Health: Freeing Ourselves From Toxic Ties With the Past

Freeing Ourselves From Toxic Ties With the Past – Part II

Written by John R. Cook

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possible negative historical influences in your life. You will recall from last month’s column that these influences can be of three types: state dependent recall that floods us with memories sharing repparttar 139185

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way we did as a child; and introjects that influence us to display attitudes and values borrowed from our caregivers. Pick up a copy of last month’s Platinum Magazine, or refer to this article online at http://pacificcoast.net/~psycserv/platinum.htm.

The next step is to find a clinical counsellor, social worker or psychologist who specializes in working with “family of origin” and other historical issues. The task of resolving your toxic ties involves integrating these historical influences with your adult skills and experiences. Traditionally, this has been with talking therapy designed to develop insight into repparttar 139187 relationship between present-day coping difficulties with formative past experiences. While this time-honoured approach is still in common usage today, there are additional therapies available today, generally referred to as “power therapies”, because they accelerate repparttar 139188 healing process.

One of these “power therapies” is called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing or EMDR. It was discovered in 1987 by Dr. Francine Shapiro who noticed by chance that moving one’s eyes back and forth reduced repparttar 139189 intensity of negative, upsetting thoughts. The proofing ground for EMDR was Vietnam war combat veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but it has also been shown to be effective with civilian PTSD such as that experienced by victims of sexual assault. The EMDR Association of Canada lists 12 members in Victoria on its Web site at http://www.emdrac.ca/publicinfo.

How Safe Is the Atkins Diet?

Written by Michael Lewis

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The Atkins Diet Seems To Never Go Away

---------------------------------------- Fad diets come and go, but The Atkins Diet, a high-protein, low-carbohydrate weight-loss plan, seems never to go away, no matter how many medical professionals denounce it.

"Low-carb diets have been linked to increased frequency of colon cancer, formation of kidney stones, kidney disease, and even osteoporosis," says Neal Barnard, MD, president of repparttar 139186 Physicians Commission for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit research group based in Washington. "The weight loss you see in low-carb diets isn't all that much better than what you see in studies of low-fat, vegetarian diets."

A Pretty Evil Weight Loss Diet

---------------------------------------- Putting it more bluntly is Kiku Collins-Trentylon, a sports trainer in New York City, who says it's "a pretty evil diet. We all want to sit on our couches, eat nonstop, and have perfect, sculpted bodies. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way."

Meat is repparttar 139187 culprit in low-carb diet danger, says Barnard.

"The reason for repparttar 139188 health worries is in large part due to red meat," he says. "People who eat meat every day have three times greater risk of developing colon cancer. And then there is repparttar 139189 problem of repparttar 139190 kidneys. They aren't designed to work on an oil slick of fat."

Big, Fat, High Protein Controversy

----------------------------------------- In repparttar 139191 summer of 2002, however, both Time magazine and The Sunday New York Times Magazine have published much-talked-about stories that say Atkins may not be as bad for heart health as previously believed. These stories were sparked in part by a recent study from researchers at Duke University showing most people who ate a high-protein, low-carb diet for six months lost 20 pounds.

That much was expected. What wasn't expected was that repparttar 139192 researchers didn't see strong evidence of repparttar 139193 diet causing any health problems. In fact, both LDL "bad" cholesterol and HDL "good" cholesterol improved.

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