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19 ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Transforming Anxiety into Artistry

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“Andrew” Medana Gabbard

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aintings that tell a story of simpler times in bygone days aptly describes the work of artist Medana Gabbard. This self-taught American folk art painter relies primarily on oils and acrylics and fondly speaks of her cover image, Andrew: “It’s a proud, early morning rooster I named after my father-in-law, posing with bright autumn pumpkins.”

The opportunity to tell a story is what she enjoys most about the artistic process. Her penchant for vibrant color in general, and the large orange winter squash in particular, is evident. “I put pumpkins in almost every one of my paintings,” she says.

Gabbard’s inspiration comes from all folk artists, past and present. She was greatly influenced by her father, Edward Galda, and brother, Ed Galda, both of whom she deems accomplished artists. “In such a family,” she notes, “my favorite childhood Christmas gifts were always coloring books and crayons.”

The artist was raised in the desert of Arizona and now splits her time between her home studio there and her studio-gallery in Brandon, Vermont. The Vermont landscape and simple way of life she enjoys there is another popular theme in her art. “People are surprised when they learn I’m not a Vermont native,” she says.

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newsbriefs L.A. Style Juice Bar Comes to Ocala

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ith two years of successful business under its belt, Vitalize Nutrition Company has made the jump to its new name, Vitalize Natural Market and Juice Bar.

“From the inception of Vitalize, we knew we wanted to provide fresh, healthy options for busy people on the go,” says owner Cara Owens. “It was just a matter of time before the store was sustaining itself and drawing a loyal, regular customer base, to launch the next phase of the store concept.”

Owens says, “The addition of the juice bar has been awesome so far!

It brings such life to the store and we have already had customers say how much better they feel by simply adding the concentrated nutrients from several juices to their diets each week.”

Vitalize Natural Market and Juice Bar prepares 100% organic fruit and vegetable juices, made fresh daily, and also made-to-order smoothies. One of the customer favorites so far is the Berry Green juice, a combination of kale, apple, strawberry, lime, and cilantro.

Its sweet and tangy flavor provides a punch of nutrients while maintaining a delicious taste.

Vitalize offers a call-ahead service (352-509-6839) for made-to-order drinks, and pre-made juices are available for those who need their nutrientpacked drinks in a hurry. They plan on adding organic produce and additional healthy options in the future.

“We are really excited to provide Ocala with healthy choices for both supplements and food and will continue to offer great products at great prices with exceptionally great service.

It’s what we do and we love it,” says Owens.

Vitalize Natural Market and Juice bar is located at Market Street at Heath Brook, 4414 SW College Rd., Suite 1520, Ocala, next to Panera Bread.

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Downtown Festival & Art Show

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t’s time to celebrate the arts in Gainesville!

The City of Gainesville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department is pleased to announce that the Downtown Festival & Art Show has jumped into the Top Ten in national art show rankings for the first time, now Number 10 on Sunshine Artist magazine’s “200 Best” list of top fine arts festivals in the nation. The festival, which celebrates its 32nd anniversary this year, is the second-highest-ranked festival in the state of Florida.

Out of nearly 1,000 art and craft festivals across the nation, the Downtown Festival & Art Show stands out as one of the most profitable for exhibiting artists. To create the list, Sunshine Artist analyzes thousands of ballots from artists who record the amount of money they earn at the festivals where they exhibit. Shows receive points based on these earnings, and the ones with the most points gain the top spots in the rankings.

This year’s festival will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16, and Sunday, Nov. 17, from 10am to 5pm. More than 100,000 visitors are expected to attend this nationally recognized event featuring 250 talented artists who showcase their oils and acrylics, watercolors, sculptures, jewelry, ceramics, and photography.

Live entertainment, delicious food, and an Imagination Station for children help make the Downtown Festival & Art Show Gainesville’s premier fall festival. For more information, visit www. gvlculturalaffairs.org or call 352-334ARTS.

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healthbriefs Acupuncture’s Growing Acceptance

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ne in 10 American adults has received acupuncture at least once and nearly half of them say they are “extremely” or “very” satisfied with their treatment, according to a survey sponsored by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Sixty percent of survey respondents readily accepted the idea of acupuncture as a treatment option, and 20 percent have used other forms of Oriental medicine, including herbs and Chinese bodywork.

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Day is observed on Oct. 24. For more information, visit aomday.org.

More Plastics, More Obese Kids

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causal link between the worldwide epidemic of childhood obesity and phthalates commonly used in soft plastics, packaging, and many personal care products is becoming more evident. A Korean study from Sanggye Paik Hospital at the Inje University College of Medicine, in Seoul, shows that the risk of childhood obesity increases with the level of DEHP (di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate) in the bloodstream.

The study indicates that phthalates may change gene expression associated with fat metabolism. DEHP in particular is a suspected endocrine disruptor, or hormone-altering agent. Children with the highest DEHP levels were nearly five times more likely to be obese than children with the lowest levels. The scientists studied 204 children ages 6 to 13, of whom 105 were obese.

A chemical commonly used to soften plastics, DEHP is found in some children’s toys, as well as many household items. Phthalates can be found in pacifiers, plastic food packaging, medical equipment, and building materials such as vinyl flooring. Personal care products including soap, shampoo, and nail polish may also contain phthalates.

Dulse Seaweed a Heart Health Powerhouse

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ulse (palmaria palmata), a protein-rich red seaweed, could become a new protein source to compete with current protein crops like soybeans, according to scientists at Ireland’s Teagasc Food Research Centre. Dulse harvested from October to January usually has the highest protein content.

This functional food also contributes levels of essential amino acids such as leucine, valine and methionine, similar to those contained in legumes like peas or beans. It may even help protect against cardiovascular disease. The Agriculture and Food Development Authority reports that for the first time, researchers have identified a renin-inhibitory peptide in dulse that helps to reduce high blood pressure, as do ACE-1 inhibitors commonly used in drug therapy.

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Grapes Grapple with Metabolic Syndrome

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t’s high season for grapes, and consuming any variety of this sweet fruit—red, green or black— may help protect against organ damage associated with the progression of metabolic syndrome, according to new research presented at the 2013 Experimental Biology Conference, in Boston.

Natural components in grapes, known as polyphenols, are thought to be responsible for this benefit.

Metabolic syndrome comprises a cluster of conditions—increased blood pressure, high blood sugar level, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol levels—that occur together, increasing the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

Working with lab animals, researchers found that three months of a grape-enriched diet significantly reduced inflammatory markers throughout the body, most significantly in the liver and abdominal fat tissue. The diet also reduced the fat weight of the animals’ liver, kidneys and abdomen compared with those that were on a control diet.

The grape intake also increased markers of antioxidant defense, particularly in the liver and kidneys.

“Our study suggests that a grape-enriched diet may play a critical role in protecting against metabolic syndrome and the toll it takes on the body and its organs,” says lead investigator E. Mitchell Seymour, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan Health System. “Both inflammation and oxidative stress play a role in cardiovascular disease progression and organ dysfunction in Type 2 diabetes.”

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globalbriefs Shellfish Solution

Bivalve Farming May Purify Fouled Waters

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cientists are investigating whether mussels can be grown in urban areas as a way of cleansing coastal waters of sewage, fertilizers, and other pollutants. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has placed an experimental raft at the mouth of New York City’s Bronx River with long tendrils seeded with geukensia demissa hanging beneath it.

The two-year experiment will test whether the ribbed mussel can survive in the industrial and organic effluent found there. If it does, that could have implications for cleaning up coastal waters all over the world. The idea of using bivalves including mussels, oysters, and clams to purify waterways has been on the minds of conservationists and scientists for decades. If the creatures can absorb enough nitrogen from the polluted water, it will also prevent algae blooms that deprive waterways of the oxygen needed to support life.

