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Free Seminar for those interested in learning more about Ken Hutchins' SuperSlow® Strength Training Philosophy. Dr. Christian is a Level 1 Certified SuperSlow® Instructor and the Clinic will be offering SuperSlow® Programs in the near future.

For Description of Seminar: SuperSlow® Seminar

Reservations are required. For more information, call (210) 616-0836.

“The 6 Components of Optimal Health and Aging”
Free Seminar offered several times monthly and for businesses and other interested groups.
4499 Medical Drive #225, San Antonio, Texas 78229

Free, no-obligation one-hour seminar on important issues to consider if you are seeking Optimal Health and Successful Aging. Reservations are required. For more information, call (210) 616-0836.

COMING SOON!!!

Optimal Health Workshop and Seminar Series May 2004
4499 Medical Drive #225, San Antonio, Texas 78229

Call (210) 616-0836 to enroll.

Only 6 people per Workshop!!
For More Information, Optimal Health Workshop

Osteoporosis: Practical Approaches to
Prevention, Diagnosis & Management

6-7 Dec 2003

Scottsdale, Arizona

For More Information: http://iso@nof.org/regmeeting/index.htm

TTI

Deep in the Heart of Texas 3rd Annual Congestive Heart Failure Conference

Texas Transplant Institute, San Antonio, Texas

7 Feb 2004

Incarnate Word College Campus

For More Information: http://www.texastransplant.org

Gordon Conference on Oxygen Radicals in Biology
Linus Pauling Institute

8-13 Feb 2004

Ventura, California

For More Information: http://www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2004/oxyrad.htm

Preventive Medicine 2004

18-22 Feb 2004

Orlando, Florida

For More Information: http://www.preventivemedicine2004.org/

American Heart Association

44th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention featuring the L. J. Filer Symposium on Prevention of Overweight and its Consequences Beginning in Youth.
3-6 Mar 2004

The Fairmont San Francisco - San Francisco, CA
For More Information: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3011130

The 2nd Vulnerable Patient Satellite Symposium

6 Mar 2004

New Orleans, Louisiana

For More Information: http://www.vp.org

View the Presentations for

The 1st Vulnerable Patient Symposium

Trans-NIH Sleep Research Coordinating Committee: Frontiers of Knowledge in Sleep & Sleep Disorders
Sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

29-30 Mar 2004
Bethesda, Maryland
For More Information: http://www.sleeptranslation.com/

Design of Medical Devices

7-9 April 2004

Minneapolis, MN

For More Information: http://www.me.umn.edu/dmd/

Innovations in GH therapy: The power of observation
Serono Symposia

26 Apr 2004

Sorrento, Italy

For More Information: http://www.seronosymposia.org/endocrinology/event_descrip.ihtml?id=184

Functional Medicine

"The Coming Storm: Reversing the Rising Pandemic of Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome."

11-15 May 2003

Vancouver, Canada

For More Information: http://www.functionalmedicine.org/eduprog/symp_next.asp

American Heart Association

1st Annual Symposium of the American Heart Association's Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences: Stress Signals, Molecular Targets, and the Genome
14-18 July 2004

Skamania Lodge - Stevenson, WA
For More Information: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3014865

Evidence Based Wellness Seminar by Dr. Sears

Dietary Interventions in the Treatment of Chronic Diseases

Check his site for these workshops to Certify you as a Zone Consultant

Held several times yearly.

For More Information: http://www.medcare.org/conferences/

11th Congress International Association of Biomedical Gerontology

Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence

TBA

Queens College, Cambridge UK

For More Information: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/iabg10

Zone Cruise 2004 with Dr. Barry Sears

12-19 Sep 2004

Alaska Inside Passage!!

