Need A Break From Wrapping Your Mind Around Political Issues? Wrap Your Legs Around This
Posted by Michelle Moquin on April 24th, 2009
Wow…such an influx of opinions and information. Thanks to all of you for responding, and for including some really important facts and sites to check out. I hope that all of you readers are clicking on the links and taking some action. It is one thing to give an opinion but in order to make change happen we all need to take action.
So that being said, I took action and now I need a little breather from all of this – How about you? And what better way to take a break than with one of my fave activities.
Check out these girls. Not only are these girls beautiful to watch…I mean some of these bods are so hot, (Do I have your attention now?:)…they are also so inspiring…
Oh…how I miss the pole! :)
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April 24th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Mayo Clinic’s Top 10 Complementary Therapies
Amit Sood, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Dozens of US hospitals and major medical centers now offer complementary treatments in addition to conventional medical care* — and some of these therapies are covered by health insurance.
Problem: With so many conflicting claims being made regarding complementary therapies, how do doctors at these institutions decide which to recommend to the patients they treat? At the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, the following four criteria are used…
Is it safe? If a complementary treatment is completely safe, then it may be worth trying, even if its effectiveness has not been proven definitively by scientific studies.
Is it standardized? Herbs and dietary supplements are subject to limited regulatory oversight by the FDA. Therefore, these products frequently are not standardized to contain a consistent level of ingredients, potency and purity. Some herbs and dietary supplements do provide benefits, but you should work closely with a knowledgeable doctor when using them.
Does it meet a need that cannot be met by conventional medicine? When it comes to stress, for example, conventional medicine includes treatments, such as anti-anxiety drugs or antidepressants, that potentially can help people. But such medications often have side effects and may not be suitable for long-term use. Complementary therapies, such as yoga, massage and meditation, can help relieve stress without the risk for serious side effects.
Does it positively affect not only patients, but also those with whom they interact? The calming influence of several complementary treatments, such as meditation and music therapy, promotes a feeling of relaxation and well-being that helps bring harmony to one’s interactions with family and friends. Positive, supportive relationships, in turn, are believed to help speed recovery from many types of illness.
Here is an alphabetical listing of Mayo Clinic’s top 10 complementary treatments — and the research that supports their use…
BEST TREATMENTS
1. Acupuncture. In this treatment from traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncturists insert thin needles into strategic, energy-balancing points on the body. Acupuncture can prevent and treat nausea and vomiting and help relieve many types of pain, including that from osteoarthritis, low back pain, neck pain, headaches and postsurgical pain. Patients who receive acupuncture typically receive up to 12 treatments, usually given once or twice a week.
Standout scientific evidence: German researchers tracked more than 3,000 patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis and found that those receiving acupuncture experienced significantly more pain relief than those who did not receive acupuncture treatments.
2. Guided imagery. Patients imagine a beautiful, soothing environment, such as a warm beach. Guided imagery, also referred to as visualization, helps reduce anxiety in patients who become claustrophobic during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, who are having outpatient surgery without general anesthesia or who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, such as cancer.
Standout scientific evidence: In a study conducted at the University of Akron in Ohio, a group of 53 women receiving radiation therapy for breast cancer either listened to guided imagery tapes once a day or did not. The women listening to the tapes felt more comfortable and less anxious, particularly during the first three weeks of treatment.
3. Hypnosis. The patient is led into a state of deep relaxation and focused attention by either a hypnotherapist or an instructional audio (self-hypnosis), and verbal suggestions are made to help relieve anxiety, pain, tension headaches and insomnia.
Standout scientific evidence: Doctors at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City analyzed 20 studies on hypnosis and surgical patients. In 89% of cases, surgical patients who were hypnotized had less pain, used less pain medication and recovered faster.
4. Massage. A massage therapist manipulates the body’s soft tissue — muscle, skin and tendons — using fingertips, hands and fists. Massage treats anxiety and low back pain and improves postsurgical healing.
Standout scientific evidence: Studies conducted at the University of Miami’s Touch Research Institute show that massage can help relieve back pain and strengthen the immune system in women with breast cancer by increasing levels of natural disease-fighting cells.
5. Meditation. Attention is focused on breathing and/or on a word, phrase or sound (mantra), leading to a more relaxed body and calmer mind. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic use meditation to treat patients with anxiety and high blood pressure and to help people quit smoking without medication.