In addition, other researchers are investigating the beneficial effects of raising seaweed and kelp in conjunction with bivalves to clean coastal waters.

Source: E360.yale.edu

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Killing Fields Neonicotinoid Pesticides Threaten Birds and Insects, Too

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ontroversial neonicotinoid pesticides linked to catastrophic honeybee declines in North America and Europe may also kill other creatures, posing ecological threats even graver than feared, according to a new report by the American Bird Conservancy. It claims that dangers to birds and stream-dwelling and soil-dwelling insects accidentally exposed to the chemicals have been underestimated by regulators and downplayed by industry.

“The environmental persistence of the neonicotinoids, their propensity for runoff and for groundwater infiltration, and their cumulative and largely irreversible mode of action in invertebrates, raise environmental concerns that go well beyond bees,” according to the report co-authors, pesticide policy expert Cynthia Palmer and pesticide toxicologist Pierre Mineau, Ph.D., who both work for the nonprofit. They note that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency typically sets guidelines for bird exposures using laboratory tests on just two species, which ignores widely varying sensitivities among hundreds of other species.

Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society, an invertebrate conservation group, says that integrated pest management (IPM), which combines precisely targeted chemical use with other, non-chemical means of pest control, can deliver industrial-scale yields in an environmentally sustainable way. To the detriment of wildlife, “[Our nation] has moved away from IPM, from scouting a farm, putting in habitat for beneficial insects, and spraying only if there’s damage,” he warns. “With neonicotinoids, they don’t do that anymore,” instead returning to indiscriminate blanket spraying.

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Freebie Fruit

Online Mapping Points the Way

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alling Fruit (FallingFruit.org), created by Caleb Philips, co-founder of Boulder Food Rescue, and Ethan Welty, a photographer and geographer based in Boulder, Colorado, uses a map to cite locations of fruits and vegetables that are free to forage around the world. It looks like a Google map, with reported locations marked with dots.

Zoom in and click on one to find a description of what tree or bush is there. The description often includes information about the best season to pluck plant fruits, the quality and yield, a link to the species’ profile on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s website, and additional advice on accessing the spot.

Welty compiled most of the half-million or so locations from various municipal databases, local foraging organizations, and urban gardening groups.

Additionally, the map is open for Wikipedia-style public editing. He says, “Falling Fruit pinpoints all sorts of tasty trees in public parks, lining city streets, and even hanging over fences from the UK to New Zealand.” It also lists beehives, public water wells, and even dumpsters with excess food waste.

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ecobrief Turning Plastic Back into Petroleum

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ost plastics are made from petroleum. Thus, thought inventor Akinori Ito, it should be fairly easy to re-convert plastic back into oil.

Turns out he was correct.

He is now making machines that do just that in his company, Blest Co., Ltd.

The highly efficient, non-polluting machines can process polyethylene, polystyrene and polypropylene (but not PET bottles), and they can convert 2 lbs. of plastic into a quart of oil using just 1 kilowatt of power.

The machine heats the plastic with electricity, then traps the vapors, which it then cools and condenses into crude oil. The crude oil can be used to heat generators and some stoves; when refined, it can be used for gasoline.

Here is a video of Ito demonstrating the machine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGabrorRS8.

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Bodywork Goes MAINSTREAM Helpful Access Points to Health

by Linda Sechrist

Myofascial Therapy

The seed holds within itself hints of its magnificent maturity. So it is with the practice of whole-person health care, which has matured in language, sophistication, credibility and acceptance. In a single generation, we’ve seen its presence grow from the outer edges of holistic and alternative wellness to complementary and integrative health care. Its latest evolution into America’s mainstream is known as functional medicine. The branch of massage therapy, the germination point for myriad therapies collectively known as bodywork, patterns the movement’s development.

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nce considered a luxury for the pampered few, massage was among the first therapies to be widely recognized by physicians as a respected aspect of integrative and functional medicine. Bodywork increasingly shares this status, as it is included in conventional medicine’s more innovative healthcare models that embrace a body, mind and spirit approach. One of many examples is Duke Integrative Medicine, in Durham, North Carolina, where patient services include a form of integrative massage that blends Swedish massage, myofascial therapy, reflexology, energy

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tion for Structural Integrators.

According to Maureen Moon, past president of AMTA, many massage therapists are trained in various bodywork therapies and integrate them into their sessions, depending upon each client’s needs. She notes that “Many AMTA members are so passionate about their profession and meeting the continuing education (CEU) requirements that they go far beyond the units required to maintain their license, which can vary from state to state.” For example, Moon has trained in spinal reflex analysis, developed by Dr. Frank Jarrell, neuromuscular and craniosacral therapies, shiatsu, and seven massage therapies. “Most AMTA members are CEU junkies,” quips Moon, who points out that national conventions provide continuing education, and chapter meetings frequently introduce attendees to new techniques. Some practitioners discover specialties while in search of pain relief for personal injuries or other conditions.

work, and somatic therapy techniques.

In the public’s view, bodywork is still largely associated with massage, although distinct forms stand on their own, including Rolfing, structural integration, shiatsu, and myofascial and craniosacral therapies. Bodywork professionals generally belong to the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), whatever their specialized modality. They may also participate in other professional organizations, such as the Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals, which has some 80,000 members, many of whom are also members of the International Associa-

Olympia Hostler, a myofascial therapist in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, had two serious horse riding accidents during adolescence and three automobile accidents by age 40, which, combined, left her so incapacitated that she could barely walk. “I couldn’t work for three years, because I was so debilitated,” relates Hostler. She found her doctor’s diagnosis of severe permanent damage to the body’s soft connective tissue (fascia), and the prognosis of a lifetime of living with pain, unacceptable. So she began searching for something that would help restore health.

Her investigation of therapies ended with myofascial release, an effective whole-body approach to the treatment of pain and dysfunction, developed by Physical Therapist John F. Barnes.

“I had several sessions and found lasting pain relief unlike anything I’d ever experienced,” advises Hostler.

Unlike massage therapies focused on improving circulation, inducing relaxation or draining lymph fluid, the myofascial treatment reached Hostler’s deepest layer of fascia to free the restrictions causing her pain. “It was

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amazing that a hands-on application of gentle, sustained pressure into areas of restriction in the myofascial connective tissue could begin to relieve many years of ongoing, intense pain,” says Hostler.

Rolfing

As a Certified (advanced) Rolfer and Rolf Movement Practitioner, Robert McWilliams has been able to pursue his lifelong passion in the fields of movement and physical fitness, which included 25 years as a professional dancer and 14 as a professor of modern dance. He taught at both the University of Oklahoma and the University of Florida, in Gainesville.

“In the 1980s, while I was still dancing, I had an experience with Rolfing, developed by Ida P. Rolf [Ph.D.], that transformed my dancing, increased my athletic performance alignment, coordination, flexibility, balance, muscle tone, expressive power, and overall sense of relaxation onstage, as well as in daily life,” relates McWilliams. He currently serves as an assistant teacher at the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration, in Boulder, Colorado, where he trained.

Although McWilliams’ clients generally see him to treat the pain and discomfort of injuries, he says that they frequently change their focus to how their body is working better overall. “This is because injuries tend to resolve themselves after a few sessions of deep tissue manipulation of the myofascial system,” says McWilliams.

A specialized series of 10 sessions works to systematically balance and optimize both the structure (shape) and function (movement) of the entire body. Each session focuses on freeing up a particular region of the body. The effect releases old limiting patterns and postures and restores the body’s natural alignment and sense of integration.

“Often, as freedom of physical expression increases, so does emotional expression,” comments McWilliams.

