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newsbriefs New Dental Hygiene Technology Comes to Florida
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r. Ray Behm of Natural Dentistry in Clearwater has brought something new to the Bay area: the AIR-FLOW Master® System—a hygiene department tool created by Electro Medical Systems of Switzerland (EMS). It is the world’s first subgingival prophylactic unit. The AIR-FLOW Master® has two working modes. First is the Air Flow technology which combines compressed air, water and a newly developed glycine powder that together achieve greater results, removing biofilm, stains and bacteria above and below the gum line. This modern air polishing device stacks up very favorably against other biofilm management methods, and it’s efficient, reliable, safe, time saving and gentle on tissues. Patients feel the difference. The second cleaning mode is the Period-FLOW®, designed to reach deep periodontal pockets. It tightens the gums and decreases pocket depths without causing damage to the root cement. With two working modes and two powder chambers at their disposal, the hygienists have all the tools necessary to deliver a very clean mouth. Behm Natural Dentistry is located at 127 North Garden Avenue, Clearwater. For more information, call 727-446-6747 and visit BehmNaturalDentistry.com. See ad page 26.
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reenpoint Thermography, A Path to Wellness and Prevention Plus are teaming up to offer a day of health prevention screening on Tuesday, August 26, starting at 9 a.m. Affordable ultrasound screenings for stroke/carotid disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and thyroid disease will be available as well as echocardiograms. Also offered will be blood work such as complete lipid panel (requires 12 hour fast), thyroid hormones, PSA and H. pylori (a bacteria linked to peptic ulcers). Greenpoint Thermography will be offering single region of interest exams at a discount. Examples of a single region of interest include head and neck, breasts, abdomen and pelvis, back. Whole body screening will not be available that day although appointments can be scheduled at that time for a later date. Those interested in having a thermogram on that day should avoid vigorous exercise, caffeine, alcohol and tobacco for two hours prior to their visit. Event will take place at the Bay West Center, 7901 4th Street North, Suites 312 and 316, St. Petersburg. No prescriptions are needed. Personal checks, major credit cards, cash, Medical Flex and HSA cards are all accepted. For more information, call 727-576-0100. See ad page 7.
Dana McGrady, DOM, AP at ReNew Life Wellness Center
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ith her expertise in Homeopathy and Advanced Nutrition, Dana McGrady, DOM, AP, has been helping patients reclaim their health, naturally. She specializes in the rare and unique testing known as Electrodermal Screening. This type of testing is based on electro acupuncture and helps to determine where your
body’s weaknesses lie. McGrady searches out the root causes of disease. She has helped patients by addressing such issues as hormonal imbalances, heavy metal overload, chemical toxicities, bacteria overgrowth, viruses, parasites, candida overgrowth, allergies, weight gain, infertility, prenatal care, nutritional deficiencies, and much more. No matter what ailment you may be battling, she has a nutritional and homeopathic protocol to help assist with the natural healing process. McGrady is currently offering an amazing 10-Day Celebrity Transformation Cleanse that patients are raving about. Lose 5 to 20 lbs. as well as break your body’s addiction to processed foods. Get healthy at the cellular level, now! ReNew Life Wellness Center is located at 15511 North Florida Avenue, Suite C2, Tampa. For more information and to make an appointment, call 321-626-7082, email DrDanaClark@yahoo.com or visit ReNewLifeWellness.com. See ad page 7.
LifeWorks’ Patients Benefit from EECP Therapy
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ifeWorks Wellness Center, one of the foremost alternative health clinics in the U.S., has been experiencing considerable success with its Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) treatments. EECP offers a safe, non-invasive, painless treatment that maximizes oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood flow throughout the body which, in turn, improves stamina, strength, mobility and vitality. LifeWorks’ co-founder and medical director, Dr. David Minkoff, states, “Many patients suffer from conditions which can be directly linked to poor circulation, such as chest pain, fatigue and shortness of breath. EECP Therapy promotes the development of new blood vessels and restores the flow of healthy, oxygenated blood to the heart.” EECP therapy can successfully treat heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, Parkinson’s disease, dementia and memory loss, neuropathy, erectile dysfunction, hearing loss, vision impairment, autoimmune disease, vertigo, rheumatic disease and restless legs syndrome. LifeWorks Wellness Center is located at 301 Turner Street, Clearwater. For more information, call 727-466-6789 or visit LifeWorksWellnessCenter.com. See ad page 2.
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Autism and Acetaminophen
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he evidence is both growing and compelling. Cuba’s vaccination rate is greater than 95 percent; U.S. vaccination rate averages 87 percent (CDC data). Yet the rate of autism is 300 times (30,000 percent) greater in the U.S.! It is very unlikely vaccination is the cause for this difference. So what could cause it? In the U.S., acetaminophen is given routinely and prophylactically to prevent the fever and crankiness associated with vaccination. Cuban doctors rarely prescribe anything prophylactically with immunizations. When there is a post-vaccination fever that needs treating, Cuban doctors use metamizole, not acetaminophen, to treat it. Acetaminophen is rarely used in Cuba and is not approved for over-the-counter use. As our children return to school, vaccination becomes an important topic. What can you do to keep your child healthy? Vaccination protects our children from some pretty serious diseases and prevents certain diseases from becoming epidemic. At St. Petersburg Health and Wellness, we recognize and support the importance of choice in your and your child’s healthcare. We recommend the use of ibuprofen in place of acetaminophen for fever or pain relief in your child when necessary, until more research is done on this topic. For more evidence on the association of acetaminophen and autism, visit StPeteHW.com. See Calendar for upcoming seminars. For appointment, call 727-202-6807. See ad pages 30 & 33.
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Keiser University Back to School Open House
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xplore new career paths at Keiser University’s Back-to-School Open House from 6 to 8 p.m., August 13. The academically centered event at the Tampa Campus will focus on specific employment opportunities for which students are trained in more than 90 university degree programs. Keiser University’s hands-on approach to learning helps individuals gain a competitive advantage as they further their education. The open house will showcase the school’s resources and invite prospective students to learn about degree programs in career fields such as health care, business, culinary arts, and information technology. Learning tools include interactive classroom activities and lab demonstrations with students and faculty and alumni. Keiser University, with more than 16 campuses throughout Florida, plus online enrollment, continually monitors workplace trends to assist students with job placement. Its educational foundation is focused on providing the critical training skills and quality academic education students need to gain employment after graduation. Keiser University Tampa is located at 5002 West Waters Ave. For more information, visit KUOpenHouse.com or call 1-888-844-8404. Also visit KeiserUniversity.edu.
University of Tampa Hosts Jan van der Est’s Light—The Future of Medicine
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n September 3, The University of Tampa will host Samassati Colorlight Therapist and co-founder of the European Institute for Light Therapy, Jan van der Est’s presentation “Light—The Future of Medicine”. Van der Est, who presented his Samassati Color Light Balance course in the local area in 2013, is returning to build on his Basic Color Light Therapy training for participants who he previously trained in the application, techniques and technologies regarding how light and color can not only promote health and enhance performance and learning but also raise consciousness. Van der Est trains with Simon Hanson, who built upon the theories and research of Professor Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp, the first man to hypothesize and discover the body’s cellular communication system, which uses the bio-photons of light that the 37.2 trillion cells actually generate. Presentation takes place at Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa. For more information, call 813-334-7424 or email Ma.Riveros.Revello@gmail.com. See ad page 39.
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xpand your yoga practice in a new way—with your dog. Yoga with dogs, or doga, is a form of partner yoga that pairs pet owner and canine companion. It’s a soothing practice that’s designed to de-stress and calm both the person and their pet. Doga offers all the benefits of yoga, such as relaxation and flexibility for humans, while building the connection between person and pet. Dogs achieve relaxation through dedicated attention and uninterrupted time with their favorite person. Learn to teach doga with a special two-day workshop for yoga instructors hosted by SPCA Tampa Bay. Workshop instructor Lisa Recchione, MA, E-RYT, KRI is the author of Doga: Yoga for You and Your Dog, and she has led doga classes at SPCA Tampa Bay for the past three years. The doga workshop is open to yoga instructors with 200-level (or higher) certification who love dogs. Yoga Instructors’ Doga Workshop will be held August 23 to 24, at SPCA Tampa Bay, 9099 130th Avenue North, Largo. Registration fee is $150, which includes a doga instructor book and boxed lunch each day. Pre-registration and proof of certification are required. Visit SPCATampaBay.org/doga or call 727-586-3591 for more information. See ad page 43.
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Tough Family Life Linked to Chromosome Aging
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hen Princeton University researchers analyzed data from a representative sample of 40 African-American boys enrolled in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study that followed children born in major U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000, they determined that those that lived through 9 years of age with less-stable families, such as parents with multiple partners and harsh or hostile parenting styles, had a higher probability of having shorter telomeres compared with other children. Telomeres were, on average, 40 percent longer among children from stable families. Telomeres are the segments of DNA at either end of a chromosome that protect the ends from deterioration or fusion with neighboring chromosomes. Shorter telomeres can decrease life expectancy by reducing the number of times our cells can divide, and scientists are discovering that a person’s living environment may lead to the condition. Using large cohort (age group) study data from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety, another group of researchers from Amsterdam’s Vrije University found significantly shorter telomere length among those with higher stress markers; the shorter length was also associated with aging approximately 10 years faster. In addition, the scientists observed significantly shorter telomere length among people with depressive symptoms lasting longer than four years; the shorter length correlated with both longer and more severe depression.
Parents’ Smoking Linked to Artery Damage in Children
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esearchers from Australia’s University of Tasmania have found that children exposed to the secondhand smoke of their parents will likely face abnormally thickened carotid arteries later in life. The finding, published in the European Heart Journal, followed 3,776 children that participated in the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study and the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study. The children were divided into groups according to whether neither parent smoked, one parent smoked or both parents smoked. Questionnaire results were combined with ultrasound testing to correlate exposure during childhood with the health of carotid arteries, and researchers concluded that the effects are pervasive even 25 years later. Those exposed to two parental smokers as children had significantly greater thickness of inner carotid artery walls than did children with non-smoking parents. Their arteries also showed signs of premature aging of more than three years compared to children of nonsmokers. The researchers wrote, “There must be continued efforts to reduce smoking among adults to protect young people and to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease across the population.”
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Pine Bark Extract Reduces Perimenopausal Symptoms
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esearch published in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine confirms that pine bark extract can significantly reduce symptoms of menopause and perimenopause, including restless legs syndrome and hot flashes. For three months, 170 perimenopausal women were given 30 milligrams of Pycnogenol patented pine bark extract or a placebo twice a day. Although a placebo effect was noted, the supplement significantly improved all but two symptoms and was especially effective in improving vasomotor and insomnia/ sleep patterns. The severity of symptoms among the Pycnogenol group, as measured by the Kupperman Index, decreased 56 percent more than for the placebo group. In another study, scientists from Italy’s Pescara University gave 70 perimenopausal women a placebo or 100 milligrams of Pycnogenol daily for two months. The supplement group experienced fewer menopausal symptoms and showed improvements with symptoms that include fatigue, insomnia, reduced concentration, memory problems, dizziness, depression and irritability.
Flaxseed Lowers Blood Pressure
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ating flaxseed reduces blood pressure, according to researchers from Canada’s St. Boniface Hospital Research Center. They attribute the effect to its omega-3 fatty acids, lignans and fiber. The researchers examined the effects of flaxseed on systolic and diastolic blood pressure in patients with peripheral artery disease, a condition typically marked by hypertension. Patients consumed a variety of foods that collectively contained 30 grams of milled flaxseed or a placebo each day for six months. The flaxseed group experienced significantly increased plasma levels of certain omega-3 fatty acids and lower average systolic blood pressure (by 10 mmHg) and diastolic blood pressure (by 7 mm Hg). Those in the flaxseed group with initial systolic blood pressure levels over 140 mmHg saw reductions averaging 15 mmHg.
Heelless Shoes May Help Prevent Runners’ Injuries
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British study published in Footwear Science analyzed the effects of running in experimental heelless footwear compared with conventional running shoes with reinforced heels. The objective was to see if the heelless footwear would reduce the risk of chronic injury related to the habitual rear-foot strike pattern associated with conventional heeled shoes. Using eight cameras with optoelectric running motion capture technology,12 male runners were tracked at four meters per second. The heelless running shoe resulted in less impact, greater plantar flexion and greater ankle eversion (rolling outward). The researchers concluded that the heelless shoes decreased the risk of chronic running foot injuries linked to excessive impact forces, but concede they may increase injury potential associated with excessive ankle eversion.
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Medicinal Mushrooms Boost Athletic Performance
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esearch from Italy’s Pavia University found two medicinal mushroom species—cordyceps (Cordyceps sinensis) and reishi (Ganoderma lucidum)— significantly improve race performances and recovery times among competitive cyclists. The researchers studied seven male cyclists that had competitively raced for more than 10 years. For one month, they were given placebo supplements, after which the researchers tested their performance and recovery during races and workouts. Then, for the next three months, the cyclists daily used medicinal mushroom supplementation. The researchers found the mushrooms significantly increased performance and recovery in both workouts and races compared with the placebo period. The two types of mushrooms both boosted testosterone levels and reduced post-workout cortisol levels. The mushroom supplementation also increased their antioxidant status, reducing their risk of exhaustion.
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Fitness Update
Healthiest U.S. Metro Areas in 2014 The American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) seventh annual American Fitness Index (AFI) ranks Washington, D.C., at the top with a score of 77.3 (out of 100), followed by Minneapolis-St. Paul (73.5), Portland, Oregon (72.1) Denver (71.7) and San Francisco (71) Tampa ranked (46.0). Overall, metro areas in 25 states scored 50 or above; the two lowest-ranking hovered near 25 points. “The AFI data report is a snapshot of the state of health in the community and an evaluation of the infrastructure, community assets and policies that encourage healthy and fit lifestyles. These measures directly affect quality of life in our country’s urban areas,” says Walter Thompson, Ph.D., chair of the AFI advisory board. Find the complete report at AmericanFitnessIndex.org.
