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Rethinking Cancer

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Natural Therapies Prevent and Heal

SING It’s Good for You! Kid-Smart Supplements The Right Choices Help Children Thrive

Go Plastic-Free A Way to Better Health for People and the Planet

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As I gather my thoughts to share with you, I would like to pose a couple of questions that are resonating in my spirit: What is the toughest challenge that you’ve ever faced? What would be the toughest words, or statement, directed toward you, or your loved one, that would shake you to the very core of your being?

“Good afternoon Mr. or Mrs._________________, this is Dr. Not Good News, and I need you to come in for a follow-up consultation with regard to your examination last week. It’s very important. You’ve been diagnosed with ____________________.”

My dear friends, many of us try to chase these intrusive thoughts away to free ourselves from the dark conscious clouds of doubt, fear and anxiety that can loom over our heads, stealing away our joy, peace and, most importantly, our hope.

Well, life can be tough at times, and it can throw some pretty stiff (and unexpected) punches where it hurts most. My response to that and my challenge to you is to FIGHT BACK! You can win. How? you might ask.

Fight back and win by taking good care of yourself; mind, body, soul and spirit. Fight back and win by educating yourself in the areas of health, wellness and holistic living; by employing sound preventive care; and by engaging in a lifestyle of healthy living. Remember, you have choices and options for great decision making to guide you.

This is the theme of our featured article this month, “Rethinking Cancer.”

Millions have been touched by this dreaded illness, and based upon mounting statistics, it is likely that you know someone fighting that battle right now. Read this very helpful article, and the many other great sources of information and ideas for empowered living throughout this month’s Columbia edition of Natural Awakenings.

Yes, life can be tough, and the toughest challenges it presents may certainly come our way, but always remember that a life guided by great choices in all areas of well-being and conscious living is a life with more than a fighting chance.

The power lies within. FIGHT BACK AND WIN! In Health,

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Natural Awakenings is your guide to a healthier, more balanced life. In each issue, readers find cutting-edge information on natural health, nutrition, fitness, personal growth, green living, creative expression and the products and services that support a healthy lifestyle.

6 HAPPY PARENTS HAPPY KIDS

RenĂŠe Peterson Trudeau Explores Soulful Parenting

by Meredith Montgomery

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by Jan Kortie

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Singing Heals Our Soul, Sets Us Free

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Game On: Ways to

Shrink Our Footprint

by Randy Kambic

15 RETHINKING CANCER A Brave New World of Effective Natural Therapies

by Linda Sechrist

19 NATURE’S ANTIBIOTICS 23 Recover Health with Less Risk

by Kathleen Barnes

23 KID-SMART SUPPLEMENTS

The Right Choices

Help Children Thrive

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25 PREVENTING SEIZURES

Natural Dog Remedies Can Out-Do Drugs

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newsbriefs Bell Lifestyle Has New Vitality Products

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ell Lifestyle Products offers a wide selection of natural health products available in more than 7,000 health food stores and pharmacies in North America.

Bell Forza #79, a new formula for men packed with herbs, amino acids and other ingredients, is now available. As men age, there can be a gradual decrease in libido and overall sexual function. Contributing factors include stress, diet, hormonal changes and lack of exercise. Some components of the North American diet can deplete natural elements that contribute to good health. Forza has been formulated to support virility and strength* while simultaneously nourishing the endocrine system.* Other benefits include support for healthy circulation, balance of natural hormonal processes,* and increase in energy and stamina.*

Bell Amora #80 is formulated specifically for the needs of most women in North America who live busy and stressful lives. A bad diet combined with all of the ups and downs of life can take a toll on relationships, physically and emotionally. Amora serves as a sexual support system for women. A combination of herbs, amino acids and minerals, Amora helps promote energy and health so that women can live up to their potential and become strong, healthy and vibrant. The easy-to-take capsules are designed to help stimulate desire and passion; support healthy circulation; balance natural hormonal processes; and increase sexual interest, libido and stamina.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Bell Lifestyle Products has helped people improve the quality of their life since 1996. For more information, visit BellLifestyleProducts.com. See ad, page 31.

Certified Reiki Practitioner Program

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arolina Reiki Institute Inc. is now accepting registration for the Fall 2013 Certified Reiki Practitioner Program. This is a six-month program with a more in-depth course of instruction than the individual classes. It includes Usui Reiki Levels I through III (master), clinicals, ethics and business practice setup information.

Reiki has been practiced in the mainland United States

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since the early ‘70s, but still remains relatively unknown. It is not taught in the traditional sense of instruction, but is transferred to the student during the Reiki class. The Reiki master passes the ability to connect and tap directly into the source of this unlimited supply of “life-force energy” by way of “attunements”. No specific intellectual capacity is required, nor is it dependent on one’s spiritual development, and once attuned, the ability to connect to the energy is never lost.

Reiki classes have traditionally been divided into “levels”, or “degrees”, each initiating the student into a higher level or vibration of the Reiki energy. Reiki IV is an additional course available as an internship for those that wish to become Reiki teachers.

Class dates are October 12 and 13, December 14, and February 15, with clinical at each level of training and graduation in April. Cost for the program is $950 if registration with payment is received before September 12. After that date, registration will be $1,000. Transfer students may be accepted at the discretion of the instructor.

Contact Margaret Self for more details at 803-551-1191 or MSelf@CarolinaReikiInstitute.com.

Food Not Bombs Benefit at Conundrum Music Hall

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he Food Not Bombs Benefit will be hosted at the Conundrum Music Hall at 626 Meeting Street, West Columbia. Activities kick off at 8 p.m. on Sunday, September 8, with doors opening at 7:30 pm. The night begins with a singer/songwriter lineup, and headlining the evening is one of Columbia’s stalwart bands, Stillhouse. John M. Starino will emcee the event, which provides a free meal to anyone who desires one each Sunday. Food Not Bombs works to call attention to poverty and homelessness in society by sharing food in public places.

Tickets will be available for purchase for $10 at the door. To order advance tickets for $7, visit Conundrum.us.

For more event information, please contact John M. Starino at 803-463-8297.

The 2013 SC Green Is Good for Business Conference

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ake sure not to miss the Palmetto State’s premier green business event: the SC Green Is Good for Business

Conference, hosted by the City of Columbia and City of Columbia Climate Protection Action Campaign. The event will be held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center on Tuesday, September 10, from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Each year, hundreds gather at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center to learn ways their organization can be more sustainable and network with sustainability-minded businesses.

Attendees represent every type of workplace, including manufacturing, retail, professional services, government, nonprofit, even mom-and-pop and home-based businesses.

All attendees have a vested interest in sustainability. Whether their company is learning how to be sustainable, taking their business to the next level or leading the way in their industry, they all need products and services that reduce their environmental impact and promote sustainability.

Build your brand, develop new business, increase your brand recognition, engage potential customers, and demonstrate your commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship. Registration is from 8:30 to 9 a.m.

Three Rivers Extravaganza Guided River Trip

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hrough the month of August, Get Your Gear On will host the Guided River Trip: Three Rivers Extravaganza at 208 Candi Lane, Columbia (near Riverbanks Zoo).

Experience all three of the Midlands’ rivers in one exciting trip. Whitewater adventure, wildlife, secluded spots, swimming spots, comfortable and stable sit-on-top-kayaks—prior experience not necessary. We have this trip on sale. Whitewater plus offers lots of history, scenery, swimming and wildlife make this a rewarding experience for people of all ages and skill levels.

This is an adventure you will remember with a smile.

Departure time is 1 p.m. For more information, including pricing, please call Tim Ray or Hartley Barber at 803799-0999 or visit GetYourGearOn@yahoo.com.

Electronic Recycling Event Hosted at Brookland Baptist Church

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n Saturday, August 10, the Richland County Solid Waste & Recycling Department will host its electronic recycling campaign at Brookland Baptist Church, 1203 Summit Parkway, Columbia (northeast campus), from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m.

The following materials will be accepted: • Paper shredding – sponsored by Shred With US (limit five boxes) • Computers and computer accessories (keyboards, monitors, printers, scanners) • Televisions 40” or smaller – no consoles • Stereos – no consoles • Household electronics, including VCRs, DVD players, power tools, radios, fax machines and small appliances • Microwave ovens, household electric items with power cords • Telephones (land and cell), pagers and answering machines • Scrap metal — stoves, washers, dryers, bicycles, metal door frames, metal chairs, metal shelves, lawn mowers (must be free of gas and oil) • Tires — car and light truck tires or smaller, small tires (e.g., bike or wheelbarrow); limit of eight per family • Refrigerators and air conditioners will be accepted

*Note: No Commercial Materials: Residential Only Please contact 803-576-2446 for more information.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. ~Wallace Stevens

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HAPPY PARENTS HAPPY KIDS

Renée Peterson Trudeau Explores Soulful Parenting

by Meredith Montgomery

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he oldest of seven Montessori-inspired children and mother of one, Renée Peterson Trudeau serves as a life balance coach, speaker and president of Career Strategists, a coaching and consulting firm. Thousands of women in 10 countries participate in Personal Renewal Groups based on her first book, The Mother’s Guide to SelfRenewal. Now, in a new book, Nurturing the Soul of Your Family, Trudeau helps empower families to handle the challenges of everyday life with harmony and ease.

How can individuals achieve more peace?

We realize peace by nurturing our hearts and souls with self-care, by slowing down and being gentle with ourselves. It requires us to attune and respond to our own needs and desires in the present moment. Am I responding with compassion when I make mistakes? Am I saying no when I need to say no? Did I ask for and receive help when I needed it? This is self-care in day-to-day life. When we feel nurtured in ways aligned with our deeper needs, we’re able to more fully express our potential and relax into being who we truly are.

How does such caring show up in family dynamics?

When I’m feeling grumpy or irritable, I know that my inner cup is empty and I’m out of sync with my needs. When we practice self-care, we are more present with our partner and children.

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We feel more generous, loving and playful, and it’s easier to weather crises and uncertainties. I believe that modeling self-love is one of the best ways to influence children’s self-esteem.

Why is it important for families to define what they value most?

It’s empowering for a family to anchor together around one key core value.

Once you identify it, you all can make more conscious decisions. The value that my own family has chosen is compassion for one’s self and others.

Creativity, spirituality, service or learning are others.

