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Vol. 4 No. 9, September 2012 Copyright 2012 by Wolf
J. Rinke
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1. NEW CPE--HOT OFF THE PRESS
2. NUTRITION NEWS YOU CAN USE
3. HOW TO SAVE UP TO 16% ON CPEUs
4. THE SCIENCE BEHIND A POSITIVE ATTITUDE
5. HEAR WOLF "HOWL"--I MEAN SPEAK
6. HUMOR BREAK
7. ABOUT THE EDITOR
8. PRIVACY STATEMENT AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
INSIGHT BREAK
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and
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- Adam Smith
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What is the #1 Source of Sodium in the American Diet?
Pick our #1 source from the following list, but be careful, it is a
"trick question":
1. Savory snacks such as potato chips.
2. Meat mixed dishes,
3. Pasta mixed dishes,
4. Cheese,
5. Sandwiches,
6. Soups,
7. Poultry,
8. Pizza,
9. Cold cuts/cured meats,
10. Bread and rolls.
According to a study by the CDC, 44% of sodium consumed came from 10
food categories in the following order: bread and rolls, cold cuts/cured
meats, pizza, poultry, soups, sandwiches, cheese, pasta mixed dishes,
meat mixed dishes, and savory snacks. (That's correct, the above list
is presented in reverse order, in other words bread and rolls are our
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4. THE SCIENCE BEHIND A POSITIVE ATTITUDE
by Wolf J. Rinke, PhD, CSP
You may consider much of the positive attitude literature a bunch of
hype or even psycho babble. With this article my goal is to have you
consider the science, and perhaps change your perceptions about this
topic which has the potential to help you and your clients live a healthier,
more productive, and longer life.
Positive Attitude and the Mind-Body Connection
Scientists and physicians have explored the mind-body connection since
the days of Hippocrates, the father of medicine. However, Western medicine
got off to a wrong start when, in the seventeenth century, René
Descartes, philosopher and founding father of modern medicine, made
a deal with the Pope. You see, Descartes had a dilemma. He needed human
bodies for dissection to be able to study and teach medicine. However,
the Pope was not interested in giving up those bodies because the church
was in charge of the soul, the mind, and the emotions. So Descartes
agreed that he would not in any way trespass on the church's exclusive
jurisdiction as long as he could have the physical parts of the human
body for his study. This resulted in Western medicine splitting the
human body into two separate dimensions-psyche, the mind, and soma,
the body-which has pervaded every scientific inquiry for the past two
centuries. And it influences much of our thinking to this date. However,
change-may it ever be so gradual-is taking place.
What are psychosomatic illnesses?
As nutrition professionals, we know of numerous diseases, called psychosomatic
illnesses, which acknowledge this relationship. The term psychosomatic
is from the Greek words psyche, which means mind, and soma, which means
body. According to Mosby's Medical Dictionary, psychosomatic illnesses,
also known as psycho physiologic disorders, refers to any of a large
group of mental disorders that is characterized by the dysfunction of
an organ or organ system controlled by the autonomic nervous system
and that may be caused or aggravated by emotional factors. Included
in this category are such common ailments as: tension headaches, body
pains, upset stomachs, and more serious diseases such as depression,
asthma, peptic ulcers, rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension, and neurodermatitis.
Some physicians even include cancers. These ailments and diseases are
so common that Dr. Herbert Benson, founder of the Mind Body Medical
Institute at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and
author of "Timeless Healing and the Relaxation Response" stated
in a Good Morning America interview that "...60 to 90 percent of
visits to health care professionals are in the stress-related mind-body
realm where surgery doesn't work, where medications don't work."
Since then, numerous studies have demonstrated the importance of a positive
attitude on one's perception of well being, wellness, and health.
Positive Attitude and Health
One example of the impact of a positive attitude on healing is a double-blind,
randomized study of surgical patients undergoing hysterectomies. This
study, which was reported in the prestigious British medical journal
Lancet, found that patients who received positive messages during general
anesthesia "spent significantly less time in [the] hospital after
surgery, suffered from significantly shorter period of pyrexia [fever],
and made a better than expected recovery" in comparison with the
group that received no such messages.
A positive attitude can even reduce the incidence of strokes. Researchers
at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston reported that
individuals who had a positive outlook in their later years had far
fewer strokes than their negative counterparts. This major study of
2,478 men and women older than age 65 who were followed for seven years
concluded, "Elderly folks who often feel blue tend to have more
strokes than those who are not depressed."
And optimism even appears to offer some level of protection from cancer.
According to Sharot "A study of cancer patients revealed that pessimistic
patients younger than age 60 were more likely to die within eight months
than non-pessimistic patients of the same initial health, status, and
age."
Similarly a study of almost 100,000 woman found that optimists had a
16 percent lower risk of having heart attacks, leading the researchers
to conclude that "Optimism and cynical hostility are independently
associated with important health outcomes in black and white women."
Positive Attitude and Longevity
How you express yourself may even predict how long you will live. An
analysis of brief autobiographies written more than 60 years ago by
a group of then-young Catholic nuns-who were participating in a study
on aging and Alzheimer's disease-revealed that those nuns who chronicled
positive emotions in their 20s have lived markedly longer than those
who recounted emotionally neutral personal histories. Deborah D. Danner
of the University of Kentucky in Lexington and her colleagues analyzed
positive emotional content in life stories written by 180 nuns when
they were, on average, 22 years old. The scientists then noted which
nuns had died and when. Nuns whose stories contained the most sentences
expressing any of 10 positive emotions lived an average of 7 years longer
than those whose accounts included the fewest such sentences. The researchers
also found that longevity increased by 9½ years for nuns whose
life stories contained the most words referring to positive emotions
and by 10½ years for nuns who used the greatest number of different
positive-emotion words.
