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MAKING THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION, "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW"  RONALD L PETERS, MD, MPH

Interviewer: Dr Peters, tell us your background and how you became interested in holistic health and nutrition?

Dr Peters: I trained in Western medicine at UCLA and for a few years, had a family practice of giving patients medications for their illnesses. I realized that this approach of treating patients with symptomatic medications was not working beacuse they had complex problems. I went back to study epidemiology-chronic disease and also worked with a holistic practitioner, studying nutrition with him and independently.

Interviewer: Could you elaborate on the Mind-Body model versus the Western model of medicine.

Dr Peters: The Western medical model , the "magic bullet",  does not work for chronic disease, such as heart disease, cancer, arthitis, hypertensioon and depression. We are still using this outdated model and these diseases do not respond to this approach and treatment. People don't heal and doctors are simply managing diseases. Whereas in holistic medicine, the focus is on promoting health as the best treatment of disease.

Interviewer:  You have had a holistic family practice for twenty years in Scottsdale, AZ. Tell us more about your practice.

Dr Peters: My practice revolves around what I call: Mind-Body Medicine.We promote health in the body by recommending proper diet, supplements and exercise at the same time we promote health in the mind by helping the patient resolve conflicts that have not been resolved, sometimes from childhood. When these conflicts are resolved, their illness becomes an opportunity for transformation and healing.

This interview took place during the Holistic Holiday at Sea Conference-www.atasteofhealth.org- this month!

Visit Dr Peter's website, www.wellness.com for more information on him and his medical practice.

Making the Food Connection: Spring Recipe
 
Quinoa with Spring Vegetables, Fresh Dill and Sesame Salt
(Makes 4 to 6 servings or 4 cups)

Sesame Salt: (Makes 1 ¼ cups)
-1 cup whole brown sesame seeds, toasted at 300° until tasty, 15 to 20 minutes

-1 ½ teaspoons unrefined sea salt

Quinoa: (Makes 4 cups)
-2 cups water
-1 small leek, diced small
-1 small carrot, diced small
-½ cup peas, or green beans or okra, 2 ounces, sliced
-Half a fat carrot, cut in thin diagonals
-1 cup quinoa
-1 teaspoon sea salt
-½ cup mixed fresh dill and parsley, finely chopped
-Zest of a lemon
-Dill garnish

1. In a food processor, blend sesame seeds and salt until 2/3 ground. Set aside

2. In a 2- or 3-quart saucepan, bring water to boil. Add leek, diced carrot and peas and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Transfer to bowl with a flat strainer/skimmer. When boiling resumes, add carrot slices and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Reserve vegetable cooking broth and cut carrots in star shapes with small hors d’oeuvre cutters for garnish.

3. In a bowl, generously cover quinoa with cool water. Swish quinoa with your hand to release any dirt and remove any saponin, a natural plant coating that may taste bitter.

Drain.

4. Combine vegetable cooking broth with enough fresh water to make 2 cups and bring to boil in the same saucepan. Add quinoa and salt and swish to make level. When boiling resumes, turn heat down to slow-boil until liquid is absorbed, 20 minutes.

I had the great honor to attend a holistic health conference on a cruise ship with Dr Barnard this month! Dr Barnard is a powerful speaker and presenter and is a leading advocate for a plant-based diet for all Americans. He has been the principal investigator or coinvestigator on several clinical trials investigating the effects of diet on health.

In 1985, Dr Barnard founded the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. PCRM has since grown into a nationwide group of physicians and lay supporters that promotes preventive medicine and addresses controversies in modern medicine. As president of PCRM, Dr. Barnard has been instrumental in efforts to reform federal dietary guidelines. Dr Barnard is a frequent speaker at national and state scientific and lay conferences.

To learn more about him and his lecture circuit, visit www.nealbarnard.org and www.pcrm.org. Please read his latest book, Dr Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes, a groundbreaking scientifically proven approach to reversing diabetes without drugs.

In the fall of 1999, 41-year-old Meg Wolff was dying of breast cancer. She had fought the good fight; mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation but none of the treatments were expected to save her life. Meg had already proven that she was a fighter and that she wanted desperately to live. Eight years earlier she was diagnosed with bone cancer and had her leg amputated. Now Meg was ready to fight again; armed with a macrobiotic diet and a determination to control how she would live or die. This is an incredible story of a courageous woman’s fight to take back her life, restore her marriage, and heal herself physically and emotionally. Her story is inspiring and her message is enlightening.Visit her website, www.megwolff.com and read her books, Becoming Whole and her latest book, Breast Cancer Exposed: The Connection Between Food and Survival.
 

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Making the Reading Connection:

Edgework: Exploring The Psychology of Disease

by Ronald L Peters, MD

Edgework provides a concise overview of the research on the mind/body, summarizing the essence of healing at the level of consciousness and guiding readers through the process with detailed exercises that make the concepts a personal reality.This book is for everyone who has dis-ease of any kind. It is especially for those who have serious or "incurable" illness, which can be a most powerful motivation to heal at the deeper, formative level of consciousness. Working on the edge is risky business, but the greatest adventure is self-discovery and the integration of mind, body and Spirit. To order this book, visit www.bluedolphinpublishing.com