As kids grow into adolescence, it becomes more challenging to maintain balance; there are so many demands on a family’s time and attention. Mentally, we’re often overwhelmed by an expanding scope of activities and decisions. At any age, a lot of us are just reacting to whatever comes at us. But when we identify the values most important to us, it’s easier to know when to say yes and no to things, so that our actions become aligned with our priorities.

What is behind the rising appeal of living more simply?

Simplicity is alluring at a most basic level of our being; we crave it. We want to invest less energy in making decisions and have more space for life to organically unfold. We want to hit the pause button because we are overscheduled, overworked and overloaded with too much information. It can feel so good

“Mom, tell them to surprise their kids—listen to them, have fun with them and just spend time with them.” ~ Jonah Trudeau, age 9 to be productive, and American culture rewards output. But we need to be mindful of balancing the harder task of ‘being’ with the seduction of doing, for we are at our most powerful when both of these energies are equal.

Where do we start?

If we are not currently living in alignment with what matters most to us, we can stop what we’re doing and coursecorrect. We have to define what simplicity looks like for us and can start by just slowing down. Do less to experience more. Unplug from technology.

Try spending unscheduled, media-free time together. My family feels most nourished after weekends that we hardly did anything and just enjoyed connecting through simple pleasures.

What role does spirituality play in fostering a healthy family life?

I hear a lot of parents say that they used to think that spirituality was separate from parenting. Then they woke up to the idea that being a parent is a spiritual practice, maybe the most profound one they will ever have.

Connecting to the sacred in everyday life yields nurturing gifts we can enjoy with our children, not separate from them.

What is the most valuable advice that you offer to parents?

Pause to breathe in compassion and realize that our outer state is a reflection of our inner state. It helps us release whatever we’re dealing with and reconnect with ourselves and loved ones.

For more information, visit ReneeTrudeau.com.

Meredith Montgomery is a regular contributor to Natural Awakenings.

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Never Too Old to Quit

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ven smokers 60 and over can live longer if they quit, according to a 2012 study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Three experts from the German Cancer Research Center, in Heidelberg, analyzed 17 studies from the United States, Australia, China, England, France, Japan and Spain that followed groups of between 863 and 877,243 people for periods ranging from three to 50 years. Findings showed that the longer a person had been classified as a former, rather than current, smoker, the more their risk of premature death decreased. The researchers also observed that current smokers showed the highest absolute mortality rates in all the studies.

Dr. Tai Hing Lam, of the University of Hong Kong, observes that for people in their 60s, quitting was linked to a 21 percent decrease in the risk of premature death. The risk was reduced by 27 percent for those in their 70s and by 24 percent for individuals in their 80s. Lam added that the World Health Organization’s statistic that one out of every two smokers will die from their habit should be printed on all cigarette packages, “…so that all smokers know they are betting their lives on the toss of a coin.”

Glories of Growing Up Grateful

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ratitude gifts teens with better mental health, according to researchers at California State University. Thankful teens are more apt to be happy and less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol or have behavior problems at school than their less grateful peers.

The researchers asked 700 students, ages 10 to 14, to complete questionnaires initially, and again four years later. Teens that reported practicing the most gratitude at the end of the study enjoyed a 15 percent greater sense of meaning in life, became 15 percent more satisfied with their life overall (at home, at school and with their neighborhood, friends and themselves) and grew 17 percent more happy and hopeful about their lives, plus experienced 13 and 15 percent drops in negative emotions and depressive symptoms, respectively.

“These findings suggest that gratitude may be strongly linked with life skills such as cooperation, purpose, creativity and persistence,” making it “a vital resource that parents, teachers and others that work with young people should help youth build up as they grow up,” says lead author Giacomo Bono, Ph.D., a psychology professor at California State University-Dominguez Hills. “More gratitude may be precisely what our society needs to raise a generation that is ready to make a difference in the world.”

Source: American Psychological Association’s 120th annual convention

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Bounce House Boo-Boos

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staple at amusement parks, fast-food restaurants and kids’ backyard parties, inflatable bounce houses look and sound like a lot of fun—yet can cause problems.

“I was surprised by the number of injuries, especially by the rapid increase,” says Dr. Gary A. Smith, lead author of a recent study by the Center for Injury Research and Policy that he founded at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital, in Columbus, Ohio. From fewer than 1,000 injuries sending kids 17 and under to emergency rooms in 1995, the number skyrocketed to nearly 11,000 in 2010. Most injuries result from falls or collisions within the bounce houses or from falling out of them; only 3 percent required a hospital stay.

Bounce house injuries are similar to those associated with trampolines, and more than a third of the study injuries involved children 5 and younger. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recommends against letting children younger than 6 use fullsize trampolines, and Smith says barring that age group from even smaller, home-use bounce houses makes sense. In addition, the commission recommends limiting use to fewer bouncers at a time and not allowing younger children to participate at the same time as older kids.

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Another Plus for Natural Birth

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team of researchers at the Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven, Connecticut, has found that vaginal birth triggers the expression of a protein, UCP2 (mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2), in the brains of newborns that improves brain development and function in adulthood. It influences neurons and circuits in the hippocampus, the area responsible for memory.

The protein is also involved in the cellular metabolism of fat, a key component of breast milk, suggesting that induction of UCP2 by natural birth may aid the transition to breastfeeding. The researchers also found that this protein expression is impaired in the brains of babies delivered by Caesarean section.

These results suggest, “The increasing prevalence of C-sections, driven by convenience rather than medical necessity, may have a previously unsuspected lasting effect on brain development and function in humans,” observes Tamas Horvath, chair of Yale’s Department of Comparative Medicine.

Prevent Cancer with Food

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ood is our most powerful form of medicine or our slowest form of poison, so maximizing your nutrition can reduce your risk for all chronic disease, even cancer. Most cancers are not genetic, and even those that are there is usually some sort of toxin or trigger that turns on the gene. Avoid the trigger, and the gene won’t be turned on. A new and fascinating field of science is epigenetics, discovering that your genes don’t determine your fate; you determine which genes are expressed.

First of all, eat organic whenever possible. Organic foods have more antioxidants, vitamin C, iron, magnesium and phosphorous, as well as phenols, all of which are anticancer. The reduction in carcinogenic pesticides, DDT and nitrates is another reason to choose organic when possible. If on a budget, check out the Clean Fifteen and the Dirty Dozen at EWG.org.

Boost your body’s anti-inflammatory capabilities, as inflammation can set off the cascade to chronic disease and cancer. Great anti-inflammatory foods are fish (omega-3 oils) rosemary, garlic, curcumin, and green and black tea. Plant-based sources of omega-3 fatty acids are ground flax and hemp seed, as well as walnut oil.

All animal products, including dairy and eggs, must be GMO, hormone- and antibiotic-free, and the animals should be able to roam and eat their natural diet (grass for cows).Corn-fed beef must be avoided, as it is highly inflammatory due to its increased fat content and other compounds created by the inappropriate diet. Grass-fed beef is one of the only ways to get CLA, an essential fatty acid.

Lastly, avoid sugars, including sugar alcohol, and saturated or trans-fats, which are inflammatory and feed cancer. Use the lowest heat possible when cooking, so avoid grilling, frying and other high-heat use. Make sure your cooking oil doesn’t modify with heat like most vegetable oils marketed for use in cooking do. Olive oil is OK for very low-heat cooking, any higher, use whole coconut oil. And those toasted, roasted and baked products, like your chips at lunch, are high in acrylamide, a known carcinogen in cigarettes.

In short, eat things made by a plant and not in a plant, and be wise in how foods are prepared. Eat well to live well.

For more information, contact Dr. Rachel E. Hall, an integrative family physician at Expect Wellness, at 803-796-1702, and visit DrRachelHall.com. See ad, page 16.

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Umbilical Cord Bingo

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he Manchester Guardian reports that childbirth experts in the United Kingdom are urging the National Health Service (NHS) to reverse its policy on early clamping and cutting of a newborn’s umbilical cord. A recent Swedish study of 400 full-term infants from low-risk pregnancies published in the British Medical Journal found that delayed cord-clamping at birth resulted in infants being 5 percent less likely of being anemic two days later or iron deficient four months later. The latter problem has been associated with impaired brain development.

The practice of separating infants from the placenta within 10 seconds of delivery has been commonplace since the 1960s, as supported by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, which advises the NHS. However, several doctors, medical organizations and the nonprofit National Childbirth Trust (NCT), plus the World Health Organization, disagree; they advocate leaving the placenta untouched for at least 30 seconds up to whenever it stops pulsating naturally (usually between two to five minutes). Exceptions would be if the baby’s or mother’s health necessitates medical intervention.

“At birth, about a third of the baby’s blood is still in his or her cord and placenta,” explains Belinda Phipps, NCT chief executive. Unfortunately, “It is still accepted practice to deprive the baby of this blood.”

globalbriefs News and resources to inspire concerned citizens to work together in building a healthier, stronger society that benefits all.

Shifting Priorities

A Dose of Awe Can Make a Teen More Caring A meta-analysis published in the Personality and Social Psychology Review suggests that experiencing awe helps young people focus less on themselves and more on the world around them. Exposure to natural wonders and accounts of great human accomplishments can do the trick.

It’s a helpful strategy, given that narcissism is on the rise and college students have become dramatically less empathetic over the years, particularly since 2000.

Sixty-four percent of respondents ages 18 to 25 surveyed thought getting rich is their most important goal, while only 30 percent believed that helping others in need is important.

Awe humbles us in the presence of something greater than ourselves. Experiencing it during adolescence, a period crucial in the formation of self-identity, could help coax teens out of their, “I am the center of the world,� funk and put them on a path to a life lived in compassionate connection with others.

Source: SagePub.com

High-Tech Teachers

Students Use Smartphones to Study Highlighting the potential for digital learning, a new survey by the Verizon Foundation has found that a third of middle school students are already using mobile apps on smartphones to do schoolwork and collaborate with peers on projects. Beyond accessing information via the Internet, students often turn to free apps to play games that help them master math concepts, virtually dissect an animal or analyze clouds and concepts of condensation and more.

The Verizon Foundation offers training to educators on integrating mobile technology into lesson plans by partnering with the nonprofit Technology Student Association and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Together, they are sponsoring the Innovative App Challenge, in which hundreds of middle and high school student teams are conceptualizing mobile apps that incorporate science/technology/engineering/mathematics (STEM) activities to solve a problem in their school or community. Ten teams won personal smartphones and $10,000 grants for their schools, plus assistance in creating their apps and bringing them to the public earlier this year. Verizon expects to launch a new edition of the program this fall.

