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Whole Health Matters
January-February, 2009
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Winter Wellness Guide
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In this issue:
Colds and
Flu
Dry, Itchy
Skin
Banish Winter
Blues
Winter Nutrition
Creating Emotional
Harmony
Your Personalized
Health Plan
What Clients Have Said
Welcome
to the Winter issue of
Whole Health Matters. My
vision
is to help you create a healthy, fit body;
emotional harmony; and passionate, abundant
living. The focus of this issue is
Winter
Wellness. Dry, itchy skin,
colds, flu, sinus infections, and emotional
disharmonies, including SAD, can all be
prevented or treated naturally. Solutions are
given in this newsletter.
Have you noticed that your mental outlook,
emotional state and physical health are affected
by seasonal changes? Learning to adapt as
nature does through the seasons can insure
vibrant health and emotional harmony. It's not
the season that is making you sick, but your
inability to adapt to climatic changes. Even
though some climates experience less dramatic
weather changes, it is still important to adopt
nutritional and lifestyle patterns that are in
harmony with the season.
Many of you winterize your home and car in
preparation for the winter months. Preparing
your body and mind can prevent winter from
wreaking havoc on your health. This can be an
enjoyable season that you look forward to.
Winter is the end of all seasons with shorter,
colder days. Nature's energy is descending and
contracting. We naturally experience the
cyclical changes of nature internally within us.
Winter is the season for conserving energy. It
is a withdrawing, dormant, thoughtful time. It
is natural to slow down in rhythm with winter
and tend to your inner needs. This is the
season for endings, completions, introspection,
creative endeavors, and self expression. It's
important to get more rest, and to
conserve energy reserves in preparation for the
rapid growth and expansion of spring.
Sickness, anxiety, insecurity, and depression
occur when you become out of harmony with the
environment. Often these disharmonies
are caused from excesses of the previous season
and inappropriate foods and lifestyle choices in
the current season.
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All of your choices Matter-what you choose to
eat, think, feel, and believe; how you relate to
others; your life's work; and the rhythm of your
life all impact your well-being. If some aspect
of your health or life is not working as well as
you would like, you have many options when you
choose a WholeHealth approach through my
TeleClasses and
individual counseling.
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Your birthright is radiant health and joyful,
abundant living. I've dedicated much of my life
to sorting through the hype, studying with
masters, and teaching clients how to create
radiant Whole Health-physically, mentally,
emotionally, and spiritually.
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Common Winter Illnesses
Colds, Flu and Sinus Infections
The best treatment for winter colds and
influenza is prevention. But don't despair if
you're already inflicted. There are many herbs,
supplements, and foods that are safe and
effective for prevention and treatment.
Cold symptoms can include nasal discharge, runny
nose, sneezing, coughing and fever. Colds
primarily involve the upper respiratory organs,
the throat, sinuses and nasal
passages. Irregular bowel movements
and diarrhea can accompany colds because of poor
elimination of wastes.
Influenza includes many of the same symptoms
along with body aches, fatigue, flushing of the
neck, face and chest, headache, chills, vomiting
and diarrhea. Flu symptoms of affect the
digestive organs, and tend to be much worse than
colds.
Colds, flu, and other infections are much less
frequent among those who eat a naturally
balanced diet. Colds represent your body
discharging excesses from the diet and from
eating foods out of harmony with your
environment. It is one way your body cleanses.
The accumulation of excess from a poor quality
diet provides fertile ground for the many cold
and flu viruses.
The key to preventing colds, flu, and other
infections is avoiding dietary extremes that
lead to recurring discharges and weakened
immunity. An environmentally balanced diet can
prevent infections and strengten resistance to
disease. These illnesses are more prevelant in
fall and winter because the modern diet does not
reflect natural seasonal variations. Adapting
your diet seasonally can help you adjust to
changing weather conditions without sickness.
Click this link to read more
on prevention and treatment of colds, flu and
sinus problems.
