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PUBLISHER’S CORNER

Happy Father’s Day Dad

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have been thinking about my father recently.

Maybe because Father’s Day comes up in June.

I was thinking what it would have meant to me to have a cell phone when I was 20 years old and vagabonding through Europe with a friend. If I had a smart phone back then, I would have learned of my father’s passing while I bicycled through France. But back then communications were limited to dial telephones and transatlantic cables. Maybe I could have seen some photos of the funeral and glimpsed his face one last time. It was hard coming home to find out he had died and was buried. I went to visit his grave and thanked him for what little money he had to give me for my trip. I remember he was tending bar somewhere and I stopped in to say goodbye. I just didn’t know it would be goodbye forever. Part of my wonderful experience abroad was because of my father. He had his problems, but everyone loved Chuck. He was a gentle giant, an avid fisherman, canoe floater, and he loved to play corkball. He was the announcer at the little league baseball games back in Bethany, Missouri when my brother and I lived like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. He loved to barbecue and entertain friends. He always had a cold beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Both would lead to his demise. He loved to work with wood.

Mainly balsawood. Which for those of you too young to know, is wood so light you could sneeze it off the workbench. It is used in making model planes mostly. He loved the outdoors and we would spend countless hours on Sunday family drives down Missouri’s Blue

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Highways. I think he was trying to relive some of his rural days as he was born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. He loved the streams, campsites and catching anything that wiggled through the water. He taught me to catch and clean fish. Gotta say, I haven’t done well in carrying on the family tradition. He drove a tank in World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart. He was the person who taught me to love sports. Mostly baseball, but he loved football and we would watch games together on t.v. and I remember Falstaff Beer’s “Old Pro” commercials. My dad had a quick dry wit and a twinkle of mischief in his steely blue eyes. He could make you laugh and was always ready with a joke or a gag. During his good years, his charm made him a great salesman and later a bartender people loved to be around. He was a Jackie Gleason fan and my childhood was saturated with the Honeymooners. I spent hours and hours cleaning the basement and the garage with my dad. And at night when my brother and I were supposed to be asleep, my mother would send my dad up the stairs to check on us. Being a large man with baggy trousers, he would come up the stairs, “chink”, “chink”, “chink.”

The change in his pockets rattling with every step. This would alarm my brother and me to climb back in bed and under the covers quickly before the giant entered the room. He would check to make sure our socks were off and back down the stairs he went. I will always remember his whistle, every night at dinner time. Some people had a dinner bell and we had my dad’s whistle.

And in the mornings it was my dad who roused us from bed with that famous “Up and at em boys.” And when my sister was born, he loved his little “Sugar Boat” more than anything. She was a daddy’s girl for sure.

Chuck was a complex man. So loved and yet so troubled at times. He died in his late 40s. His heart and his life gave out while on a camping trip with friends. But his memories live on. The good ones still etched in my heart are building blocks for me as a father and grandfather. The bad memories forgiven as dents in the armor of a knight who shined for his children when he could.

Happy Father’s Day,

J.B. Lester; Publisher

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Latest State of the Air Report Ranks St. Louis as One of the Nation’s Most Polluted Cities Article courtesy of the Clean Air Partnership

quality. That’s why it’s so important for area residents to do their share to help ensure that ith May 1 marking the start of air quality conditions remain in the healthy daily air quality forecasting range this summer and year-round.” for 2014, the St. Louis region With transportation having a profound is facing more grim news impact on air quality, making the choice to regarding its air quality. According to the drive less is an easy way to reduce the emisAmerican Lung Association’s latest State of sions that lead to poor air quality. Using tranthe Air Report, St. Louis is now sit, carpooling and vanpooling, Using transit, ranked 13th out of 217 metrocombining errands into a single carpooling and politan areas in the nation for trip, telecommuting and walking vanpooling, ozone pollution. The report also and biking more to get around shows that particle pollution combining errands town help take cars off area continues to be a problem for and the related emissions into a single trip, roads the region, which now ranks 8th out of our air. These actions are in the nation for year-round par- telecommuting and especially critical when poor air ticles. walking and biking conditions are in the forecast. In This news comes as the more to get around addition, green lifestyle changes region prepares to settle into the can also positively impact air summer months when air quali- town help take cars quality and improve lung health ty conditions are typically at off area roads and in the region. These include their worst. As a result, the the related emissions efforts to conserve energy, recyClean Air Partnership is cle, reduce waste and reuse out of our air. encouraging area residents to items. pay close attention to the daily forecast to proTo stay up-to-date on air quality conditions tect their health and do their part to help throughout the summer, area residents are reverse these troubling trends. encouraged to visit the Clean Air Partnership’s “Once again, the State of Air Report has website at www.cleanair-stlouis.com and sign confirmed what a critical concern air pollution up to receive the daily forecast in their email continues to be for the St. Louis region,” said inboxes. Individuals can also find the forecast Susannah Fuchs, Senior Director of on the Clean Air Partnership’s Facebook page Environmental Health for the American Lung or follow the organization on Twitter Association of the Plains-Gulf Region and @gatewaycleanair for daily updates. spokesperson for the Clean Air Partnership.

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Green Living Green & Eco-Friendly Topics For Sustainable Living

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By Heather Navarro, Executive Director Missouri Coalition for the Environment www.moeniron.org

Climate Change Hits Home For Missouri

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or those of us in the middle of the country, climate change can seem remote and distant.

Recent stories about the melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet or submerged islands in the Pacific, for example, push the impacts of climate change far away somewhere else or too far into the future for us to contemplate. Despite recent news from the White House and the United Nations that the situation is bleak, here in Missouri, we continue on with life as usual on the faulty premise that “coal is cheap.”

Coal and natural gas are “cheap” for many of us when we look at nothing more than our electric bills. However, consider the health care costs associated with asthma and respiratory illnesses. All 5 counties in the St. Louis region fail to meet ozone standards. Heat aggravates ozone; ozone aggravates asthma. In Missouri, there were more than 7,700 hospital admissions for asthma in 2011, with an average cost of more than $14,300 for each stay. Add in missed school and work days and the costs go up.

While the air appears cleaner than it did 20 years ago, climate change is about much more than clear skies. Unhealthy ozone levels can be present on otherwise beautiful, sunny days.

And clear skies are not an indicator for climate change.

In Missouri, we experience climate change in increased flooding of our hundreds of thousands of miles of rivers and streams. When

floods inundate our homes and overflow our sewers, that’s hardly a bargain. Droughts decimate our crops and an extended growing season will be offset by increased spring freezing.

Extreme weather events shape our landscapes and our livelihoods. Over the past 10 years, Missourians were affected by at least 15 disasters that each did more than $1 billion in damage. Such events are on the rise and we will continue to pay for the disaster recovery, rebuilding, and relocation.

Industry and utilities do not pay the external costs of extracting and burning fossil fuels.

We do. What’s really cheap is talk. Efforts to convince us that coal is the answer because skies are bluer or that switching a few light bulbs will save the day obscure the path to climate stabilization.

Significant strides in efficiency, reducing greenhouse gases, and renewable energy are needed now, otherwise it is our grandchildren who will pay the costs.

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Energy Benchmarking: You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure!

By Johanna Schweiss, Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator, USGBC-Missouri Gateway Chapter

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he St. Louis High Performance Building Initiative’s 25x20 Voluntary Energy Benchmarking Campaign is challenging buildings in our region to reduce their energy consumption by 25% by the year 2020!

Energy benchmarking is measuring a building’s energy consumption and comparing its performance to similar buildings. Benchmarking is the first step to conserving energy and money. You know the sayingyou can’t manage what you don’t measure!

ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager is a free and secure online tool that tracks energy and water consumption, as well as the associated greenhouse gas emissions. Any building can use ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager to benchmark energy and water use, and all building types benefit from benchmarking!

According to ENERGY STAR data, buildings that benchmark over 3 years see an average 7% reduction in energy use.

Participating in the 25x20 campaign is easy.

The first step is to make the 25x20 pledge at www.25x20.org. Next, find out how your building stacks up against similar facilities by

enrolling in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager and entering one year of energy use data. ENERGY STAR allows you to easily share your results with the High Performance Building Initiative so we can track the region’s success. Once you’ve benchmarked your building, you can start using your results to make your plans to save energy & money.

We’re here to help you as you benchmark!

Volunteer benchmarking mentors will be available to take you through the process step by step.

Additionally, hands-on benchmarking workshops will also be available and the EPA offers free on-line training - get your building in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager with help from an experienced instructor.

In partnership with Missouri Interfaith Power & Light, the Missouri Gateway Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council is offering resources to support faith communities as they benchmark and reduce their energy use. We will be offering grants to fund energy audits to congregations that participate in the 25x20 campaign.

Does your faith community want to conserve energy & money? Visit www.25x20.org to learn more about this campaign!

Energy benchmarking is measuring a building’s energy consumption and comparing its performance to similar buildings.

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Saturday, June 7 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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his 13th annual celebration of sustainable living spotlights our region’s top options for Greening up your home and lifestyle – in one resource-packed day of family fun!

New features for this year’s event start with our new spring date and inspiring new location: the beautiful grounds and building of the Garden’s William T. Kemper Center for Home Gardening.

Kemper Center’s own Green elements – from solar power to rainwater harvesting – will be joined by more than 70 displays and exhibits. Bring your home project ideas and talk with the St. Louis area’s experts on: • Solar, wind and geothermal renewable energy systems • Energy efficient lighting and appliances • Cool roof retro-fits • Efficient windows, insulation and weatherization • Heating and cooling systems • Green home building and remodeling materials and methods • Home energy auditing • RainScaping and other clean water strategies • Non-toxic home cleaning and decorating products • Recycling and waste reduction • Cycling and other transportation alternatives.

A new Naturescaping area will spotlight native plant-based options to save water, boost biodiversity, and cut your yard-work chore list – beautifully!

Stroll the Kemper Center’s demonstration gardens at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. with a Master Gardener as your Green-features guide. The Plant Doctors will diagnose your gardening issues, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Discover houseplants that will thrive while cleaning indoor air and beautifying every part of your home, for “thumbs” of any color.

Fast-paced, interactive Presentations to the People will cover topics ranging from backyard permaculture and cooking with natural gas to socially responsible investing - and much more.

Kids and families can explore Nature In Your Neighborhood activities in the Brookings Interpretive Center, build and race a sun-powered miniature roadster and have fun with recycled material art projects. All ages can sample s’mores cooked in solar ovens and snap photos with costumed recycling characters.

What transportation alternatives might work for you? Find ideas in the Great Rivers Greenway Get Around Green area. Cycle to the festival and take advantage of convenient free bicycle parking!

Enjoy live music from Wack-A-Doo and that twistin’ witty green-glitz Earth hunk, Eco Elvis.

Shop the HOME Made – HOME Grown Green Marketplace featuring home décor and gifts made by area crafters and produce grown by local farmers. The Garden Gate Shop will feature fair trade and recycled-content clothing and gifts, along with plants to refresh and beautify your home. The first 1,500 attendees will get a free reusable shopping bag.

The Eat Well Local Food Court will serve popular beverages and healthy treats. Bring your reusable water bottle and get free refills.

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Volunteers are needed to help with a variety of enjoyable jobs throughout the festival day and during exhibitor set-up on Friday, June 6.

Training is provided. Volunteers will receive a Garden Events t-shirt and complimentary beverages. Sign up online!

The Green Homes Festival is included with Missouri Botanical Garden admission of $8 for adults, free for children ages 12 and under. St. Louis City and County residents enjoy free admission on Saturday before noon and are $4 thereafter. Missouri Botanical Garden members are free.

The Green Homes Festival is brought to you by Missouri Botanical Garden’s EarthWays Center and presented by Ameren Missouri.

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Coming To Our Senses - Humans and Plants by Linda Wiggen Kraft

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he garden is where humans can experience life more fully. We do this through full engagement of our senses when we are outside surrounded by nature. We sense through our nervous system, plants have other ways of being aware. We share more of the experience of life with plants than often imagined though.

