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Vol. 5 No. 8, August 2013 Copyright 2013 by Wolf J. Rinke

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IN THIS ISSUE
1. NEW CPE--HOT OFF THE PRESS
2. NUTRITION NEWS YOU CAN USE
3. HOW TO SAVE UP TO 16% ON CPEUs PLUS GET A FREE ETHICS COURSE
4. ACHIEVE INNER PEACE EVEN DURING TOUGH TIMES—PART 2
5. HEAR WOLF HOWL--I MEAN SPEAK
6. HUMOR BREAK
7. ABOUT THE EDITOR
8. PRIVACY STATEMENT AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION

INSIGHT BREAK
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

1. NEW CPE--HOT OFF THE PRESS
Nutrition for Infants & Young Children, Fifth Edition, C. M. Bareuther, RD
C243, 12 CPEUs, $104.95
This revised and updated CPE program will help you to:

  • assess common feeding problems and describe solutions,
  • evaluate nutritional status of infants and young children,
  • identify and evaluate growth and developmental patterns,
  • calculate protein, calorie and fluid requirements,
  • describe optimal dietary management for special needs.

For more information and customer comments, click here. Need new link
Approved/Accepted by CDR ,CBDM
For RDs & DTRs--Suggested Learning Need Codes:
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Reminder: Meet your 5 year ethics requirement with our FREE Ethics CPE program, C237E, 2 CPEUs. Developed in collaboration with CDR. Free with purchase of any CPE Program, available in electronic format only! For more information and customer comments, click here.

2. NUTRITION NEWS YOU CAN USE
Want your children to eat healthier foods? Put a sticker on it.
Researchers studying 208 elementary school students during lunch for one week found that youngsters were twice as likely to choose an apple with a cartoon sticker, such as Elmo, than one without a sticker.
ACTION STEP: Help young patients and their parents become more knowledgeable about the benefits of healthy foods. When you enter the keyword "healthy foods for children" in the search field at www.easyCPEcredits.com you will find ten different CPE programs, including "Nutrition for Infants & Young Children, Fifth Edition," C243, approved for 12 CPEUs. (For details go to http://www.wolfrinke.com/CEFILES/C243CPEcourse.html, or for a money saving electronic format http://www.wolfrinke.com/CEFILES/ecourses.htm#C243.
Source: B. Wansink, et al. Can Branding Improve School Lunches? Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012;166(10):967-968. doi:10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.999, http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1352169, accessed 6/24/13.

3. HOW TO SAVE UP TO 16% ON CPEs

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4. ACHIEVE INNER PEACE EVEN DURING TOUGH TIMES—PART 2
by Wolf J. Rinke, PhD, RDN, CSP

