| Calling all ELFS |
 |
Time to Register is NOW to become part of American Health's huge Elf Project .
Training Starts in September: Contact the Master ELF at 561-361-9091 or email |
| Monthly Events |
 |
|
The Senior Meet & Greet
Saturday's Heritage Park West
9 to 10:30 AM
The Scrabble Club Sunday's at the Spanish River Library
2:30 PM
| |
|
| American Health Association |
Greetings!
WELCOME TO OUR HEALTH & WELLNESS REPORT
OF YOUR AMERICAN HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Just like you train your body to build strength you need to train your brain. We are excited to announce to our members exclusive access to a web based "train your brain" games and exercises which target various metal processes. It's fun and entertaining. Stay tuned for more details and how to engage and exercise your brain.
Tomorrow August 15th, Sunday Brunch at Uncle Tai', see article in this newsletter.
Attend your favorite weekly events and fun-raisers such as your Sunday Brunch Club, Wine Tasting, and our Galas like the "Salute to Our Veterans, or Veteran's Day Luncheon on November 11th.
We welcome and need your suggestions, so feel free to call or email us with your ideas how to perfect your American Health Association programs and/or newsletter.
Finally in order to keep our database of members current, please select at the bottom of the newsletter.
Update Profile/Email Address
Thank you for your support and participation.
Sincerely,
J. Robert Gordon, Ed.D.
President & CEO
American Health Association/Society & Foundation
|
Learning to See With Macular Degeneration
.
ATLANTA (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Thirteen-million Americans have AMD -- age related macular degeneration, the leading cause of irreversible blindness and vision impairment in people over 50. Now, researchers are studying a new kind of therapy for the condition. It can't reverse the damage, but it's helping patients get the most out of the vision they have left. For Russell DeLong, this would have been impossible four years ago. Macular degeneration made his world go black. "To start with, I was totally blind," DeLong told Ivanhoe. "I couldn't see nothin'."He had surgery but his world remained a blur. "Everything looked like a real heavy fog, real heavy," DeLong said. "I couldn't see that tractor at all. I could just tell there's something there." After years of treatment, he thought he was out of options. A recent study found the brain reorganizes itself to compensate for vision loss. That's the key to a new therapy that teaches patients a whole new way of seeing.
A computer maps areas of the retina damaged by macular degeneration and those that are intact. Then it trains the patient to shift his vision, using the good retinal cells to see. "It's really a series of biofeedback training to get the patient to move in that positive way that we feel is going to be the most sensitive and give him or her the best possible vision," Susan Primo, O.D., Director of Vision and Optical Services at Emory Eye Center in Atlanta, Ga., told Ivanhoe.
Now with special glasses, DeLong can read a magazine. Back on the farm, he can see things that used to be a blur. "If I look at it and it's black, I turn my head a little and I see around the scar tissue that there's a tractor," he said. "I can do everything out here. Everything."
At 74, DeLong still has busy days ahead ... and wants to see every second.
 Researchers are currently testing the computer therapy at Emory University. Smoking, obesity and race play a role in your risk of developing macular degeneration. Whites are much more to lose their sight than other races. |
|
Vaccines Far More Deadly Than Swine Flu!
A swine flu outbreak occurred in Mexico and the United States in April 2009 and spread rapidly around the world by human-to human transmission. The new type A H1N1 influenza virus is unlike any that had been previously isolated [1, 2], judging from the first data released in May. It is a messy combination of sequences from bird, human and swine flu virus lineages from North America and Eurasia. A senior virologist based in Canberra, Australia, told the press he thought that the virus could have been created in the laboratory and released by accident [3]. Some even suggest it was made intentionally as a bioweapon [4], while others blame the intensive livestock industry and extensive trafficking of love animals over long distances, which provide plenty of opportunity for generating exotic recombinants [5]. But what worries the public most is the mass vaccination programmes governments are putting in place to combat the emerging pandemic, which could well be worse than the pandemic itself. 
Watchdog opposes fast-track vaccine for school children
The US government is intending to vaccinate all children in September when school re-opens, and the country's vaccine watchdog National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has called on the Obama Administration and all state Governors to provide evidence that the move is [6] "necessary and safe", demanding "strong mechanisms for vaccine safety screening, recording, monitoring, reporting and vaccine injury compensation."
The US Departments of Health and Homeland Security had declared a national public health emergency in April soon after the swine flu outbreak. As a result, some schools were closed, people quarantined, and drug companies were given contracts worth $7billon to make vaccines that are being fast tracked by the Food and Drugs Administration [7]. That means they will only be tested for a few weeks on several hundred children and adult volunteers before being given to
all school children this fall.
|
|
Cardio for your brain
Acuity
Clarity of vision measured as the minimum distance between two distinguishable points at a standard distance.
Adaptation
A decline in response of a sensory receptor to a constant steady stimulus.
Alzheimer's disease
A degenerative brain disease characterized by memory loss and disorientation; associated with plaques and tangles in the brain
Improve your brain.
Stay tune for more information on your exclusive member access to cardio for the brain.
Become a member of the AHA. call 561-361-9091 or join on line.
|
|
Donations!!! Orphans of war
September 26 and again October 3, from 9 a.m. to 5pm
Walmart- Coconut Creek Pickup location
One of our Junior Volunteers has recruited a group of local high school students who will give their time to the Orphans of War Campaign by collecting goods to ship to the orphans. They will be stationed at the Wal-Mart SuperCenter at Hillsborough Boulevard and U.S. Route 441/SR 7 on two Saturdays.
Donations are for a wide range of items, including cash to help pay for shipping. Their "wish list" includes: new and used stuffed animals, new and gently used clothes, teddy bears, dolls, toys, children's books, soccer balls and volley balls.
Other items that are desperately needed include toothbrushes and toothpaste.
For more information call 561-361-9091 and visit our web site for more details on the on-going campaign.
|
|
What is the Victims of War group? 
Our International Victims of War (VOW) serves civilians caught in the grips of war or the aftermath of war affecting the health & welfare of millions of victims, especially children, women, the frail and aged.
Our "Citizen's In Action" Action Forces are in the process of developing Chapters throughout the country to actualize change around the planet.
| |
MISSION STATEMENT
The American Health Society is a distinguished 10 year old multi-award winning preventative public health & wellness 501(c)(3) charity whose mission is in preventative healthcare, mental wellness, health education, literacy and advocacy aimed at preventing lifestyle based illnesses, diseases and the frailties of aging.
We have a strong "Social Green Philosophy" of Humanitarian Service through our American Volunteer Corps which has a global outreach in 46 countries with members in 37 US States.
Sincerely,
J. Robert Gordon - Founder, American Health Society
Tel: 561.361.9091 |
|
|