For humans the sight of landscapes and gardens engages us with beauty.

The blossoms of flowers that take our breath away bathe us in the energy of living colors, shapes and textures. We feel those textures as we touch the softness of lamb’s ear or the stab of a rose thorn. The sun on our skin let us feel with our whole body. The fragrance of roses, lily of the valley, rosemary, basil, pine go directly from our nose to our brain. The sounds of birds

and bees along with the wind through the trees are the symphony of a garden. And of course the garden’s foods that we taste sustain our life. All these sensual experiences allow us to be fully human.

Plants engage and are aware through their own sensory experiences. These unique ways of sensing the world and responding accordingly are featured in a fascinating book called “What a Plant Knows, A Field Guide to the Senses”

by Daniel Chamovitz. The book explains the science that shows plants see, smell, feel, know where they are and remember.

Plants “see” light by absorbing it, responding to different color wave lengths and knowing the times of daylight. This allows them to grow and bloom in certain ways and times of year. Plants share the same chemical that is responsible for circadian rhythms. A plant flown half way around the world experiences jet lag and take days to adjust, just as we do.

Plants “smell” the chemical molecules given off by other plants to start ripening. Plants attacked by insects send a chemical warning to other parts of the same plant and those nearby.

The leaves that receive the warnings respond by creating toxic or unappealing chemicals to ward off the insects.

Plants “feel” their environment. Some don’t respond well to human touch, leaves are stunted and sometimes die when handled. A vine growing on the ground will grow straight and then begin to twine around a vertical support when it touches it.

Strong winds cause trees to grow shorter stronger trunks. Seeds know where they are by sensing gravity, roots always grow down and stems grow toward the light.

Plants also remember. They store memory of an experience that determines a later response.

For example certain plants need a cold period in order to flower. The same temperature and daylight length are present in spring and fall, but a spring blooming plant like an apple tree will only

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Changes in DNA in plants take place under certain stresses. The next generations of seeds also carry these changes, a way of remembering and adapting.

The science that shows how aware plants are is ever growing. There is even a new field of research called “plant neurobiology” that studies the information networks of plants. The science of how similar and connected to plants we are is ever growing.

The best way to experience the connection with plants is to spend time in the garden and know how aware and alive the entire garden is.

Let yourself be one with the amazing plants and all the life of a garden.

Linda Wiggen Kraft is a landscape designer who creates holistic and sustainable gardens. She is also a mandala artist and workshop leader. Visit her blog: www.CreativityForTheSoul.com/blog or website: www.CreativityForTheSoul.com.

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It is vital that raised beds are filled with fluffy and light soils because not only do your plants grow better but well drained soils also don’t rupture your containers by expanding when wet or frozen. The more compost the better! Talk about making gardening easy!

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ne of the most frustrating things gardeners face in the St. Louis area is clay soil.

It is gooey in the spring and solid in the summer. For some reason weeds don’t have an issue developing in it, but fruits, vegetable plants and landscape ornamentals loathe it.

You can dramatically improve your soil by mixing in compost. Plants breathe through their roots.

So the spongier and lighter your soil is, the better plants can breathe and grow. Fluffy soil makes it easier for roots to spread and water to reach them. However the downside of turning your soil into a sponge is that water can be trapped around the roots for too long which will cause your plants to drown.

Raised bed gardening is the answer to all this! To build a raised bed all you have to do is create a box (or multiple) that sits on the ground and fill it with Raised Bed Mix. With raised bed gardening there is less bending over, less weeding, less tilling and no more compacted clay soil around your plants. The boxes allow extra water to drain out the bottom and even discourage rabbits from raiding your tasty garden.

You can tailor the soil and compost amount in each box to the type of plants you’re growing in it. Your bed can be fancy or plain and

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4th Annual Sustainable Backyard Tour Set For Sunday, June 22

by Terry Winkelmann, Sustainable Backyard Tour, Founding Director

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hhh, the backyard: ignored and unvisited six months out of the year in St. Louis, yet vitally important to our world every day. Aesthetically, backyards can make or break a neighborhood especially if they wrap around to include the front yard and side yard. And whatever they look like, they’re home to an amazing range of life, from the microscopic springtail to the majestic hawk.

The backyard is where the environment intersects the individual. It’s where we barbecue, sunbathe, build playhouses and swing. It’s where we mow, water, fertilize and attack weeds. It’s where we grow vegetables, make honey, pick apples, and collect eggs. It’s the Environment right outside the door!

The Sustainable Backyard Tour celebrates healthy backyards and a healthy environment.

This June 22, for the fourth year in a row, homeowners throughout St. Louis city and county will open their gates to the public to help spread the news that backyards can be so much more than places to mow and weed.

The tour started from a universal curiosity to see inside our neighbors’ backyards! Because, especially when new to a neighborhood, you sometimes need to get ideas and find out what grows best or what’s allowed in your area, say, if you’re thinking of keeping bees or chickens or putting solar on the roof. This unique event allows you to go behind the fence and see what works. Over the course of five hours on a beautiful Spring day, you can find out first hand whether chickens are loud or compost smells and see how big elderberry bushes get or how much space zucchini needs in the garden.

More than 30 backyards will be open for viewing this year; some have been on the tour since the very beginning but others are brand new. You can read about their yards, in the owners’ own words, on the tour website: www.SustainableBackyardTour.com Among them are rain gardens, homesteads, native landscapes, certified Audubon backyards, permaculture projects, old farms and new business ventures.

Many of the yards come from the memberships and connections of our community partners: St. Louis Audubon, Slow Food St. Louis, Saint

Photos by Xander Wohlstadter Louis Beekeepers and Grow Native!

There is no starting point.

You design your own walking, biking or carpooling route based on the listings nearest you or by your own particular interests, whatever they may be. The map and booklet will be available for pickup at select area businesses, like Kakao Chocolate, EFS Energy, Verde Kids and Greenscape Gardens, starting in mid-June.

This year, special activities for children in select backyards and a scavenger hunt will be part of the program!

And on top of all that, the whole day is completely free; all we ask is that you RSVP to attend so that we know how many people to expect.

There is a Registration link on the home page at www.SustainableBackyardTour.com Those who register to attend will be entered into a drawing for door prizes from our commu-

nity partners. After the tour, registered attendees will also receive a survey via email so you can give us your feedback, comments, and suggestions.

Tell your friends and neighbors about the Sustainable Backyard Tour! Pack a picnic and make a day of it. Mark your calendars now for Sunday, June 22 from 11 to 4 p.m. and we’ll see you outside.

Visit www.sustainablebackyardtour.com.

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14th Annual Pond-O-Rama Pond and Garden Tour Offers Wide Variety of Water Gardens

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he St. Louis Water Gardening Society members offer a wide variety of private spaces for the 14th annual Pond-O-Rama pond and garden tour. There are 47 locations on the two-day tour, 43 of which are private gardens of SLWGS member that are on display only for this tour. Of these 22 will be open on Saturday, June 21. On Sunday, June 22, there are 21 sites. The remaining are four commercial sites that may be visited either day.

Tickets that cover both days of the two-day tour are $15 and are available now at garden centers throughout the metropolitan area. Everyone 18 years of age or older needs a ticket to attend. Children under the age of 18 do not need a ticket. For a list of ticket sellers, check the SLWGS website at www.slwgs.org.

Tickets also may be ordered directly from the website.

Water features include some with expansive pond and streams, huge boulders and places for family fun as well as small, restful retreats for homeowners.

“Our 14th annual tour includes something for every taste,” said Virginia Mueller, SLWGS coordinator for

Pond-O-Rama.

A renovation project that is new to the tour turned a 5’ x 7’ pond into a 45’ x 30’ swimming pond that is 8’ deep. “Our 8- and 10-year old kids couldn’t stay out of our pond with fish, so we decided to expand it.

Now a stream flows from that pond to our new swimming pond. We’re confident that our kids, fish and turtles won’t outgrow this one,” said the home owner.

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ntibiotics are threatening the achievement of modern medicine” stated the NBC Evening News’ Brian Williams recently. According to the World Health Association, “antibiotics are serious medicine – not to be taken lightly. Antibiotic resistant superbugs are an increasing threat with names like MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staph aureus) and VRE (Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus).

So what options do you have when you get sick and would like to avoid unnecessary antibiotic use?

The good news is that there are effective natural options that can help with viral, bacterial and fungal infections. I commonly use nutrients and herbals in my practice and have been pleasantly surprised with how effective they can be in lieu of antibiotics.

Here are some of my favorites for a Natural Medicine Cabinet: • Vitamin C – improves the immune system to help fight off bacterial and viral infections.

Generally it’s a good idea to take a moderate dose of Vitamin C to support your immune system during cold and flu season.

• Probiotics – Healthy bacteria that improve the gut flora which favorably impacts the immune system.

• olive Leaf Extract – This herb has been found helpful to improve resistance to infections. It contains phytonutrients such as oleuropein, oleuropeoside and hydroxytyrosol that have antimicrobial and antioxidant properties. I have found this herb particularly helpful to shorten the course of respiratory

infections to prevent the spread of infections within households.

• Berberine: A chemical found in various herbs that is supportive for the intestinal flora and has antibacterial qualities. We have found it beneficial with common bacterial infections like Strep and Staph.

• oregano oil – Proven support for healthy intestines and has antimicrobial properties.

• Artemesia: Helpful for parasite or worm infestations, especially roundworm and pinworms.

• Pau d Arco – has been shown to have beneficial impact on the intestinal flora and therefore would have a favorable impact on the immune system.

• Clove oil – An essential oil that is antimicrobial and helpful for indigestion.

• Garlic – has mild antimicrobial qualities.

• Ginger – An herb used for centuries to help with digestion and to reduce nausea.

• Peppermint – Has cooling properties so is helpful to reduce fever.

• Eucalyptus – a great essential oil for respiratory infections – decongesting and opens airways.

While herbals can be helpful they should be used under the direction of a professional trained in the use of them.

If you would like to talk about this topic with me, head to my website and join the discussion!" http://www.crossingbacktohealth.com/education-resources/resources/articles/ Amy Davis M.D., 636-778-9158, or visit www.crossingbacktohealth.com. Crossing Back to Health, 16216 Baxter Rd. Suite 110, Chesterfield, MO 63017.

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A: Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) is a vitamin-like coenzyme. It is referred to as “universal”, because it is both fat and water soluble. This means that it can neutralize free radicals in fatty and watery regions of cells. It can be transported across cell membranes for protection against free radicals both inside and outside the cell.

ALA can also cross the blood-brain barrier, helping to eliminate toxins that effect the nervous system and to protect neurotransmitters.

In addition to its antioxidant properties, ALA directs calories away from fat production and toward energy production. Some other benefits of ALA are: • Enhances effects of other antioxidants, such as Vitamins C and E • Helps support blood sugar levels • Protects the liver • Supports cardiovascular and nerve cell health ALA is extremely safe and beneficial for people of all ages.

Q :Can you recommend a natural antihistamine that will not make me drowsy?

Is There a Non-Drowsy Antihistamine?

A: Antihistamines are almost a necessity if you have allergies and live in St. Louis. Allergies are hypersensitive reactions by the immune system to things such as pollen, mold, dust mites, animal dander and food allergies. When exposed to these, the white blood cells, particularly the mast cells, produce histamine which create an inflammatory response (sneezing, watering eyes and coughing).

Antihistamines block the production of histamine, thereby reducing the symptoms. My favorite natural remedy is called “HistaBlock”. It contains stinging nettle, quercetin, bromelain and fructus aurantia. It helps to stabilize the mast cells, making them less likely to rupture and release more histamine. It is a very effective, safe alternative without any side effects.

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Super-symmetry in Physics and Medicine:

Delusions, Miracles, and Asymmetry in Medicine

By Simon Yu, MD

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hysics is considered a rather boring subject for most people.