Dirty Waters
Trenton to Chicago via Eco-Outrigger Margo Pellegrino, a homemaker, mother of two and healthy oceans advocate from Medford Lakes, New Jersey, will begin a 1,600-mile journey from nearby Trenton to Chicago, Illinois, by outrigger canoe on August 13 as part of Blue Frontier Campaign’s ocean explorers project. During her two-month trip, she’ll meet with local environmental groups and the media to raise awareness of the urgent need to clean America’s waterways. “All water and everything in it ends up in the ocean,” Pellegrino says. “Plastics and chemicals are particular problems, but soil runoff during floods and heavy rains also impact the ocean and marine life.” During previous paddles, Pellegrino saw firsthand the effects of dumped industrial waste in the waterways she traversed. She notes that nationally, oil rig operators have federal permits to dump 9 billion gallons of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, waste into the ocean each year. On Pellegrino’s first trip in 2007, she paddled nearly 2,000 miles up the Atlantic Coast, from Miami, Florida, to Maine. In 2009, she partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council to go from Miami to New Orleans, Louisiana, to build support for a Healthy Oceans Act (OnEarth.org/author/healthyoceanspaddle). In 2010, she canoed along the Pacific coastline from Seattle, Washington, to San Diego, California. Next summer, Pellegrino plans to paddle down the Mississippi River. Follow her upcoming trip at Miami2Maine.com or on Facebook. natural awakenings
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Cycling Rx
Doctors Order Up a Bike for Patients The Prescribe-a-Bike program (Tinyurl.com/Prescription Bikes) allows doctors at Boston Medical Center, in Massachusetts, to write low-income patients prescriptions for a one-year membership to Hubway, the city’s bike-sharing system, for $5, which is $80 less than the regular charge. A free helmet is part of the deal. According to The Boston Globe, one in four Boston residents is obese, and Kate Walsh, chief executive of Boston Medical Center, believes the program can help. “Regular exercise is key to combating this [obesity] trend, and Prescribe-a-Bike,” she says, “is one important way our caregivers can help patients get the exercise they need to be healthy.” Source: The Atlantic Monthly
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Simple Device Provides Safe Water in Africa The WarkaWater tower is providing an innovative new way to harvest safe drinking water, normally an onerous task in Ethiopia and many other parts of Africa. Obtaining water via repeated trips to the nearest source is extremely time-consuming and what’s collected is often highly contaminated and harmful to drink. Also, this task is commonly carried out by females, putting them in danger of sexual harassment or worse enroute. The towers, inspired by the native warka tree, are a vertical bamboo system that harvests potable, clean water from the air through condensation, using a fog-harvesting fabric that can collect up to 25 gallons of safe drinking water per day. Each tower costs about $550, and can be built in a few days by village residents using locally available materials. Source: Inhabitat.com
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Airports Establish Bee-Friendly Acres The Common Acre is a nonprofit partnering with the airport serving Seattle, Washington, and the Urban Bee Company (UrbanBee.com) to reclaim 50 acres of vacant land to plant native wildflowers as pollinator habitat for hummingbirds, butterflies and diseaseresistant bee colonies. A GMO-free (no genetic modification) wildflower seed farm is also in the works. Bees present no threat to air traffic and the hives discourage birds that do pose a danger to planes. Beekeeper Jim Robins, of Robins Apiaries, in St. Louis, Missouri, rents an area with a plentiful supply of white Dutch clover, and Lambert Airport views his enterprise as part of its sustainability program. O’Hare Airport, in Chicago, the first in the U.S. to install hives, is rebuilding to its full complement of 50 hives after losing about half of them to 2014’s extreme winter. It’s a project that could be a model for airports everywhere—using inaccessible scrubland to do something revolutionary, like supporting a local food system. One hundred foods make up 90 percent of a human diet, and bees pollinate 71 of them. Learn more at CommonAcre.org.
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True Grit
Why Persistence Counts Some educators believe that improvements in instruction, curriculum and school environments are not enough to raise the achievement levels of all students, especially disadvantaged children. Also necessary is a quality called “grit”, loosely defined as persistence over time to overcome challenges and accomplish big goals. Grit comprises a suite of traits and behaviors that include goal-directedness (knowing where to go and how to get there); motivation (having a strong will to achieve identified goals); self-control (avoiding distractions and focusing on the task at hand); and a positive mindset (embracing challenges and viewing failure as a learning opportunity). A meta-study of 25 years of research by John Hattie and Helen Timperley, professors at the University of Aukland, New Zealand, has shown that giving students challenging goals encourages greater effort and persistence than providing vague or no direction. Students aren’t hardwired for these qualities, but grit can be developed through an emerging battery of evidence-based techniques that give educators a powerful new set of tools to support student success. A famous example of the power of self-regulation was observed when preschoolers that were able to withstand the temptation of eating a marshmallow for 15 minutes to receive a second one were more successful in high school and scored about 210 points higher on their SATs later in life than those with less willpower (Tinyurl.com/Stanford MarshallowStudy). Source: ascd.org. natural awakenings
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New School Rules
Eco Strategies for Back-to-School Prep Families preparing for the coming school year will welcome easy ways to stretch the budget while protecting the environment our kids are growing up in. n Buying new clothes can be expensive, and most of today’s synthetic fibers are petroleum-based, while toxic pesticides are commonly used to grow cotton. For healthier alternatives, check labels for clothes made from organic, low-impact or recycled materials such as organic cotton, hemp, bamboo or recycled fibers. Inexpensive options are found in Salvation Army and other thrift store locations, as well as repurposing hand-me-downs among siblings. n Avoid buying all new school supplies. Gently used binders and book bags can last years. Sturdy, simple backpacks skip the cost of faddish brand-name and celebrity products. For supplies that must be replenished, like paper, seek out postconsumer-recycled options. n For lunch boxes, food containers and utensils, look for retro metal, a cloth bag and other alternatives to plastic (which can contain harmful chemicals) and glass (which can break). Beth Terry, in her book, Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too (MyPlasticFreeLife.com), suggests searching Mighty Nest.com and LifeWithoutPlastic.com, makers of stainless steel, naturally lacquered wood and other non-plastic, durable children’s bowls, cups, plates and utensils. n Healthy afterschool extracurricular activities today typically require driving commutes. Look into carpooling with nearby families to save time and gas, cut vehicle emissions and expand friendships. n Check the school’s eco-practices. Encourage local administrators to conduct recycling programs and to email documents to parents instead of using regular mail.
More than half of the world’s population now resides in cities, and the United Nations projects that 5 billion people will call a city home by 2030. “We need to understand how cities are changing the ecology of the systems they are built on, and how plants and animals are adapting to them,” says Dieter Hochuli, a Ph.D. biologist who specializes in integrative ecology at the University of Sydney, in Australia. For the most part, plants and animals adapt to urban surroundings using traits that help them survive in their natural habitat, but some scientists predict the pressures of the city, especially pollution, may become so great that evolution may intervene. “We’ve created this whole new habitat that never used to exist here,” remarks Angela Moles, a University of New South Wales (Australia) plant biologist. “There will be some species living here that are not doing so well and there’ll be selection for individuals that can do better in an urban environment.” “We still have functioning ecosystems, they’re just different from what they were 200 years ago,” comments Hochuli. Some shifts will be irreversible. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
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Gas Pipeline Pumps Radioactive Radon into Homes In New York City, the Spectra gas pipeline that went online in 2013 is delivering more than just energy-efficient, cleanburning natural gas from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale. It’s also piping radioactive radon gas that’s contaminating commercial and residential boilers, ovens, stoves, dryers and water heaters at 30 to 80 times baseline levels—well above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency safe level for radiation exposure. According to Dr. Sheila BushkinBedient, with the University of Albany, New York, “While it may be possible to remove other components of raw natural gas such as ethane, propane, butane and pentanes at natural gas processing centers, it’s not possible to remove radioactive substances such as radon. Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer among nonsmokers and the second-leading cause among smokers and indirect (secondhand) smokers.” The Spectra conduit is one of hundreds of pipelines and fossil fuel infrastructure projects across the country being quickly approved by th e Federal Energy and Regulatory Commission. Citizens should demand that elected officials connect the dots and halt the uncontrolled rush to drill new sites regardless of safety concerns and let them know people are alarmed by the possibility of radioactive gas entering their communities. To learn more, visit MariasFarmCountry Kitchen.com/radon-gas.
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New Hygiene Tools Mean Super Cleanliness in the Mouth by Ray Behm, DDS
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he Natural Dentistry approach to hygiene emphasizes the removal of bacterial toxicity to bring relief to the immune system. Bacteria in the mouth is unavoidable, so having the best method of cleaning is essential, one that penetrates into even the smallest areas. At Behm Natural Dentistry, we have incorporated a new technology that means comfort in the chair and a really high level of “clean” in the mouth, above and below the gum line. It’s a bit of a trick to get into every nook and crevice that can house and protect bacteria. And, of course, bacteria don’t want to be removed; their plan is to survive and build for the future! Working with the biofilm in the mouth, they form a protective coating called dental plaque. This is resistive to anything toxic to bacteria and even the body’s immune defenses. It is estimated, because it is difficult to actually count each one, that in a 1 mm coating of plaque weighing about 1 mg, there can be upward to 200 million bacteria, all releasing
toxins into your mouth that irritate the gums. Not a pleasant thought! Left to their own devices, you end up with swollen and bleeding gums that are tender to the touch. Plaque that remains in place too long becomes a more resistive tartar or calculus. And with continued residence, the bacteria can mutate into more harmful anaerobic forms and migrate to other parts of the body, taxing the immune system even more and reducing health potential. At the tartar/calculus stage, you don’t have the tools at home to handle it, which makes the dental hygienist indispensable at this point. They are trained, have a vantage point to better see where to clean and a series of tools that can remove tartar, plaque, calculus, biofilm, etc. The first removal option is the curette, a surgical tool used in a scraping motion to separate the calculus from the tooth surface. If your gums are already swollen, this can’t be that great of a sensation! Plus, the size of the instru-
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ment prevents it from reaching some of the smaller surfaces. The second option is to use an electronically produced vibration that is delivered through a dental instrument tip which is placed against the tooth calculus for removal. This is a high frequency vibration. Water is introduced through the tip to keep things cool and wash away the debris. And then there is the AIR-FLOW
Master Piezon® FT-200 developed by Electro Medical Systems (EMS). This advanced technology is now available with all three of our hygienists at Behm Natural Dentistry. The AIR-FLOW® Master Piezon® is a precision Swiss made desktop device offering the hygienist three different tools to reach into and remove plaque, resistive calculus and stains from even the smallest, most recessed areas, without injuring the gums or scratching the tooth surface. The AIR-FLOW® method involves projecting a jet of compressed air, water and fine powder particles on the tooth to polish the surface and remove debris. Two powders are available, sodium bicarbonate and glycine-based that is 1/5th as abrasive, making it possible to clean below the gum line in pockets
up to 5 mm. Plaque, soft deposits and colorations disappear quickly and painlessly with just a five second pass with the hand piece. A PERIO FLOW® Nozzle tip is used below the gums to reduce air pressure, allowing for a safe application of the air water mixture into the pocket. It makes air polishing reliable and efficient and delivers patient comfort as it eliminates the use of curettes and makes no noise. The third tool on the AIR-FLOW Master® delivers the Original Piezon® scaling method that removes hardened calculus while delivering maximum protection for the gums and connecting tissue. Unlike other methods, the EMS AIR-FLOW Master® delivers controlled oscillating action aligned with the tooth surface. This is different from other scalers that apply the oscillating action
Here is what one of our patients said about his recent hygiene visit: “The new treatment produced not only the cleanest feeling I’ve had during a cleaning but also it was far less painful than previous treatments. My nerves are sensitive and even a sonic cleaning will send stabs of pain into my mouth. This cleaning was almost pain-free. I have a great taste in my mouth. Very recommended!” ~ JK.
that is angular to the tooth surface and therefore causes pain and discomfort. The new hand piece delivers 32000 movements per second with intelligent feedback, eliminating aggressive power output or noise. The convenience of having all the tools available, delivering superior comfort and a more perfect cleaning, makes the bacteria scream and the patients sing! Dr. Ray Behm, graduate of Emory University School of Dentistry 1968, was a U.S. Army dentist during the Vietnam War. He became interested in Holistic Dentistry while practicing in Palm Beach. In 1986, he stopped using mercury amalgam fillings; in 1994, he stopped doing root canals. Today, Dr. Behm practices Holistic/Biological and Neuromuscular Dentistry at Behm NaturalDentistry, 127 North Garden Avenue, Clearwater, 727-446-6747, BehmNaturalDentistry.com. See ad below.
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Elevated Cholesterol? High Blood Pressure? Too Many Prescriptions? by Dr. George Springer
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o you have high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol or vascular disease? If so, you likely feel you have little choice but to be shackled to a prescription medication that, at best, helps you “manage” your condition, and hopefully with a minimum of the reported side effects. On a short term basis, medication can be a lifesaver to help cope with a crisis, but when it comes as a lifelong sentence, most patients would like to have an entirely different choice. It is a fact that one in three American adults has high blood pressure and seven out of ten use blood pressure medication. People with high cholesterol run twice the risk of heart disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S., with someone having a heart attack every 34 seconds.* These statistics are all alarming as more and more people reach for medications to help them avoid a premature death. The problem is the medications being used were never conceived, developed or designed to correct the cause(s) of high blood pressure, cholesterol or vascular disease. They were designed only to manipulate your physiology without actually addressing the underlying issues that are responsible for the condition in the first place. It’s like clipping the wires on your smoke detector without looking for the fire. In the early days, pharmacology was a success, especially with the development of antibiotics which saved thousands of lives by killing the microorganisms which were the cause of chronic infections. The downside of that success is, going forward, pills are being applied to every condition, and now most people feel disappointed if they leave their doctor’s office without being given a prescription to mask their symptoms.
But it doesn’t have to be like that. Did you know there are over eight different natural supplements that have been shown by research to lower blood pressure as good if not better than many of the prescription medications and without the side effects? Did you know there are two natural products that have been shown in studies to reduce your risk of sudden death heart attacks by over 50 percent? Did you know there is a natural product that can improve artery flexibility and artery aging while lowering blood pressure in just nine weeks? Did you know there is a natural product that has been shown to actually strip away artery plaque? And, there is much more. At Lifeworks Wellness Center, we use natural medicine to treat you, not your diagnostic label or laboratory tests. Two people with high blood pressure may have two entirely different reasons for their condition. One size (or pill) does not fit all. We thoroughly evaluate you using advanced laboratory assessments along with functional testing to discover the actual cause(s) of your
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problem. These may include inflammation, allergies, hormone imbalance, poor diet and much more. This approach takes more work for both of us, but we feel your health and the results are worth the effort. To help you get started, come and take advantage of our Vascular Check which will tell you the age of your arteries and the level of your blood flow into arms and legs along with blood pressure and body composition factors. At Lifeworks Wellness Center, we have helped many patients come off their long-term meds, and we may be able to do the same for you. For more information call Tamora at 727-4666789 or visit LifeWorksWellnessCenter. com. See ad page 2. * Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. George Springer has practiced alternative medicine, nutrition, acupuncture, and chiropractic manipulation for 33 years. During the course of his practice, he has identified the metabolic barriers to weight loss and how they can be overcome.
Dr. Springer will be hosting a free talk on this topic titled: Elevated Cholesterol? High Blood Pressure? Too Many Prescriptions? Come and hear Dr. Springer talk in detail about the information covered in this article. Thursday, August 21, 6:30pm at Nature’s Food Patch 1225 Cleveland St, Clearwater
Learning that Transforms Hearts and Minds Rethinking How We See Our World Changes Everything by Linda Sechrist
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n the 30 years since Harrison Owen introduced Open Space Technology (OST), it has been used hundreds of thousands of times by three-quarters of the world’s countries. Whether a few people gather in a circle to share ideas and brainstorm personal issues or thousands discuss a bulletin board of topics around tables, OST is a safe, informal venue for transformative learning. Guided by purpose-based, shared leadership, it allows individuals focused on a specific task to freely speak their thoughts and be heard. It also encourages breakout groups to mine for more information—learning individually, as well as collectively, and self-organizing in order to concentrate on more complex topics. “Boeing engineers used OST to learn how to redesign airplane doors and young Egyptians used it to strategize for their Arab Spring,” as examples, comments Owen.
