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SHOPPING ADDICTION THE SKILL OF HAPPINESS HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE CELEBRATE BREAST AWARENESS ECO-FRIENDLY OPTIONS FOR BUYING A NEW CAR

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Announcing New Owners!

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healing from the inside out Free Far Infrared Sauna Session with First Visit Sharon & Janie Welcome You!

Lee offers Integrative Massage, Zen Shiatsu, and Mindful Movement Therapy in a unique blend of skills that help you let go of tension and create a deep sense of harmony, balance, and renewal. Lee is co-owner, Academic Director, and lead instructor of The Bodhi Tree Center for Healing Arts in Carson City.

•• Lee M. Thorpe, MA, ADTR, LMT, ABT: 775.815.5132

Mom and I had a cleaning business for 19 years, never realizing the toxic effect the cleaning supplies had on our bodies. The dust particles and carpet fiber had destroyed mom’s lungs. Upon leaving the cleaning business, I went to work at the Airlines, again not realizing how harmful the work was to my health. The jet fuel, the radiation from the x-ray machines and the burnt rubber from the aircraft landing had coated my lungs. My mother and I had no idea how toxic we were.

We only knew we did not feel well and were very tired all the time.

In February 2004 my mom, Sharon Crank, found out about the Circle of Life Spa and called me excited to go check it out. We visited the spa and were both amazed and fascinated at how much better we felt by using the saunas and body wraps. With the help of Circle of Life, we soon detoxed and felt incredible!

During that year, Sharon became a volunteer at Circle of Life Spa. She loved working and helping the many wonderful clients who came to the center. I began to volunteer at the spa as well and it was a great experience.

When we found out the spa was closing, Sharon decided to buy the Circle of Life Spa! So many people counted on, relied on, and supported the Circle of Life Spa and we are happy to carry on this legacy. So as mother and daughter working as a team again, we have begun our new journey……. The Circle of Life Continues!

We welcome you to come in for a visit, see our new changes and enjoy the hospitality.

BRAINHEALTH... 10 It’s Fun To Be Smart

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SUSTAINABLETECHNOLOGY... 12 Eco-Friendly Cars

Eco-Friendly Options For Buying a New Car... 12

CONSCIOUSHEALTH... 15 The Skill of Happiness

The Skill of Happiness... 15

HERBS&SPICES... 16

Shopping Addiction... 18

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NATURALBEAUTY... 21 Celebrate Breast Awareness Month

NATURALSOLUTIONS... 22

I can provide a combination of integrative massage techniques to help create a feeling of harmony and well being.. I provide a safe and comfortable environment for the healing of the body, mind, and spirit. Let’s set up a session that will fit your needs today.

•• Joan Hite, LMT: 775.412.1543

Celebrate Breast Awareness... 21 Human Growth Hormone... 52

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Sore Throats– Numb The Pain Naturally

Treating Arthritis With Oriental Medicine... 26

EMOTIONALWELLBEING... 25 Take Charge with EFT

BOOKREVIEW... 28 The Age of Miracles

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FITNESS... 30 Is Your Face “Fit”?

Chronic Inflammation & Degenerative Disease... 38 Children’s Dreams... 46

HEALTHYCOOKING... 34 Current Muffins

When your seven main chakras (strategically placed vital energy centers in your body) are out of balance, you may feel tired, loss of focus, scattered, emotional, etc.

Balancing these centers can create a sense of peace, well-being and focus. You can feel ‘You’ again! Start today.

•• Adrienne Hardt, LMT: 775.825.7727

-Sharon Crank & Janie Beach Owners at Circle of Life Spa

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Nutritional Biophysiologist Dr. Grange will assess your personal health and Nutrition by using metabolic profile evaluations.

He then can design a personalized nutritional program to bring your body back to optimal health.

Dr. Grange has a Master of Science degree in Holistic Nutrition, a Ph.D. in Nutrition and a Doctor of Naturopathy from Clayton University.

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GREENLIVING... 35 Challenge Yourself To Be a Locavore

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FAMILYHEALTH... 38

COVERSTORY... 5 PUBLISHERLETTER... 5 NEWSBRIEFS...6

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INGREDIENTWATCH... 8

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“An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away”

By Sara Piccola

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embers of the rose family, apples have been associated with love, beauty, luck, health, comfort, pleasure, wisdom, temptation, sensuality, sexuality, virility, and fertility.

Apples are rich in phytonutrients and phytochemicals. The colorful skin of an apple contains more antioxidant and fiber than the flesh. Regular consumption of apples can aid in lowering blood cholesterol, increasing bowel function, and reducing the risk of stroke, prostate cancer, type II diabetes, Alzheimer’s and asthma. Apples have been proven to assist people who suffer from gouty arthritis and rheumatism.

Aside from their nutritional benefits apples are unique for their place in history. Evidence shows people eating apples as far back as 6500 B.C. Apples appear in many myths and legends, such as the temptation of Adam and Eve and the journey of Johnny Appleseed. In Greek mythology, Mother Earth provided Zeus and his bride with a tree of golden apples on their wedding day. Because of their association with sexual and romantic connotations, apples are a great dessert fruit and eaten at the end of a meal.

Some interesting facts about apples are that there are more than 7500 varieties in the world, 2500 of which are produced in the United States. An apple tree takes 4 to 5 years to produce fruit and half of the United States’ apple crops are turned into apple products. Legend has it the Adam’s apple got its name from when the forbidden fruit got stuck in Adam’s throat when he swallowed it.

While they may have been a forbidden fruit by our forefathers, their rich taste and fruitful benefits are greatly recognized and appreciated today.

Dear Readers, Fall is officially here, elections are just a month away and winter is around the corner. Ironically, fall is supposed to be the time of year when we slow down and ready ourselves for a restful winter. What tends to happen is our lives get busier, we ramp up at work, school is back in session and we start thinking about the up-coming Holidays. Even so, it is important to slow down and take time for ourselves.

October is an excellent month for personal reflection and to assist you in that process we have a couple of great articles. One focuses on developing happiness skills to live a harmonious life and how we can interpret that on an individual basis. We hear a lot about forgiveness, yet do you know how to forgive and why forgiveness is an important step in healing our emotional well being? As we near the Holiday season, October is an appropriate time to evaluate our shopping patterns the article on “Shopping Addiction” is an eye opener!

There is no easy fix or a magic pill when it comes to living a healthy and happy life. It is up to each one of us to be accountable for what we eat, what we drink and what we choose to think about. Healthy Beginnings Magazine brings to you every month articles and practitioners that are here locally to support you in your quest to feel your best inside and out.

Until next month…best to you in Health and Happiness,

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Healing by Natural Means

Rawjuvenation Raw Harvest Celebration

Ipsalu Tantra Yoga

Master John Miyata, Executive Stress Care Consultant, has been helping local people heal through natural means since 1999. His business located on California Ave, specializes in Shiatsu, Chinese-based Medicine, and breathing techniques. Master John also incorporates Tai Chi and sitting Chi Gong in his work and teaches people how to maintain their health beyond treatment. He also provides follow-up coaching. For more info contact Master John, cell 775-250-9050 or 775-323-4455.

October 18th is bargains galore at Rawjuvenation. There will be store wide discounts on products while supplies last and hourly raffle for merchandise and sauna passes. Plan on being here early for the widest selection of products and flavors! We have a new addition to our health and relaxation equipment for Sauna members too. Relax those pesky back muscles with a lay on top Hydromassage! Find our calendar and store updates at www.rawreno.com. 775-323-3000.

Ecstatic Dance Reno hosts several types of energetics workshops in addition to our regular dance class schedule. Ipsalu Tantra Yoga is a practice to build personal energy, transmute sensory energy to rejuvenate the body, advance the spirit and stimulate creativity and blend the energies of Consciousness, Heart, and the Body. Ipsalu workshop Oct 31st – Nov 2rd at Sierra Hot Springs. Free intro meeting coming soon. Contact Camille MacInerny camille-m@sbcglobal.net 775-833-0705.

Australia’s Fastest Selling Topical Pain Reliever, Elmore Oil, Now Available In The Usa

Infrared Sauna added to Thermal Imaging Consultants

Introducing Humanity Unites Brilliance

Thermal Imaging Consultants have added a brand new state of the art medical infrared sauna to the location in Sparks. Ideal for detox (lymphs, heavy metals & toxins) also for the aid of healing and stress relief. For info or an apt call 775-356-0200 (all sessions are in a private room) affordable to use and may be covered by insurances.

By The Institute for Inspiration, 85 Washington St, Reno. Every Tuesday night 6:30–8pm. A training for “Hubbies” will be offered right after from 8–9pm. HUB is a newly formed humanitarian organization dedicated to providing clean water, food, education and micro loans catalyzing positive change on the planet. It pays those who participate–building wealth everywhere. HUB’s vision is to create a new social movement with programs that benefit non-profits and financially empower all those who participate. Call Cheryl Blossom (775) 338-8617.

Sierra International Health Products, LLC, a Reno company, has just announced that it has won the US distributorship for an all natural product, Elmore Oil. Arthritis sufferers and sports participants will be the biggest beneficiaries of Elmore Oil’s introduction. Initially being marketed to health food stores, spas, chiropractors, massage therapists, physiotherapists and other medical professionals in Nevada and to individuals over the internet; it is expected to roll out to other states over the next year. If you would like to try it yourself, carry it in your office or for further info, contact (775) 250-3030 or www.elmoreoilusa.com

Want to Live in Bliss?

Learn to feel good fast using a proven technique for creating deliberate happiness in your life. Vivation International, now operating in the Reno/Lake Tahoe area, is offering both personal and professional training and retreats for individuals, couples and groups. With over 100,000 happy clients worldwide, Vivation is a physically pleasurable skill for quickly and permanently resolving negative emotions. For more info, please call us at 800-514-8483, or visit us at www.vivation.com.

Explore the Mysteries of Ancient Greece Steamboat Hot Springs invites you to join a seminar and tour exploring the Mysteries of Ancient Greece. This trip, May 20–June 3, 2009, will examine the Oracles and Mystery Schools of Athens, Delphi and Dodona, as well as the Healing Centers and Sanctuaries of Epidaurus and Central Greece. Lectures and symposia are presented amid the classical ruins of mainland Greece and the isles of the Aegean Sea. For the best price reserve before Nov 1, 2008. 643 Ralston Street Reno, NV 89503 Tel: 775/786.7432 Fax: 775/332.3086 www.projectx.org www.cosolargy.org info@projectx.org.

New Pilates Class at Body Wisdom Body Wisdom announces a new class beginning 10/15 from 12–1pm.

“Pilates for Beginners” taught by Beth Cunningham, PTA, at Body Wisdom Physical Therapy, located at 1575 Robb Dr., suite #4. Beth is a Certified Pilates instructor and a National Pilates Trainer, as well as a licensed Physical Therapist Assistant. Small class size, individual attention. Call 775-827-3777 for details and to reserve your place.

Join the Walk to Cure Diabetes The Annual Northern Nevada Walk to Cure Diabetes will be held Sunday, October 12th at the University of Nevada, Reno on the Quad at Morrill Hill. Last year the walk raised a record $553,000 to drive diabetes research. Registration begins at 8am on the Quad. For more information call 775-786-1881 or e-mail northernevada.jdrf.org.

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Chiropractor Learns New Sleep Therapy Dr. Daniel Welch of Caughlin Ranch Chiropractic has added a new therapy to better serve the Reno area. NoSnore Therapy is helpful for those suffering from snoring, sleep apnea, and those who have a hard time using a CPAP machine. NoSnore Therapy works to help restore normal night time breathing. Goto www.NoSnoreRENO.com for more infor or call (775) 815-3048 for a no-charge phone consultation.

Om Home Is Now Offering Metaphysical Products The Om Home, a community metaphysical resource and spiritual center, is now selling crystals, candles, jewelry, card decks and many other metaphysical products. Also offering meditation groups, metaphysical classes, book studies and discussions. Located at 3670 Grant Dr. #104A. Open Mon–Sat, 10:00am. Call 250-7756 for a schedule or more info. Carla Sanders Massage Therapy is available at the Om Home; please call 720-5474 for a massage appointment.

Barton Unveils “Tahoe’s Medical Marketplace” Retail Shop Online Put away your car keys, save on gasoline and dive into “Tahoe’s Medical Marketplace” at www.bartonhealth.org/shop. Through this website you can find that special brace, physical therapy appliance or special cardiology need. Now, in addition to shopping on the Barton Web from your home or office computer, guests can use any one of the five handy Kiosks located at the Barton HealthCare System to order items from such categories as Mom & Baby, Nutrition, Orthopedics & Rehab, Diabetes, Cardiology, Health & Wellness, Oncology, Weight Loss and more. And those items will be delivered right to your door step. Visit www.bartonhealth.org/shop.

Qigong Class at Reno Alternative Medicine Qigong is a traditional form of self-care from China. Slow, gentle movements combined with breathing and relaxed focus help bring the body and mind into balanced harmony. Qigong (“cultivating vitality”) is suitable for people of all ages & experience. The next class is October 4th from 9am–2 pm at Reno Alternative Medicine, 85 Washington St., Reno. Cost: $85. Call 775-827-6901 to reserve your place.

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Northern Nevada Annual Alzheimer’s Memory Walk Join others in your local community for the Northern Nevada annual Alzheimer’s MEMORY WALK 2008: Reno –Sparks Memory Walk, Saturday, October 11, 2008 Bartley Ranch 9:00 a.m. Every 21 seconds someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s disease. Become part of the solution in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. To register for Memory Walk, call 775-786-8061 or www.alznornev.org.

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New Location for Concrete Lotus Owners of The Concrete Lotus Pilates Studio, The Urban “DoNo” (Downtown Reno) Retreat for Pilates Study located at 239 So. Sierra Street in the heart of downtown Reno celebrate their new location with guest lecturer and Pilates Educator L. Martina Young, Ph.D. A co-founding member of the Physical Mind Institute in 1991, Ms. Young will offer an 8-hour indepth experience of Joseph Pilates’ work “Contrology” together with its philosophy on Friday evening, October 3rd from 5:30pm–7:30pm, and Saturday– Sunday, October 4th-5th from 9am–12pm. Cost is $200. For more info contact Erin or Annie at Concrete Lotus 775-786-7272.

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Two Special Invitations From The Senses Sanctuary

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For October Only– Due to the outstanding popularity of the Chinese Facial Massage, the Senses Sanctuary is extending a special offer. Purchase and enjoy a Chinese Facial massage, and recieve a FREE gift certificate for another. (New clients only) In addition, with every Chinese Facial massage, each client will be offered a complimentary booklet on facial exercises –simple and effective, designed for facial muscle toning and firming. Please contact Lyndi Hutchinson, L.M.T. at (775) 846-3593.