Standout scientific evidence: An analysis of 20 studies on meditation found that this treatment could help patients cope with epilepsy, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), menopausal symptoms, autoimmune disease and anxiety during cancer treatment.
6. Music therapy. Many complementary medical centers employ music therapists. However, you can use music therapy on your own by listening to soothing music or your favorite music.
Standout scientific evidence: At Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, a study of 86 patients recovering from heart surgery showed that those receiving music therapy experienced less anxiety and pain.
7. Spinal manipulation. Practiced by chiropractors, osteopaths (medical doctors whose training allows them to correct structural problems in the musculoskeletal system) and physical therapists, this hands-on technique adjusts the spine to properly align the vertebrae with muscles, joints and nerves. Spinal manipulation is an accepted medical practice for low back pain, but the evidence supporting its use for other medical problems has been somewhat conflicting.
Standout scientific evidence: At the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, a study of 681 patients with low back pain showed that chiropractic care was as effective as medical care, including painkilling drugs, in relieving discomfort.
8. Spirituality. For some people, this means religious observance, prayer or faith in a “higher being.” For others, spirituality can be found through a deep appreciation of nature or art or participation in a secular community.
Standout scientific evidence: Researchers in Virginia who conducted an analysis of 16 studies on illness and “religious intervention” — praying or attending religious services — found that spirituality can decrease the length of hospital stays and fever in patients with severe infections… increase immune function… help relieve rheumatoid arthritis symptoms… reduce anxiety… and improve outcomes in people with heart disease.
9. Tai chi. This gentle exercise, derived from Chinese martial arts, consists of a series of defined postures and movements performed slowly and gracefully. Medically, it is used to improve balance in older people who are prone to falls.
Standout scientific evidence: In a study of 278 elderly people at Vrije University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, those who performed tai chi three times a week for six months had 50% fewer falls and fewer injury-causing falls.
10. Yoga. These stretching postures and breathing exercises, which originated in India, help calm body and mind. Yoga is particularly effective for stress relief, low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, osteoarthritis, anxiety and depression.
Standout scientific evidence: In a study conducted at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, 98 people with heart disease or diabetes who practiced the postures and breathing techniques of yoga had significant reductions in total cholesterol and blood sugar.
*To learn more about complementary therapies, go to nccam.nih.gov, the Web site of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
April 24th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Hi Mischa, interesting timing on this post…after a 3 month hiatus I went back to PD class on Weds, gritty chick (my teacher) welcomed me back by kicking my ever-lovin’ ass. She also dubbed me ‘Glamazon’ hahaha…people, you have no idea how much upper body strength is required to do some of these moves. Next time you see a woman with enormous thighs/bicep/triceps, show some respect. I don’t have that look but if she has her way my thinner thighs will be rock solid, I’ve tried to explain that I’m just not built like that but she’s taken that as a green light to proceed in trying. I’ve already spent the better part of a year weight training just to be able to climb and hold position at the top of a pole. My muscles, every one of ‘em were jumping by the time I left, she made me hold position up there for 60 seconds, a minute never lasted that long before, repeat that 5x’s in rapid sucession, ouch…
I’m still recuping today and skipped my usual trip to the gym…what would I work on? My abs are the only thing not screaming. She blends yoga and pilates moves in the most peculiar and sexy ways, hmmm, the highlight: it’s a major mojo booster, not that I need that, but there you have it. My eighty year old trainer at the gym is recuping from surgery and won’t be back till Monday anyway…so maybe I’ll just chill till then.
I read the above health info post, all very much in synch with ZL health philosophy, I have a great Chinese herbalist also : )
Tara, I’m glad you enjoyed my A-Z story, cover story, whatever you call it. I do leave the ‘cave’ ocassionally to live my own life, you know, to work and take pole dancing classes : )
I cannot remember the commenter’s name now, the woman from Pakistan but – oh – your story re: men got me upset. I wish Madaline could assist in your plan. I’m thinking about you and all women who are in similar situations today, as I do on most days at some point within the 24 hr span. It a love/hate relationship with these stories, I hate hearing that women live under these conditions, I equally hate my helplessness in lending a hand, I love that you are all brave enough to tell us your personal stories.
Caio, Zen Lill
April 24th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
The President can count and remember. Good for him letting the Republicans know that they will not get to obstruct health care. Too many of us are depending on relief on that front.