Your Winter Medicine Cabinet
Special Savings on Safe, Effective Remedies
Dry, Itchy Skin
According to TCM, dryness is usually related to
lung imbalances caused by diet,
excessive activity, some
pharmaceuticals, and adverse climate.
Excessive use of cleansing products can
cause itchiness. During the winter
months, with the low humidity and
central heating, dryness is more
prevalent. Being in harmony with the
seasons means knowing how to offset the
colder, drier climate. Symptoms of
dryness are thirst, dry skin, nose,
lips, throat, and itchiness.
You know the importance of keeping hydrated by
drinking plenty of fluids. It's even
more important to regularly include
foods that
moisten
during the drier months. While using a
good moisturizer can be helpful, it's
more effective to create moisture from
the inside out. Drinking more water is
not enough.
Oats in any of its common forms - oatmeal,
steel cut oats, or whole oat groats are
ideal for moistening the skin. They are
also helpful for preventing infections
and contagious diseases, especially in
children. Oats can be used in soups,
puddings, breads, toppings and desserts
and as a breakfast porridge.
Other foods that moisten dryness are:
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Almond milk and soy milk;
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Tofu and Tempeh;
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Spinach, mushrooms, winter squash, yams
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Whole grain barley, oats, and millet;
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Pears and apples;
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Sea Vegetables especially kombu and wakame;
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Almonds, pinenuts, peanuts, and sesame seed,
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Honey (cooked), barley malt, brown rice syrup,
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Eggs, clam, crab, oyster, mussel, herring and
pork.
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Unrefined sea salt in cooking moistens
dryness.
Click here for recipe for Squash and
Sage Soup
Click here for recipe for Baked Pears
Click here for Sweet Yam and Pecan
Casserole Recipe
Include two or more of the above foods daily and eliminate coffee,
alcohol and smoking which are
dehydrating. Excessive spicy foods
also cause dryness.
Other factors that contribute are air travel, exposure to too much
elecromagnetic radiation, and a
fast-paced, stressful life. Skin
problems can also result from allergies,
food sensitivities, candidiasis, and
other disharmonies. If you're unsure,
call
412.361.8600
for a
free
30-minute consultation.
Effective Herbel Remedies for Itchiness:
Skin Balance
reduces itching and skin inflammation;
treats psoriasis, eczema, rosacea, hives
and other inflammatory skin conditions;
removes toxins in blood; moistens and
nourishes the skin.
Click here for ordering.
Nine Flavor Tea
treats dryness from lack of yin fluids,
a condition that causes chronic
inflammation, night sweats,
dryness, blurred bision, dizziness,
tinnitus and other problems.
Click here for ordering.
EPAQ Krill Fish
treats dryness associated with eczema
and psoriasis; migraines, oseoarthritis,
rheumatoid arthritis, colitis, Crohn's
disease, psychological stress, asthma,
diabetes and autoimmune diseases.
Click here for ordering.
Banish the Winter Blues
Do you experience significant mood changes
or depressive symptoms in the
winter? Do anxiety, insecurity,
worry, paranoia, fear and anxiety
overcome you? Do you withdraw and
isolate yourself from family and
friends?
Medical experts would diagnose you with SAD and
say the cause is lack of light. The
standard medical approach is light
therapy, anti-depressant
pharmaceuticals, and sometimes
cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Traditional Chinese Medicine and its Five
Transformation Cycle links
specific psychological and emotional
tendencies to imbalances in the
organs. For thousands of years,
this has proven to be an effective
means of diagnosing and treating
physical, mental and emotional
disharmonies.
The Five Elements System of TCM is a
guide for understanding the
correspondences that permeate every
facet of your health and life. The
workings of the body are associated
with seasonal cycles of birth,
growth, ripening, harvest, and
decay. Each of the organ networks
performs a function within the
cycle.