Structural Integration

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tors can attend any of 14 certified U.S. schools, we are all structural integrators; our training is based on the work of Ida Rolf,” says Diane Roth, a boardcertified structural integrator who has specialized in massage and bodywork for 25 years in the Chicago area.

Roth explains that all practitioners in this field of study combine hands-on freeing and realigning of fascial tissue with awareness and movement education, in order to structurally integrate the whole body.

Restoration of postural balance and functional ease greatly helps the body, which, she says, constantly labors against the powerful force of gravity.

Like Moon, Roth has studied and incorporated other adjunct therapies and modalities, such as craniosacral therapy and myofascial release. From her perspective, bodywork differs from massage in that it requires more involvement from the client.

“I tell my clients that with a veritable village of treatments available, there is always help for anyone who suffers with aches and pains, regardless of age,” says Roth.

Shiatsu

Shirley Scranta, owner and director of the International School of Shiatsu, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, discovered The Book of Shiatsu: The Healing Art of Finger Pressure, by Saul Goodman, in a health food store. She subsequently researched the school that Goodman founded in 1978, based on the theories of masunaga Zen shiatsu, kushi macrobiotic, and his own shiatsu shin tai.

In 1996, Scranta became one of Goodman’s clients. “I drove a roundtrip of 240 miles for weekly treatments because each session made me feel better and stronger. After five sessions, I enrolled in classes and graduated later that year,” says Scranta. She believes the widely known form of acupressure helped her body reestablish its own intelligence system, which had been distorted by childhood trauma.

“This gentle technique applies varying degrees of pressure to release tension, strengthen weak areas, facilitate circulation, and balance the life energy that flows through the merid-

ians in the body,” she explains. “In my case, it helped me connect with my body so that I could honor it and do what it needed to rejuvenate itself.”

Craniosacral Therapy

Chiropractor Lisa Upledger is vice president of The Upledger Institute, in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. A craniosacral therapy (CST) practitioner, educator, and wife of CST developer Dr. John Upledger, she advises that tension-related problems are a growing complaint in our modern world.

Fortunately, such issues are among the myriad conditions that respond quickly to the gentle touch of this modality.

In a 2007 Massage magazine article, she advised that the positive effects of the therapy rely to a large extent on the performance of the body’s inherent self-corrective mechanisms. “CST works through the craniosacral system to facilitate this function and thereby normalize the environment in which the central nervous system functions,” she noted. “As this is accomplished, a wide range of sensory, motor and neurological problems are improved.”

CST practitioners listen with their hands to the slow pulsations of the craniosacral system. With a soft touch, equivalent to the weight of a nickel, they explore any fascia restrictions throughout the client’s body, which rests fully clothed in a supine position. Effects of the treatment can be wide-ranging, affecting the musculoskeletal, nervous, cardiovascular and immune systems as well as organs, connective tissues and energy systems. It works to release deeply held physical and psychological patterns held within the body.

A coin with different impressions on each side is still only one coin, a blend of precious metals. When the coin is tossed to reveal either heads or tails, the visible symbol is one interpretation of the whole imprint—an analogy that may best define the difference between massage and bodywork. All variations on the theme share the same goal—restoring health to the whole person.

Linda Sechrist is a senior staff writer for Natural Awakenings. Visit her website, ItsAllAboutWe.com.

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A Lighter Shade of Paleo

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egetarian Awareness Month provides a timely opportunity to realize that a plant-focused diet does not derive exclusively from plants.

Just as a carnivore does not subsist on meat alone, the same applies to a vegetarian.

What can we learn from our Paleolithic, or Stone Age, ancestors? The recent trend toward recreating a Paleoera diet emphasizes the importance of vegetable nutrition to prehistoric communities, correcting the misperception that they were primarily meat-eaters.

The original Paleo diet, before the advent of agriculture, reflected the hunting and gathering of lean meats, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, and was absent of grains, dairy, starchy foods, sugar, and salt. Today’s updated version might comprise foods naturally available and/or abundant before the cultivation of food in gardens, crops, and livestock.

Loren Cordain, Ph.D., author of The Paleo Diet and Nutritionist Nora Gedgaudas, author of Primal Body, Primal Mind, each contest the premise perpetuated by many in the weight-loss industry that fat, especially

naturally saturated fat, is unhealthy.

Those same proponents who maintain low-fat/non-fat food is a panacea for modern illnesses also purport that cholesterol is the chief cause of heart ailments.

Gedgaudas writes that the diets of hunter-gatherers included large amounts of fat and cholesterol, which is essential to maintaining cell membranes and regulating hormones. She points out that obtaining cholesterol from food is necessary to augment the liver’s function of creating cholesterol internally.

Cordain agrees that even saturated fats in meats can be beneficial, providing the animals are grass-fed, lean, and live in clean surroundings. He emphasizes, however, that when our prehistoric ancestors ate fat, they did not also eat grain carbohydrates, sugar, and salt, and contends that it is these components, not meat, that can be detrimental to the body.

Doctor of Naturopathy Maureen Horne-Paul adds that organic, lean, and game meats are exempt from the acidity inherent in corn-based animal feed.

Plus, “When an animal is insensitively confined and killed, stress hormones

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are released that result in acidity. So, we are changing our pH from a healthy alkaline state to a more acidic condition when we consume meat from conventionally raised animals.”

Scientific studies published in the Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, Medical Hypotheses, and by the Mercola group attest to key problems related to human consumption of grains. Anti-nutrients such as phytic acid in grains lead to the poor absorption of minerals and related deficiencies. Improper absorption of dietary protein, caused in part by enzyme inhibitors in grains, also tends to damage the pancreas. Individual sensitivities to proteins in specific grains can further interfere with functioning of the neuroendocrine system and subsequent emotional difficulties like addiction and depression may arise. All of these difficulties have been exacerbated by irresponsible prenatal diets that have made younger generations extra-sensitive to the challenges posed by grains to the human system.

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While Cordain doesn’t recommend dairy, Gedgaudas suggests organic or raw milk products, provided they retain their full fat content and come from grass-fed cows. She reasons that the presence of the anti-carcinogenic fatty acid conjugated linolenic acid (CLA) and the Wulzen factor anti-stiffness agent in the fat benefit joint lubrication.

Experts suggest that the dietary formula established by our prehistoric ancestors can be the foundation for a modern-day, healthy, non-confining, creative eating experience. We can exchange grains for quinoa, amaranth, and buckwheat (not technically grains at all), and include tubers and legumes, due to their folate and protein content.

Blue and sweet potatoes also contain high levels of anthocyanins and potassium. Nearly every category of food, in the proper amounts, can be part of such a balanced diet.

When we explore what makes sense and eat clean and natural foods, we have a good chance of finding our

body’s own sweet spot.

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Paleo Parallel Tips n Make plants the center. For any meat, choose organic, grass-fed lean cuts and use small portions. n Limit dairy to items with full fat content. Choose sheep or goat dairy when possible, followed by organic cow dairy. n Limit grains, but explore pseudograins such as buckwheat, quinoa and amaranth to add safe, starchlike body to meals. n For legumes, eat lentils. Blue and sweet potatoes are good choices for tubers.

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STARRY-EYED KIDS Clear Skies, Cool Nights Open Vast Vistas

by Randy Kambic

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ishing upon a star The magical skies and comfortably cool is an iconic activity nights. This year, families night sky is can anticipate a special steeped in everyone’s childhood desire to viewing of the Comet ISON, a perfect attain happiness and fulfillwhich is expected to be visiplayground ble from much of the United ment. Actual stargazing can help make parents’ dreams for a child’s States in late November. for their children’s well-being imagination. Getting Started come true, as well.