For More Information: http://www.drsears.com

National Osteoporosis Foundation Annual Meeting

TBA

Washington, DC

For More Information: http://iso@nof.org/news/index.htm

Society of Free Radical Biology and Medicine

17-21 November 2004

Marriott Frenchman's Resort

St.Thomas, US Virgin Islands

For More Information: http://www.oxygensociety.org/annualmeet.html

Would your organization like to list your conference or seminar on our site? If so, click here to submit your request. Credible conferences related to preventative, nutritional, anti-aging medicine and personal development will be listed here free of charge.

Links to All of Dr. Barry Sears' Web Sites

The Official Site of the Zone Diet!!!

The Site where most of the science and forums can be found.

The Site to order all the Zone Products. Fish Oils, bars, skin care etc.

The new TV site for Zone information!!

Zone Cuisine Delivery Service!!!

Dr. Christian's Speaking Schedule

On Behalf of American Heart Association and Mayor's Fit City Initiative and Others.

Current Month in Red.

Thursday 30 Jul 02 The Scooter Store, New Braunfels, Texas 1900

Tuesday 8 Oct 02 St. Benedict Elementary School 1000

Saturday 19 Oct 02 Antioch Baptist Church 0900

Thursday 7 Nov 02 Northwest Vista Campus Health Fair 1200

Monday 18 Nov 02 Parklane Towers 1000

Thursday 6 Feb 03 Fair Oaks Country Club 1900

Wednesday 5 Mar 03 W. W. White Elementary School 0830

Tuesday 11 Mar 03 Burke Elementary School 1830 and 2030

Thursday 13 Mar 03 St. Phillips College 1200 Brown Bag Lunch

Monday 24 Mar 03 Edgewood Academy 0800

Tuesday 25 Mar 03 Edgewood Academy 0915

Friday 27 Mar 03 Alamo Workforce Development, Inc. 1000

Wednesday 16 April 03 The Jungle Store 1200

Tuesday 22 April 03 Military Academy Networking Lunch Joe's Crab Shack 1130

Sunday 27 April 03 Masters of South Texas Swim Club 1300 "OmegaRx Zone"

Saturday 3 May 03 SuperSlow® National Convention, Union City California. "State of Americas' Health and Fitness" and "Omega 3 Fat, What's the Big Deal"

Monday 12 May 03 St. Luke's Baptist Hospital " Omega 3 Fats, What's the Big Deal" and "Stone Agers in the Fast Lane"

Wednesday 14 May 03 Masters of South Texas Swim Team "Make-Up" "OmegaRx Zone Nutrition"

Thursday 15 May 03 RIOSA 1000

Sunday 25 May 03 Masters of South Texas Swim Club 1300 "SuperSlow® Resistance Training"

Friday 30 May 03 Urban Management Assistants of South Texas. HB Gonzales Convention Center "OmegaRx Zone Nutrition in a Nutshell"

Wednesday 4 Jun 03 Mental Health and Wellness Center. "6 Components of Optimal Health and Aging" 1300

Wednesday 18 Jun 03 Parklane Towers Health Fair "OmegaRx Zone Workshop" 1300-1530

Friday 20 Jun 03 Madonna Neighborhood Center. "Omega Rx Zone Nutrition" 1030

Tuesday 9 Sep 03 Alzafar Shrine Center, San Antonio Division 1000

Links to Important Longitudinal Studies

The Physicians' Health Study.

This landmark study was begun in the fall of 1982 to test the benefits and risks of aspirin and beta-carotene in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Twenty years and more than 170 published research reports later, it is still going strong.

Framingham Heart Study

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and serious illness in the United States. In 1948, the Framingham Heart Study -- under the direction of the National Heart Institute (now known as the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; NHLBI) -- embarked on an ambitious project in health research. At the time, little was known about the general causes of heart disease and stroke, but the death rates for CVD had been increasing steadily since the beginning of the century and had become an American epidemic.

Framingham Heart Study Prediction Calculator

Estimating Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Risk Using Framingham Heart Study Data

This update of the 1991 Framingham coronary prediction algorithm provides estimates of total CHD risk (risk of developing one of the following: angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, or coronary disease death) over the course of 10 years.