Source: The Christian Science Monitor at CSMonitor.com

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Nasty Stuff

Monsanto Weed Killer Contaminates Food A peer-reviewed Massachusetts Institute of Technology report published in the scientific journal Entropy points to evidence that residues of glyphosate, the chief ingredient in Roundup weed killer, manufactured by Monsanto and sprayed over millions of acres of crops, has been found in food. The residues enhance the damaging effects of other food-borne chemicals and toxins in the environment known to disrupt normal body functions and induce disease, including Parkinson’s, infertility and cancers.

Reuters reports that environmentalists, consumer groups and plant scientists from several countries have warned that heavy use of glyphosate is harming plants, people and animals. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a standard registration review of glyphosate to determine by 2015 if its use should be limited. Yet Monsanto continues to claim that glyphosate is safe and less damaging than other commonly used herbicides.

Solar Powered

Capturing Energy from Asphalt Roads Asphalt roads throughout the country are well known for soaking up the sun’s rays. Now, new piping technology from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts, is offering a way to trap heat and use it elsewhere, potentially transforming blacktopped streets into giant solar energy collectors.

It works by using the sun-warmed asphalt to heat water pumped through tubes embedded a few inches below the road surface. This can help to cool asphalt by utilizing some of the heat that would have remained in the material to heat the circulating water to produce electricity.

Researchers are testing different pipe materials and conductive aggregates to add to the asphalt to improve heat absorption. Costs relative to potential returns have yet to be quantified.

Source: ForumForTheFuture.org

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Wear It Well

First Eat Local, Then Dress Local Buying local isn’t just about food choices. In supporting community businesses and reducing our ecological footprint, fiber is another important consideration, encompassing farmers that grow cotton and hemp or raise sheep for wool, fiber artisans and textile designers.

The U.S. presently imports about 95 percent of Americans’ clothing, reports the Ecology Global Network (Ecology.com), with most manufactured in countries where sweatshops and human rights abuses are common. Polyester and nylon, the most commonly used synthetic fibers, are derived from petroleum and processed and dyed using synthetic, often toxic substances. According to a 2010 report

by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, the textile industry is that country’s third-worst polluter.

The nonprofit Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture’s (cuesa.org) Fibershed program raises public awareness of the issue in Central California. Robin Lynde, a shepherd, weaver and teacher at Meridian Jacobs Farm, in Vacaville, also sells yarn, fleece, felt, lambskin, hand-woven garments and blankets.

“Fiber producers, users and designers may not know that there are sheep 10 miles away from them and they can get that fiber,” she says.

Fibershed also promotes a Grow Your Jeans program, comprising area

sourcing, dyeing and sewing of a limited run of jeans. While textile sustainability in any given region is developing, the organization recommends that residents mend, instead of discard, old clothes, swap clothing or buy used, while resisting marketing pressure to augment wardrobes every season to keep up with trends. Someday, we might be able to visit a nearby field where our clothing is grown.

The Sustainable Cotton Project (SustainableCotton.org), based in Winters, California, conducts a Cleaner Cotton program that helps conventional growers transition to more sustainable practices using non-GMO varieties and integrated pest management practices to more gently solve ecological challenges. A big part of the challenge is to get the word out. “To get cleaner cotton to a spinner, someone has to request it,” says Executive Director Marcia Gibbs.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children. ~Nelson Mandela

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Our Own Ode of Joy Singing Heals Our Soul, Sets Us Free

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by Jan Kortie

efore singing was part of any human culture, it was part of nature.

Nature never tries hard; it just is. It grows and blossoms and flows. So does heartfelt singing—as a joyful expression of soul, of one’s essential being. It is giving and sharing. Most of all, it is alive.

Singing like this doesn’t ask for effort. But it does ask for courage. In expressing our longings, hopes and love, we may encounter fear, shame or sorrow. That’s part of the beauty and surprising simplicity of liberating ourselves through song, which can be equally cheerful, lighthearted and humorous, or insightfully confronting the challenging issues in our lives.

Some people make every effort to sing eloquently, but the joy of singing is just as fully accessible for those that can’t master the technical qualifications or even carry a tune. All we really need to do to achieve personal satisfaction is to sing what’s inside us, enabling who we are to emerge. That’s why singing is healing; it helps make us whole.

Giving emotional space to ourselves in song allows us to be heard in a special way; no two voices are alike because each is exactly suited to the individual. Our innate tendency to

sing, like other forms of music, connects us with others and reminds us of ways in which we are attuned to one another. More natural than talking, the vibration of a singing voice is the most magical, direct way to connect our internal and external worlds.

It’s comforting to note that we can only sing off-key if we compare our voice to another’s. No child ever decides by himself that he can’t sing. A child spontaneously sings, dances and draws without preconception until an authority figure steps in with a discordant opinion.

Singing is a natural phenomenon as intuitive as breathing. It’s our right to sing freely, and so share our hearts and music with the world. As a soaring expression of love, it contributes greatly to the well-being of individuals, communities and society.

Jan Kortie first introduced the idea of voice-liberation in the Netherlands 30 years ago, developing a joyful approach to personal and professional singing that extends beyond traditional methods and techniques. His book, Your Soul Wants to Sing, available in Dutch, is the primer for his Academy of Voice Liberation, where he serves as director.

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Go Plastic-Free Game On: Ways to Shrink Our Footprint

by Randy Kambic

Looking around us, we see plastic everywhere.

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“The biggest

esides the customgoing plastic-free ever since. ary food and prod“I made a game of it; lesson since uct packaging, plus a fun, creative, step-by-step I started is the challenge,” she advises. store bags, consider all the nooks and crannies joy of less—of “You can’t go through the of our lives that plastic house and think you can buying less stuff get rid of all plastic immenow permeates: eating utensils; baby and pet and making do diately. As items get used toys; computer keyboards up, you’ll find alternatives.” with what I and accessories; pens; Once we are in the habit of eyeglasses; athletic footalready have.” staying alert to the plastic wear; backpacks; lightscourge, we’ll naturally spot ers; beauty care and pill opportunities for healthy ~ Beth Terry containers; household change-ups. cleaning bottles; ice cube trays; shaving razors; tool handles; hairbrushes Science Sounds the Alarm and toothbrushes—even some facial In 2011, Harvard School of Public scrubs, shampoos and chewing gum.

Health researchers made news by dis Beth Terry, author of Plastic-Free: covering that consuming one serving How I Kicked the Habit and How You of canned food daily for five days led Can Too, points out compelling reato significantly elevated urinary levels sons to take personal action. In 2007, of bisphenol-A (BPA). This plastic and this Oakland, California, resident saw epoxy resin ingredient is found in the a photo of the decomposed carcass of liners of many food and drink cans and a Laysan albatross riddled with plastic sometimes in plastic bottles. It’s known bits in an article on water pollution. to be a serious endocrine disrupter.

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Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, not breathe,” she writes. This seminal altered functions of reproductive organs moment led her to further research, and other ailments have been linked to by which she realized, “This plague of high BPA levels in several studies, inplastic chemicals is harming everyone, cluding one cited in Endocrine Reviews and especially the most vulnerable journal. The Manchester Guardian members of our planet—children and also recently reported that the French animals—and that is both unacceptAgency for Food, Environmental and able and unfair.” She’s been working on Occupational Health Safety has stated

Milo Cress, of Burlington, Vermont, launched the national Be Straw-Free campaign at age 10, when he realized that restaurants routinely give customers a plastic straw whether they want it or not. that an unborn baby’s exposure to BPA through the mother could be linked to many health problems, including breast cancer later in life.

When plastics are subjected to stress—like heat, light or age—undisclosed additives used in their production for strength, flexibility and color can leach out and even contaminate lab results, as the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry found. Such chemicals can migrate into our digestive systems and through our skin; they can also off-gas into the air, according to a recent study by Weber State University’s Energy & Sustainability Office, in Ogden, Utah. Plus, unrecycled plastic materials can enter waterways and kill marine life through ingestion or entanglement (ocean garbage patches are major examples).

Reducing our own plastic footprint can both safeguard family health and prove that we are serious about pressuring industry to produce less of it. The key, according to Terry, is not to be intimidated or overwhelmed by plastic overload, but persist in taking baby steps (see MyPlasticFreeLife.com).

How to Begin

As a starting point, Terry notes that plastic enables the long-distance food distribution system. Reducing food miles associated with our meals helps cut down on the use of plastic.

In the kitchen, use airtight stainless steel containers or glass jars or simply refrigerate a bowl of food with a saucer on top to hold leftovers for the next day. Compost food waste. Reuse empty plastic food bags and line garbage cans with old newspapers instead of plastic bags.

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Terry cautions, “People assume everything that carries the triangular symbol is accepted at all recycling facilities. This is not the case. What isn’t accepted is landfilled or even incinerated.” Also, according to the city of Oakland’s Waste Management Department, she learned “Much of what we put out for recycling goes to China, and their processing standards are not as strong as ours.”

In Plastic-Free, the author provides scores of tips for borrowing, renting and sharing products; buying used plastic equipment if it’s a necessity; and avoiding disposable packaging and paper products. Areas for improvement range from personal care and household cleaning products to bags, bottles, grocery shopping, takeout food, portable leftovers and lunches, plus durable goods. Activists will move on to also participate in area cleanups, donate to green organizations and write their legislators.

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

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Numerous U.S. practicing physicians quoted widely in the media estimate that the incidence of hypothyroidism in our adult population may be between 30 and 70 percent.

Thus, we can’t efficiently produce the thyroid hormones that serve as chemical messengers triggering nearly every bodily function. The presence or absence of iodine affects our every cell.

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Iodized table salt: The human body cannot utilize the iodide added to this product.

Low-sodium diets: Failure to use healthy salts to fulfill sodium requirements, plus overuse of zero-nutrient table salt in foods, leads to iodine depletion.

Bromine: This toxic chemical overrides iodine’s abilities to nourish the thyroid, adrenal and other hormone-producing glands.

A known carcinogen, it is used as an anticaking ingredient found in almost all baked goods, unless the ingredients specifically cite unbromated flour.

Iodine-depleted soils: Due to poor farming techniques, iodine and other minerals in soil have declined, so most foods today are devoid of naturally occurring iodine.