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For Owen, like Jack Mezirow, author of the paper, “Core Principles of Transformative Learning Theory,” 20th-century Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and Juanita Brown, co-founder of The World
Café, learning is transformation, the keystone of life, and the essence of meaningful education. “The circle principle contains the predictability of fresh, emerging thoughts and learning that never occurred previously,” explains Owen. He points to an experiment regarding children’s capacity for selflearning initiated by Sugata Mitra, Ph.D., the former science director of an educational technology firm in India. On the outside wall of the building where he worked, Mitra installed a computer facing a New Delhi slum where most children were unschooled and illiterate and had never seen a computer. He turned it on and told children they could play with it. Via a noninvasive video camera, he watched 7-to-13-year-olds discover how to use the computer and teach each other how to play music and games and draw using Microsoft’s Paint program. Repetition of the experiment in other impoverished sections of India yielded similar results. Wherever he established an Internet connection, children that could not read English, the Internet’s default language, taught themselves how to use the Web to ob-
tain information through their interactions with each other and the computer. “I agree with what Mitra surmised from his experiment—learning is emergent, which is another word for selforganizing,” remarks Owen. Like Freire, Owen likens traditional education to the “banking” method of learning, whereby the teacher passes information to students that become dependent on someone else rather than learning how to think on their own. Suzanne Daigle, a Sarasota, Florida-based consultant with a Canadian multidisciplinary consulting firm, explains how the OST learning environment changed her life: “My personal transformation began in 2009. Even though I was a leader in my corporate career, I doubted myself and often believed that what others had to say was more significant and interesting than what I could express.” Now she says she has shed her people-pleasing tendencies and former attempts to control other people’s agendas and discovered the freedom and courage of her own voice. “As an OST facilitator, my life work now occurs in the moments I am collaboratively learning and listening for opportunities to enter into meaningful conversations that can lead to actions,” says Daigle. “I invite others to do the same.”
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In a compulsory two-year Theory of Learning class for an International Baccalaureate degree at California’s Granadas Hill Charter High School, math and science educator Anais Arteaga helps students apply two major elements of transformative learning: self-reflection to critique one’s own assumptions and discourse through which they question or validate their judgments. She focuses on the roles that perception, language, reason and emotion play in a student’s learning and decision-making abilities. “Questions and lively discussions are the basis of the class,” Arteaga says. “We begin with a question and explore what we know, how we know it and any conclusions drawn from the process.” Using a democratic model in which the teacher welcomes critical discussion, Arteaga and her students have mutually discovered that knowl
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edge is not static, but has a history and changes over time. “When we first started the class, it was challenging to accept that in many situations there is no right or wrong, just relativity and a matter of perception. We don’t really know anything for certain,” she remarks.
Worldview Explorations
Katia Petersen, Ph.D., is the executive director of education at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), headquartered in Petaluma, California. She codeveloped the tools, practices and 22 lessons in the pioneering organization’s Worldview Explorations (WE) project. Founded on 40 years of IONS research, WE engages everyone in age-appropriate ways in reflecting upon long-held assumptions and how beliefs create the lens they see through, ultimately improving how they understand and respond to the world. “When individuals understand the power of offering their story and are open to the worldview stories of others, they no longer focus attention on differences and limitations,” says Petersen. “They realize that everyone has their own truth. “WE’s transformative learning experiences draw from the heart and soul of individuals, rather than stuffing heads
with ideas and perspectives, which serves them well as they embody and apply these tools and practices in their daily lives.” She cites a particularly powerful moment for a group of young people she worked with. “A student was killed in a drive-by shooting two weeks before their certification. The transformative moment came when they said that their new awareness and capacity for compassion and understanding would not allow them to seek revenge. Instead, they chose to save lives in their communities using their new skills.”
World Café
Like OST, the World Café, co-created by Brown and David Isaacs, of Burnsville, North Carolina, creates a transformative learning environment for individuals of all ages. Its primary principles are: set the context, create hospitable space, explore questions that matter, encourage everyone’s contributions, connect diverse perspectives, listen together for patterns and insights and share collective discoveries. Webs of conversation created around actual or occasionally virtual tables resemble those found in coffeehouses. “Conversation is a core meaningmaking process, and people get to ex-
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perience how the collective intelligence of a small or large group can become apparent,” says Brown. After several rounds of conversation on one or more topics, participants offer their harvest of key insights, learning and opportunities for action with the full group gathered to reflect together on their discoveries. “World Café provides an environment in which you are comfortably drawn forward by the questions you are asking together. When enough diversity is present, varied perspectives are offered and people feel listened to and free to make their contribution,” observes Brown. What participants learn in this setting creates the climate of conditions that support the kinds of transformations that can changes lives. Brown remarks, “When it happens to me, I feel like my brain cells have been rearranged. I know something in the collective, as well as the individual, has been evoked, so that something never before imagined becomes present and available.” Transformative learning has been compared to a sea journey without landmarks. Adventurous individuals that are open to traversing its highly engaging processes can emerge as autonomous thinkers, capable of contributing fresh, new ideas that just might transform the world we live in. Linda Sechrist is a senior staff writer for Natural Awakenings. Visit ItsAllAbout We.com for the recorded interviews.
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Children at Wisconsin’s Montessori School of Waukesha learn to baste; spoon beans or rice from bowls; cut paper, draw, paint or paste cutouts; and sew or embroider using a three-finger grip. It strengthens the muscles they will need later to practice writing skills.
Schools that Rock Innovators Blaze Creative Paths by Sandra Murphy
Creative educational initiatives offer more flexible programs of study than traditional institutions. First introduced into the United States in the latter part of the 20th century, today there are thousands of such facilities operating according to their own lights. Yet many share certain distinguishing characteristics including emphasis on close student-teacher relationships, diverse experiential learning and development of student decision-making skills aided by peer and parental support. All aim to prepare and equip students for future success both inside and outside the classroom.
seed-to-table program, the kids didn’t know what fresh tasted like. Now they go home and ask for vegetables for dinner,” says Smolen. The school also has six chickens that supply fresh eggs, and two beehives produced 100 pounds of honey last year that was sold to raise funds. The school is free of charge to Baltimore city students chosen by lottery. Currently,
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At age 3, kids at the Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School, in Maryland, are gaining early math and motor skills, plus an appreciation for healthy foods, in unique and innovative ways. “The children roll out a long mat containing 1,000 beads that they use to learn to count by twos, fours and 10s,” says Jenny Smolen, development coordinator and grant writer for the school. “When it’s time for multiplication and division, they’re prepared.” The school is located in a food desert—fresh, unprocessed food isn’t readily available—so the kids plant seeds to grow in pots until it’s time to transplant them to the garden. “Before the natural awakenings
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330 students from diverse backgrounds ages 3 through 13 attend, with 1,000 names on the waiting list.
Waldorf Waldorf School alumna Jocelyn Miller, an account manager at Matter Communications, drives 45 minutes from Newburyport, Massachusetts, to take her three children to the The Waldorf School at Moraine Farms, in Beverly. “On bad weather days, I wonder why I make the drive, but the smiles when we arrive are worth it,” she says. There, her children spend time outdoors regardless of the weather. Indoors, they draw illustrations to bolster lessons on history and geography. Second-graders work in threehour blocks of time, rather than the traditional 45 minutes. Fifth-grade students recently spent three weeks studying Greek mythology. Older students play in an orchestra and learn German and Spanish. They also knit; the craft builds manual dexterity and helps children learn to plan, correct mistakes, be creative, visualize the finished product and mindfully create something useful or decorative. Middle school and high school students at the Waldorf School of Garden City, in New York, universally participate in seasonal sports—baseball, softball, basketball and soccer. The
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emphasis on the values of teamwork and sportsmanship complement development of skills. The school’s policy is, “You don’t have to be a superstar to get playing time,” noting that the quality of athletic teams is consistently strong. The school also brings some green into the city with a horticultural program that fully cultivates a quarter-acre field. Its steady harvest of fruits, vegetables, herbs and grains includes lettuce, beans, spinach, broccoli, kale, corn, oregano, thyme, rosemary, strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. A new greenhouse keeps produce growing through winter months. Students at Conservatory Prep High School, in Davie, Florida, were tasked with finding a way to walk on water in order to explore principles of flotation and buoyancy. After researching and experimenting with each of a series of materials, they analyzed what went wrong, worked to fix it and then tried again. “We did the testing at our onsite pool,” says Wendy Weiner, Ed.D., the school’s founder and principal and a Waldorf alumna. “We saw some pretty funny results, but they eventually invented a pair of shoes that worked. Of course, they were pretty big shoes.”
Homeschooling Homeschooling provides another option. Parents don’t need to know all about a subject with organizations like Bridgeway Academy’s homeschool curricula at hand. This Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, institution provides easy access to tools and support for families nationwide. “We’re a kindergartento-12th-grade provider,” says Jessica Parnell, academy president. “Teachers in a school setting have to teach standardized subjects, in certain ways, to the whole class. We use customized learning to inspire and excite children individually. We help parents discover their child’s learning style, personality and ideal learning environment.” Materials provided include instructor guides, user-friendly websites and interactive games and other www.natampa.com
activities. “It gives kids the freedom to explore, learn and discover,” Parnell adds. “This is how you grow a lifelong learner.”
Un-Schooling Un-schooling, another pioneering approach, is a method of homeschooling in which children pursue areas that interest them, eat foods they enjoy, rest when needed, choose friends of all ages or none at all and engage their world in unique, powerful and self-directed ways. Suzanne Strisower, a life and career coach in Oroville, California, has written a common-core, standards-based curriculum for unschoolers. “It’s a yearlong program for ages 15 and up designed to enable a student to realize his career path and life’s purpose,” she says.
Online Tutorials “There’s an explosion in online learning, too,” observes Bob Bowdon, executive director of nonprofit Choice Media, an education news service at ChoiceMedia.tv, produced in New York City. School kids in some states are able to opt out of a class at school if they feel the teaching style is holding them back, instead tapping online teachers available in a virtual school setting. Louisiana’s Department of Education’s Jump Start program partners high schools and local companies to offer students one-day-a-week internships apprenticing in trades. “It’s real-world, on-the-job training,” says Bowdon. Thanks to such innovative approaches to school curricula and technology, parents and children have more options than ever before for learning. Instead of memorizing information until the next test and then forgetting it, more learning is customized and hands-on, because children that learn by doing, remember. Connect with Sandra Murphy at StLouis FreelanceWriter@mindspring.com.
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Be Happy Now Simple Ways to Quickly Lift Your Spirits by April Thompson
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inger-songwriter Pharrell Williams, whose infectious hit song, “Happy,” has spread joy worldwide, seems to know the secret to happiness. More than 1,500 people from 140-plus countries have posted their own happy video spinoffs at WeAreHappyFrom.com, inspired by his daylong music video featuring Los Angeles residents from all walks of life dancing and lip-syncing to the tune. Can happiness really be just a finger snap away? It depends on our unit of measurement—a moment versus a lifetime. Research by such authorities as Psychologist Martin Seligman, Ph.D., director of the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center, suggests that several basic ingredients are keys to long-term happiness, including a sense of purpose, engaging activities, quality relationships and achievable goals. Ultimately, happiness is a subjective state, gauged only by personal perception. Still, there are quick, simple things we can do to shift our mood into a higher
gear, according to Jonathan Robinson, author of Find Happiness Now: 50 Shortcuts for Bringing More Love, Balance, and Joy Into Your Life. “Broadly, happiness shortcuts fall into two categories— those that help in letting go of negative emotions and those that help in tuning into or expanding positive feelings,” says Robinson. “The end result is the same.” Practice gratitude. When the day’s affronts seem excessive, we can reframe them by counting our blessings mentally or in a journal. Review the day with an eye to everything that went right. “Soon, you’ll start to see everything as a gift,” observes Robinson. Pencil it in. Take a few moments at the start of each week to block out a little time every day for happy activities. Pay it forward. It doesn’t take much to make someone’s day, advises Robinson. Give someone a compliment or a piece of chocolate and watch their attitude instantly change, which in turn lifts you into their happy cloud.
Sing and dance. Williams applies this secret: Moving our bodies and vibrating our vocal chords helps shake us out of our mental cages. “It’s hard to feel bad when you sing. It’s a choice: You can stay angry for four hours or sing for 15 seconds,” Robinson notes. Don’t underestimate the power of a simple jumpstart to happiness. Research from the University of Arizona shows that as little as a forced smile not only releases stress-fighting neuropeptides and mood-lifting serotonin in the brain, it activates a chain reaction of happiness around us. Connect with freelance writer April Thompson at AprilWrites.com. This fall, the University of CaliforniaBerkeley’s Greater Good Science Center will host the first public online course on the Science of Happiness. According to Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., professor of psychology and founding director of the center, the university’s meta-analysis of research indicates that 50 percent of our happiness level is tied to genetics, while only 10 percent stems from our environment. “Therefore, about 40 percent of your happiness is up to you,” remarks Keltner. Students will learn practical, scientifically tested strategies for nurturing their own happiness. Sign up to audit the free course, which has attracted 40,000 registrants, at Tinyurl. com/UCLA-Happiness.
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Green Travelers Recharge at Spas, Parks and Vineyards by April Thompson
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arving out time from crammed calendars for a week or more away from home can pose such a hurdle that more than half of all American workers forfeit hard-earned vacation days every year. Sometimes a long weekend in an inspiring locale is all we need to recharge our batteries. Short vacations invite welcome rest and relaxation and are often more sustainable, according to Gary Diedrichs, publisher of the online Green Traveler Guides (GreenTravelerGuides.com). “Airplanes pollute more than any other form of travel. When you take shorter trips by other means, whether bicycle or a hybrid rental car, you’re way ahead environmentally,” says Diedrichs, whose family enjoys road-tripping in an old Mercedes converted to run on recycled vegetable oil. For families, short, sweet trips are also easier to do with the kids in tow. “It’s also an opportunity for parents to reinforce that living sustainably isn’t just something you do at home,” notes Diedrichs.
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We can prescribe—and reward— ourselves with one of the following minivacations, whether it’s a trip to a green spa if we’re stressed or a hike in a park or the woods if we’ve been sedentary. Travel on tracks to trails. Leave behind stressful traffic and uninspiring highway views by hopping a train to a nearby state or national park. Riders can venture through a variety of terrains without leaving their seats. Amtrak reaches more than 237 national parks and monuments (AmtrakToParks.com), many of which offer stunning backdrops for outdoor music festivals. A rail-to-park adventure can rekindle old friendships with faraway, but not forgotten friends. Draw a circle encompassing everyone’s location and pick a park within the perimeter as the meet-up spot, distributing the travel burden equally. Agree beforehand which friends bring which essential camping equipment, food and other provisions so that everyone travels light. Traversing trails is a fun, bonding experience.
Go farm to fork. Escape city crowds, live bucolic fantasies and learn about sustainable agriculture during a farm stay. Organic family farms across the country offer overnight accommodations to supplement farming incomes and connect with local consumers. Farm life is about simple pleasures, like waking to a rooster’s call and then digging into a farm-fresh breakfast of free-range eggs, accompanied by homemade bread, cheese, jam and honey. Afterwards, stroll an apple orchard or fragrant field of lavender. Most farms allow guests to pitch in with the chores, maybe feeding chickens, milking cows, picking cherries or making yogurt. Find a place nearby at FarmStayUS.com. Renew your spirit. Reconnect with your faith or explore a new spiritual calling with a short stay at a retreat center. Some furnish structured guided sessions, such as vipassanã Buddhism’s silent retreats, at which participants sit in meditation eight hours a day without access to me-
dia or other distractions. Other centers assist guests in creating self-directed retreats tailored to personal goals. Grounds often feature sacred spaces like labyrinths or meditation gardens, providing an inspiring environment to contemplate one’s spiritual journey. RetreatFinder.com supplies a comprehensive listing of possibilities conducive to every spiritual persuasion, from Anglican to Zen, across the country and worldwide. Taste the terroir. A long weekend amidst vineyards can be a refreshing way to simultaneously explore the countryside and refine our wine palate. Along with tastings, some vintners provide tours of their vineyards and cellars, including insights into the characteristics of local terroirs that give each vintage its distinctive taste. Some also have bed and breakfast inns onsite, eliminating the need for a designated driver. The site WineriesByState.com lists domestic wineries in all 50 states; KennUncorked.com provides information about biodynamic and organic winemakers.
