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Eastgate Acupuncture Aims to Empower, Ease Suffering Paul and Crystal Marks founded Eastgate Acupuncture with a simple mission: to reduce suffering and empower people through the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

“We want to be a resource of skill and knowledge for people to remove the obstacles in their lives that prevent self-knowledge and actualization,” Crystal says. “No person is of too high or too low a station for us to apply our compassion and empathy towards, to see as a reflection of ourselves, and to use that understanding as a means of both motivation and diagnosis.”

At its two New York locations—one in Times Square and the other in Hudson—Eastgate Acupuncture provides comprehensive treatment for a variety of conditions, from digestive issues, allergies and asthma, and chronic fatigue to neurological disorders.

“A great advantage of using TCM is that we group symptomology much differently than Western medicine, so what’s a strange case for an M.D. is often a textbook case for us,” Paul says. “Even after their condition is resolved, many patients continue to see us regularly to maintain their health. Prevention and early intervention are strengths of TCM.” ​ hey also offer acupuncture to effect behavioral change, such as smoking T cessation and weight loss, and for facial rejuvenation.

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All acupuncturists at Eastgate Acupuncture are New York State licensed and hold master’s degrees from an accredited acupuncture and herbal program.

Manhattan location: 1560 Broadway, Room 1007, New York, NY (enter on 46th and 7th). For appointments and information, call 646-719-1883, email info@eastgatemanhattan.com or visit EastgateAcupuncture.com.

A Space for Healing in Lower Manhattan Shannon Coppola was introduced to salt therapy in 2014, after exhausting other therapy options for her 5-year-old son, who suffered from extreme sinus and respiratory problems. Desperate for help, she took Oliver to a salt cave. His response, she says, was “a miracle.”

Oliver slept through the night and didn’t cough for days, Coppola says. “So we went back and did another session and another, and we couldn’t believe how quickly it helped him. Since the closest salt cave was in New Jersey and we live in Montauk, the only logical step was to open our own.”

Montauk Salt Cave now has three locations, including one in Lower Manhattan. They offer one-on-one and group salt therapy sessions with reiki or sound meditation, as well as space for private events.

Salt therapy is an alternative treatment for a wide variety of ailments and conditions, from asthma and allergies to anxiety, inflammation, skin issues and even the common cold.

“The salt is naturally anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal and antimicrobial,” Coppola says. “The treatment offers a unique, natural therapy that allows you to get a sense of peace and serenity while simply breathing.”

The salt air is made up of negatively charged ionized salt particles, 84 trace elements and minerals such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, sodium, iodine, bromine, copper, selenium and iron.

“These particles help clear pollens, viruses, pollutants and toxins from the lungs and nasal passageways, which in essence works to treat and prevent

illness,” Coppola says. “The salt also works to heal the body as soon as its negative ions enter the nasal passageway. They then travel through the respiratory tract and into the bloodstream to be dispersed throughout the body.”

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Clairvoyant Tori Quisling Offers Infertility Program April 23 to 30 is National Infertility Awareness Week—a poignant reminder that one in five women of childbearing age suffers from infertility, according to the US Centers for Disease Control. Of course men can suffer from this chronic condition too. Whatever the cause, the resulting sense of loss can be uniquely devasting. That’s because having a baby is “a spiritual and emotional experience as much as it is a medical one,” says Tori Quisling, a New York-based clairvoyant and the author of Calling in Your Baby: A Clairvoyant's Guide to Manifesting Your Pregnancy.

“The yearning to have a child is your soul’s yearning to grow, release old blocks and express your divine nature,” Quisling says. For that reason, she notes, “unexplained infertility can be solved through a heightened understanding, a shift in long-held beliefs, and a vital connection with the spirit of your baby.”

She offers a fertility program that includes Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) techniques to remove blocks to conception and get to the root of unexplained infertility. The program also incorporates clairvoyant techniques to help people connect with the spirit of their baby and understand female creative energy.

“Over the years I’ve helped women and couples achieve fertility results when conventional methods have failed,” she says.

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Better Lymph Flow Means Better Health, Says Manhattan Practitioner When Tammy Kohlschmidt describes the lymphatic system, what comes to mind is an Italian sports car: It’s capable of amazing things when it’s working right.

“It’s so important to keep our lymphatic system flowing,” says Kohlschmidt, founder of Thermography For Health NY. “It’s our detoxification highway, moving toxins through our body to be eliminated. It also houses important immune cells to protect us and help us heal.

The tricky thing about lymph is that it easily stagnates and can get sticky. This can start a disease process that increases toxic load and microbial imbalance.”

Bodywork techniques that keep the lymph flowing are among the many wellness services and therapies offered at Thermography For Health NY. Kohlschmidt—a certified clinical thermographer, licensed dental hygienist, certified Body Talk practitioner, Tibetan Tones sound healer and nutritional evaluator—founded the Manhattan practice more than 10 years ago, drawing on the various treatment modalities she’d encountered throughout her career. Her focus is providing integrative approaches based on the concept of the four levels of healing: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

“Thermal imaging can reveal early signs of disease,” she says. “With these early warnings, we’ve been able to implement simple protocols to correct the body’s physiology to a healthier state,” she says. “In addition to lymphatic flow, the keys are hormonal balance, breathing patterns, proper digestion, stress management, and control and prevention of illness.”

Location: 120 East 56th St., 12th Floor, New York, NY. For appointments and information, call 212-838-8884, email hello@thermographyforhealthny.com or visit ThermographyForHealthNY.com.

‘Living the Miracle’ Teaches Freedom from Emotional Suffering Emotional pain is inevitable in life—there are going to be people and things that make us feel bad—but suffering is optional, says Michael Berlin.

Berlin has developed an online coaching program, Living the Miracle, that helps people free themselves from the fear that causes emotional suffering.

“Suffering comes from concern and worry about future needs being met,” he explains. “But once we teach you how to live in the moment and meet your own needs in each moment, you begin to feel safe and capable in life, and all fear goes away.”

Berlin says living in the present, and knowing and living our own truth, requires mastering five skills.

“These skills will teach you to resolve your past and live in communion with your deepest heart and soul, so that you can create the present and future that is truly right for you,” he says. “Things will Dr. Mike Berlin happen and you’ll feel your normal human emotions, but you’ll simply ride the ups and downs of life because you’re always connected to your own love, truth and empowerment, for yourself and others. My unique proprietary process, which combines the teachings from many spiritual and personal-growth masters, helps people truly heal all the root causes of inner and outer stress, conflict and overwhelm. If you’re struggling—or you simply want more peace, love and passion—please call me.”

For more information, call 516-780-3351 or visit www. drmikeberlin.com/livingthemiracle. See ad, page 27.

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Holistic Networking Events Held Fridays on Long Island Holistic doctors and practitioners and vendors of healthy products and services are invited to join Carol Leitner’s Wellness and Entrepreneurs Exchange and Holistic Living meet-ups, held on select Fridays on Long Island from noon to 1 p.m.

“At these show-and-tell networking events, you can share information about your products and services during our Sharing Circle and hear speakers present on topics related to keeping your body, mind and spirit in optimal health,” Leitner says.

To learn how to become a guest speaker at a Long Island meetups, or to learn about other holistic events and marketing opportunities, contact Carol Leitner at 516242-8270 or carolleitner1@gmail. com. See calendar, page 43.

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UK Study Links Gum Disease, Mental Health Risk A major UK study that reinforces the growing body of evidence linking poor oral health and the risk of developing various chronic health conditions broke new ground by including mental illness among those chronic conditions.

