The Healthy Planet – December 2014

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PUBLISHER’S CORNER

by Rick Hotton

A Holiday Message (and a few tangents)

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Vol. 18 No.8

PLANET PEOPLE Publisher/Editor: J.B. Lester Lifestyles Editor: Denise Christen Arts Editor: Michelle “Mike” Ochonicky Green & Growing Editor: Linda Wiggen Kraft Associate Editor: Niki Lester Social Media Editor: Natalie Petty

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Environment: Heather Navarro, Jean Ponzi Food & Drink: Kari Hartel, RD, LD, Crystal Stevens Animals & Nature: Teresa Garden, DVM; Ava Frick, DVM, Dr. Doug Pernikoff, DVM, Pat Tuholske, Naturalist

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Denise Christen, Linda Wiggen Kraft, J.B. Lester, Michelle “Mike” Ochonicky, Natalie Petty

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ne of the best things about being 63 years old is the many holiday memories that come to mind this time of year. All the wonderful Thanksgivings at my Uncle Jim’s and Aunt Begie’s home with all the family.

The Christmas mornings with my brother Bill and sister Jill. Stringing popcorn and cranberries with my mom while my dad poked the fire to keep the logs aglow.

Ringo, our Fox Terrier, sniffing at the packages around the tree, trying to figure out which one housed his savory something. The 30 days from Thanksgiving to Christmas are a snapshot in time documented in our many, many photo ablumns. And then the kids grow up.

People pass and things change. Memories are all we have. That’s the hard part of being 63. But time marches on. It’s time to create new memories, new traditions based on past experiences and a few new twists. I am a new grampy and this Christmas my grandson Jackson will be a year and a half old. I just cant bring myself to say 18 months. If that’s how we define age, then I am 756 months old. Let me check the book to see what level of development I should be at. Hmmmm. Looks like I should be losing my hearing, my dexterity, my ability to control my bladder and forgetting where I put the car keys. Well, that’s nonsense. 63 is the new 25. I can still swing a golf club and mow my own grass. I cook and clean and do my own laundry. And even though I do turn the volume up on the tv, I can still find the remote and change my own channels.

Thanksgivings aren’t the big spectacle they used to be.

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December, 2014 In fact we are going to a movie this year on Thanksgiving and having our big meal on Saturday.

With a grandson in the holiday mix, we have two families vying for the little man to put atop the pedestal. At 63 I have learned to be flexible. In life, not really in a yoga sense. But I am doing physical therapy exercises for my chronic arm pain. I am rehabilitating my extensor, flexor and bicep. I think I injured myself trying to capture one of the cats who was trying to sneak into our bedroom or I hurt myself while playing too much Golden Tee. There I go again, off on a 63-year-old’s tangent. We will create a flexible holiday schedule so everyone can enjoy the festivities without the stress.

There will be gifts and food and fun and love, plenty of love. And while I am talking about gifts. I want to encourage you to “shop local”. As an independent local business owner, I know how important it is to get and give the support for local businesses, shops and stores.

Small business is the backbone of our society and our economy. The old days of the big corporations offering long term employment security is gone. Small business has become the torch bearer of economic recovery.

These are your neighbors, your friends, your relatives and the people who will smile and say “Merry Christmas” and mean it! We need to support those local shopkeepers who help make the holidays a time to remember. And pay particular interest to gifts which are handmade, fair trade, natural, healthy, recycled or upcycled. I can promise, your heart will feel warmer when you shop and buy local this holiday season.

I want to wish all of you Healthy Planet readers a Healthy and Happy Holidays! We appreciate your readership and ongoing support of our advertisers and the professionals who write the stories we provide each month. Publishing our magazine is truly a labor of love and an ongoing commitment to helping our readers find the resources they need to create healthier and greener lives for themselves, their families and their communities. With your support, the presses will continue to run.

In Good Health,

J.B. Lester; Publisher

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Go Local St. Louis Urges You to Shift Your Shopping!

By Terry Winkelmann, Co-Founder, Go Local St. Louis

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o Local St. Louis, the new independent business alliance, urges you to shift your shopping this holiday season and think local first!

The group, which formed in September and already has nearly 100 members, promotes the idea of keeping your income circulating in your community by shifting your shopping to locally owned stores. By keeping your money where your house is—patronizing businesses that are owned by St. Louisans rather than out-oftown investors—more of your purchase dollars stay in the community. And that’s important.

As shoppers, Americans collectively spend a large portion of our annual shopping budget between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31. When that shopping is done at locally owned, independent businesses, we generate 2 to 3 times as much economic activity in our towns and neighborhoods than if we had spent the same amount at a national chain.

Besides, when it comes to holiday shopping, a morning spent wandering boutiques in a place like Old Webster or Maplewood followed by lunch at a locally owned café is way more fun and festive than navigating the parking lot at the outlet mall. And there’s no need to stop at shopping--hire a locally owned service company to cater your party. Have a microbrew with dinner at a locally owned, independent restaurant rather than one that sends its profits to investors in another state or country.

Studies show that locally-owned independent retailers

return three times or more money into their communities than chain competitors while locally-owned independent restaurants return twice as much per dollar of revenue to the local economy than chain restaurants. And buying remotely, via the internet or mail-order catalogs, creates almost no local benefit--just a few minutes work for a delivery person.