Children are exposed

Sky & Telescope to imagining the larger celestial realm magazine’s online guide, Getting through popular films, science ficStarted in Astronomy, offers easy steps tion literature, and pop songs, and, for parents to put stars in kids’ eyes. more tangibly, via current sky events.

Check out its “This Week’s Sky at a Consider news of the meteoroid that Glance” link. Find an open space such exploded over Russia in February and as a park or wooded clearing to reduce the latest images from the surface of ambient light; use sky maps in hobby Mars beamed to us by the NASA rover, publications or astronomy books from Curiosity. Experiencing the excitethe library as guides. ment of early knowledge can bolster

Binoculars are the best tool to academics while fostering an awe of start getting familiar with the night the order of nature’s rhythms. sky—they augment the naked eye

“Astronomy ties into every eduenough to identify many Moon craters, cational domain—physics, geometry, Jupiter’s moons, and the crescent phasalgebra, history and ecology,” advises es of Venus. Planetariums, science and former elementary school teacher Hichildren’s museums, nature centers, ram Bertoch, of West Valley City, Utah, and astronomy clubs often hold public owner of the KidsKnowIt Network, family events that include access to which maintains 10 free children’s telescopes; some lend or rent them learning websites, including Kids out. (Find local clubs and facilities at Astronomy.com. Standing in awe at SkyAndTelescope.com/community/ the wonders of the universe can also organizations.) instill a centering sense of humility in

Other opportunities include NAthe face of such grandeur.

SA’s Night Sky Network of astronomy Autumn is one of the best times clubs, Astronomy magazine’s youth for channeling youngsters’ intrigue programs, SpacePlace.nasa.gov and in constellations, given the clearer Astronomy.com/kids programs. Boy

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Scout and Girl Scout troops both offer astronomy merit badges.

When a family’s interest continues sufficiently to buy a telescope, test preferred models at many potential settings before finalizing a purchase. According to the online guide, a first telescope should provide high-quality optics that limit diffraction (the spreading of light as it passes through the lens system to the eye) and a sturdy, smooth-working mount. More advanced telescopes have built-in computers and motors that can be programmed to point at specific spots in the sky.

Rising Stars on Earth

If trying to emulate Galileo is a challenge, youngsters can relate and aspire to the cadre of young scientists profiled in Astronomy magazine’s “Astronomy’s Rising Stars” story in July, available via most public libraries.

Being a “self-described computer nerd” led Mark Krumholz, Ph.D., an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics in his 30s at the University of California-Santa Cruz, to conduct

massive-star formulation simulations.

By “plugging in the laws of physics and turning the crank,” he has shown why some stars heat gas around them to appear much larger than others.

Colors vary, as well.

Stargazing was the catalyst for Anna Frebel, Ph.D., an assistant physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge. “I consider myself fortunate that my initial passion led to becoming a professional astronomer,” says this scientist, who is credited with discovering the most chemically primitive star; the oldest known star as of 2007, at about 13.2 billion years; and the red giant star S1020549.

Whether early steps lead to a later career or a heavenly hobby, helping to convert a child’s, “What’s that?” to a happy, “I know what that is,” becomes worth encouraging. As Bertoch observes, “Kids have an innate excitement about what’s out there.”

Space Songs Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield caused an Internet sensation when he sang David Bowie’s Space Oddity in the International Space Station last May. Here are some other celestial tributes: Bad Moon Rising, Creedence Clearwater Revival Champagne Supernova, Oasis Eclipse, Pink Floyd Here Comes the Sun, The Beatles Moondance, Van Morrison Soak Up the Sun, Sheryl Crow Staring at the Sun, U2 Walking on the Moon, The Police Walking on the Sun, Smash Mouth

Randy Kambic, in Estero, FL, is a freelance writer and editor who regularly contributes to Natural Awakenings.

Faraway Fun Facts n Stars appear to twinkle from light distortions caused by temperature differ-

ences in our atmosphere. The lifespan of most stars is billions of years.

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stars visible to the naked eye and gave them names like The Big Dipper, Cassiopeia and Scorpius. n A “shooting star” is actually a meteor with a

trail of gases and particles. n The Moon’s surface is pitted with thousands of

craters from long-ago meteor strikes. n Saturn’s rings are composed mostly of billions of

ice particles and rocks. n Jupiter is by far the largest studied planet; after

the Moon and Venus, it’s usually the brightest object in the night sky. n Planets Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Mercury and

Mars, as well as Pluto, are named for Roman gods—Venus was the Roman goddess of love. n Planets and the Moon don’t emit light—

they reflect light from the sun.

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Energy Medicine Today

by James E. Lemire, M.D.

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s a board certified family physician for the past 36 years, I’ve had the pleasure of watching the evolution of family medicine away from the disease model of health care into a model that emphasizes health and wellness. The new model of health care emphasizes functional medicine as taught by the Institute of Functional Medicine.

This year’s annual conference focused on Energy Medicine. We’ll review some of the central concepts of energy medicine and how it will impact the practice of medicine now and into the future.

Energy has been known throughout history by many different names: chi, prana, Wauconda, pneuma, subtle energy, life force. The laws of quantum physics show us that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Energetics is the flow and transformation of energy within a system. Bioenergetics is the transformation of energy between living organisms and their environment.

Here are some basic concepts of energy: everything around us is energy, and we are energy, functioning in an energy matrix; life is energetic; not all things important are visible; less is often more common; rhythms of life can be seen everywhere (solar systems, earth, and our bodies). We are to be responsible for ourselves and our planet with respect for the unseen and an eye on the stewardship of our future.

Epigenetics: food is energy provided by the sun; food is information we’ve taken in that has a transforming force in our lives. See my previous article in Natural Awakenings (“Alternative Options for Women At Risk of Breast Cancer,” June 2013).

Ancient traditions have, for millennia, utilized the concept of energy

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medicine. Chinese medicine is rooted in acupuncture; Indian medicine is centered on the seven chakras; Egyptian medicine focuses on magnetic ore; traditional Christian healing uses the laying on of hands.

Ancient to new traditions include Tai Chi, Chi Gong, yoga, meditation, prayer, the Healing Codes, and EFT.

Energy Medicine has been studied for decades. I can recommend these resources: • The international Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine, established in 1990 (www. issseem.org/) • The book Energy Medicine by Donna Eden and David Feinstein, published in 1998 • James Oshman’s book Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis, 2000 • Richard Gerber’s Vibrational Medicine for the 21st Century: The Complete Guide to Energy Healing and Spiritual Transformation, 2000 • Bruce Lipton’s The Biology of Belief: Unleashing The Power of Consciousness, Matter, and Miracles, 2008

We can measure energy in many different ways: heat, sweat “galvanic skin response,” pulse, heartbeat, brainwaves, and nerve potentials. Each has its own ranges of normal and response to external stimuli. Many of them can now be measured with home devices.

Therapeutic modalities of energy medicine include: meditation, prayer; acupuncture, acupressure; Chi gong; tai chi; Reiki/therapeutic touch; homeopathy; biofeedback; kinesiology; magnetic therapy; color/light therapy; sound, music, and tonal therapies; and biophysical devices such as eVox and Zyto.

State-of-the-art technologies are available today, some at home, including: • Heart Math monitor ~ a heart monitor designed to use biofeedback

technology to help reduce stress and improve blood pressure and cardiac parameters.

• Zyto ~ FDA approved EAV (Electroacupuncture According to [Dr. Reinhold] Voll) system to help measure the stress on individual organs of the body and their response to possible therapies.

• eVox ~ NASA-developed voice recognition technology to help deal with emotional and physical response to stress.

• Thermography ~ evaluation of tissues of the body using the body’s own tissue temperatures.

• Light therapy ~ low-level lasers have been used for treating pain, swelling, and inflammation with excellent results.