When you start talking about quantum physics and theoretical physics, people start rolling their eyes and are ready to jump into a black hole in hyperspace or change the subject. Theoretical physicists are kind of mad, nerdy scientists who love to theorize everything and come up with weird names. One of the theories is super-symmetry. I believe the concept of super-symmetry in theoretical physics is relevant and/or irrelevant to medicine for everyday life.

The Scientific American magazine of May 2014 front page article was questioning a major crisis in physics as if super-symmetry theory did not pan out. It was questioning how to explain the Universe as we know it. For over four decades physicists have been working on a super-symmetry particle physics theory that promised to lead to a deeper understanding of the quantum world, the big mysteries of quantum weirdness.

Super-symmetry postulates that every known particle has a hidden super-partner. In 2012, 10 billion dollar experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN laboratory near Geneva was hoping to solve the mystery of the universe’s missing dark matter. A discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, also called the Higgs elemental particle (nicknamed, God particle), was confirmed in July 2012. Most particle physicists believe that super-symmetry must be true.

Higgs Boson has a mass between 125 and 127 Gev/c2.

Despite the success with the discovery of the Higgs Boson, LHC experiments were not able to prove their theory of super-symmetry. LHC is planning for a higher energy big bang experiment in 2015 to uncover super-partners. If, at the end of that run, nothing new shows up, fundamental physics will face a crossroads: either abandon the 45 year old theory or press on and build an even bigger collider to prove that they were right all along.

Super-symmetry is the most widely accepted theory among particle physicists to explain the universe.

However, according to Scientific American, there are other competing theories that might push them to think in new directions about physics and cosmology with (1) The Multiverse, (2) Extra Dimensions with a “warped” geometry, and (3) Dimensional Transmutation.

Professionally speaking, I don’t know too much about particle physics, super-symmetry, and complicated mathematic equations but I see many parallel analogies in the belief system of super-symmetry (Yin-Yang) in physics and in medicine.

In medicine, based on a diagnosis, we develop a treatment plan using anti-matter (super-partner) of anti-cholesterol drugs, anti-hypertensive medications, anti-cancer chemo agents, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, or anti-parasitic agents, etc. without fully understanding the underlying causes of why we became sick in the first place.

We spent billions of dollars for a genomic project with a great expectation for new cures for cancer and many incurable medical conditions. However, that did not translate into a new cure but only continued begging for more research funding to answer more questions that were raised. One of the most important understandings from the genomic project was not the genes and DNA sequences but how they are regulated by the environmental feedback system, epigenetics.

I just saw a patient last week from Mississippi with a diagnosis of Delusions of Intestinal Parasitosis.

She saw many specialists for her unexplainable abdominal symptoms and crawling sensations on her

skin. She finally saw a specialist in Virginia.

She gave me an article written by that medical professor in Virginia about delusions of parasitosis which he described as uncommon but an important cause of distress for affected patients and frequently of frustration for their physicians.

At the end of the article, he was implying that these patients are anxious or disturbed people with tactile hallucinations. He said physicians should consider the use of medicine to reduce anxiety or psychotic thinking. He prescribed anti-psychotic medication for her.

I wrote an article, “Parasites and Mental Illness: Delusion of Parasitosis” about ten years ago and questioned the delusion of the merit of science to be able to detect parasites reliably. I have seen many patients who were told there are no signs of parasites by standard tests. They suffer from unexplainable psychiatric symptoms which improve after anti-parasite medications and nutritional supplementation based on acupuncture meridian assessment.

Many miraculous cures happen when I send my patients to dentists or oral surgeons to remove infected root canals or clean out infected jaw bones.

Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, colitis, migraine headaches, chest pain, arthritis, and even cancer are often associated with unrecognized dental and parasite related problems. Miracles happen when I detox/de-worm my patients, support them with the proper nutrition, and send them to biological dentists at the right time in the right sequence of healing.

Delusion of parasitosis and the delusion of the merit of science beg you to think about who is truly delusional. It is time to move on from super-symmetry to asymmetry in medicine. We need to start to think differently. When I do often give lectures on cancer, I urge the audience to think of asymmetric threats in a context of military operations. The enemy might not be what you think or are led to believe.

Recognizing the disturbed meridian pattern in the jaw and pulling a bad root canal to correct chest pain or arthritic pain means understanding the asymmetric threat. You can get rid of asthma, bronchiectasis, or migraine headache with correct parasite medications as a way of eliminating the asymmetric threat. When you correct hidden dental and parasite problems, sometimes you witness a spontaneous healing, the phenomenon which I call “Accidental Cure.”

Acupuncture and meridian assessments have been known for at least several thousand years. When applying these ancient technologies with modern science, we can crack the code for measuring the immeasurable bio-cybernetic matrix. Now, we are talking about matrix and you are entering into the delusions, miracles, and asymmetry in medicine.

For medical professionals interested in understanding how to treat your most difficult patients by using different modalities I’ve developed over the last 20 years, including acupuncture meridian assessment, I am conducting a training June 20-22, 2014. For more information, look for the “Special Training” link on www.preventionandhealing.com.

Dr. Simon Yu, M.D. is a Board Certified Internist.

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Summer Craft & SpeCialty Beer Guide Where Beer Is Brewed & Enjoyed In The St. Louis Area

Breweries 2nd shift Brewing www.2ndshiftbrewing.com 4 Hands Brewing Co www.4handsbrewery.com AB inBev www.ab-inbev.com Alpha Brewing Company www.alphabrewingcompany.com Augusta Brewing Co www.augustabrewing.com Cathedral square Brewery www.cathedralsquarebrewery.com Charleville Brewing Co. www.charlevillevineyard.com Crown Valley Brewing & Distilling Co www.crownvalleybrewery.com excel Bottling Company www.excelbottling.com exit 6 Brewery www.exit6brewery.com Ferguson Brewing Company www.fergusonbrewing.com Griesedieck Brothers Brewery Company The Griesedieck family has been involved in the brewing industry for over 245 years, spanning two continents, surviving the Napoleonic Wars, two World Wars and Prohibition. At its peak, Griesedieck Brothers Brewery produced over 1 million barrels of beer and

was the hometown brewery of St. Louis, preferred over all other local brands until the brewery's sale to Falstaff in 1957. Revived in 2002 by the 8th generation of Griesedieck brewers, the new GB proudly continues St. Louis' rich brewing heritage. PO Box 31203, St. Louis.

63131. www.gb-beer.com. 314-966-6061.

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Established in 1991, Schlafly Beer has always had a simple mission: to brew great beer and throw great parties. Today, Schlafly brews over 50 styles of beer each year, from its flagship Pale Ale, to seasonal favorites including Summer Lager and Pumpkin Ale. It has two brewery restaurants in St. Louis: the Schlafly Tap Room, built into a reclaimed turn of the century print-

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Reduce. Reuse. Recycle … and Make Great Beer

by Maureen Zegel

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familiar mantra for environmentalists, concerned citizens and a few industries – Reduce. Reuse.

Recycle. has become a way of life for the region’s burgeoning craft breweries. St. Louis’ two largest craft brewers, St. Louis Brewery, makers of Schlafly beers and Urban Chestnut Brewing Company not only consider the environmental three Rs responsible behavior, it’s also good business.

The two craft breweries were founded by savvy businessmen.

Tom Schlafly, a successful attorney and son of a prominent St. Louis family and Dan Kopman, a young economist from St. Louis who happened to be working at a brewery in London co-founded the St. Louis Brewery in 1991. Over at Urban Chestnut, former Anheuser- Busch executives, David Wolfe, from A-B’s marketing staff and Florian Kuplent an award-winning German brewer, opened their brewery in 2011.

Kopman, Schlafly’s CEO, says turning two abandoned buildings into thriving businesses remains one of their greatest achievements when it comes to reuse.

“We also have a full-time gardener on staff, one of our longtime employees” said Kopman.

“He tends to many of the items found on the menus at both restaurants. We turned part of our parking lot into a big garden at the Bottleworks.

What we don’t grow, we buy local.”

The brewery installed a solar array on the Bottleworks roof and they buy renewable energy certificates offsetting 100 percent of their electricity usage. They use single stream recycling and divert 70 tons of organic waste from landfills

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Schlafly, Urban Chestnut, Perennial, Civil Life, O’Fallon, Griesedieck, Cathedral Square, Six Row, 4 Hands, and Alpha.

(left to right) David Wolfe, co-owner of Urban Chestnut and co-owner and brewmaster Florian Kuplent; the Urban Chestnut Biergarten on Washington Ave. in Midtown; a brewery tour at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood; and St. Louis Brewing Company’s CEO Dan Kopman enjoys a Schlafly ale. annually.

Urban Chestnut was barely established at their Midtown Brewery and Biergarten at 3229 Washington Ave. when they started running out of space. They opened a second site in February.

The 75,000 square foot facility is located in “The Grove” neighborhood of St. Louis at 4465 Manchester. Wolfe and Kuplent worked with the real estate firm, recognized for the sustainable redevelopment of underutilized St. Louis-area commercial properties in LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified buildings.

Last year Urban Chestnut installed a solar power array to offset their electricity needs. They strive to become a zero-waste brewery by reducing and reusing water during the brewing

process. UCBC also sends spent grain, the largest quantity of their solid waste, to local farms to be fed to livestock reducing the amount of energy and arable land being used to produce feed.

A bit of Beer History For more than 150 years, St. Louis has been known as a beer town. With river access, rail lines and limestone caves for cool storage, coupled with a steady stream of German and Irish immigrants, the industry thrived in the mid19th century. By the 1880s the U.S. boasted more than 2,000 breweries and nearly 40 breweries called St. Louis home.

Prohibition, passed in 1922, hit the beer industry hard and only the beer giants made it out. Over the next 50 years those giants ate up the smaller breweries. By 1980 only 89 breweries existed in the U.S. A year ago that number had swelled to 2,538 thanks to the immense popularity and growth of the craft beer industry with 20 of them located in the St. Louis region.

Schlafly Beer/The St. Louis Brewery As the granddaddy of craft brewers in St. Louis, the Schlafly beer story is a familiar one, but Kopman still enjoys telling it.

“Our first building had been vacant for more than 20 years when we looked at it in 1989,” said Kopman. “There was fire damage, the south side of the building had no roof. There was a tree growing in it.”

“I was working at a brewery in England and Tom (Schlafly) and my father, Charles, worked together at the same law firm here in St. Louis,” said Kopman. “They wanted to open a brewery. I call them the last men standing who believed in the city of St. Louis at the time. They were committed, I was fearless.”

The two attorneys and the younger Kopman agreed that if he got the brewery built, he would return to London.

The attorneys worked at getting laws changed that limited production and sale of beer. At the time, those laws favored Anheuser-Busch, which was closing in on becoming the world’s largest brewery “We gathered a small team of believers and approached one of the city’s biggest banks,”

Kopman said. “I was a bad economist who didn’t know how to make beer. And the bankers couldn’t believe we wanted to make beer in St. Louis.

They said we’d never make it and gave us a week. They were non-believers.”

Eventually, they found a bank that would lend them the money and they sank it into rebuilding the north side of the building, the side with a roof.

They opened The Tap Room at 2100 Locust Street in December of 1991 making and selling classic pale ale and a wheat beer over the bar with great food. Microbreweries and brewpubs were catching on.

Tom Schlafly who always said he opened the brewery “to make great beer and have big parties,” kept busy with the law and his new business, which remains committed to St. Louis.

Kopman returned to the states in 1998. The owners completed the Tap Room and then bought another abandoned building in 2001, this time in Maplewood. The brewing facilities moved to Maplewood and the first bottle of Schlafly beer came off the line at the Bottleworks in June of 2003. They continued to grow, moving outside of the St. Louis market in 2005. By 2007, the once little brewery that could was producing 17,000 barrels of beer, a very respectable output.

The $52 billion takeover of Anheuser-Busch by the giant Belgian brewer InBev SA in the summer of 2008 changed the beer landscape in St. Louis forever.

“We were inundated with calls,” Kopman said. “They wanted to know if we could make Schlafly light in 30-packs. Ad agencies approached us about TV commercials. We told the callers we didn’t do that and we told our employees that our mission would not change.