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Skin Care at Age Management Institute Age Management Institute introduces TNS Recovery Complex. This product was created after years of study of the naturally occurring elements in young and healthy skin. The resulting mix of naturally occurring growth factors, antioxidants, soluble collagen, cytokines and matrix proteins were identified and formulated into a product which provides your skin with what it naturally craves. For more info call the Age Management Institute (775) 787-8300.

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INGREDIENT WATCH

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What’s On The Label & What’s Not

Tea Tree & Eucalyptus The Backbone of the Australian Bush

By Gregor Johnson, BA Monash University, Melbourne Australia

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here are over 700 species of eucalyptus trees, almost all native to Australia, with a few in New Guinea and Indonesia, each one with its own healing properties. Most of the trees in Australia are eucalyptus but there is also the ancient tea tree known for it’s own healing properties.

The leaves of the eucalyptus tree yield eucalyptus oil which has been used for medical purposes for several hundred years

by Australian aborigines, the Koori, to make a kind of tea. More recently, western medicine has expanded the uses of eucalyptus oil. Used for its anti-bacterial properties in products like cough drops, lozenges, inhalants, and in topical creams for its antiinflammatory, analgesic and penetration effects. Eucalyptus oil can also be applied to wounds to prevent infection.

One popular eucalyptus oil is distilled from the Blue Mallee eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus Polybractea. The oil is used as a pain reliever because of its quick penetrating ability and has proven to provide anti-inflammatory benefits and reduce swelling in soft tissue. As an added bonus, the oil has a light, pleasant aroma.

Eastern Australia, the northeast coast of New South Wales, is where you will find the ancient tea tree, Melaleuca Alternifolia. Tea tree oil or melaleuca oil is taken from the leaves of the tea tree and is a clear to very pale golden colored essential

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oil with a fresh camphoraceous odor. The Koori also used tea tree for healing. We now know that tea tree oil has beneficial medical properties including antiseptic and antifungal action, the treatment of insect bites and stings and is also believed to have beneficial cosmetic properties.

Tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil have long been iconic essential oils in Australia. It is the oils ability to break the skin barrier and carry their soothing and relaxing properties to the underlying tissue that make them popular today.

While there are many topical uses for each of these essential oils, the people who find these products most useful for relief are likely to be among the more than 30 million arthritis sufferers in the USA today. Other users include those with sports related soft tissue injuries, and those with general muscle aches and pains.

Combining these two oils into one application has been achieved in Australia and there is no reason it shouldn’t work in this country.

Natural products with relieving properties from the ancient bushland of Australia, now there’s something we can look forward to!

References: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus 2. Silva J., Abebe W., Sousa S. M., Duarte V.G., Machado M.I.L., and Matos F.J.A. (2003) Analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of essential oils of Eucalyptus Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Vol 89:2-3 p.277:283 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaleuca_alternifolia 4. Shemesh, A., and W. L. Mayo. 1991. “Australian tea tree oil: a natural antiseptic and fungicidal agent.” Aust. J. Pharm. 72:802-803 5. Hammer KA, Carson CF, Riley TV, Nielsen JB (May 2006). “A review of the toxicity of Melaleuca alternifolia (tea tree) oil”. Food Chemistry Toxicology 44: 616–625

For more information contact Sierra International Health Products, LLC at (775) 250-3030 or elmoreoilusa@yahoo.com.

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PROFILE

June Milligan, M.Ed.

By Brittany Russell

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rom far-away places and a life of variety, June Milligan of Joyful Changes Hypnosis has made Reno her home for the past three years. June offers her clients relief and release from such things as smoking, weight gain, anxiety, stress, self esteem issues, pain and addictions.

June discovered this career path while dealing with her own experience of pain while living overseas. She was diagnosed with a serious spinal cord problem, but in her research, discovered the issue to be a simple carpal tunnel problem. June experienced constant wrist pain at night and therefore had trouble sleeping, so was referred to a hypnotherapist in the U.S. She has carried this personal experience into the business she now owns, “I figured that if hypnosis worked for me over the telephone, it would work for anyone.” June first teaches simple acupressure techniques to relieve stress and remove emotional charges – such techniques make hypnosis much more effective and powerful.

“By introducing advanced Law of Attraction techniques while teaching acupressure (to relieve emotional pain) then doing hypnosis, the result for the client is powerful, freeing and extremely effective.”

With this multi-faceted approach to relieving the personal ailments and issues of clients, her success has been tremendous.

June is a certified clinical hypnothera-

pist and certified EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) practitioner. EFT uses specific acupressure points on the body in order to clear subconscious emotional blocks that have been recently created or built up over the years. This clearing is effectively achieved using the mind-body medicine technique known as acupressure (no needles).

She attended the University of Ohio Medical School for advanced acupressure classes and has had additional training in Australia and Korea. June has Bachelor of Science and Master of Education degrees and is currently working to earn her certification in Matrix Energetics.

June’s continued education is a testament to her dedication to the health and well-being of current and future clients.

She says, “Learning new techniques helps me to become a more effective personal empowerment therapist because people often need different approaches for different issues.”

Outside of Joyful Changes, June is currently working on two books. The first is a children’s book on Greek and Latin roots, and the second book covers how to use the Law of Attraction more effectively by first relieving emotional issues and mental blocks through acupressure. Consciously combining these processes will empower readers to more easily create what they want in life.

Traveling is another of June’s passions.

Her more recent trips included Vietnam, Borneo and Brunei. She has collected art, artifacts and carpets from around the world. Describing her years of living overseas as “hilarious or bizarre, but never

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dull,” June and her travel buddy are writing a book entitled “How I Found Myself Naked among Strangers in Istanbul.”

June’s path has led to distant lands; however, her current location is much closer to home. She grew up in New Mexico and enjoyed that high desert climate so much that after returning to the States she searched for a medium sized city with a low humidity level located near the mountains. When asked why she chose the university town of Reno, she simply said that “it feels comfortable.”

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e’re told time and time again the importance of exercising the brain. The brain thinks and grows by interacting with the world. Most age-related losses, such as memory and motor skills, are a result from inactivity and a lack of mental exercise and stimulation.

This short quiz will exercise your brain while increasing your general knowledge base. It is fun and there is no better way to practice than through a quiz.

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Test your general knowledge and exercise your brain with these 10 medical related questions: 1. In Leukemia, which cells are affected?

2. What does AIDS stand for?

3. Which part of the body does bacterium vibrio cholerae

affect?

4. Which degenerative nervous disease is associated with

the destruction of brain cells that produce dopamine?

5. What disease does a person suffer from who has the protein VIII missing from the plasma?

6. What is thrombosis?

7. What does ECG stand for?

8. What type of disease is psoriasis?

9. If a person is short-sighted, what type of lens would

he need to correct this?

10. In which part of the body does gout usually start?

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he apple is an effective cleaning tool, rich in fiber that helps clear toxins from the body. Remember the saying “An apple a day keeps the doctor away!” Apples have a cleansing effect on the body, largely because they contain a form of fiber called pectin, which binds with cholesterol, toxins and heavy metals, speeding their excretion. The flavonoid quercetion found in apples is anti-inflammatory and can help to ease allergic reactions and inflammatory conditions such as arthritis, while their malic acid content helps the body to use energy efficiently. Studies have found that eating apples can also help improve lung function.

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By Sara Piccola

EAR CANDLING Research done on hybrid car owners has shown that consumers purchase a hybrid to express their vision of a better world, and their desire for a society where people work together to improve the greater good, not to save money. Nonetheless, hybrid owners do save some money in the long run.

mode of transportation. You’ve probably noticed more scooters than usual on the streets. The most popular brand of scooter is the Vespa. Vespas have been running in Europe since the 1940’s, however, high gas prices have increased sales of Vespas in the United States.

How big of a difference do hybrids make?

Vespas can get between 75-120 miles per gallon. Although most Vespas do not average over 60 mph, the more expensive you’re willing to go, the faster your scooter will go.

Even then, your average price is still immensely lower than a conventional vehicle.

For every gallon of gas burned, we produce 20 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) that is immediately released into the air. Hybrid cars can save the earth a couple of tons of greenhouse gases. Hybrid cars are powThe hybrid ered not only by gas but by a rechargeable electric battery. car gets better This makes the car more fuel gas mileage, efficient and takes off the full costs less to reliance on gas.

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he idea of looking at the “big picture” when buying a new vehicle is nice, however, working with the “now” is a more realistic trend for buyers. Our cars are more than just a piece of machinery that get us from point A to point B. When purchasing a vehicle drivers take into consideration all the possibilities and tasks they will need their car for. The idea of buying a practical car is abstract, because in today’s market-driven society, the things we buy are a representation of ourselves, and practical cars often fail in this category.

Living where we do, many of us lean towards SUV’s and vehicles that are more versatile. Vehicles that can get us up the mountain in the winter and accommodate all our beach toys for the summer. However, there are eco-friendly options that can provide us with what we want from a vehicle, and more.

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Hybrid cars have gained in popularity over the last few years. By 2015 sales of hybrid cars are expected to have tripled. Nonetheless, per month, hybrid cars only account for 2% of all new vehicle purchases. The hybrid car gets better gas mileage, costs less to maintain, and preserves the natural environment. So why aren’t more of these cars being sold?

Part of the problem is the demand for certain hybrid models. The Toyota Prius and Camry Hybrid are the most popular hybrid models and the companies are unable to respond to heightened consumer demand for high-efficiency vehicles.

A second set back is that people often ask the wrong question when thinking about a hybrid, “Do hybrids save money?” What needs to be asked is, “Do people who are buying hybrid cars really care about saving money?”

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Vespa doesn’t stop at their amazing gas mileage; they’ve moved forward with the times and have come out with the three-wheeled maintain, and The conventional car hybrid Vespa Scooter. runs on a lead acid battery The hybrid scooter preserves which is not environmentalcan receive up to 170 the natural ly friendly. Today, hybrid cars miles per gallon. The use a Nickel-Metal-Hydride environment. electric powered mo(NiMH) battery which lowtor of the scooter can ers the toxicity levels and be programmed to fit environmental impact. Hybrid car individual preferences. Now there’s dealers, such as Honda and Toyota, something you can’t find anywhere also place decals on their batteries else. for a toll free number that consumers The Choice is Ours can call for returning the battery to the dealership. Once returned the battery In the end the question is not what is 100% recycled. Toyota even offers a our options are, it is what we really $200 bounty for returned batteries. care about when purchasing a new vehicle. Style, speed, and image often Dealers have begun to make hyhinder our options. However, with a brids in all shapes and sizes so that little research and consideration for our everyday lives do not need to be how our purchases affect the environcompromised for a fuel efficient car. ment, an eco-friendly option is better Today there are 15 different models of for the “now” and the “big picture”. hybrids available and more than 50 are expected by 2010.

Options Outside of Hybrids You don’t have to buy a hybrid to have a fuel efficient and eco-friendly

References: 1. www.hybridcars.com 2. www.ecogeek.org/content/view/857/ 3. www.engines.piaggio.com/_vti_g2_env.asp

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By Karen Tenaglio

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here’s nothing worse than experiencing ear pain, itching, loss of hearing, or a sinus headache.

Ear Candling is an ancient practice, dating back to biblical times in Egypt, the Orient, as well as European cultures. This simple, gentle treatment removes wax from the ear, improving your sense of well-being, physical, mental and even spiritual. The candle is a long hollow tube made from unbleached muslin immersed in an aromatic herbal solution. After it dries, the cone is then dipped into beeswax. The cone or candle is then placed into the ear opening and the top of the cone is lit; soft warm white smoke billows down the tube into the ear and softens the wax. The flame of top of the cone creates a vacuum that pulls out built up wax, toxins, bacteria, dirt and residue from past medications.

Ear Candling may also help with a dry hacking cough (a result of a sinus infection), sinus headache, tinnitus, and itchy ear. Today more people are seeking alternatives to digging in the ear with Q-tips or using a hydrogen peroxide flush to clean a blocked ear canal. Ear Candling is a relaxing, natural, non-intrusive treatment.

References: Tatum, Anne. Ear Candling. A.P. Enterprises. 1995.

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Benefits

By Lee M. Thorpe, MA, ADTR, LMT, ABT

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en Shiatsu is an Asian bodywork that helps the human body find balance using our chi (energy) as a guide. Our health and wellness depends on smooth energy flow to maintain the balance of mind-body-spirit.

When our bodies have tension or pain our chi flow is stagnant or congested, while somewhere else in our body there may be depletion or weakness. An extreme excess of stagnation can lead to illness or disease. Diseases arising internally are always manifestations of a preexisting imbalance between Yin and Yang. The primary treatment goal of a Zen Shiatsu session is to re-balance and harmonize the chi flow in order to relieve discomfort and pain.

The Zen Shiatsu Approach Following a different approach than a western style massage, a Zen Shiatsu practitioner is aware of and interacts with the chi flow on established energy pathways defined as meridians. There are varying numbers of acupressure points on each of the 12 traditional meridians that the practitioner uses to affect the flow of chi. The practitioner’s theoretical background includes a knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), including but not limited to, Yin and Yang theory; Five Element Theory; names and

placement of the meridians; location and benefits of acupoints; a philosophical and poetic understanding of TCM; and the body mechanics of human movement; all of which help to encourage the best flow of chi.

A Zen Shiatsu Session A Zen Shiatsu session is experienced on a futon on the floor. The client is wearing loose comfortable clothing and there is no use of oils or lotions. Before the session, the client is interviewed and fills out an intake form. Some of the questions may be unusual. What is your favorite color? What season do you like best?

What season do you like least? What time do you wake up and go to sleep? Do you wake up in the middle of the night? What time is your sleep disturbed? These questions are geared toward our nature, the nature within us as it relates to the nature outside of us. Once an understanding of

A Zen Shiatsu can benefit aliments such as lower back pain, neck and shoulder pain, sciatica, joint pain, headaches, insomnia, digestive disorders (such as diarrhea and constipation), fatigue, anxiety, premenstrual syndrome, irritability, high blood pressure, and poor circulation. In addition, a Zen Shiatsu session can address issues that have a predominantly emotional base such as anger, joy, worry, sadness, shock, preoccupation, and fear.

In Conclusion Every illness we face challenges us to rediscover the place of harmony within the whole. Zen Shiatsu is a unique and lovely way to build health, encouraging us to a higher connection to well-being.

References: 1. Bodywork Shiatsu, by Carl Dubitsky, Publisher: Inner Traditons International, Limited, May 1997 2. Wood Becomes Water-Chinese Medicine in Everyday Life, by Gail Reichstein, Publisher: Kodansha International, April 1998

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“I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That’s clear. Whether we believe in a religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think the very motion of our life is towards happiness.”