Pamper your body. Visiting a green destination spa is a soothing way to detox from stress while indulging in corporeal treats like a hot stone massage, aromatherapy treatment or rose petal bath. Green spas use natural products such as unbleached organic linens and botanically derived oils, which are gentler on skin. Most practice sustainability in other areas as well, such as water management, energy use and waste reduction. Search for the perfect getaway treat at GreenSpaNetwork.org. Numerous farms, spas, parks and vineyards are waiting to be explored; many nearby that we may overlook draw visitors from around the world. “Local travel gives us a chance to dig more deeply into the places that surround us,” says Diedrichs. “We can have fun playing tourists in our own backyards and support sustainable, local businesses we discover along the way.” Connect with freelance writer April Thompson at AprilWrites.com.
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ith children especially susceptible to germs, chemical sensitivities and allergens, it makes sense to ensure that the child-friendliness of day care facilities extends to their ecological integrity. When Denise Adusei, of New York City, was unable to find a preschool that included all the criteria she sought, she decided to create and direct Peartree Preschool, a yearround day care facility for 2-to-5-year-olds. “An eco-friendly day care environment is more than nontoxic paint, organic food and unscented soaps. It’s what you don’t see, as well,” says Adusei. “We first looked for a building with lots of natural light near Central Park. Manhattan has a high rate of allergens, so we went ahead with a thorough environmental inspection on what looked like an ideal building,” recalls Adusei. Inspectors pulled tiles from the floor, opened walls to check for mold and collected samples. “When they discovered signs of an old oil spill in the basement, we knew it was an unsafe place for children. We kept looking until we found the right building with large windows, near the park and environmentally safe,” she says, noting that her own kids now attend Peartree. Workplace coach Paul E. McGinniss, who also blogs at NewYorkGreenAdvocate.com, says, “Creating a garden onsite and connecting with local farmers or CSAs [community supported agriculture] to provide healthy, fresh foods is a great way to educate kids via a learning activity. New York’s Hudson Valley, where I live, has a farm to school move-
ment. Everyone should know where their food comes from,” he says, echoing another day care cornerstone. In Madison, Connecticut, Tina Pascoe, a registered nurse, attorney and health consultant, co-founded Nurses for Day Care, a nationwide program. The staff finds that many children are sensitive to dye additives in mustard or ketchup, certain oils in soap, paint or cleaning fumes and fire-retardant chemicals embedded in new rugs and carpeting. “We push for the whole school to go green, not just the classroom, with the sensitive or allergic child in mind,” she says. “We’re willing to do whatever it takes, like providing special menus, banning perfumes and smoking, and only using disinfectant wipes or bleach during nighttime cleaning.” Pascoe personally works with about 80 facilities throughout the state. The Cottages at Michaels Learning Center, in Sarasota, is Florida’s first school to earn a Level Three Green School and green infant care certification from the National Green School Coalition and operates the city’s only certified green infant care program. Children from 6 weeks through kindergarten benefit. The school even conducts regular radon testing. Owner and Director Michelle Ireland assesses, “It’s cause and effect. One of the things we teach the children is how our actions have an impact on the world.” Mark Stedelbauer, vice president of marketing at eWater Advantage, in Raleigh, North Carolina, strives to inform day care administrators about the value of using electrolyzed water instead of cleansers. An electrical current that runs through a blend of ordinary tap water and minerals changes the basic nature of water. A lower pH creates a disinfecting solution; a higher pH results in a degreaser. Both solutions clean and kill germs without fumes, residue or allergy triggers. “Often, the combined cost of the electricity, water and mineral supplements used is less than what would be spent on multiple cleaning products,” Stedelbauer points out. It can be created by the half-gallon in a toaster-sized unit onsite and has been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture (for use on meat) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (for use on produce). Also, electrolyzed water won’t harm skin or clothing. Creative Minds Learning Centers’ six locations are recognized by the Oregon Program of Quality as among the top 25 schools in the state. They buy renewable energy from wind, solar and biomass sources. At the school, they compost, plant sustainable gardens, collect rainwater and recycle. Nature preschools in the U.S., nearly 30 sites and growing, use a community nature center as a regular part of their learning program (Tinyurl.com/NaturePreschools). Generally, the children are outdoors for 45 to 90 minutes per day, weather permitting, and flexible activities allow them to investigate their own interests safely. Daily explorations build valuable skills like observation, sorting and experimentation. Children experiencing green day care see firsthand how healthy, environmentally sound choices can help make their present and future safe. Telling their parents about their school experiences is a natural bonus. Avery Mack is a freelance writer in St. Louis, MO. Connect via AveryMack@mindspring.com. natural awakenings
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Simple Ways to Boost a Child’s Long-Term Health by Lisa Turner
We’d love it if our kids had fewer sick days away from school, but what if by bolstering their immune systems now, we could also protect them from serious diseases going forward?
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uring childhood, when the immune system is still developing, there’s a great opportunity to set the stage for improved health and resilience,” says Dr. Joel Fuhrman, a family physician and nutritional researcher in Flemington, New Jersey, and author of Disease-Proof Your Child. “A healthy diet and lifestyle can help kids avoid common childhood illnesses like colds, ear infections and allergies, as well as ensure greater resilience against disease later in life.”
Focus on High-Quality Foods Fruits and veggies have a wealth of protective phytochemicals that enhance immune cell function and protect against disease. In a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, kids that ate the most fruit had a 38 percent lower risk of
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cancer later in life. Berries, cherries, plums and pomegranates are among the most powerful immune-boosting fruits. For veggies, eat more dark leafy greens, tomatoes, carrots and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cauliflower. Also emphasize whole grains and healthy fats such as those found in nuts, seeds and avocado, advises Fuhrman. Sugar-laden calories depress the infection-fighting activity of white blood cells, says Dr. Alan R. Gaby, of Concord, New Hampshire, author of the textbook, Nutritional Medicine. Even natural sweeteners such as honey and juice have similar effects when consumed in excess, he says. Try healthy options like pomegranate and kiwi fruit salad; trail mix with raw almonds; dried cranberries and air-popped popcorn; and hummus with red pepper strips and baby carrots for dipping.
Pinpoint Allergies
Food allergies and sensitivities can suppress the immune system by increasing inflammation in the body and call for consultation with a health specialist. “Whenever there is extra inflammation, the body has less
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available energy to keep the immune system functioning as well as it should,” says Dr. Fred Pescatore, a New York author of The Allergy & Asthma Cure. “It’s like putting the wrong type of gasoline in the car; it hinders your performance.”
Shore Up with Supplements
Probiotics can enhance immune function in children by stimulating white blood cells and reducing inflammation, says Gary B. Huffnagle, Ph.D., a University of Michigan Medical School immunology research professor and author of The Probiotics Revolution. They are especially protective against allergies, diarrhea and respiratory tract infection. Start with yogurt: Serve with cereal; mix with mashed bananas and freeze in ice cube trays for a cool treat; or make smoothies with unsweetened, non-dairy yogurt and frozen berries. Or consider a Lactobacillus acidophilus supplement; aim for 5 billion CFUs per day of Lactobacillus or bifidobacterium. Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), an ayurvedic herb, boosts immunity by supporting and balancing adrenal function, says Dr. John Douillard, Ph.D., a Boulder, Colorado, chiropractor, ayurvedic physician and author of Perfect Health for Kids. The
Tell kids they’ll get sick, and chances are it’ll happen. Instead, nurture an attitude of wellness and help them learn they have control over their own health. adrenal glands produce cortisol, and overproduction of this “fight-or-flight” hormone can dampen immunity. Ashwagandha is particularly helpful for preventing colds and can also be used when kids are stressed or tired. For children ages 6 to 12, give 500 milligrams per day with breakfast; children over 12 can take 1,000 mg a day.
Stabilize Hormonal Changes
“Puberty and adolescence are marked by dramatic shifts in and surges of hormones,” says Dr. Richard Shames, of Sebastopol, California, co-author of Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled? “This is monumental, as far as the developing immune system is concerned. As the immune system is directly linked to hormonal influences, any hormonal imbalance will affect overall immunity.” Shames recommends selenium—a potent antioxidant and general immune booster—to help balance hormones. For children ages 8 to 18, aim for 100 mg per day.
Let ’em Get Dirty
“Once a child has been exposed to dirt and germs, the immune system responds by trying to expel those bacteria from the body, which strengthens immunity,” counsels Jane Sheppard, owner of HealthyChild.com and founding executive director of the Holistic Pediatric Association. Avoid antibacterial soaps, cleansers and gels; most contain the chemical triclosan, which some researchers suspect of contributing to development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Instead, use a natural antibacterial gel or make one, by combining witch hazel or alcohol, tea tree oil and lavender essential oil.
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“The sun is our primary source of vitamin D, which has broad effects on the immune system,” Fuhrman says. “Depending on your skin tone and the local climate, about 15 minutes of full sun exposure a day will lead to natural production of sufficient amounts of vitamin D.” If kids have dark skin or live in a cloudy region, they may need vitamin D supplements—at least 200 IU per day.
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We love our seafood, a delicious source of lean protein. The latest data reports U.S. annual consumption to be more than 4.8 billion pounds of it, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with the average American eating 3.5 ounces of seafood a week. About half of the catch is wild-caught and half farmed. How do we know which fish and shellfish are safe to eat and good for ocean ecology?
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he best approach is to choose seafood carefully. Oil spills, waste runoff and other environmental disasters can compromise the quality of seafood with toxic contaminants like mercury and other heavy metals and industrial, agricultural and lawn chemicals. These pollutants can wash out from land to sea (and vice versa). As smaller fish that have eaten pollutants are eaten by larger ones, contaminants accumulate and concentrate. Large predatory fish like swordfish and sharks end up with the most toxins. Beyond today’s top-selling shrimp, canned tuna, salmon and farmed tilapia, more retailers and restaurants are also providing lesser-known seafood varieties like dogfish and hake as alter-
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natives to overfished species such as sea bass and Atlantic cod. These newto-us, wild-caught fish can be delicious, sustainable and healthy.
Choices Good for Oceans
An outstanding resource for choosing well-managed caught or farmed seafood in environmentally responsible ways is Seafood Watch, provided through California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium. Information on the most sustainable varieties of seafood is available in a printed guide, updated twice a year. The pocket guide or smartphone app provides instant information at the seafood counter and restaurant table. Online information at SeafoodWatch.org and via the app is regularly updated.
The truth is that no one fish can be seen as a sustainability darling, because if it is, it’s sure to be overfished. ~ DailyFinance.com The Blue Ocean Institute, led by MacArthur Fellow and ecologist Carl Safina, Ph.D., supports ocean conservation, community economics and global peace by steering consumers and businesses toward sustainably fished seafood. It maintains a data base on 140 wild-caught fish and shellfish choices at BlueOcean.org. Hoki, for instance, might have a green fish icon for “relatively abundant” and a blue icon for “sustainable and well-managed fisheries,” but also be red-flagged for containing levels of mercury or PCBs that can pose a health risk for children. As species become overfished, rebound or experience fluctuating levels of contaminants, their annual ratings can change.
Choices Good for Us
To help make choosing easier, Seafood Watch has now joined with the Harvard School of Public Health to also advise what’s currently safe to eat. Entries on their list of “green” fish, which can shift annually, are low in mercury, good sources of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids and caught or farmed responsibly. If the top-listed fish and shellfish aren’t locally available, look for the Seafood Safe label, started by EcoFish company founder and President Henry
Lovejoy, which furnishes at-a-glance consumption recommendations based upon tests for contaminants. Labels display a number that indicates how many four-ounce servings of the species a woman of childbearing age can safely eat per month. (Find consumption recommendations for other demographics at SeafoodSafe.com.) Expert-reviewed independent testing of random samples of the fish currently monitors mercury and PCB levels. Lovejoy advises that other toxins will be added to the testing platform in the future. “My dream is to have all seafood sold in the U.S. qualify to bear the Seafood Safe label, because consumers deserve to know what they’re eating,” says Lovejoy. “We need to be a lot more careful in how we use toxic chemicals and where we put them.”
Retail Ratings
Some retailers also provide details on their seafood sourcing. Whole Foods, for example, offers complete traceability of the fish and shellfish they carry, from fishery or farm to stores. Their fish, wild-caught or farmed, frozen or fresh, meet strict quality guidelines in regard to exposure to antibiotics, preservatives and hormones. They also display Seafood Watch and Blue Ocean Institute ratings at the seafood counter. Wise seafood choices feed and sustain our families, foster a healthier seafood industry, support responsible local fisheries and keep Earth’s water resources viable. Judith Fertig blogs at AlfrescoFood AndLifestyle.blogspot.com from Overland Park, KS.
SUPERB SEAFOOD According to Seafood Watch and the Harvard School of Public Health, the Super “Green” list includes seafood with low levels of mercury (below 216 parts per billion [ppb]) and at least 250 milligrams per day (mg/d) of the recommended daily consumption of omega-3 essential fatty acids. It also must be classified as a Best Choice for being caught or farmed in environmentally responsible ways at SeafoodWatch.org.
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n Atlantic mackerel (purse seine, U.S. and Canada) n Freshwater Coho salmon (tank system farms, U.S.) n Pacific sardines (wild-caught) n Salmon (wild-caught, Alaska) n Salmon, canned (wild-caught, Alaska) The “honorable mention” list includes seafood that contains moderate amounts of mercury and between 100 and 250 milligrams per day (mg/d) of the recommended daily consumption of omega-3s. It also must be classified as a Best Choice for being caught or farmed in environmentally responsible ways at SeafoodWatch.org.
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n Albacore tuna (troll- or pole-caught, U.S. or British Columbia) n Sablefish/black cod (Alaska, Canadian Pacific)
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Cures in the Kitchen Dr. Mark Hyman is Fed Up with Our National Health Crisis by Judith Fertig
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n the groundbreaking new documentary film, Fed Up, Dr. Mark Hyman prescribes a major overhaul of the diets of all family members in communities across America to prevent far-reaching unwanted consequences. Hyman practices functional medicine, which takes a wholesystem approach to treating chronic illnesses by identifying and addressing their root causes, starting with poor diet. He is also the bestselling author of a series of books based on The Blood Sugar Solution.
What has your experience with Fed Up shown you about the root cause of many diseases? In Fed Up, I met with a family of five to talk with them about their health and understand the roots of their family crisis of morbid obesity, pre-diabetes, renal failure, disability, financial stress and hopelessness. Rural South Carolina, where they live, is a food desert with nearly10 times as many fast-food and convenience stores as supermarkets. The family’s kitchen was also a food desert, with barely a morsel of real food. There were no ingredients to make real food—only pre-made factory science projects sold in cans and boxes with unpronounceable, unrecognizable ingredient lists. This family desperately wanted to find a way out, but didn’t have the 38
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knowledge or skills. They lived on food stamps and fast food and didn’t know how to navigate a grocery aisle, shop for real food, read a label, equip a kitchen or cook nutritious meals. Their grandmother has a garden, but never taught her children how to grow food, even though they live in a temperate rural area.
