| The Baby boomers-those born 1946 through | | | | healing (using the unconscious mind)o Movement and |
| 1964-are the largest population to require health care | | | | exercise therapyo Naturopathyo Nutrition therapyo |
| than ever before. Medical practitioners and | | | | Osteopathyo Reiki/energy medicineo Relaxation |
| pharmaceutical companies are focusing on what pills, | | | | responseo Reflexologyo Therapeutic toucho |
| potions or surgeries the baby boomers-turned seniors | | | | Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) |
| will be likely to use in the next 30 - 40 years. | | | | Every community has resources: Natural food stores, |
| Ironically, the majority of people tend to be | | | | natural vitamin and supplement stores: Hi Health, |
| concerned about their health after something major | | | | Vitamin Shoppe, Whole Foods, Wild Oats Market, |
| has occurred. The truth is if we consistently take | | | | Trader Joe's, AJ's Fine Foods, The Internet |
| good care of our health the aging process has little | | | | directories.o Holistic Health Care provider directory - |
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| Baby boomers are voicing their concerns about | | | | Junction: Business Directory |
| better health, more than prior generations. However, | | | | Holistic Junction, your pathway to Holistic |
| many do not know where to find information and | | | | Practitioners, Massage Therapy Holistic Healthcare |
| options, other than Traditional Western Medicine | | | | online: A search directory for reputable practitioners |
| (TWM). | | | | by state, country, city, Florida Health & Fitness |
| Few people research the plethora of side effects for | | | | Directory ... Holistic Health Care: Natural Healing and |
| prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) drugs-not to | | | | Preventative Medicine Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs, |
| mention that prescription and OTC drugs are | | | | Homeopathy, Shiatsu, ... Holistic health links and new |
| formulated to take over and hijack your body's | | | | age links from Share Guide. ... Healthlinks.net - |
| biochemistry. Prescription and OTC drugs force blood | | | | Healthcare portal and directory with over 70200 |
| pressure to be lower/higher or force the liver to stop | | | | unique links. ... American Holistic Health Association |
| manufacturing healthy cholesterol. In fact, prescription | | | | (AHHA) - Resource Lists. Members who work in |
| or OTC drugs interfere with normal human | | | | partnership with their patients, and encourage a |
| metabolism, and that is one reason why prescription | | | | holistic approach to wellness. ...o Metaphysical |
| drugs are killing people. Yet, conventional medical | | | | Healing-Mind, Body, Spirit, Genesis Consultants, Inc. |
| doctors rely on propaganda about the unknown side | | | | Last, but not least do not allow traditional medical |
| effects of holistic health care to convince people that | | | | doctors, pharmacists or your family and best friends |
| only prescription or OTC drugs are safe. It is NOT | | | | to intimidate you into believing your life is in jeopardy |
| that they are terrified about the side effects of | | | | if you use holistic health care remedies or |
| holistic health care-they are terrified of people being | | | | practitioners. |
| well and they won't have their business of prescribing | | | | The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. |
| life-long pills and potions. Western Medicine is profit | | | | 284 July 26, 2000, published an article documenting |
| driven. | | | | the tragedy of Traditional Western Medicine (TWM) |
| If everyone knew they could prevent any disease | | | | paradigm. The author, Dr. Barbara Starfield of Johns |
| with plant extracts, medicinal herbs, natural vitamins, | | | | Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health describes |
| minerals, and supplements, as well as having peace of | | | | how the U.S. health care system may contribute to |
| mind-the pharmaceutical and medical industry would | | | | poor health. Doctors, she stated, are the third leading |
| collapse overnight.o The World Health Organization, | | | | cause of death in the U.S., causing 250,000 deaths |
| estimates that between 65 to 80 percent of the | | | | every year. |
| world's population (about 3 billion people) rely on | | | | This information is a follow-up to the Institute of |
| naturopathic or homeopathic medicine as their | | | | Medicine report December, 1999, but the data was |
| primary form of health care.o Worldwide, only 10 to | | | | hard to reference as it was not in peer-reviewed |
| 30 percent of people use traditional medicine, 70 to | | | | journal. Now it is published in JAMA which is the most |
| 90 percent use naturopathic and homeopathic health | | | | widely circulated medical periodical in the world. |
| care.o 74 percent of the American population desires | | | | DEATHS PER YEAR: |
| a natural approach to health care.o Of the one out of | | | | 1. 12,000 -----unnecessary surgery |
| three Americans who say they have used natural | | | | 2. 7,000 -----medication errors in hospitals |
| techniques, 84 percent said they would use it again.o | | | | 3. 20,000 ----other errors in hospitals |
| Traditional Chinese Medicine has been chosen by the | | | | 4. 80,000 ----infections in hospitals |
| World Health Organization for worldwide propagation | | | | 5. 106,000 ---non-error, negative effects of drugs |
| to meet the health care needs of the twenty-first | | | | 250,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic--death |
| century.o The U.S. government sponsors the use of | | | | induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, |
| acupuncture in drug rehabilitation programs.o "In a | | | | or therapy, especially of a complication of treatment |
| [Mayo Clinic] study of 50 patients, six acupuncture | | | | causes--is outrageous!! Yet, the majority of people |
| treatments given over two to three weeks | | | | continue to trust the medical profession to 'cure' |
| significantly improved their symptoms of pain and | | | | them, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. |
| fatigue." Time, 2005o "Americans make more visits to | | | | Of 13 countries in a recent comparison, the United |
| holistic health care providers (some 600 million a year) | | | | States ranks an average of 12th (second from the |
| than to M.D.s and spend more money out-of-pocket | | | | bottom) for 16 available health indicators. The ranking |
| to do so about $30 billion a year by recent | | | | of the U.S. on several indicators was:o 13th (last) for |
| estimates." Newsweek, 12/2002o "A recent study | | | | low-birth-weight percentageso 13th for neonatal |
| performed by the American Massage Therapy | | | | mortality and infant mortality overall 14o 11th for |
| Association revealed that 28 percent of people | | | | post neonatal mortalityo 13th for years of potential |
| received a massage from a massage therapist in the | | | | life lost (excluding external causes)o 11th for life |
| past five years, up from 17 percent in 1997. Eighteen | | | | expectancy at 1 year for females, 12th for maleso |
| percent said they had a massage in the past 12 | | | | 10th for life expectancy at 15 years for females, 12th |
| months. That's 10 percent higher than was reported | | | | for maleso 10th for life expectancy at 40 years for |
| in 1997." American Massage Therapy Association, 8 | | | | females, 9th for maleso 7th for life expectancy at 65 |
| 2002. | | | | years for females, 7th for maleso 3rd for life |
| Holistic health care practices include:o Acupunctureo | | | | expectancy at 80 years for females, 3rd for maleso |
| Aromatherapy/flower essenceso Ayurvedic | | | | 10th for age-adjusted mortality |
| medicineo Bio-feedbacko Chelation therapyo | | | | The poor performance of the U.S. medical profession |
| Chiropractico Essential Oilso Guided imageryo | | | | was recently confirmed by a World Health |
| Herbology/Herbal remedieso Homeopathyo | | | | Organization study, which used different data and |
| Hydrotherapyo Hypnosis/self-hypnosiso Iridologyo | | | | ranked the United States as 15th among 25 |
| Massageo Meditation/visualizationo Mind, Body, Spirit | | | | industrialized countries. |