Showing posts with label School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label School. Show all posts

Friday, July 24, 2009

Alternative Medical School

Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine is offering an online studies for natural medicine and holistic health. They are a member of the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical College. They have been providing outreach programs over the past 16 years and still counting.

Naturopathic medicine focuses on the cause of the illness rather than focusing on the treatments of the disease. This is one of the oldest treatment philosophy based from the hippocratic teaching more than 2000 years old. Naturopathic philosophy favors a holistic approach and minimal use of surgery and drugs. Naturopathy comprises many different treatment modalities of varying degrees of acceptance by the medical community.

Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine is alternative medicine school because naturopathic ideology focuses on naturally-occurring and minimally-invasive methods, trusting to the "healing power of nature."

The level of medical education among naturopaths varies, though no naturopathic training program reaches the same level of training as an MD or DO. The scope of practice varies widely between jurisdictions, and naturopaths in unregulated jurisdictions may use the Naturopathic Doctor designation or other titles regardless of level of education.

They are naturopathic college and provides any up to date medical education. They also provides the best curriculum to their students as well as to their patients.





Saturday, February 7, 2009

Physically Fit Kids Do Better in School

Posted by Neill Abayon

A new study in the Journal of School Health found that physically fit kids scored better on standardized math and English tests than their less fit peers.

Researchers examined the relationship between physical fitness and academic achievement in a racially and economically diverse urban public school district of children enrolled in grades 4 – 8 during the 2004 – 2005 academic year.

Results of their study show that there is a significant relationship between students' academic achievement and physical fitness. The odds of passing both standardized math and English tests increased as the number of fitness tests passed increased, even when controlling for gender, race/ethnicity, and socio-economic status.

School time and resources are often diverted from Physical Education and opportunities for physical activity such as recess. However, this study shows that students who do well on fitness tests also do well on math and English standardized tests.

"For families and schools, these results suggest investments of time and resources in physical activity and fitness training may not detract from academic achievement in core subjects, and, may even be beneficial," the authors conclude.

Read the full article here.