I just paid a 50% increase on medications and a 1/3 increase office visit costs of co-payments. These are the first of two medical increases to come. I am also under a one year freeze in salary. I want some stability and real reform in medical costs and I can’t wait until folks finish playing games to do it
April 25th, 2009 at 5:45 am
My family have been republicans for my entire life. I am 23 years old. I am from New orleans. Our representatives in both houses of Congress continue to support the Bush administration.
I have lost faith in them because they are supporting Bush having tortured captives. I may be naive about a lot of things that happens in my government but water boarding is torture. That seems to have been settled back during WWII. I do not know what it involves but I do know how to read. I googled it and the information I got said that it had been defined by international and US law as torture.
I lost faith in those that support the republicans because they know that water boarding is torture and yet they continue to not only support those that are lying to the country to support a administration that did it.
I ask my family and others who are supporting these representatives and they try to shut me up with we do will not support a government that is trying to make the country socialist.
What does that mean? I do not recognize these people. I can not believe that I have been listening to these people all my life. What other lies have I been told?
The news down south is about does torture work? The new media is largely debating whether the Bush administration’s torture worked to make us safe.
I am so aghast with this type of argument. I am no longer going to be a republican. I will have to be an independent because I just cannot support a black President.
What bothers me most is the fact that the people who continue to support their republican representatives are the same ones who insist that this is The Christian nation.
God would not recognize this country. We have elected a nigger as a President and now we are supporting people who support torture and seek to justify it with arguments that it worked.
I appear to be alone in arriving at the position that I cannot support those that have and continue to support torture. I cannot sleep. I live in a country that have intelligent, God fearing people who can look themselves, their children, and the world in the eye and seriously debate the acceptance of torture if it works.
Joyce
April 25th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Dear Joyce:
I don’t usually write in to these godless sites, but you are obviously in need of spiritual direction. You have made the same mistake many god fearing white americans have. You are right about how terrible it is that this great Christian nation has elected a nigger as its President. We have lost respect the world over because of it.
But you are so wrong about this torture issue. If it were good god fearing white men that were water boarded, then it would have been torture. When applied to mud people like jews, and sand niggers it is just a means of extracting information necessary to keep America safe.
Continue to support your family and your Congressional representatives. They are vigilantly protecting the Christian, and democratic values of true americans. What you are experiencing is misinformation distributed by the jews.
They are orchestrating the rest of the mud people into collectively destroying this country as we know it. Obama is being run by the jew who is his chief of staff. They have been trying to be white their whole existence. That’s why they have to be eliminated at every opportunity. Jews are the rats of the human race. They are the vermin that sneak into the white race and practice miscegenation at every opportunity. Jews want to be white so desperately that they will do anything to make it so. That is why the final solution was needed to exterminate this vermin.
Now they use Israel as a satellite from which to reach out to the rest of the white world and practice their miscegenation. They incite the rest of the mud people into supporting their efforts to be white. Good Christian white people must root out this vermin at every opportunity. Jews are just niggers who have successfully used their clever miscegenation tactics to look white.
Never fear Joyce that this is a Christian nation. With God’s help and blessing we will take back control of our nation. But you must hold the line. The republicans have drawn a line in the sand. They refuse to accept any more sullying of our country by these mud people. They are on a mission to take back our country. White women must stand behind their men.
Return to the fold. Redouble your efforts to support your race. Your race has been chosen by God. It is a purity that has to be protected.
Larry
April 25th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Larry you will love this.
In the days to follow. there were numerous instances where Negroes were attacked by white mobs for no other reason than racial hatred. On July 1st a Ford car driven by whites fired shots into Negro homes near 17th and Market. There was a similar incident along 10th and Bond. Later, the police received a report that armed Negroes were on the rampage. A police car was dispatched to 10th and Bond and met more than 200 Negroes, many of them armed, who without a word of warning opened fire. Samuel Coppedge, one of the detectives was killed instantly and the other. Frank Wadley. died the following day.