• Sound wave therapy ~ lithotripsy uses ultrasound waves to break up stones in the kidneys and gallbladder.

• Electrical therapy ~ specificfrequency microcurrent therapy has been developed to deal with problems related to pain, swelling, and inflammation in many organs and muscle skeletal areas of the body.

• Magnetic therapy ~ a new device called PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field) has been developed which treats the body with electromagnetic waves. Is been used successfully to treat depression and anxiety, musculoskeletal problems, and weakened hearts, and assists in general body detoxification.

Finally, energy can be used for good or can have potential harmful effects. Is there a “safe” toxic load of cellular radiation? Find out what the SAR (specific absorption rate) of your cell phone is at www.tawkon.com and make wise choices on your use of cellular energy in the future.

For information or treatments using many of the above energy medicine modalities, technologies, and therapies, call Lemire Clinic at 352-291-9459, visit www.LemireClinic.com, or attend our educational seminars (see the “Calendar of Events”). The next “Meet the Doctor free patient education open house will be on Monday, October 7 at 6pm. Call to reserve a space.

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All the Time in the World Transforming Anxiety into Artistry

by Marney K. Makridakis

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sk American adults if they’re anxious about time and they’ll likely say yes. Our society even deems it expected, acceptable and normal to experience such stress, but is it necessary? It’s helpful to explore what is at the root of our problems with time and why we believe we benefit from worrying and complaining about it. Both are good first steps to releasing ourselves from the drama of getting caught up in and blaming time as a convenient catchall. Which of the following rationales apply to us personally?

“If I can complain about being busy, I don’t have to examine other areas in my life.”

“My schedule is wrapped up with my self-esteem; being ‘too busy’ means that I’m successful.”

“Worrying about time gives me something to talk about.”

“I don’t plan things I might enjoy because it can be too demanding or even scary—it just feels easier and safer to be bored.”

“Worrying about time is a convenient excuse for not following my dreams.”

Once we identify the perceived payoffs from worrying about time, we can see them for what they are: illusions that keep us from living our true potential. Awareness allows us to make

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a different choice and to partner with time, instead of working against it.

Einstein proved that time is subjective, illustrated every time we compare an hour in a dentist’s chair to an hour in the company of a loved one. Time behaves and feels differently based on many variables, like emotion, engagement, flow, desire, interest, pain and pleasure. Our perspective counts. With capricious factors dancing around in our every moment, we can see why time isn’t constant.

Happily, we can use the relative nature of time to our advantage and choose what our relationship with it will be. Consider that with each instance we choose how we talk about, measure and experience time, we are actually creating a new paradigm of time for ourselves.

We can relinquish general views and limitations of time that hinder us and emerge into the possibilities of time as anything but a defined line.

It can be a vibrant, completely moldable, layered, multifaceted work of art that we may adapt as we wish, to custom design each and every day.

Marney K. Makridakis of Dallas, TX, is the author of Creating Time: Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life. She founded Artella magazine, the ARTbundance philosophy and the ArtellaLand.com community.

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New Life through Energy Healing

by Dr. Michael J. Badanek, DC, BS, CNS, DACBN, DCBCN, DM(P)

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uring my 32 years of clinical practice, working exclusively with alternative medicine, I have witnessed a paradigm shift in my patients. The old approach— physical and psychological health challenges believed to come from bacterial/viral or chemical imbalances—is being replaced with new and exciting forms of diagnosis and treatment by energy healing. These methods include chiropractic manipulation, acupuncture, homeopathy, Bach flowers, applied kinesiology, magnetic therapy, and electrodermal screening and therapy, just to name a few treatment and diagnostic modalities which are in the category known as “energy healing.” Most fascinating of all: many of these healing and diagnostic modalities have been in existence for a very long time, but have been ridiculed by “traditional” allopathic medicine due to greed and market-control issues.

Scientists have tended to focus on the microscopic/micromolecular mechanisms behind disease, but have often lost sight of the bigger picture.

Also, mainstream medicine suffers from an extreme narrow-mindedness in thinking because of its steadfast focus on the Newtonian worldview of people as biological machines.

Vibrational healing philosophies have the unique perspective that human beings are more than flesh and

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blood, proteins, fats, and nucleic acids. The body would be but a pile of disordered chemicals were it not for the animating life-force that maintains and organizes our molecular bits and pieces into living, breathing, thinking individuals.

This life-force is part of the spirit that animates all living creatures. It is the so-called “ghost in the machine.”

It is a unique form of subtle energy that has yet to be fully grasped by the scientists today.

This spiritual/energy dimension is an aspect of human nature that is not taught in medical school, nor well understood by most physicians.

But the spiritual/energy element is a part of human existence that must be taken into account if we are to truly understand the basic nature of health, illness, and personal growth.

One of the main reasons traditional physicians have such a hard time accepting the validity of alternative healing methods is that they see the physical body as the only dimension of human existence. In that box, one must somehow influ-

ence physical/cellular systems with heavy-handed methods such as drugs or surgery. The therapeutic effectiveness of weak dilutions of substances, like those used in homeopathy, have been misunderstood and discredited by the orthodox medical structure.

Homeopathy works at an energetic level which is not yet understood by most medical thinkers.

Alternative systems of healing are often effective because they can correct abnormal patterns of function in the higher dimensional systems which control cellular physiology and behavioral expression. Chiropractic “innate intelligence,” acupuncture meridians, the chakras and nadis, the etheric body, and other higher systems are parts of human multidimensional anatomy that have been described by ancient schools of healing throughout the world. Western science has long ignored descriptions of ethereal components of physiology because their existence could not be documented by anatomical dissection. After all, who has ever seen a so-called meridian under the microscope? Only now has Western technology evolved to the point that we are beginning to get the earliest of confirmation that subtle energy systems do exist and that they influence the physiologic behavior of cellular systems. It is through the acceptance of this multidimensional framework of functioning that scientists can begin to comprehend the true nature of human physiology and the reasons for illness and wellness.

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You are a latticework of energies. The enormous implications of this single fact is the basis of energy medicine. I invite you to step into the introduction to that field and enter a domain beyond the world of appearances. Explore how invisible energies shape the way you feel, the way you think, and the way you live. Marshal these energies for your health and well-being. Study your eternal dance with the unseen forces within and around you. And as you do, marvel with me as the dynamic energies that stream through your body, mind, and soul exquisitely reveal the genius of nature’s fashioning hand.

Energy medicine is safe, natural, and accessible. It is both contemporary and ancient. The term is being used in many ways today, ranging from the introduction of shamanic healing practices in modern cultures, to the use of powerful electromagnetic and imaging technologies in modern hospitals. It embraces scientific principles and mysteries; routine procedures and artistry; matter and spirit. Energy medicine is the best term I know for describing the growing number of approaches where an understanding of the body as a system of energies is being applied for promoting health, healing and happiness.

Dr. Michael Badanek is a licensed health care provider and specializes in alternative complementary medicine. He has degrees in Chiropractic Medicine, is Board Certified in Naturopathic medicine, and received his degree in traditional allopathic medicine. He also has four board certifications in Clinical Nutrition and Homeopathy. If you or a loved one would like to know more about this intriguing form of health care, or if you have issues unresolved or improperly managed, for further information or a consultation contact 352-622-1151 and visit the web site at www.alternativewholistichealth.com.

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Autism, Learning Disorders, Brain Dysfunction ...

by Paula Koger, BSN, MA, DOM

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am passionate about improving how we approach healthcare, especially for our children.

Effective medicine is about targeting and eliminating the cause, not treating symptoms. What does that mean? It means that in order for any disease to heal, the treatment has to get the toxins out, not move them to a new organ or tissue in the body.