National Cholesterol Education Program

This is the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Expert panel report on the Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol In Adults. The Executive Summary is a good brief review of the problem.

Women's Health Initiative

The WHI is one of the largest preventive studies of its kind in the United States. The WHI will focus on the major causes of death, disability and frailty in postmenopausal women. The overall goal of WHI is to reduce coronary heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer, and osteoporotic-fractures among postmenopausal women via prevention/intervention strategies and risk factor identification.

The Nurses' Health Study

The Nurses Health Study established in 1976 by Dr. Frank Speizer and the Nurses' Health Study II, established in 1989 by Dr. Walter Willett, are among the largest prospective investigations into the risk factors for major chronic diseases in women. A total of 122,000 nurses (Ages 30-55) were enrolled in Nurses Health Study and 116,686 nurses (Ages 25-42) were enrolled in Nurses' Health Study II.

The Nun Study

The Nun Study is a longitudinal study of aging and Alzheimer's disease funded by the National Institute on Aging. Participants are 678 American members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame religious congregation who are 75 to 106 years of age.

Growing Up Today Study GUTS

The GUTS was started 6 years ago at Harvard University. With some 16,000 participants, GUTS is one of the largest studies ever of adolescent health. But even with all of those study participants, you are still incredibly important to our study. Your perspective on being a young adult is unique, and we want your voice to be heard.

NHANES

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This survey has been designed to collect information about the health and diet of people in the United States.

BRFSS

The BRFSS, the world’s largest telephone survey, tracks health risks in the United States. Information from the survey is used to improve the health of the American people.

The New England Centenarian Study.

The NECS began in 1994 as a population-based study of all centenarians living within 8 towns in the Boston area. The NECS is the largest genetic study of centenarians in the world with approximately 1,000 subjects enrolled including centenarians, their siblings and children and control subjects.

The Okinawa Centenarian Study

The Okinawa Centenarian Study is a population-based study of hundred-year-olds (centenarians) and other elderly in Okinawa, Japan. The study began in 1976, after the Japan Ministry of Health and Welfare confirmed initial reports of outstanding health and long life in Okinawa through validation of birth certificates and other statistical data. Since then our research group has investigated over 600 centenarians to uncover clues to their outstanding health and long lives. Studies have concentrated on the genetics, diets, exercise habits, and psychospiritual beliefs and practices of the Okinawan elders.

Clinical Trials.gov

The U.S. National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of Medicine, has developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients, family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies.

Special Links

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Huge Review on Health Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids

This is the most comprehensive review to date of the benefits, especially for Cardiovascular Disease, of the Omega-3 Fats. It was performed by the Agency for Health Care Research which performs studies for the government.

PubMed Fish Oil, Omega 3 and "Sarcopenia" Links

All Fish Oil/Omega3 Human and Animal

All Fish Oil/Omega3 Human

All Fish Oil/Omega3 Human & Animal Past Year

All Fish Oil/Omega3 Human Past Year

All Fish Oil/Omega3 Human So Far 2005

Review Fish Oil/Omega3 Human Past 5 Years

Note: To see References in Chronological Order,

Sort on "Pub Date" and then Click on "Display".

All Sarcopenia Human and Animal

All Sarcopenia Human

All Sarcopenia Human So Far 2005

PubMed Medline Search Site

This is the site to begin all medical literature searches. Medline contains all articles in the medical literature from 1965 onward. A great resource.

Nova Series Heart Surgery

Nova Series about the Heart and the History of Heart Surgery.

Pubmed SNP Database

This is the site to find data on all documented SNPs, single nucleotide polymorphisms. These small genetic variances are responsible for much of our individual predispositions to disease or protection from disease. It is my prediction that within 5 years there will be a fairly standardized SNP profile which will be performed on each person. This will allow physicians to tailor lifestyle, nutritional, exercise and medical programs for your own genetic profile.

