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Balanced Living Annual 2010 Dr. Weil’s 2010 Annual Balanced Living Edition Your Guide to Living Life Fully HEALTHY EATING 12 Delicious, Nutritious Recipes Foods for Health Concerns The Anti-Infl ammatory Diet 6 Steps to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease America’s Best-Known Doctor on Getting Better Sleep Boosting Your Mood Women’s & Men’s Health The Importance of Omega-3s 4 WAYS TO BOOST YOUR ENERGY Dr. Weil’s Balanced Living 2010 Annual Edition Dear Reader, I’m delighted to welcome you to this 2010 Annual Edition of Balanced Living, in which you’ll find 12 information-packed issues of my exclusive monthly newsletter. Balanced Living explores healthy living from the perspective of integrative medicine, a healing-oriented medical philosophy that encompasses the whole person: body, mind and spirit. The articles here cover the best, evidence-based therapies from both conventional and alternative practitioners. My aim is simple: to help you achieve and maintain optimum health. Within this issue we’ll examine energy and supplements that boost it without the “crash” that inevitably follows shortcuts such as sugar and caffeine. We’ll explore memory, focusing on safe, healthy ways to limit inappropriate infl ammation in the brain, which is believed to underlie many forms of memory loss. We’ll look at vision and ways to protect it from threats like macular degeneration - an irreversible eye disorder affecting the central part of the retina. And we’ll take on the modern epidemic of depression, focusing on gentle, natural therapies that may be even more effective - and almost certainly safer - than the pharmaceuticals that are all too often prescribed for the condition. I look forward to the healing journey that we are about to take together! Yours in Health, contents January 2010 March 2010 May 2010 Encouraging Energy 10 A Healthy Brain 18 Rest & Sleep 28 Supplements and Energy 7 Memory-Enhancing 8 Quick Tips for Better Rest 4 Foods for Energy Supplements 4 Natural Sleep Aids Quick Tip 1: Exercise 6 Steps to Prevent Alzheimer’s Quick Tip 1: The Value of Napping Quick Tip 2: Grazing Disease Quick Tip 2: Sleep and Weight Lifestyle Tips for Energy Quick Tip1: A Spice for the Brain The Relaxing Breath Recipe: Black Bean Soup Quick Tip 2: Get Outdoors for Recipe: Miso Soup Better Memory Foods for a Healthy Brain February 2010 Recipe: Poached Salmon June 2010 All About Heart Health 14 Men’s Health 32 8 Heart-Healthy Nutrition Tips Reducing the Risk of Benign 8 Risk Factors for Stroke April 2010 Prostatic Hyperplasia Quick Tip 1: Blood Pressure Personal Care 24 Checklist: 5 Steps to Preventing Quick Tip 2: Exercise and Weight Keeping Skin Healthy Prostate Cancer Loss 9 Ways to a Healthy Weight Quick Tip1: Tomatoes for Men’s 4 Supplements for Your Heart Quick Tip1: Reconnecting with Health Recipe: Apple Oat-Bran Muffi ns Yourself Quick Tip 2: Staying Flexible for Quick Tip 2: Walking for Overall Lifelong Health Health Herbs for Erectile Health Weil Juvenon for Energy Recipe: Summer Melon Soup Recipe: Raspberry Evening Spritzer Balanced Living Annual - Andrew Weil, M.D., Editor; Brad Lemley, Editorial Director; Kara Gonos-Collins, Managing Editor; Brian Becker, M.D., Medical Editor; Dave Hart, Designer July 2010 September 2010 November 2010 Mood & Mental Health 56 Healthy Vision 38 Healthy Aging 48 Are You Depressed? Macular Degeneration Add 14 Years to Your Life Checklist: De-Stressing Your 6 Lifestyle Tips for Healthy Eyes 7 Ways to Enhance Your Home Quick Tip1: Low-Fat Diet for Spiritual Health and Well-Being Quick Tip 1: Simple Steps to Vision Health? Quick Tip 1: Companion Animals Getting Happy Quick Tip 2: Minimizing Eye and Healthy Aging Quick Tip 2: A Natural Energizer Strain Quick Tip 2: Tai Chi for Balance for Mind and Body: Exercise 5 Supplements for Healthy Vision 4 Foods for a Healthy Brain Omega-3s for Optimal Health Recipe: Blueberry Pie and Easy Recipe: Salmon Teriyaki Recipe: Grilled Salmon with Pie Crust Mustard Sauce October 2010 August 2010 Women’s Health 52 December 2010 Digestive Health 42 Preventing Osteoporosis Healthy Year Roundup 60 Addressing Constipation: 9 Life- Breast Cancer: 7 Nutrition Tips Achieving a Healthy Weight style and Nutrition Tips Quick Tip 1: Preparing for 4 Ways to Boost Your Energy Got GERD? 7 Tips to Try Menopause Quick Tip 1: The Value of Napping Quick Tip 1: The Lowdown on Quick Tip 2: Embracing Aging Quick Tip 2: For Your Heart: Triphala Women and Heart Disease Exercise and Weight Loss Quick Tip 2: What Are Probiotics? Recipe: Vegetable and Tofu Stir 6 Steps to Prevent Alzheimer’s 6 Simple Tips for Better Digestion Fry Disease Recipe: Hummus Recipe: Tart Cherry-Apple Crunch Copyright © 2011 Weil