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RETHINKING

CANCER A Brave New World of Effective Natural Therapies

by Linda Sechrist

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usan Silberstein takes her message for preventing cancer and recurrences to medical and nursing schools, continuing oncology nursing education programs and universities

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from her BeatCancer.org headquarters in Richboro, Pennsylvania. The nonprofit organization provides researchbased education and counseling on how to prevent, cope with and beat cancer through immune-boosting holistic approaches. Since 1977, it has helped nearly 30,000 cancer patients and more than 50,000 prevention seekers.

“Early detection is better than late detection, but it’s not prevention,” says Silberstein, who taught the psychology of health and disease at Pennsylvania’s Immaculata University. “We focus on building up patients— minimizing treatment side effects, enhancing immune system function, improving nutritional status and addressing the reasons for sickness in the first place.”

“Conventional medicine never addresses the cause, which is a process that needs to be understood so the individual can turn it off,” elaborates Massachusetts Institute of Technologytrained scientist Raymond Francis, au-

thor of Never Fear Cancer Again: How to Prevent and Reverse Cancer. Based on his experience beating cancer and research into cellular biochemistry and molecular biology, he concluded that the disease is a biological process that affects the entire body, not something that can be cut out, killed or poisoned.

“Central to healing and prevention is the elimination of things that fuel the growth of cancer cells, such as sugar, toxins, heavy metals, nutrient-deficient processed foods and an acidic environment in the body,” observes Francis.

“Regular exercise, a daily, high-quality multivitamin and detoxification are equally crucial to restoring the body’s biological terrain.”

Doctor of Naturopathy Judy Seeger, founder of CancerCleanseCamp.com and host of CancerAnswers.TV and Cancer Winner Radio, recommends both a regular detoxification regimen and ongoing healthy nutritional plan to help maintain a healing alkaline environment. While this helps cleanse the body of environmental toxins, the toxic emotions and stress that produce acid, weaken the immune system and create an environment for cancer to propagate, must also be dealt with.

Experts generally agree on a range of basic, commonsense preventive measures that include a low-fat, plant-based diet; aerobic, flexibility and strength exercises; healthy sleep habits; and other stress-reducing activities. “These are basic ingredients for maintaining sound health, and can be crucial toward improving the health of an individual with cancer,” says Dr. Keith Block, the “father of integrative oncology,” and author of Life Over Cancer. He founded The Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment, in Skokie, Illinois, that customizes care plans based on each person’s medical, biochemical, physical, nutritional and psychosocial needs.

Nourish Biochemistry

Thousands of cancer patients have outlived their “medical expiration date” by using alternative nontoxic treatments and approaches, many of which are documented in Outsmart Your Cancer, by Tanya Harter Pierce.

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“When it comes to one’s lifetime risk of cancer, healthy diet and lifestyle choices can make all the difference.” ~ Susan Silberstein, Ph.D., founder and president of the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education

Lou Dina, a cancer survivor who like Francis, underwent a journey of intensive research, became a patient advocate and authored Cancer: A Rational Approach to Long-Term Recovery. Dina speaks at conventions hosted by the Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy (FACT), founded in 1971 by Ruth Sackman. He also appears with other survivors in the FACT documentary based on Sackman’s book, Rethinking Cancer: NonTraditional Approaches to the Theories, Treatments and Prevention of Cancer.

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that includes a balanced diet of whole, unprocessed, organic foods—spurred

by Gerson therapy that floods the body with organically grown nutrients— supplementation and detoxification.

Other key measures involve body temperature therapy, cellular and stem cell therapies and the use of botanicals.

“Nutrients in food directly impact the mechanisms by which cancer cells grow and spread,” explains Block.

“They also indirectly impact cancer by changing the surrounding biochemical conditions that either promote or inhibit the progression of malignant disease. This is why targeting only tumors is not enough to quash cancer.

Conventional cancer therapies almost inevitably leave behind at least a small number of malignant cells. Your internal biochemical terrain plays an integral role in determining whether a tumor will regain a foothold after treatment, metastasize to distant sites

or stay where it is without posing a threat.”

Block notes that a healthy biochemistry can help prevent unpleasant and possibly life-threatening, complications. An anti-cancer biochemical terrain will even boost a patient’s overall quality of life. At the Block Center, detailed assessments identify disruptions in six defining features of patients’ biochemical terrain—oxidation, inflammation, immunity, blood coagulation, glycemia and stress chemistry.

Cancer thrives on terrain disruptions, which also can impair treatment.

Focus on High-Impact Foods

Kathy Bero, founder of NuGenesis Inc., in Stone Bank, Wisconsin, asks, “How many other lives could be saved if doctors prescribed a diet primarily focused on plant-based, angiogenic-inhibiting foods for all cancer patients?”

Angiogenesis is the development of new blood vessels. Cancer turns the body against itself by hijacking the angiogenesis process and keeping it permanently activated, ensuring that cancerous cells receive a dedicated, uninterrupted blood supply. “To effectively prevent cancer, inflammation and angiogenesis need to be controlled before a tumor can get a foothold,” advises Bero.

Bero has personally beaten back two unrelated aggressive forms of cancer and credits the angiogenicinhibiting foods in clinical research at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, and the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha. Examples include green tea, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, apples, grapefruit, lemons, tomatoes, cinnamon, kale, grape seed oil and pomegranate.

“These foods also played a significant role in strengthening my immune system and restoring my overall health, which was radically affected by many rounds of chemotherapy and radiation,” remarks Bero.

Boost Recuperative Powers

Patrick Quillin, Ph.D., a former vice president of nutrition for a national network of cancer hospitals and author of The Wisdom and Healing Power of Whole Foods and Beating Cancer with Nutrition, recommends a triple threat.

“Cancer requires a threefold treatment approach to create a synergistic response. Teaming up to reduce the tumor burden without harming the patient, re-regulate the cancer to normal healthy tissue and nourish the patient’s recuperative powers is far better than any one approach,” says Quillin.

He maintains that restrained medical interventions, appropriate nutrition and naturopathic approaches can bolster nonspecific natural defense mechanisms to reverse the underlying cause of the disease. “Nutrition and traditional oncology treatments are synergistic, not antagonistic, as many oncologists believe,” advises Quillin.

Glenn Sabin, founder of FON Therapeutics, similarly suggests that multi-interventional, outcome-based studies, akin to Dr. Dean Ornish’s

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“I talk to people who do all the right things to improve their biochemistry, but without an emotional detox and spiritual connection to something larger than themselves, their healing process tends to stall.” ~ Doctor of Naturopathy Judy Seeger approach to prostate cancer, could greatly benefit conventional oncology.

Sabin recounts his Harvard Medical School-documented remission of advanced leukemia in his upcoming book, N-of-1: How One Man’s Triumph Over Terminal Cancer is Changing the Medical Establishment.

Sabin turned to therapeutic nutrition, neutraceuticals, stress reduction and exercise to become a 22-year cancer “thriver” without the aid of conventional therapies. He also emphasizes the importance of the psychological and psychosocial aspects of healing with the cancer patients he coaches.

“If you don’t have your head in the game, it’s hard to make anything else work for you,” counsels Sabin.

Understand the Connection

Silberstein and other leading physicians, including Dr. Tien-Sheng Hsu, a Chinese psychiatrist and author of the Secret to Healing Cancer; Dr. Jingduan Yang, a board-certified psychiatrist and founder and medical director of the Tao Institute of Mind & Body Medicine; and Seeger, believe that the mind and spirit play a significant role in healing.

“Cancer begins in the spirit and ends up in the body, which is why I recommend that anyone positively diagnosed read the Cancer Report,” remarks Silberstein. Cancer Report, co-written

by John R. Voell and Cynthia A. Chatfield, discusses psychoneuroimmunology and the powerful role that the mind, emotions and spirit play in contributing to or resisting disease and healing even the most terminal of cancers (Tinyurl. com/VoellCancerReport).

Yang and Hsu, who also use acupuncture protocols, believe illness is a reflection of inner problems that disrupt the body’s naturally powerful immune system. “Cancer is a symptom delivering a message: You need to take better care of yourself—emotionally, chemically, physically and spiritually,” says Yang. As a faculty member of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Yang sees firsthand how few patients understand that the trauma of a diagnosis and treatment

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“I talk to people who do all the right things to improve their biochemistry, but without an emotional detox and spiritual connection to something larger than themselves, their healing process tends to stall,” Seeger observes. Her online talk shows feature long-term cancer survivors like Dr. Carl Helvie, author of You Can Beat Lung Cancer Using Alternative/Integrative Interventions.

“It all comes down to the microcosm of the cell. If we give our 73 trillion cells everything they need, the macrocosm of the body will function properly,” says Francis. The authors of Cancer Killers, Dr. Charles Majors, Dr. Ben Lerner and Sayer Ji, agree. Up till now, they attest that the war on cancer has been almost exclusively an assault on the disease, rather than an enlightened preventive campaign that clearly identifies and counters how cancer develops. “The battle can only be won by instructing people in how to boost their body’s immune responses to kill cancer cells before they face a fullblown diagnosis and showing them how to aggressively address the hostile exterior agents that turn healthy cells cancerous.”

The best winning strategy is to naturally nurture a body—structurally, chemically, energetically, emotionally and spiritually—so that the inner terrain naturally kills cancer cells and stops them from growing.

Linda Sechrist is a senior staff writer for Natural Awakenings. Visit ItsAllAboutWe.com for the recorded interviews.

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Nature’s Antibiotics Recover Health with Less Risk

by Kathleen Barnes

We live in a world of microbes: bacteria, viruses, fungi and other pathogens that can make us sick. Most of the time, our immune systems are able to fight off microbial attacks, yet we’ve all experienced unsettling infections.

When Use Becomes Overuse

In recent years, conventional medicine has increasingly used antibiotics as a universal remedy against all kinds of microbial attacks—even though they are ineffective against anything except bacterial infections. It’s best to use them selectively and cautiously when nothing else will do the job, because by definition, they are “opposed to life.”

The worst-case scenario is what we have now: overuse creating “superbugs,” able to multiply out of control, sometimes with fatal consequences, even when treated with antibiotics that used to work.

“Antibiotics are helpful and effective when used properly when there is a bacterial infection such as strep throat, urinary tract infection, bacterial pneumonia or a wound that has become infected,” explains Doctor of Naturopathy Trevor Holly Cates, of Waldorf Astoria Spa, in Park City, Utah. “But antibiotics are so overused and overprescribed that bacteria are changing in ways to resist them. This has become a significant public health problem.”