PubMed Online Medelian Inheritance in Man

The is the search site for all known Genetic diseases and the research which is know about them. It is updated on a regular basis. This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

CDC 10 Greatest Public Health Achievements of 1900-1999

This is the CDC site where they discuss the 10 Most Important Health Achievements of the last Century.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(NCCAM)

Their mission is to support rigorous research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), to train researchers in CAM, and to disseminate information to the public and professionals on which CAM modalities work, which do not, and why.

Society of Free Radical Biology and Medicine (Oxygen Society)

This Society is composed of Individuals interested in Free Radical Biology and how it affects aging and disease processes.

Mayor Garza and San Antonio Fit City Initiative
http://www.sanantonio.gov/fitcity/?res=1024&ver=true

This is the San Antonio Fit City Initiative site. One of Mayor Ed Garza’s top priorities since taking office in June of 2001 has been to raise the level of health and fitness awareness and to improve the quality of life for each San Antonian through “Growth from Within.”

Children's Skin Care Link

World Wildlife Foundation WWF
www.panda.org
Check out The Living Planet Report 2002. It is WWF's periodic update on the state of the world's ecosystems - as measured by the Living Planet Index - and the human pressures on them through the consumption of renewable natural resources - as measured by the Ecological Footprint.

healthfinder®. U. S. government gateway to consumer health information.

healthfinder® is a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the United States government.

Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator

Metric System BMI = Weight(kg) / Height²(Meters)

English System BMI = Weight(lb)/ [Height(inches)]² x 703

halls.md Health calculators and charts including a very good BMI Calculator and links to articles about Body Mass Index. His bmi calculator calculates body mass index from your Weight and Height and also shows how your weight compares to others of the same height and age

Dr. Hall also has charts for Children here. His Charts relate the Childs age, sex and race.

CDC BMI Charts for Children

For Children the BMI is related to their age and gender. The Center For Disease Control (CDC) has a site which explains this and has a chart to compare your child with others. This is for Ages 2-20.

CDC Nutrition & Physical Activity site about Obesity and Overweight

In the United States, obesity has risen at an epidemic rate during the past 20 years. One of the national health objectives for the year 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of obesity among adults to less than 15%. Research indicates that the situation is worsening rather than improving.

FDA Fish Intake During Pregnancy

This is the FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition. Here are guidelines for Fish intake during pregnancy. The information regarding the Mercury content of certain fish is here.

Drug Information and Drug Prices

Go Here Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications is provided through two drug resources -- MedMaster™^†, a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and the USP DI® Advice for the Patient® ^‡, a product of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP)..

This site allows you to search the internet for the lowest prices on prescription drugs. Go here first to compare prices.

United States Fund for unicef

This site gives information about the various ways to support unicef. This organization does not receive any support directly from the United Nations and depends totally on our generosity and our desire to help the children of the world. Call and ask about the "School in a Box" program. This $300.00 gift will supply school supplies for 80 students, lesson plans and includes 2 soccer balls!!

SuperSlow® Strength Training

www.superslow.com

This is Ken Hutchin's site for getting to know and understand

SuperSlow® strength training philosophy. Dr. Christian is a certified Level 1 SuperSlow® Instructor and will be offering SuperSlow® Protocols in the near future.

Ultimate Exercise, The web site of Dr. Doug McGuff who owns a gym in South Carolina. He has several articles online and a book and video about SuperSlow® for purchase.

Dr. Ellington Darden's Classic X Site. Contains a number of good articles he has written about High Intensity Training incorporating some of the SuperSlow® Philosophy.

United States Air Force Academy

Dr. Christian is a Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy.

Class Motto: "In Mens Raza, In Corpore Sano" Weak in Mind, Strong in Body.

Duty, Honor, Country

The most eloquent speech ever delivered.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Corps of Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., May 12, 1962, in accepting the Thayer Award. Narrative here. RealOne Audio of Speech here.