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-Dali Lama

The Skill of Happiness

By Paul Hughes

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appiness is not something we normally think of as a skill. We usually think of feeling happy for having done something right, or of things going our way. Perhaps we are happy because we just came into a large sum of money, or met the person of our dreams.

In these cases happiness exists because of something.

Then there are those people who are happy no matter what’s going on. They express gratitude for all that life has to offer, no matter how little or great that might be. For them happiness exist regardless of their circumstances – a state of peace, equanimity and bliss that comes from within.

Some people might say happiness is a state of mind requiring a positive outlook.

If that were true, happiness wouldn’t last very long, as our outlook is subject to change as easily as our thoughts are.

True happiness it would seem must go beyond the mind to include something deeper and more fundamental to life itself. What could that be? Happiness is a feeling after all, so it would have to include our body and a feeling of physical pleasure right here in the present moment. It is through our bodies that we have a direct connection to the present moment, and in which our total experience of life is made possible.

We often hear of the “power of now,” but without clear instructions on how to achieve it. If happiness is a skill, there must be fundamental things we can do to learn it. What are these fundamental things?

Based on thirty years of experience, the practice known as Vivation has nar-

rowed these fundamental things down to five elements, or component skills necessary to create deliberate happiness. These elements are: • circular breathing • complete relaxation • awareness in detail • integration into ecstasy • do whatever you do, willingness is enough Each element supports the others, and when practiced together make it easy for you to permanently and pleasurably resolve any kind of negative emotion.

After a Vivation session people often say they had no idea it was possible to feel so good. That’s because Vivation has no mental component. It works directly at the physical feeling level, helping you bypass any negative thoughts you had about those feelings or the circumstances that caused them. The result is a much more honest and pleasurable experience.

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at the difference between a first-time public speaker and a seasoned performer. The first is fighting the feeling and experiences stage fright. The second has made peace with it and feels excited. The same holds true for other “negative” emotions. Rational fear resolves into awareness, grief into gratitude, and anger into creative action.

The raw feeling never changes, only our relationship to it.

Being able to do this is a powerful skill, and like any powerful skill requires a competent teacher to show you how.

All it requires is learning how to apply the five elements of Vivation through the entire array of human emotions in your life.

This might sound daunting, however, after only 7-10 coached sessions with a Vivation Professional you will gain the physically pleasurable skill to quickly and permanently resolve your negative emotions and transform your life into a happy and creative one.

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the client is gained the client lies down on the futon face up and is asked to take some deep relaxing breaths, allowing their body to relax like a rag doll.

One goal of the session is for the client to let the practitioner do all the work. As the practitioner moves around the clients body in a crawling fashion, the client will experience the practitioner using compressions on major muscle groups and stretching limbs and joints with pushing and pulling. There may be holding or invigorating movement of acupressure points as well as the meridians.

References: 1. Leonard, Jim & Laut, Phil. Vivation: The Science of Enjoying All of Your Life. Vivation Publishing, Cincinnati 1992.

2. Leonard, Jim. The Skill of Happiness: Creating Daily Ecstasy with Vivation. Three Blue Herons Publishing, Phoenix 1996.

3. Taimni, I.K. The Science of Yoga. Theosophical Publishing Trust, Chennai, India, 1999.

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HERBS & SPICES

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elery seed is not well-known in Western herbal medicine, although it has been used medicinally for thousands of years in other parts of the world. Celery and its seed contain an abundance of important chemical compounds and nutrients, some of which are amino acids, boron, calcium, iron, magnesium, selenium, zinc and vitamins A, B1, B6, C, E and K. It was not until the early 19th Century that celery seed began appearing in American cookbooks, usually in pickling recipes.

During ancient times, Ayurvedic medicine used celery seed to treat colds, flu, water retention, poor digestion, various types of arthritis, and certain diseases of the liver and spleen. The ancient Greeks and Romans used celery for its medicinal purposes and there was a popular belief that it was an aphrodisiac. In the middle ages, Italian farmers began to cultivate celery from “smallage,� a wild, bitter marsh plant.

The principal sources of celery seed are India and China, but France also produces a small quantity. Indian and Chinese celery seed are similar in appearance while the French variety is slightly darker. Indian

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celery seed has the strongest flavor, the French type is milder in comparison, and the Chinese celery seed is smaller and slightly milder in flavor as well.

Indian celery seed, because of its color and taste, is considered the premium seed.

The celery plant is slender and stands about two to three feet tall. It has three to five segmented leaves, and flowers with small white petals. Celery seeds, which are found in the flowers, are very small, tan to dark brown, and have a strong, pleasant smell.

Celery seeds contain several substances including volatile oils, flavonoids (plant pigments with antioxidant effects that may protect cells from damage), coumarins (chemical compounds that help thin the blood), and linoleic acid (an omega-6 fatty acid).

Today, celery seed is used primarily as a diuretic, increasing urine output to help the body get rid of excess water. Celery seed is also suggested for treating gout and to help reduce muscle spasms, calm the nerves (limonene renders mild tranquilizing effects), and reduce inflammation. High blood pressure can be reduced because of hypotensive properties and appetite can be managed and improved with celery seed. Other chemicals in the seeds act as a liver tonic (antioxidant properties) and pain reliever.

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Some precautions, though, should be kept in mind before integrating celery seed into a diet. Pregnant women should not ingest celery seed because it may lead to uterine bleeding and muscle contractions in the uterus, potentially causing miscarriage. People with active kidney inflammation should also avoid this herb. Those who are allergic to birch pollen may also be allergic to celery seed. Active compounds in celery stems and seeds can cause the skin to become highly sensitive to the sun’s UV rays (called photo dermatitis). UV protection is suggested for those taking the herb on a regular basis. Celery seed from a garden packet is not recommended because these seeds have usually been treated with chemicals and should not be taken internally.

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Shopping

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By Mirit Sloves, MSC

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esearch suggests that shopping derlies this betriggers the release of dopamine, havior; many a brain chemical associated believe that dewith feelings of pleasure and pression and anxiety satisfaction, as well as with addictive are masked by this parbehavior, similar to drug use. Studies ticular addiction. Shopping relieves show that dopamine levels are linked to these symptoms temporarily but they anticipation of a pleasurable incident, resurface each time the bill arrives in rather than to the actual experience the mail. The void, filled by the need itself. Being obsessed by shopping to to shop and the accumulation of products bought, is in reality, a result of the point that it disrupts regular years of emotional or spiritual life routines and relationships is deprivation: a fear that there an example of an obsessive“compulsive is never enough, whether its compulsive behavior. A money, material objects, compulsive shoppers’ beshopping is havior is usually triggered recognition, or love. a disorder as by some kind of cue; Excessive shopping a feeling of loneliness, sprees bring a little color real & many happiness, or anger. into a gray day by pick-

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ing up a pair of shoes.

It is believed that compulsive shopping The problem arises when devastating is a disorder as real and what was once a pleaas a drug many times as devastatsure, metastasizes into an ing as a drug addiction or irrational compulsion that addiction� pathological gambling. To becomes, irresistible, intrushopaholics, the designer prodsive, and senseless. It seems uct is medication. It has often been that shopaholics spend more than referred to as “retail therapy�. However, they make, regardless of their income a much more serious definition un- level. Many shoppers feel a strong

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sense of power control, and entitlement, which had previously been eluded. The feelings left with the shopper after the binge does not disappear; it remains in the back of their minds creating a vicious cycle that most likely will trigger another shopping binge.

With professional therapy, compulsive shoppers can begin a journey for recovery. It is recommended that therapists who counsel shopping addicts should encourage clients to address two important questions when the shopping bug bites and prior to the actual spending. Is there enough money for this item? Is there enough space in the home for this item? Another suggestion is to keep large bills on hand when shopping, as it seems that shoppers value large bills and are reluctant to split them. Suggestions of leaving checkbooks and credit cards at home have proved to be unsuccessful in thwarting this obsession. Shoppers are cautioned to avoid openings of new stores or malls, as this spurs the

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urge to shop. Choosing the right time to shop, when stores are closed or when you are short of time, hinders the urge to splurge.

and has proven to be the most successful amongst this group of addicts.

The 12-step plan to retail recovery involves several important strategies: Unfortunately, today, credit cards creating a shopping diary in which the have become the enablers for shopa- shopper records purchases made for a month; listing the price; the feeling holics. Using credit cards removes associated with the purchase; the physical pain out of payand the usefulness of the ing cash for an item from It seems that purchase is the first step of the shopper. It makes it the plan. Once entries in psychologically easier for shopaholics the journal are noted, the the shopper to splurge, shopper can then search spend more providing a sense of for patterns, such as reafantasy and control. The than they make, sons for shopping like delayed consequences insecurity, boredom, or regardless of are not contemplated at celebration.

The shopper the shopping stage, only their income could perhaps assess the the high and the adrenalin. effects of overspending and level.

Experts suggest that all but the feelings of financial stress. two credit cards be cancelled Creating a monthly spending so that impulse spending is further budget and detailing the shoppers’ exrestricted. In addition, catalogs need to penses, needs, and savings, encourages be cancelled and shopping on lunch a lifestyle of moderation and normalcy breaks should be eliminated to prevent for the shopper.

Setting up a goal for further temptation. For the compulsive savings and a timeline for money saved shopper, staying away from sales is cements the need for saving rather than imperative; however, the internet as spending.

To avoid temptation and well as the shopping channels have digressing from this goal, the shopper become the most powerful temptation for shopaholics. They are available should arrange for automatic payroll twenty-four hours a day, seven days a deductions. Finally, meeting with a fiweek, all year round. To alleviate the nancial advisor each year will keep the need to refresh a wardrobe on a regu- compulsive shopper on track with their lar basis, shoppers could swap clothes goals towards financial freedom. with friends or seek out consignment stores instead. By cleaning out a closet on a regular basis, the shopper will rediscover clothes that have been hoarded for months. It seems that what started, as a pleasurable experience can become a habit, and then a seemingly irresistible compulsion.

According to therapists, a 12-point plan of action to guide compulsive shoppers towards a more regular shopping routine was found extremely effective and successful. This plan is very practical, doable, and realistic to adopt

References: Bridgforth, G. (2004). When Shopping Is A Sickness [Electronic version]. Essence Magazine, 35 (4), 154158.

Futreelle, D. (2003). Do You Shop Too Much? [Electronic version]. Money Magazine, 32 (12), 141-146.

Hamilton-Wright, K. J. (2007). Are You A Smart and Happy Shopper? [Electronic version]. Black Enterprise, 37 (10), 129.

Mapes, D. (2006). This Is Your Brain on DKNY [Electronic version]. Health, 20 (5), 148-149.

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The Inspired Intent of Joseph Pilates

By L. Martina Young, PhD, Somatic Pilates Educator

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ithin the current and fast-growing Pilates community, teachers and students alike continue to discover a variety of, and sometimes conflicting approaches to the “Pilates breath,” a way of breathing that is peculiar to the body-mind practice known as “Contrology.” Noting the different “styles” found throughout the plethora of certification programs—and in some cases, a lack of attention to the breath at all—questions abound like: • What is the importance of breathing this way in the Pilates work?

• Is there a difference between Yoga breath and Pilates breath?

And most confounding: • In the process of an exercise, when does one take the ‘inhale’ and the ‘exhale?

Several considerations will be addressed in this article that elucidate some of the ways breathing might be thought of in general, and the process and intent of the Pilates breath in particular. Central to this discussion is an emphasis placed on the bodily experience of breathing, a skill essential to somatic (body) practices that recognize how cognitive understandings are not only heightened but also deepened through attentive experiential awareness. Thus, what teachers and students might consider is bringing their attention to the feeling of inhaling and perceiving what happens as their bodies exhale. In other words, feel how the body experiences breathing.

Developing a nuanced somatic acumen provides clues as to when to inhale or exhale while performing Pilates exercises, clues that are informed by knowledge of the intent or purpose of each movement. From this point of view, Contrology, as a studied form of body-mind practice, offers salient gifts. By developing a language that accurately voices our bodily experiences, and bringing attention to how our experiences are perceived, we are able to discover the possibilities and deepen further into the work. Bringing cognition to what our bodies are doing and how we experience the doing defines the nature of somatic, or body-mind practice. The Pilates breath requires this level of perception.

In his 1945 book, Return to Life, Joseph Hubertus Pilates passionately expounds on the importance of correct breathing,

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stating that when “under the dominance of mental control,” breathing is the single most “positive activity” a person can do to maintain optimal health and vitality.

So, what is the Pilates breath? One student observes his somatic experience as inspiring: “Inhaling through the nose, cool air traverses through clear passageways of both nostrils, an uplifting air tunnel, and then down the soft tissue at the back of my throat, passing between the hyoid bone just below my earlobes. Oxygen enters my house of ribs; lungs fill to capacity.

As my diaphragm descends and expands in volume, a palpable vigor courses through my body. I feel more of myself.” An expanded self is precisely the effect of inhalation on the skeletal body; an inspiration indeed.

The complex subtleties involved in the Pilates breath far surpass the traditional theory of merely exhaling on exertion as exemplified through the activity of weight lifting. The former considers the impact of breathing at the skeletal level of the body (a notion core to the Pilates approach altogether), and the latter, minding sheer muscular results. While Contrology involves the use of resistance—one’s own body weight (mat work) as well as external resistance (apparatuses)—the experience cannot be reduced to weight lifting. Rather, at its best, Contrology offers a much wider palette of sentient and somatic possibilities.

According to Mr. Pilates, one must be properly instructed to be able to “draw the abdomen in and out at the same time”: to concentrically contract (shortening toward the belly of the muscle) the transversus abdominis—the lower crosswise muscle that acts as a support for the lumbar spine and lies between the thorax (chest) and the pelvis—while at the same time eccentrically contracting (expanding) the intercostal muscles wedded between each rib, together creating a deep intrinsic support throughout the skeleton.

“Exhaling,” according to Pilates, is “an art in itself.” Blowing through an open and relaxed mouth activates the abdominal muscles in a concentric contraction toward the spine, expelling carbon dioxide out. Using the lungs like air bellows, the stable torso is able to maintain the spaciousness between the vertebral column that is achieved by inhaling, while a musculo-skeletal integration occurs—the core communication between bone and breath, mind and muscle.

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f you don’t have them, chances are you know someone who does—breast implants are rapidly becoming the preferred alternative in a woman’s quest for the “perfect body.” For ladies who aren’t ready to take the silicone plunge, there are plenty of creams and pills on the market that promise to do the trick.

October is National Breast Awareness Month and while breast health is at the forefront of our minds, it is equally important for women to maintain a healthy body image all year round.