What results did the family see when they changed their eating habits? I got the whole family cooking, washing, peeling, chopping, cutting and touching real food—onions, garlic, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, salad greens, even asparagus. After 12 months, the mother had lost 100 pounds and was off of blood pressure medication, and because the father had lost 45 pounds, he finally qualified for a kidney transplant. The son originally lost 40 pounds, but because he was stuck in a toxic food environment at school and only able to get a job at a fast-food eatery, he gained much of it back. I’m happy to report that he is now working to get back on track.
How is sugar a primary factor in creating obesity? Of some 600,000 processed food items on the market, 80 percent contain added sugar. Sugar calories act differently from fat or protein calories in the body.
Sugar calories drive food addiction, storage of belly fat, inflammation and fatty liver (now the number one reason for liver transplants). They also disrupt appetite control, increasing hunger and promoting overeating, and are biologically addictive. Sugar calories are the major contributor to heart attacks, strokes, cancer, dementia and Type 2 diabetes. Sugar is a root cause behind the tripling of obesity rates in children since the 1970s. As just one example illustrating government policy culprits, although poor people are disproportionately affected by obesity, the food industry vigorously opposes any efforts to limit the use of food stamps for soda. Every year, the U.S. government pays for $4 billion in soda purchases by the poor (10 billion servings annually) on the front end, and then pays billions more on the back end through Medicaid and Medicare to treat related health consequences that include obesity and diabetes.
What are the consequences if we don’t attack the problem of poor diet now? The costs of a poor diet are staggering: At the present rate, by 2040, 100 percent of the nation’s federal budget will go for Medicare and Medicaid. The federal debt soars as our unhealthy kids fall heir to an achievement gap that limits America’s capacity to compete in the global marketplace. At the same time, having 70 percent of young people unfit for military service weakens national security. In a detailed scientific analysis published in The New England Journal of Medicine, a group of respected scientists reviewing all the data affecting projected life spans concluded that today’s children are the first generation of Americans ever that will live sicker and die younger than their parents. Health issues due to poor diet comprise a national crisis. They threaten our future, not just for those fat and sick among us, but all of us. For more information on Fed Up, visit FedUpMovie.com. Judith Fertig blogs at AlfrescoFood AndLifestyle.blogspot.com from Overland Park, KS.
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Estrogen The Good, the Bad and the Cellulite “
How Estrogen Affects Men’s and Women’s Bodies by Machelle Perkins, DOM
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strogen is that infamous hormone with which every female is intimately acquainted. It is responsible for the development of female sexual characteristics in a fetus and the secondary developments during puberty of the breasts, endometrial lining, and uterine wall. Less majestically, estrogen is also the known culprit for women’s menstrual pains, moodswings, headaches, and a slew of other not-so-fun symptoms. Estrogen is not a hormone exclusive to only females though. Men’s bodies also produce estrogen as its chemical structure is very close to testosterone, so close in fact, testosterone can be converted into estrogen. For men, estrogen has been linked to healthy sperm maturation and sexual libido, and for both genders it aids growth, nervous system development, bone support, and endothelial and cardiac health. Estrogen is central to our body’s proper functioning and development. But what happens when we get too www.natampa.com
much of a good thing? Research by Chi Enterprises reveals that estrogen in both men and women can manifest as a dominance problem, especially in regards to the type of estrogen. Modern science now knows that there are three different types: Estrone, Estradiol, and Estriol. n Estrone is secreted by the ovaries and adipose (fat) tissue, and should occur in the body in small amounts as it has been proven to be a carcinogen to both males and females. Estrone is readily converted into Estradiol by the body. n Estradiol is produced primarily in the ovaries and testes by aromatization of testosterone into estrogen, and is by far the most potent form of estrogen in the body. n Estriol is the main pregnancy hormone and is produced by an androgen steroid made in the liver and adrenal glands. It is considered to be the “good” estrogen of the body, with studies showing it to have cancer-preventative properties.
Changes in hormone production throughout our lives are completely normal. Aging isn’t the final answer on why we experience hormonal imbalances, however. Some of the causes of estrogen dominance aren’t strictly biological. Stress, poor diet, lack of exercise or exposure to xenoestrogens are known culprits that affect hormone production. Xenoestrogens, a hormone that mimics estrogen, is found in synthetic forms present in plastics with bisphenol A (BPA), Teflon cookware, beauty products that contain phthalates, pasteurized dairy products, and soy products. Xenoestrogens affect the DHEA in both men’s and women’s bodies that helps to produce progesterone. Dropped progesterone sends amber alerts to the brain to produce more estrogen. This is how a negative estrogen dominance pattern is self-feeding. These imbalances can first be noticed as a drop in energy levels, difficulty sleeping or insomnia, and irregular fluctuations in mood such as depression or excessive irritability. The other big indicator can be weight gain. For both sexes, estrogen is the hormone that regulates weight. Everyone is familiar with cellulite where fat cells rise to the surface of the skin creating a goose pimple-like appearance. Estrogen directly affects cellulite in our bodies. Irregular changes in estrogen slow blood vessel receptors that help to circulate nutritious, oxygenated blood and our muscle tissues’ ability to produce
Machelle Perkins, DOM has 15 years experience helping patients. She formerly served on the medical board of the Cancer Wellness Institute and has lectured to The Society of Radiation Therapists on the benefits of Oriental Medicine for cancer patients. collagen. Collagen is the main protein of connective tissue that basically helps holds the muscle and fat in their respective layers. Collagen collapse allows fat cells to push through to appear under the skin’s surface. Estrogen actually sends signals to our bodies to create more fat, whereas testosterone breaks fat down. This is why men, as much as women, who struggle with weight problems can be experiencing a hormonal imbalance of estrogen dominance. Unfortunately for women, men have only one layer of fat throughout their bodies for estrogen to affect, whereas the female body has three layers! Hormonal imbalances may grow into larger problems. Estrogen contributes to cell growth and division, meaning overactive estrogen will cause abnormal cell growth. Estrogen dominance can cause such serious medical
conditions as uterine, prostate, breast, testicular, and ovarian cancer, thyroid dysfunction, fibroid uterine tumors, or Type II diabetes, to list a few. Testosterone in men is necessary to mood regulation, stress reduction, and muscle regeneration. When too many xenoestrogens are present in the body, it sends signals to the brain to release the hormone enzyme aromatase that converts testosterone to estrogen. In females, as their bodies age, they produce less estrogen and less progesterone naturally. However, if progesterone levels drop too far out of line because of the aforementioned loss of DHEA, then more estrogen is produced and the imbalance grows even larger! Herbal medicines and acupuncture have been proven to inhibit the enzymes that transfer testosterone into estrogen in both men and women, and help detoxify the liver of xenoestrogens. As estrogen receptors are partially blocked, testosterone levels can stabilize in men and women and both can profit from lower levels of estradiol and estrone, an increase in the positive estrogen estriol, and a balance of progesterone. For more information on estrogen dominance and the treatment options available, call 727-541-2211 or visit NaturalMedTherapies.com. Natural Med Therapies is located at 7600 Bryan Dairy Road, Suite C, Largo. See ad page 52.
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WATER DOGGIES Given a Pool or Lake, Canines Dive Into Action by Sandra Murphy
Water sports for dogs can be done just for fun or to earn recognition. Venues range from a backyard adult or kiddie pool to a lake, river or ocean. All offer healthful exercise for canine bodies and brains.
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ome dogs seem born in another. To prevent posto swim, while others sible squabbles, company learn to love it and policy allows only samea few make entertaining household dogs to swim in spectators. It all depends the same pool. on temperament, breed and “Max is a fetching mabody style plus energy and niac in the water,” remarks confidence levels, as well Yue. “He doesn’t like to as training. dive, but if his ball sinks, Not all dogs love to he’ll go after it. It’s low-imswim, says Eileen Proctor, a pact, high-exercise playtime Michelle Yue and Max pet lifestyle expert in Denand the only thing I know ver, Colorado, so proceed cautiously. that will wear out a 2-year-old German “One of the first things to do is buy a shepherd pup.” properly fitted life jacket that keeps his The skill of directed retrieval can be head out of the water,” she counsels. described as advanced fetching. Several “Once he is used to wearing it, train toys or dumbbells are placed on the him to use steps [like in a pool] to walk bottom of the pool and the handler tells into and out of the water every time.” the dog which item to retrieve. Nautical Michelle Yue, a professional dog nosework is the most challenging—five trainer in Washington, D.C., takes her floating objects like tennis balls or dumdog, Max, to a dog-specific pool twice mies are launched into the water by a month. At the Canine Fitness Center, another person. The dog must then find, in Annapolis, Maryland, Max swims in indicate and retrieve the one ball his one pool while canine buddies paddle person has handled.
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Other fun options are teaching a pet to tow a raft in the pool or to team swim with his owner. In a more complex aquaagility exercise, the dog swims a circle around his owner as a prelude to both of them swimming a synchronized, zigzag course between floating markers before returning to their starting positions. Ernie, a 95-pound Labrador retriever that lives with Sierra Prause, a marketing assistant, and Jaron Clinton, a search engine content marketer, in Phoenix, Arizona, rides in the storage area of Clinton’s kayak. Ernie came to them at age 4 and has always loved to jump in and swim alongside his owners. “Ernie’s claim to fame is fetching two tennis balls at once,” says Prause. “He wasn’t allowed in the pool at his former home, and now revels in taking a cooling dip after his twice-aday walks.” Maria Schultz, author of How to SUP with Your Pup, enjoys stand up paddleboarding with her Australian shepherds, Riley and Kona, on rivers near her home in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She and Riley learned together in the living room. “I brought the board home and taught Riley
how to hop on and off, where to sit or lie on the board, and to relax,” she relates. “I forgot the living room floor stood still. Riley was surprised when he got on the board on the river to find that it moved.” Riley was a good sport about it; within a week, he knew how to ride along. Kona took several months to get the hang of it. “Have patience, make it fun and all positive,” Schultz advises. “Know what motivates your dog. Riley works for food, Kona for praise.” For the more adventurous, Loews Coronado Bay Resort, in San Diego, offers one-hour surfing lessons for
canine guests. Taught by Coronado Surfing Academy instructors, the only requirement is that a dog enjoys water. Of course, board shorts and a bandana are also provided so that Fido gets the full surfer dude experience. Enjoying warm weather and cool water with man’s best friend provides perfect fun for these dog days of summer. Learn more at CanineWatersports.com. Sandra Murphy writes from Missouri. Connect at StLouisFreelanceWriter@ mindspring.com.
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See monthly, by the day and hour, what’s happening in the Bay area. So many educational and uplifting events to assist with personal and planetary health: enjoy seminars, lectures, workshops, book signings, beauty and nutrition events, leading edge health solutions, spiritual connections, for singles, couples and families. Printed calendar is a gratis feature exclusively for advertisers who make this magazine possible. Non-advertisers are free to use on-line calendar at natampa.com, click on submit calendar tab. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 Soul-Guided Living — Do you have a deep longing inside? Are you being called to something greater? It is your soul’s responsibility to guide you to your highest life purpose. It is your responsibility to consciously connect with your soul and follow your soul guidance. Revealing your authentic life purpose leads to a more fulfilled, joyful and passionate life. Laurel Geise, Author of The Jesus Seeds, Igniting Your Soul Guided Life, will share with you a deceptively simple yet divinely architected three step system to ignite your Soul-Guided Life. 6:308:30pm, $22, Wings Bookstore, 4500 4th St N, St Pete, WingsBookstore.com, 727-522-6657.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 Mushrooms 101 with Benjamin Dion — An intro into the world of edible & medicinal mushroom species found in South/Central Florida. Class will cover basic life cycles, uses, ecological roles, mushroom identification & home-scale cultivation. All participants receive their own oyster mushroom kit! Water & snacks provided (bring your own lunch). 9am-2pm, $45, Sand Hill Farm, Spring Hill, Info GreenDreamsFL.com, 727-439-6700. Yoga: A Therapeutic Series for Tight Hips- Series 1 — The hips stabilize us in our daily lives and store strong emotions. When the hips lock up they may prevent you from walking properly. Join Heather Overton, eRYT200 for a therapeutic series that will open your hips, find the spring in your step and have you doing the Cha Cha! Find freedom in your body with this incredible workshop and take home a copy of the series to add to your home practice. 2-3:30pm, $20. yoga4all, 8836 Seminole
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MONDAY, AUGUST 4 Check Your Health Beyond the Basics — Learn about genetic, hormonal, and nutritional deficiencies that so many unknowingly suffer from and how to naturally remedy. SpectraCell Lab’s rep, Carrie Simon, lectures on different genotype, metabolic, nutrient and hormone tests that check for common imbalances affecting sleep, weight, heart health, mental wellness. Machelle Perkins, DOM offers a complimentary lab review of results & treatment options. All insurances accepted for these tests; exclusive tests will have waived co-pays. PRP Wine Intl tasting & hors d’oeuvres. 5-8pm, Natural Med Therapies, 7600 Bryan Dairy Rd, Ste C, Largo, Info, naturalmedtherapies.com, RSVP 727-541-2211, machelle.perkins@gmail.com.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6 Diabetes Prevention & Nutrition — Twyla Hooda, educator and acupuncturist, discusses how to reverse this condition and keep healthy, 1-2:30pm, Info, Twyla 813-732-3122.
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Naturopath and Nutritionist, Melissa Gallagher, Noon, 3pm, 7pm, Register, HealthyBeingbyMelissa. com or call for details 727-502-3464. Holistic 4-Day Retreat — (through August 10) Classes offered during retreat: 7 Keys to a Holistic Lifestyle; How to detoxify your home; Juicing & Raw Food; Yoga; Meditation; Qi Gong; Life Mission Alignment; Organic Gardening 101; Conscious Creativity; optional spa treatments: massage, foot detox & much more. Retreats starting at $499; ask about our Daily Class rates. Life Glow at Heritage Park Inn, Kissimmee, floridahealthretreat.com, 1-844-645-4448. Treating Depression, Anxiety, & Stress Naturally — Carrie J. Graves, DOM, AP, WellnessByCarrie. com, discusses how to treat and reverse the effects of neurotransmitter and hormone imbalances naturally through diet, lifestyle changes and alternative medicine. 6:30pm, Free, Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St, Clearwater, 727-443-6703, naturesfoodpatch.com.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8 Transformation Toolbox — (through August 10) Val Spies, E-RYT500 and Nancy MacDonald, ERYT500 cover: Corporate & Chair yoga for corporate groups or those that can’t attend a full class on the mat; Back Pain & Private sessions for teaching students with back pain; How to supplement your income with Private Sessions; Creating workshops and the Business of Yoga-logistics strategies, building community and promotion. 21 CEUs RYT200 & RYT500, Fri 5-9pm; Sat & Sun 7:30am-5:30pm; $287.50, Lotus Pond, 6201 Lynn Rd, Tampa, LotusPondYoga.com under events/teacher training.