The kidneys are associated with
winter. They govern water
metabolism, and the health of
bladder, adrenals, sexual organs,
head hair, bones and teeth. Many
thyroid problems are due to
insufficient kidney energy.
Kidneys rule the emotions fear, insecurity, and
paranoia, and these emotions will
dominate during the winter in those
with poor kidney health. The
kidneys represent the roots of the
body and they generate energy to
every organ of the body.
Agitation, irritation, nervousness, insecurity
and fear are characteristic of
deficiency of kidney yin energy
which is calming, nurturing,
moistening, stabilizing and
grounding.
Kidney yang energy is warming and energizing.
Deficiency of it corresponds to many
negative emotional states. Your
body, mind and emotions are one
system of energy. Persistent
unhealthy emotions are a reflection
of disharmonies in the organs. To
resolve these issues it's necessary
to treat your WholeHealth and the
energetic causes.
The kidneys are especially
vulnerable to abuse from cold foods
and drinks such as ice cream, cold
soda, and cold alcoholic beverages,
especially when the cold food has a
high concentration of sugar. Raw
foods, fruits and juice should be
minimized or eliminated in the
winter, depending on one's
condition. These are cooling and
best eaten to balance the heat of
warmer months.
Too much coldness in the kidneys
intensifies fear, insecurity,
anxiety, phobias, worry. Many
people withdraw and isolate
themselves in the winter which
further feeds the imbalances.
Toxic diets, chemical additives, and
heavy meat eating cause the kidneys
to become contracted. This results
in faulty cleansing by the kidneys
which puts stress on other
organs and your emotions.
I know you would love a quick fix. Creating
healthy emotions is not a
one-size-fits all approach. There
can never be such an approach.
Join me for Creating Emotional
Harmony TeleSeminar
There are many
herbal formulas that
effectively treat depression, SAD
and other emotions. Often they are
formulas that treat the physical
imbalances which resolves the
undesirable emotional states.
Incorporating appropriate foods for winter
described below will bring better
emotional health.
Practice deep breathing; rest;
meditate deeply; refine your
spiritual essence; and exercise to
create greater harmony in body, mind
and emotions.
If inner awareness Attitudinal work is
neglected, even a sound diet can be
perverted to support emotional
distrubances.
Click this link for Herbal
Emotional Remedies
If you're unsure of the right remedy for you,
call 412.361.8600 or send an email
to
deborah@wholehealthresources.com
to schedule a consultation.
Natural remedies can become another
symptomatic treatment used to manage
a crisis when you do not eliminate
the causes of the problem. Invest
in your health and your future by
having a personalized consultation
with specific recommendations for
your WholeHealth.
Click here for information.
Winter
Nutrition for Mind and Body
Foods That Bring Balance and Harmony
in the winter months are those that
are
warming and substantial. Include
these daily:
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Roasted root vegetables;
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Hearty soups with beans and
vegetables;
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Stews made from good quality beef,
poultry or fish;
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Kidney beans, mung beans, black
beans, and adzuki beans;
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Daily eat root vegetables such as
turnips, parsnips, carrots, yams,
burdock, rutabaga, and onion.
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Winter squashes such as butternut
and acorn, and pumpkin;
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Use whole, unprocessed grains,
especially oats, sweet brown rice,
buckwheat, millet, quinoa, barley
and brown rice as staples.
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Warming cooking herbs and spices:
ginger, garlic, turmeric, cumin,
cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper,
horseradish, cloves, cardamom,
mustard seeds, rosemary and
spearmint.
Click here for FREE WholeHealth
Winter Foods e-cookbook
Creating Emotional Harmony
TeleSeminar
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Begins
October 29, 2009
Melancholy, despair and other aspects of
depression are more common than
ever. Our culture is looking in the
wrong direction for solutions to its
growing mental and emotional
problems.
There are safe, effective and healthy ways to
release chronically held tension and
repressed emotions without reliance
on dangerous phamaceuticals which do
little, if anything, to eliminate
the causes.
