longer endure, she reached out to Luther and together they embarked on a mission to ferret out the kind of work that would make her feel alive, while at the same time allow her ample family time. Read the rest of this entry »
“When a man or woman follows bliss, and acts from the heart, that commitment seems in turn to energize the world.” Jean Shinoda Bolen
Some of us know what it’s like to work from the heart, but others know instead the sense of great discomfort that comes when the “real you” is trapped inside a life that feels like a charade.
1. People realizethat theyshould start exercising (this may emanate from a displeasing sight in the mirror, a command from a physician, or the warnings of the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle from the media).
2. They consider joining a fitness center (which assures them that with the commitment they currently display, getting in shape will surely come in short order — as long as they join RIGHT NOW). Read the rest of this entry »
The following steps can help lead you to a winning Pilates-based program:
* Assess member demand.
* Hire a certified instructor who fully understands the safety and physiology issues, or find the proper training and certifying coursework for trainers already on staff. Read the rest of this entry »