I was a school nurse for five years.

Many of the children who spent time in my office just needed a break from the classroom that was overwhelming them. I was also a pediatric nurse.

As someone who has treated children with all problems, I have seen the results of “conventional” treatments; the positive impact was generally minimal and slow.

The spectrum of learning disorders is varied in adults and children. Behavior disorders are being seen more frequently in children today. It is equally alarming to see the increase in brain disorders such as Alzheimers and other diseases affecting adults more commonly.

The statistics say these disorders affect one in six children. Nine out of 10 marriages with autistic children end in divorce; it is an enormous task to raise and treat these children. Some therapies give these children as many as 86 medicines to take daily and involve a very restrictive diet.

I have been a seeker of modalities and interventions that are relatively simple and workable for the children and family. At one point I saw promising results in Auditory Integration

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Training and Sound Therapy, developed by Dr. Guy Berard, a French ENT (Ear/Nose/Throat) doctor. He found that the hearing of an autistic person is typically overly sensitive to certain frequencies; with this therapy, the brain can be retrained to tune out the disturbing frequency and develop other neural pathways. I have been trained in this therapy and have helped many people, yet this modality still did not hold the whole answer in my experience.

Recently, I studied with and have implemented with astonishing success Field Control Therapy developed

by Dr. Yurkovsky, M.D. With this approach, the individual needs of each patient can be assessed using bioresonance testing to assess the possible presence of hundreds of toxins that can cause the blocks leading to learning and developmental issues.

These toxins come from heavy metals, fillings, vaccines, drugs, food preser-

vatives, GMOs, parents, water, and environmental pollutants. To trace all the thousands of toxins using lab tests is ineffective and cost-prohibitive.

With FCT, we can identify and develop homeopathy for them effectively and non-invasively.

Toxins attach to the body’s tissues and nerve cells to form a distortion or a block the body. It affects the body’s ability to convey messages and signals that are necessary for the functioning of the complex physical, metal, and emotional responses orchestrated by the body. FCT develops, through individual testing and bio-resonance assessment, a program of individual homeopathy specific to the individual needs of the patient. Toxins are located individually, using test vials placed in the bio-resonance testing device; I use the Reba tester.

My main finding about these children is that they are very sensitive to toxins and other things that do not affect others as much. The most wonderful thing I have found is that as these children and adults heal, they are usually very intelligent, sensitive people with genius emerging as the toxins are cleared. I have seen them achieve great joy and clarity and become faster intellectually than their toxic “normal” peers.

In our world, news of this magnitude is hard to accept, because we have been told that other conventional “chemical” things work. Yet with alternative medicine, definite criteria have to be met in order to consider a treatment a success. Compared to other therapies, the cost is very low and the success potential very high. I would like to see every child and every adult who is disturbed go through Field Control Therapy.

Dr. Paula Koger will be giving a free workshop on treating autism, ADHD, Alzheimers, and other brain disorders with homeopathic detox on October 19 at 2:00. For reservations, call 941539-4232 or visit www.wealthofhealthcenter.com.

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Energy Healing Comes of Age A Historic Milestone in Complementary Medicine

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s recently as 2010, it would have been unimaginable for an annual medical conference including allopathic physicians to hold a meeting called “Illuminating the Energy Spectrum.” Yet it happened at the soldout Institute of Functional Medicine 2013 annual international conference.

Workshop topics ranged from bodily energy regulation to presentations by Grand Qigong Master Ou, Wen Wei, the originator of Pangu Shengong, and Medical Anthropologist and Psychologist Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., whose Four Winds Light Body School offers a two-year program on the luminous light body, also known as a local energy field, aura, life force, qi/chi or prana.

The energy medicine practiced by acupuncturists and other health practitioners that offer any one of the 60-plus modalities described in The Encyclopedia of Energy Medicine, by Linnie Thomas, operates on the belief that changes in the body’s life force can affect health and healing. The therapeutic use of any of them begins with an assessment of the body’s electromagnetic field. Then, a treatment specifically designed to correct energy disturbances helps recreate a healthy balance in its multilayered energy field, comprised of pathways known as meridians, and energy centers (chakras) that correspond

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to related nerve centers, endocrine glands, internal organ systems, and the circulatory system.

The objective for energy medicine practitioners is to uncover the root causes of imbalances—often from emotional stress or physical trauma— and harmonize them at a bioenergetic level before aberrations completely solidify and manifest as illness.

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James Oschman, Ph.D., an academic scientist and international authority in Dover, New Hampshire, has conducted decades of research into the science of bioenergetics—the flow and transformation of energy between living organisms and their environment. He explores the basis of the energetic exchanges that manifest via complementary and alternative therapies in his book, Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis.

According to Oschman, there is now enough high-quality research in leading peer-reviewed biomedical journals to provide energy medicine the credence to transform from a littleknown, alternative healthcare modality into a conventional form of medicine.

The progression to more widespread acceptance is similar to that experienced by acupuncture and massage.

For more than 35 years, pioneers of energy medicine like Barbara Ann Brennan, founder of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing; John F. Thie, founder of Touch for Health; and Donna Eden, founder of Eden Energy Medicine, have delved beyond conventional models of healing to confirm that our sensory experience of the world is as limited as our vocabulary to describe it. New language for new concepts is required, such as: nature’s drive for wholeness, resonance, a new band of frequencies, restructuring DNA, local fields and the non-local field, encoding, entrainment, strings, strands, attunement, evolutionary healing, and vibration.

Eden, who has had a lifelong ability to make intuitive health assessments later confirmed by medical tests, can look at an individual’s body, see and feel where the energy flow is interrupted, out of balance or not in harmony, and then work to correct the problem.

“Very little of the natural world that human beings evolved in still exists. In addition, our bodies haven’t adapted to modern stressors or the electromagnetic energies associated with technologies that occupy our living and working environments,” says Eden. “Energy medicine is invaluable because anyone can learn how to understand their body as an energy system and how to use techniques to restore energies that have become weak, disturbed or unbalanced.” Her teaching tools include her classic book, Energy Medicine, and Energy Medicine University, which she founded in 2006 in Sausalito, California.

In a 2009 talk at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, Oschman predicted that energy medicine will become prominent in anti-aging medicine.

“When I review the history of medicine, there are periods in which things stay pretty much the same, and then there are great breakthroughs. I think that with the advent of energy medicine, another milestone is upon us.”

Learn more at issseemblog.org, the International Society for Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine website.

Linda Sechrist is a senior staff writer for Natural Awakenings.

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in & Tonic

by Melody Murphy

It’s the Big Chicken, Charlie Brown

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nce a month I drive through the tiny town of Webster, which features a large flea market and a great big concrete rooster on the side of the road. I refer to him as The Big Chicken of Webster.

But I am The Big Chicken of

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Everywhere Else.

Simply put, I scare easy. I do not like to be frightened and do not react well to it. This has been going on for years.

I love Halloween but prefer a kindergarten version of it, with the same cute but tattered decorations

I’ve had since childhood: innocuous paper pumpkins, black kittens, cartoon witches, friendly ghosts, grinning jack-o’-lanterns lit by spicescented candles. No horror movies, thanks: The Disney animated version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is about as scary a movie as I can handle.

Other than the Magic Kingdom’s Haunted Mansion, which I’ve always loved, I was 23 before I made it through a haunted house. My friend Alice and I tried every Halloween of our childhood, and were never successful. We would inform my parents, “This year we’re really going to do it.”

My long-suffering parents, wise to our ways, would sigh and put us in the station wagon. In the back seat, sweating nervously in our costumes, we would give each other pep talks the whole way there despite our mutually dubious expressions.