The study, which was published in the journal BMJ Open, followed 64,000 patients with a history of periodontal (gum) disease, as well as a 250,000-person cohort group without periodontal disease, for an average of three and a half years. The patients with gum disease were 37 more likely to develop mental health issues, including depression and anxiety.

Reporting on the study, NewAtlas.com’s Rich Hardy writes that the link between poor oral health and poor mental health is likely multifaceted: “The researchers are clear in noting the association between mental health and periodontitis is likely both behavioral and immunological. This means it is probable poor oral health (such as halitosis or tooth loss) can enhance social anxieties but there is also evidence of oral infections exacerbating inflammatory responses that lead to distinct changes in immune system activity in the brain.

“Ultimately, regardless of ‘what comes first’ questions, the researchers suggest these findings affirm the importance of maintaining good oral health.

Krish Nirantharakumar, co-senior author on the study, says ideally this means regular dentist visits and better communication between dentists and GPs underpinned by the understanding that oral health can be intrinsically associated with broader health concerns.”

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Simon Fraser University (SFU), in British Columbia, is engaging with more than 150 Indigenous organizations, universities and other partners to highlight the complex problems of biodiversity loss and its implications for health and well-being in the Tackling Biodiversity Decline Across the Globe research initiative. The project is inclusive of intersectional, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary worldviews and methods for research, with activities in 70 different kinds of ecosystems that are spiritually, culturally and economically important to Indigenous peoples. One of the project’s six principal investigators, SFU assistant professor Maya Gislason, of the Faculty of Health Sciences, says, “Our work in health will focus on healing from the stresses and losses caused by colonial practices and on building healthier relationships to nature. By 2027, when the project completes, healing and well-being will have been important considerations within the development of holistic and actionable solutions intended to improve stewardship and care for people and the planet.”

SFU professor John O’Neil, former dean of the faculty of health sciences, says of the enterprise, “It is unique from many other large projects in its embrace of governance models like ethical space, Indigenous research methodologies and Indigenous knowledges.”

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A poll by Ipsos conducted for the ocean conservation group Oceana last November found that 82 percent of registered U.S. voters responding would like the National Park Service to stop selling and distributing single-use plastic items. The survey revealed broad appreciation for national parks, with around four in five respondents saying they had been to a park and 83 percent of previous park visitors looking forward to a return visit. Oceana Plastics Campaign Director Christy Leavitt says, “These polling results indicate that Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, want our parks to be unmarred by the pollution caused by single-use plastic.”

The results show broad support for a campaign led by Oceana and more than 300 other environmental organizations which sent a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland asking the parks to end the sale and distribution of plastic beverage bottles, bags, foodware and cutlery, and plastic foam products. The proposed Reducing Waste in National Parks Act would see such a policy enacted if passed. “The National Park Service was created to preserve these natural and historic spaces, and in order to truly uphold that purpose, it needs to ban the sale and distribution of single-use plastic items, many of which will end up polluting our environment for centuries to come, despite being used for only a moment,” says Leavitt.

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Industrial Farming is Bad for Birds Researchers at the University of British Columbia found that increased farm sizes resulted in a 15 percent decline in bird diversity. Frederik Noack, assistant professor in the Food and Resource Economics Group, part of their faculty of land and food systems, says, “Wildlife is a good indicator of a healthy agroecosystem, and one thing we wanted to understand was the link between farm size and biodiversity in surrounding areas.” A diverse bird population provides natural pest control and maintenance of an overall healthy ecosystem.

They studied how various farming indicators impacted the diversity of local birds in the farmland bordering the former “Iron Curtain” in Germany. On the Western side of the former political border, farms are five times larger than on the Eastern side, a legacy of Communist farm collectivization. Although farms in East Germany have been privatized for 30 years, sharp differences in farm size remain along the former border, providing an opportunity to study the impact on biodiversity in an ecologically similar environment. Noack says, “Our results show that the negative impact of increased farm size can be mitigated by conserving land cover diversity within the agricultural landscape. In practice, this could mean incentivizing riparian buffer strips, forest patches, hedgerows or agroforestry.”

The Central Park Conservancy, the Yale School of the Environment and the New York City-based Natural Areas Conservancy are launching the Central Park Climate Lab, a new initiative and climate partnership to study the impacts of climate change on urban parks. Their mission is to work with cities across the country to improve urban park mitigation and adaptation to climate change. New York City Mayor Eric Adams states, “The Central Park Climate Lab begins a new era in research and cooperation that will give our park professionals improved tools to combat the climate crisis, and it will be a model for urban parks across the country.”

Because around 55 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, the program will use mapping tools to develop interventions and protect urban parkland.

With no national standard in place for characterizing and mapping it, the ability to identify broader climate solutions is limited. Research will begin in Central Park and then other New York City greenspaces before expanding to more parks. The data collected will be used to create new, scalable strategies and protocols. Elizabeth W. Smith, president and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy, says, “Severe weather events such as unprecedented rainfall, blizzards, high winds and extreme heat and cold, strain resources and impact Central Park’s tree canopy, plants and wildlife.”

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Himalayan Glacier Retreat Bodes Consequences for Millions Glaciers in the Himalayan Mountains have been growing for millions of years, but researchers at England’s University of Leeds conclude in a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports that they are melting at an exceptional rate compared to other glaciers around the world. The Himalayas are home to nine of the world’s 10 highest peaks, including Mt. Everest, and the source of Asia’s longest river, the Yangtze. They contain the third-largest deposit of ice and snow in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic.

Study co-author Jonathan Carrivick, deputy head of the University of Leeds School of Geography, says, “Our findings clearly show that ice is now being lost from Himalayan glaciers at a rate that is at least 10 times higher than the average rate over past centuries ... and coincides with human-induced climate change.”

These glaciers release meltwater that forms the headwaters of several major rivers, and their disappearance could threaten agriculture, drinking water and energy production in countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, China, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. But the impact is not only regional, it includes the effect on sea level rise and the damage that could wreak on coastal communities globally. Carrivick says, “We must act urgently to reduce and mitigate the impact of human-made climate change on the glaciers and meltwater-fed rivers.”

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Cultivating Wellness Long Island’s Gina Marino, D.C., on the benefits of gardening to relieve stress When we spend time in an office (or just indoors) day in and day out, we can lose our connection to the outside world. That loss of connection can lead to higher stress and more health problems without our even realizing it. But when that the gap between office life and outdoor life is bridged, our quality of life improves, says Gina Marino Gina Marino, D.C., founder of the Center for the Alignment of Body, Mind and Spirit, in Wantagh.

“By adding in simple garden tasks or small DIY home improvement projects to your to-do list outside of work hours, you can start reclaiming that connection,” Marino says. “It can also ease your stress, keep you active and limber, and even improve your mood. Who couldn’t use a little mood booster?”

When we put down our smartphones and pick up a spade and gardening gloves, we don’t just give our minds a rest—we give our bodies a rest too, she says.

“Think about how your body reacts and responds when you’re scrolling through updates on your phone or computer. How’s your posture? Are you tensed up? By setting the phone down and doing something more soothing—like most gardening tasks—you can effortlessly reduce the tension in your body and work on posture and body awareness.”

Boosting Strength and Flexibility True, gardening may not seem like exercise. But digging, planting, weeding and similar activities do require physical exertion, Marino says, and simple gardening tasks can improve our flexibility and strength over time.