Free the Hips, TriYoga® Basics — with Lynne Andrews, Senior TriYoga® teacher trainer. The lower body often holds tension that may be liberated by increasing the energy flow through hips and legs. Reclined stretches allow tension in the lower body to be relieved. Sustained postures will allow the practice to deepen. Join us for this session that will result in greater ease in movement. 6-9pm, $40. Yoga4All, 8836 Seminole Boulevard, Seminole, Info & Registration, Lynne 850-329-7839, yoga4all.com. Couples Weekend Getaway & Workshop — (through August 10) Join Richard & Diana Daffner, authors of Tantric Sex for Busy Couples, for a romantic beach getaway. Bring greater joy, intimacy and passion to your relationship. Celebrate your love. Connect with your beloved on a soul level. 7pm-Sun 2pm, $695/couple, Siesta Key Beach, Sarasota, FL, More info, other dates & locations, brochure, 941-349-6804.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 Raw Dog Food Workshop — Herbalist Kristin Huntsinger, a graduate of the Herbalist Training Program, provided by Rose Kalajian-Herbalist, will discuss the benefits of a Raw Food Diet for your dog and how to transition your dog into Raw Foods. Plus, a demonstration providing you with step by step instructions showing how to correctly prepare a Raw Food Meal. 10-11:30am, $10, Natural Health Hut, Register imherbalist.com. Nutritional Blood Evaluations — with Stewart Analysis. Live Layer $50; Both Live & Dry Layers $90; includes DVD recording of appointment. Better Health and Nutrition, 5336 Little Rd, New Port Richey, Call For an appointment 727-807-3225.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 10 Hips & Spine at the Wall, TriYoga® Basics — with Lynne Andrews, Senior TriYoga® teacher trainer. Spinal flows and sustained hip stretches are included in this workshop. The postures practiced at the wall support lengthening of spine and relaxing deeply into hip stretches. 1:30-5:30pm, $45, Yoga4All, 8836 Seminole Blvd, Seminole, Info & Registration, Lynne 850-329-7839, yoga4all.com.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12 Reiki I & II, Usui System — Class Certification and CEUs available for LMT, Provider Number MCE 50-13619. Rev Maria Antonieta Revello, Reiki, Karuna and Qigong Master, Light Therapist, NLP practitioner. 10am-2pm; Reiki II: Thursday, Aug 14, 10am-2pm, Info, Maria 813-334-7424 or reikishrine@gmail.com. Lifestyle & Nutrition Made Fun and Easy — Join us for the first session in the Lifestyle series. We all want vibrant health and to feel our best. This lecture will teach you how to achieve that optimal wellness as well as how to incorporate simple changes into your daily life routines. Before long, these healthy habits will be a part of you! 6-7pm, Free, St Petersburg Health & Wellness, 222 2nd St N, St Petersburg, 727-202-6807.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 Emily Drews, Mindful Meals Personal Chef — No one lives in a cave anymore! Hunter-gatherer inspired recipes that nourish and satisfy the modern palate. Menu: Paleo cuisine! 6:30pm, Free, Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St, Clearwater, 727-443-6703, naturesfoodpatch.com. Medical Qi Gong: Science of Harmonizing the Mind & Body — Through posture, breath and intention, transform your physical, mental and spiritual well-being. Martin Keane, Acupuncture Physician, leads the group through a series of movements: Standing exercises, Microcosmic breathing cycles, The Golden Ball, and rooting. All movements are done from a standing position. 7pm, Suggested Love Offering $510, Wings Bookstore, 4500 4th St N, St Pete, WingsBookstore.com, 727-522-6657.
Thursday, august 14 Leg Vein Techniques — Tired of uncomfortable, unsightly leg veins? Robin Quigg, Free Health Resources, discusses how Advanced Laser Technology does away with old “stripping” technique for leg vein problems. Learn about advanced procedures covered by insurance for spider veins and more concerning deep leg vein issues in men and women. 6:30pm, Free, Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St, Clearwater, 727-443-6703, naturesfoodpatch.com.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 Freeing the True Self with the I Ching — (continues August 22 & 29) Dr Imsara, DOM and Evolutionary Astrologist, will lead this course over three evenings, teaching the principles of the I Ching and how it can be utilized to assist you in deep release, personal transformation, support and nourishment. The class book, I Ching: The Oracle of the Cosmic Way, by Carol K Anthony & Hanna Moog, will be on hand to purchase. Their translation is based on the original I Ching manuscript, which was written from the feminine perspective. 6-8:30pm, $35/single classes, $95/ series of 3 classes, Wings Bookstore, 4500 4th St N, St Pete, WingsBookstore.com, 727-522-6657.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 Growing Florida’s Best Fruits — This class covers species/variety selection, propagation & pruning techniques, how to select the best location & how to safely control pest/disease problems. We will cover companion plants, watering needs & mulching techniques. 10-11:30am, $15, Sand Hill Farm, Spring Hill, Info GreenDreamsFL.com, 727-439-6700. Yoga Nidra, the “Sleep of Awareness” — Join Nancy MacDonald, eRYT500 for this deep and profoundly powerful meditation, having a tremendous soothing effect on the body and mind by refreshing the physical, emotional and mental bodies. It allows a systemic release of stress preparing the mind to receive the personal affirmations you develop in class. It is said that one hour of yoga nidra is equivalent to 4 hours sleep. Wear loose, comfortable clothes. 3:30-4:30pm, $15, Pre-registration required. Late registration/walk-in on a space available basis only with instructor permission. yoga4all, 8836 Seminole
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Nutritional Blood Evaluations — with Stewart Analysis. Live Layer $50; Both Live & Dry Layers $90; includes DVD recording of appointment. Bailey’s Naturals, 470 2nd St North, Safety Harbor, Call for appointment 727-725-1617.
No Noodle Vegan Lasagna — Brad Myers, the Vegabond Chef, shows you how to make traditional lasagna, vegan style with homemade “cheese”! Menu: Vegan Lasagna! 6:30pm, Free, Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St, Clearwater, 727443-6703, naturesfoodpatch.com.
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Yoga Nidra: Sleep of Awareness — Join Nancy MacDonald E-RYT500 for this deep and profoundly powerful meditation having a tremendous soothing effect by refreshing the physical, emotional and mental bodies. It allows a systematic release of stress, preparing the mind to receive the personal affirmations you develop in class. It is said that one hour of yoga nidra is equivalent to 4 hours sleep. Wear loose, comfortable clothes. 4:30-5:30pm, $15, Lotus Pond, 6201 Lynn Rd, Tampa, Walk-in or Reservation, LotusPondYoga.com, Nancy 727-542-0116.
Circle of Excellence! Hypnosis & NLP Master Class-MeetUP — Fun, interactive class uses NLP anchoring techniques to access inner resources to create your own circle of excellence; experiential practice with professional Hypnotists & NLP Practitioners; 3 CEUs. $35; $25/UPHI Members; 6-9pm, UP Hypnosis Institute, 800 Tarpon Woods Blvd, Palm Harbor, 727-943-5003, UPHypnosis.com.
MONDAY, AUGUST 18 Yoga — with Osiris Albrecht. Bring your mat and enjoy healthy stretching and relaxation. 6:30-7:40pm, RSVP, Osiris 813-545-3261 or Maria 813-334-7424.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 Hypnotic Fat Ban™ — Patricia V Scott, Certified Master Trainer, leads powerful program developed over 30 years by Robert Otto, first hypnotist to get Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition listed in Library of Congress. Uses hypnosis, guided imagery, NLP to effect positive, permanent change. 6:30-9pm, $97, $75/UPHI Members, One-year Free Tune-UPs. UP Hypnosis Institute, 800 Tarpon Woods Blvd, Palm Harbor, 727-943-5003, UPHypnosis.com.
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Elevated Cholesterol? High Blood Pressure? Too Many Prescriptions? — Do you feel you will be shackled to prescription medication for the rest of your life, just to help you “manage” your condition? Dr. George Springer of LifeWorks Wellness Center will discuss many natural alternatives to lowering blood pressure, stripping artery plaque and reducing the risk of heart attack. 6:30pm, Free, Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St, Clearwater, 727-443-6703. Holistic 4-Day Retreat — (through August 24) Classes offered during retreat: 7 Keys to a Holistic Lifestyle; How to detoxify your home; Juicing & Raw Food; Yoga; Meditation; Qi Gong; Life Mission Alignment; Organic Gardening 101; Conscious Creativity; optional spa treatments: massage, foot detox & much more. Retreats starting at $499; ask about our Daily Class rates. Life Glow at Heritage Park Inn, Kissimmee, floridahealthretreat.com, 1-844-645-4448.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 Self-Hypnosis Training: Your Unlimited Mind — Patricia V Scott, Internationally Certified Trainer of Hypnosis, teaches how to discover untapped potentials, talents & abilities using the power of your Unlimited Mind. $45/before 8/12; $55/ after; $35/ UPHI Members. Hypnosis CD, workbook & scripts included. 1-4pm, UP Hypnosis Institute, 800 Tarpon Woods Blvd, Palm Harbor, 727-943-5003, info@UPHypnosis.com, UPHypnosis.com.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 Beginner Doga: Yoga with Your Dog — Doga is an effective form of partner yoga that pairs people and their canine companions in a soothing practice to destress and calm while building connection. Behavior instructor on hand to help your dog calm. Dogs and humans benefit from the one-on-one attention, massage and stretching, 12:30-1:30pm, $5/per dog, SPCA, 9099 130th Ave N, Largo, No walk-ins, Registration required, spcatampabay.org/doga. Advanced Doga: Yoga with Your Dog — Students have expressed an interest in a class that offers more advanced standing poses. Participants should be familiar with yoga, and have practiced Doga at home or in a classroom. Behavior instructor on hand to help your dog calm. Dogs and humans benefit from the one-on-one attention, massage and stretching, 2-3:15pm, $10/per dog, SPCA, 9099 130th Ave N, Largo, No walk-ins, Registration required, spcatampabay.org/doga. Movie Night — Pepito will be presenting the inspirational movie, I AM, that opens new questions, 4pm, Bring a dish to share for after the movie. Call for questions and to coordinate menu, Pepito 813-390-2181. Raw Vegan Sushi — Brad Myers, the Vegabond Chef, shows how to make raw vegan gourmet sushi! Dairy free! 4pm, Free, Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St, Clearwater, 727-443-6703, naturesfoodpatch.com.
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Walk-In Health Screening in St Pete! — Greenpoint Thermography, A Path to Wellness and Prevention Plus are partnering to offer a day of health prevention screening. Affordable ultrasound screenings, blood work, and single region of interest thermograms will all be offered. No prescriptions are needed. Personal checks, major credit cards, cash, Medical Flex and HSA cards accepted. 9am-3pm, Suites 312 & 316, Bay West Center, 7901 4th St North, St Petersburg, Info 727-576-0100. East Meets West Lecture: Aging Gracefully — It’s never too early or late to defy the aging process. Join Bob Linde, DOM as he unveils some of the ancient Asian secrets of preserving your youthful essence starting at any age. From a functional medicine standpoint, Dr Les Cole, MD will share how balancing hormones and reducing stress can slow the process of aging. All ages welcome and encouraged to attend. 6-7pm, Free, St Petersburg Health & Wellness, 222 2nd St N, St Petersburg, 727-202-6807.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27 The Reynolds’ Kitchen — Dr Paul & Cara Reynolds, thereynoldskitchen.com, combine the principles of Chinese Medicine with seasonal cooking. Menu: To be determined based on fresh produce available, Gluten & Dairy Free! 6:30pm, Free, Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St, Clearwater, 727-443-6703, naturesfoodpatch.com.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 Free Seminar: Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) — Are you ready to feel great, full of energy? Get your libido back? Reduce your body fat? Get the facts on BHRT, presented by Tracie Leonhardt, DO, Peaks of Health Metabolic. Attendees receive 50% off new patient metabolic visit, 6pm, Free, Peaks of Health Metabolic Medical Center, 7600 Bryan Dairy Rd, Ste D, Largo, RSVP 727-826-0838, rsvp@peaksofhealth.com. Holistic 4-Day Retreat — (through August 31) Classes offered during retreat: 7 Keys to a Holistic Lifestyle; How to detoxify your home; Juicing & Raw Food; Yoga; Meditation; Qi Gong; Life Mission Alignment; Organic Gardening 101; Conscious Creativity; optional spa treatments: massage, foot detox & much more. Retreats starting at $499; ask about our Daily Class rates. Life Glow at Heritage Park Inn, Kissimmee, floridahealthretreat.com, 1-844-645-4448.
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Couples Getaway Weekend & Workshop — (through August 30) Join Richard & Diana Daffner, authors of Tantric Sex for Busy Couples. Rekindle your passion. Celebrate your love. Connect with your beloved on a soul level. Transform your relationship into a love affair. 7pm-Sun 2pm, $695/ couple, Siesta Key Beach, Sarasota, FL, More info, other dates & locations, brochure, 941-349-6804.
Restorative Yoga Certification for Yoga Teachers — (through September 7) With Nancy MacDonald E-RYT500, learn: to set up restorative poses using bare minimum props & maximum props to create luxurious coziness; to plan a class or workshop from setting up the space to creating a series of postures that bring deepest relaxation & healing; postures will be explained for use in group or private sessions. Reference Manual 70+ pages with pictures, outlines for workshops & posture series; 16 live CEU hours. 8:30am-5:30pm, $310, Lotus Pond, 6201 Lynn Rd, Tampa, Sign up, yogalotuspond.com, 813-961-3160
Hypnosis Certification Training — Comprehensive 6-weekend training (not consecutive) in the art, science & practice of hypnosis. Learn basic, advanced, medical hypnosis, regression, parts integration, Time-Line, NLP & more. Graduates certify through the International Association of Counselors & Therapists (recognized internationally). $3095/ before 8/8; $3395/after; $2895/UPHI Members; Full details UPHypnosis.com, 727-943-5003, 866537-7746, UPHypnosis@yahoo.com.
Farm Tour — GreenDreams offers farm tours of our food forest garden last Saturday of every month. See how we are producing a 7-acre holistic farming system demonstration site with over 200 varieties of useful plants + habitat for beneficial species. Nursery items for sale after tour: tropical & temperate fruit trees, perennial vegetables, roots, herbs, medicinal plants, fresh eggs. 9-10am, Free, Sand Hill Farm, Spring Hill, Info GreenDreamsFL.com, 727-439-6700. Nutritional Blood Evaluations — with Stewart Analysis. Live Layer $50; Both Live & Dry Layers $90; includes DVD recording of appointment. Super Vitamin Outlet, 32510 U.S. Hwy 19 North, Palm Harbor, Call for appointment 727-786-5994.
PLAN AHEAD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Samassati, Color Light Therapy — (through September 5) The European Institute for Light Therapy Advance Training. This is the future of healing! Limited space, register early, Maria 813-334-7424.
MONDAY, SEPTEMER 8 Samassati, Color Light Therapy — (through September 12) The European Institute for Light Therapy Advance Training Basic Training. This is the future of healing! Limited space, register early, Maria 813-334-7424.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 10 Building a Healthy and Satisfying Lifestyle — Depression, anxiety, irritability, fatigue, difficulty sleeping, lack of sexual desire, night sweats, hot flashes, weight gain, joint pain, headaches, lack of mental clarity—sound familiar? Learn how, with BioTE® (Bio-Identical Hormone Pellet Therapy), you can restore your natural hormone balance safely; protect your heart, bones, & brain; build lean muscle! 6:30pm, Free, Success by Design, 9095 Belcher Rd, Pinellas Park, 727-548-0001, successbydesignweightloss.com.