National and global public health officials have expressed increasing concerns about dangers posed by such bacteria, including methicillin-resistant

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staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), which are often transmitted between patients in hospital settings, and a multiantibiotic-resistant form of tuberculosis.

The problem is compounded by the use of antibiotics to enhance growth and production in livestock. A variety of superbugs have been found in meat, poultry and milk products, according to the nonprofits Center for Science in the Public Interest and Environmental Working Group.

Chris Kilham, a worldwide medicine hunter who teaches ethnobotany at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, explains the transmission.

“When you eat conventionally raised meat, you’re not getting antibiotics, but

you are getting bits of self-replicating genetic material that transfer antibiotic resistance to your body, which can prove fatal.”

Preferred Alternatives

Fortunately, there are many natural substances that have proven to be effective against bacteria, viruses, fungi and other infectious microbial pathogens—all without dangerous side effects. Here’s a short list: Propolis, sometimes called “bee glue”, produced by bees to seal their hives and protect them from infections, is “the single most powerful antimicrobial we have in the plant kingdom,” advises Kilham. That claim is backed by numerous studies from institutions such as Britain’s National Heart and Long Institute, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Harokopio University, in Greece.

In 2005, a study by Turkey’s Hacettepe University showed that propolis killed both MRSA and VRE bacteria.

Other studies by Italy’s University of Milan have shown propolis’ effectiveness in combating upper respiratory infections and Candida albicans fungal infections. Propolis is also available in pill form.

Pelargonium sidoides is a favored option for Cates to abbreviate both the duration and severity of cold and flu, including any lingering cough or sore throat. This South African medicinal is also known as African geranium. Usually used in tincture form, it’s also useful against a large range of microbial infections.

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Olive leaf extract was first mentioned in the Bible and recent research confirms its effectiveness against a wide variety of microbial infections. A U.S. Department of Agriculture study published in the Journal of Food Science confirms that olive leaf extract is effective in fighting food-borne pathogens like salmonella and E. coli, labeling it a broad-spectrum antimicrobial. New York University School of Medicine research published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications showed that olive leaf extract reversed many HIV-related changes in the immune system.

Retired medical journalist Dr. Morton Walker, author of Nature’s Antibiotic: Olive Leaf Extract, wrote that olive leaf extract “inhibits the growth of every virus, bacterium, fungus, yeast and protozoan it was tested against… and is effective against a minimum of 56 disease-causing organisms.”

In a worst-case scenario, “If antibiotics are the only alternative to treat a lab-confirmed bacterial infection, it’s vital to replace the beneficial intestinal bacteria inevitably wiped out by the drug,” concludes Cates. “Sometimes a few servings of a good natural yogurt (without sugar or fruit) will suffice. If not, look for a high-quality probiotic to restore the digestive system’s natural bacterial colony.”

Kathleen Barnes is a natural health advocate, author and book publisher (KathleenBarnes.com).

The Value of

Green and SustainabilityOriented Opportunities in Juvenile Justice

by Paul Sheldon, Michael A. Jones, Aloysius S. Anderson and Beth Waitkus

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s the country becomes more environmentally aware and responsible, public and private sectors have been steadily implementing a wide array of environmentally responsible and sustainability-oriented measures, such as “green teams”, composting, energy conservation, recycling, water conservation, pollution reduction, transportation efficiency, and the utilization of renewable energy alternatives. The American Correctional Association (ACA) has adopted a policy on the topic, developing a Standing “Clean and Green” Committee to lead the movement toward environmentally responsible and sustainability-oriented practices and technologies in corrections.

While some juvenile justice jurisdictions, such as California, Oregon, Washington, Indiana, Illinois and South Carolina, are forerunners in implementing green principles and concepts, the majority of juvenile justice facilities and programs do not seem to have done much in the area of “green” practices. This may be because it seems too overwhelming when considered in the abstract. But when offered as specific options to save money and increase effectiveness of programs, practitioners may find green practices more feasible and practical for individual settings and programs.

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“Green” is more than “environmental”. “Green” programming in juvenile justice addresses the entire person, helping youth develop more socially welladapted identities, skills and aspirations that go beyond gangs, drugs and questioning authority to link to the new green economy, respect for people and the environment, and local community development.

The Importance of Good Programming

As explained by Dr. David Roush in the 1996 Desktop Guide to Good Juvenile Detention Practice, well-designed programs are indispensable tools in accomplishing the many goals of detention.

• Good programs keep youth who are detained so busy that they do not have time to think of ways to vent hostility on detention. Youth give more thought to the positives that are an outgrowth of the program.

• Through programs, youth aggression and impulsivity can be influenced by the rules of the activity, partly by the opinion of their peers, and partly by the close supervision of the staff.

• A variety of situations gives more opportunity for a quick evaluation of a youth’s strengths and shortcomings. Programs provide opportunities for interaction, which assists in spotting the withdrawn youth.

• Good programs should be varied in order to find activities that will “unfreeze” the youth and provide an opportunity to share his or her life experiences so he or she can receive appropriate counseling, working in gardens, or participating in classes that help the youth process his or her feelings.

• A universal trait of young people in detention is that they have low self-esteem. Good programs can help them discover hidden abilities, develop new skills, learn basic facts, and develop new feelings about their responsibility to improve.

• A youth worker’s success in detention is greatly dependent on the relationship of trust that is possible between staff and juveniles, developed especially through good programs.

• One of the greatest benefits of good programs may be that they help the staff member see detained youth for what they are rather than for what they have done.

Corollary Benefits

In addition to the program-related benefits outlined above, “green” activities can save money and produce new sources of revenue. Although specific statistics on youth recycling programs are not available, system-wide recycling programs in

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Indiana, Washington and other states typically save hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, and can also produce additional revenues of hundreds of thousands of dollars as well. In Washington State, for example, the model science education-oriented Sustainability in Prisons Project is entirely funded by the savings from producing and using recycled toilet paper.

Gardening programs also reduce food costs, and energy and water conservation programs reduce costs as well.

Benefits of Gardening

According to research on people-plant relationships and horticultural therapy, the act of caring for plants includes the qualities of responsibility, empathy and discipline that also transfer to the interpersonal realm. By growing plants, people also “grow”. It has been this vein of “nurturing nature” that can strike a “deeply personal chord” with the grower. As Carl Lewis, a premier researcher on the topic stated: “The strength of gardening lies in nurturing.

Caring for another living entity is a basic quality of being human.”[1]

From a theoretical perspective, “…interaction with nature is important for effective mental functioning, such as learning new information, performing complex tasks, or problem solving.”[2] Time outside offers a sense of balance and pride, can increase attention spans, foster creativity and lead to a renewed sense of community re-engagement.

Gardening in a variety of community settings—and the changes that occur to the community when the garden has been planted and maintained— also has been studied extensively in ur22

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ban low-income housing areas, school communities, and in some prisons.

Indeed, from Catherine Sneed’s successful San Francisco Garden Program at San Bruno County Jail to the research conducted by the Insight Garden Program at San Quentin State Prison (see, The Impact of a Garden Program on the Physical Environment and Social Climate of a Prison Yard at San Quentin State Prison [3]), the research shows that gardens invite attention, use and refuge; being in or near a garden reduces stress. Gardens provide “neutral” territory in a segregated prison yard. Gardeners gain benefits from directly working with nature, creating the possibility for hope and further change.

Contributing Sources [1] Lewis, C.A. (1992). “Effects of Plants and Gardening in Creating Interpersonal and Community Well-Being.”

In D. Relf (Ed.), The Role of Horticulture in Human Well-Being and Social Development: A National Symposium (p. 57). Portland, OR; Timber.

[2] “Greening Healthcare: Practicing as if the Environment Really Mattered” (Irvine and Warber), Alternative Therapies, Sept/Oct 2002. Vol. 8. No. 5, p. 7.

[3] InsightGardenProgram.org/downloads/IGPThesisAbstract.pdf.

Paul Sheldon, M.A., senior adviser, Natural Capitalism Solutions; Michael A. Jones, M.S., managing director, National Partnership for Juvenile Services; Aloysius S. Anderson, green training and environmental control consultant, South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice; Beth Waitkus, director, Insight Garden Program at San Quentin State Prison.

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Kid-Smart Supplements

The Right Choices Help Children Thrive

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s youngsters head back to the classroom, parents can get their children off to a smart start by giving them key supplements. Here are some experts’ top picks.

Build Brains Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).

Because the brain’s nerve cell membranes are made of fat, ingesting a healthy fat—DHA—helps them stay lithe and limber enough to successfully fire off neurotransmitters, sharpening kids’ mental abilities.

“Attention, focus, processing efficiency, memory— they’re all dependent on cells working effectively, and DHA will help,” says Randall Neustaedter, a doctor of Oriental medicine and author of The Holistic Baby Guide. A contemporary study published in Clinical Pediatrics

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found that 4-year-olds that ingested 400 mg a day of DHA for four months showed improvement in listening comprehension and vocabulary acquisition skills.

Because finding an effective dose of pure DHA (at least 300 mg a day) can be difficult, Dr. Robert Rountree, co-author of Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child, recommends administering liquid fish oil in a daily child’s dose of 800 to 1,500 mg at a ratio of 60 percent eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) to 40 percent DHA. “Anti-inflammatory EPA can help allergies and inflammation from colds and other viruses kids get,” explains Neustaedter.

Algae can be a vegetarian substitute for fish oil, Neustaedter continues, but it contains only DHA, not EPA. Another vegetarian option, echium oil, internally converts to EPA at a one-to-one level, but not to DHA. Flaxseed oil is mostly alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which converts to DHA and EPA at a rate of only 3 to 7 percent.

Phosphatydylserine (PS). This form of fat facilitates communica-

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triggering the body’s natural immune system to react to and fight off infections. A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that daily 1,200 international unit (IU) supplements of vitamin D3 reduced cases of seasonal flu in schoolchildren by more than 40 percent. Neustaedter recommends that school-aged children supplement with 2,000 IU of vitamin D3 a day. Unlike D2, D3 is natural and nontoxic, he says.

Probiotics. These “friendly” bacteria help reestablish beneficial intestinal flora to both assist digestion and immunity. “Eighty percent of the immune system is produced in the small intestine,” says Neustaedter. “Having a healthy small intestine will lead to a healthy immune system. Probiotics will go a long way to accomplishing that.”