Breasts naturally come in all shapes and sizes, but have you ever stopped to wonder why large, perky, round and firm seem to be the defining characteristics of beauty and perfection? It’s an image obsessively portrayed in today’s society and a trend that shows no signs of slowing down. Women are increasingly turning to surgical procedures, spending thousands of dollars and putting their health at risk—all for an unnatural boost in self-esteem. Not

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Acknowledging your natural beauty and accepting yourself for who you are might seem easier said than done, but there are several natural, healthy and affordable alternatives to achieving an elevated level of confidence inside and out.

• Expand your concept of beauty. Think of people you think are beautiful. Try to identify what makes them that way. Are their bodies perfect? Realize there is beauty without perfection.

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2 avocado 1/4 cup onion ½ to 1 tomato Sea salt to taste, a pinch of cayenne pepper, cilantro (optional)

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e’ve all experienced it—the dry scratchiness and don’t forget the painful swallowing—it’s enough to make you want to swear off talking for the entire day. Sore throats are a common theme this time of year and unfortunately one of the biggest culprits behind unnecessary doctor visits. Most sore throats are brought on by viruses warning that you may be catching a cold. Since antibiotics and other medicines are ineffective against viruses, you can find relief in knowing your first line of defense may be as close as your kitchen cupboard.

It’s no secret one of the best responses to a sore throat includes plenty of rest and liquids. Gargling solutions are also an effective alternative. For a simple solution, mix a teaspoon of salt into eight ounces warm water. Gargle the entire saltwater mixture several times a day. This will increase the blood supply to the area by washing away mucus and dilating capillaries, thereby enabling better circulation of infection-fighting antibodies.

A popular household item, cayenne pepper is deemed a miracle spice for sore throats by many homeopaths. It’s suggested to add a ½ teaspoon of cayenne pepper to one cup of boiling water; stir well and gargle while mixture is very warm. This brings more circulation to the area and helps draw away the infection. To this formula you can add four

parts Echinacea, one part garlic bulb, and two parts peppermint leaves to one part cayenne.

Other popular gargling solutions include:

Aloe vera juice: Gargle with Aloe Vera juice two times daily. Aloe Vera juice can be purchased at most health food stores and is useful for reducing the pain of a sore throat. Since Aloe Vera is not a medicine, it is one gargle that can be swallowed. As one is gargling, little sips can be swallowed in order to get deeper penetration down the throat. Because Aloe Vera is not a strong antiseptic, it will be less dramatic than some medications but since it can be done frequently, the overall effect has been reported to be excellent.

Apple cider vinegar (ACV): Mix one teaspoon to two tablespoons of ACV in a glass of water. Gargle one mouthful every hour, swallowing afterward. The acid is very helpful in soothing and minimizing the sore throat. Note: After using this remedy be sure to rinse your mouth with water to prevent the acid from eroding the enamel on your teeth.

Grapefruit seed extract: This extract is a powerful all-around antimicrobial product and is an excellent disinfectant and antiseptic. Add five drops to a glass of water for a soothing gargle.

Lemon Juice: Add the juice of one lemon and one teaspoon of salt to one cup of warm water. Gargle three times a day for one minute.

Slippery Elm: Used as an herbal remedy in North America for centuries.

Slippery Elm is used to heal everything from wounds and burns to colds and coughs. Most health food stores sell it in the form of a lozenge, tablet or capsule, or coarsely powdered bark.

Warm teas also are very soothing for a sore throat. The following natural ingredients can be used to make comforting teas that will calm the sorest of throat illnesses: • Chamomile blossoms • Echinacea • Ginger (helps to clear the throat) • Goldenseal (well-known for its antibiotic properties) • Hyssop (good for mild respiratory problems) • Licorice (will help clear mucus) • Marshmallow root bark (will coat the throat and relieve soreness and coughs) References: 1. Earth Clinic, Natural Cures - http://www.earthclinic.com/ CURES/sore_throat.html 2. Health 911, Folk Remedies - http://www.health911.com/ remedies/rem_soret.htm

4 large tomatoes (cut into chunks) 1/2 grated carrot ¼ to 1 jalapeno ( to taste) 1/2 c. fresh cilantro 1/4 red onion 2 tablespoon lime juice 1 clove garlic 1 date 1/4 celery stick ( diced) 1/4 yellow pepper (diced) pinch cumin & salt to taste

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With Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT):

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A Personal Health Choice

major part of everyday healthy eating and ensuring that we are ingesting the correct amount of calories, fat, sodium, carbohydrates, etc., is properly reading a Nutrition Fact Label. The following are details to keep in mind every time you gaze at a product’s label before you choose to buy.

By Pat Holland Conner, MA, MFCC, EFT Practitioner

Start at the Top: • Serving Size should be listed in standard measurements - cups, ounces or pieces of items – to allow for easy comparison between similar foods.

Serving sizes on Nutrition Facts Labels are loosely based on the amount of a product normally eaten in one sitting or reference amounts. Be sure to compare the listed serving size with how much you actually eat – if the serving size is 10 crackers, but you’ve eaten 20, then you need to double the calories, fat and so forth.

• Servings Per Container helps you calculate calories and nutrients in an entire package; for instance, if there are 9 servings, then you can multiply calories and nutrients by 9 to get a total for the whole box.

• Calories equal the amount of energy in the serving size of the particular food. In order to lose weight, you must take in fewer calories than what you burn off each day (basal metabolic rate). To maintain your current weight, you need to take in an equal number of calories to what you burn off each day.

• The Nutrients portion of a label always lists, as mandated by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), total calories, calories from fat, total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrate, dietary fiber, sugars, protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium and iron. Too much or too little of these nutrients have the greatest impact on your health. Limit all types of fat, cholesterol and sodium, and get more dietary fiber, vitamins A and C, calcium and iron.

• The Percent Daily Value (%DV) indicates how much of a specific nutrient one serving of food contains compared with recommendations for an entire day. Used as a general frame of reference, the %DV is based on a standard 2,000 calorie diet. The foot note, typically at the very bottom of a label, reminds the consumer of this fact. If space allows, the label may include recommended amounts of certain nutrients based on a 2,000 and a 2,500 calorie diet.

Variations on the traditional label are allowed by the FDA. For example, food for children under 2-years-old may not list information pertaining to the content of saturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, monounsaturated fat, cholesterol or calories from fat. Exceptions also exist for smaller packages with less label room.

The FDA has extensive information regarding nutrition fact labels, package labeling and other food label facts pertinent to our health. Accurately reading the nutrition fact label is a very important starting point.

Serving Size 1 cub (228g) Servings Per Container 2 Amount Per Serving Calories 260

Calories from Fat 120 % Daily Value* 20%

Total Fat 13g

25%

Saturated Fat 5g Cholesterol 30mg

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Sodium 660mg

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2,000 65g 20g 300mg 2,400mg 300g 25g

Calories per gram: Fat 9 • Carbohydrates 4

References: 1. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/nutrition-facts/NU00293 2. http://walking.about.com/cs/calories/l/blcalcalc.htm 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serving_size 4. http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/fdnewlab.html#nutri

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Good news! You have the power of your own physical and emotional well-being in your hands.

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very year more and more people get involved in learning about Emotional Freedom Techniques as a tool for health and happiness. Although EFT has been around for more than 10 years, people want to know how to use this revolutionary healing energy method that targets unresolved emotional issues, all without the use of drugs, needles, and weeks of treatment.

What if you had the choice to immediately alleviate or lessen the intensity of your pain? How do you think your life would be different?

Emotional Freedom Technique, better known as EFT, can do just that—it is a self-applied tool, gentle and easy to use in any physical or emotional situation.

EFT has been widely recognized in the USA and abroad by many health professionals. The use of this powerful and innovative energy healing protocol helps patients overcome stress, grief, physical pain, anger, guilt, and many other life issues.

EFT is based on the body’s subtle energies. Simply stated, this self-tapping technique acts similarly to the way acupressure or acupuncture clears stuck energy in the body. EFT is practiced by stimulating well-established energy meridian points on the body by tapping with your fingertips. The process is easy to memorize and is portable so that it can be used anywhere.

The EFT Discovery Statement reveals its intention based on the view that “the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.” Hence, whether the pain is emotional or physical, we understand that illness is created from deeply held beliefs and the intensity of the issue can be reduced with the self-applied technique of EFT. When this light tapping pressure is applied to specific points on the body and complimented with the use of affirmative statements, the level of emotional intensity and muscle memory is relieved. EFT, coupled with a patient’s professional health care treatment, brings about vibrant health more quickly and completely.

Training in the use and practice of EFT techniques are available.

Group training sessions are recommended as you learn the techniques. The use of EFT has one primary goal: to educate participants in the use of this simple tool for use at the onset of discomfort, thereby relieving potential blocks to health in the moment.

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By knowing and using the technique, patients are able to assist their health professionals in the healing process. In this way, the patient shares responsibility for their own healthcare and for the prevention of emotional blocks to a healthy life.

Local community groups have now formed where participants will learn the basic recipe and applications in the use of EFT. Personal power is expanded in the group activity and learning is fun! These short-term groups will allow the participants to experience the effectiveness of EFT through self-exploration. Group tapping on a consistent basis provides support for each other and the self.

A participant also learns enhanced ways to refine their techniques in the group and confirms their involvement in their own healing process. A group setting offers a forum to practice and develop confidence with support. Why not share in the transformation of your own emotional and physical well-being?

It’s fun, easy, and is a tool that will last for a lifetime.

EFT is compatible with traditional health practices and gives you the freedom to participate in your own overall healing experience. In doing so, you are making the choice to take control of your health everyday by the simple means of tapping.

The magic of EFT is that the power is in your hands to lead a more fulfilling life on every level. EFT is a personal performance tool meant to assist you in the creation of healthy life choices.

References: 1. Gary Craig is the founder of EFT and is the primary source of information and materials.

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2. Mastering EFT, Authoritative Information on Emotional Freedom Techniques, Dr. Patricia Carrington, Ph.D., EFT Master. Visit http://masteringeft.com/.

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and powerful effect on a single biochemical process in the body. In the case of NSAIDs the focus is inhibiting the proinflammatory Cox-2 enzyme, thereby reducing the pain.

Oriental Medicine takes a different approach for treating disease. This approach comes from thousands of years of experience with these problems and looks to place them in the conGiven the aging Baby Boomer population, Western medi- text of natural processes. If Western medicine is a high-powered cine continually searches for effective new drugs to reduce rifle, Oriental medicine is a wide-spread net, or eliminate joint pain. Unfortunately, these designed to take into account a complex set of drug-based approaches, while often helpful in interrelated patterns of imbalance.

Sometimes it reducing pain, often have unwanted and even In Oriental Medicine the set of symptoms looks as though deadly side effects.

Western medicine calls arthritis is classified Take for example the recent news reports the ‘cure’ is worse within the category called Bi Syndrome. Simply on prescription NSAIDs, non-steroidal antitranslated, “Bi” means painful obstruction. This inflammatory drugs. Included among the side than the disease. painful obstruction is associated with a number of effects listed for these drugs are kidney failure, causes. The specific set of symptoms accompanyheart failure, chest pain, ringing in the ears, ing the pain defines the type of Bi Syndrome. deafness, stomach and intestinal ulcers, bleeding, anxiety, The description of Bi Syndrome, as with most Oriental weight gain, drowsiness and weakness. Sometimes it looks Medical terms, sounds sort of like a weather report. Several as though the ‘cure’ is worse than the disease. thousand years ago when these categories came about, it made You might compare the Western pharmaceutical approach sense to talk about symptoms by describing them in terms of to a high-powered rifle. These drugs aim for a highly focused observable natural phenomena.

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he purpose of this book by best-selling author and lecturer Marianne Williamson is to spiritually and psychologically reframe the transition from one phase of our lives into another, so that this new way of looking at things leads to a wonderful sense of empowerment, joy and awakening.

Marianne begins the book with a quote from Carl Jung, “Thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.�

Marianne is very aware that every new experience confronts us with a choice, and the unfolding space of midlife and beyond is no exception. Midlife is not new territory, but the fact that so many women are reaching for some experience outside the culturally prescribed norms of “middle age� is new.

She believes that through the experience of taking what we’ve learned in our youth and living our lives as an ongoing vision of possibilities, we become connected to a flow of life that seems too real to ever stop. She asks us, “How would we live if we were not afraid of death, if we felt full permission from ourselves and others to give to life everything we’ve got?�

Marianne is convinced that many of our thoughts about midlife are outdated. They are hand-me-down notions from preceding generations that no longer fit who we are or what we’re doing here. She asks us, “Is midlife a time to shut down or is it a time to finally get started?�

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She asks us to seriously consider why we are buying into the mainstream idea that our options are becoming more limited.

Marianne believes that life will be exactly as we program it to be, because it’s not what happened in your life so far that has

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the power to determine your future. It’s how you interpret what happened, what you learned from it, that sets your course for tomorrow.

Marianne says, “Dysfunctional, obsolete patterns of thought that blocked the pathway to your higher destiny are being interrupted at last. And while you might be feeling a bit depressed that you’re no longer young, you’re ecstatic that you’re no longer clueless.�

The author quotes Lydia Bronte, who writes that we’ve added fifteen years to our lives‌but in the middle, not at the end. And we can transform the midlife experience by changing our thoughts about it. Our thoughts inform our cells every second and create the blueprint for our worldly experience.

Our work is to drop our limited thoughts and accept unlimited ones instead. She believes that our thoughts are reflected in our experience, from the state of our bodies to the state of the world, and as we reprogram our thoughts, we reprogram everything in our lives accordingly. “Middle age� can be seen not as a downhill road toward the end of life, but instead viewed as a magical turning point toward life as we’ve never known it. Because now that we’re no longer clueless, now that we have the experience, knowledge, and awareness that we lacked when we were younger, we can joyfully reinvent ourselves and look toward the destiny of a life truly lived.

This uplifting book is grounded in A Course in Miracles (as are all of Marianne Williamson’s books) and is a spiritual and psychological look at midlife possibilities. We have dealt with family issues, healed from childhood wounds, coped with regret and dumped emotional baggage.

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By Lyndi Hutchinson, LMT

Too many products hit the shelves quietly. Healthy Beginnings MARKETPLACE section is designed to let you know what’s new and healthy at a glance.

In our fitness minded society, we tend to think of ‘fitness’ as buns of steel, rock hard abs, and training core muscles.

But what about our face? Is it ‘fit’?

Our face, typically the first thing people see of us. It is our first impression. Of what importance is the face in today’s world? It’s so important that, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, in 2007 alone, 595.7 million dollars were spent on facelifts, not including injection procedures like Botox, which represented another 4.7 million dollars! This does not include the billions of dollars spent every year on creams, lotions, serums, moisturizers, toners, scrubs and such.

