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art & soul care is a for-profit system. So where does that leave the practice of prevention? It doesn't require drugs or expensive machines and diagnostic equipment. Helping keep Americans healthy would put huge corporations out of business. The film weaves personal stories with analysis from such experts as preventive practice doctors Andrew Weil and Dean Ornish, former Medicare chief Don Berwick, and Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic—the man whose research forced the FDA to remove both Vioxx and Avandia from the market. But it's the disheartening and uplifting story of couraging its employees to trade their couch potato habits for healthy ones. Safeway offers its employ- ees financial incentives to adopt healthy lifestyles that include lowering body fat and cholesterol levels and quitting smoking. While medical costs have ris- en for others, Safeway's have remained level. And employees are much healthier overall. Escape Fire will make your blood pressure and Sgt. Robert Yates, over-medicated for his post- traumatic stress disorder and injuries after his tour of duty in Afghanistan, that hits hardest in this film. We get an on-the-front lines look at how the military is at once over-prescribing opiates for its sick and injured, but also offering a program that includes yoga, acupuncture and meditation. And it's getting profound results. Escape Fire also profiles one company that is en- it'S a girl Directed by evan grae Davis percent), but when a girl is born, instead of rejoicing, the parents frequently kill the child, often in horrific ways. The rationale of some? The child dies within a minute instead of struggling and dying day-by-day. One Indian woman tells us with a smile on her face, that she has killed eight infant daughters because she wanted a son. There is no apparent sense of remorse, and these babykillers are neither prosecuted by the government nor shunned by their society. When girl babies are allowed to live, they are often abused or neglected. For example, a son who is sick While women's reproductive rights may be under assault in the United States, in India, China and other parts of the world, girls' very existence is not just threatened, but often denied. More females are missing on earth today from gendercide than the combined number of deaths from all the genocides of the 20th century. This powerful film, It's a Girl (www.Itsagirlmovie.com), reveals the shocking details. In China, the film reports, there are 13 million abortions a year, many of them forced. And in India, not only are many female fetuses aborted (20–30 will be sent to a doctor, a daughter will not. A son is educated, a daughter is not. One out of four girls does not live past puberty. Whereas a son is believed to bring strength, blessings and wealth for his family of origin, daughters are not welcomed. Fueling the desire for a son to carry on the family name is the dowry system, which in India was outlawed in 1961, but is still widely practiced. Dowries given by the bride to the groom's family can include anything from animals and cash to BMWs and property, making daughters expensive and sons a financial benefit. In China, which now has 37 million more males than females due to these practices, sex trafficking, child kidnapping and prostitution have increased. Desperate families are snatching and raising little girls so their sons will have a bride when the time comes. Almost nobody wants to give birth to a daughter, but everybody wants a daughter-in-law. (Shadowline Films) heart rate rise. It should. American health care is a life or death proposal, and right now, it's on life support. — Jacquelin Sonderling Promote your products in the December/January issue's GIFT GUIDE Holiday DeaDline november 19 wholelifemagazine.com 34 wholelifetimesmagazine.com Prepare For A New Era In Consciousness Starseed Films C CONSCIOUS FILM AN OPEN MIND IS ADVISED SOME MATERIAL MAY BE SPIRITUALLY CHALLENGING For more information: www.3magicwordsmovie.com Neal Donald Walsch Debbie Ford Gudni Gudnason Gary Renard 3 MAGIC WORDS THE MOVIE Can three words change the world? 3 MagiC WOrDS Directed by Michael Perlin 3 Magic Words starts with an interesting concept. If you woke up in a hospital having lost your memory and had no clue about your life, your first question would be, "Who am I?" You would know you exist, but not much more. With that as its basis, the film sets off to explore who we are. There is definitely food for thought in this movie, though the many special woman searching for her higher self by connecting with nature—smelling flowers, wandering along the beach, watching the sunset—and meditating. And everything has a golden glow, as if what we're watching has been touched by the hand of some higher power. We hear plenty of wisdom proffered by authors, scientists, spiritual mentors and even a couple of effects at times at times blur the lines about what is real. Are we in a dream? A meditation? An altered state? There are dream sequences of an addiction-prone kids—out of the mouths of babes. Each expounds his or her own thoughts and opinions on the divinity within us and the relationship of humans to nature and the cosmos. All readily share their "astounding discoveries," those aha moments when something previously elusive suddenly makes everything fall into place. And that is, indeed, the takeaway from this film: those life-changing discoveries that redirect our lives. The film delivers on its promise of the three magic words you need to know to radically shift your life, bring you peace and compassion, and let you reprogram your subconscious. So sit back, relax, and allow the New Age soundtrack to wash over you as you take it all in. —Suzanne Jakes —Abigail Lewis