“What’s best about most small DIY home improvement tasks, like gardening, is that you can change your exertion level depending on your body’s needs,” she says.

“It’s a hobby you won’t have to completely give up as you age.”

With gardening, as with any type of physical task, it’s important to take the necessary precautions to prevent injuries.

“The increase in physical exertion through gardening and small projects may not feel like a huge change all at once, but being aware of how to avoid injury through resistance training and proper alignment can help in the long run,” Marino says.

She notes that proper chiropractic care, such as regular spinal adjustments, developing muscle balance, and ensuring pelvic alignment, can help prepare the body for any level of physical exertion. That way the stressrelieving advantages of gardening and home improvement won’t be lost to injury.

“By educating yourself on the preventative measures you can take through chiropractic care, you can enjoy all the health benefits of the outdoors,” she says.

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Sustainable Dentistry in Tribeca Dr. Lewis Gross leads the way on “green” solutions that protect health and environment

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Dr. Lewis Gross believes in the power of sustainable dentistry to change the profession and the patient experience. That means natural (think “green”) solutions that are less expensive, less invasive and support patients’ systemic health, as well as protecting the environment.

His Tribeca practice, Holistic Dentists, has been at the leading edge of his field for decades, with its emphasis on the interconnection between oral and whole-body health. But sustainable dentistry represents a new stage of that journey, he says—one full of cool ideas, ecological products and new technologies.

“We’re living in a new era where patients are more socially and environmentally conscious and seek dentists who practice their craft in a way that benefits society, and not just their own profit,” he says. “This isn’t some gimmick or fad, because an educated consumer controls the marketplace and often now chooses a holisticecological dentist rather than their in-network insurance option. Many patients don’t realize that the PPO/ HMO dentist indirectly works for the insurance company and is limited in their diagnosis by that bottom-line mentality.”

Reducing Toxic Exposure Holistic Dentists has supported mercury- and BPA-free treatment for more than 40 years.

Gross and his team were pioneers in reducing the amount of mercury drained into the Hudson River by forcing dentists to filter their waste. They support the Minamata Convention on Mercury, a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury.

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Yazdi in our office is the only holistic pediatric dentist in the metropolitan area. She treats children with love and compassion.”

The office’s holistic oral surgeon offers ozone and a patient’s own blood stem cells, instead of pig bone, when extracting infected root canals. Patients can also receive a CBCT 3-D low-radiation x-ray of previous root canals.

The pH Solution Gross and his team teach their patients that the secret to preventing decay and remineralizing teeth is to reduce oral acidity.

“Low-saliva pH promotes bad bacteria that cause tooth decay and bad breath,” he says.

To help patients reduce their oral pH as part of their at-home oral-care regimen, Gross developed the AlkaWhite line of hygiene products and the fluoride-free Alkaline Oral Cleanse protocol. It involves reducing acid erosion of tooth enamel by changing diet and lifestyle; regularly testing oral pH; and using Alka-White mouthwash and Alka-White toothpaste tablets, which are SLS-free, portable and certified vegan.

“An educated dental consumer assumes responsibility for their own health through good hygiene, frequent professional cleanings and having their restorations brought up to code,” Gross says. “The patient is a critical partner in sustainable dentistry.”

Holistic Dentists is located at 17 Park Place, in Tribeca.

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What’s the Point If Nobody Gives a Shift?

Moving beyond fear and into love and enlightenment

by Robin Landau react in ways that don’t align with the life you want, something has to shift.

We all have the opportunity to express and experience our highest and best potential self. Isn’t that what we all want—to live our best life?

What Is Ascension?

Simply put, ascension is being more conscious of being conscious. When we’re consciously aware of being engaged in our lives and taking responsibility for our own reality, we can fully experience the “awakening” process of enlightenment.

I’ve had several conversations lately about the importance of keeping our vibration high—and not in the lower bandwidths of fear—as we each navigate our own ascension process. There seems to be some confusion around this.

I’m not suggesting that we must be in the vibration of love, rainbows and unicorns 100 percent of the time in order to evolve or ascend consciousness. We are human, after all. We’re here to experience the full spectrum of emotions, not to bypass the soul lessons we came here to learn.

But we also can’t stay in those lower bandwidths if we want to exponentially shift our consciousness. We need to align our thoughts, emotions and belief system with the life we want to manifest.

I can’t imagine that anyone would consciously choose to manifest a life full of chaos, drama and misfortune—all of which are a vibrational match to a fearbased belief system—but that’s what you’re doing if you allow the ego mind to dictate how you feel, think or act in any given moment. So when you get triggered by what someone says or does or by the seemingly unstable state of the world, and you hold on to negative, fear-based thoughts that cause you to 20

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In fact, we’ve already achieved ascension. Our etheric lightbodies have already ascended out of this universal quantum matrix; now our biological soul carrier—our human form—needs to catch up. It’s just a matter of consciously choosing how “high” vibrationally we want to go.

There’s a version of you in every dimensional bandwidth all the way up to your Godhead self—a future you reaching down through time and space to guide you, leaving breadcrumbs for you to follow (like intuitions, synchronicities, and light-coded messages that show up in books and movies). Through this process of divinely inspired free will, the future you is counting on you to make the higher choices so that it/ you can integrate and merge with you

and continue to exist. I know that’s a mouthful, but how cool is that?

Whether or not you’re aware of it, we’re experiencing a paradigm shift and a rise in consciousness. We can collapse unfavorable timelines that don’t align with the highest expression of ourselves, and that’s where our power lies. In order to do this, we must continuously rise up into higher vibrations of love and not linger in the lower bandwidths of fear.

When thoughts of fear or doubt come in—and they will—let them. Feel and lean into your emotions fully and consciously. Notice how they trigger you, how the ego mind attempts to pull you out of alignment. From a young age we’re conditioned to buy into various belief systems designed to keep us small and controllable.

But ego is a consciousness outside of ourselves; it’s not who we really are.

Its only mission is to stay alive, and its food source is our fear.

Dissolving Ego So how do we dissolve the ego? The first step is reclaiming our power by shifting into higher consciousness.

This is an ongoing process, so keep at it. Acknowledge each emotion that shows up for you. If it’s fear based, thank it for giving you an opportunity to master something in yourself— even if you don’t know what that is.

Then let the emotion pass through you like a screen door. Just let it go and fill that void with golden white light.

Choose to shift and go higher: Think higher thoughts. Make higher choices. Reach for higher goals. Express the highest version of yourself!

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From the Ballfield to the Classroom, Kids Benefit from Chiropractic

by David Pollack, D.C.

I’ve had the good fortune to work with hundreds of young athletes over the past 15 years, including top athletes from Division 1 colleges—some among the top three in the country—as well as Junior Olympians eager to get back in the game. Helping the number-two D1 tennis player in the country get his serve back certainly rocks.

Many of these young people were desperate, concerned about getting kicked from their team and losing their scholarship as a result of their injuries. Some were just not at their peak. All of them ended up improving their game beyond what they’d expected. The goal is peak human performance— not just the absence of pain.

Just like professional athletes, many of these younger athletes continue a level of care past rehab. For top pros, chiropractic and its many specialties are an essential part of life—from rehab to injury prevention to peak performance.

These benefits can translate to non-athletes too. From the avid student hunched over their books to the selfie-focused TikTok fan, our kids are developing musculoskeletal issues we couldn’t have dreamed of 20 years ago.

Nevertheless, I often hear parents say, “I didn’t know that chiropractic was OK for kids.”

It’s not only OK; it should be encouraged.

