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Schools For Acupuncture – The Popularity Is Growing At A Great Pace |
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008 |
By: Bertil Hjert
The number of schools for acupuncture has increased in recent times in the United States. The growth is continuing at a great pace. A research has come to a conclusion that about fifty schools for acupuncture have been established in the United States and almost all of these are affiliated to the ACAOM or Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
These schools are also accredited to the council of colleges of acupuncture and oriented medicine or CCAOM. These levels of accredition are a guarantee for providences of supreme quality education in oriental medicine and acupunctures. About thousands of students seek admission to these schools each year.
There are several benefits of seeking admission to an Acupuncture school. Since, this is considered to be one of the oldest forms of oriental medicine, there are higher chances of people to get benefited from it and the popularity of the technique is ever growing. More and more people are believing in the benefits offered by this technique.
This has give rise to several opportunities to students who want to make their career in this field. Now, they can dream of earning via investing into the study of one of the oldest forms of oriental medicine that involves a wonderful technique of inserting needles into certain parts of body to cure specific problems.
The locations where the needles are inserted can be referred to as "acupoints" or "tsubo". The best part is that the technique is very effective. With almost 3000 year history, it is simply impossible to ignore the therapeutic and healing effects of this technique.
This is the main reason that schools for acupuncture are becoming more prevalent and gaining stupendous fame, these days. Many students are genuinely interested in making their careers in the field of acupuncture.
According to a survey conducted by California Acupuncture Association in the year 1993, it has been revealed that professional in the field of acupuncture an actually earn about anything between $30,000 and to $100,000 each year. This is just estimation. There are also studies that prove that these figures have almost doubled or even tripled. No wonder if these get quadrupled in the near future.
Most people pursue this career for the financial benefits it provides via learning the techniques from a reputed acupuncture school. However, for many, it is just a form of performing an art. They are simply passionate about practicing this amazing technique that can easily cure several diseases.
You can easily enroll yourself to an acupuncture school. You can even look out for many online acupuncture schools that provide these facilities to aspiring students. However, you need to make sure that the school you have planned to enroll is reputed and has been serving for a good time.
Remember that each acupuncture school is different from the other. Hence, you need to be clear about what a specific school offers and whether the courses provided are sufficient for you. Also make sure that the school is genuinely accredited with the Accreditation commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine or ACAOM.
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The Basics Of Health And Nutrition |
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
By: Daniel Millions
It is the ideal of every living creature to maintain itself in a healthy condition. Primary to this function is the quality of the foods they eat to achieve this top level of physical necessity. The old adage that "you are what you eat" is very true as there is no other way to absorb the necessary nutrients than through consumption of the proper foodstuffs.
The first basic step to good health is with a proper diet. This often-misunderstood word refers to the foods we eat, not to some plan for weight loss as is so often the modern usage of the term. Of the types of nutrients needed for good health are water, vitamins, proteins, minerals, fats, fiber and carbohydrates. Some of these elemental foodstuffs are needed in massive quantities. The carbohydrates and fats are necessary for the muscles to use as energy while proteins are used to create new body tissue. Water is a primary nutrient unto itself and performs a wide range of functions from keeping the cells of the body functioning to the removal of waste products from the body.
The other types of nutrients needed by the body in order to maintain good health are the amino acids and small quantity minerals to help regulate the function of cells and provide the trace elements that individualized cells require to perform their specific function. Proper diet will also contain chemical compounds referred to as antioxidants. These compounds remove excess free radical isotopes created by the absorption and use of the other compounds that throw off the balance of cell health. Antioxidants are required in sufficient amount to negate the effects of cancer and aging of the cell body.
Good health and nutrition requires more than just the intake of these items in quantity. Too much of a good thing can ultimately be as detrimental to good health as a lack of these essential elements. Too much fat or carbohydrate intake can develop problems of weight gain and its adverse effects on the healthy body. Too great an intake of some of the minerals and vitamins can actually toxify the body and create an unhealthy condition that can lead to illness and occasionally even death.
Just eating a lot of everything will not provide a proper diet for maintaining good health. As an example, lycopene is an effective antioxidant chemical that is a prevalent nutrient in tomatoes. It can be concentrated even more in processed tomato products like sauce and juice, however, these processed tomato products are also loaded with salt and sugars which can have a detrimental effect on the overall health of the body's systems.
It does require a bit of study to find the right balance between obtaining the necessary beneficial elements for a healthy nutritious diet and the intake of excessive amounts of those nutrients that become actual health hazards with over-consumption. The basic food charts are not quite enough although following a simple diet plan will help obtain the balance better than just foraging for anything you can find in the pantry.
The time spent in researching the best way to obtain a proper nutrition is well spent in the potential for a longer, more active life and the less time spent in fighting off an illness or disease that could have been prevented by merely eating properly.
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Misleading: Vitamin E Linked To Lung Cancer |
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
By: Howard Simon
Headlines report “Taking high doses of vitamin E supplements can increase the risk of lung cancer.” Great headline, but the reporting misleads the public. Here is information so you can respond to your patients.
Popular press reported the US study of 77,721 people found that taking 400 milligrams Vitamin E per day long-term increased cancer risk by 28% over a projected 10 year period. This study was published in the March 2008 American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine by researchers at the University of Washington1 and picked up by the major wire services.