We were still going to be a great local brewer who makes great beer. The party was just going to get bigger.”

Today, Schlafly’s markets have spread to New York and the Washington, D.C metro areas.

Kopman said they are looking for a third site.

They’ve hired two new employees with marketing experience and the services of a large marketing firm. They are poised for the next step.

Urban Chestnut Brewing Company Urban Chestnut co-owners David Wolfe, and

June, 2014 Florian Kuplent are moving to the top of the St. Louis craft brewers list with this year’s opening of their $10 million beer hall. Formerly the Renard Paper Co. building it has the largest footprint of any St. Louis craft brewery.

According to Wolfe, the two men put a great deal of planning into their shared passion for beer.

“We wanted a distinctive identity and we could do that starting with Florian’s pedigree,” Wolfe said.

That pedigree includes growing up in Bavaria, a free state in southeastern Germany, known for it’s beer-loving population. Kuplent worked as a brewer’s apprentice in Munich, attended the Bavarian College of Food and Beverage Science, and later earned a master’s degree in malting and brewing science at the University of Munich-Weihenstephan.

He worked in several large European breweries and took advantage of an opportunity to work at Anheuser-Busch.

“At A-B Florian worked on new products, wrote recipes for non-traditional beers,” said Wolfe. “He had all of this experience with old world styles of beer. Working with A-B allowed him to be more forward thinking. It’s how our ‘Beer Divergency’ was born.”

It’s a new world meets old world brewing approach. UCBC contributes to the “revolution” of craft beer with artisanal creations of modern American beers, and pays “reverence” to the heritage of beer with timeless European beer styles.

Is it too soon to ask what’s next? Not at all said the forward-thinking Wolfe.

The new site has given them the capacity to brew close to 20,000 barrels where they were limited to 6,500 at their Midtown site.

“We’re also looking to expand outside of St. Louis in Missouri – places like Columbia and Kansas City,” he said. “We built our new site with the future in mind.”

The St. Louis Brewers Guild Both Schlafly and UCBC are members of the St. Louis Brewers Guild, a nonprofit aimed at promoting beer tourism in the St. Louis region. As a craft beer veteran, Schlafly’s CEO welcomes the growing craft beer excitement in St. Louis. He believes they have a responsibility to the new members of the St. Louis Brewers Guild.

“We have to be a leader here,” Kopman said. “If they need help, we help them. It’s good for all of us.

Can you imagine if St. Louis once again had 40 breweries?”

Wolfe enjoys the collaborative spirit of the St. Louis Brewers Guild.

“We are all small businesses, and we’re doing similar things,” he said. “When we can all tell our stories together, we can be so much more effective.”

Visit the members of the St. Louis Brewers Guild: 2nd Shift Brewing 4 Hands Brewing ABInBev Alpha Brewing Co. Augusta Brewing Co. Buffalo Brewing Co. Cathedral Square Charleville Brewery Civil Life Brewing Crown Valley Excel Bottling Co. Exit 6 Brewery Ferguson Brewing Griesedieck Brothers Brewing Heavy Riff Brewing Kirkwood Station Brewing Morgan Street Brewery O’Fallon Brewery Perennial Artisan Ales Schlafly Beer Six Row Brewing Square One Brewery Trailhead Brewing Urban Chestnut Brewing For more information please visit www.stlbg.com.

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St. Louis Brewers’ Guild Heritage Festival Offers More Than 90 Varieties of Brews This Year

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ave you noticed the abundance of beer festivals in St. Louis? As craft breweries have multiplied in the last several years, beer events have grown with them until it seems there is one almost every weekend May through October.

With so many to choose from, does it really matter which to attend? Could there be one that stands out from the crowd?

The St. Louis Brewers Guild Heritage Festival is just such an event (Friday June 13 and Saturday June 14 from 6-9 pm, Central Fields in Forest Park).

Created 8 years ago as a collaboration of St. Louis’ breweries, the Heritage Festival was born to showcase all St. Louis has to offer, making this event unique.

The Heritage Festival, (as locals refer to it), is run by the nonprofit St. Louis Brewers Guild, an organization made up of breweries that physically craft their beer within the St. Louis market. This select list of truly local breweries is one of the first things, which sets this festival apart. To take it one step further, the Guild decided to make the Heritage Festival all about the diversity of beer styles brewed in the metro area.

This year over 90 unique styles of beer will be featured. Attendees are guaranteed the ultimate opportunity to enjoy an amazing range of beers, all crafted by our much-loved local breweries, and the 6 local homebrew clubs invited to showcase their creations.

In keeping with the St. Louis centered theme, the Guild has included our favorite food trucks and 9 local bands, each present to entertain us in their own unique way, as we move about the grounds, sampling all these wonderful beer styles. For those guests who truly want a one of a kind festival experience, this year also includes a secluded VIP area, catered with local BBQ, its own live music, lounge (complete with comfy furniture), a bar with unique local beers not available in the festival grounds, preferential parking and air-conditioned rest-rooms.

Whether you are a craft beer aficionado or novice, to love St. Louis’ local brews is to attend the St. Louis Brewers Guild Heritage Festival. Tickets: $35 General Admission, $75 VIP on Friday and $100 VIP on Saturday (which includes entry 1 hour early) and are available at www.stlbg.com/heritage-festival.

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by Kari Hartel, RD, LD Program Coordinator, Cooking Matters, Operation Food Search

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t is no secret that Americans get way too much sodium in their diets. The recommendation for the maximum daily sodium intake is 2,300 mg (the amount in about one teaspoon of salt). People with diabetes, high blood pressure, chronic kidney disease, adults over 51 years of age and African Americans should limit sodium to 1,500 mg/day. Consuming too much sodium has been strongly linked to the development of high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke.

It is estimated that if everyone in the United States cut their daily sodium intake to 1,500 mg from what the current consumption level is, blood pressure levels would drop 25.6%, resulting in an estimated $26.2 million dollar reduction in health-care costs. Other research has suggested that reaching this lower-sodium intake goal would decrease deaths from cardiovascular disease by 500,000 to almost 1.2 million people over the next decade.

Americans consume much more than the recommended maximum intake of 2,300 mg per day – we’re currently averaging 3,400 mg sodium per day. Why are our diets so salty? Don’t go blaming that salt shaker on your kitchen table – over 75% of the sodium in our diets comes from processed foods or is consumed in restaurants or fast food joints. Only 12% of the sodium we ingest occurs naturally in foods (such as celery, beets and milk) and the rest is added when we cook foods or add it at the table.

Processed foods that are notoriously high in sodium include luncheon meats, cured meats, canned soups, frozen meals and snacks, salted snacks (such as potato chips, crackers, pretzels and popcorn), breads and rolls, pizza, cheese, soy sauces, other bottled

sauces and salad dressings.

There are easy ways to reduce the amount of sodium in your diet. Here are some simple, straight-forward tips: • Cut back on processed foods. The foods listed above, as well as many other processed foods, contribute more sodium to our diets than any other source. • Dine out less often. Restaurant and fast-food meals contain boatloads of sodium. When you prepare food at home, you can control the amount of sodium. • Choose whole foods, especially produce. Fruits and vegetables contain little to no sodium and provide a plethora of beneficial nutrients. Plus, they’re delicious! Frozen and canned vegetables can be included in healthy, lower-sodium diet as long as you choose canned veggies marked “no salt addedâ€? and opt for plain, un-sauced frozen vegetables. • Watch those condiments. Soy sauce, barbeque sauce, ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard and other bottled sauces contain a great deal of sodium. Use them sparingly or make your own homemade sauces from scratch, using lower sodium ingredients. • Flavor your foods with herbs and spices. Herbs and spices add a great deal of flavor to food without adding any sodium. Experiment with new and exciting herbs and spices and try making your own seasoning blends from scratch.

Summer is a critical time for a child’s well-being.

During the summer months, many children are at a higher risk of both obesity and hunger. Of all the children who receive meals at school, only eight percent participate in summer meals programs. Operation Food Search is connecting children with free nutritious summer meals. Please help make sure that children in need are well-fed in a safe environment. Please make a donation today: www.OperationFoodSearch.org.

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SqWires Creates Menu Using Locally-Sourced Ingredients Come visit SqWires in Historic Lafayette Square and remember us for your next special event in the Front Room or SqWires Annex.

We offer you an experience you can only get here in the City. www.sqwires.com. 1415 South 18th Street, St. Louis, MO 63104. 314865-3522.

by Bethany Budde SqWires Owner & Executive Chef

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n June we make it official - Summer arrives with the rollicking enthusiasm of bar-b-que, holidays, tours, concerts, and baseball. One of the tastiest times of the year; we’ll indulge you with incredible fresh veggies and fruit, tempt you with the coolest summer cocktails; and turn you into the hottest host when you bring your guests to SqWires. We continue on our mission to raise people’s interest in the food we serve; where it comes from, how it is prepared and how it tastes.

What’s growing? At SqWires, we’re cooking with a dazzling array of vegetables, greens and herbs vying for attention. You can't beat local ingredients - they taste great and are high in nutrition, fresh from farms and gardens throughout the Metropolitan area. Mouth-watering sauteed spinach, grilled asparagus, succulent strawberries and more appear on our list of daily specials.

We're also cooking with live fire for roasting and smoking. It's all in line with our philosophy of cooking with local ingredients. Our local farmers include Buttonwood of California, Mo: free range chicken & turkey, honey; Good Earth, Bonne Terre, Mo: cage free eggs; Rain Crow Ranch: grass fed beef;

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Windcrest Dairy, Trenton IL: yogurt; Kruse farms; Joanna Duley, Claverach farm, Eureka: pea shoots; Art Lehr: Columbia, IL: collard greens; Art Rothman, St. Louis Mo: horseradish; Eilerman Brothers Farm, Batchtown, Calhoun county, IL; Paul Krautman: popcorn; Thies Farm, St. Louis City: ozark forest mushrooms: wild mushrooms. Our local providers also include Companion Baking, St. Louis

MO: breads; and Serendipity, Webster Groves MO: homemade sorbets and ice cream.

Every day is special at SqWires - Tuesday’s SqWare Plates are a weekly special selection of $5 taste treats to mix and match and share.

Wednesday’s half-price bottle of wine with your entree is a super opportunity to try new whites, reds, and sparklers. Saturday and Sunday a la carte brunch is the perfect way to relax and celebrate with family and friends.

Make your reservations and then sit back and enjoy. The Bloody Mary and Mimosa Bar brings out your creative side as you accessorize your drinks with dozens of choices. And Friday night $1 fresh shucked oysters and steamed shrimp are the perfect end to a long week.

Let your summer essentials list include Tuesday thru Friday Happy Hours 4-7pm at SqWires with great prices on appetizers, beers, wine and cocktails. Listen to live music by local favorites on Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights and Sunday Brunch. Our list of local and craft beers include Schlafly, Urban Chestnut, Perennial, Civil Life, O’Fallon, Griesedieck, Cathedral Square, Six Row, 4 Hands, and Alpha.

We promote a holistic approach to health and wellbeing through nutrition and a healthy, natural lifestyle.

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Choose native Landscaping

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Brandy collaborate on the creative process of landscape design. Joe chooses the plant material and draws a rough sketch of his vision. Brandy brings the vision to life in beautiful artistic rendition drawings of what the landscape will look like.

They both enjoy creating gardens that are both aesthetically pleasing and functional.

Simply Sustainable Landscaping provides a solution focused service based on the individual needs and desires of their clients. They provide a diverse array of landscaping services, including but not limited to, native garden installation, small scale prairie restoration, rain garden installation, edible landscaping, vegetable garden installation, compost bin installation and

ne of the images that come to mind in the summer is a freshly mowed lawn with beautiful landscaping.