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Even infants can benefit from chiropractic. I adjusted my son within minutes of him being born, as most chiropractors do, to help counter all the trauma and force involved in the birthing process. Not only do we see improved posture, less pain and better athletic performance in children who have frequent adjustments, but these students have better academic focus and performance.

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Expiration Dates

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When to Eat or Toss Food

Americans waste about 40 percent of the food supply every year, which translates to billions of pounds of edible food rotting in landfills and generating dangerous greenhouse gases, along with the dollars leaking out of our wallets. We squander limited resources like water and fuel and needlessly uptick our carbon footprint to produce and transport food that will never be consumed.

One major contributor to this problem is expiration labeling—those ambiguous “best before” or “sell by” dates on canned goods, prepared foods, egg cartons, milk jugs and meat packages. Consumers are not quite sure what they mean, and as a result, they often throw out ingredients that are perfectly good to eat.

Except for baby formula, the U.S. Department of Agriculture does not require or regulate date labels. Generated by food manufacturers, these cryptic markings convey information about the quality and freshness of products rather than their safety.

Experts advise that food that doesn’t show signs of spoilage after a specified date can still be eaten. Instead of allowing a package date to dictate the lifecycle of food, we can rely on an

item’s look, smell and taste to make that decision.

To become better stewards of the environment, we need to become food conservationists—purchase only what we will consume, plan meals to cook the most perishable items first, scrape the fuzz off sour cream or yogurt, snip off the mold on a block of cheese, freeze items we aren’t going to consume in a timely manner, and eat everything on our plates.

What Labels Mean Best if used by/before date indicates when a product is at peak quality and flavor.

Freeze by date denotes when an item should be frozen to maintain peak quality.

Sell by date tells a retailer how long to display the product for sale.

Actual Food Life Span Milk lasts seven to 10 days after the “sell by” date. If it smells bad, chuck it. Otherwise, it’s safe.

Eggs typically stay fresh in the fridge three to five weeks past the “pack date.”

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Canned goods don’t expire. The “best by” or “use by” dates only relate to peak freshness, flavor and texture.

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EARTH DAY 2022 Focuses on Collective Responsibility

by Ronica A. O’Hara

Invest in Our Planet

As 1 billion people around the globe gather to mark Earth Day on April 22, they will be focusing on an increasingly critical goal: the need for everyone—governments, citizens and businesses—to do their part to combat climate change.

“Everyone accounted for, and everyone accountable,” is the day’s emerging motto.

While Earth Day themes over the past 52 years have often centered on specific issues, such as plastic pollution and deforestation, this year’s broader theme, “Invest In Our Planet,” reflects a growing consensus that, at such a critical point for the Earth’s future, governments will not solve the climate crisis by themselves.

“Like the industrial, space and information revolutions, all sectors of society can and must play major roles—this time with the extraordinary responsibilities to get it right,” reads a statement from EarthDay.org. Activism involves not only lowering carbon emissions, but also making sure that the benefits of the coming Green Revolution are spread evenly throughout society, the statement says.

“In 2022, we all must enter into one partnership for the planet,” says Earth Day President Kathleen Rogers.

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Events, such as rallies and social media campaigns, aim to encourage action and legislation, as well as educate on corporate and personal sustainability. Art shows allow attendees to visualize a better future while data collection for citizen-based science research and workshops find ways to build local green economies. All are appropriate ways to participate this Earth

Day, as well as clean-up campaigns and tree plantings. To learn about personal actions, including step-by-step instructions on how to organize an event, visit EarthDay.org.

Help New York City and Long Island celebrate victories and support future progress by participating in these local Earth Day 2022 events.

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Open Day Earth Day Festival April 21, Noon - 5 pm Crossroads Farm, 480 Hempstead Ave, Malverne, NY xroadsfarmliny.com/upcoming-events

Earth Day 2022 Festival April 21, Noon - 7 pm Union Square Park,201 Park Ave S NYC earthdayinitiative.org/2022-events

Earth Day Beach Clean-Up April 22, 10 am-Noon Truman Beach, NY-25, East Marion, NY peconiclandtrust.org/get-involved/events/ earth-day-beach-cleanup

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Do You Suffer from Joint, Muscle, Tendon and Ligament Pain or Injuries?

If you do, the answer may be Prolo-Ozone therapy.

From the Desk of Dr. Howard Robins at The Healing Center in New York City If you suffer from an injury like an ankle sprain that can’t seem to heal, or if your knee is “bone on bone,” as the cartilage is completely gone and you’re in pain and maybe facing a knee replacement, then Prolo-Ozone therapy may be the answer.

Or perhaps you suffer from sciatica, with shooting pain down your leg into your foot. Prolo-Ozone therapy may be the answer.

Or you may have had a shoulder injury that just won’t stop hurting. Prolo-Ozone therapy may be the answer.

Do you suffer from tendonitis from a sports injury?

Did you injure your bunion joint playing tennis or doing martial arts of some kind?

Are you having trouble with your golf swing because it’s uncomfortable or it just plain hurts?

Keep in mind that all these medical problems will affect how you walk and move, whether you know it or not, and can lead to the development of other painful problems in your feet, legs and back.

Prolo-Ozone therapy may be the answer!

oxygen. Stem cells serve as the body’s repair system; they have the potential to develop into many different types of cells in the body.

This accounts for what we have seen—what I call “repairing the unrepairable and fixing the unfixable.”

We know that medical ozone also acts as a temporary painkiller and anti-inflammatory. However, with Prolo-Ozone therapy, healing is promptly and amazingly stimulated, including reports of cartilage repair and replacement occurring in addition to pain often being permanently eliminated, even when every other treatment has failed.

While we once believed that this manner of healing was impossible, like many other things that we believed couldn’t be done, medical ozone therapy has proven us wrong.

Recovery Possible within Weeks

Prolo-Ozone therapy is a series of weekly, often painless injections. With any single injection, complete recovery may be achieved!

We’ve found that noticeable improvement What is Prolo-Ozone Therapy? typically occurs by the third or fourth treatment.

It is said that prolo or proli in Latin means However, if no improvement at all is felt, it may to “rebuild” or “regenerate,” thus the word be too late to help and the therapy may not be worth proliferate. continuing.

In the late 1990s, a published study in If symptoms return, it may be necessary for the Europe showed that Prolo-Ozone therapy on patient to come back, promptly and periodically, for a Dr. Howard Robins degenerative spinal disks, using a mixture “tune-up”—another injection or series of injections. of oxygen and ozone gas, could help stop the pain. This All around the world, Prolo-Ozone therapy has saved many study was repeated in Canada in the early 2000s, with similar people from having to undergo shoulder, hip, knee, back and success. It was followed in Europe and here in the United foot surgeries. We all know there is no guarantee with any States by studies of its use on muscle, cartilage, tendon, surgery. Surgery can be successful, or in some cases it can leave ligament and joint pain and injuries, with equal success. you worse off than before.