Here are a few basics of skin care: 1. Avoid overexposure to sun. Always use sunscreen of 15, preferably 30 up to 70 SPF. 2. Moisturize. Apply a light moisturizer at least in the morning and before bed.

3. Drink water. Our body is 60 -70% water - we need to replenish it for overall health.

4. Do not smoke. Studies show increased yellowing and skin wrinkling among smokers.

5. Eat properly. Fresh nutrition equals fresher skin.

6. Sleep. Sleep is needed to repair and rejuvenate the entire body - including the skin.

Last, but not least, is the need for exercising the face. We take care to exercise our body: we walk, run, do aerobics and use an endless array of equipment for a workout.

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But are we exercising our face muscles?

Like the other muscles in our body, our facial muscles will begin to lose their tone and begin to sag as we get older. This gives us a tired look even if we have taken good care of our skin.

The face and neck are comprised of a network of muscles.

How many muscles is dependent on how you count them. Some say 52 some 92 - there are yet other answers. (Many muscles have minor or major, posterior or inferior, etc.)

What is important to know is: we need to strengthen and work these muscles if we wish to keep a more youthful look.

Exercises generally consist of working these areas: forehead, eyes, mouth, cheeks, jaw and neck. The muscles overlap and are networked together so it is important to regularly work all the areas. They are easy to do and need no expensive apparatus - they can be done riding in a car, at your desk or watching TV. And they only take a few minutes.

Here are a couple examples of recommended exercises (these are done sitting erect, looking forward - head held up yet comfortable): For the eyes: face forward, without moving your head, look to the right, then down, to the left then up and straight forward again. Do this 10 times one way, 10 the other.

For the neck: Slide your tongue over your upper front teeth and then pull your bottom lip up. Then relax. Do this for 10 counts - two sets, one medium speed then the second slowly holding the stretch.

For the mouth: “Suck your thumb”. Make a sucking motion toward your thumb (held to your mouth). Do this for two counts of 10 - one slowly, the next more quickly.

Doing these types of exercises as a daily routine will result in a more sculptured and firm appearance. A delightful reward for having a “fit” face!

References: 1. www.plasticsurgery.org 2. http://enn.com/business/article/23236 3. http://nutrition.about.com/od/hydrationwater 4. http://answers.yahoo.com 5. The Facial Workout by Tal Reinharts

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Celebrate Breast Awareness Month with a Healthy Body Image Continued from page 21.

• Work on your self-esteem. Identify your special characteristics and why they make you a good person. Maybe you are patient with children or are someone who makes others laugh. There is something that makes you a wonderful person. Find it, focus on it and celebrate it!

• Do things that make you happy. Whether it’s going for a walk with friends, re-reading your favorite book or painting a watercolor, doing things that make you happy helps to boost your self-esteem.

• Realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and individualistic. Thankfully, we’re all different. It’s our unique characteristics that make this world an interesting and beautiful place. Celebrate your individuality!

Feeling healthy is part of feeling beautiful. Keep your breasts in top-notch shape with monthly self-breast exams. Laying down

or standing up, raise your arm and place your hand behind your head. Using the three middle fingers of your opposite hand, massage your breast feeling for any lumps or abnormalities.

Repeat on the other side.

If you have concerns about breast health and are looking for alternatives, consider medical thermography, a non-invasive, FDA-approved infrared thermal breast screening.

References: 1. Alternative Medicine, About.com http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/3/a/Herbal_Breast.htm 2. Dr. Drew, The obsession with breasts and body image http://www.drdrew.com/Topics/ article.asp?id=1318

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All organic ingredients using gluten free (GF) flours. ½ cup quinoa or cocunut flour (GF) 1 cup all-purpose baking flour (GF, Bob’s Red Mill) ¼ cup potato starch (GF) 1 tablespoon baking powder ½ teaspoon sea salt ½ cup honey

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½ cup cold butter 2 eggs 1 cup buttermilk ½ cup currants ½ fine coconut flakes ½ cup walnut or pecan pieces Mix all dry ingredients together. Cut in the cold butter and blend. Mixture should look like small peas.

Make a well in the center. Mix the eggs and buttermilk together then pour it into the well. Just mix until the dry ingredients are moist.

Fold in the currants and walnut pieces.

Bake in a pre-heated 400 degree oven for 10-15 minutes or until done (make sure to pay attention to your oven temperature). You can also use a convection bake oven; bake for 15 minutes.

hink about it: each and every day, we face the same basic question: “What shall we eat today?” We know our answer affects our personal health and appetite but have you thought about how this question affects the health of the land and our local economies? More and more of us are cooperating with a more sustainable and life-giving food system by choosing to eat locally.

Eating locally means buying food that comes from a 150mile radius of where you live. In our case, this means any food that comes from northern Nevada and California north of Fresno.

Although there’s much food we can get directly from local northern Nevada farms through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA’s) and from the 150-mile radius of farmers’ markets, we still find ourselves shopping at nationally owned grocery stores to accommodate our busy lives and various consumption needs. You may ask: “What options do I have as a local conscious food shopper?” Local Food Coops provide a sustainable alternative by: • Keeping smaller farms in business which maintain a wide variety of fresh local foods available year-round; • Celebrating the sense of community created by connecting to those who produce the food we eat and remind us of the importance of this urban-rural interdependence; • Expanding our knowledge of the diversity, flavors and seasonality of foods available in our region.

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Eating local and seasonal food often requires you to make changes in your shopping, meal planning, and food preparation habits. Try it for yourself: draw concentric circles of 50, 100, 150 and 200 mile radii on a map and see if you can base your diet on eating foods coming only from a given radius.

You may be surprised to find that your tastes, and those of your family members, will change as you learn to eat locally available foods. These changes take time, so set a reachable goal and perhaps choose one or two new products each week to try. Buy fewer convenience foods, which, you have to admit, are often overly packaged, come from far-away places, and are less fresh and nutritious. Replace them with fresh vegetables, fruits, and products that burst with flavor and nutrients. For example, try baking with local honey instead of cane sugar.

This substitution creates a taste sensation that will delight you and your family!

As you take on the challenge of eating locally, you’ll find that it’s a pleasure to explore the new tastes and it’s gratifying to have a relationship with the food you eat and those who grow it for you. Know that you are doing something good for yourself, your family, the community around you and the earth!

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not against each other. Libra is the sign that rules keeping all of the physiological systems in balance.

The specific organ designed to keep a state of balance within the body is the kidneys. The kidneys are in charge of keeping the fluids balanced and flowing. We need to remember that roughly 80% of our bodies are water. Esoterically this relates to the interpenetration of the etheric or vital body into the physical. It is by the agency of water that the chemical activity of the body is maintained. It is important to drink plenty of pure water.

Herbs that are ruled by Libra that can be of benefit now are uva ursi, parsley, and bachu leaves. They are excellent diuretics and can help with kidney and bladder issues. Have a nice cup of herbal tea and feel that state of harmony and well-being grow within you.

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he Sun enters Libra this month on September 22. This marks the Fall Equinox, when day and night are of equal duration. As we move further into the fall season, the days will be getting shorter and the nights longer. Nature is in the process of integrating the celestial influences of the summer and reducing activity to sleep in the winter. From now until spring, darkness will dominate and be at its greatest strength and power. Now the focus is on addressing the shadow elements of life. They must be acknowledged, worked through, and integrated.

Libra is the Scales, which is the cosmic principle of balance.

The two pans of the scale represent the fundamental reality of polarity, duality, and opposites which must be brought into balance. Libra is the balance or midpoint of the yearly passage of the Sun through the signs of the zodiac. Venus, the planetary rule of Libra, is the principle of love. Of all the signs of the zodiac, the Scales rule the cosmic laws of relationship. The fundamental principles of relationship are balance, harmony, and cooperation based on love. The dynamic is that of giving and receiving in a balanced loving manner.

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The universe is a whole, based on an infinite diversity of parts. Each of the parts has an important role to play for its own good and the good of the whole. Everything has its prescribed place in the cosmic scheme of things. The principle is unity in diversity and diversity in unity. Speaking in terms of humanity, we form a group consciousness within the cosmos. We are one, even though we are each individualized expressions. We are all intimately connected. Libra’s primary focus is on right relationships with each other. Libra rules all human relationship.

The ultimate relationship of Libra is marriage and partnership. The intense focused one-on-one relationship where life is shared is its provenance. The cosmic intent is for us to open up our hearts and learn to think, feel, and act in consideration of the other person. Libra wants us to overcome our innate self absorption and selfishness. This opens up our hearts to joy, happiness, and bliss which cannot be achieved if we are only thinking of ourselves. It is a genuine expansion of consciousness.

These principles that are now operative in Libra also apply to the body. The design of the human being is that we each contain all the forces, powers, and functions of the universe.

We are complex beings made up of all the heavenly and earthly forces. These are manifest within our body as the various systems: respiratory, digestive, circulatory, nervous, etc. For us to achieve a state of health means that we must bring all of these systems into balance. They must work with each other,

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Tipping the Balance In Your Favor

By Liz Karger

WHEN HEALTH IS ABSENT, Wisdom cannot reveal itself, Art cannot manifest, Strength cannot fight, Wealth becomes useless, and Intelligence cannot be applied.

- Herophilus, Greek Physician, 335-280 BC

simple and profound truth: health enriches life’s quality.

Reaching thriving health seems a daunting journey with endless routes to explore. Less than 125 years ago, we lived our lives by firelight and feared the diseases passed from person to person, not caused by our lifestyle. Technological advances have filled our environment with thousands of toxins in our air, food and water. We have polluted our nest. Just as the earth’s ability to self renew is out of balance, so is the body’s.

Now degenerative disease is racing across the globe: heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes and neuro-degenerative disease that lifestyle changes can reverse. This global health threat is the result of chronic cellular inflammation in a human body out of balance from toxins taken in through skin, lungs and stomachs.

By 2020, it is projected that degenerative diseases will cause 75% of all deaths worldwide. Degenerative disease is a cellular problem: healthy cells under attack until the balance tips and your body struggles to renew itself.

Things that make you go, “Hmmm..I knew that!” What makes the body’s balance tip? The two leading culprits are a regular diet of unhealthy fats and high-glycemic (sugary) foods leading to cellular inflammation, insulin resistance and obesity. The body’s muscles and blood vessels are inflamed. Add lack of exercise and stress and you’ll find that many people have adopted this common lifestyle that leads to metabolic imbalance. Chronic inflammation and inadequate supplies of neutralizing antioxidants, essential minerals, and nutritional supports make the body suffer silently until the balance tips.

The body’s response to cellular stress weakens. The immune system is taxed. Food to energy conversion is compromised.

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occurs. Once the balance tips weight loss becomes difficult and energy seems down. Your inflamed muscles store less energy as glycogen, sending more fat to storage in your abdomen – belly fat surrounds vital organs. Your body has moved into metabolic syndrome, the state doctors define as a pre-disease state.

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Protect Your Cellular Health and You’ll Improve Your Overall Health! Keep in mind: Medicine is too late. Health is more important so practice disease prevention every day. Change your bad habits—the ones you know you can’t justify. Make your body more efficient at neutralizing free radicals and discarding toxins to protect your cells, reduce cellular inflammation and enhance your vitality. Cultivate habits that reduce cellular inflammation through nutritional support, low-glycemic eating habits, and regular exercise and stress reduction activities. Start daily with a balanced low-glycemic breakfast to help you normalize your blood sugar throughout the day. Find a nutritional supplement you can trust. Exercise every day. Take control of your health: your best defense is a good offense. It will reduce your trips to the doctor; time lost due to sickness, could save you money on pharmaceuticals, and may even lower medical insurance expenses!

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FAST FACTS: • Diabetes has increased 6-fold in the last generation, affecting more than 230 million people.

• Type 2 diabetes is caused by poor health choices. It causes 80% of diabetes deaths and is prevented by a healthy lifestyle.

• 54 million people are pre-diabetic now also known as metabolic syndrome caused by chronic inflammation and oxidative stress.

• Estimates indicate that without action, 350 million people worldwide will be diabetic within 20 years.

• Life Expectancy in the US is 78 years old, placing the US 42nd worldwide, down from 11th two decades earlier.

• Cardiovascular disease and cancer are the top causes of disease-related deaths in the US. • Diabetes is the #1 reason for disease-related amputation.

• The USDA food pyramid base is now bread, cereal, rice & pasta and recommends that active women need 6-9 servings per day! One serving is a slice of bread, a cup of cereal, or a half cup of rice or pasta. Unintended message: To get the nutrition your body needs from nutritionally depleted food sources, overeat!

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• Vitamins are not regulated in the US. Federal law requires only food grade manufacturing standards and 10% of the product’s labeled content. Have you ever bought juice and found out it’s really just a little bit of juice with other additives? The same federal rules apply to vitamins.

• Pharmaceutical grade vitamins contain the labeled contents in the labeled amount, are free of contaminants, and meet dissolution and bioavailability requirements. Pharmaceutical grade vitamins are listed in the Physicians Desk Reference for FDA-approved information on pharmaceuticals.

• Vitamins are commonly prescribed by physicians to support health and specific conditions. Vitamins fill nutritional gaps in the diet.

• Skin is your largest organ. Skin care products commonly contain chemicals known to cause cancer. Read the label to avoid exposure to harmful chemicals like parabens, artificial and FD&C colors, DEA and TEA, formaldehydes, thimerasol, and toluene to name a few.

Fast Facts were compiled from the websites of the World Diabetes Foundation, World Health Organization, the US Centers for Disease Control, the US Department of Agriculture, US Census Bureau, US National Center for Health Statistics, US Food and Drug Administration, and www.hbmag.com.

So how does oxidative stress cause inflammation leading to degenerative disease? All inflammation has two common factors: free radical activity and cellular health. The health of your cells determines the health of every organ, system and function in your body. Free radicals are atoms or molecules with unpaired electrons formed during metabolic activity.

Once formed, these highly reactive radicals, also known as pro-oxidants, may damage cells, organelles, and DNA. Free

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radical levels in the body can be reduced by neutralizing free radicals with antioxidant supplements and lifestyle habits that minimize their formation. Be aware of and reduce the toxins entry points through your skin products, environmental air and diet. Acute inflammation is immediate and short term, moving blood plasma and white blood cells to the injured cells. If healing does not progress quickly, acute inflammation becomes chronic inflammation, causing tissue damage and the body’s ongoing attempt to repair itself. Pro-oxidants + Anti-oxidants = Improved Cellular Health.

You never thought you’d be a marathoner, but you can do this! This thing called health, it’s a little bit of work. It’s not something that you can start today and have tomorrow – it takes daily effort. But a little bit of daily effort develops a non-runner’s habits, endurance and fitness to be able to run farther, feeling better. Daily effort at disease prevention develops habits that pay off in months and adds years of better health to your life.

