Important: Tylenol and Other Popular OTC Meds Recall

Last month McNeil Healthcare LLC, the makers of Tylenol, started a recall of their most popular product. Yesterday the product recall has expanded to include more than two dozen other over-the-counter products manufactured by McNeil, which includes children's pills.

According to the company, the broadened directive adds 54 million bottles of product to the recall, boosting the total number of bottles recalled by McNeil to 60 million.

Products include Tylenol, Banadryl, Rolaids, Motrin, Simply Sleep and St. Joseph.

Please visit the RECALL WEBSITE for details.

What did you say?

I read a great article today on "The Art of Authentic Listening" by Ann Catlin, LMT.

Over and over I've read steps on becoming a better listener, from both the business perspective and the personal focus. I enjoyed Ann's steps and I'm going to dedicate a week to each step. Here they are:

• Quiet your mind
• Be willing to listen without judgment
• Commit to patience (a hard one, personally)
• Remain in the moment
• Avoid the temptation to formulate a response
• Be honest
• Listen with your eyes (read non-verbal and watch your posture)
• Listen to the silence as well as the words
• Gladly receive the gifts of authentic listening (let yourself be uplifted and the other person will feel the same)

I look forward to the coming weeks and see how different my world will be when I listen authentically!

Inexpensive and Effective Therapy: Epsom Salt!

I often suggest Epsom salt baths to clients and regularly enjoy them myself. Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, a natural substance hailed for its many uses. The most popular benefit from an Epsom salt bath is its ability to reduce swelling of injuries, ankles and other joints. A bath can also help relax the body with hopes of a better night sleep.

Additional Ailments that may benefit:

• sciatica, lumbago, rheumatism, diabetes, neuritis, cold, kidney disorders, and other uric acid and skin affections.

You can find Epsom salt in most drugstores in either a carton or bag. It is very inexpensive and has a long shelf-life.

The best time for this bath is in the evening before bedtime because of its relaxing effects. Follow the directions on the label as the dosage depends on the size of your bath. I like to add essential oils such as eucalyptus or lavender to make my bath more therapeutic and relaxing.

Precautions

• Bathing should be avoided within 3 hours after a meal, or one after before eating.
• Avoid during menstruation.
• Do not use Epsom salt internally, this product is intended for external use only.
• Do not use in cases of skin infection or external wounds.
• Consult with a doctor before using if you have medical conditions, on medication or are pregnant.

Recovering from the Holidays - Natural Help!

Since Halloween I've eaten too much sugar, underexercised and slacked off on my supplements. Honestly, I don't feel 100% when I don't take care of myself. My sleep patterns are off, my energy is lacking, my digestion isn't what it should be and my skin doesn't have its healthy glow.

Now that New Years has come and gone, less parties are on the schedules and regular routines are back. And that means taking better care of ourselves and helping the ones we love do the same.

A great article was sent to my inbox this morning and I'm passing this great info to you. Many of you who know me hear me mention homeopathic remedies often. I love them! In the Sacramento area the remedies are easy to find in stores. Try Nugget, Whole Foods, Sunrise Natural Foods or Elliot's.

Here are some of my favorites from the article:

Overeating including too many sweets or alcohol:

Lycopodium: With belching and bloating. Craving for sweets and alcohol and warm drinks, huge appetite.

Nux Vomica: With irritability and constipation, colic and cramping, worse tight clothes, better warmth and warm drinks, addictive cravings, impatience.

Argentum Nitricum: Rectal gas loud enough to earn a reputation, stomach distension, desires sweets including sugar, desires salt.

Anticipation with excitement:

Argentum Nitricum: Impulsive, sympathetic, compulsive thoughts, anxiety while anticipating and needs company, fear to be late, hurried, worse from eating sweets.

Coffea: Sensitive, nervous and over-reactive, insomnia, uncontrollable thoughts and racing mind, ecstatic states, ailments from grief.

For more information, read the entire article.

Sitting at the Desk: Quick Pick-Me-Up Massage

Back, Neck and Shoulders: Under Pressure Quick Massage Pick-Me-Ups while Sitting at a Desk

By Dawn Groves

Originally published in Massage & Bodywork magazine, February/March 2000.
Copyright 2003. Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals. All rights reserved.

When you sit at a desk, hunched over papers or a computer, your body tends to form a C shape. This slumped posture creates pressure on your back, neck and shoulders and can cause pinched muscles, fatigue and, if you've been reading a lot, eye strain. The following pick-me-ups will help break this tension cycle. They don't need to be performed in any particular order. However, if you do only one technique, be sure to repeat it to get the best results. In some cases, you do not need to actually massage the muscle, because the movement itself creates the massage effect. You'll get the maximum benefit from doing two or three techniques.