Ozone gas, acting as a safe “irritant,” causes our body to Prolo-Ozone therapy is a simple and safe way of trying to fix begin a healing response. It is not a surgical treatment. It has your problem. If it fails, you can always have surgery. also been described as a “regenerative joint injection or nonWhile no moral or ethical doctor should promise or surgical ligament, cartilage, muscle and tendon reconstruction.” guarantee results, nor should any doctor with any treatment, The major benefit of Prolo-Ozone therapy is that the gas we have seen astounding success with Prolo-Ozone therapy. spreads out and stimulates the healing process over the entire It’s your choice. injection site. Unlike its precursor, Prolotherapy, which uses a liquid “irritant” to cause healing, Prolo-Ozone therapy doesn’t More information about this amazing, safe and effective require a guided ultrasound to ensure that it’s applied to a treatment is available at OzoneWithoutBorders.ngo, on my precise spot. website OzoneDoctor.net, and on my radio show, Functional Research being performed currently in Europe indicates Medicine with Dr. Robins, which is archived but live each week that the ozone gas stimulates “natural stem cell” activity in the on VoiceAmerica.com’s Health and Wellness Channel. Or call area of injury. This must be what causes the healing response, my office at 212-581-0101. as the ozone is gone within 10 minutes, having turned back to Copyright 2022. All rights reserved.

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Why We Need

Wild Places

How to Invite Nature Back into Our Lives and Landscapes

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n a blustery day, Julian Hoffman stood outdoors and watched wild bison grazing in the restored grassland of Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, fewer than 50 miles from downtown Chicago. For him, it was a wild place, affording a glimpse of what North America looked like hundreds of years ago when bison roamed the continent by the millions. “We’re witnessing, in a way that’s both terrible and tragic, just what the profound cost is of continuing to destroy the natural world,” he writes.

Saving wild places is critical for human health and wellbeing, say both scientists and environmentalists. But defining what a wild place is or what the word wilderness means can be difficult, says Hoffman, author of Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places. “If wilderness means a place untouched by humans, then none is left,” he says. Even the set-aside wildernesses

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where no one may have ever stepped have been altered through climate change, acid rain and other human interventions.

Humans are also losing the wilderness that is defined as land set aside solely for plants and creatures other than humans. Prominent naturalist David Attenborough, whose most recent documentary is A Life on Our Planet, says that in 1937, when he was a boy, about 66 percent of the world’s wilderness areas remained. By 2020, it was down to 35 percent.

A wild place can be as spectacular as Yellowstone, a 3,500-square-mile national park in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, filled with hot springs, canyons, wolves, and elk. It can also be as simple as a sky filled with a murmuration, or gathering, of thousands of swooping starlings, which once caused two teens to stop taking selfies and photograph the natural scene above them

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Sustaining Our Species

“We need these places to save ourselves,” says Tallamy, who heads the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. “Humans are totally dependent on the production of oxygen and clean water, and that happens with the continued existance of flowering plants, which are dependent on the continued existence of all the pollinators. When you lose the pollinators, you lose 90 percent of the flowering plants on the Earth. That is not an option if we want to stay alive and healthy.”

Our mental and emotional health is also at stake. According to a recent overview in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, studies have shown that natural settings can lower blood pressure, reduce depression and anxiety, and help the immune system function better.

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instead, as Hoffman witnessed in Great Britain.

Such regions that offer vast tracts of natural beauty and biodiversity are even found in and around major cities like Chicago, says Chicagoland nature blogger Andrew Morkes. “A wild place is also where you don’t see too many people, or any people, and you can explore,” he says. “You can walk up a hill and wonder what’s around the next bend.”

“A wild place could be a 15-minute drive from home where we can walk among plants in a meadow, or a tree-lined street, or front and back yard, if landscaped with wild creatures in mind,” says Douglas Tallamy, author of Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts with Your Yard.

People have saved wild places over time, of course. “The world’s ancient redwoods are still with us today because people in the early 1900s fought to protect and preserve what they could already see was rapidly diminishing,” Hoffman says. “In the year 2022, we are the beneficiaries of those past actions. Yet less than 5 percent of those old-growth redwood groves are left, and we live in an age where we’re losing an extraordinary range of wild species; for example, 3 billion birds have disappeared from the skies of North America in just the past 50 years. That’s why people need to continue to fight for wild spaces.”

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Community Crusaders

In researching his book, Hoffman went looking for wild-space struggles. In Glasgow, Scotland, he met people that fought to save an urban meadow from being turned into a luxury home development. “I’d never experienced as much joy in any one place as when I spent time with the community fighting to preserve this tiny meadow,” he recalls. “They campaigned and lobbied politicians, and eventually, the government backed down. And now the whole community is able to enjoy this site where a lot of urban wildlife thrives.”

Once-wild places may also need human help to again become wild refuges. The Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, where Hoffman saw the buffalo, “was once an arsenal for the production of extraordinary quantities of ordnance for a number of wars,” he says.

After hundreds of die-hard volunteers dug out invasive plants, scattered seed and documented wildlife on the 18,000-acre prairie, visitors can now walk among big bluestem and golden alexander, and listen for the sweet song of meadowlarks in the grasslands and chorus frogs in the wetlands.

Conservation volunteers working to save wild places hail from every state. In fact, nearly 300,000 volunteers contribute more than 6.5 million hours of volunteer service a year to the U.S. National Park Service, from leading tours to studying wildlife and hosting campgrounds.

One doesn’t have to be an environmental crusader to save wild places, Hoffman stresses. Exploring local wild places and sharing them with others can help save them, as well. “We can only protect those places that we love,” he says. “And we can only love those places that we know.”

Sadly, roughly 100 million people, including 28 million children, do not have access to a quality park within 10 minutes of home, according to The Trust for Public Land. Projects, such as the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program, which enables urban communities to create outdoor spaces, can help. The U.S. Department of the Interior committed $150 million to the program in 2021. “Every child in America deserves to have a safe and nearby place to experience the great outdoors,” says Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.

A Homegrown National Park Tallamy says one of the most important ways to get people to appreciate and save wild places is to begin in their own yards.

“We have wilderness designations. We have national forests. We have national parks.

We have 12 percent of the U.S. protected from development,” he says. “Yet, we are in the sixth great extinction. Our parks and our preserves are not enough. My point is that we have got to focus on the areas outside of parks and preserves.” He urges what he calls a “homegrown national park,” in which homeowners, land managers and farmers create a habitat by replacing invasive plants with native species.

Tallamy speaks from experience. He lives on a 10-acre former farm in Oxford, Pennsylvania. “It had been mowed for hay and when we moved in, very little life was here,” he says. “We have been rebuilding the eastern deciduous forest here, getting invasive plants under control and replanting with species that ought to be here.” He’s now counted more than 1,400 different species of moths on his property and documented

Creating a Wild Space at Home

“Mourning cloak butterflies overwinter as mature adults. If you say, ‘Hey, let’s just clean up all of that so-called leaf litter,’ you could be cleaning up the habitat of mourning cloaks and killing them,” says Darke, who has served as a horticultural consultant for botanic gardens and other public landscapes in Texas, Maryland, New York, Illinois and Delaware. “That’s not litter. It’s meaningful habitat.

“A dead tree in your home landscape, called a snag, often contributes as much to the local ecology as a living tree,” he adds. “For example, woodpeckers build nests in holes or cavities in a snag, and countless insects find shelter and nourishment in the organic material of the snag.”

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Stop using pesticides and herbicides.

Replace non-native plants with those native to the region.

Reduce lawn space, converting it to native plants.

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In their book The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden, University of Delaware ecology professor Douglas Tallamy and landscape designer Rick Darke show how to create wild spaces in yards, including what and where to plant and how to manage the land. They advise homeowners to:

60 species of birds nesting within the landscape. “We have foxes who raise their kits in the front yard,” he says.

