AWARDS & RECOGNITION

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In selecting these pages, we:

• Thoroughly searched the Internet to try to bring you some of the most informative and credible sites we could find. However, we wish that some sites would have carried more scientific evidence.

• Added a substantial number of excellent conventional health sites to provide a truly integrative approach.

• Included a number of sites that are updated daily and weekly to keep you on top of breaking health news-both alternative and conventional.

Be aware that alternative health and healing covers everything from pure hogwash to promising and proven therapies. Also take note that alternative medicine should be considered a supplement to - not a replacement for - traditional medicine.

Also, keep these points in mind:

• When viewing sites maintained by adherents of a particular alternative approach, be aware that they are going to be enthusiastic about their methods. Be skeptical, but open-minded.

• Although anecdotal evidence may be valid, look for scientific evidence that a procedure works. Unfortunately, many unorthodox therapies have not been subjected to rigorous scientific testing - even though they might be effective in certain instances.

• Take note that, when people believe a therapy will work, they will sometimes sense an improvement. This phenomenon, known as the "Placebo Effect," tends to confound things, especially in alternative medicine.

In all, our goal is two-fold:

• To bring you a number of techniques and approaches that appear to be worth your time to investigate and to discuss with your physician or health-care provider.

• To report mainly on wellness and natural approaches to staying healthy and living longer.

Categories two through five on the next page follow those of the Office of Alternative and Complementary Medicine of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a government agency set up by Congress in 1991 to look into alternative medicine practices and integrate those that work into health and medical care.