Optimistic people live 19 percent longer than pessimists, according
to a 30-year study conducted at the Mayo Clinic. The study, which evaluated
839 people living in Minnesota, found that people classified as optimists
had a significantly better survival rate, while pessimists had a 19
percent increase in the risk of death. These findings, according to
Maruta, the lead researcher in the study, "Tell us that mind and
body are linked and that attitude has an impact on the final outcome,
death." Similarly, a 25-year longitudinal study of 660 people conducted
at Yale University found that a positive attitude about old age was
more important than wealth, gender, and even cholesterol levels in determining
how long people lived. In fact people who had positive self-perceptions
about aging lived 7.5 years longer than those who dreaded the thought.
Positive Attitude and Performance
It seems that positivism even impacts individual and organizational
performance. For example, an article in the Harvard Business Review
concluded, "Research shows that when people work with a positive
mindset, performance on nearly every level-productivity, creativity,
engagement-improves." In another study, researchers recorded how
people express themselves in company meetings, and then take a ratio
of positive to negative statements. (That is referred to as the 'Losado
Ratio.') What they found is that: "Companies with better than a
2.9:1 ratio for positive to negative statements are flourishing. Below
that ratio, companies are not doing well economically."
On a more personal level, another researcher used the same statistic
by listening to couple's conversations and found that a Losado Ratio
of 2.9:1 means that couples are headed for a divorce, while a 5:1 ratio
is predictive of a strong and loving relationship.
Positive Attitude and Diseases and Illnesses
These studies represent only the tip of the iceberg. Studies increasingly
link attitude to the body's propensity to ward off disease and illness.
An entire new branch of medicine-referred to as psychoneuroimmuniology-has
been established. One of these scientists, Dr. Candace Pert, research
professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown
University Medical Center and pioneer in the mind-body connection, has
concluded that, "Virtually all illness … has a definite psychosomatic
component, … [and that] the molecules of emotion run every system
in our body … this communication system is in effect a demonstration
of the bodymind's intelligence, an intelligence wise enough to seek
wellness, and one that can potentially keep us healthy and disease-free
… ."
It Can't Cure Disease
Before I leave this topic I would like to express a word of caution.
What I have said in this article is that your attitudes, your thoughts,
your feelings, and your emotions influence your well being, your health,
and probably even your longevity. I am convinced that what goes on inside
of your head will control your future. It is, however, much less likely
to affect what has happened in the past or what is happening in the
present. In other words, if you have cancer or some other serious disease
you cannot just think positive thoughts and make the disease go away!
In fact one author who suffered from cancer makes a compelling point
that when tragedy strikes, anger, fear, and depression are reasonable
responses. And telling someone to just "think positive thoughts"
may indeed be counterproductive. What you need to do is get expert medical
treatment. Once you have received such treatment, you can use your incredible
positive attitude as an adjunct therapy to help you get better faster.
You can also continue that type of positive programming after you have
conquered the illness or disease and very likely decrease the probability
of recurrence.
Source: Excerpted from W. J. Rinke, Develop a Positive Attitude: Live
a Healthier and More Productive Life, Ch. 2. (CPE Home Study Course,
approved for 10 CPEUs), Wolf Rinke Associates, Clarksville, MD, 2012,
http://www.wolfrinke.com/CEFILES/C230CPEcourse.html.
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6. HUMOR BREAK
John, a true pessimist, had heard about the benefits of optimism and
wanted to become an optimist as rapidly as possible. His friend, Denny,
suggested that a fast cure for pessimism is to learn how to skydive.
According to Denny, "Nothing in this world makes you an optimist
faster than jumping out of an airplane." So after taking lessons,
John was finally ready to make his first jump. Prior to taking him up
for his first jump, the instructor reviewed what to expect:
1. When we get to the right altitude I will give you the signal, and
you will jump.
2. Once you clear the plane, pull this cord.
3. In the event the chute does not open, pull the red emergency cord.
4. After you land, a truck will pick you up and take you back to your
car.
Just like the instructor had said, after John had cleared the plane
he pulled the cord.
Nothing happened. Then he pulled the red emergency cord, and still nothing
happened. As he was hurdling to the ground, John said to himself, "This
is just peachy, and I bet the truck won't be there either."
7. ABOUT THE EDITOR
Dr. Wolf J. Rinke, RD, CSP is the president of Wolf Rinke Associates--an
accredited provider of easy to use CPE home study programs for nutrition
professionals since 1990 available at www.easyCPEcredits.com. He is
also a highly effective management consultant and executive coach who
specializes in building peak performance organizations, teams and individuals,
and an author of numerous CPE home study courses, audio/video programs
as well as several best selling management, leadership and self-development
books including Make it a Winning Life--Success Strategies for Life,
Love and Business. In addition he is an internationally recognized keynote
speaker and seminar leader who delivers customized presentations that
combine story telling, humor and motivation with specific "how
to" action strategies that participants can apply immediately to
improve their personal and professional lives. Preview a demo at www.WolfRinke.com
or call 800-828-9653. If you have questions, or would like him to address
a specific issue or topic please e-mail him at WolfRinke@aol.com.
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