You feel good, your health is thriving and you have plenty of energy left to finish the marathon in your life! You can do this!

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References: 1. Invisible Miracles: The Revolution in Cellular Nutrition, Dr. Myron Wentz, 2004, Medicis S.C. USA 2. Effects of inflammation — symptoms, conditions, and related diseases, Marcelle Pick, OB/GYN NP, accessed 6/29/08, www.womentowomen.com/inflammation/symptomsandconditions.aspx 3. Inflammation, Heart Disease and Stroke: The Role of C-Reactive Protein, accessed 6/28/08, American Heart Association: www.americanheart.org 4. Life Expectancy Rating Slips for US, www.discovery.com

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When Too Much Oxygen Is Bad! What is Cellular Oxidative Stress?

Oxidative stress is cellular stress that damages your body’s healthy tissue and vital organs. It is caused by free oxygen radicals, also known as pro-oxidants. When antioxidants are present to neutralize the free radicals, cellular damage is reduced. Prooxidants + Anti-oxidants = Healthier cells.

How is Oxidative Stress linked to disease?

When the body’s natural cell renewal process becomes compromised the body’s balance tips toward disease. Cellular oxidative stress is associated with degenerative diseases like heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes. Reducing cellular oxidative stress is an effective way to practice disease prevention.

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So What Can I Do To Protect My Cells?

For young and old, quality of life improves when we internalize lifestyle changes that prevent cell damage leading to degenerative disease. Protect yourself from environmental toxins commonly found in personal care products. Reduce cell stress by eating good fats and lowglycemic foods. Prevent cell damage every day with healthy levels of antioxidants obtained through diet and pharmaceuticalgrade nutritional supplements.

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Living Well May Not Come Easy!

By Sally LeDuc, PT

Live Well. Be Well.

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hese shouts or affirmations are heard and implied nearly everywhere in our society today and in most every preventative health program being offered in our community, e.g. food markets, health fairs, health care centers, and the self-help literature. In some circles, use of the word well and wellness are common discourse. However, to define these words and apply a well concept to one’s life and live well everyday may not be so easy because the practical side of Living Well is often misunderstood.

To simplify a vast body of literature and to offer a practical way to Be Well and have a Well lifestyle, six simple and practical wellness parameters should be considered: Physical, Emotional, Psychological, Social, Intellectual, and Spiritual Wellness.

Physical wellness means to have a sense of resilience; Emotional wellness – a sense of centeredness; Psychological wellness – a sense of optimism; Social wellness – a sense of connectedness; Intellectual wellness – a sense of stimulating and enriching thought; Spiritual wellness – a sense of life purpose.

How Well are you? If you were to give yourself a score on a scale of 1-10 for each of the six parameters what would those scores be? Would you have a high score in one or more areas and a very low score in one? Those who are advocates of wellness also use the word balance in their exclamations. What does being in balance mean? We hear the word often and we may even hear ourselves tell others to ‘get their life in balance.’ Using these six parameters and this simple scoring method can make understanding balance quite easy. If your scores were all

5s or 7s then you are in balance, if they were not then you are out of balance. It is more important to be in balance then to have several very high scores.

How do you get in balance? The founders of this model and those who have spent years studying individuals respective of the six wellness parameters claim you should use your strengths to improve your weakness. In the past, many believed it more important to work on improving weaknesses then building upon the strengths. However, researchers today believe it is much more productive to use and build upon strengths rather than focus solely on weaknesses. For example, and in regard to wellness, if you have a great sense of social wellness but a very low sense of physical wellness or sense of resilience, why not get your close group of friends together to do a physical task, like a hike. Accomplishing an early morning hike to a lookout point above the valley with a close group of friends can help strengthen your sense of being physically resilient. Performed over and over again with your social group will help improve your sense of “I can do that;

I am resilient.” In this example, you are using your high sense of connectedness or social wellness to strengthen your lower sense of resilience.

To Live Well and to Be Well may be concepts easy to intellectualize or cognitively understand but to apply the concepts to everyday life may not always be so easy. Hopefully this practical way of examining your life using the six parameters of wellness will help you apply the concepts, achieve greater balance in your life, and have a greater sense of Living Well.

References: 1. Adams, T., Bezner, J., Garner, L., & Woodruff, S. (1998).

Construct validation of the Perceived Wellness Survey.

American Journal of Health Studies, 14(4), 212-222.

2. Adams, T., Bezner, J., & Steinhardt, M. (1997). The conceptualization and measurement of perceived wellness: Integrating balance across and within dimensions. American Journal of Health Promotions, 11(3), 208-216.

3. Buckingham, M. (2007). Go put your strengths to work: Six powerful steps to achieve outstanding performance.

New York: The Free Press.

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eyes, so proper daily intake is important to beauty maintenance.

Not only does copper play a daily role in the body, it may also be a factor in preventing and treating a number of medical conditions. Studies are showing that the copper supplement may actually provide protection against free radical damage, a leading factor in cell damage that can lead to more serious conditions, such as cancer and heart disease.

It can also be of help to the heart by helping to steady high blood pressure and irregular heart beat, and by helping to keep cholesterol at a healthy level.

New evidence is showing that a copper supplement may also be important in the prevention of osteoporosis, a disease that affects more than 10 million Americans, most of whom are women.

In fact, one study of healthy women between the ages of 45-56 gave some promising results. Of the study participants, those who took 3 mg copper each day had no change in mineral bone density, while those on a placebo had considerable bone density loss. Maintaining bone density is the number one way to stop osteoporosis.

Copper is required by the body to produce certain enzymes, such as Superoxide Dismutase, a very powerful antioxidant. It’s also used to build various proteins, such as collagen, which is used to build in connective tissue, bones and skin. Copper also helps the body use its stored iron, a mineral that is very important in red blood cell production, and may also play a vital role in proper immune function and fertility. Copper plays a role in producing melanin, a dark pigment found in hair and skin, as well as in the eyes.

Deficiency of copper can produce irregular coloring in the skin, hair and

Although there is no RDA (Recommended Dietary Allowance) for copper, to maintain proper health the normal daily recommended intakes are generally defined as follows: Infants and children— Birth to 3 years of age: 0.4 to 1 milligram (mg) per day.

4 to 6 years of age: 1 to 1.5 mg per day.

7 to 10 years of age: 1 to 2 mg per day.

Adolescent and adult males—1.5 to 2.5 mg per day.

Adolescent and adult females—1.5 to 3 mg per day.

id you ever think that the metal your pennies are made with could be important to your health? Although the supplement copper is just a trace mineral and only required in very small amounts by the body, it is involved in the healthy and proper functioning of a number of very important processes. Your bones, immune function and even your skin and hair will benefit from taking a copper supplement.

What Is Copper?

This trace mineral is a dietary nutrient required for normal growth and body health. The supplement copper is found mainly in two foods–liver and oysters.

These two foods are the most abundant sources, but the trace mineral is also found in rather small amounts in a number of other foods, including dark green leafy vegetables, artichokes, avocados, bananas, coconuts, papayas, apples, raisins, garlic, legumes, mushrooms, nuts and seeds, potatoes, prunes, radishes, soy products, tomatoes, whole grains, cereals, and chocolate.

How Can I Make The Most Out of Copper?

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Copper is best absorbed and utilized in the body when cobalt, iron, zinc and folic acid is available.

Although deficiency is rare, it can still happen. If copper is deficient in the body, iron is also normally in short supply, leading to anemia as well as the likelihood for infections, osteoporosis, thinning of bones, thyroid gland dysfunction, heart disease as well as nervous system problems. People with digestive tract disorder, such as those with Crohn’s or celiac disease, have a hard time absorbing copper and should supplement under the care of their physician. Large amounts of fructose can make a copper deficiency worse.

If you regularly use antacids, your need for copper may be higher as well, as these can interfere with the body’s ability to absorb copper. Long-term use of zinc, another essential mineral, can block the absorption of copper, so it is important to regulate your copper intake to ensure a proper dosage daily. Do not take copper supplements and zinc supplements at the same time. It is best to take your copper supplement 2 hours after zinc supplements, to get the full benefit of each.

Toxicity of copper is also extremely rare, and can be prevented by sticking to the daily recommendations for copper, and not going over 3mg/day. Toxic levels will lead to diarrhea, vomiting, liver damage as well as discoloration of the skin and hair, while mild excesses will result in fatigue, irritability, depression and loss of concentration and learning disabilities.

People who took 10 mg of copper at once reported muscle pain, nausea and upset stomach.

References: 1. http://www.lifescript.com/channels/well_being/Minerals/copper.asp 2. http://www.copperinfo.com/health/deficiencies.html 3. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/drug-information/ DR602273 4. http://www.anyvitamins.com/copper-info.htm

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DR. SOIL:

By Craig Witt and Mark O’Farrell, Soil Council

Q: What is a “triple mix”?

A: Triple mix is a very common term

given to a soil blend that is comprised of three parts. The most important question to find out is exactly what are the three parts of a “triple mix”.

It is interesting to hear the response from your local landscape supplier when you ask them what is in their “triple mix”.

Some of the most comical responses are: (1) Oh, it’s the three best parts of a good soil. (2) Ah Gee, let me see, I think it’s one part soil, one part compost, and one part manure. (3) I don’t know. (4) You better ask at the office. (5) What would you like it to be?

As one can see, a “triple mix” is a relatively vague description. It can be three parts of anything.

Ideally, a “triple mix” should be one part Sand, one part Garden Soil, and one part Compost. The overall performance of such a combination will be determined by the quality of each individual ingredient.

The Sand should come from a proven source that does not contain high levels of sodium and has good physical characteristics that do not lead to compaction.

Golf Course sand is a good example of a desirable sand. Concrete sand is often times not desirable.

Garden Soil, sometimes called top soil, should come with some evidence that the supplier has had a soil analysis done to make sure that the nutrients are balanced and that there are not any toxic levels of minerals such as Boron or Sodium.

The Compost is often times the most important ingredient added to a triple

mix. It is very important that the compost comes from a reputable supplier that can supply you with the recipe of what is in the compost and a written record of the composting process.

Ultimately the quality of any soil blend is determined by how well it supports the growth of plants.

A good supplier should have plants growing in their product.

Q: What is “Mushroom Compost”?

A: “Mushroom Compost” is actually not

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Mushroom production is completely different from growing green plants.

Mushrooms do not contain chlorophyll and therefore depend on other material for their food.

Mushroom growers often times use compost turners to mix their mushroom substrate, however, if they were to truly compost the substrate, it would no longer grow mushrooms.

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Jungian Dreamwork Series:

Children’s Dreams (Part I)

By Andy Drymalski, EdD

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he previous articles of this series examined different to take form within the psyche, the child’s world consists of aspects of the psyche and their representation in our sensations and instinctual responses to those sensations. The dreams. This article and the next take a closer look characteristics commonly associated with consciousness, such at the dreams of children. Although the information as a sense of self, or the capacity to deliberate, conceptualize, shared in the earlier articles applies to children’s dreams, reflect, and choose are not present. modifications must sometimes be made due to differences in Consciousness develops as certain attributes of the perthe psychology of children and adults. sonality coalesce to form the ego. It appears that everyone is Jungian psychology describes the ego as the gatekeeper of born with a unique “blueprint” which helps guide the developconsciousness. When we say “I did this,” or “I believe that,” ment of the ego and the construction of the larger personality. we are speaking from the standpoint of the ego. It is our “I- Early life experiences and relationships can aid or hinder this ness” that provides a sense of identity and continuity to the process. The goal of our early years is to build a strong ego, personality. In dreams, our life path is one that will be able to withstand the sometimes symbolized as a journey and pressures of life without The newborn exists in what is demands across the ocean. In these dreams, the collapsing. Using the ocean journey dreamer and his/her vessel symbolize analogy, a strong, well-constructed boat sometimes called a state of the ego, while the ocean symbolizes the will usually offer safer passage on life’s “undifferentiated wholeness.” journey. unconscious.

Consciousness arises through the deOn the same night, not long after the velopment of the ego. Unlike most adults, the ego of infants is Vietnam war, an American man and his young son had nearly undeveloped. The newborn exists in what is sometimes called identical dreams. Each dreamt that he was under attack by a state of “undifferentiated wholeness.” This simply means the Viet Cong. In their dreams, each fought to save himself. that there is no division within their psyche, for the ego is still Although this was a very positive dream for the young boy, it merged with the unconscious. An adult who is going through was just the opposite for his father. a period of emotional upheaval might say, “I feel like I’m in a For both father and son the Viet Cong symbolized a force or boat being tossed about on stormy seas.” This statement implies perspective that was foreign to their conscious mind. Symbolithat the speaker is aware of her existence and of the effects of cally, their egos were under attack by the unconscious. In the the turbulent forces upon her. But the situation is somewhat boy’s case, it was healthy that he stood up to the unconscious. different for the newborn child. When the ego is still immersed Through battle with the unconscious his ego is strengthened. in the unconscious, there is no external frame of reference– For example, young children often dream of being challenged no “I.” The upset infant is not the passenger of a boat on a by a monster, a “bad guy,” or a scary animal. The psyche stormy sea, he or she is the stormy sea. Until the ego begins sends them these dreams as a kind of rehearsal for life. Like

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the playground bully, an adversary in he has established a healthy and stable a child’s dreams offers an opportunity core to his identity and consciousness. to learn how to stand up for and de- His ego is able to withstand the pressures fend oneself. It is interesting to note and challenges of life, both those that that when a young child stands up to come from within (the unconscious), these adversaries–fights off the bad guy, as well as those from outside (family, tames the angry lion, etc.–the adversary peers, etc.). The birthday cards he is typically transforms into a helpful ally. making may symbolize a recognition When we wrestle and come to terms and celebration of the new life taking with the things that scare us, we tend place within. At age four, his ego develto grow in both consciousness and opment is by no means complete, but a promising foundation seems to have character.

The situation is quite different for been laid.

