Resources

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Websites

c4 Cardiovascular Challenge - Avoid health problems before they start
Demic
Dr. Mercola Health Website
Healthy Holistic Living
Housing Works - Housing Resources for people with AIDS
Just Herbal Remedies
Just Natural Medicine
Just Organic Medicine
Linda Isaacs, M.D. - Nutritional Protocols for cancer patients
Organic Planner
Potentials Unlimited - Self Hypnotic Tapes
The Institute for Family Health - Help for those who can't afford medical care

Books

Clean Slate: A Cookbook and Guide: Reset Your Health, Detox Your Body, and Feel Your Best
Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed
Foods That Fight Cancer: Preventing Cancer Through Diet
Herbal Remedies For Dummies
How to Learn the Alexander Technique: A Manual for Students/G6517 - for posture-related problems
Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future
Medical Herbalism: The Science Principles and Practices Of Herbal Medicine
The 12 Steps -- A Way Out: A Working Guide for Adult Children from Addictive and Other Dysfunctional Families (10th Printing, 1990) - a workbook
The Longevity Now Program
This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't
Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design

Chess Wellness

Given all the untimely deaths and other serious problems, I thought about what I could do about future problems.  Maybe it would be possible to create a peer support network or nonprofit organization.  When I told a few people about it, several of them asked whether it would offer health insurance.  While this is a worthwhile goal, I think its also a goal that is far off.  Firstly these are the areas I have in mind for the long run:

• Employment Counselling
• Funeral and Burial
• Health Insurance
• Housing
• Medical
• Mental Health

The steps that I envision for the long run are:

• Phase One: Peer Counselling, Peer Support, Peer Networking, Supportive Community
• Phase Two:  Professional Counselling
• Phase Three: Health Insurance and Medical Support

Unlike a chess playing organization,  such an endeavor is likely to be approved by the IRS for 501(c)(3) status.  I actually had an organization approved for 501(c)(3) status many years ago.  A 501(c)(3) organization could receive tax deductible donations, bequests and grants.  While the IRS approval process is not trivial,   it is feasible.

In NYS, a nonprofit organization must have at least three directors in order to incorporate.  If this is of any interest to you, please write me at jgraham at nystar dot com.