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Ginger capturing some yoga time at the Roman Baths, UK

Informed Healthy Living

Informed healthy living puts you in control of your health. Read why Americans are dying earlier than their peers.

Ginger uses complementary and integrative medicine which joins the hands of eastern and western medicine and is able to treat patients holistically for disease and injury prevention. Use this free resource guide to source research and resources on feeling better and enjoying more energy. Because staying informed is your best insurance for preserving your health and ensuring the health of your family.

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Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle – Lifestyle Choices for Longevity & Immunity

The Role of Nutrition and Exercise in Longevity – How Science Proves “You Are What You Eat”, Ginger Garner MPT, ATC
Eat Your Medicine: Nutrition Basics for Everyone, Mark Hyman, MD
Give Yourself A Biologic Tune-Up, Mark Hyman, MD
- C-Reactive Protein Test information from Functional Medicine pioneer, Mark Hyman, MD
- The Role of Nutrition and Exercise in Inflammation – Longevity – Lifestyle Choices To Make, Ginger Garner MPT, ATC
- Adrenal Burnout Quiz
Nutrient Signaling: Evolutionary Origins of the Immune-Modulating Effects of Dietary Fat, Jo Alcock MD et al
- Connection between Dirty Diapers and Childhood Health
Zen Habits: Eating A Plant Based Diet – An Easy “Get-Started” Guide

Avoiding Chronic Disease & Cancer

Anti-Cancer/Cancer Prevention Tips – Dr. Mark Hyman
- MD Anderson Cancer Center & Integrative Oncology – Nutritional Plan for Anti-Cancer Living & those Touched by Cancer
- Integrative Oncology – A Better Way to Fight (and avoid) Cancer
President’s Cancer Panel
- President’s Cancer Panel Report
Dangerous Chemicals & Food-Like Substances that Contribute to Cancer
- Seven Crazy Things Pesticides Are Doing To Your Body
- What is a “Hormone Disruptor?” - Hormone Disrupting Chemicals
- FED UP: Why We Must Cook Our Way to Health
Ten Fun Ways to Reduce Your Cortisol Levels - Your hormone levels dictate your health. High cortisol levels are associated with weight gain, insomnia, “tired but wired” feelings, pain syndromes, fatigue, and more…

Clean Food

Resources – If buying organic is expensive where you live, then make sure you at least follow the Dirty Dozen List, buy organic milk and yogurt, and avoid GMO’s (namely wheat, corn, soy, & canola as of 2013)

14 Foods You Should Never Eat - Rodale Press
EWG Dirty Dozen & Clean Fifteen Food List – Updated for 2013
The 10 Best Food Apps (Finding clean, healthy, good food for your family)
PBS on Epigenetics – How what you eat affects your children and grandchildren
- Environmental Working Group demands clean food bill
- GMO’s Health Risks – You have a right to know what is in your food

Respected Authors in the “Clean Food” field

Improving Your Health Care in the 21st Century – The Professional Yoga Therapy Method

Resources for medical yoga intervention:
- The Professional Yoga Therapy Studies Program - Continuing medical education in using yoga as medicine in the PYT Method
  - PYT Toolkit – Starting your business in using medical therapeutic yoga
  - PYT Certificate Program – Expand programming, diminish practitioner burnout, and improve patient outcomes and satisfaction
  - Find A Therapist
- The Center for Nonviolent Communication
  - Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenburg. Puddledancer Press, 2003
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change. 2nd ed. Miller R and Rollnick S. Guilford Publications. NY,NY 2002
Amygdala Highjack: Found in Daniel Goleman’s text, Emotional Intelligence