Unfortunately, most landscape companies are not practicing sustainable techniques. With over 300,000 residents in St. Louis alone, non sustainable front and back yards can truly leave a negative carbon foot print. Pesticide and herbicide residue can be found in not only the soil, but also the water supply and even the air long after these chemicals have been applied to lawns. Over exposure to these chemicals has been linked to many life threatening illnesses such as cancer. There is no need for chemical applications.

Beautiful lawns can certainly be achieved sustainably.

Transitioning to a more sustainable lawn is a wonderful way to make a green contribution to the future of the planet. Attracting pollinators through native landscaping is crucial and will make a huge difference. Get out and be inspired by individuals in the St. Louis area who have taken a stance to avoid chemicals on their lawn and who use sustainable landscaping methods. Don’t miss the Sustainable Backyard Tour on Sunday, June 22nd 11am-4pm and tour over 30 yards which have replaced invasive and energy intensive plants with native Joseph Heller and Brandy McCLure of Simply Sustainable Landscaping. flowers, shrubs and trees. Get education, as well as a variety of other landscaping serideas for backyard chickens, rainwater catchment, comvices. post bins, and other great urban homesteading ideas.

Their Top 10 full sun native plant varieties are Visit www.sustainablebackyardtour.com for more info.

Missouri Evening Primrose, Rattlesnake Master, One St. Louis based landscaping company, Simply Compass Plant, Purple Coneflower, Baptisia, Eastern Sustainable Landscaping LLC, has been taking landBlazing Star, Prickly Pear, Smooth Hydrangea, White scaping to the next level since 2010. Joseph Heller Fringe Tree, and Bur Oak. founded Simply Sustainable Landscaping after “noticTheir Top 10 shading loving plant varieties are ing a need for sustainable landscape solutions in the St. Virginia Blue Bells, Trillium, May Apple, Solomon’s Louis area”. Simply Sustainable Landscaping is owned Seal, Columbine, Jacobs Ladder, Witch Hazel,

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Flowering Dogwood, Sassafras, and Paw Paw. Their crew of seasoned experts is comprised of fellow Simply Sustainable Landscaping will be taking part sustainable landscaping enthusiasts David Carter, in a field day sponsored by the Audubon Society with a Tristan Walker, Richard Abbot, and Brent Shasserre. focus on the removal of the notoriously invasive Bush Joseph hires individuals who share in his visions of Honey Suckle. earth stewardship. Joseph’s specialties include landGet on board with changing the world, one lawn at scaping with native plants, following organic practices, a time. Simply Sustainable Landscaping offers Free and invasive plant species removal, with an emphasis Estimates for new clients who already have a design in on planting perennial flowers, shrubs and trees instead mind. of annuals. He goes above and beyond by not only Visit their website at www.simplysustainablelandmeeting the individual needs of clients, but also by eduscaping.com Contact Joseph Heller at 314-698-6200. cating his clients about proper plant care. Brandy’s speGarden Heights Nursery at 1605 S. Big Bend Blvd. cialties include business management, job support, is an excellent resource for buying native flowers, artistic landscape design, and integrating medicinal shrubs and trees. herbs and edibles into landscapes. Together, Joseph and

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Earthworms’ Castings Butterflies covered your trees! Any kid in midwith Jean Ponzi

America could enjoy the Monarch science lesson, while simply playing outside!

Then Dr. Taylor and his tracking troops noticed a Monarch population decline. What was causing it?

“In real estate it’s location, location, location and for Monarchs and other wildlife it’s habitat, habitat, habitat”, says Taylor. “Development is consuming 6,000 acres a day, a loss of 2.2 million acres per year.

The overuse of herbicides along roads and in farm fields is turning wildflower areas that used to support Monarchs, pollinators, and other wildlife into sterile grass landscapes.”

So we’re “improving” places to constantly mow that support hardly any life. And exploding use of GMO soybeans and corn, engineered to thrive when we blast on the weed-control chemicals, have further whacked into Monarch habitat.

As Monarch Watchers keep counting, the numbers of butterflies go down, down, down.

But there’s something all of us can do for Monarch life-support! Restore their milkweed partners and rebuild their wildflower habitats! In our yards, our parks, and around our schools. Along our community roadsides. Around our businesses. We can plant to replenish butterfly habitat.

This Earth Day, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay committed his City resources to plant at least 50 Monarch gardens this year, and he challenged residents and businesses to plant at last 200 more, in honor of the City’s 250th birthday.

Catherine Werner, the mayor’s Sustainability Officer, organized this initiative in less than a month!

She enlisted the help of many partners: Missouri Department of Conservation, the Garden, the Zoo, and plant growers and sellers all over St. Louis, as the City’s Monarch Emergency Response Team.

The City’s Milkweeds for Monarchs flyer names nine easy to grow native plants – four kinds of milkweeds and five wildflowers that provide nectar to nourish butterflies as they bloom in spring, summer and fall. These are the kinds of plants needed through the Monarch months of migrating through our area.

Check out this stuff! Google Milkweeds for Monarchs and Monarch Watch. Dig up a big sunny circle in your lawn, and plant a bunch of native wildflowers. You’ll have less sterile (lifeless) grass to mow. And you may get to marvel, once again, at that marvelous Monarch metamorphosis.

IMPORTANT: take a child outside with you. We also need to raise human beings who love nature by learning about butterflies, plants (and All Our Nature Relations) – while they play!

Enjoy. Repeat. Persist. DO IT! Jean Ponzi’s yard is blooming with a brand new no-more-mow whopping big butterfly garden! Join her Eco-Logical radio conversations Mondays, 7-8 p.m., on “Earthworms” on FM-88 KDHX, or get podcasts at kdhx.org/ondemand.

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et’s throw a lifeline to a beautiful bug!

Remember studying Monarch butterflies in grade school? We learned cool words like metamorphosis by watching a creature you couldn’t miss, with those gorgeous orange and black patterned wings – preceded by an astonishing yellow, green and black striped caterpillar – who hatched out of a luminous jewel-green golden-dotted chrysalis that turned transparent on the magic day the butterfly emerged.

We kids could experience all these wonders in our own back yard.

But what if your kids never got to see Monarch magnificence?

It could happen – shockingly soon – or you could help avoid this disaster.

The issue is that Monarch populations are declining: over 90% in the last twenty years. That means only 10% (or less) of all the Monarchs in the world still survive. That’s too close for comfort for Monarchs, for me.

The story behind the issue involves one way a species evolves. In Eco-Logical terms, Monarchs are specialists. They’ve evolved relating with one kindred kind of plant, and they must find this partner in order to carry on their kind. If a Monarch has to lay her eggs on any plant outside the Milkweed clan, her hatchling larvae will starve. Monarch caterpillars can only eat Milkweed leaves to make it to that metamorphic state.

Adult Monarchs, in their butterfly state, can thrive on nectar from various kinds of flowering plants, but they cannot reproduce on any living thing that’s not a member of the milky-sapped Asclepiadaceae family.

Monarchs and Milkweeds. It’s a natural romance.

But, like Romeo and Juliet, it could have a tragic ending.

Dr. Orley R. “Chip” Taylor, a professor at KU in Lawrence, Kansas, sounded an early Monarch alarm.

Trained as an insect ecologist (a bug guy), he started out studying Killer Bees, which took him in the 1970s down to Mexico. While there, he observed a supreme wonder of the natural world: how bizillions of Monarchs (the entire species!) cover the trees in a few sheltered valleys as they warmly over-winter near Michoacan – before they migrate nearly 3,000 miles north into the brief Canadian summer.

In all this world, there are no other butterflies (tiny, fragile beings!) that migrate like the Monarchs.

Chip Taylor switched to studying Monarchs. In 1992, he hatched the bright idea to engage his fellow humans, up and down the transcontinental Monarch flyway, to observe and track these monumental migrations. Thousands of “citizen scientists” joined the effort to watch for and tag this species, to learn more about them.

Back in the 1990s, when the Monarchs came

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Yogurt is available all around the St. Louis area.

Vesterbrook Farm: Year-Round CSA Supreme!

All other Farm Fresh Products are only available at the Windcrest Dairy Farmstead Grocery Store located at 14898 Old Trenton Rd, Trenton, IL 62293

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at a hefty 33 to 50 pounds. Special boxes are available for families who want to juice quantities of ne look at produce, or who want to augment Ve s t e r b r o o k their diets with more fruit. In Farm’s website addition, Vesterbrook Farms has (www.vesterbrookfarm.com) relationships with other farms is enough to convince the with similar standards which reader that this is a farm that enable them to offer a wider variis doing a great job of both ety of fruits and packaged goods growing and marketing. The like jams and local honey. Special growing is caring, sustainmeat boxes are available throughable, and beyond organic. out the year. Vesterbrook Farms The marketing is well preoffers eggs from chickens which sented, convenient, and taiare grass-fed in sunny pastures, lored to the customer’s needs. and fed non-GMO feed. Their Vesterbrook Farm, chicken, beef, pork and lamb is owned by Mike & Carol grown in the healthiest possible Brabo, has been a family farm serving the greater St. Carol Brabo collects greens from the garden. way, and the animals are never fed antibiotics, growth hormones or Louis area for over 110 years genetically modified feed. and has been in Carol’s family since 1927. The farm The farm is located in Clarksville, MO, which is has earned the label Certified Naturally Grown, which halfway between St. Louis and Hannibal, north of St. is a grassroots certification program with strict organic Charles. If this seems too far to go for a CSA box, think standards, in which member farmers certify each again. Vesterbrook has developed a delivery schedule other’s farms. The result is easier on the farmer’s pockto multiple pickup sites throughout the metro region. etbook and easy on the consumer’s mind. The Certified As long as at least five families from an area sign up, Naturally Grown label ensures that the food offered by pickups are available in Benton Park/Soulard, Fenton, the member farm is safe, sustainably produced and University City, Clayton/Ladue, Kirkwood, organically grown.

Chesterfield/Creve Coeur, Ballwin/Ellisville, Town & It’s clear that Vesterbrook Farms has worked very Country, St. Peters, St. Charles, Lake St. Louis and hard to produce a CSA program that offers an extensive more. Vesterbrook Farm makes it easy for St. Louisans product mix, four seasons of availability, and an assortto eat safe, fresh, quality farm food throughout the year. ment of sizes and product mixes to fit a range of needs.

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Remember the old aspirin commercial: “I haven’t got time for the pain”?

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intervention to treat symptoms. However, the limitation of taking a pill as the primary solution to feeling better is that we are essentially postponing having to deal with the underlying emotional issues; we are “numbing” out so to speak, to the emotional pain that also exists alongside our physical condition. You see, when we were born, we were designed to function as an integrated system, body/mind /spirit, all operating in conjunction with each other, and in this paradigm, everything we experience on one level is also experienced on the other levels simultaneously. I am not suggesting that we need to sit in pain until it goes away on its own, that would not be responsible to ourselves. What I am suggesting is that there is always an emotional or energetic component to every physical condition. If we are willing to listen and attend to its message, we are tapping into a deep and profound source of wisdom from our bodies which we can use to heal ourselves.

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Re-Opening the Door To Communicating with Your Teenager

By Vera Gabliani, Ph.D.

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arents often ask me “How can I talk to my teenager? They never want to listen to what I have to say!”

As someone who works with teenagers every day, I have had my share of these frustrating experiences. What I have learned the hard way is that teenagers know

the difference between a genuine invitation to have a conversation and an adult who wants to “talk to them” to tell them what to do.

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we trust that they are learning to work through—in their own way—whatever experience life is presenting. This is where the growth and development of their mind and their character is born.

In my way of thinking, there are no mistakes, only learning opportunities. I have noticed that adults are very preoccupied with preventing their children from making mistakes, forgetting how our perceived “mistakes” were our greatest teachers. While it is important to have boundaries that protect our children, it is often to decrease our anxiety that we are seeking to “guide” our teenagers.

One of our most forgotten and essential roles is to be a good receiver and a witness.

