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SUBURBAN January 22, 2015
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Healthy By Nature
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Holistic Health Fair returns to Clarks Summit
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by Anna Coutts
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Holistic health derives from the ancient concept that people should take care of their well-being as a whole—mind, body and spirit— as opposed to treating each individually. Often, people use “holistic,” “sustainable” or “local” interchangeably to describe this lifestyle. All in all, it encompasses an idea of healthier living. Barry Kaplan, co-owner of Everything Natural in Clarks Summit, will host the annual Holistic Health Fair on Saturday, Jan. 24 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the store, 426 S. State St., Clarks Summit. Through this fair, he hopes to spread the knowledge of how to live a healthier, wholly inclusive lifestyle. “We are beings that function in a complete environment,” Kaplan said. “There’s a conventional approach to health where people think symptomatically and, rather than dealing with creating well-being and a well body, they are just trying to be symptom free. Holistic health addresses the whole person and nurtures and nourishes one’s being so that it includes the body and other areas of their life as well.” Having grown concerned with the health issues attributed to the state of the meat industry, Kaplan decided to become a vegetarian in the 1960s. Soon after, he developed his interest in organic farming and lowering his impact on the planet. “At first, I didn’t do any research or do anything to learn about nutrition or how to be healthy,” he said. “It didn’t take me long to figure out that just not eating meat or fish was not enough to be healthy. That brought me into studying nutrition and learning more about what it is to be healthy.” Through his study of nutrition and holistic
Nancy Kashuba of Dickson City gets ready to select an organic apple during a previous Holistic Health Fair at Everything Natural.
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health, Kaplan eventually became a part of Everything Natural which he believes to be more than the average health food store; it’s a natural lifestyle store. “We have a whole lot more than just food products,” he said. “We give people tools and information, we share information that helps them lead healthier, happier lives and of course part of that, a big part of that, is wholesome food, organic food, natural food free from toxins or pesticides with optimal nutrition as well as supplements that are useful to just being
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healthier.” His passion for educating the public on holistic health outgrew the original building and Everything Natural moved to a larger location big enough to host events like the Holistic Health Fair. “We moved into this building in 2003 and one of the reasons we moved into our current location is that it enabled us to offer seminars and not only more variety of products and Please see FAIR, Page 14
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