Lifestyle, LLC. Information within is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. You should not use the information within for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing any medication or other treatment. Science for Cellular Health SUPPORT FOR HEALTH AND AGING Juvenon™ is the first supplement to contain acetyl-L-carnitine (ALC) and alpha lipoic acid (ALA). The patented Juvenon™ Cellular Health Supplement formula provides a balanced ratio of these nutrients, which have been shown to boost mitochondrial levels and slow cellular aging. Weil Juvenon offers a full 60-day money-back guarantee. If you decide to return an order for any reason, your credit card account will be fully credited for the amount of the purchase (excluding shipping). Order by Phone or Online Call toll free 1-866-652-0433. Please have your credit card information available when calling. Or visit: www.WeilJuvenon.com “The energy I’ve got with other products in the past was a burst of energy and then it was over. With the Weil Juvenon formula, it’s a steady stream of energy. I’m definitely going to be telling my friends, you’ve got something here. You don’t have to grow old the way your parents did.” Marsha Major, age 61 “I tested it for 30 days because I figured what did I have to lose?I was feeling kind of slow and icky and I thought—you know—if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. But if it does, how much better will I feel? Lo and behold I feel better. And since I’m feeling better, I don’t feel as 47 as I did six weeks ago. But the most important and hugest thing to me is falling asleep is really easy and I stay asleep. It’s been great and I’m gonna’ keep taking it.” Julie Ross, age 47 www.WeilJuvenon.com These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any diseases. People often ask me why my name and face are on commercial products. I created the I feel this challenge is appropriate to anyone asking trust from the public, and my answer addresses my efforts at establishing a long-term funding Weil Foundation mechanism for education and research in integrative medicine. In as a long-term addition, every product, and every manufacturer that licenses my name is funding mechanism for actively engaged in making the world better. the advancement Through these ethical business practices I hope to encourage the of integrative transition from a consumptive economy to a restorative one. A restorative medicine through business is one that provides a valuable product that a sustainable training, research, the world needs, displacing unsustainable products in the process. Some education of the public, restorative businesses also donate a portion of their profi ts to non-profi t organizations, doubling their effectiveness. and policy reform. I believe the day is coming I personally make nothing from products that I endorse. I donate all of my when all doctors will after-tax profi ts from royalties from sales of licensed products directly to the Weil Foundation, a not-for-profi t organization dedicated to supporting be routinely trained in integrative medicine through training, education and research. integrative medicine. For a full list of grant receipients and licensed products visist: www.weilfoundation.org Supporting the advancement of integrative medicine Since its inception in 2005, the Weil Foundation has given out more than $2 million in grants and gifts to medical centers and other non-profi t organizations nationwide. Our shared goal is nothing less than to transform health care. Consumers who buy products licensed by Andrew Weil, M.D., pioneer of integrative medicine, help to fund the Weil Foundation. Dr. Weil contributes to the Foundation all of his after-tax profi ts from the sale of these products. Individuals and companies who believe in the potential of integrative medicine also make donations to the Foundation. The Foundation The Strategy The Contributions The Weil Foundation is a non-profi t The Foundation believes that it can have The Foundation is funded mostly by organization that receives tax-deductible the greatest impact by focusing its grant- Dr. Weil’s contributions. Dr. Weil donates donations which it uses to make grants making on a particular objective. At all of his after-tax profi ts from royalties to advance integrative medicine. present the Foundation makes most of on the sale of retail products licensed Incorporated in 2002, the Foundation its grants to institutions that are working by Weil Lifestyle LLC. The company became active in 2005 when it began to change medical education so that partners only with businesses that share to receive substantial contributions integrative medicine becomes a routine Dr.
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