Lots of acreage is not required, he says. In Kirkwood, Missouri, homeowners created a wild place on six-tenths of an acre on which they’ve documented 149 species of birds. “If one person does it, it’s not going to work,” he stresses. “The point is to get those acres connected. When everybody adopts this as a general landscape culture, it’s going to help tremendously. By rewilding your yard, you are filling in spaces between the true wild places and natural areas. The reason our wild spaces are not working in terms of conservation is because they are too small and too isolated. Even the biggest national parks are too small or too isolated.”

Tallamy says people can create wild spaces in their yards by reducing the amount of lawn they have or even getting rid of it. They can grow native plants and discontinue the use of pesticides and herbicides, which are disrupting ecological function of wild places the world over, as research shows. Hoffman agrees, “We’ve

cultivated a culture of tidiness. It’s actually very easy to welcome wildlife into your home places, often by doing fewer things, by not bringing the leaf blower out and by leaving some dead wood where it fell, which creates important shelters for insects, for example.

“Such wild yard spaces encourage wonder. Suddenly, the kids are out there and they can be absolutely fascinated by a small glittering beetle. For me, to experience the wild is to go to the shore of a lake, to be present in the mystery, to be among

the lake’s reed beds, to see a marsh harrier sleek out of those reeds and to know you’re part of something much larger,” he says. “There’s so much joy and beauty and complexity in being in the presence of other lives besides human.” That in itself is reason enough to save wild places.

Sheryl DeVore has written six books on science, health and nature, as well as health and environmental stories for national and regional publications. Read more at SherylDeVore.wordpress.com.

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Technology Meets Nature Apps Bring Us Closer to Flora and Fauna

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hile exploring Seattle, Jackie Lentz Bowman noticed some bushes filled with pink and orange berries. She discovered she could safely eat them by using the smartphone nature app called iNaturalist (iNaturalist.org). “I learned they were salmonberries and edible,” says the Chicago area photographer and birder. “I just had to try them. They were very similar to raspberries.”

Bowman is among a growing number of people using their smartphones to enhance their nature experiences. Phone apps are available for free or a modest price to identify

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mushrooms, bugs, birds, dragonflies, reptiles, beetles, wildflowers and other flora and fauna. “Whether it is to help identify a plant I’ve taken a photo of or to familiarize myself with what a bird looks like and sounds like, these are tools I’m always glad to have in my back pocket,” she explains.

At least 6,300 nature apps were available in 2015, according to Paul Jepson and Richard Ladle, Oxford environmental scholars and co-authors of “Nature Apps: Waiting for the Revolution,” a research paper published in the Swedish environmental journal Ambio. Such programs are only beginning to scratch the surface of what is possible. They write, “As most people own a mobile phone today, the app—though a small device—is a major way conservationists could be reaching a huge audience with transformative possibilities.”

Right now, some apps allow the user to point a smartphone to a plant or animal to get instant feedback on its common or scientific name. Others ask the user questions about what they are seeing and suggest an identity based on the answers. Some allow the user to interact with scientists, share their knowledge, record their observations and contribute to science.

Perhaps the most popular nature app is iNaturalist, which has all those features and more. “Our mission has been to connect people to nature through technology,” says Scott Loarie, co-director of iNaturalist, a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. “By 2030, we want to connect 100 million people to nature to facilitate science and conservation.”

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ect at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008, and today 2 million people have recorded about 100 million observations, covering one in six species on the planet. “iNaturalist has grown to the point where it’s helping take the pulse of biodiversity,” he adds.

Newcomers are often mentored and helped with identifications by volunteers that are experts in different fields. One example is a worldwide competition called the City Nature Challenge in which beginning and advanced naturalists document urban flora and fauna for several days.

During the event, people share their photos of plants and animals on iNaturalist.

During Chicago’s Challenge, Eric Gyllenhaal, who blogs about nature on the city’s west side, found an uncommon species. “A Canadian expert helped confirm the identification as a bronze ground beetle native to Europe,” says Cassi Saari, project manager of natural areas for the Chicago Park District. “It’s an introduced species in Illinois and could have implications for wildlife in the region down the line.”

Two other nature apps that Loarie likes are eBird (eBird.org) and Merlin (Merlin.

AllAboutBirds.org), both administered by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, in Ithaca, New York. With eBird, users can report on their phones a list of birds they’re seeing in the wild, including when and where, and the sightings are added to a database for scientific research.

Merlin is a field guide app to help folks identify the birds they are seeing. “Merlin has taken on authoring content with great descriptions of birds, something iNaturalist doesn’t do,” Loarie points out. “Merlin also just released sound recognition in the app, so people can identify birds by sound. It’s huge for birders.”

Award-winning nature photographer Adriana Greisman, of Phoenix, says she uses both Merlin and iBird (iBird.com), another field guide app, to identify birds in the wild and when processing photos. “These are great resources to identify unknown species and to learn about their behavior.”

The favorite app of Joyce Gibbons, a volunteer at the Natural Land Institute, in Rockford, Illinois, is Odonata Central (OdonataCentral.org), which focuses on

her passion—dragonflies and damselflies, collectively called odonates.

“I’ve loved solitary walks in the woods, prairies and other natural areas since I was a child,” she says. “I’ve always taken photos and tried to ID the many species I’ve observed. Now, with these apps on my phone, I feel like I am actually contributing to the scientific body of knowledge and connecting with other enthusiasts and not just keeping all this joy of discovery to myself.”

Sheryl DeVore is an award-winning author of six books on science, health and nature.

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hat we choose to put on our plates influences not only our physical health, but also the health of the environment. While much of the climate conversation focuses on the burning of fossil fuels, commercial food production—particularly livestock—uses large amounts of land, water and energy.

Wasted food contributes to approximately 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.

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about 70 percent of the world’s fresh water use, while pasture and crop land accounts for about 50 percent of the Earth’s habitable land.

“The environmental impacts begin with the soil,” Prezkop explains. “Soil that’s depleted of nutrients loses its ability to capture carbon and produce nutrientrich foods. The long chain continues with the processing and packaging of that food, and then transporting it to grocery store shelves and, eventually, to the consumer’s home.”

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Animal agriculture is the leading cause of climate change, argues author, screenwriter and playwright Glen Merzer in his latest book, Food Is Climate: A Response to Al Gore, Bill Gates, Paul Hawken & the Conventional Narrative on Climate Change.

“When we have 93 million cattle farmed in the U.S. and 31 billion animals farmed globally each year, they create mountains of waste,” says Merzer, a dedicated vegan of 30 years. “That waste infiltrates water supplies and causes contamination, such

as E. coli outbreaks, in foods like on individual dietary needs.”