Rountree recommends children receive a mixture of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria—at least 15 billion colonyforming units a day. A study by an international team published in Pediatrics showed that probiotic supplements may reduce the incidence of fevers, coughs, runny noses and other infections in young children.

Elderberry. “If kids get frequent colds, elderberry can be helpful,” notes Neustaedter, who suggests that children take such extracts according to label instructions for acute sickness during the cold and flu season. He considers it a worthy antiviral and immune system stimulant.

Elderberry’s immune-boosting potential may be due to its ability to enhance antioxidant activity. Several studies, including one issued by the National Institutes of Health, have shown that black elderberry extract may shorten the duration of a bout of flu.

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tion among brain cells. “It’s a natural substance your brain makes,” notes Neustaedter. Already highly regarded for its ability to enhance memory performance in older adults, it may also improve attention, concentration, learning, behavior and school performance in youngsters.

PS is found in small amounts in foods like eggs and soy.

Therefore, Neustaedter recommends dietary supplementation of 100 mg a day for children that could use a brain booster.

The best PS supplements are made from soy.

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Magnesium. “If kids have a hard time turning their minds off and going to sleep, calcium and magnesium will help,” Neustaedter advises. As a calming mineral, magnesium trumps calcium; because kids tend to need more calcium for their bones, the two nutrients are usually given together, adds Rountree. He recommends that children take 100 to 300 mg of magnesium daily, depending on their age and weight.

Lemon balm (melissa officinalis). To soothe anxiety, Rountree points to lemon balm as safe and gentle, yet effective. St. Mary’s Hospital, in Madison, Wisconsin, reports that researchers have found that lemon balm, in combination with other herbs like valerian, may ease restlessness, anxiety and sleep disorders. Kids can drink one to two cups of freshly brewed tea daily. For a tasty and convenient option, substitute glycerites; tinctures that use glycerin to extract the active constituents from herbs.

Pamela Bond is the managing editor of Natural Foods Merchandiser and former editor-in-chief of Delicious Living magazine.

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eople often seek out a holistic veterinarian due to concerns about conventional medications. One new client recently inquired about her 3-year-old female poodle diagnosed with epilepsy last year. The traditional veterinarian’s prescription for phenobarbital was helping to control the seizures, but the owner questioned the long-term consequences of feeding her pet the drug for the rest of its life. Surely, she thought, there must be a natural alternative.

There are many causes for canine seizures, with epilepsy being the most common. Epilepsy is the term used when the cause is unknown, so testing is needed to ensure other factors are not present. These might include toxicities, especially in younger dogs and puppies (may include vaccines); brain tumors, more common in older dogs and certain breeds such as boxers and Boston terriers; infections, as in meningitis, or immune disorders such as the neurologic disease granulomatous meningoencephalitis, or GME;

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parasites, including aberrant heartworms; and regional diseases such as tick-borne illnesses like Lyme or ehrlichiosis.

Common testing includes a physical examination, food hypersensitivity and blood tests, tick serology, urine, fecal and cerebrospinal fluid analyses and a brain scan, which is usually a computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. Not all tests are needed on all pets because the veterinarian will rule out issues during the process.

If other causes are ruled out and the problem is labeled as epilepsy, phenobarbital can be helpful, although side effects can occur as a result, including liver disease. In every case, the animal should be examined at least two to four times a year for possible complications from the drug, starting with a blood profile and urinalysis. It’s always best to supplement such treatment with natural remedies to help protect the liver, including milk thistle and choline.

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Alternatively, natural therapies don’t usually lead to side effects or require the same intense regimen of regular evaluation. Patients have experienced good results with phosphatidylcholine, which works to stabilize brain cell membranes, and so reduce and prevent seizures, while also providing detoxification support for the liver. Phosphatidylcholine supplements are also used to prevent and treat another common neurological problem in pets—cognitive disorder (akin to Alzheimer’s in humans).

Dimethylglycine supplementation aids in treating seizures, as well. It both supports the nervous system and provides energy to the body’s cells.

Herbs, including valerian, passionflower, kava, gastrodia (tian ma), uncaria (gou teng), ostrea concha (mu li) and buthus martensi (quan xie), can also be helpful. Because they can be powerful natural medicines that could interact with each other and with prescription medicines, use them only under veterinary supervision.

Homeopathic remedies are also widely incorporated into natural treatments of seizures such as tinctures of stramonium and belladonna. A twice-daily homeopathic detoxification treatment for pets experiencing seizures from any cause, using berberis, nux vomica and lymphomyosot, is recommended, as well.

Due to the overwhelming success of using natural therapies for pets with epilepsy at our Paws & Claws Animal Hospital, most do not need to rely on medications for the problem.

Those pets that arrive on a regiment of strong anticonvulsant drugs are slowly weaned off of them, resulting in improved health, lower vet bills and better control of recovery. Most never have another seizure, as long as they stay on the natural therapy protocol prescribed.

Shawn Messonnier, a doctor of veterinary medicine practicing in Plano, TX, is the award-winning author of The Natural Health Bible for Dogs & Cats and Unexpected Miracles: Hope and Holistic Healing for Pets. Visit PetCareNaturally.com.

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Basil Days Discount at Rosewood–8am-8pm.

20% off purchase price at Rosewood Market, Deli and other sale items not incl. 2803 Rosewood Dr, Columbia. RosewoodMarket.com, 803-530-3270.

Reiki Clinic w/Margaret Self–10:30am-12:30pm.

Open to all, no training necessary. Great intro to Reiki energy. $10, must preregister. Carolina Reiki Institute, 112 Wexwood Ct, Columbia. Info: 803551-1191 or CarolinaReikiInstitute.com.

Reinventing Healthcare Summer 2013 Series – 7pm, Irmo Family Chiropractic, Kinley Rd, Irmo - AromaTouch for Health Practitioners, Shelly Daugherty, Host Noemi.

FREE Essential Oils Class w/Dr. Rachel at Expecting Well - Learn about dōTERRA essential oils and how they can enhance your wellness. Topic: Hormone Hell? Hormone Well. 7:00pm at Expecting Well 514A Gervais St. To preregister: info@ expectingwell.com 803-661-8452.

Reinventing Healthcare Summer 2013 Series - 7pm, Expecting Well, Gervais St., Columbia, Hormone Hell? Hormone Well! Dr. Rachel Hall, Host Debra Gallup.

Reiki Clinic w/Margaret Self–5:30pm-8:00pm.

Open to all, no training necessary. Great intro to Reiki energy. $10, must preregister. Carolina Reiki Institute, 112 Wexwood Ct, Columbia. Info: 803551-1191 or CarolinaReikiInstitute.com.

Basil Days Discount at Rosewood–8am-8pm.

20% off purchase price at Rosewood Market, Deli and other sale items not incl. 2803 Rosewood Dr, Columbia. RosewoodMarket.com, 803-530-3270.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 Introduction to Mindfulness for Stress Reduction-MBSR Basics-9:30am - 1:00pm, $42; Hosted

by Diane Barnes. For more information, please call 803-739-8701 or email MindFulLivingStudio@ gmail.com. (Note: Price reduction offered for multiple program enrollment.) MindfulLivingStudio.com.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 Reiki Level I, Traditional Usui Reiki System w/Margaret Self, Reiki Master, NHD–9am-5pm.

Entry-level class combines 4 attunements, instruction, discussion & practice time. Manual included.

Preregistration reqd. $250 before 7/25, $300 after, Carolina Reiki Institute, 112 Wexwood Ct, Cola.

803-551-1191 or CarolinaReikiInstitute.com.

Men’s Spirituality Group-9:30-10:30am. “Our Exciting New Role in Unity” Unity of Columbia, SEE Room, 1801 LeGrand Rd. Columbia. 803736-5766 or UnityColumbiasc.org.

“The Energy of Money” Book Study: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment”, by Maria Nemeth, Ph.D. (9:15-10:30). Dr Nemeth states, “How you do money is how you do life” Books available in our bookstore. Unity of Columbia, 1801 LeGrand Rd., Columbia, 803-736-5766 or UnityColumbiasc.org. (Also August 11th).

Sunday Celebration and Meditation -11:00.

LaVoice Kallestad, LUT. “The Answer Attitude”, spiritual teachings that empower abundant and meaningful living. 11am Unity of Columbia, 1801 LeGrand Rd., Columbia, 803-736-5766 or UnityColumbiasc.org. LaVoice Kallestad, LUT.

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Green Drinks –5:30-7pm. Cock & Bull Pub, 326 South Edisto Ave., Columbia. For all in green building, sales, conservation, recycling, nature & politics to gather for fun & shared enlightenment. Check Facebook: Green Drinks Columbia.

KeeptheMidlandsBeautiful.org/Calendar/GreenDrinksColumbia.asp.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 Reinventing Healthcare Summer 2013 Series - 7pm, 302 Senate, Columbia, Play doTERRA, Pay for your Habit! William Richardson, Host Todd Wilson.

Sidewalk Farmers Market at Rosewood – 4pm -7pm. Join us and meet your growers: 2803 Rosewood Dr, Columbia. RosewoodMarket.com, 803-530-3270.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 Basil Days Discount at Rosewood–8am-8pm.

20% off purchase price at Rosewood Market, Deli and other sale items not incl. 2803 Rosewood Dr, Columbia. RosewoodMarket.com, 803-530-3270.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 Rev. David Hiller returns to Unity of Columbia Sunday, as Guest Speaker for the Sunday Celebration Service at 11 a.m. and a workshop at 1pm - 3pm “Time to Soar Beyond All Limitations”. All Things Are Possible. A suggested donation is welcomed, $20 Love Offering. Rev. David’s subliminal/auditory CDs will be available for sale.

Laughter Yoga for Health and Wellbeing with Dr. Delores Pluto and Kristie Norwood-12:30pm1:30pm. Laughter Yoga=laughter exercises+yoga breathing. No experience, special clothing or equipment necessary. Donations accepted. Unity of Columbia, 1801 LeGrand Rd., Columbia, 803736-5766 or UnityColumbiasc.org.

Eckankar Worship Service - 10:00 A.M. Free.