So, when I am in a conversation with a teenager and I find myself trying to make a point, I have learned to stop talking and perhaps even

June, 2014 more importantly to stop thinking. I sit back, breathe deeply and refocus my attention back to their face, their words and their feelings. I just listen and appreciate the precious moment they are sharing with me to witness them working through their own process. This is the place I can be of support and it is likely to be the most important thing that they need. It is also the only place from which they may ask for and receive input. I find it is a huge relief to take myself out of the role of needing to have the answers for them. Instead I am empowering them to look within to find their own way. In so doing I allow them the grace and the support to do just that. Isn’t that what the process is all about any way?

Dr. Vera welcomes the opportunity to support you and your teenagers. She can be reached at (314)966-0880.

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What Is Montessori?

By Anita Chastain

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hoosing a school for your children is one of the most important decisions parents make. It is a challenge to weigh the pros and cons of private vs. public education, and traditional education vs. a more progressive style of education.

For those parents who are contemplating a private education for their children, Montessori ranks high among their considerations. Understanding what Montessori means is the first step. Montessori is an educational philosophy developed by Italian physician and educator Dr. Maria Montessori, which began

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in 1907 and is currently practiced worldwide, serving children from birth through 18 years of age. It is a respectful, child-centered approach to education, based on the premise that children naturally love to learn.

Montessori classrooms provide carefully designed “prepared environments” for optimal learning and are characterized by beauty, order, reality, simplicity and accessibility.

As highly-trained professionals, Montessori teachers generally receive a full year of training beyond a Bachelor’s Degree.

Under the guidance of a Montessori teacher, children engage with scientifically-developed, didactic materials that encourage exploration and enhance the development of essential cognitive skills. Children learn to collaborate and work together in mixed-age classrooms.

Long, uninterrupted periods of work provide children the freedom to progress at their own pace and rhythm, with no upper limits on learning. Montessori-educated children develop the qualities needed for success in the twenty-first century, including innovation, collaboration and a global context.

Modern research supports what Dr. Montessori discovered through scientific observation: hands-on learning best develops the growing mind. A study published in the September 29, 2006 issue of the Journal of Science showed that Montessori five-yearolds had better math and reading skills, better social skills and better “executive function,” which is key to handling difficult or novel situations. The study also found that Montessori elementary students produced essays that were “significantly more creative and ... [used] significantly more sophisticated sentence structures.”

To ensure the integrity of her work, Dr. Montessori founded the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI). As the largest AMI-recognized Montessori school in the greater St. Louis area, Chesterfield Montessori School provides the highest quality education a child can receive, offering programs for toddlers through 8th grade. Most importantly, our authentic Montessori education provides children with the opportunity to engage in their task of “self-construction” in a peaceful, calm and productive environment.

Anita Chastain is the Founder and Head of School of Chesterfield Montessori School. For more information please call 314-469-7150 or visit www.chesterfieldmontessori.org.

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What is Your Risk of Developing Breast Cancer?

by Linda Weber Spradling

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Thermography also offers good screening for women with implants. In addition to the standard breast health and risk information, thermography can detect that the implant is in good position with no evidence of

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t is a controversial problem that all women must ask themselves. What is my risk and what precautions do I need to take? For some, the answer is easy. For many, it is difficult to wade through all the information.

If you are over 50, have no family history, do monthly self exams and have annual mammogram screening, you probably feel good about your plan.

One problem is that mammograms are simply not as effective with young women and statistics show that women are getting breast cancer now at a younger and younger age. Thermography is just as effective with young women as it is with more mature women with less dense tissue!

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SEASoNAL ALLERGIES

Are Upon Us In June

by Dr. Doug Pernikoff, DVM

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llergies occur in our pets when their immune system is reacting to chemicals or compounds that have entered the body by any number of pathways. Your vet may use the term 'ATOPY', to describe recurring allergic responses by your family pets.

These compounds, referred to as 'allergens', can enter the body by inhalation into the lungs, by ingestion through foodstuffs, by injection as might occur with flea bites, or, by direct contact as can occur with grass, furniture, rugs, etc. In any case, the body will program exposure to these elements, and with successive exposures, may mount a response that becomes more and more dramatic.

Dogs, in particular, will respond to allergens with skin conditions, ear infections, or conjunctivitis type syndromes, or what most moms might relate to pink eye in their children. Many of the larger breeds, like golden retrievers and others, are commonly afflicted with a low performing thyroid gland. A simple test at your veterinarian's office will demonstrate the presence or absence of this condition. Treatment is typically very cheap, and usually, persists throughout their lifetime. These sorts of dogs often demonstrate 'hot spots', sometime in the warmer months of the year. The hot spot condition presents as a moist dermatitis. The animal is very uncomfortable, and the area afflicted is usually inflamed, reddened, oozing clear fluid and absent of hair. Your vet will likely suggest antibiotics, shampoos, topicals and possibly an anti-inflammatory shot.

As stated, ears are another location manifesting chronic, recurring response to allergies.

And again, each veterinarian tends to develop their own style of managing and treating ears, skin or eyes. Diagnostically, your vet will discuss special testing that highlights statistically significant allergens that are affecting your pet.

Other rule out actions might include food trials to find foodstuffs that are reasonable for your pet. Dust mites, prevalent in the nicest of homes, constitute one of the more common allergens afflicting our house pets.

Parasites like fleas, can present as either a true flea infestation, wherein fleas or flea dirt cover the animals body, especially notable on the area just in front of the tail, commonly referred to as the 'tail head', or in the groin area.

On the other hand, there is a condition referred to as a 'flea hypersensitivity'. In this latter case, the pet has been repeatedly exposed to flea bites. The flea saliva registers a concern with the immune system, and in future episodes, the

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flea may bite your pet, fall off the animal, and still create an exaggerated allergic type response. Cats often develop a lumpy bumpy, scaley condition called 'miliary dermatitis', secondary to flea allergy hypersensitivity.

We have just touched the surface as regards to pet seasonal allergies.

Again, many chemicals or compounds can illicit an allergic response in your pets. It's up to your vet, along with your pet ownership assistance, to play detective and attempt to find the cause, and then, the best approach to managing allergies, with pharmaceuticals, desensitizing allergen shots, specialized foods, or even managing your household to minimize dust mite incidence. Finally, keeping your pet's coat trimmed in the spring and summer, may help in minimizing skin conditions associated with allergy conditions.

Have a safe and enjoyable summer time!

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Supplements For Canine Hepatitis

by Teresa Garden, DVM

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n our last article we discussed various supplements used to treat or support liver disease. In this article we will focus on a specific and common liver disease in dogs and how supplements are incorporated into their treatment plan.

Canine hepatitis is an inflammatory disease of the liver characterized by fibrosis, hepatocellular necrosis and predominantly nonsuppurative inflammation.

Cirrhosis may be the end result in chronic cases.

In most dogs the underlying causative agent is never identified. An adenovirus may be involved. Some cases may be caused by the bacterium Leptosporosis or the long-term use of drugs such as phenobarbital, primidone, phenytoin, or carprofen. The pathophysiology of hepatitis involves an immunological response producing antibodies directed at liver-specific antigens. Liver injury ensues.

Breeds commonly affected by hepatitis include Dobermans, Labs, Cocker Spaniels, and German Shepherds. Symptoms of hepatitis are lethargy, anorexia, vomiting, weight loss, diarrhea, and increases in drinking and urination. In severe cases ascites (fluid accumulation in the abdominal cavity), jaundice, and neurological symptoms may occur. Your veterinarian can diagnose liver disease by performing blood tests. Liver enzymes and bilirubin will be elevated.

Albumin may be decreased.

Radiographs and ultrasound of the abdomen can further evaluate liver disease. Definitive diagnosis of hepatitis requires aspiration or biopsy of the liver.

The goals of treatment are to control inflammation, slow or arrest fibrosis, resolve any infection, decrease toxins, improve bile flow, and support hepatic regeneration. Treatment protocols can be comprised of western drugs, holistic therapies or a combination of the two based on the individual patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs and the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wishes. Drug therapy may employ the medicine colchicine to combat fibrosis.

Ursodiol will improve bile flow and decrease toxic bile acids. Antibiotics will be instituted if infection is confirmed. Metronidazole may be employed for its possible immunomodulatory and antioxidant effects. Prednisone may be used to decrease inflammation. Ascites may be helped with diurectic therapy.

A holistic approach may incorporate diet, antioxidants, eastern or western herbs, acupuncture, and nutritional supplements. A good diet for liver disease should be easily digestible, highly palatable, calorically dense, and easy to prepare and feed. Highly digestible protein

should comprise 25-35% of the diet. Vegetable or dairy protein may be preferred over meat sources for some liver disorders. There are good homemade diets available that are tasty and can help the liver to detoxify. Homemade diets must be balanced by adding vitamins, minerals, and bonemeal. Feed your dog frequent small meals for optimal food digestion and nutrient assimilation.

Denamarin is a wonderful supplement for liver disease employed by both conventional and holistic veterinarians. It is made by the Nutramax company and contains both silymarin (derived from Milk Thistle) and s-adenosylmethionine (SAM-e). Silymarin or the herb Milk Thistle functions as an antioxidant that reduces inflammation and stabilizes hepatic cell membranes. It has anti-fibrotic effects, promotes protein synthesis, and reduces damage from toxic insults. SAM-e is a potent antioxidant that detoxifies free radicals and has broad metabolic benefits.

Vitamin E is often prescribed in the treatment of canine hepatitis. It reduces the toxicity of bile acids to hepatocytes. Vitamin E modulates the cellular response to oxidative stress and provides anti-inflammatory and antifibrotic effects. Tumeric or curcumin may be utilized to treat hepatitis as well. It is a powerful antioxidant, inhibits hepatocellular carcinogenesis, and reduces toxin-induced damage to the liver.

We often advise adding fresh liver to the diet. Liver is a concentrated source of vitamins, minerals, aminoacids, and other nutrients that may benefit your own petâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ailing liver. As an alternative, we may employ a liver glandular product such as Canine Hepatic Support by Standard Process. This liver supplement provides nutrients to help liver cells repair and regenerate.

Your veterinarian will monitor your dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response to treatment by performing periodic physical exams and blood tests. The prognosis is guarded with advanced chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. Fortunately, most cases are diagnosed earlier and the prognosis is fair to good. At Animal Health & Healing, we believe our canine hepatitis patients achieve the best responses with integrative treatment protocols that maximize optimum outcomes.

Dr. Teresa Garden is chief veterinarian /owner of Animal Health & Healing, a full-service holistic and conventional veterinary practice in the Maplewood/Richmond Heights area.

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ll of us are allergic to something.

We have gotten so used to the symptoms that we don’t even realize it. With eye drops that “get the red” out and over-the counter anti-histamines, selftreatment is the norm. We no longer really want to go to the doctor for these things. When things get really bad, the phone-in requests for stronger allergy capsules, nasal inhalers and even antibiotics go way up.

So, to most people, self-diagnosis comes with familiarity of the common symptoms of allergy, which may include: itchy eyes and ears, sneezing, runny nose and itchy rash. Those who suffer with allergies to dusts, pollens and molds will often be “mouth breathers” or have dark circles around their eyes (raccoon eyes) due to chronic nasal congestion. If your nose is getting clogged up or you can’t breathe due to substances or allergens in the air, this can be a life-threatening situation.

If your nose runs like a faucet in April and you’re doing a lot of sneezing in September, this is a no-brainer. But, what if you have migraines in May or severe nausea in November? Did you know that this could also be due to allergies? The same moist “mucosa” present in your nose and respiratory system is also present in the gastrointestinal system. So a similar inflammatory reaction can extend throughout the entire gut causing pain, nausea, bloating and other unpleasant symptoms.

The person with allergies is not well-adapted to their environment. Things they eat, breathe and put on their skin are challenging their immune system.

For a medical condition so common, and with our

increased exposures to chemicals, fumes and other toxins in our environment, the treatment has not advanced with the increasing number of the population suffering with allergies. Treatment, for the most part, consists of suppressing symptoms with antihistamines, that can be sedating, steroids, that can have medically adverse side effects and even nasal surgery.