Preparation
1. Loosen your collar.
2. If possible, remove confining or thick garments such as jackets and sweaters.
3. Center your attention before beginning.

Shrugging the Shoulders
When you shrug your shoulders, you are exercising muscles that tend to get pulled forward and hardened by tension. This tension buildup commonly occurs when you sit with your weight resting on your tailbone instead of forward over your hips. Shrugging breaks up the tension and provides a mild form of exercise that increases blood flow and restores mobility. The more you support the mobility of your shoulders, the less likely you'll be to harbor tension there.

1. Slowly lift your right shoulder straight up to your ear.
2. Slowly return your right shoulder to a neutral position.
3. Repeat the lift/release movement with the left shoulder.
4. Repeat the lift/release movement with both shoulders together.

Hints:
- Keep your shoulder muscles soft as you do this. Don't force the movement.
- Don't tilt your head toward your shoulder. Bring your shoulder up to your ear.
- Keep the opposite shoulder in a neutral or slightly dropped position and avoid hunching it as you lift the shrugging shoulder.


Squeezing the Neck
It's easy for your neck to become tense, especially when you are seated at a desk. When the neck muscles tense up, your neck often loses its mobility. A neck massage helps to restore muscle flexibility and release built-up tension.

1. Place your right hand on the right side of your neck and position your fingertips just to the right of your neck bones.
2. Keeping your fingertips together, massage the neck muscle using a gentle, circular motion. Without straining, move your hand up and down the neck muscle. Keep your neck in a neutral position as you massage.
3. Repeat the procedure using your left hand on the left side of your neck.
4. Repeat the procedure again using both hands and massage both sides of the neck at the same time.

Hints:
- Don't press your neck so hard that you feel compelled to counteract the pressure in order to keep your neck from being pushed out of a neutral, upright position.
- Watch out for the tendency to hunch your shoulders, especially as you increase the pressure.
- Don't let your head fall backward into your hand or forward into an extreme bend. Keep it level and in a neutral position.

Pressing the Temples
It's almost instinctive to rub your temples and forehead when you are tired or stressed. Exerting pressure on the temples does help relieve headaches and jaw pain, and often refreshes the facial muscles.

1. Place the index, middle and ring fingers of each hand against the corresponding temple on either side of your head.
2. Close your eyes, press gently and slowly move your fingers in small circles for about 15 seconds.
3. Rest for 15 seconds and then repeat, with the fingers moving in the opposite direction.
Hints:
- Rest your elbows on the desk as you massage.
- Don't press too hard, otherwise you might irritate the delicate skin over the temples. If you want to use the pressure technique, keep your fingers still and slowly increase the static pressure.
- Move your fingers very slowly. The slower the movement, the more relaxing the massage.
- Using the same circular movement, massage up your temples and across your forehead.

Excerpted from "Massage for Busy People," by Dawn Groves 1999. Reprinted with permission of New World Library, Novato, Calif., www.nwlib.com, toll-free ordering at 800/972-6657, ext. 52.

Please read: Swine Flu Facts Hard to Find

As reported by Jon Rappoport atnomorefakenews.com, the CDC stopped testing for swine flu in July.

The CDC H1N1 flu site reads:

"... tracking of 2009 H1N1 hospitalizations and deaths will not be the same after August 30, 2009.

In an effort to add additional structure to the national 2009 H1N1 reporting, new case definitions for influenza-associated hospitalizations and deaths were implemented on August 30, 2009.

The new definitions allow states to report to CDC hospitalizations and deaths (either confirmed OR probable) resulting from all types of influenza, not just those from 2009 H1N1 flu.

1. Influenza and pneumonia syndrome hospitalizations and deaths may be an overestimate of actual number of flu-related hospitalizations and deaths, but CDC believes influenza and pneumonia syndromic reports are likely to be a more sensitive measure of flu-associated hospitalizations and deaths than laboratory confirmed reports during this pandemic.

However, the syndromic reports of all hospitalizations and deaths recorded as either influenza or pneumonia will mean that the case counts are less specific than before and will include cases that are not related to influenza infection."

So how do we know we are in a true epidemic state? We don't.

Please read the full report from Mercola.com.

Acai Berry Exposed

Use care when you are choosing the acai berry products that you will use in supplement form. Check the ingredients list very carefully before you take any over the counter product. If you want the most benefit of acai berry without the side effects of other ingredients, you should look for a product that is made of pure acai berry and not filled with other ingredients. Some of the products could be dangerous.

Read more at this informative website.

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