All are welcome. Hear panel discussions about the subtle ways that God touches our lives. Meet others who are serious about a non-dogmatic study of spirituality. 7 Oaks Park. 200 Leisure Lane info: www.eck-sc.org, or meetup.com/Columbiaspiritual-seekers/ or call Steve at (803) 318-1887.

MONDAY, AUGUST 12 Mindfulness for Stress Management Practice Sessions - 6:00pm-7:30pm, $75; Hosted by Diane Barnes. For more information, please call 803-7398701 or email MindFulLivingStudio@gmail.com.

(Note: Price reduction offered for multiple program enrollment.) MindfulLivingStudio.com.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 17 Basil Days Discount at Rosewood–8am-8pm.

20% off purchase price at Rosewood Market, Deli and other sale items not incl. 2803 Rosewood Dr, Columbia. RosewoodMarket.com, 803-530-3270.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 18 Book study of “The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment”, by Maria Nemeth, Ph.D. - 9:15-10:30. Dr Nemeth states, “How you do money is how you do life” Books available in our bookstore. Unity of Columbia, 1801 LeGrand Rd., Columbia, 803-736-5766 or UnityColumbiasc.org.

Unity of Columbia Sunday Celebration and Meditation-11am Speaker: LaVoice Kallestad, LUT, Sunday Speaker, titled “Self Mastery” Unity of Columbia, 1801 LeGrand Rd, Columbia, 803736-5766 or UnityColumbiasc.org.

MONDAY, AUGUST 19 Mindfulness for Stress Management Practice Sessions - 6:00pm-7:30pm, $75; Hosted by Diane Barnes. For more information, please call 803-7398701 or email MindFulLivingStudio@gmail.com.

(Note: Price reduction offered for multiple program enrollment.) MindfulLivingStudio.com.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 Reinventing Healthcare Summer 2013 Series – 7pm, Covenant Birth Center, Columbia, Green Cleaning with DoTERRA, Lisa Byrd, Host Amber.

Sidewalk Farmers Market at Rosewood – 4pm -7pm. Join us and meet your growers: Pee Dee Ranch, grass fed and pastured meats; Our Local Catch, fish shrimp, clams, live crabs, fillets and whole fish; Wil-Moore Farms, chicken, eggs and turkey sausage. City Roots Urban Farm; Trail Ridge Farm & Dairy, goat cheese; a lemonade stand and tie-dyed T-shirts. 2803 Rosewood Dr, Columbia.

RosewoodMarket.com, 803-530-3270.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 Reinventing Healthcare Summer 2013 Series – 1pm-3pm-Monthly Team meeting, Columbia Conference Center, 101 uses for Lavender, Lemon and Peppermint, Nino and Tina Colarossi.

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Help wanted Spa Manager - Columbia’s only Non-Toxic spa that specializes in maternity safe spa services, is looking to hire a spa manager. Management and marketing experience a must. Healthcare experience a bonus skill. We are looking for a wellness minded, outgoing team leader. If you or someone you know would be right for this position, please email resume to Info@ExpectingWell.com.

SERVICES GREEN CLEANING - Carol Jean’s Cleaning, Residential and Commercial, non-toxic cleaning products. Columbia area. 803 463-7850.

INTEGRATIVE HEALTH CLINIC – Experience multiple modalities at your church or community organization. Call Pamila, 803-749-1576 PERSONAL ASSISTANT – Dog, walking, running errands, organizing and more. Carol Jean 803-463-7850

SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 “The Energy of Money” Book Study: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment”, by Maria Nemeth, Ph.D. 9:15-10:30. Dr Nemeth states, “How you do money is how you do life” Books available in our bookstore. Unity of Columbia, 1801 LeGrand Rd., Columbia, 803-736-5766 or UnityColumbiasc.org.

Unity of Columbia Sunday Celebration and Meditation - 11am. Speaker: LaVoice Kallestad, LUT is our Sunday Speaker. LaVoice’s talk is titled “Putting Truth Into Practice” Unity offers practical, spiritual teachings that empower abundant and meaningful living. Unity of Columbia, 1801 LeGrand Rd, Columbia, 803-736-5766 or UnityColumbiasc.org.

“4th Sunday Feast.” - Noon. Bring a friend to Unity’s Sunday Celebration and meditation at 11:00 and share our bountiful buffet afterward. Bring your favorite dish and sample the favorites of everyone else! Unity of Columbia, 1801 LeGrand Rd, Columbia, 803-736-5766 or UnityColumbiasc.org

MONDAY, AUGUST 26 Mindfulness for Stress Management Practice Sessions - 6:00pm-7:30pm, $75; Hosted by Diane Barnes. For more information, please call 803-7398701 or email MindFulLivingStudio@gmail.com.

(Note: Price reduction offered for multiple program enrollment.) MindfulLivingStudio.com.

Basil Days Discount at Rosewood–8am-8pm.

20% off purchase price at Rosewood Market, Deli and other sale items not incl. 2803 Rosewood Dr, Columbia. RosewoodMarket.com, 803-530-3270.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 Reinventing Healthcare Summer 2013 Series – 7pm, 302 Senate, Columbia, Garden Pest Control with Essential Oils, Tina, Host TBD.

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Radical Forgiveness - Ancient Secrets for Healing and Peace w/Judy and Bill Ripley–9:15-10:30am.

(5/5, 5/12). Based on the book, Radical Forgiveness by Colin Tipping. For anyone who wants to grow spiritually; is having difficulty forgiving someone; is experiencing relationship problems; wants to boost their self-esteem; is noticing an undesirable recurring pattern in life or wants to live from love rather than fear. Unity of Columbia, 1801 LeGrand Rd, Columbia. 803-736-5766 or UnityColumbiaSC.org.

Meditation Hour at Unity–9:30-10:30am. Unity of Columbia, 1801 LeGrand Rd, Columbia, 803736-5766, UnityColumbiaSC.org.

Unity of Columbia Sunday Celebration Service−11am. Prayer, meditation, great music and a series of uplifting messages from a variety of interesting speakers. Unitots and Unikids, spiritual bookstore open 9-11am. Unity of Columbia, 1801 LeGrand Rd., Columbia, 803-736-5766, UnityColumbiaSC.org.

Yoga Light w/Cat–1-2pm. All levels, relaxed, gentle yoga experience. Focus on awareness in poses. $10 or class pass. Southern Sky Yoga, 10603-B Two Notch Rd, Columbia, 803-338-0348, SouthernSkyYoga.com.

Have You Had a Spiritual Experience? Meet in a comfortable and informal setting where all spiritual points of view are appreciated. Free.

Sponsored by Eckankar, a non-dogmatic approach.

Discussion topics are: Dreams, coincidences, God realization, past lives, more. Dates and times vary.

For information: www.eck-sc.org, or meetup. com/Columbia-spiritual-seekers/ or call Steve at (803)318-1887.

Hatha Yoga I w/David–6:10-7:10pm. Basic yoga for both beginners and practicing yogis who aren’t quite ready for more advanced classes. $10 or class pass. Southern Sky Yoga, 10603-B Two Notch Rd, Columbia, 803-338-0348, SouthernSkyYoga.com.

Healthy Carolina Farmers Market–10am-2pm.

Locally grown produce, fresh seafood, boiled peanuts, kettle corn, freshly baked bread, and other goods including natural soaps and lotions.

By Healthy Carolina, Parking Services, and the SC Dept of Ag. 1400 Greene St in front of the Russell House University Union, USC, Columbia.

Info: sc.edu/healthycarolina/farmersmarket/ or marti448@mailbox.sc.edu.

Sandhill Farmer’s Market–2-7pm. (starting 5/7) Local produce, meat, fish, eggs, butter, milk, cheese, honey, plants, flowers, shrubs, and baked goods. Some organic. “Ask a Master Gardener” booth”, live music and healthy lifestyle demonstrations. Clemson University’s Sandhill Research and Education Center, 900 Clemson Rd, Columbia.

803-699-3187, perry8@clemson.edu.

Prenatal Yoga w/Emily, MD, RYT200–5:30pm6:45pm. Open to all students. Prepare mind and body for labor and more. 1st class free. $10-14/ class packages. Expecting Well, 514-A Gervais, Columbia. 803-661-8452, ExpectingWell.com.

Free Beginner’s Intro Tai Chi Class w/Wes Adams–6pm. Tai Chi—a beautiful art people fall in love with, both for the benefits & for the joy. Fitness, health, relaxation, clarity, energy, confidence, peace & balance. Sign up online at ColumbiaTaiChiCenter.com/signup. 2910 Rosewood Dr. Info: Wes, 803-873-2100, or ColumbiaTaiChiCenter.com.

Women’s Empowerment Group - Step into your authentic power that is within you. Learn to say “no” when you want to learn to have positive boundaries. Learn to work with your resistances so you can achieve your true goals and learn to accept all of yourself that is perfectly Devine. The cost is $25.00. For details call Sherri Jefferson of Integrative Counseling Services at 803-414-5652.

Forest Acres Farmers Market 3-6pm. Local produce, crafts and more. Midtown @ Forest Acres. Senior Checks, WIC Vouchers, SFMNP. Info: Mark Williams, 803-782-9475, mwilliams@ forestacres.net.

Yoga w/Robin Pawlina RN, CYI–5:30-6:45pm.

Multi-Level Yoga Class. All are welcome. Robin has been teaching yoga for more than 20 years and creates an environment that allows the student to manage stress with a relaxed and supportive style.

Cost: $15/class or $66 for 6 week session. About Your Health, 120 Kaminer Way Pkwy, Ste J, Columbia. Info & register: Robin, 803-926-0895.

Yoga Hour w/David–6:30-7:30pm. Basic yoga suitable for beginners or practicing yogis who aren’t quite ready to tackle advanced classes. $10 or class pass. Southern Sky Yoga, 10603-B Two Notch Rd, Columbia, 803-338-0348, SouthernSkyYoga.com.

Farmers Market, Shoppes at the Flight Deck in Lexington–10am-2pm. Child friendly & proceeds benefits the Meals on Wheel Program, 109 Old Chapin Rd., Lexington. Facebook.com/Local Farmers Market at the Flight Deck. SFMNP - Senior Checks, WIC Vouchers. Info: Heidi Black, 803-957-3602, info@faithfulfoods.com.

Lake Carolina Farmers Market–2:30-7pm. (starting 5/16) Locally grown produce, music, demonstrations, entertainment, kids events and more. Market Park in Town Center, Lake Carolina, Northeast Columbia. LakeCarolina.com.