A week later the same the boy’s father, howboy dreamed: “All the ever. By the time we The upset lights went on in San Franreach adulthood, the ego infant is not cisco and they will never is usually well develgo out again. People tried oped and offers a stable the passenger to turn them off but they sense of identity to the wouldn’t go off, so people personality. Instead of of a boat on a just played more since strengthening, what the stormy sea, he the lights were on all the adult ego generally needs time.” Light is a symbol is to become more plior she is the of consciousness and San able and receptive to the Francisco, in this context, unconscious. In adultstormy sea. probably symbolizes the hood the psyche places psyche in all of its wonderincreasing emphasis on the integration of certain aspects of ful diversity. This dream amplifies the the personality that we rejected in our message of the previous one: a level of youth (e.g., potentially helpful aspects consciousness and ego development of the shadow and anima/animus). The has been reached that will provide father’s ego was under attack by the the boy an enduring sense of “I-ness.” unconscious because he was egocen- In other words, he’s got his own boat. tric in his outlook and approach to life. (So, if you see him sailing by, be sure to Rather than fighting his unconscious, wave “hi.”) he should have been trying to learn In next month’s issue I will discuss from it. ways to work with children’s dreams that A four year-old boy dreamed: “I’m can assist in the healthy development of in a house by myself in the desert. The their personality. house is bigger than ours and made of strong wood. There is an earthquake, References: but my house still stands. Then there 1. Garfield, Patricia. Your Child’s Dreams. Ballantine is a snowstorm, but it still stands. Then Books, NY 1984.

2. Siegel, Alan and Bulkeley, Kelly. Dreamcatching: Every there is a tornado, but it still stands. In parent’s Guide to Exploring and Understanding Children’s the house I was making birthday cards Dreams and Nightmares. Three Rivers Press, MA 1998.

Wickes, Frances G. The Inner World of Childhood, 3rd for people. I also made a car for myself 3.

Edition. Sigo Press, Boston 1988. so that I can drive around.”

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It’s Apple Hill Time!

By Sara Piccola

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ocated near the small city of Placerville, Apple Hill is a great way to kick off apple season and the holidays to come.

The great thing about Apple Hill is that it is close enough for a day trip but is enjoyable as an overnight trip, especially if you’re going to hit the wineries.

Apple Hill consists of 56 ranches located off of Highway 50. Depending on where you want to begin your experience you can exit at Pollock Pines, Cedar Grove, or Camino. Once you are inside Apple Hill you can either drive from ranch to ranch, or as most recommend, park your car and hop on the Apple Hill® free shuttle. The shuttle buses run from 10am-5pm everyday and come every 15-30 minutes. The shuttle follows the Apple Hill® scenic route and allows visitors to get on and off at their own leisure.

A day spent at Apple Hill is a great trip for everyone. Most ranches offer craft fairs that are full of unique handmade gifts. Tasty apple treats are abundant everywhere and will surely make everyone happy. The kids will have a grand time at the “kid friendly” ranches (some have petting zoo’s), pumpkin patches, and “pick-your-own” apple ranches. Some ranches even offer cooking classes and paper making using the pulp from apples. You can also visit with the first ever Apple Hill® ranch which contains a farm museum. Don’t forget about the wineries as mentioned earlier.

through Mid-November), ranches remain open all year long.

Spring is a time for fresh flowers and the summer months fill ranches with garden grown vegetables like corn and squash, plus cherries, berries, plums, peaches, nectarines and pears (later in the season). Late fall is the perfect time to find pumpkins for Halloween and starting November 23rd, tree farms attract crowds looking for that perfect Christmas tree.

Although it is nice to be able to experience Apple Hill in one day, it wouldn’t be a true “staycation” without leaving the house for at least one night. There are several motel lodging options located in Placerville, or if you’re looking for a more home-like experience you can rent a vacation townhouse from Apple Hill Area Vacation Rentals.

With the stress of school starting and the holidays approaching, it’s important to take a break from everything. We’re blessed to be located in an area that is surrounded by many outdoor activities and “staycation” opportunities all year long.

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Beyond every apple dessert imaginable, few ranches offer a lunch menu. Though you can find lunch at over 10 different growers, as well as grab a bite to eat in downtown Placerville, you may consider bringing some nutritious snacks along for the ride.

Don’t let the name “Apple Hill” throw you into thinking this excursion is only available a few months out of the year. Although most people go to Apple Hill during peak apple season (mid-August

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RADICAL FORGIVENESS ... How It Works

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rdinary forgiveness is ‘letting bygones be bygones’. A certain willingness to forgive is implied but the belief something wrong happened is never questioned. “You did that to me, but I’ll let you off the hook and forgive you.�

Research based at Seattle University, WA showed that ordinary forgiveness: (a) is universally difficult. (b) takes a long time - typically years. (Success was defined as finally feeling peaceful about the situation.) (c) The more people tried to ‘will’ forgiveness, the longer it took. (d) Most people required extensive therapy before any movement occurred at all.

Radical Forgiveness on the other hand, has none of these difficulties. It can be virtually instantaneous; it is easy to do; it requires no therapy and very little intelligence beyond being able to follow some very simple steps.

No Crime Has Happened Holding on to the belief that ‘a crime’ has occurred while trying to forgive gives traditional forgiveness the quality of an oxymoron. How can you possibly forgive if you are invested in that judgment? No wonder it takes years! Qualities of compassion, humility and tolerance move us towards forgiveness, but they do not constitute forgiveness itself. So when it does finally occur time has simply worn down our attachment to our judg-

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ments. When we say “time heals� perhaps we are recognizing that we will some day simply become weary of holding on.

But oh, what a struggle!

Radical Forgiveness is Easy Radical Forgiveness is easy and instantaneous because it is a shift in perception that allows you to understand that, in truth, looked at from the perspective of the spiritual ‘big picture,’ nothing wrong ever happened.

What brings about such a radical shift in perception - especially in situations where one feels very victimized and hurt?

Surprisingly, it requires only a willingness to accept the possibility that life is not simply a series of random and haphazard events but is, in fact, a Divine plan that is unfolding for us exactly how we need it for our own spiritual growth. In other words, every event, however pleasant or unpleasant, has been called forth by a Higher Aspect of ourselves that knows exactly what we need for our own healing. When we live more out of that idea than the victim story, life begins to work perfectly.

So how do we get there? Well, lack of forgiveness is nothing more than stuck energy, caused by past judgments, criticisms, blame and resentments. The way forward is to use tools or processes that help us release that stuck energy, raise our vibration and become the loving beings we have the potential to be.

The Process of Radical Forgiveness Radical Forgiveness is as basic as following these five steps:

1. Tell the Story: You must begin from where you are. You are a spiritual being having a human experience that involves emotional experiences. We make up that emotions are undesirable and wrong, so when we get upset about something we make up a ‘victim’s story’ and blame others for our unhappiness.

Having that story heard and witnessed is the first step to letting it go. Likewise, the first step in releasing victimhood is to own it fully. So, in this step, you tell your story, and it is honored as your truth in the moment.

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feelings. That’s denial and misses the crucial point that the feelings is where the authentic power is and that our strength, in fact, lies in our vulnerability and our willingness to show up as fully human.

You cannot heal what you don’t feel.

When people access their pain, this is the beginning of their healing.

But this is not necessarily digging up the past. In fact, doing so is not necessary at all. Whatever is upsetting you now represents the past and following the feelings (the energy), as they are occurring while you tell your story, automatically heals the past pain. It is not even necessary to know what the original pain was.

3. Collapse the Story: This takes the power out of the victim story you made up. The Navajo Indians had a ceremony for doing this. Anyone with a grievance could come to the circle three times to tell their story, and they would be heard.

On the fourth occasion everyone would turn their backs. “Enough already! Your story is just a story. There’s no real truth to it - it is just an illusion. We have heard it three times and we no longer wish to give it power. Let it go and then let yourself move towards what is really true.�

4. Do a Radical Forgiveness Reframe: Here we replace the ‘illusionary’ story with another story - the Radical Forgiveness ‘story.’ This one says that what appeared to have happened, far from being a tragedy, was in fact exactly what we wanted to experience and was in that sense, absolutely perfect.

This is often very difficult to accept, but the good thing is it does not require you to see WHY it is perfect, or that you must GET the lesson involved. It is nearly always beyond our ability to comprehend anyway, so it’s a waste of time trying to figure it out. Willingness is all that is required You just have to be willing to open to the idea that there is a gift in it somewhere, and then choose peace. It really is that simple. When we get used to thinking this way, it’s amazing how simple and easy life becomes. It’s so freeing to stop resisting (judging) life and surrender to what wants to naturally occur. Life with Radical Forgiveness can be very sweet.

5. Integration: After you have allowed yourself to be willing to see the perfection in the situation, it is necessary to integrate that change at the cellular level. That means integrating it into the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies so it becomes a part of who you are. It’s like saving what you have done on the computer to the hard drive. Only then will it become permanent. Breathwork is the best way to integrate this work. Other ways to integrate is through speaking affirmations, walking, doing forgiveness worksheets, ritual and ceremony.

Radical Forgiveness is simple, quick and brings immediate relief. This forgiveness is permanent and when one has integrated it well enough into everyday life for it to become a way of life, life

becomes infinitely less stressful, more peaceful and a whole lot happier.

Colin Tipping, is the acknowledged authority on the application of Radical Forgiveness for the “healing� of individuals, families, races, corporations, and communities.

References: 1. To learn more about Colin and other Radical Forgiveness strategies, visit www.radicalforgiveness.com 2. Radical Forgiveness, Making Room for the Miracle (2nd edition, paperback), by Colin C. Tipping, Quest Publishing and Distribution

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By Mark C. Gunderson, MD

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uman Growth Hormone (HGH) or somatotropin is one of seven hormones produced by the anterior pituitary. It is secreted at night during sleep. It can also be stimulated by strenuous exercise, during starvation, or by low blood sugar reactions. It is an anabolic hormone that builds tissue. During puberty it is involved in the growth of bone, cartilage, internal organs, and tendons. HGH peaks in puberty and declines approximately 14% per decade. The human body remodels itself every few years. Eventually the anabolic or building process of tissues cannot keep up with the steady breakdown or catabolic processes. Body composition changes-for the worse, muscle and bone mass decline, and fat mass increases.

The Neuroendocrine Theory of Aging states that the aging process is due to declining hormone production rather than aging causing hormonal decline. Humans age because of declining hormones. In a landmark medical study by Rudman in 1990, and printed in The New England Journal of Medicine, entitled “Effects of Human Growth Hormone on men over 60 years of age”. Twelve men the average age of 68 were placed on HGH for 6 months. The result showed that lean body mass was increased. Bones were stronger.

Fat mass declined. The authors concluded that “the overall deterioration of the body that occurs with aging is not inevitable…. we now realize that some aspects of it can be reversed or prevented.” This was the first major medical study that gave

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physicians and scientists the idea that aging can be thought of as a treatable medical condition.

cost! Purity, contamination of foreign drugs, quality control are all given as reasons. Almost all U.S. drugs are manufactured overseas anyway. Why are hormones being singled out?

Practitioners of age management medicine believe that aging is partially a reflection of HGH deficiency and should be supplemented for optimal health and vitality. How HGH deficiency is defined is controversial. The common measurement of the HGH axis is through a molecule called IGF-1. IGF-1 is produced by the liver in response to HGH stimulation.

This biomarker of the HGH axis routinely goes down with aging. An average of 300 is normal for a 20 or 30 year old. By those numbers, almost all 40 year olds could be considered HGH deficient.

The cancer risk commonly linked to HGH seems to be mostly nonexistent. HGH has been approved by the FDA to treat short but otherwise healthy children. The FDA has approved HGH to treat HIV wasting disease. This AIDS associated disease has a host whose immune system is at very high risk of cancer from sarcomas and lymphomas. If HGH is so dangerous, how do you justify FDA approval for kids and HIV patients with compromised immune systems?

Endocrinologists believe that aging and HGH decline is normal and should not be treated. HGH replacement is costly and possibly dangerous, with many side effects. Traditional medicine recognizes that aging, HGH decline, and frailty are all related but no treatment is given, as aging is normal. Medical dogma was concerned with possible stimulation of latent cancer cells with HGH. Barbara Walters on “The View” recently stated that everyone knows that HGH causes cancer to spread like wildfire in the body.

Athletes abusing HGH and anabolic steroids are common headlines. Congress has hearings on performance enhancing drugs. Perhaps if hormones are vilified in the press, legislation may be enacted to further limit use and abuse.

Although this fact is little known, in 1996 HGH was approved by the FDA for Adult Onset HGH deficiency. Compounding pharmacies used to offer a generic HGH product. HGH is no longer available now due to pressure from the Pharmaceutical industry to “confiscate raw HGH from overseas in customs.”

The FDA and the DEA are seizing foreign products and raw material. It is curious that the Feds are involved in curtailing hormones but seem powerless to curtail the inflow of illicit drugs into the country.

The only HGH available currently is from the Pharmaceutical industry-at twice the

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HGH has been used for 40 plus years in pituitary dwarfs who are lacking HGH. A review article in 2002 was entitled, “Still no increase in rates of cancer in HGH deficient children.”

Replacing HGH physiologically in those patients has normalized the lifespan and reduced the heart disease associated with HGH deficiency. There is no increase in cancer.

Multiple peer reviewed medical studies have shown improvement and reversal of disease states. HGH improves the brain. Studies show improved memory, cognition, work performance, and motivation. Beta amyloid plaque, which is involved in the Alzheimers disease cascade, is lowered by HGH. HGH deficiency is associated with osteoporosis. HGH treatment results in the reversal of osteoporosis.

There are some known side effects of HGH usage including fluid retention, insulin resistance, joint aches, and carpal tunnel. This can be controlled by lowering the dose, temporarily stopping HGH, and restarting HGH at a lower dose.

HGH use in Age Management Medicine is physiologic replacement of HGH to optimize health and improve quality of life.

In 1998, Peter Sonksen wrote on HGH and IGF-1 Research: “GH is essential for normal adult life, and without it, life expectancy is shortened, energy and vitality are reduced, and the quality of life is impaired. The medical case for HGH replacement is now proven beyond any reasonable medical and scientific doubt.”

References: 1. Ron Rothenberg, AAAAM, 12-07, Las Vegas, NV Lecturer for A4M: Hormone Replacement and HGH 2. Rudman, D., New England Journal of Medicine, 1990, “Effects of HGH on men over 60 years of age.”

3. Frohman: Growth Hormone Deficiency Phenotype, Archive of Internal Medicine, August 2002 4. Vance, Mary Lee,New England Journal of Medicine, “Growth Hormone Therapy in Adults and Children, October 14, 1999

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HGH deficiency is associated with impaired physical performance. HGH treatment improves exercise capacity.

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According to Mary Lee Vance in the New England Journal of Medicine, October 14th, 1999: “There is no evidence that growth hormone replacement therapy affects the risk of cancer or cardiovascular disease.”

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BACK TO BREATHING: The Inspired Intent of Joseph Pilates Continued from page 20.