“When food is wasted, we’re not just lettuce and tomatoes that are Merzer argues that we have little throwing away food, but everything it took grown downstream.” control over fossil fuel burning, to produce that food is also wasted— He adds that cows belch methbut we can control our diets. He ane, a far more powerful greenpromotes plant-based eating as a the water, the fertilizer and the land.” house gas than carbon dioxide, primary solution to climate change. ~Leigh Prezkop and that grass-fed cows belch even Changing mindsets about “normore of it than grain-fed, feedlot cows. In addition, nitrogen mal” traditions, such as having hamburgers on the Fourth of July fertilizers used to grow animal feed run into waterways. Overfishor turkey on Thanksgiving, can be difficult, but achievable with ing and ocean warming threaten populations of phytoplankton, the planet at stake, he says. which sequester carbon dioxide and seed clouds. Deforestation to Sophie Egan, founder of FullTableSolutions.com and author of create grazing land may be the single greatest future threat to our How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good climate because forests also sequester carbon and provide a home For You, Others, and the Planet, advises to start small by looking at the foods eaten most frequently and identifying ways to make for diverse flora and fauna. simple swaps. “If you have toast with butter every morning, that could be changed to a nut butter. A sandwich with cold cuts every Make Simple Swaps day for lunch, that can be replaced with a roasted vegetables and Prezkop emphasizes that despite these problems with the indushummus sandwich or an avocado sandwich. You can still eat trial food chain, changing the way we produce food is also the something in a familiar form, but replace ingredients with lowersolution. The WWF works with suppliers to educate and proemissions options,” she says. mote regenerative production practices. On the consumer side, If someone is intimidated by switching to an all plant-based changing the way food is produced can be achieved by changing diet, a flexitarian option emphasizing foods from the plant kingpeople’s dietary demands. dom while enjoying meat only occasionally may be more sustain“We don’t prescribe people to eat a certain way. We do believe able throughout a person’s lifetime. Her book contains a “protein different people and cultures have different dietary needs,” she says. scorecard” from the World Resources Institute that lists animal “The global north eats a lot of meat, so we do recommend a plantand plant sources in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per gram forward diet while still incorporating animal proteins, depending of protein from the worst offenders to the least, with beef (along

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Prezkop recommends eating a wide variety of foods. “Currently, 75 percent of food produced is from 12 plant species and five animal species, despite that there are thousands of varieties. This means there’s less diversity happening in the field. Diversity helps with regeneration and healthy soils. Producing the same crops over and over means there’s no crop rotation and no diversity happening, leading to degraded soils and deforestation to produce more of the same crop.”

Egan adds that diets that are over-reliant on just a few food sources like corn, wheat, rice and soy threaten the Earth and can lead to food insecurity. “Think of it as risk management with a financial portfolio: We have a diversified portfolio of foods available to feed a growing population, but as the climate warms, extreme weather events threaten yields because lack of fresh water and unhealthy soil threaten the planet and, ultimately, food production.”

Eating food that is as close as to its original state as possible is better for the planet. “The more food is processed, the more resources it took to get it to market,” Prezkop notes.

Cut Food Waste Prezkop says approximately 40 percent of the food produced globally is lost while still on the farm or further up the supply chain. “When food is wasted, we’re not just throwing away food, but everything it took to produce that food is also wasted—the water, the fertilizer and the land.”

A recent WWF report entitled Driven To Waste cites new data indicating that food waste contributes to approximately 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions—nearly twice the emissions produced annually by all the cars in the U.S. and Europe.

Egan suggests using a shopping list; impulse buys can be forgotten and are prone to spoiling. Keeping food visible by putting fruits and vegetables front and center ensures they won’t be for-

gotten. Leftovers can be kept from languishing by designating a section of the refrigerator for food to eat first or a day of the week to eat leftovers for dinner. “You can freeze just about anything,” Egan says, from leftover bread to cheese, which can be shredded before frozen. Even scrambled eggs can be poured into a freezer container to use later. (For more ideas, check out SaveTheFood. com and Dana Gunders’ Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook.)

Nonprofits throughout the country are creating solutions to divert food waste from the landfills. Keep Austin Fed, a nonprofit comprised of mostly volunteers, helps neighbors experiencing food insecurity by redistributing wholesome, nutritious, surplus food from any food-permitted business. Volunteers pick up leftover food from urban gardens, rural farms, grocery stores and caterers serving area tech firms. All prepared food accepted and redistributed is handled by licensed food handlers. Executive Director Lisa Barden says that Keep Austin Fed redistributed 982,428 pounds of food, or the equivalent of 818,695 meals, in 2021, thus keeping it out of the waste stream.

Similarly missioned organizations exist nationwide.

FoodRescue.us, with 40 locations in 20 states, provides assistance and even a dropoff/pickup app for people starting local groups. Since its founding in 2011, it has provided 85 million meals and kept 109 million pounds of excess food out of landfills. Its website offers a potent plea: “Fight Hunger. Help the Planet. Be the Rescue.”

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Spring is a State of Mind

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very year, spring lifts us from lethargy, her blossomed enthusiasm nudging us to take down the curtains for an annual wash, clean out the closets, and plot this year’s garden. If we pause and listen carefully, we can also hear an invitation to shake off the winters of our lives—the failures, aborted plans and could-have-beens.

All of life depends upon nature’s green ambition, yet we tend to take it for granted, not unlike the faint whisper of discontent that hints at the need for change. In the darkness of our fear-based comfort zones, there is a thwarted impulse to take that class at the community center, plant new ideas or try our hand at something new.

“I’m too old,” we proclaim. “I can’t do that,” we assume. “They’ll think I’m crazy,” we say. But spring begs to differ. The most delicious possibilities are those that give us stage-fright butterflies in the belly and wake us up at night with the nagging question, “What if?” Perhaps, if the caterpillar could foresee its winged destiny, it would be too overcome with self-doubt to even begin.

Author Marianne Williamson says, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

“Spring, in all her punctual glory, teaches us the vital necessity to court our passions, and there is no better time than now.”

As April puts on a new playlist of birdsong and our gardens remind us how to grow one inch at a time, we can make a point to wear that colorful shirt, begin the first chapter of a long overdue memoir or decide that we are deserving to fall madly, happily in love. For today, make an appointment with delight and put fresh flowers on the desk, walk barefoot after the rain or simply try on a new perspective. If we tune out the naysayer in our brains, we might even hear loved ones cheering us on. Spring, in all her punctual glory, teaches us the vital necessity to court our passions, and there is no better time than now.

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Spirited Strides Power Walk to Better Fitness

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e all know that the more steps we take in a day the better.

The Mayo Clinic advocates walking regularly to keep bad cholesterol in check, maintain a heart-healthy weight and keep blood pressure within a normal range. Power walking—going a mile in under 15 minutes—amps up cardiovascular benefits and takes metabolic conditioning to a new level.

Power walking involves taking longer strides, moving at 4.5 to 5.5 miles per hour and using the arms to propel motion, with or without light weights. “With this more intensive exercise, in comparison to everyday walking, one should note that their breathing is harder and their heart rate is faster with power walking. Compared to someone who walks at a casual pace, a power walker can expect lower blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar and cholesterol numbers,” says Jason C. Robin, M.D., director of cardio oncology at North Shore University Health System, in Glenview, Illinois.

Walking as a Workout In cases of severe coronary artery disease, certain heart muscle disorders, known as cardiomyopathy or valvular diseases, Robin recommends seeing a doctor before taking up fitness walking, but emphasizes, “Obvious injuries or illnesses aside, power walking is great for all ages, genders, sizes and fitness levels and is, in general, very safe with very few contraindications.” He suggests aiming for 15 minutes or less on a first endeavor, and after one week increasing the time to 20 to 25 minutes, eventually working up to 30 minutes. To complement power walking, he recommends resistance 36

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training to increase muscle strength and tone, protect joints from injury, and improve flexibility and balance.

Dave McGovern, walking coach and author of The Complete Guide to Competitive Walking: Racewalking, Power Walking, Nordic Walking and More!, points out, “The impact forces of walking, even high-level racewalking, can be one-third of what runners experience, so it’s a lot easier on the joints. Power walking doesn’t have many rules.” A 30-year veteran of the U.S. National Racewalk Team, McGovern underscores the importance of starting out with a regular, easy walk before progressing to a more vigorous pace.