In a previous issue of this eNewsletter (5-7) outlined five specific strategies to help you achieve inner peace:
1. Be Where You Are
2. Master the Art of Relaxation
3. Simplify Your Life
4. Be Honest
5. Think Empowering Thoughts
Let's go on from there and discover five additional strategies that will help you achieve inner peace:
6. Take Advantage of the Abundance
When one is poor, struggling and having trouble making ends meet, it is really difficult to see the abundance. What we see instead-almost oppressively-is scarcity. I know firsthand. Having been born at the end of WWII in Germany, with my parents losing all their earthly possessions-yes, everything-we had less than scarcity, we had desperation. Finding enough food and shelter to keep us alive is what consumed my parents. Then some 17 years later-when I immigrated to the United States-scarcity, although not as extreme, reared its ugly head again. Basically I only spoke a few words of English, had an 8th grade education, $20 in my pocket and the proverbial shirt on my back. I certainly had trouble finding all the "milk and honey" everyone had talked about in Germany. However it was all around me, and over time I learned to find it by internalizing a powerful concept that I learned from several different mentors: If you want more of something, you have to give it first. I know it sounds counterintuitive, but it really works. Of course the only way you can take advantage of this principle is to internalize the next one.
7. Look Out For #1
Gotcha! This one catches the negative thinkers' attention. They immediately translate this into selfishness, conceit and greed. Nothing however could be further from the truth. What it means is this: You can't give away something you don't own. Going back to the previous paragraph, if you want to love someone you must first love yourself, if you want to be happier you must choose to be happy. It you want to trust someone…I'm sure you're catching on. Achieving inner peace requires you to make peace with who you are, not who you ought to be…by someone else's standard. The unvarnished fact is that at this nanosecond you are who you are. And no wishing, hoping or praying is going to change that one iota. Now, who you will become will be determined by your thoughts, which in turn drive your actions. So begin right now to become your own best friend! In addition to taking great care of your thoughts also take extraordinary care of your body. And if you want to avoid psychosomatic illnesses, which account for the majority of illnesses, then you must eat right, get adequate rest (seven to eight hours), and do 25-30 minutes of aerobic exercise three times per week, alternating with strength training for the other three days. It also means that you don't put stuff into your body that does not belong there, read illegal drugs, nicotine and excessive alcohol etc.
8. Let Go Of the Past
It's amazing how much mental energy we spend in a place over which we have absolutely no control-the past. I believe it was Dr. Wayne Dyer who likened our past to a bag of manure, which we carry around with us, putting more and more manure into the bag. Once in a while we put the bag down, reach in and smear manure all over ourselves. And then we wonder why our life stinks. Part of what we carry around in our bag is resentments, hate and blame. All of these emotions will attack your soul and diminish the quality of your spirit and your physiology. Go ahead, pay tribute to your past. Visit it. And then toss it. You can make that happen by taking ownership of all that is going on in your life. Your life is not a function of what other people have done; it is today what it is because of the choices you've made in the past. And if your feelings of resentment, hate and blame are attributed to the actions of others, then you have to wait for those people to change, which may never happen. And don't even try to change them! Think! How many of us have difficulty changing ourselves, let alone others. So live by the axiom: If it is to be, it's up to me. Once you've done that, you are ready to take it to the next level, by substituting the emotions of love, empathy and kindness for resentment, hate and blame. This will set you free once and for all.
9. Kill Your Ego
Ego, right along with greed and envy, is one of the most powerful destroyers of inner peace. A look at history confirms that ego is responsible for more evil--think Napoleon, Stalin and Hitler--and more corporate failures--think Enron, Arthur Anderson and WorldCom--as well as relationship killers, than any other emotion I know. And yet we can get rid of it with just five powerful phrases, expressed liberally and from the heart:
"You are right about that." Any time you get into a conflict use this phrase and you will have no conflict-guaranteed!
"I've made a mistake." This will help you get off your high horse gracefully. It re-affirms that there is only one omnipotent force in the universe, and no, it's not you. So quit defining unrealistic expectations for yourself.
"I changed my mind." It's been said that women have cleaner minds then men because they change them often. (Smile already.) You are an evolving human being, one who is like red wine and gets better all the time. And if you want to change your mind you have to let go of your past beliefs. (Remember: the only people who can change their minds are the ones who have one.)
"I don't know." Admit it, even though you are an RD, you don't know everything. Saying it lets other people know that you have high levels of self-esteem. (The only people who are okay inside of their own skin can admit that they don't know everything.)
"Let's agree to disagree." The phrase to use if all else fails.
10. Never Give up on Your Dreams
The purpose of life is not to make it safely to the grave. Pursue your dreams no matter how improbable or how "unreasonable." Let me share an example. Doris Haddock had a passion. She felt that Congress needed to get off their duff and change the campaign finance laws! Unlike most of us, however Doris did not sit around and fret and whine. Instead, Doris started to walk from Pasadena, CA, 10 miles a day, every day until 14 months, 3,200 miles later, she arrived in Washington, DC. Now, here comes the startling part: Doris, better known as Granny D, had a severe case of arthritis, wore a brace and turned 90 years "young" while on the trail. And for an added measure she got arrested twice demonstrating for her beliefs. Why? Because, she had a dream and a passion. So get off your butt and act on your dreams today, and you may achieve the most coveted of all possessions-inner peace.

Source: W. J. Rinke, Beat the Blues: How to Manage Stress and Balance Your Life, 2nd Ed., recently revised and updated,(C242), approved for 28 CPEUs, from which this article was excerpted, available at http://www.wolfrinke.com/CEFILES/C242CPEcourse.html.  

5. HEAR WOLF HOWL--I MEAN SPEAK
Aug 14, 13 "Winning Management: Building a Peak Performance Workplace", Columbus, OH. This full day seminar may be open to you if your company is a member of the Institute of Management Studies (IMS). Contact Mary Held, cleveland@ims-online.com for specifics.
Recommend me to the meeting planner of your upcoming state or local dietetic association and I will help make your next meeting a "howling success." Plus I will make you into a hero. As a way of giving back, I speak to ADA groups at significantly reduced rates.

6. HUMOR BREAK
Garfield: On the reason for the oil crisis
A lot of folks can't understand how come we have an oil shortage. Here's why:
Nobody bothered to check the oil. So we just didn't know we're getting low.
The reason for that is purely geographical. Our oil is located in Alaska, California, Coastal Florida, Coastal Louisiana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas.
But our dipsticks are located in DC.
Courtesy of my friend Denny McHugh

7. ABOUT THE EDITOR
Dr. Wolf J. Rinke, RDN, CSP is the president of Wolf Rinke Associates--an accredited provider of easy to use CPE self-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 in this eNewsletter please e-mail him at WolfRinke@aol.com.

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