- Just for Seniors 55+ Club to tour central Romania
- LLU&MC balloon found at 12,000-foot pass
in Colorado
- Faculty notes
Just for Seniors 55+ Club to tour central Romania
Next summer, a few Just for Seniors 55+ Club members will be in for a special treat. Tour members will spend 14 healthy days at the Herghelia Lifestyle Center in central Romania.
At Herghelia, individuals may walk in the forests and meadows of Transylvania in the midst of a magnificent natural setting. In the comfort of a resort setting, guests will be pampered at the spa with a daily massage, hydrotherapy treatments, Russian steam baths, a dry sauna, and Jacuzzi. Fresh, healthy vegetarian foods, straight from the center’s own organic gardens, are served.
Guests may also participate in the center’s lifestyle enhancement programs such as simple aerobic exercises, as well as diet, healthful living, and stress management lectures. Health educators and physicians are on hand to answer your questions or for consultation.
In addition to offering a healthful vacation in a resort setting, Herghelia Lifestyle Center offers programs that have proven time and again that diabetes, digestive disorders, certain heart conditions, and other lifestyle-related health problems can be slowed and often reversed.
For individuals seeking relief from these conditions, the center offers a 14-day course of treatment that can be prescribed by a family physician, with progress reports sent to him or her by the center’s medical director.
The professional staff at the Herghelia Lifestyle Center includes physicians, nurses, health educators, and hydrotherapists specially trained at medical/lifestyle centers in the United States and Norway. Their goal is to promote whole-person care.
All of this is available to Just for Seniors 55+ members and their friends
for $985 plus airfare.
The first tour of the season is June 23 through July 9, and the second
tour will be August 4 through 20.
For printed information and a brochure, call the toll-free number at (877) 558-6255 or visit the Herghelia Lifestyle Center’s new website at <http:// www.herghelia.org>.
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LLU&MC balloon found at 12,000-foot pass in Colorado
Geoff Clothier (in left photo), senior water technician at Climax Mine outside Leadville, Colorado (100 miles west of Denver), poses for a snapshot with a Loma Linda Univeristy & Medical Center balloon found at the mine on May 6. The mine sits atop the Fremont Pass in the Rocky Mountains, 12,000 feet above sea level, approximately 900 miles from Loma Linda as the car drives, or 700 miles as the crow flies.
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Faculty notes
• Zaida Cordero-MacIntyre, PhD, department of nutrition, School of Public Health, presented a paper titled “Changes in bone mineral density with weight loss in obese post-menopausal women” during the annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), which took place in April in New Orleans.
• Three individuals from the department of physiology and pharmacology, Graduate School, presented an exhibit titled “Learning the behavior of complex systems with computer simulation” at the TechEd 2002 convention held in Long Beach. Their exhibit was featured as a showcase exhibit at the convention. Grant McAuley, MS, principal research assistant; Howard Liu, PhD, research associate; and J. Mailen Kootsey, MD, professor and department chair, made the presentation. They have also submitted a provisional patent application for new software technology they’ve developed, titled “Building web page simulation with a library of Java applets.” The application was submitted on February 25.
• Betty Winslow, PhD, RN, associate professor, School of Nursing, presented a research project, titled “Formal serve use and duration of caregiving in wives’ care for husbands with dementia.” Dr. Winslow’s co-authors were Patrick Fox, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, and Pramil Singh, DrPH, School of Public Health. The research was presented November 18 at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in Chicago, Illinois.
• The Association of Adventist Forums has just released Believing, Behaving, Belonging: Finding New Love for the Church by Richard Rice, PhD, professor of religion, Faculty of Religion. The book urges Seventh-day Adventists to re-think their understanding of Christian community, and place belonging, rather than believing or behaving at the center of their corporate life. This is the only way, Dr. Rice argues, that the church can counteract the spiritual individualism that pervades the attitudes of people in North America. An important step in this process is to view the church primarily as family, rather than army or business. In keeping with current trends in theological method, and because the book deals with profoundly practical matters, Dr. Rice relies heavily on narrative to carry the argument. This is Dr. Rice’s seventh book.
• Elizabeth Johnston Taylor, PhD, RN, associate professor, School of Nursing, presented “Spiritual care for spiritual needs: client and nurse perspectives” as the keynote address for the “Spirituality and Healthcare: Exploring the Domains” conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in November.
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