When allergies become severe or even lifethreatening, as in triggering asthma or anaphylaxis (collapse of the circulation) immunotherapy is rendered. Some people who have been treated with desensitization in the past continue to have symptoms and have resumed the use of various eye drops, inhalers and tablets. In many cases patients get burned-out on the monthly visits to the doctor to receive their allergy shot and basically, stop showing up for them. The partial –treatment of allergies is the most probable cause of failure and continued symptoms. It is easy to get burned- out over allergy symptoms.

If you or a loved one has severe headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, rashes, itchy watery eyes or other symptoms that heave responded poorly to prescription medication or have difficulty dealing with the side-effects of these medicines, consider getting tested and treated at Kincaid Medical Associates. Diagnosis and treatment is covered by most insurance. It is painless and convenient. You have nothing to lose but your allergies.

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Kimberly Schneider is the author of Everything You need Is Right Here: Five Steps to Manifesting Magic and Miracles and Terrible Beauty: Poetry and Reflections for Precarious Times. A Licensed Professional Counselor with a degree in law and decades of experience in facilitating transformation in individuals and groups, Kimberly teaches Communication at Washington University and is a

regular contributor to Great Day St. Louis TV. Kimberly empowers people to create lives of wonder, productivity and possibility. She inspires audiences on diverse topics including: Thriving in Crisis; Celtic Cosmology and The “6 Ps of Presence” in Communication.

Kimberly’s keynote talks and custom workshops combine storytelling, coaching, experiential

exercises and original poetry. To find out about how Kimberly’s work can support creative change in your life or organization, call 314-275-8188 or email support@kimberlyschneider.com.

Go to www.KimberlySchneider.com to request Kimberly’s Free Conscious Manifestation eCourse and you’ll receive the first chapter of her book.

Alternative Hospice is a locally owned, community based end of life program, dedicated to being an advocate for our patients and providing them with a high standard of holistic end of life care.

We strive to empower our patients and their caregivers with the knowledge and information that they need to make informed decisions

regarding their care.

Our focus is on comfort, quality of life, and facilitating of a peaceful passing with dignity, respect and love.

Alternative Hospice is a physician directed, nurse coordinated program of care. Dr. Joseph Flaherty with St. Louis University Medical School Department of Geriatrics serves as our

Medical Director and guides our team. Our team is seasoned in conventional end of life care and several are experienced in complementary care techniques… the body, mind, and spirit in rhythm.

Our values include: integrity, accountability, respect, trust, compassion, and passion to serve.

Volunteers needed, please call 636-343-3839.

Yue Ma’s Specialty is Acupressure Massage, involving gentle but firm pressure to meridian points on the body to relieve pain and relax muscles. She combines ancient massage therapy with other techniques such as Deep Tissue Massage, Hot Stones, Japanese Shiatsu, Swedish Relaxation, Reflexology and more.

Her methods promote better health through

deep relaxation and increased circulation of the body and soul. Her special philosophy is “The body is like a River. Everything is connected.”

Yue Ma has been practicing in St. Louis for 16 years. (Formerly at the Jewish Community Center for 14 years.)

Yue Ma is a Missouri State Licensed therapeutical massage therapist. Her touch will help

to relieve body pain, improve circulation and movement and revive your overall energy level.

Call today to make an appointment. 314541-3502 or 636-256-0862. Please email Yuemamassage@gmail.com or visit online at www.yuemamassagetherapy.com. 522 north Ballas Rd., Ste #299, Creve Coeur, MO 63141.

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The BioMat’s quantum energetics allows the body to fight disease and heal with a naturally strong and efficient immune system. It is composed of 17 layers of technology, combining Far Infrared Rays (FIR), negative ions and amethyst crystals. Time spent on the mat relieves pain and joint stiffness, reduces stress and fatigue, boosts the immune system, burns calories and many other healthful benefits.

Infrared Rays, nature’s invisible light and most

beneficial light wave, penetrate skin and increase circulation to detoxify the body of harmful toxins. The FIR can increase blood flow and clean the arteries (which means it can help lower blood pressure), release toxins, increase metabolism, heal soft tissue and relax muscles.

Negative Ions are Nature’s Energizer. Ion particles cleanse and purify the air we breathe.

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and strengthens the cleansing organs, the circulatory system and blood, the immune system and body metabolism.

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A good nights sleep on the BioMat or a mere 30 minute nap, can go a long way to ensuring a healthier, happier you.

Call The Center for Mind, Body & Spirit to schedule an appointment to try the BioMat. 314.725.6767.

St Louis Aquatic Healing Center offers state of the art, cutting edge alternative health therapies for health, healing, balancing and detoxification. Many of our therapies can only be found at St Louis Aquatic such as: The MG-PRO, Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) Cellular Exercise, widely used in Eastern Europe for 30 years with extensive research behind it; cleaning and

promoting cell repair and regeneration; The Quantum Pulse frequency generator, successfully eradicates many viruses and pathogens; Watsu/Wassertanzen, warm water shiatsu therapy to relieve pain and revitalize organs, and Cranial Sacral Therapy in the pool, all the benefits of CST amplified by the water. We also offer T-Zone, Whole Body Vibration for health and fitness, Nutri-

Energetics Systems (NES) health evaluation and therapy to promote the body’s natural healing and detoxification, far-infrared sauna, ionic foot soaks, ear candling, lymphatic drainage, other therapeutic massages and much more. Call, email or visit our websites for more information. 314-432-5228, watsu11@yahoo.com, www.watsu1.com, www.purificationhealthproducts.com.

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H o l i s t i c D E N tA l c A R E BioLogiCAL DENTiSTry Michael g. rehme, DDS, CCN & Associates

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Our approach to holistic health includes the entire body and the oral cavity is no exception. We are dedicated to serving our patients and promoting a level of health care that carefully evaluates and reviews the use of dental materials, dental procedures and also offers dietary and nutritional support for each and every individual that is seen in our office.

Did you know that examining the mouth can reveal the presence of illnesses or unstable conditions in other areas of the body?

If you feel like you’ve just about exhausted all your options in your search for better health, have your mouth examined with a different approach in mind. Get motivated, get educated, and get ready to participate in a

health-oriented lifestyle that will provide dental alternatives and a nutritional foundation designed to help support your own body’s healing powers.

The focus of holistic dentistry is to consider the mouth as a part of the whole body. We use materials and methods that are more compatible biologically with the body instead of the traditional dental materials. Examples of non-compatible materials are mercury fillings, non-precious heavy metal crowns, bridges and partials or dentures. Alternatives to fluoride are used

for the prevention of cavities.

Proper alignment of the jaws and teeth are the foundation of how the body perceives itself in space. The result of improper alignment can result in symptoms of headache, ears ringing, loss of hearing, pain in the head and neck and clenching or grinding of the teeth.

Good nutrition is inseparable for good

health. If your diet consists of food and drink made with white flour, sugar and no fresh fruits and vegetables, your body is likely to be acidic with resultant more medical and dental problems.

For your dental evaluation contact our office for an appointment by calling 636-4589090 or email at cherryhillsdds@yahoo.com.

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Summer Is For Children

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or more years than I care to count, I’ve spent summers teaching art enrichment classes. It delights me to wonder which of these budding young art enthusiasts will someday blossom into a prominent artist.

Personally, I believe that artistic skill does not necessarily correlate to age. Often it’s difficult to discern the age of the artist just by viewing a finished work.

Pablo Picasso had much to say about this topic as well. Perhaps it is because Picasso lived a very long life and produced so much art that his words carry powerful wisdom. Among his comments: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” “It takes a very long time to become young.” “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

The Blooming Artists Project is the brainchild of Lindbergh School District educator Marilyn Callahan. Facilitating a bond between young artists and established artists, this initiative paired elementary and high school students with local, professional artists. Through the exchange of perspectives, ideas and techniques that began in January, the young artists “bloomed” with the expertise of their mastermentors. Jewelers, sculptors, painters, fiber artists and photographers partnered with stu-

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ARTful Living St. Louis Area Fine Arts, Crafts & Performing Arts Michelle “Mike” Ochonicky, Arts Editor dents to bring ideas to fruition. In turn, the master artists created works inspired by their students. The results are shown in an exhibition of side-by-side works by each mentor and mentee at Clayton Fine Art Gallery, 21 N. Beminston, from May 30 through June 22. More info at www.claytonfineartgallery.com.

Maybe it’s the child in each of us that has boosted the current wild fad of “selfies.” Thanks to cell phones, everyone, everyone, is snapping quick selfportraits. Once (and only once), when my son was just a little tyke, he somehow managed to scramble atop the refrigerator and proudly call me into the Faux-batik painting by 6th grader Ariel Rapert, part of kitchen by shouting, “Look where I the Blooming Artists Project exhibition at Clayton Art am!” That’s exactly what selfies say, Gallery.

“Look where I am!” Selfies capture cators, gallerists, journalists, dancers, actors, moments; they reflect and record who we are, politicians, and drag queens. The exhibition where we are, and tell the world to “Look at promises to be fun. Snap a selfie while you’re at me!” the opening reception! More info at www.phdSo…are selfies art? PHD Gallery on stl.com.

Cherokee asks that very question with a new exhibition entitled “Selfie STL.” Fifty area Young and old alike are sure to love celebs were invited to snap cell phone selfies for “Karamu: Fiesta of Latin and African an exhibition that opens on June 7, from 7-10 American Music” on June 14. Presented by p.m. The group includes selfies of artists, arts Gitana Productions, the evening kicks off at 6 administrators, photographers, academics, edu-

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p.m. with “Salsa con Salsa,” a free salsa tasting and competition involving 10 local Mexican restaurants plus Salsa dancing with free dance lessons led by Carmen Guynn of Cha Cha Cha. Guests will taste and vote on the “Best St. Louis Salsa Sauce” in the salsa competition.

With the mood set for an evening of fiery music, the area’s best musicians, including the Bosman Twins, Denise Thimes, and the Latin Fire Ensemble, perform starting at 7:30 p.m.

“We’re so excited to bring the best of St. Louis’ Latin and African American musicians together for this event,” said Ceceila Nadal, executive director of Gitana Productions.

“Karamu is the Swahili word for ‘party’ or ‘fiesta’ and that’s what we’ll be doing.” Jazz, Congolese drumming, poetry readings, and an art exhibit round out the event at Union Avenue Christian Church. For ticket info, call 314721-6556.

Circus Flora is a grand celebration of the child in all of us. The intimacy of this circus is like no other. Music by a live band, costumes beyond description, and incredible world-class performers, all so close, are the hallmarks of St. Louis’ beloved Circus Flora. This year’s show, entitled “The Pawn,” centers on a story about the intriguing game of chess. It runs through June 22 under the air-conditioned Big Top in Grand Center. Be awed! Find out more at www.circusflora.org.

It is with sadness that we send sympathy to all of the Circus Flora family on the passing of founder and artistic director Ivor David Balding, on May 9, 2014. David was a big presence with a big voice, a big vision and a big heart. He will truly be missed.

Collagen Anti-Aging

Red Light Therapy

Photo Rejuvenation or Red Light Therapy

is the use of light to create an anti-aging effect on the skin and is quickly becoming recognized as one of the safest, fastest and most affordable ways to achieve younger, more vibrant looking skin.

Physicians and aestheticians agree, it is the most powerful and effective way to stimulate the production of collagen and elastin in the skin. Visible red (620nm-700nm) light shows at least 24 different positive changes at a cellular level.

Red light penetrates into the derma layer of the skin, energizing the cells, thereby helping to create collagen, which helps to plump up the skin, and elastin, which helps to firm the skin and diminish fine lines and wrinkles.