To avoid and reduce injury, he advocates mindfulness of correct posture and taking shorter, faster steps rather than long, stomping strides. He trains on a variety of surfaces, including everyday roads, tartan (rubber) running tracks, treadmills, dirt trails, grass, and even the occasional concrete sidewalk. “Changing up surfaces uses your muscles in different ways, which can help prevent overuse injuries that crop up from too much training on the same surfaces day in, day out,” he says.

Practical Essentials For optimal results on any surface, proper footwear is vital. “We would typically recommend a running shoe for any fitness-based walking,” says Josh Saint Cyr, store manager at New Balance, in Highland Park, Illinois. He notes that the right shoes are designed to help align gait and avoid pronation or supination that prompts the ankle to roll inward or outward with movement. “For a more

customized experience, someone with medium or lower arches would want a shoe from the stability running section, and someone with higher arches would want a shoe from the cushioned running section.”

In cases of tight calf muscles, Saint Cyr recommends stretching as a daily practice, even on non-exercise days. “Rollers or massage guns can be useful for immediate relief, but ultimately, stretching will help by reducing or eliminating tightness.”

Taking it Up a Notch Racewalking, the competitive and highly technical variety of power walking, takes place at track meets. “After you’ve built a base of miles, you can start sprinkling in some longer and faster workouts, and maybe even think about competition,” says McGovern. “There is a bit more technique involved in competitive racewalking, but once you get the hang of it, it will allow you to go much faster.”

In the end, having a goal can be the best motivator. “For the athletes I coach, many of them in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond, racewalking and power walking gives a purpose to their workouts,” says McGovern. “One of my athletes has said that she hates to work out, but loves to train. Having the goal of a race over the horizon gives a lot of athletes a reason to get out the door every day.”

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leas and ticks are different types of pests; so, when considering how best to protect a dog, it is important to make a distinction—fleas are an annoyance, but ticks can be life-threatening. Many veterinarians recommend specific chemicals as a preventive solution, but this is often just a knee-jerk approach that uses chemicals to control nature. Instead, consider more natural alternatives that are both effective and non-toxic.

Fleas 101 Fleas are related to ants and beetles, feed on blood, and their bites can lead to irritation and skin allergies. They aren’t typically attracted to healthy pets; so, one of the best defenses against flea infestations is to feed a dog a nutritionally balanced, species-appropriate, fresh-food diet that will help keep their immune system functioning optimally.

It is also important to remove the environmental factors that can negatively impact immunity, including: n Poor water quality. Make sure to provide fluoride- and chlorine-free drinking water. n Too many vaccines. Insist that the veterinarian runs titer tests instead of giving un-

necessary shots.

n Toxic household chemicals, including cleaning products and dog beds treated with

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n Pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers used in the yard. n Toxic levels of electromagnetic fields from electrical devices in the home.

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The Trouble with Ticks Ticks are a type of arachnid related to mites, spiders and scorpions. Because ticks feed on many different animals (including humans, dogs, cats, squirrels, mice, opossums and deer), they are quite good at acquiring and transmitting diseases, some of which can be life-threatening.

Unfortunately, a single tick bite can expose a dog to multiple pathogens, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and babesiosis. Luckily, most dogs mount an effective immune response.

Up to 90 percent of dogs may have been exposed to tick-borne pathogens, but most are able to fight off infection on their own.

The only way to know if a dog has effectively eliminated harmful bacteria is to follow up the typical blood test with a second test called a quantitative C6 that differentiates exposure from infection. Large num-

bers of dogs each year are unnecessarily treated with extensive antibiotic therapy because their veterinarians panic after seeing a positive exposure and fail to check for infection.

To catch tick-borne infections before they take hold, ask the veterinarian to replace the standard annual heartworm test with the SNAP 4Dx Plus (from Idexx Labs) or the Accuplex4 tests (Antech Diagnostics), which screen for heartworm, Lyme disease and four other vectorborne diseases. Completing one of these simple blood tests every six to 12 months is the best way to protect a dog. In tick-infested areas, if a dog tests positive on either of those two tests, it should also be screened for babesia exposure with a polymerase chain reaction test.

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Pet parents should not automatically apply potentially toxic chemical agents to their dogs or around their home to repel or kill pests. The use of spot-on products may cause skin irritation, paralysis, seizures and even death, if used improperly, and there are effective, natural alternatives that are far safer. If these chemicals are used, follow these precautions:

n A fresh-food diet that is nutritionally

n Be very careful to follow dosing directions on the label. If a pet is at the low end of

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n Every other month, rotate chemicals with natural preventives, including diatomaceous

earth, pet-friendly, essential oil products and natural deterrent collars. In many parts of the country, people can successfully control ticks with one chemical dose in the spring and one in late summer.

n To detox a dog’s liver afterwards, give them a supplement such as milk thistle, a detox

agent that helps to regenerate liver cells, or chlorella, a super green food. Work with an integrative veterinarian to determine the dosage; one dose daily for seven days following any chemical flea-, tick- or heartworm-preventive application is recommended.

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An all-natural pest deterrent will help a dog avoid a good percentage of the pests they encounter, though not all of them.

To make it, mix eight ounces of pure water with four ounces of organic, unfiltered, apple cider vinegar, and add 10 drops of neem oil.

Neem oil is not an essential oil; it is an expelled or pressed oil. It is effective because fleas and ticks are repelled by it, and it doesn’t bother pets sensitive to odors.

Catnip oil can also be used since it has been proven to be as effective as diethyltoluamide (DEET), the mosquito and tick spray humans use that has a number of toxic side effects. To add extra punch to the mixture, add five drops of lemon, lemongrass, eucalyptus or geranium essential oil.

Store the homemade pest deterrent in the fridge, and before a dog goes outside, mist them with it, being careful to avoid the eyes. The active ingredients, especially the essential oils, dissipate in about four hours, so the solution may have to be reapplied several times throughout the day.

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United Palace of Spiritual Arts 4140 Broadway, NYC 212-568-6700 • UPSpiritualArts.org As an inclusive spiritual community, the United Palace of Spiritual Arts seeks to cultivate compassion, wisdom, and peace through spiritual practices born of the great wisdom traditions, sacred service, and joyous connection to spirit through music, arts and entertainment. Join us online for weekly nondenominational services, a virtual sanctuary, and more!

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TRIBECA CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HOLISTIC DENTISTS 17 Park Place, NYC 212-732-2200 • Holistic-Dentists.com Dr. Lewis Gross has more than 31 years’ experience providing holistic dentistry to adults and children with his staff of dental specialists and integrative practitioners. Offering less invasive and more natural solutions for patients with difficult dental issues and those who seek just a good family dentist. Our recently renovated, stateof-the-art facility, offers among other things, laser dentistry, metal-free implants, non-invasive oral cancer screening, ozone and alternatives to surgery and root canal.

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Learning Center Online THE OPEN CENTER OpenCenter.org The Open Center presents programs o f e xc e p t i o n a l depth and integrity, concentrating in five major areas: contemplative and spiritual traditions; health and wellness; psychology; society and ecology; and creativity and the arts. Programs and teachers focused on understanding health and mind-body healing, depth psychology, mystical and esoteric traditions, compassionate dying, socially responsible investing, humanity’s impact on the Earth and renewable energy, untapped sources for creativity in the arts, and what we can learn from world cultures.

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Pollack Wellness Institute 66 Commack Rd, Commack NY 631-462-0801 • PollackWellness.com Dr. David L Pollack specializes in functional nutrition which is the science of helping repair and restore the body naturally without the use of drugs and surgery.

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