It was always the same. My father would buy our tickets, we would make it as far as the shadowy end of the hall, within earshot of the eerie noises inside—and then we would turn and run, shrieking, for daylight.

Every year. Then my parents would take us to McDonald’s for sundaes, and we would start talking about how next year, we were really going to do it.

For my eighth birthday I received the record of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” with which Alice and I would torment ourselves. In a bizarre test of bravery, we would pull the shade in my room, turn off the lights, crawl under the table where I hosted tea parties with my dolls, fence ourselves in with chairs, hide under a blanket, and force ourselves to listen to the song in the dark.

We couldn’t even make it through Vincent Price’s sepulchral

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monologue without screaming “Turn it off! Turn it off!” and scrambling out, overturning chairs in our haste to make it stop before we heard his maniacal cackle at the end. Each time we made it a few seconds further into the dark heart of this song was a small victory. Forget watching the video. Dancing zombies? We would have lost our minds.

(Sidenote: As a grown woman, I saw part of the Walking Dead episode where zombies come swarming out of the barn, and for three days I could not fetch my Christmas tree stand from my garage, which is an outbuilding that looks way too much like an old barn.

When I finally went, it was in broad daylight and I whistled hymns the whole time.)

My mother once let us rent The Watcher In the Woods for a slumber party. This may be a Disney movie, but it is freaking terrifying. Deeply uneasy, we sat crosslegged on the couch in our Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears nighties until the moment the blonde girl, trapped underwater, is shortly fixing to drown, and a witchy-looking Bette Davis comes for her with a large forked branch to pry her loose, but it looks like Bette Davis is about to push her down and kill her.

At this juncture, Alice shrieked and went airborne, leaping into my mother’s lap. I was frozen in horror on the couch, sobbing because I was too scared to move.

This is basically my reaction to all frightening experiences. When I was 12 and saw The Exorcist, I was so terrified that I would not stir out of bed until the sun was up and shining brightly the next morning. Even then, I took a flying leap into the middle of the room because I knew the devil was under the bed and would grab my ankle if I did not clear a great distance. That was a loooooooong night.

After I got home from seeing The Sixth Sense as an adult, it took me ten minutes to make it across the dark house to my bedroom. Then I sat up until 4 a.m., reading Winnie the Pooh and listening to the most cheerful contemporary Christian radio I could find. And yes, when I did have to get out of bed, I took a flying leap. Whether the devil or a little-girl ghost, I was not about to risk anyone under the bed grabbing my ankle.

There are many times I have made myself do things that scare me. I believe this is necessary to character development and maturity.

Just not at Halloween.

Melody Murphy is a writer and native Floridian living in Ocala.

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FAT FIGHT Like Us, Pets Must Eat Right and Keep Moving

by Dr. Shawn Messonnier

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besity, a severe and debilitating illness, is the most common nutritional disease in both animals and people. The latest survey of 121 veterinarians in 36 states by the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (APOP) and corroborating American Veterinarian Medical Association data reveal we have 80 million fat cats and obese dogs; that’s more than 58 percent of dogs and 52 percent of domesticated cats. “Pet obesity remains the leading health threat to our nation’s pets,” says Dr. Ernie Ward, APOP’s founder, from the organization’s headquarters in Calabash, North Carolina.

Current medical consensus states that an animal is obese if it weighs at least 15 percent more than its ideal weight. But looking at body composition is more accurate, based on measurements top-to-bottom and sideto-side and depth to the ribs and spine.

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Animals aren’t born fat. Obesity results from too many calories in food, snacks and treats, paired with a lack of aerobic exercise. People may believe they are showing love by rewarding begging with treats, but they actually may be slowly killing their companions with kindness, putting them on a path toward painful and costly medical problems.

These can include cancer, cardiac problems, complications from drug therapy, difficulty breathing, heat intolerance, hypertension, intervertebral disk disease, orthopedic conditions (including arthritis), lethargy and ruptured ligaments. Also, because excess body fat first deposits in the cavities of the chest and abdomen and under the skin, hypothyroidism and diabetes mellitus can develop, so screen overweight animals for these disorders prior to treatment for obesity.

Tackling obesity involves restricting calories and increasing the metabolic rate with a controlled exercise program. Diet and exercise are the two most vital factors in fighting fat.

Eating Right

Simply switching to a store-bought “lite” pet food is inadequate because many are designed to main-

tain, not lose, weight. Also, many products contain chemicals, byproducts and unhealthy fillers that are contrary to a holistic program.

A homemade restricted-calorie diet is the best choice for obese animals. The second is a processed “obesity-management” diet available through veterinarians, although many of these also contain chemicals, byproducts and fillers. Such diets can be used to attain the target weight, and then replaced with a homemade maintenance diet.

Foods high in fiber work well for shedding pounds because they increase metabolism. Vegetable fiber decreases fat and glucose absorption. Fluctuating glucose levels cause greater insulin release that can lead to diabetes; because insulin is needed for fat storage, low, stable levels are preferred. Fiber also binds to fat in the intestinal tract and increases the movement of digested food through the intestines.

Supplement Options

Several natural therapies may be helpful for treating animal obesity.

These include herbs such as cayenne, ginger and mustard; white bean extract; chromium; carnitine; hydroxycitric acid (HCA); epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG); and coenzyme Q10. All have been widely used with variable success, although not yet thoroughly researched or clinically proven.

A supplement called Vetri-Lean appears promising. Based on a white bean extract, it has cut starch digestion by up to 75 percent in the company’s clinical tests. The formula also has EGCG from green tea extract to boost metabolism, inhibit carbohydratedigesting enzymes and help maintain normal blood insulin levels, all to help dissolve fat and control appetite. Chromium polynicotinate, another ingredient, also helps to curb appetite, build muscles and reduce fat.

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There is no one best exercise program for every animal; a sensible plan must be personalized to needs and abilities. Consult a veterinarian to determine the best regimen. As always, prevention is better than a cure, so staying alert to signs of additional pounds and keeping an animal from becoming obese in the first place is optimum.

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Five Crazy Edibles

by David Y. Goodman

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grew up in about the best climate you’ll find in the entire state of Florida: Broward County. As a kid, I drank coconut water, ate ripe sea grapes, enjoyed grapefruit, loquats, mangoes, key limes, avocadoes and mulberries … and basically had no idea how blessed I was.

Moving to North Central Florida was a bit of a shock. There aren’t nearly as many fruit trees here, and wild edibles are perhaps a bit less common.

That said, there’s still an abundance of food around us— sometimes in our very yards—if we simply know where to look.

This last month, my wife and I, along with our children, picked a few gallons of wild grapes off our fence and then converted them into an amazing batch of grape jam. Free jam!

But everyone knows you can eat wild grapes. Let’s take a look at a few things you didn’t know you could eat (unless you’re a plant nerd), starting with a weird purple native.

Crazy Edible #1: The Beautyberry

Have you ever seen those strange wild shrubs with tiny berries that look as pink-purple as the Barbie aisle at Toys ‘R’ Us? They’re fruiting right now.

The stems are square, and the berries cluster around them in repeating bunches.

Most of the people I talk to think they’re poisonous … but the American

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Beautyberry isn’t even remotely dangerous. The berries, though rather bland and mealy, are relished by my children … and rumored to make an amazing jelly.

Even if you don’t eat them, they’re great food for chickens and other birds. I pick them when hiking. Some plants have berries that taste better than others, so if you get some so-so ones, don’t give up.

Crazy Edible #2: The Simpson Stopper

The Simpson Stopper is a native shrub often used as a hedge plant. In summer it bears a crop of oval red berries that can get almost an inch long.

When fully ripe, the berries are pleasantly sweet with a bitter grapefruit aftertaste that’s rather nice.