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ongoingevents sunday Introduction to The Presence Process - (3rd Sunday) The Presence Process is a very specific selffacilitated 10 week journey that combines breathing, short meditation sessions and “conscious responses” to help you integrate your “emotional charges” that are preventing you from being your greater self. The book is available for purchase $19.95.5pm, Love Offering, Wings Bookstore, 4500 4th St N, St Pete, WingsBookstore.com, 727-522-6657. Mindfulness Meditation and Buddhist Teaching – in the spirit of Thich Nhat Hanh with Fred Eppsteiner. Mindfulness practice helps one to cultivate compassion, develop inner peace and experience joy in daily life. 10am-Noon, 6501 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa, Info tampa-updates@floridamindfulness.org or visit floridamindfulness.org. Advance Reiki Training, Reiki II, Karuna Reiki – by request with Rev Maria Antonieta Revello, member of ICRT, Reiki, Karuna & Qigong Master, NLP practitioner and instructor. Call for reservations, location, times, Maria 813-334-7424, reikishrine@gmail.com.
monday Hatha Yoga AM - Looking for a way to start your day and week off right? Join Nancy for a yoga class that will build strength, flexibility and balance not only of the body but of the mind as well. Nancy will focus on alignment so the bones are doing their job, and the muscles are supporting the bones. Leave class feeling inner peace and balance, ready to continue your day/ week. 8:30-9:45am, Yoga4All, 8836 Seminole Blvd, Seminole, 727-542-0116, ShantiVinyasa.com. $15 walk-ins, package prices available. Create Your Ideal Healthy Body! – Mind-Body Cohesion© System developed by Patricia V Scott combines Hypnosis, NLP, Pivotal Response Conditioning & more for weight, diet, cravings, confidence, exercise motivation. Initial 5 classes: $155 prepaid; $175 same day; $135 Members. Continue with discounted repeat classes. 6:30-8:30pm, UP Hypnosis Institute, 800 Tarpon Woods Blvd, Palm Harbor, 727-943-5003, Info@ UPHypnosis.com, map uphypnosis.com. Weekly Open House – Joel Chudnow, Wholistic Health Advocate since 1989, Educator since1993, will consult and discuss with you your true nature in today’s world. Call with any question or reserve to fit your schedule, 813-287-5538, joelchudnow@me.com. Inner Wisdom Coaching Circle – Join Coach Dianne Kipp in a “telecoaching” group each month to discover your internal wisdom, while learning how to overcome your “Monkey Mind” negative self-talk. You will learn the foundations of Ontological coaching, as well experience what it is like to “be coached”. Bring your life challenges, desires, and dreams and we’ll get you on the road to your success! 6-8pm, $30 per person per month; 3 or 6 month commitment required. Contact Coach Dianne 727-481-1646 or coach@diannekipp.com. Yoga — with Osiris Albrecht. Bring your mat and enjoy healthy stretch and relaxation. 6:30-7:40pm, RSVP Osiris 813-545-3261 or Maria 813-334-7424.
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Embrace Your Infinite Potential — (3rd Monday) Awaken yourself to a New Way of Being during this session designed to ignite and inspire your full potential. Each session will include the gift of Vibrational Alignment shared by Andi Schenbeck, aligning you with your highest potential by transmuting lifetimes of unconscious beliefs and energies that no longer serve you. 7pm, Love Offering, Wings Bookstore, 4500 4th St N, St Pete, WingsBookstore. com, 727-522-6657. Mindfulness Meditation — (1st & 2nd Mondays) Mary Beth Jones, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, will teach you how to greatly reduce stress, open up your creative juices and discover life in the present moment. Bring a meditation cushion and receive guidance on how to sit for optimum results. 7pm, Love Offering, Wings Bookstore, 4500 4th St N, St Pete, WingsBookstore.com, 727-522-6657. Attention Coaches and Want-a-Be Coaches! – Join Coach Dianne Kipp, experienced, certified and mentoring coach on a monthly “coaches conversation call” to build community, exchange ideas and gain insight to solving difficult client challenges. Details 727-481-1646, diannekipp.com.
tuesday Inspiration Radio – Listen to Dr Tracie J Leonhardt, DO, on 1110 AM; call in with questions on topic of the day, 7:30am. Tuesday Fresh Market - Over 70 vendors, including local produce, artisan foods, health & wellness, art & crafts, live music. Year-round, 9am-3pm, 3000 Beach Blvd S, Gulfport Waterfront Village. Clothing swap second Tuesday monthly, 9am-1pm. Info GulfportMA.com, FreshMarket@GulfportMA.com, 727-453-9093. Suprabhatam – Morning prayer where we ask God to bless our day. Suprabhatam literally means “auspicious dawn”. This hymn to the Lord is sung before the break of day. It is followed by a short meditation which you can use to empty your mind and ask God for guidance. 9-9:30am, Free, Shiva Dharma, 2838 Beach Blvd S, Gulfport, 727-327-4111. Free 15 Minute Chakra Test – Which chakra needs attention? Learn how your chakras are the source of your well being and how they affect your physical health. A balanced energy flow in the chakras can be a breakthrough for your success in life. 10am3pm, Shiva Dharma, 2838 Beach Blvd S, Gulfport, 727-327-4111, ShivaDharma.com. Reiki I & II Usui System – Class Certification and CEUs available for LMT, Provider #MCE 50–77, for Reiki credits. Rev Maria Antonieta Revello, Reiki, Karuna & Qigong Master. Reiki I, Tuesday; Reiki II, Thursday; 6-10pm, RSVP 813-334-7424. Acupressure Training – (1st & 3rd Tuesdays) Acupressure and acupuncture treatments can help improve results. Hands on training with Dr Yali Fan, MD, professor in China, author of six Chinese Medical books, 23 years teaching/clinical experience, Tuina, acupressure. 7-8pm, $20 (bring one or two guests; no charge), 5905 Webb Rd, Tampa, Limited seating, RSVP 813–882–8373.
Restorative/Yin Yoga - Join Nancy MacDonald ERYT500, Certified Restorative Yoga teacher as she guides you in the peaceful practice of restorative/yin yoga. Postures will be held so the body can unwind and unfold naturally. 7-8:15pm, Yoga4All, 8836 Seminole Blvd, Seminole, 727-542-0116, Shantivinyasa.com. $15 walk-ins, package prices available. Reiki Share – (also every third Saturday) – Experience the most profound, powerful & gentle relaxation technique; feel renewed and lighter. It helps re-establish healthy frequencies to cells and tissues bringing back health. Complements any form of therapy. 10am-2:30pm, Call for appointments & location, 813-425-2596 Dr Marta Alarcon, 813-3347424 Maria, reikishrine@gmail.com Inspiration Radio – Listen to Dr Tracie J Leonhardt, DO, on 1110 AM; call in with your questions on the topic of the day. Also listen daily for her metabolic health minute of the day. 11:30am-Noon. Joel Chudnow Hosts Hawk Health Hour — Wholistic Health Educator and Natural Lifestyle Counselor Joel Chudnow is back on the radio and web. From a new studio in Ybor City, he continues to interview and showcase wholistic healthcare professionals in Tampa Bay. Noon-1pm, WMNF 88.5 HD4 and live streaming HawkRadio.com. Happy Half Hour Wednesday Group Ear Acupuncture - Five tiny needles in each ear can help with stress & anxiety, and reduce cravings of all kinds, done in a relaxing setting. 5:30pm, $20, Attend 5 sessions get 6th free, Warm Sea Acupuncture, 531 Main St, Ste D, Safety Harbor, 727-726-1676. Kundalini Yoga with Allison Marie – Open your mind and body to the healing possibilities of yoga. Become more flexible, more joyous, through breath awareness, chanting and the practice of kriya. Awaken the kundalini in you. All levels, 5:306:45pm, $15 walk-ins, memberships or package prices available, First Unity Campus, 4500 4th St N, Rm 401, St Petersburg, 727-421-0721. Hypnosis & NLP Master Class (Public Welcome) – (Last Wednesday monthly) Master Class for professional development (3 CEUs). Hypnotists expand skills with scripts & practice time & others participate as practice client. $30 UPHI Associates; $35 UPHI Members; $40 General Public). 6-9pm, UP Hypnosis Institute, 800 Tarpon Woods Blvd, Palm Harbor, 727-943-5003, 866-537-7746, Info@ UPHypnosis.com, map uphypnosis.com. Mindfulness Meditation & Practice – in the spirit of Thich Nhat Hanh. Mindfulness practice helps to cultivate compassion, develop inner peace and experience joy in daily life. 7-8:45pm, UU St Pete, 719 Arlington Ave N, St Petersburg, Info floridamindfulness.org. Qi Gong - She Tolles facilitates this ancient technique; extend your life and improve your health. 6:30-8pm, Reservations, She 813-546-3754, Maria 813-334-7424, reikishrine@gmail.com.
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to happiness, love and joy; course focuses on letting go of thoughts and pictures in our minds that cause us to suffer. $5 donation, 7pm, First Unity, 460-46th Ave North, St Pete, 727-527-2222 x101 or FirstUnity.org. Beginners Yoga Class - If you are new to yoga or just want a brief review of the basics on how to sit, stand and breathe. Open to all levels. 5:30-6:45pm, First class Free for Florida residents, Yoga4All, 8836 Seminole Blvd, Seminole, Marty 727-392-9642 or yoga4all.com. Medical Qi Gong Seminars – (1st & 3rd Thursdays) Dr Yali Fan, MD & Professor in China, has taught Qi Gong for over 20 years. 7-8pm, 5905 Webb Rd, Tampa, 813-882-8373. Free Meditation – 6:15-6:45pm, Shiva Dharma, 2838 Beach Blvd South, Gulfport. 727-327-4111, shivadharma.com. Conversations with Purpose - (4th Thursday monthly) Sharing, supporting, inspiring and doing can transpire from these gatherings. 6:30-8:30pm, Info 813-334-7424, reikishrine@gmail.com. Energy Medicine Study Group - (4th Thursday monthly) Interactive class guided by Joyce Claflin, Certified Eden Energy Medicine Practitioner. Learn to practice techniques from Donna Eden’s teachings that can enhance your life: how to reduce stress, increase stamina, relieve pain and more! 7pm, Love Offering, Wings Bookstore, 4500 4th St N, St Pete, WingsBookstore.com, 727-522-6657. Reiki Share - (1st Thursday monthly) Lady Cas, Reiki Grand Master and author of The Universal Reiki Connection, along with other Reiki practitioners will share with you one of the most natural and simple ways to achieve healing at all levels, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. 7pm, Love Offering, Wings Bookstore, 4500 4th St N, St Pete, WingsBookstore.com, 727-522-6657.
Weight Loss Seminars – (2nd & 4th Thursdays) Lose weight quick & have great health, with Dr Yali Fan, MD & Professor in China who has practiced Chinese Medicine for over 22 years. 7-8pm, 5905 Webb Road, Tampa. 813-882-8373.
friday Suprabhatam – Morning prayer where we ask God to bless our day and guide us to awaken to our innermost reality. Suprabhatam literally means “auspicious dawn”. This hymn to the Lord is sung before the break of day, in the holy hours of dawn. It is followed by a short meditation which you can use to empty your mind and ask God for guidance. 9-9:30am, Free, Shiva Dharma, 2838 Beach Blvd S, Gulfport, 727-327-4111. Community Acupuncture Healing Sessions – patients sit quietly in comfortable recliners and benefit from the synergistic healing energy of a group. The more people in the group session, the better; bring your friends and family, 10am-3pm, Payment is made anonymously, based on honor system, Suggest $20–$45, cash only, Mind Body Spirit Care, 3610 Madaca Ln, Tampa, Reservations 813-969-1311. Gentle Yoga – (starts January 10) with Osiris; bring your mat. 8:30-9:45am, Reservations, Osiris 813-545-3261 or Maria 813-334-7424. Couples Beach Retreat & Workshop – Transform your relationship through sacred intimacy and conscious loving. Discover Tantra. Friday 7:30pmSunday 1:45pm, $595/couple, Siesta Key Beach, Sarasota, IntimacyRetreats.com; Dates, other locations, brochure, call 1-877-282-4244.
Yoga – with Shelethya Toles. Prevent arthritis, release stress, live a healthier and longer life. 8:30-9:30am, RSVP Maria 813-334-7424 or She 813-546-3754.
saturday Beginners Yoga Class - If you are new to yoga or just want a brief review of the basics on how to sit, stand and breathe. Open to all levels. 9-10:15am, First class Free for Florida residents, Yoga4All, 8836 Seminole Blvd, Seminole, Info, Marty 727392-9642 or yoga4all.com. Reiki Share – (third Saturday) Experience the most profound, powerful & gentle relaxation technique. It helps re-establish healthy frequencies to cells and tissues bringing back health. Complements any form of therapy. 10am-2:30pm, Call for appointment & location, 813765-5166 Maritza, 813-425-2596 Dr Marta Alarcon, 813-334-7424 Maria, or reikishrine@gmail.com. Self-Hypnosis Training: Your Unlimited Mind! – (Last Saturday monthly) Patricia V Scott, Certified Master Trainer, teaches how to discover untapped potentials, talents & abilities using the power of your Unlimited Min. $45 prepaid; $55 same day; $35 Members, includes CD/materials, 1-4pm, UP Hypnosis Institute, 800 Tarpon Woods Blvd, Ste A-1, Palm Harbor, 727-943-5003, 866-537-7746, Info@UPHypnosis.com, map uphypnosis.com.
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ACUPUNCTURE bay area oriental family practice Yali Fan, AP, DOM, MD (China) 5905 Webb Road, Tampa South side of the Town & Country Hospital (813) 882—8373 Baofp.com
Dr. Yali Fan was an associate professor in Shandong University of TCM and the University hospital in China before she arrived in the US in 1996. With 20 years clinical experience, her patients range from 7 day old newborns to 95 year old seniors. See ad page 47.
Jade Tree Wellness Center Tom Elman, AP, LMT 3039 - 49th St. N, St. Petersburg (727) 344—8690 JadeTreeWellness.com
Happy, Healthy, Whole! Acupuncture, Herbs and Massage to help you feel better. We treat everything from asthma to emotional issues, from Acid Reflux to Fibromyalgia. Free Consultations! See ad page 14.
Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine Chris Dziubinski, DOM, AP, L. Ac 201 S. McDill Ave. (S. Tampa) 3610 Madaca Lane (N. Tampa) (813) 935-CARE (2273) MindBodySpiritCare.com
Florida Board Certified Acupuncture Physician offering acupuncture therapies for the whole family. Established, comfortable, caring and professional integrative medicine clinics in South & North Tampa. In-network with most medical insurances; accept payments from HRA, HSA and FSA.
Natural Med Therapies
Machelle Perkins, D.O.M. 7600 Bryan Dairy Rd # C, Largo, 33777 (727) 541—2211 NaturalMedTherapies.com National & state board certified with 15+ years experience in Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Cold Laser & more. Bio-Puncture and Mesotherapy to treat pain, ADHD, anxiety, depression. Lab testing, most insurances. Free Nutritional Consultation.
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Jane Myers, RN, LAc, MAc, AP 531 Main St., Suite D, Safety Harbor (727) 726-1676 WarmSeaAcupuncture.com Jane has been a registered nurse since 1977 and now specializes in Five Element Acupuncture bringing together the whole person: body mind and spirit. Herbal pharmacy on premises. See ad page 45.
alternative medicine LIFEWORKS WELLNESS CENTER
Dr. David Minkoff Dr. George Springer & Sue Morgan, ARNP 301 Turner Street, Clearwater (727) 466—6789 LifeWorksWellnessCenter.com Specializing in natural hormone replacement therapy: the natural, bioidentical way and other safe, natural nutritional solutions for menopause symptoms, including weight loss, acupuncture, chelation, allergy elimination, and walk-in care. See ad inside front cover.
Peaks of Health Metabolic Medical Center Tracie Leonhardt, DO 7600 Bryan Dairy Rd Suite D Largo, Florida 33777 (727) 826-0838 PeaksOfHealth.com
Dr. Leonhardt is Board Certified & Fellow of the American Academy of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. Offers a personalized program for each individual patient. Offering: Hormone replacement therapy, weight loss, thyroid, GI issues, Diabetes, infrared sauna, IV nutrition, Anti-aging, Chronic fatigue, adrenal fatigue, and toxicities. See ad page 9.
