Posted by Joe Rongo on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 @ 09:25 AM
When my colleagues and I recently revisited a 70-year-old study of pregnant women in Finland, we discovered something shocking: The size and shape of a mother’s pelvis can predict whether her daughter might someday develop breast cancer.
Despite decades of research and breakthroughs, the origins of breast and ovarian cancers remain a mystery for 90 percent of women—a huge obstacle to treating these diseases. Imagine if we could predict whether a baby would grow up to develop breast cancer the moment she was born. Now imagine if we could make this prediction before she had even been conceived.
by Kent L. Thornburg, PhD
Posted by Joe Rongo on Fri, Feb 05, 2010 @ 07:39 AM
SpaQuality LLC has released the fifth edition of its quality system management standards for spas,
The International Standards of SpaExcellenceSM2010. The Standards have been reorganized and expanded and more guidance and examples have been provided. The Standards, now over 200 pages, are offered in both print and pdf file format.
Julie Register
Managing Director, Operations
SpaQuality LLC302-426-0274
Posted by Joe Rongo on Fri, Dec 11, 2009 @ 06:13 PM
ABMP has a relationship with
Association Health Programs. You can find out more about them in the back of the
Different Strokes member newsletter:
For a free evaluation of your current benefits, call 888-450-3040 or 913-341-2868, or visit
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Posted by Joe Rongo on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 @ 06:16 AM
The Native American Sweatlodge
A Spiritual Tradition
A Crow sweat lodge.--Museum of the American Indian
The Sweat Lodge Ceremony, now central to
most Native American cultures and spiritual life, is an adaptation of
the sweat bath common to many ethnic cultures found in North and South
America, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, and Africa. It was prompted
by the influence of European culture with its corrupting effect on
native culture. With the introduction of alcohol and the inhumane
treatment of native people, the need to re-purify themselves and find
their way back to traditional ways of living became evident, as they
were becoming increasingly poisoned by European culture. The Sweat
Lodge Ceremony was the answer.
Posted by Joe Rongo on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 @ 02:50 PM
Did Oprah help legitimize James Ray, now under investigation for his role in a sweat-lodge retreat that resulted in three deaths?
Lloyd Grove reports in the Daily Beast.
When three people died and dozens more were hospitalized from the effects of a faux Indian sweat lodge two weeks ago—during a “spiritual warrior weekend” in Sedona, Arizona, for which participants paid nearly $10,000 apiece—a harsh light was cast on the so-called New Age Movement and its greedier entrepreneurs.