Red Light Therapy Benefits: • Restores skin cells • Reduces fine lines, scars, acne, wrinkles, stretch marks and age spots • Stimulates collagen synthesis • Smooths and reduces cellulite deposits

• Treats seasonal affective disorders • Increases moisture retention • Increases blood circulation • Increases lymphatic system activity • Decreases skin flaws like Psoriasis, Eczema and Rosacea

PAIN RELIEF: • Herniated and Bulging Discs • Osteoarthritis • Fibromyalgia • Joint and Muscle pain • Inflammation • Nerve and Sports injuries • Neck pain and stiffness • Wounds and damaged skin • Kills bacteria

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HealtHy Planet HaPPenInGS June 6 YogIS AnD RunnERS unITE In THE FIgHT AgAInST CAnCER Yoga Six is inviting all yogis and runners to unite in a movement to end cancer by participating in the Yoga Six 6K Run to benefit Pedal the Cause. The Upper Muny parking lot in Forest Park will be the site of the 6K Run on Friday, June 6, 2014, at 6:30 p.m. In addition to the 6K run, participants can also join in a pre-run stretch at 6 p.m. Pedal the Cause is the premier cycling experience in the region, the pinnacle event of the year, and the driving force behind creating a world without cancer. For more information for the 6K, visit bigriverrunning.com. Yoga Six is an upscale yoga studio located in the Forest Park area of St. Louis, offering traditional and hot yoga classes in a variety of formats, including set-sequence hot flows steeped in the classical tradition, vinyasa flows and specialty yoga classes, fitness classes and workshops. For additional information about Yoga Six please contact Ana Llewellyn, at 314.802.7447 or allewellyn@yogasix.com.

June 7, 9 THE RIgHT To FARm oR THE RIgHT To HARm? Airs on KNLC Channel 24 6/07 at noon and KNLC Renewable Energy Channel Channel 24-2 6/09 at 8:00 p.m.

Wes Shoemyer explains that Missouri law guarantees rights to family farmers; but the so-called “Right to Farm” June 7 LoCAL govERnmEnT gREEn TEAm mEET-up AT THE gREEn HomES FESTIvAL Calling all Local Government Green Teams! The USGBCMissouri Gateway Chapter, Ridefinders, and the Clean Air Partnership are providing an opportunity for you to share best practices and learn from one another. After the MeetUp, attendees can check out the 13th Annual Green Homes Festival, hosted by the Earthways Center of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Saturday, June 7, 9:00 – 10:30 am, Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, REGISTER: www.usgbc-mogateway.org June 7 gREEn HomES FESTIvAL The Green Homes Festival at Missouri Botanical Garden is Saturday, June 7. Please see page 5 and the back cover of this edition for complete information.

June 7 FREE ADmISSIon AT SHAW nATuRE RESERvE In honor of National Trails Day, Shaw Nature Reserve will offer free admission to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 7th, 2014. Shaw Nature Reserve, located near the junction of Highway 100 and Interstate 44, is one of very few regions in the metro area that features a 2,441acre natural area. Nestled along a portion of the Meramec River, the Reserve is in a region known as the Missouri Ozark Border. The close proximity to St. Louis allows easy access for visitors of all ages to experience the natural beauty of our region and to learn about the history of this unique attraction.

For more information, visit www.shawnature.org or call (636) 451-3512. Follow the Shaw Nature Reserve on Facebook at www.facebook.com/shawnaturereserve.

June 7 & 8 LAFAYETTE SquARE SpRIng pARADE oF HomES & gARDEnS 10am-5pm. Admission$16 in advance, $20 day of tour.

Purchase tickets online at www.lafayettesquare.org or call 314-772-5724.

SqWIRES ALA CARTE BRunCH CELEBRATIng THE LAFAYETTE SquARE SpRIng HouSE TouR 8am-3pm Reservations Recommended 314 -865-3522.

June 10 InTEgRATIng ALTERnATIvE mEDICInE WITH ConvEnTIonAL mEDICInE FREE Monthly Seminar and Discussion - Integrating Alternative Medicine with Conventional Medicine - Learn how to build your immune system and take charge of your health. If you are suffering from chronic conditions, you'll learn why you don't have to live with your "incurable" symptoms anymore. Topics covered include: Cancer, Heart Disease/Stroke, Diabetes, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, ADD/ADHD, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Food Allergies, Nutrition, and many more. You should come to this discussion also if you feel, "My Doctor said everything is fine! Then why do I feel so lousy?" Second Tuesday each month at 6:30 pm at our healing clinic - Prevention and Healing, Inc., Dr. Simon Yu, M.D., Board Certified Internist, 10908 Schuetz Road, St. Louis, MO 63146, Weaving Internal Medicine with Alternative Medicine to

Use the Best Each Has to Offer. Call to verify meeting date; seating is limited, arrive early, 314-432-7802. See patient success stories at www.preventionandhealing.com.

June 10 FAT BuRnIng! 7:00 p.m. Join Dr. Rebecca Gould DC for an informative chat about body composition, weight and health. Do you have a high body fat percentage? Have you worked unsuccessfully to lose belly fat? Are you a "skinny fat person?"

Getting your body to tap into stored energy and “burn” body fat is tricky, but it can be done. In this class we will discuss body composition, why we store fat, hormones, nutrition, and exercise strategies for fat loss. Cost: Free.

Held at The Healing Center, 734 DeMun in Clayton, 63105.

Pre-registration is required, use the registration link can at HealingSTL.com or Facebook/HealingSTL or call 314727-2120.

June 10 CoRTEx DEvELopmEnT The Cortex Innovation Community is home to a vibrant 200-acre technology district integrated into St. Louis’ historic Central West End and Forest Park Southeast residential neighborhoods. This program, presented in partnership with Commercial Real Estate Women, will explore a number of sustainability related components that have been integrated into the development. WHEN: Tuesday, June 10, 2014, 5:30 – 7:30, FEE: Free to USGBC-MGC Members and full time students; $20 for Non-members, REGISTER: www.usgbc-mogateway.org/calendar June 12-13 ST. LouIS BREWERS guILD HERITAgE FESTIvAL The St. Louis Brewers Guild Heritage Festival is Friday June 13 and Saturday June 14 from 6-9 pm, at the Central Fields in Forest Park. Created 8 years ago as a collaboration of St. Louis’ breweries, the Heritage Festival was born to showcase all St. Louis has to offer, making this event unique. For complete information please see story on page 15 of this edition of The Healthy Planet magazine.

June 16 FREE ConCERT: SACRED SounDS Rare opportunity to experience the SACRED SOUNDS of the "Prophet for Our Times," the Master Peter Deunov of Bulgaria. Performed by the gifted violinist Svetla Kalcheva, PhD. 6:30 p.m. Church of the Open Word Garden Chapel, 1040 Dautel Lane. Free Concert sponsored by the not-for-profit Paneurhythmy: Circle of Joy. The program will include challenging selections from the classical repertoire and pieces inspired by the folk music of Eastern Europe. www.paneurhythmy.org 314-647-9415.

June 16-24 poLLInAToR WEEk: SHARE THE Buzz Seven years ago, the U.S. Senate’s unanimous approval and designation of a week in June as “National Pollinator Week” marked a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations. Pollinator Week has now grown to be an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles. The growing concern for pollinators is a sign of progress, but it is vital that we continue to maximize our collective effort. We have a special event planned on Saturday, June 21 at Whole Foods Market to help us learn more about this very important topic. Along with many others around the world, we hope to “bee” part of the change in our awareness and how we take care of our environment to protect our pollinators. For more information please call Whole Foods Market 314-968-7744.

June 17 FREE monTHLY WELLnESS SuppoRT gRoup Free Monthly Wellness Support Group. Come and enjoy an evening of fellowship, learning opportunities in Medical Spiritual Information and exercises to strengthen your journey in managing your plan of care and treatment. Support Group Leaders: Dr. Simon Yu, M.D. and Chaplain Paul R. Johnson, M.Div. When: Third Tuesday each month (with an occasional exception) at 6:30 pm. at our healing clinic, Prevention and Healing, Inc., Dr. Simon Yu, M.D., Board Certified Internist, 10908 Schuetz Road, St Louis, MO 63146, Weaving Internal Medicine with Alternative Medicine to Use the Best Each Has to Offer. Call to verify meeting date, 314-432-7802. For more information, read the article on our web site at www.PreventionAndHealing.com titled "New Medicine, New Biology: Spiritual Wellness, Spiritual Assessment, and Spiritual Care."

June 17 ConnECTIng YouR HEALTH BETWEEn YouR TEETH AnD BoDY FREE Monthly Seminar and Discussion. Connecting Your Health Between Your Teeth and Body. You may not realize it, but your teeth and gums may be making you ill or weakening your immune system. Hidden infections. Unresolved illness. Find out what may be happening between your teeth and body and what to do about it. Discover how infection and illness transfer between the teeth and body. Understand how biological dentistry focuses on your overall health. Learn about what dental materials are compatible with wellness, mercury-free, tooth-colored fillings,the impact of dental procedures, how certain dental procedures can influence your body, and nutritional therapy that supports a healthy mouth.

Third Tuesday Each Month, 6:30 pm at the Holistic Dentistry office of, and presented by, Dr. Michael Rehme, D.D.S., C.C.N. (Certified Clinical Nutritionist), 2821 N. Ballas Rd, Suite 245, St. Louis, MO 63131. A Healthy Choice for Dental Care. Call to verify seminar date and reserve your space at 314-997-2550. See Patient Success Stories at www.toothbody.com.

June 18 DR. gARY nABHAn To SpEAk AT THE mISSouRI BoTAnICAL gARDEn he Missouri Botanical Garden is pleased to host a lecture and book signing by Dr. Gary Nabhan on Wednesday, June 18 at 2 p.m. Dr. Nabhan is an internationally-celebrated nature writer, food and farming activist and proponent of conserving the links between biodiversity and cultural diversity. No registration is required. For more information, visit www.mobot.org.

June 21, 23, THE SToRY oF BRokE Airs on KNLC Channel 24 6/21 at noon & KNLC Renewable Energy Channel Channel 24-2 6/23 at 8:00 p.m.

Did you ever wonder why the government is always broke when it comes to financing education, Social Security and Medicare but there is plenty of money to bail out banks and fight wars? Guests Fredric Raines and Rev. Elston K. McCowan discuss making federal and local money available for environmental and social justice needs.

June 22 SuSTAInABLE BACkYARD TouR Be inspired. The 4th Annual Sustainable Backyard Tour is a free, self-guided tour of green and organic outdoor spaces thourghout St. Louis City and County. Please see page 8 in this edition for complete information.

June 22-23 14TH AnnuAL ponD-o-RAmA The St. Louis Water Gardening Society members offer a wide variety of private spaces for the 14th annual Pond-ORama pond and garden tour. Please see page 9 of this edition for complete information.

June 23 WEIgHT AnD WELLnESS 6:30-8:30pm. Join us and discover an optimal health program that will help you to reach your healthy weight goals. Topics include the reasons why 85% of “Diets” fail and our safe, effective system for losing 2-5 lbs per week 1st 2 weeks; 1-2 lbs per week thereafter with the help of a free health coach.

Our program is is safe and clinically proven program that conserves muscle while it burns fat. You will also meet others who have lost weight with Take Shape for Life and get all your questions answered. Cost: Free. Held at DePaul Hospital May Community Education Center, 12303 DePaul Drive parking lot #3, Bridgeton, MO 63044. For details or to register call Dr Rebecca Gould 314-727-2120 or register online via HealingSTL.com or Facebook/HealingSTL, June 24 THE SECRET oF THE YogA SuTRA with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD. Topics include: What is the Yoga Sutra and why its teachings are so crucial to us now? The Yogic understanding of our body and mind, & how to tap into our innate wisdom. A guided practice for experiencing our self-luminous joy. Ethical Society of St. Louis Clayton, MO. 7 to 9pm (doors open at 6:30). $30 in advance Buy tickets @ www.yogasutrastl.com.

June 28, 30 FooD FIgHT — WHAT ARE WE EATIng? Airs on KNLC Channel 24 6/28 at noon and KNLC Renewable Energy Channel Channel 24-2 6/30 at 8:00 p.m.

How do people live in ways that are unhealthy? How could they adopt healthier life styles? Eleeahsah Ben Israel and Christine Jackson look at self-destructive eating and drinking habits and changes that people could make.

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