Download RealOne Player Here.

Combat Control Association Links

Check out Lt./Captain Christian's CCT Scrapbook here.

Many Thanks to Sgt Mac!!! May take a few minutes to Load.

Prior to Medical School Dr. Christian was

a member of an Elite USAF Combat Control

Team, stationed at Sewart AFB, Tennessee.

The Motto was "First There, Last Out"

This is the CCT Main Website.

Sgt. Macs Bar. A place for all CCTers to hang out.

Get your mug ready!!

Astronomy Links

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
--Albert Einstein

The "Albert Einstein Archives" Here is a good place to start to Learn about Time Magazines "Person of the Century"

Einstein on Nova Online.

Earth from Apollo 17

Taken in 1972 looking back on Earth on the way to the Moon.....

Earth Rise

Taken from Apollo 8 on 22 Dec 68

All-Sky Milky Way Panorama

This is Axel Mellinger's site of the greatest pictures ever taken of our Milky Way. There is a Virtual Reality Panorama which can be seen here.

Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA

A Great picture every day with an archive that goes back 9 Years!!!!

Onizuka Center for International Astronomy.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA

This may be the best spot to see our Milky Way.

9,600 ft above seal level.

At this site you can zooom in and out of the Universe from the Visible Universe to our Solar System. Gives you a great 3 dimensional perspective.

Out of the ordinary ... out of this world. HubbleSite

The Official Hubble Space Telescope site.

They post new pictures on a regular basis.

Powers of Ten
www.powersof10.com

Charles and Ray Eames take a fresh look at the universe and our place within it, and help us see all things from the next largest and next smallest perspective.

A fascinating way to look at our world and the universe.

Are we alone in the Universe? SETI needs your help. Download their program to your computer and help with the Data analysis. Great Screen Saver!!!

Welcome to the SEDS Homepage

SEDS is an independent, student-based organization which promotes the exploration and development of space.

The Nine Planets

A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System

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Web Links & Other Interesting Stuff

BIOL 121 Human Biology: This is the site for Robert J. Huskey's Human Biology Class as taught at the University of Virginia. It is the best Human Biology Class on the Internet. Full of information and links. A truly remarkable man.

www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/humbiol993.html

Professor Emeritus of Biology
Associate Dean (Retired) Graduate Arts &Sciences

University of Virginia

How Stuff Works
www.howstuffworks.com

If you have ever wondered ????

This is the site to go to!!!

Wildlife Refuge and Rehabilitation Inc.
www.wildlife-rescue.org
Located in Kendalia and Boerne, Texas, this non profit organization's mission is"To Rescue & Release And To Provide Sanctuary With Dignity" Rescue Hotline is 210-698-1709.

Calculate Your Ecological Footprint
www.earthday.net/footprint/
See how your household footprint compares with the rest of the world.

YOSA Youth Orchestra of San Antonio
www.yosa.org
San Antonio's own Youth Orchestra.

See their site for performance schedule.

Send a DNA-O-Gram
http://www.dna2z.com/DNA-o-gram/encode.html

Send a message in the language of life, Say it with DNA!!

Dull Men's Club
www.dullmen.com Predictable - Reliable - Safe

A place — in cyberspace — where Dull Men can share thoughts and experiences, free from pressures to be "in and trendy" to enjoy instead the simple, ordinary things of everyday life. Buy a "I Love Dull Men" cap for your girlfriend!!! In my opinion Dull Men pretend to be dull just to keep all the beautiful women away....

The Skeptic's Dictionary
http://skepdic.com/
A Critical Survey of Questionable Therapies, Eccentric Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions and Dangerous Delusions

So You Want to Become a Blogger
www.blogger.com

Easy way to start your online journal. Share your life with the world. Blog!!

Check it out!! These ladies know what they want in a man!!

www.heartless-bitches.com

http://www.twinstuff.com/default.htm

I've always been fascinated by twins. Natures way of Cloning!!!!