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Healthy Food To Go!

Whether you are working or volunteering outside your home, eating healthy meals can be a challenge, but not mission impossible. Perhaps because you or a loved one came down with a serious illness, which served as a wake-up call, or you decided that prevention is preferable, and are now ready to take the bull by the horn, and take better care of the one body you have! Eating lunch out daily or munching on health-destroying, waist-expanding fare is expensive and counterproductive.

After reading this article make a list of ingredients for easy and quick make-ahead food you can take to … Continue Reading →

The Doctor and the Patient: Relationship, Partnership or Marriage? – Article

The word “patient” actually means “submissive sufferer.” In your relationship with your doctor, do you consider yourself to be a patient or a partner in your healthcare?

The article link below explains how doctors can create a better relationship with those they serve and how medical education shapes future physicians abilities to be compassionate.

Discover how great your relationship with your physician can be.

Article Link: The Doctor and the Patient: Relationship, Partnership or Marriage byBernard Siegel, MD

For additional articles, visit the American Holistic Health Association’s Self-Help Articles Collection.Continue Reading →

Change Your Brain Today – Video

Your brain’s involved in everything you do!

The health of your brain impacts the difference as to whether you are happy or sad; healthy or sick; more creative or rigid; more innovative or inflexible.

Video link: Change Your Brain Today with Daniel Amen, MD

For additional educational video clips submitted by AHHA members, visit the American Holistic Health Association’s Self Help Videos section.… Continue Reading →

Fibromyalgia pain relief – Research Article

“Fibromyalgia is dramatically increasing in both prevalence and public awareness.” Learn about “a comprehensive protocol to see optimal results…from severe fatigue and widespread pain” in a Townsend Letter research article, “Effective Treatment of Pain and Sleep in Fibromyalgia: A Comprehensive Clinical Approach” by Jacob Teitelbaum, MD.

For other health conditions, check out the Evidence-based Research Articles database.… Continue Reading →

What to Look for in Your Healthcare Practitioner – Article

How do you select a healthcare practitioner to match your needs? What qualities do you look for and which do you avoid?

The article link below offers you guidelines to follow using common sense combined with intuition to choose the right practitioner for you.

Article Link: What to Look For in Your Healthcare Practitioner by Judith Orloff, MD

For additional articles, visit the American Holistic Health Association’s Self-Help Articles Collection.… Continue Reading →

Mindfulness and Gratitude Practices – Video

We could all use less stress in our lives, especially now.

In the video link below you will learn about simple mindfulness practices that ANYONE can do.

Video Link: Mindfulness and Gratitude Practices with Mira Dessy, NE

For additional educational video clips submitted by AHHA members, visit AHHA’s Self Help Videos section.… Continue Reading →

Change a life – AHHA Resource

Check out the AHHA Gift for a Better Life, a single-sheet flyer that introduces the powerful concept of the holistic approach. It’s available for free!. Who do you know who could benefit from receiving a copy? You can download the flyer and share by emailing it or hand delivering a printed copy (double-sided). It can empower that person’s life. Note that this flyer is available in both English and Spanish.… Continue Reading →

Overcoming Alzheimer – Article

Wally Decker’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis was devastating for him. He felt defeated and had been told that nothing had been found to cure the disease. With the help of his psychotherapist, he was placed in the Suggestive Therapeutics Treatment and Protocol.

The article link below describes how acceptance into the program, and the daily affirmations Wally received opened his mind to healing possibilities.

Learn how this challenging prognosis was turned into a better understanding of self and ultimately to a reversal of the original diagnosis.

Article Link: Overcoming Alzheimer’s: A New Life For Wally by Barbara Derrick, PhD

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Touch, Caring and Cancer – Video

One of the most helpful forms of support you can offer a loved one with cancer is the use of touch. A simple 20 minute massage can reduce symptoms and side effects of cancer in half.

The video link below shows you that caregivers can learn some basic skills for touch and massage to use with their loved ones who are cancer patients.

Pass your love and good wishes through your hands.

Video Link: Touch, Caring and Cancer with William Collinge, PhD, MPH and others

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Troubling excessive mortality rates – Issue

In your circle of family and friends, how many have died in the last twelve months? Is your real world experience matching the scientific articles that report mortality rates for all age groups as “excessive”? Probable causes for death statistics that are higher than expected are listed, but calculated in a variety of ways, so it is difficult to compare to look for consensus. Plus, articles are highly technical, so they are also not easy for the general public to fully understand.

If you are a take-charge individual and want to learn from these statistics in order to improve your … Continue Reading →