These results could also be stated “Taking high doses of one form of vitamin E, but not other forms, was associated with an increased risk of lung cancer mostly in smokers by a statistically significant, but clinically small factor of 0.0018 - based on an average study risk of 0.0067 (521 / 77721).” I will explain below.
In fact, what was reported in the popular press is not what the researchers wrote in their abstract: “Supplemental vitamin E was associated with a small increased risk of lung cancer (HR, 1.05 for every 100-mg/d increase in dose; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.00-1.09; P = 0.033). This risk of supplemental vitamin E was largely confined to current smokers (HR, 1.11 for every 100-mg/d increase; 95% CI, 1.03-1.19; P < 0.01).”
8 Vitamin E Isomers
Scientists have known for years that there are 8 isomers (forms) of vitamin E. They are alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and delta-tocopherols and alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and delta-tocotrienols.
Most Vitamin E and multivitamin supplements contain only the alpha-tocopherol isomer. It is the most abundant form in the blood and the least expensive form to produce. It is the form taken by an estimated 99% of the subjects in the study, however the researchers did not ask which form was taken.
It seems that when large doses of the alpha-tocopherol form of vitamin E are available, as from most single or multivitamin supplements, the alpha-tocopherol form displaces the other forms that may be available in food. In 2003, Dr. Han-Yao Huang and Dr. Lawrence J Appel, researchers at Johns Hopkins University, showed that supplementing with alpha-tocopherol only, reduced the plasma level of gamma-tocopherol by 58% and reduced detectible levels of delta-tocopherol from 50% to 13% in 184 human subjects.2
Two studies provide more specific information than this study. Before this study was initiated, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America published a study that showed that gamma-tocopherol reduced cancer cell proliferation, while the alpha-tocopherol form of Vitamin E demonstrated slight to no effect on cancer cells.3 In a Japanese study published in 2006, researchers studied the independent effects of all 8 isomers of vitamin E. In their study, alpha- and gamma-tocotrienols inhibited metastasis (the proliferation (spread) of cancer cells), while the tocopherols had little effect.4
Food Sources of Vitamin E
Food sources of vitamin E provide all 8 isomers of vitamin E, which your body knows how to use in the special ways that call for these exotic (and more expensive) forms of the vitamin. Unfortunately, the food supply is deficient in all isomers of natural vitamin E. Food producers are rewarded for increasing crop yields, keeping down costs, and the look and taste of the food. They enhance the soil with nutrients to make the crops grow faster, look better and increase yields, not to enhance the nutritional value of the food. As a consequence, one would need to eat huge amounts of fruits and vegetables to receive an optimal level of nutrients. The state of our current food supply may fill you up, but not give you all the nutrients your body needs.
Someone has to be concerned with nutritional intake. In all likelihood, that person is you and your patient. And there are alternatives. Sophisticated new supplements provide all 8 isomers of Vitamin E, along with other nutrients that are no longer adequately supplied in food.
Other studies have demonstrated that a single vitamin in isolation is not nearly as effective as a balance of vitamins, such as provided by food or a multivitamin. I thus recommend a balanced diet and a sophisticated multivitamin such as Rejuvenation Science® Maximum Vitality™, rather than individual vitamin supplements. Of course, smoking and second-hand smoke should be avoided.
Independent Multivitamin Evaluation
The 2007 edition of the Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements by researcher Lyle MacWilliam has established 18 criteria for evaluating nutritional supplements. Bioavailability and form of vitamin E are two of those standards. Other considerations include: completeness, potency, mineral forms, antioxidant support, bone health, heart-, liver-, metabolic-, and ocular-health, methylation support, lipotropic factors, inflammation control, glycation control, bioflavonoid profile, phenolic compounds profile, and potential toxicities. In the book, 1,600 multivitamins in the U.S. and Canada are evaluated against these standards. The Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements is available from Rejuvenation Science at http://www.rejuvenation-science.com/multi-comparative-guide.html. And as you already know, our Maximum Vitality™ multivitamin was rated the best value and compliance in the top-rated 1% in the study.
Conclusion
What you can learn from this study is that smoking increases the risk of lung cancer, taking vitamins cannot offset that risk, and the form of vitamins in your supplement is important. One fraction of a vitamin in isolation (such as the alpha-tocopherol form of vitamin E) is not nearly as effective as a balance of nutrients. In addition to a varied and healthy diet, your patients seek your guidance finding a sophisticated multivitamin supplement that is formulated using up-to-date research. The Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements is a good place to start.
References
1. Slatore CG, Littman AJ, Au DH, Satia JA, White E. Long-term use of supplemental multivitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, and folate does not reduce the risk of lung cancer. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008 Mar 1;177(5):524-30. Epub 2007 Nov 7.
2. Huang HY, Appel LJ. Supplementation of diets with alpha-tocopherol reduces serum concentrations of gamma- and delta-tocopherol in humans. J Nutr. 2003 Oct;133(10):3137-40. PMID: 14519797
3. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2000, Vol 97, Iss 21, pp 11494-11499.
4. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communication, 2006 (339), 949-955.
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