We live in uncertain times. It's important
now, more than ever, to learn the
skills for mental and emotional
fitness.
Through your participation in this TeleSeminar,
you will gain an understanding of
your character, attitudes, moods,
emotions, and behavior from a
Holistic perspective.
Included are self-assessments to help you
determine the best Attitudinal
practices, nutritional and other
remedies for you. There is not a
universal standard for achieving a
clear, focused mind, peace and
contentment, joy and passionate
living. Many factors determine the
best path for you.
You will have a clear, flexible plan for living
the
happy, fulfilling life you are meant
to live.
You'll learn the four most important tools for
creating healthy emotions and lots
of tips for putting them to use.
Click here to see more of
what will be covered and for
registration details.
If you have doubts about the effects of food on
emotions, consider the famous
Twinkie Defense of Dan White who
assassinated the Mayor and a member
of the Board of Supervisors of San
Franciso. His lawyers argued that
he was suffering from depression
from consuming sugary foods and
drinks such as twinkies and
coca-cola. The jury found him
guilty of manslaughter rather than
first degree murder and he served
only five years in prison.
I'm not suggesting that you'll ever murder
anyone. I am saying that a part of
you may be dying from persistent
negative emotionals states--the
hopeful, passionate, peaceful, happy
part of you. It's never too late to
take a different path--one that will
bring you back to life. I do hope
you'll join me on what will prove to
be a wonderful part of your life's
journey.
Creating Emotional Harmony
If you're unsure or have questions, please call
me at 412.361.8600 or send an email
to
deborah@wholehealthresources.com
Your
Personalized Health Plan
Are you suffering with health, weight, or
lifestyle problems? Have you
accepted as normal problems that you
know can be changed? Are you too
close to your issues to recognize
what may be holding you back? Do you
think you'd benefit from having a
counselor or coach who can
strategically help you achieve your
health and personal goals, and make
a difference in your life?
Do you experience discomfort, unhappiness,
uneasiness and pain because you do
not have what you want? You're here
to enjoy your life with vitality,
abundance, and well-being--not just
weekends or that once a year
vacation. Have you gotten used to
managing your discomfort,
unhappiness, and pain--even become
comfortable with it? I can help.
For over 25 years I have been
helping clients achieve renewed
health, vital energy, weight loss,
passionate living, a nourishing
lifestyle, and inner peace with my
unique whole person approach.
Make an investment in your health
and your future by scheduling a
session to create a step-by-step
plan for your WholeHealth. Call
412.361.8600 or send and email to
deborah@wholehealthresources.com
for information and scheduling.
Click this link for information on
counseling/coaching
Wishing you a warm and healthy winter!
Deborah Barr
"Following your recommendations has
made me feel happier, content, sure
of my self, more motivated, and I
have more endurance. My skin has
also improved, and mentally I feel
much, much better. Overall,
everything has improved." D.H.
Philadelphia
“I had chronic lower back pain for
years. It never occurred to me that
what I was eating contributed.
Thanks to your nutritional advice,
the pain is gone and I’ve saved a
lot of money I was previously
spending on medical treatments and
medication that weren’t really
helping. A bonus from your work is
the low level anxiety that I
constantly felt is gone.” J. D.
About Deborah Barr
Deborah Barr, 25-year Holistic Health
Counselor/Coach, speaker, and author, works
with clients who want to reverse health and
weight issues; achieve emotional harmony,
radiant health, passion, peaceful living,
work-life balance, and a life they love. In
1985 she founded Whole Health Resources,
the premier Holistic Health Center in
Pittsburgh. WHR's mission is to promote the
healing and development of body, mind and
spirit, and to teach an understanding of the
relationship between diet, attitudes,
lifestyle and wellness. She offers free help
through her 2 e-zines, Natural Weight
Loss, and Whole Health Matters,
and free articles at
www.wholehealthresources.com.
Kenmawr Bldg., Suite 201C
401 Shady Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
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