Some people don’t like the bitterness, but I find it similar to Campari. I love Campari. If you haven’t tried Campari, buy a bottle. Drink it on ice (though not all at once … that way lies headaches). Then, if you like that,

go eat some Simpson Stoppers. I’ve planted multiple bushes in my yard.

Good berries are hard to find.

Crazy Edible #3: Shepherd’s Needles

Also known as Bidens alba, shepherd’s needles are one of the most irritating weeds in Florida yards—yet without them, our native bees and butterflies would suffer. The flowers look little daisies; they mature into little prickly clusters of black needlelike seeds with barbed hooks on them.

These seeds love socks like I (hic) love Campari. Here’s the up side of these persistent garden pests: their greens are nutritious and delicious when stir-fried. I regularly add them to my scrambled eggs. Very good.

Crazy Edible #4: Silverthorn

Silverthorn hedges are common from the middle of Florida north.

They’re a fast-growing, droughttolerant evergreen that makes an impenetrable barrier with very little encouragement.

What most people don’t know, however, is that they also bear clusters of delicious and tangy bright-red edible berries (picture, left). The berries are often hidden, so you’ll have to search for them, but they’re pretty close to the taste of cherries. I planted a hedge in my yard just for the fruit.

(Well, not just for the fruit—they’re also a nitrogen-fixer, but that’s a story for another day.) Look for Silverthorn berries at the end of winter and the beginning of spring.

Crazy Edible #5: Smilax

Almost everyone hates smilax.

Also known as “greenbriers” or just “briars,” smilax vines are a very common plant that will absolutely tear you up with their vicious thorns.

Fortunately, they have one redeeming quality: the next shoots that pop up

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are totally delicious. A relative of asparagus, smilax grows rapidly in the spring. If you find a good patch, it’s no big deal to gather a couple of pounds of shoots. Break off the tender new growth just as you’d harvest true asparagus.

With some butter and salt, they’re totally gourmet. Just watch your legs as you traipse around through the briars.

If you don’t have one of these common plants in your yard already, you might want to go for a hike. Keep your eyes open at the local library or park, or even go to a nursery and grab a few to plant (though if your local nursery has smilax and Spanish needles, they’re not weeding well enough). Before you eat anything, make sure you know what you have. The Internet is your friend. Most of these plants are darned easy to ID, unlike mushrooms. Just leave those the heck alone.

Florida is a delicious place … go out and taste it! ©2013 David Y. Goodman. David Goodman is a garden writer, amateur scientist, homesteading nut, and the owner of “Florida Food Forests,” a nursery (www.floridafoodforests. com) created to provide Floridians with hard-to-find edible plants. For tips and inspiration, follow his daily gardening blog at www.FloridaSurvivalGardening.com.

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Metabolic Balance: all natural weight loss. Reesers Nutrition Center, 3243 E. Silver Springs Blvd, Ocala, 352-7320718, www.ReesersNutritionCenter.com.

Thursday, October 10

Seminar: “Living Healthy in an Unhealthy World,” with Dr. James Lemire, M.D. 6pm, free. Call to reserve your space.

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Friday, October 11 Glycemic Diseases and Cellular Nutrition, free one-hour presentations, 2pm and 6:30pm. Learn your Quality of Life numbers: A1-C Score, Metabolic Age, Body Mass Index, Skeletal Muscle, Vital Organ Fat and Resting Metabolism for $10 ($50 value), 12pm and 4:30pm. Event at Ocala Hilton.

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Saturday, October 12 * Psychic/Medium Spiritual Development Class, 2-4:30pm. Includes meditation, lesson, practice. $25. Held at Unity of Gainesville, 8801 NW 39th Ave. Int’l Foundation for Spiritual Knowledge, www.ifsk.org, 407-673-9776.

* Rocks for Kids workshop with Travis Hetsler. 1-3pm, $10. Parents are welcome, multiple child discounts available. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd, High Springs, 386-454-8657, www.highspringsemporium.net.

Sunday, October 13

Akashic Record Readings with Andrea Elenar. 12-4pm, $35/half hour, $60/hour. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd, High Springs, 386-454-8657, www.highspringsemporium.net.

Tuesday, October 15

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Thursday, October 17

Group coaching: Energy Drainers. 6pm, $10. Call to reserve your space. Lemire Clinic, 11115 SW 93rd Ct. Rd., Ocala, 352291-9459, www.LemireClinic.com.

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October 17-27

“Almost, Maine,” theatrical production. Ocala Civic Theatre, 4337 E. Silver Spring Blvd., Ocala, 352-236-2274, www.OcalaCivicTheatre.com.

Saturday, October 19

* Colonics, by appointment. Lemire Clinic, 11115 SW 93rd Ct. Rd., Ocala, 352-291-9459, www.LemireClinic. com.

* “Finding Your Voice of Power: Stones for the Throat Chakra” workshop with Sharron Britton. 2-4pm, $20. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd, High Springs, 386-454-8657, www.highspringsemporium.net.

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October 19-21

Raymon Grace workshop. Dowsing for healing and self-help. Gainesville Holistic Center, 4140 NW27th Lane, Suite C, Gainesville, 352-377-0015, www.drtalmor.com.

Sunday, October 20 * Aumakhua-Ki™ Healing Lecture, 2-4pm, free, The Martial Arts Center, Ocala. Pre-register at 352-239-9272, www.Aumakhua-Ki.com.

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* Bones for Life classes. Improve your posture and strengthen your bones with a series of gentle and simple movements. Absolute Health Center, 2720 NW 6th St., Gainesville, FL. Classes will run for 4 weeks (Oct. 22, Oct. 29, Nov. 5, Nov. 12), 6-8pm. $30/class or $100/ all 4. Call to pre-register. 386-5381918, www.anneandrews.abmp.com

* Iridology Workshop with Joan Davis. Free, 7:15pm. Pre-register at Bliss Yoga Center, 1738 SE 58th Ave, Ocala, 352-694-YOGA, www.BlissYogaCFL.com.

Wednesday, October 23

Wellness Coaching on IBS and 24 Hour Urinalysis. Reesers Nutrition Center, 3243 E. Silver Springs Blvd, Ocala, 352-732-0718, www.ReesersNutritionCenter.com.

Saturday, October 26

* 9th Annual Florida Bat Festival.

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* Annual Halloween Psychic Fair.

Readers include Omialadora Ajamu, Rev. Steve Henry, Mary Alice Warren. $20/minireading. 12-5:30pm. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd, High Springs, 386-454-8657, www.highspringsemporium.net.

Sunday, October 27

* Armand and Angelina. 10am service, followed by flute Playshop at 12:15 ($20). Unity of Ocala, 101 Cedar Rd, Ocala, 352-687-2113.

* The Bodhisattva Path with Mark Winwood. 6pm, love offering. Pre-register at Bliss Yoga Center, 1738 SE 58th Ave, Ocala, 352-694-YOGA, www.BlissYogaCFL.com.

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“The 39 Steps,” theatrical production. Ocala Civic Theatre, 4337 E. Silver Spring Blvd., Ocala, 352-236-2274, www.OcalaCivicTheatre.com.

Saturday, November 9

Creativity Seminar: “Explore Your Creativity, Change Your World” with Daniel Hime. $65.00 includes catered lunch, workshop materials. 9-4:30, Stillpoint, Gainesville. 352-2261689, www.intocreativitynow.com or 352-226-1689.

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* Last Sunday of every month, The Bodhisattva Path: Tibetan Buddhism and the Perfection of Mind presented by Mark Winwood of the Chenrezig Project. 6-8pm at Bliss Yoga Center, 1738 Baseline Rd., Ocala, 352-694-YOGA, www.BlissYogaCFL.com.

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Mondays

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Thursdays

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