A newspaper account of the attack inflamed passions. This action was prima facie evidence East St. Louisans needed to prove that Negroes were mobilizing for a massacre. On the morning of July 2nd, there was a protest meeting at the Labor Temple at 4th and Collinsville Avenue. Various speakers told the audience to start arming themselves. After the meeting, the group marched in military fashion toward Broadway. Mayor Mollman knew that the police wouldn’t cooperate in trying to control the mobs. but during the previous night he had telephoned the National Guard headquarters in Springfield and mistakenly believed that six militia companies would arrive that next day. The mob began attacking and shooting every Negro they encountered with little regard for age or sex. Streetcars were stopped and Negroes were pulled off. Although the assaulting groups contained only about 25 people., they were encouraged by large crowds that had gathered on the streets. Near 3rd and Broadway. white prostitutes from the notorious “Valley” got into the act and battered fleeing colored women.
Carlos Hurd, a reporter for the Post-Dispatch, described the fury of these white women. “I saw Negro women begging for mercy and pleading that they had harmed no one, set upon by white women of the baser sort, who laughed and answered the coarse sallies of men as they beat the Negresses’ face and breasts with fists, stones and sticks. One of these furies flung herself at a militiaman who was trying to protect a Negress, and wrestled him for his bayoneted gun, while other women attacked the refugee.”
By afternoon the crowd invaded the area south of Broadway shouting that they planned to avenge the two detectives who were killed. The homes at Third and Brady and Third and Railroad were set on fire. Negroes who attempted to escape the flames were picked off one at a time. Another Negro was lynched from a telephone pole. Encouraged by mobs who shouted, “Burn ‘em out.” the rioters destroyed over 200 homes. The Illinois National Guard was called to the scene but the militia did not deal firmly with rioters and proved to be largely ineffective.
Violence fed upon itself and in the Black Valley. small gangs lighted torches, joking while waiting for Negroes to flee from the furnaces which had been their homes. When an ambulance arrived to take one man to the hospital, rioters warned. “If you pick up that skunk, we’ll kill you too.” Another Negro was captured and someone shouted, “We’re going to lynch the dog–shooting is too good for him.” When more militia and night arrived the rioting slowed down but was not yet over. The square block at Eighth and Broadway was burned to an ash heap.
Many Negroes owed their lives to the alarm sent by True Light Baptist Church which rang its bell to indicate that rampaging whites were coming. Sympathetic whites hid Negroes in their basements while flames illuminated the night sky. Hundreds of refugees were brought to the city hall auditorium.
At midnight, the South End was bright red. An observer from Signal Hill said that the flames shot so high in the air that they were reflected by Pittsburg Lake which looked like a sheet of fire. The conflagration ultimately did an estimated half million dollars in damage.
The next day, when it had ended, reports in the newspapers said that over 200 people had been killed, but the official count was 39 Negroes and nine whites. (Incredibly, the WPA Guide to Illinois, written during the Depression, listed the number of Negroes killed at 100.) This figure too may be erroneous because it can be presumed that some of the bodies were never found. On July 4, several mutilated “floaters” were discovered in Cahokia Creek. It was estimated that up to seven thousand Negroes fled to St. Louis, many of which never returned.
In trials that were held afterwards, twelve Negroes (charged with murder) went to prison for the deaths of detectives Samuel Coppedge and Frank Wadley. Nine whites (charged with homicide) were sent to the penitentiary and forty-one whites were found guilty of misdemeanors. Twenty-seven paid small fines and fourteen received short terms in the county jail.
In November a Senate-House congressional committee held four weeks of hearings in East St. Louis and took nearly 5,000 pages of testimony. No indictments or court martials resulted from the proceedings. The committee prepared a report which was a stinging rebuke of the community’s social and business milieu which made the riot possible.
April 25th, 2009 at 8:30 am
What is your point Mike? We need to return to John Locke’s treatise.
John Locke racialized slavery in the Americas. Slavery was okay as long as they were black. It was John Locke of the Carolina who established that every freeman shall have absolute power and authority over his negro slaves of what opinion or religion whatever.
After that it became you can enslave christians so long as they were black. The absolute power part gave the owner the power to kill without threat of punishment. We whites later in the south made it a misdemeanor to kill mud people. thereby forcing the white man to pay a fine for an inexcusable killing of them.
God bless America
George
April 25th, 2009 at 8:32 am
SICK.
April 25th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Where the hell do you people come from? America is supposed to be an educated society? God is ashamed of you all, he told me…You can’t prove me wrong! You believed Bush when he said God told him to go to war…You people should all be as ashamed of yourselves as your god is!