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Welcome to the Northport Wellness Center newsletter, Healing Currents. It is our hope that this publication will help you achieve your wellness goals by presenting you with insightful and useful articles of interest on Holistic Health, as well as to keep you informed of special workshops, lectures and services offered at our center.
At the Northport Wellness Center, our mission is to direct people to the realization that life and healing come from within and ultimately that the promotion and maintenance of health is superior to the treatment of disease.
So join us on our wellness journey - an everlasting path that embraces education and empowerment as a means to create and maintain wellness.
Yours in good health,
Dr. Alan Sherr
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| Northport Wellness Center Newsletter |
August 2009 | |
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"Everyone has the innate potential to create a passionate way of being powerful in the world through vision, commitment and integrity. We can discover and unfold this power by first exploring within."
- Guy Reikman, D.C.
*To Read the Northport Wellness Center's Daily Quotes, Click Here. |
September Newsletter Featured Articles:
The Role of Chiropractic in the Vitalistic Approach to Well Care
Empowered Parents - Empowered Children: Taking Autism into Your Own Hands
How Yoga Contributes to Optimal Health
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 What is Wellness?
Wellness is not a place that you arrive at. Rather, it is a place that you experience all the time. Wellness is ever-changing, alive and vibrant - vital. To be vital is to be engaged and as a result, we come to know what health and wellness are.
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 Paul Barbato, Reiki Healer, Joins the Northport Wellness Center Professional Team Full-time
"I used to be a Neanderthal," said Paul Barbato, Reiki healer at the Northport Wellness Center. "If I couldn't see it or kick it, it didn't exist...until I discovered Reiki." According to Barbato, Reiki is both a science and an art. |
 Parental Wellness: Accepting Accomplishment
Before we even become parents, we have dreams of what our children will be like...their appearance, their personality, even their career path and favorite sports. Between conception and birth, these aspirations are even stronger, more real. The dreaming becomes almost obsessive, but in a happy, invigorating way. Never in a million years do we think that when our child is born, before our dreams for him are fulfilled, he will be diagnosed with a label that carries with it so many challenges that we will have to overcome a slew of obstacles with him to make any of those dreams a remote possibility. So we start with a diagnosis and undertake a new obsession. |
 Food for Thought: Blueberries
Summertime is great for enjoying delicious organic fruits that are in-season at your local grocery store or farm stand. This month, we're profiling one of Mother Nature's sweet and delectable fruits - blueberries.
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Top Headlines
New National Professional Competencies for Teachers of Autism Released by Leaders in the Field
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) and the Autism Society announced the publication of professional competencies for teaching students with autism spectrum disorders at the Autism Society's 40th National Conference on Autism Spectrum Disorders in St. Charles, Ill. The competencies will be incorporated into CEC's resource on highly qualified teachers, What Every Special Educator Needs to Know...
Proof That Thimerosal Induces Autism-Like Neurotoxicity
A new scientific study proves that the mercury-based compound used as vaccine preservative -- known as 'thimerosal' -- induces neural damage similar to that seen in autism patients. According to the study, thimerosal-induced cellular damage caused concentration- and time-dependent mitochondrial damage, reduced oxidative-reduction activity, cellular degeneration, and cell death. Thimerosal at low concentrations induced significant cellular toxicity in human neuronal and fetal cells. This latest study confirms that damage does occur in human neuronal and fetal cells, even at low concentrations...****
Breast-Feeding Linked to Lower Cancer Risk
There is new evidence that breast-feeding is associated with a lower incidence of breast cancer among a group of younger women who are at particularly high risk: those with breast cancer in the family. For women with an immediate relative, like a mother or a sister, who had breast cancer, those who breast-fed had a 90 percent lower risk of premenopausal breast cancer... |
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Special Event: 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination
Arm yourself with facts from the brightest and the best vaccine and health experts. Learn about vaccine science, policy, law, ethics and politics. Meet fellow vaccine safety and choice activists in your state. Make your voice heard on Capitol Hill. The 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination, sponsored by the National Vaccine Information Center, will take place October 2 - 4, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Reston, VA. Find out more... | |
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