The Town of Lexington Farmers Market 9am1pm. (starts 5/11). Indoor Market located at 206 N. Church Street in Lexington. Info: Jennifer Dowden, Market Manager, 803-356-8238, farmersmarket@ lexsc.com, LexSC.com.

Prenatal Yoga w/Rachel Hall, MD, RYT-200.

5:30pm-6:45pm. Open to all students. Prepare mind and body for labor and more. Expecting Well, 514-A Gervais. 1st class free. $10-14/class packages. ExpectingWell.com 803-661-8452.

The Vista Marketplace at Whaley Street 9am1pm. Local farmers and small S.C. businesses sell their goods – such as gourmet foods, meats, cheeses, baked goods, soap and other body care products, candles, hand made jewelry, clothing items, and milled products. Located at 701 Whaley St., Columbia. Info: Vista.Locallygrown.net

Living In Process Group - Learn tools to be more present and authentic in your life. Learn to respond instead of react to stressful situations and allow yourself to feel your emotions in a positive way instead of stuffing them down. Learn to love and accept yourself when you least feel like it. The cost is $30.00. For details call Sherri Jefferson of Integrative Counseling Services at 803-414-5652.

Pre/Postnatal Yoga w/Shelley Jones RYT-500.

Postpartum CORE class 12pm-12:15pm, joint prenatal and postpartum lunchtime yoga class continues from 12:15pm-1:15pm. Expecting Well, 514-A Gervais. 1st class free. $10-14/class packages. 803-661-8452, ExpectingWell.com.

YogaWave w/Sunny–6:15-7:30pm. Yoga and free movement. Class begins with yoga, then transitions to free movement, for deeper yoga stretches and advanced poses. An opportunity for experienced yogis to deepen their practice and for everyone to move, sweat, breathe and stretch in a practice that encourages us to follow our own body needs and energy level. Not for beginners. $12 or class pass. Southern Sky Yoga, 10603-B Two Notch Rd, Columbia, 803-338-0348, SouthernSkyYoga.com.

communityresourceguide CHIROPRACTIC SHELLY JONES, DC Chiropractic Wellness Center Inc. 5209 Forest Dr, Ste C Columbia 803-771-9990 doc@drshellyjones.com DrShellyJones.com

I provide you and your family chiropractic care, health information and wellness resources to support your body’s natural ability to heal, feel better and enjoy living an active lifestyle! Call me to schedule your appointment or discuss how I can bring our onsite chiropractic care and healtheducation services to your business, school or athletic team.

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Prenatal Yoga w/Rachel Hall, MD, RYT200–(time varies week to week-check website). Prepare mind and body for labor, delivery & welcoming new life. Open to all students. 1st class free. $10-14/ class packages. Expecting Well, 514-A Gervais, Columbia. 803-661-8452, ExpectingWell.com.

Beginners Series w/David–9:30am-10:30am.

Designed with the beginner in mind. Learn the basics and build your confidence in a class with other beginners. The ideal place to begin your yoga journey. $10 or class pass. Southern Sky Yoga, 10603-B Two Notch Rd, Columbia, 803-338-0348, SouthernSkyYoga.com.

Mixed Level Yoga w/Natalie–2:30-3:45pm. All levels, class includes basics but also offers more advanced options to challenge practicing yogis and prepare them for Level II classes. $12 or class pass. Southern Sky Yoga, 10603-B Two Notch Rd, Columbia, 803-338-0348, SouthernSkyYoga.com.

Soda City Farmers Market–8am-12pm. Producer-only farmers’ market offering fresh, local food straight from South Carolina farmers. 1500 block Main St, Columbia. Info: 803-250-5801, StatePlate.org.

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Sherri Jefferson, MA, LMT, NCC, LPC/I 803-414-5652 sfdcew@aol.com Sherri has 18 years of experience working within integrative health care. Each session is grounded in a safe and sacred space. This allows each person to embrace his or her own evolving life process.

Sherri utilizes a variety of tools, including, but not limited to, Heart Math, Emotional Freedom Technique, NLP, Body Talk, and advanced kinesiology. You are invited to call for a 50% discount on your first counseling appointment.

“Sherri helped me profoundly through my issues with grief and PTSD. She brought me back into the world of the living.” J.J., Columbia

FITNESS COLUMBIA TAI CHI CENTER

Wesley Adams, Owner/Instructor 2910 Rosewood Dr Columbia 803-873-2100 ColumbiaTaiChiCenter.com Wes Adams is dedicated to helping people live happier, healthier, more balanced lives by teaching traditional lineage Tai chi. In this day of “cardio Tai chi” workouts and one-day Tai chi instructor certification seminars, there is a strong need for authentic instruction in the complete art of Tai chi. Wes is a certified instructor under the American Center for Chinese Studies, NY. See ad, page 24.

SOUTHERN SKY YOGA

10603 Two Notch Rd, Suite B (at Allstate) Elgin/Northeast Columbia SouthernSkyYoga.com Southern Sky Yoga serves Elgin and Northeast Columbia, offering classes, workshops and community events to enhance wellness in the body, mind and spirit. Visit our website for details.

HYDROTHERAPY SPRING RAIN HYDROTHERAPY Linda Salyer 120 Kaminer Way Pkwy, Ste. H Columbia 803-361-2620 lsalyer@ymail.com All disease begins in the colon. Do you suffer with constipation, slow sluggish bowel, gas and bloating? A colonic will help to rid you of these problems. Colonics promote good digestion, help speed metabolism, helps lower cholesterol and helps relieve joint pain. In addition, it promotes more restful sleep due to less stress on the body when the colon is cleaned. Linda Salyer is IACN certified and a retired nurse. Linda has special pricing every third week of the month. Call Linda now for an appointment!

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INTEGRATED HEALING CENTER FOR HEALTH INTEGRATION

Pamila Lorentz – MSW, BSN, RN, LMBT NCBTMB 6136 Old Bush River Rd Columbia 803-749-1576 chimassage@bellsouth.net Pamila Lorentz engages a wholistic body/mind/spirit approach to healing that provides relief for chronic pain and stress, insomnia, anxiety, depression, emotional numbing, muscle tension and more through her innovative bodywork therapies. Her services include integrative massage, craniosacral therapy and energy healing modalities. Pamila’s tools are open hands and a compassionate heart for all ages from infants to seniors.

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Specialties include health issues, stress, trauma, self-worth, sexual issues, service-related PTSD, and relationships. Call for a free assessment.

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INTUITIVE READINGS THE SOURCE WITHIN YOU Rev. Julie E. Bradshaw 803-800-9211 TheSourceWithinYou.com

Julie Bradshaw offers intuitive life readings, akashic record readings, and angel and spirit guide readings. She is a Reiki master and certified hypnotherapist who is also certified in Psych-K and NLP. Using various methods of energy psychology, she assists clients in releasing issues as they are identified during a reading. Julie has been studying and working with energy healing for more than 20 years.

LIFE COACH/BUSINESS COACH SUZANNE RILEY WHYTE 803-760-6403 info@matrxcoaching.com MatrxCoaching.com

Matrx Coaching: Assisting you through the Matrx of your mind to achieve your business and life goals “one pebble at a time.” At Matrx Coaching, we understand the thought systems and beliefs we have that sustain our patterns of production.

These systems express themselves through goals, wants, desires and needs; and are so interconnected on a finite scale that they keep you in a spiral of non-achievement. To create change or embrace the change that is happening in your business and life, call now to set an appointment and learn more.

SPIRITUAL

2222 Airport Blvd. W. Columbia 803-796-1702 DrRachelhall.com expectwellness@sc.rr.com Find us on Facebook for great health tips

SPIRITUAL DISCUSSION GROUP

Integrative/holistic medicine consults for anyone wanting to approach their health more naturally. Dr. Rachel Hall is board certified in both family medicine and integrative holistic medicine. Together we will focus on treating you as a whole person, finding the root of the problem, not just treating symptoms. Call today for a consult if you are looking to achieve balance. In-house diagnostic labs and therapies. See ad, page 16.

Have you had a spiritual experience that you would like to share in a relaxed, nondogmatic setting? Eckankar hosts open discussions (meetups), worship services and more at no charge. All are welcome. These are important forums for all who love God and who are serious about their spiritual growth.Topics include understanding past lives, dreams, coincidences, God’s creative life force and more. Call ahead: time and date may vary.

803-318-1887 Contact Steve ECK-SC.org Meetup.com/Columbia-spiritual-seekers

THERMOGRAPHY ABOUT YOUR HEALTH INC. 120 Kaminer Way Pkwy, Ste J Columbia 803-798-8687 www.AboutYourHealthSC.com

About Your Health Inc. is a small business whose main focus is health education and health-enhancing services.

These services include, but are not limited to, one-onone nutritional counseling, Reams pH testing, parasite programs, aquachi footbaths, far infrared sauna, weight-loss programs, and thermography as featured on the health segment on WIS TV. We offer a full line of hard-to-find natural, organic, whole food nutritional supplements, and some specialty items that include raw foods and natural household items. See ad, page 26.

VITAMINS & SUPPLEMENTS BELL LIFESTYLE PRODUCTS 1-800-333-7995 ext. #2294 BellLifestyle.com

Formulated natural health supplements intended for pain control, urinary health, preventive illness, virility, stress relief, weight control and other common conditions. See ad, next page.

GARNER’S NATURAL LIFE 4840 Forest Dr, Ste 15a Columbia Trenholm Plaza 803-454-7700 garnersnaturallife.com

At Garner’s Natural Life we offer the purest, most innovative high-quality natural products.

With more than 130 collective years of wellness experience, our expert staff provides the most unsurpassed customer service in our industry.

We are proud to say that our knowledge allows us to encourage choices that will positively impact the heath and future of our community and environment. See ad, back page.

Modern medicine, for all of its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively. ~Deepak Chopra 30

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Back to School With Attention Support

New Teachers, New Schedule, New Strategy

Make this school year a great one with help from VÄXA! Discover VÄXA Attend, a homeopathic medicinal designed to naturally support your child’s ability to:

• Support focus and concentration • Promote mental alertness • Aid bouts of distress and hyperactivity • Maintain healthy cognitive function • Acceptable for use on the Feingold® Program

Garner's Natural Life of Columbia 4840 Forest Dr Ste 15A Columbia, SC 29206 803-454-7700 garnersnaturallife.com

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