Anteriorly, the thoracic cavity softens and descends downward from the first rib and sternum, while posteriorly the spine both ascends (crown of the head) and descends (sacral-coccygeal) along the two-way vertical line of gravity, head to foot. Due to the crus (cross), architectural attachments of the diaphragm that connect to the lumbar vertebra, the Pilates “posterior-lateral” inhale and “deep abdominal” exhale optimizes the way healthy breathing impacts on the skeleton: inhaling is an extensor, creating space between the joints; exhaling is a flexor, bending the body or returning it to a neutral position. A primary precept of Contrology is initiating movement from the bones, while allowing the muscles to do what they are designed to do for each action, without compensation, strain, or over-exertion.

Poetically, the Pilates breath reunites our aerating experience to the fluid and spatial act of rhythmic motion. The entire breathing project is a conscious partici-

pation with the body’s architectonics for psycho-physical levitation. After all, we are made in the image of levers, to be able to lift ourselves and one another, not by dead weight, but rather by rising to the occasion of our capacity to lift upward, body and soul, while also being grounded, gravity and grace.

The breadth and ethical scope of the way Joseph Pilates instructs us to breathe prepares us to re-imagine the human body’s harmonious manifestations of its intentional thought. In a 1962 Sports Illustrated interview, Mr. Pilates suggests that to be fit, one must “act like an animal.”

For the ancient Greeks, (an important reference for Joseph Pilates), the term fit originally meant “harmony.” In this light, Pilates implies that by using our instinctive human gifts, we gain in moral measure the kind of grace, aptitude, strength, and agility that animals exhibit under ordinary healthy conditions. Living in harmony from and with the core of our bodily beings ul-

timately generates conditions by which all of us can learn to live peaceably—with integrity and with our vulnerabilities and limitations—mind, body, and spirit. What the philosophy of Contrology as a whole underscores is that we are, each of us, endowed with the birthright to experience the rondos aeternus—the eternal round and “return to life”—in the moment-tomoment dance of our fully articulating and inspiring bodies.

References: 1. Pilates, Joseph. Return to Life Through Contrology. New York: Augustin, 1945.

2. Wenick, Robert. “To Keep in Shape, Act Like An Animal.”

Sports Illustrated. 12 Feb. 1962.

3. Partridge, Eric. Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English. New York: Macmillan, 1958.

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October 4th Dr. Bruce Eichelberger is offering a one-day qigong movement class on October 4, 2008.

Open to beginning and advanced students.

Call 775-827-6901 for info

October 18th

October 11th

October 4th KettleBell Express Clinic will take place at 1pm at Sports West, 1575 S. Virginia St, Reno. www.sportswestreno.com. (775) 348-6666

October 5th Help raise funds for local breast cancer education, screening & treatment programs. 5k walk/ run, free entertainment. Located at University of Nevada, Reno campus. Details: 355-7311 or e-mail northnvkomen@yahoo.com.

The Gala, Sponsored by Barton Foundation at Harrah’s Convention Center. Live music, cocktail hour with hors d’oeuvers, elegant dinner, dancing, silent and live auction. Call (530) 543-5614

October 11th Tahoe City Oktoberfest at Cobblestone Center, 3pm-pm. Brews, tasty food, and live music, fun and games for children as well. Visit www. visittahoecity.com or call 530-583-3348.

October 11th

October 6th Auxiliary Blood Drive, presented by BloodSource. S Lake Tahoe Airport from 11am–6 pm. For donor eligibility: (800) 995-4420. For Blood Drive details: (775) 781-5343.

October 7th Ecstatic Dance Reno: Find your own dance from within. No experience or partner needed. 1st & 3rd Tuesdays (Oct 21st). 7:15pm www.tahoeyoga.com. 1085 S. Virginia, Reno 775-348-9642

October 7th, 9th, & 14th Therma Diagnostics and Thermal Imaging Consultants will hold three free information seminars. Oct. 7 & 14 6pm-7:30 pm, Oct. 9th, 10am-11:30am. Seating limited to 20 each session. RSVP to Heather 775-356-0200.

7:00 PM Come experience North Lake Tahoe’s only Chocolate and Wine Festival on October 11, 2008 from 7pm to 11pm. Live entertainment from Mumbo Gumbo. www.tahoewomenservice.org or 775-298-0010.

Reiki I Certification, 10am - 5pm. Be attuned and certified to do Reiki. Space is limited.

Cheryl Blossom (775) 338-8617.

October 18th, 21st Wellness Lab Draws, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Express Lab across from Barton Memorial Hospital and at Stateline Outpatient Laboratory.

Register online at www.bartonhealth.org/lab

October 19th Reiki II Certification, 10am–5pm. How to use Reiki for self-healing & healing of others. Limited space. Cheryl Blossom (775) 338-8617.

October 20th Mandala Meditation, Monday,October 20th, 7:00pm. Located at 3670 Grant Drive, Suite #104A More information at 250-7756.

October 12th

October 23rd

Join the 10K course at the 2008 Walk to Cure Diabetes. Entertainment and refreshments along the route in the University of Nevada, Reno’s quad. Details: 786-1881 or e-mail northernnevada@jdrf.org.

Dogs 4 Diabetics, a non-profit organization that trains & provides medical alert dogs for youth & adults with diabetes. 2 free presentations 3pm– 4pm & 6:30pm-8pm. Call 530-543-5548.

October 25th-26th

October 15th & 18th Discount EKG from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Barton’s EKG department. $45 payable at your appointment. Call (530) 543-5881 or register online at www.bartonhealth.org/ekg.

October 7th-16th

October 15th

Diabetes Education Program, 5:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. Preregistration required. Most insurance companies, including Medicare, cover program costs. Call 530-543-5548.

Free Diabetes Screening, at Raley’s Pharmacy at the “Y.” Preregistration not necessary. From 2:30pm–5pm. Refrain from eating 2 hours prior to the screening. Call 530-543-5548.

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Psychic & Creative Arts Fair at Reno-Sparks Convention Cntr. Sat., 9:30am-7pm, Sun., 9:30am6pm. $8 or 2 for $10 everyday (9:30am–11am). renopsychicinstitute.org (775) 324-2872.

Before November 1st Steamboat Hot Springs suggest you reserve your spot for the tour Mysteries of Ancient Greece.

Project X: Search for the Secrets of Immortality Tel: (775) 786-7432 www.projectx.org.

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PETS HEALTHY

ONGOING CALENDAR

State standards

Who Regulates

Pet Food?

Whose responsibility is it to make sure pet food is safe and healthy?

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here are three different organizations who split some responsibility for pet food: the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO), and the Pet Food Institute (PFI).

FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA/CVM) The Center for Veterinary Medicine is the branch of the FDA that deals with all things animal. The FDA/CVM describes its mission as a “consumer protection organization [that fosters] public and animal health by approving safe and effective products for animals.” They are responsible for the evaluation, approval and/or surveillance of animal drugs, food additives, feed ingredients, and animal devices. They don’t have any regulatory control over the source of pet food ingredients, which means that pet food companies can include animal “by-products” (like feathers and fur, brains, and other bits that have no nutritional value without fearing interference from the CVM. CVM investigates pet food in cases of widespread pet illness or death. They also investigate health claims on pet food–for example, if cat food says it’s good for the bladder, CVM has to make sure it’s true. The CVM doesn’t regularly test pet food to make sure it’s safe and healthy; the government’s only pet food authority is really no authority at all.

Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) CVM relies on AAFCO. AAFCO is an organization, not a government agency. They are made up of government representatives, pet food companies, the Pet Food Institute and rendering industries. AAFCO has no regulatory authority, but state governments rely on them to set model standards which the states can adopt. AAFCO also defines food ingredients; they’re the ones who decide what counts as “by-products” in your pet food. AAFCO’s definitions are considered standard, but they’re not enforced.

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Unlike CVM, AAFCO does run some tests on pet food. They analyze new foods to make sure they contain the ratio of protein, fat, fiber and minerals that they state on the label. Like CVM, though, AAFCO doesn’t regulate where that protein, fat, or fiber comes from, or if it’s digestible and safe, as long as it’s there. They also do feed trials, where new pet foods are fed to animals to make sure they keep the animal healthy–feed trials are only done for foods labeled as “complete and balanced.”

The trials include 8 animals minimum, 25 percent of them can be removed from the test, and the remaining animals can lose up to 15 percent of their starting body weight.

Pet Food Institute (PFI) Started in 1958, the Pet Food Institute is “the voice of U.S. pet food manufacturers.” They represent the interests of 98 percent of all pet food manufacturers. Their whole job is to represent the pet food industry to the public and the media, and lobby Congress on the Industry’s behalf. They, along with pet food manufacturers, play a major role in setting AAFCO’s standards.

They exist to protect the pet food industry, not pets.

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States are the only ones who have any real control over pet food standards, and since they base their standards on AAFCO’s recommendations, the standards are minimal to say the least. The amount of regular testing done on pet food varies from state to state, but state standards are written in such a way that tests are likely to miss major pet food problems, like the presence of toxic amounts of melamine.

Feldenkrais ATM Classes

Wellness Presentations

Tuesdays 6:30pm; relief from back problems, repetitive strain, chronic pain, injuries. Improve your body mechanics; move with ease and efficiency. Call Karen, Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, 775.336.9766.

Learn more about optimizing your nutritional needs in a fun and friendly class every Thursday.

Your health is easier to manage than you think!

12pm or 6pm. Rawjuvenation 350 W. Liberty St. in Reno. More info: (775) 624-8434.

Sunday Meditation at Noon

Weekly Meditation Sessions

Join us for an open meditation every Sunday from 12–1pm. At the Reno Psychic Institute, 20 Hillcrest Drive, Reno. renopsychicinstitute. org. (775) 324-2872.

Mahakaruna Buddhist Center holds weekly, guided meditation classes on Monday from Led by Resident Teacher Ace Remas. No prior experience is required. Drop-in’s are welcome.

Information: (775) 348-9642.

So, who’s protecting pets?

“Soul Mind Body Medicine”

There are almost no pet food regulations, and the regulations that do exist are hardly enforced.

Several case studies of toxic chemicals in commercial pet foods illustrate the problems inherent in this lack of regulation. It is relatively easy for a manufacturer to include a chemical ingredient in pet food. Any food additive that has been cleared by the FDA under the extensive “Generally Recognized As Safe” (GRAS) category is permitted.

When it comes to the presence of dubious food additives, chemical pollutants or untested ingredients in pet food, pets and pet owners are still largely on their own. What we really need are strong government standards for pet food that address everything from raw ingredients to pet food preservatives, and a transparent labeling system to allow pet owners to choose what they feel is best for their pets without guessing!

References: 1. http://www.petsfortheenvironment.org/ blog/2008/06/24/pet_food_confidential_who_ regulates_pet_food 2. http://www.ewg.org/node/26240

July 16—Aug 13, Wednesdays 6–9pm. Bring your back pain, frozen shoulder, high blood pressure, or just learn to remove energy and spiritual blockages to transform your life. $99, discounts for seniors. @ TMCC Meadowood Center. www.wdce.tmcc.edu “special topics”, Linda Talbott (775) 240-2583.

ViaViente Opportunity Call Every night 6pm. Call & listen to what separates ViaViente from the competition. Learn about the product & financial opportunities available to you. (712)-338-8115 code 2412#

Emotional Freedom Techniques Register for Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practice groups. The Spiritual Element, 504 Casazza, Wednesdays during October.

6-7:30pm. Contact Pat Conner: pathconner@ clearwire.net or call 775-250-5106.

“Why Diets Don’t Work” Free Seminar How to reprogram the metabolic switch from a fat storer to a fat burner in 6 weeks. Reshape your body permanently. 2nd Thursday of every month. Pre-registration required. Call (775) 2506482. Virginia Parsons, MS, CCHT, CTLC.

Personal Defense & Safety Class Sponsored by Thermal Imaging Consultants and Therma Diagnostics. Reservation required, limited time only, $30 per class. Saturdays 9am-1pm. More info: (775) 356-0200.

Meditation offerings at Om Home Weekly meditation classes offered Fridays at 5:15 pm. 3670 Grant Drive, Suite #104A. Call 775-250-7756 for more information.

Meditation offerings at Om Home Guided Group Meditations at the Om Home on Monday and Wednesdays at noon and Fridays at 6:15pm. 3670 Grant Drive, Suite #104A. 775-250-7756.

Healthy for Life Seminars Learn Ways to Reduce Oxidative Stress, Reverse Metabolic Syndrome, and Achieve Total Body Health. Tuesdays 9:30 am, Thursdays 7 pm. Reservations: (775) 225-3948

Pottery Workshops All Levels welcome. Highly individualized instruction. Open Studios: SaturdayWednesdays 2-6pm. On-going Registration.

Wildflower Village (775) 787-3769.

Course in Self Healing

Aescelpion Hands on Healing Program

Saturday’s 2-4pm. Are you interested in how the body heals itself? Doctors, Nurses, Health Care Practitioners, anyone wanting radiant health. $25. Call (775) 250-9050

Reno Psychic Institute will be offering a six month Hands On Healing Program beginning the third Saturday in September. For more info call 775 324-2872.

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Halloween Events

LOCAL

FARMERS MARKETS

Ferrari Farms Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch Sept 27-Oct 31-corn maze, bounce house, farm animals, hay rides, pumpkin sales. Located on Mill Street east of Rock Blvd. Call 775-856-4962.

Churchill Butte Organics, Dayton: Produce delivery yearround. Contact Marcia Litsinger through the Nevada Organic Council, agri.state.nv.us

Tahoe City Farmers’ Markets, Tahoe City: Thursdays May 22 through Oct. 16 at Commons Beach. foothillfarmersmarket. com

Great Basin Basket, Reno: Subscribers sign up to receive produce from the three growing seasons. www.greatbasinbasket. com

Tamarack Junction Casino Farmers’ Market, Reno: Fridays June 6-Oct. 10. crystlbrdg.clearwire.net, 775-746-5024

Toll House Pumpkin Patch Oct 1-31–petting zoo, hay fort, maze & more. Tickets: $1. 12185 S. Virginia St. Call 775-636-5100.

Halloween Howl Oct 18– in the Exhibit Hall at Reno Livestock Events Center, 6pm-9pm. Bring your pets for this pet centered Halloween event. E-mail: theshakefund@aol.com.

Kit Carson Trail Ghost Walk Oct 25- Tour historic old houses in Carson City. Stories are told of the ghostly past by actors in costume.

Call 775-687-7410.

Village Center Farmers’ MarShoppers Square Farmers’ ket, Reno: Saturdays June 7-Oct. Market, Reno: Tuesdays June 4. crystlbrdg.clearwire.net, 7753-Oct. 7. crystlbrdg.clearwire. 746-5024 net, 775-746-5024

Great Pumpkin Festival & Haunted House at Squaw Valley Oct 24-31– The Village at Squaw presents a week filled with a haunted house, scavenger hunt, guess the pumpkin weight contest, pumpkin carving contest, costume contest and more. Call: 530-584-6266.

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