VITAL WELL-BEING CENTER 210 So Pinellas Ave, Suite 106 Tarpon Springs, FL 34689 (727) 786-1661 VitalWell-BeingCenter.com
Our intention is to bring together the best of conventional medicine with an alternative approach to create a practice that would empower each patient to bring greater wellness into his or her own life. Call to schedule an appt with one of our physicians today. See ad page 16.
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Professional Herbalists Training Program
Acupuncture & Herbal Therapies 222 2nd St. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33705 (727) 551—0857 AcuHerbals.com
The 2-year program meets one weekend each month for class and Wednesday nights for our hands-on student clinic. This program is designed to create clinical herbalists in a combination of Chinese and western herbalism. Many open classes. Designed to meet American Herbalists Guild standards. See ad page 30.
astrology Astrology for Your Soul
Aluna Michaels, M.A., Esoteric Astrologer Dunedin (727) 239-7179 alunamichaels.com Second-generation astrologer and Soul Evolutionist practitioner. Over 25 years of experience. Insightful, unique perspective on goals and issues. “Together we will unveil your soul’s purpose.”
attorney Law Offices of Steven A. Culbreath, P.A. Steven A. Culbreath Esq. 111 - 2nd Avenue N.E., Suite 900 St. Petersburg, FL 33701 (727) 456-6463 steve@saculbreathlaw.com ImmigrationLawTampaBay.com
Member AILA/prestigious AVrating. Authored articles on U.S. immigration law, visa strategies, legislative / regulatory updates, demystifying government agencies, insight into government practices. Visas, Greencards, Citizenship.
blood analysis Stewart Analysis, Ltd.
Brandi Stewart Microscopist/ Insured Wellness Counselor 15511 N.Florida Ave. Suite 2, Tampa (863) 860-6643 brandi@stewartanalysis.com StewartAnalysis.com Specializing in Live and dry layer blood evaluations utilizing applied dark field microscopic technology for health, education and nutritional improvements. Locations available throughout Florida.
chiropractic Conforti Chiropractic and Wellness
4040 Tampa Rd., (813) 818—7499 Benttree Clinic 10935 N. Dale Mabry, (813) 969—2225 Conforti’s Crossroads Chiropractic Center 1811 Healthcare Dr., Trinity (727) 376—9611 Providing affordable family plans. See ad pages 39 and 55.
Juliet S. Bulnes, DMD
colon Hydrotherapy
Westchase Esthetic Family Dentistry 10810 Sheldon Road, Tampa, FL 33626 (813) 792-8211 WestchaseDentists.com
RENEW LIFE
Bonnie Barrett 1153 NE Cleveland St., Clearwater (727) 461—7227 RenewLifeFla.com, Lic# MA14802 MM8132 18 years experience. Specializing in detoxification, digestive care, and weight loss. Services include colon hydrotherapy, lymphatic drainage, massage, Synergie cellulite treatment, infrared sauna for fat burning, and cranial-sacral release.
Willing Heart Counseling Dr. Paula Giusto 2102 S. Mac Dill Ave., Tampa (813) 253—2565 NaturalLivingChiropractic.org
Family chiropractic care, wellness care, nutritional counseling, neuromuscular massage therapy. Jin Shin Jyutsu & craniosacral therapy.
Kerry Knesl, LCSW 105 S. Albany Avenue, Tampa FL 33606 (813) 468-5858 Depression and bipolar disorder, dual diagnosis, eating disorders, anxiety and stress, PTSD, relationship problems, women’s issues, grief, self-esteem issues, adolescent issues, bullying and group therapy.
dentists cleaning We Are CONCIERGE!
Nancy Rosenthal, Nicki Bennett (727) 260-1883 WeAreConcierge@yahoo.com Office cleaning, house cleaning, sitting and open-ups. Day and overnight pet care. Utilizing all natural, green, biodegradable, non-toxic products, safe for your family and pets. Serving the Tampa Bay area.
coaching Dianne M. Kipp, BSN, PCC, CTT
ICF Certified Coach & Business Culture Consultant Dianne M. Kipp & Associates, LLC (727) 481-1646 coach@diannekipp.com DianneKipp.com
Wanting to achieve the best in your personal relationships, professional or business goals? Try coaching with a certified coach. You will be amazed at the results! Coaching Courageous Living choices & senior executives for over 8 years. Complimentary Personal Values Assessments & Intro-session available.
Paul T. Rodeghero DDS
Clearwater Family Dental 215 S Myrtle Ave., Clearwater (727) 442-3363 MyClearwaterFamilyDental.com
counseling Natural Living Chiropractic & wellness center
A full service family practice offering meticulous mercury removal, biological extractions, non metal crowns and bridges in a relaxing atmosphere. Blood serum biocompatible testing available. See ad page 29.
Beata carlson, DDS
2701 Park Dr. Suite 4, Clearwater, Fl. 33763 (727) 712—3837 NaturalAndCosmeticDentistry.com Natural, Holistic, Aesthetic Dentistry. Careful Silver filling removal. Non-metal crowns, bridges and partials. Be pampered in our Spa-like atmosphere. See ad back cover.
David F. Doering, DDS
Doering Family Dental 1201 W. Linebaugh Ave., Tampa (813) 933—5365 TampaDentalCare.com Cosmetic and restorative dentistry. Conservative approach to periodontal (gum) treatment. See ad page 19.
Our practice is a full service family practice. We welcome patients of all ages and can handle any concern that you may present to us. See ad page 13.
Ray Behm, DDS
127 N. Garden Ave., Clearwater 33755 (727) 446—6747 AskDrBehm@SaveYourTeeth.com BehmNaturalDentistry.com Improve your overall health with holistic dentistry! Materials are tested for compatibility with your body. We remove toxic metals, treat root canals, and strengthen teeth and gums with state-of-the-art ozone treatments. See ad pages 23 and 26.
fertility Dr. Guillermo Caceres, D.O.M., M.D. (Peru)
Tampa Bay Fertility Group, Bloomingdale Acupuncture & Nutrition Wellness Center 114 E. Bloomingdale Ave., Brandon, FL 33511 (813) 341—2200 TampaFertility.com Specializing in natural fertility. Discover how to take control of your own fertility and become empowered in making a difference to yourself and your future generations.
herbalist Rose Kalajian—Herbalist
Natural Health Hut Clinic and Herb Farm (813) 991—5177 www.ImHerbalist.com Specializing in growing the herbs used in my clinic practice and in the Herbal Remedies I formulate. Consultations are available for humans, dog, cats, and horses. Promoting health through the use of Herbs. See ad pages 12 and 38.
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hypnosis UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES HYPNOSIS, INC.
Patricia V. Scott, President (727) 943—5003, 866—537—7746 UPHypnosis@yahoo.com UPHypnosis.com Professional Hypnosis & NLP Certification Training, Weekly classes & Private sessions (Smoking, Weight, Stress, Sports, Habits), Clinical/Medical Hypnotherapy available w/referral. Speaking Services & Corporate Programs. See ad page 21.
meditation Meditation on the Inner Light and Sound 1-877- MEDITATE SantMat.net
Learn how to live in alignment with the soul’s purpose and to experience greater harmony within, with others, and with the environment. Always free, never a charge.
organic produce integrative medicine St. Petersburg Health & Wellness
Les Cole, MD 222 2nd St. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33701 (727) 202-6807 StPeteHW.com. Board certified in Anti-Aging/ Regenerative and Integrative/ Holistic Medicine. Specializing in men’s & women’s health, bio-identical hormones, weight, diabetes, hypertension, thyroid, fatigue, stress, gut health, chelation, IV vitamin C, nutrition. See ad pages 30, and 33.
Mind Body spirit Care Ron N. Shemesh, M.D. 3610 Madaca Lane, Tampa (813) 935—CARE (2273) MindBodySpiritCare.com
Integrative & holistic medicine for women & men: Natural Hormone Therapy, Anti-Aging, IV Chelation, Nutritional Vitamin Therapy, Fatigue & Stress Management, Weight Loss, Yoga, Nutritional Counseling. Affiliated with St. Joseph Hospital. Most insurance accepted.
QUEEN BEE FOODS
Nancy Eiseman (727) 906-5147 Info@queenbeefresh.com QueenBeeFresh.com
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Tampa Bay Organics
Jessica Papesh (813) 949-1112 TampaBayOrganics.com hello@tampabayorganics.com Tampa Bay Organics delivers fresh, delicious 100% Certified Organic Fruits and Vegetables directly to your home or office. Customize your delivery schedule and produce preferences to fit your lifestyle! www.TampaBayOrganics.com. See ad page 36.
psychotherapy
Sarah Boughanmi, LLL, LLM, ESQ (QC.)
SUZANNE P. PERSONS, Ph.D., LMHC
We help you attain a holistic and sustainable lifestyle for: health, beauty, rejuvenation, detox, and wellness. Specializing in produce/sprouts, coaching and retreats.See ad page 47.
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animal alternatives holistic health care Dr. Anne Lampru 238 E. Bearss Ave., Tampa (813) 265—2411 AnimalAlternatives.org
Dr. Anne Lampru has practiced holistic veterinary medicine since 1983. Believing that each pet is unique, she tailors a health restoration or maintenance plan to their individual needs. See ad page 36.
Medicine River Animal Hospital Shawna L. Green, DVM 14995 Gulf Blvd, Suite J Madeira Beach, FL 33708 (727) 299—9029 MedicineRiverAnimalHospital.com
Compassionate health care catered toward the needs of your pet offering preventative medicine, surgery, dentistry, senior wellness, and more. See ad page 42.
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lifestyle coaching 1-844-64-LIGHT (54448) LifeGlowOrganics.com,LifeGlowHealth.com FloridaHealthRetreat.com
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MH#0423 / since 1982 Psychotherapy / Consultation 1700 Park Street North St. Petersburg, FL 33710 (727) 804—1706
EMDR Therapy for stress, trauma and change. Counseling for people with grief, loss, esteem issues; relationship communication, life assessment, direction and goals, father/daughter relationships.
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HCG ACCELERATED DIET
LifeWorks Wellness Center Sue Morgan, ARNP Sue Minkoff, RN 301 Turner Street, Clearwater, FL 33756, (727) 466 6789 LifeWorksWellnessCenter.com Experience this revolutionary, medically supervised weightloss program, where patients lose 14-20lbs in 24 days. See ad inside cover.
Success by Design
Dr. Tami Horner 9095 Belcher Rd, Pinellas Park (727) 548-0001 SuccessByDesignWeightLoss.com. Our Medical Weight Loss Program is designed to meet YOUR unique individual needs and lifestyle. It is not a starvation or fad diet. You will not only lose the weight you desire, but you will learn how to change your lifestyle so that you are successful in keeping your weight off. See ad page 10.
How much longer will you be okay with SICK CARE!? With all of the changes in insurance, making your HEALTH CARE work for you is more important than ever. We currently have SICK CARE, not HEALTH CARE Last year Americans spent $2.8 trillion on healthcare. That is around $8,000 per person. So does this mean that we are all healthy and living well? Absolutely NOT! In fact, we lead the world in heart disease, obesity, and cancer. Astonishingly, 5 out of 6 Americans will be diagnosed with either heart disease or cancer. If we were spending the most money in healthcare and had the healthiest people, maybe it would be worth it. But we are spending the most money AND have the unhealthiest people. In a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association, of 37 different developed countries the United States ranked 37th (dead last) in terms of overall health of the population. SO where are we spending all of this money? When we are sick or in pain, we go to the doctor. We get prescriptions to help cure and prevent illness and pain. What do we do when that medication has a side effect or no longer works? We go back and get more medications for the next side effect. Americans take up 5% of the world’s population, yet we consume 85% of the world’s medications. You would think that if drugs make you healthy then we would be the healthiest nation, and that is far from the truth. We had 1.1 million people die last year because of drugs and these are not street drugs like heroin or other illegal drugs. These are prescription drugs that were prescribed for the right condition, the right amount, the right time. Prescriptions are not the only culprit, a large amount of that money is spent in nursing homes and cancer treatment centers. We have so many sick and ailing people in our population that we are seeing more and more longterm nursing facilities. People may be living longer, but we are not living better. The focus needs to change. We cannot be okay with a health system that has no regard for health. It is time to take the focus off of SICK care and focus on health.
TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH A lot of people believe that genetics are to blame for the disease we see in our society today, but only 2-5% of degenerative illnesses are actually caused by genetics. So that leaves 95-98% of disease that is caused by lifestyle. The foods we eat, the drinks we drink, and the habits we live are the main cause of the increase in disease. Our offices are focused on HEALTH care. We recognize that health is not just about what you eat and whether or not you exercise. Our offices implement maximized mind, maximized nutrition, maximized nerve supply, maximized oxygen and lean muscle. We personalize each care plan and work with our patients to establish health and wellness goals that create a healthy lifestyle that maximizes each patients’ quality of life. We offer full health and wellness care that excludes drugs, shots, and harmful combinations or both. Our goal is to make sure our patients live the healthiest life possible. BUT WHAT TRULY SETS US APART FROM ALL OTHER WELLNESS CLINICS It is our dedication to whole health wellness. Our patients are not just adjusted and sent on their way. We spend time focusing on spinal CORRECTION not just spinal alignment. By providing our patients with in office and at home stretching, strengthening, and lifestyle changes, our patients are the healthiest they can possibly be without introducing toxins. It is truly about balance and focus on health. What does CORRECTIVE CARE mean? If your spine and Central Nervous System are “abnormal,” there is a need for corrective chiropractic care. This type of care will restore “normal” spinal position and alignment. By properly restoring normal curves to the spine and aligning the vertebrae, it will eliminate interferences allowing your body to function and heal “normally.” This optimizes your chance to live at 100% of your body’s peak performance. A healthy spine will allow your body to express a normal body temperature, a normal blood pressure, and other measureable norms for the spine itself.
There are four primary curves of the spine in the lateral (side) view of the spine. These curves give the spine strength, stability, and flexibility. Any loss of integrity of these curves can affect the function of the nervous system as this is the basis of evolution. These misalignments can put further stress on several aspects of the spine including the soft tissue structures, muscles, ligaments and discs that support the spine and its normal function. Much like braces straighten teeth, it is our aim to restore the proper alignment of your spine. Recent research allows us to now know the measurements and proper alignment of your spine. There is a normal body temperature, a normal blood pressure, and there are measureable norms for the spine. We take the necessary steps to restore the regions of abnormal alignment to normal through whole health wellness. Obtaining the level of normal alignment allows us to cure and prevent disease that otherwise leads to a lifetime of harmful shots and pills.
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WITH 6 TAMPA BAY AREA LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU Conforti Chiropractic and Wellness Center, Inc. 4040 Tampa Road, Oldsmar, FL 34677 813.818.7499 Conforti’s Crossroads 1811 Healthcare Drive, Trinity, FL 34655 727.376.9611 Benttree Clinic 10935 N Dale Mabry, Tampa, FL 813.969.2225 New Tampa Chiropractic and Injury 2312 Crestover Lane #102 Wesley Chapel, FL 33544 813.994.6111 Palma Ceia Chiropractic and Wellness 1502 S MacDill Ave, Tampa, FL 33629 813.251.0246 St Pete Chiropractic and Injury Center 2206 4th Street North, St. Pete, FL 33704 727.822.6700
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