Increasingly these days, local retailers strive to stock more locally made products among their diverse offerings, chosen with their region, their market and their customers in mind—not the generic U.S. market.

The work of St. Louis photographers, potters, jewelry makers, seamstresses, knitters, weavers, and other artists can be found in local boutiques long after the craft show ends.

Artisanal foods, like honey from local bees, chocolates individually handcrafted by someone you run into at the neighborhood grocery, pastries baked nearby or a selection of indie teas and coffees are guaranteed to bring a smile to your recipient.

In this season of doing good and sharing, take a minute to consider the impact of your spending. You earned it. You’re going to spend it. Keeping it local will extend the value of your gifts, to your church, school and neighbor. Besides, nothing says “I love you” like a massproduced, run-of-the-mill, disposable item sold by a company benefitting from corporate welfare, paying minimal wages to employees kept from enjoying Thanksgiving with their families.

For more information please visit our website www.golocalstl.org.

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Natural liviNg gift & Holiday guide Gingerbread ForThe Holidays

By Crystal Stevens

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his time of year reminds us of the warming tastes and sweet aromas of cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. The anticipation of the first snow and the excitement that fills our house each year around the holidays is such a pleasant feeling. While the little gingerbread men and gingerbread houses are equally fun and nostalgic to make and sweet to taste, we crave a more decadent treat loved by most adults…fresh gingerbread. Nothing satisfies my husband and I more than moist delicious gingerbread made from scratch. The etymology behind gingerbread is fascinating. Gingerbread originally was a loose definition used to describe preserved ginger. The earliest record of gingerbread dates back to 2400 BC and is said to originate in Greece. There are recipes for gingerbread that have originated from all around the world and each culture has its own lore about gingerbreads origin. One story mentions an Armenian monk bringing gingerbread to Europe in 992 AD. However, ginger root itself originates from China and has been cultivated for centuries for its medicinal properties.

Ginger root is actually the rhizome of Zingiber officinale, a subtropical plant that produces white and pink buds.

The blossoms are yellow. Ginger root is a miracle worker and is said to contain anti-cancerous, anti-inflammatory, and anti-biotic properties and has been used to treat a number of ailments including upset stomach, nausea, menstrual cramps and so on. Ginger is known for being a friend to the digestive system. With holiday meals on the horizon, ginger may be a friend we all could use. The notorious components for giving gingerbread its sweet spicy flavor and its dark appearance are ginger and molasses. Please the adults in your family this holiday season with a more sophisticated and hearty winter dessert. Day old gingerbread is delicious served warm with a dollop of ice cream or made into a bread pudding.

Mini loaves of gingerbread make excellent holiday gifts. Urban Buds Farm grows fresh ginger right here in St. Louis.

HealtHy Homemade GinGerbread 1 cup gluten-free flour mix or organic whole wheat pastry flour 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 cup of coconut sugar 1 tbsp fresh grated ginger 2 tsp powdered ginger 2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1 tsp allspice 2/3 cup almond milk 1/4 cup blackstrap molasses 1/4 cup pure maple syrup 1/3 cup apple sauce 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar 2 tbsp melted coconut oil 3 tbsp ground flax meal Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease an 8”x 8” pan with a thin layer of coconut oil. In a large mixing bowl, combine milk, molasses, maple syrup, apple sauce, apple cider vinegar, melted coconut oil, fresh ginger and flax meal and whisk ingredients together until thoroughly mixed. Let mixture sit for about 10 minutes.

Stir together remaining ingredients in a separate large mixing bowl. Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients just until combined, careful not to over mix. Pour the mixture into the greased pan and bake for about 20-25 minutes. Use a toothpick to be sure the cake is thoroughly cooked. Let cool. Glaze with honey or frost with a maple cream cheese frosting. Simply mix 1 8oz package of cream cheese with 1/2 cup of maple syrup with an electric mixer for one minute.

Crystal Stevens is a regular contributor to The Healthy Planet magazine and along with her husband Eric, run the La Vista CSA Farm in Godfrey, Illinois. www.lavisitacsa.org.

Shop At A Real Country Store This Holiday!

Christmas Trees • Wreaths • Pine Roping

• Bird Feeders & Bird Feed • Bird Houses • Locally Made Soaps • Locally-Roasted Coffee • Mushroom Logs • Pet Items • Homemade Pies and Canned Goods • Locally-Raised Beef, Chicken & Pork Packages

Take The Page Ave Extension To Our Front Door!

Greene’s Country Store & Feed 8621 Hwy N, Lake St. Louis, MO 63367

636-561-6637 Mon-Fri 9 to 7, Sat 8 to 7, Sun 10 to 5

www.greenescountrystore.com

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Natural liviNg gift & Holiday guide The ArT of enTerTAining

Looking for the perfect gift this holiday season?

Need the perfect party appetizer or meal?

Call The Art of Entertaining to order party trays, appetizers, salads, breakfast dishes, or a full dinner for the holidays. Low sodium, low calorie, and gluten free meals are also available which are ideal for the person on a special diet. You can also stop in to pick up ready to go appetizers and breakfast, lunch or dinner entrees. If you have not tried The Art of Entertaining before, stop in for the Monday Night Special, dinner for a family of four for only $27.50! Gift cards are great for coworkers, holiday gift exchanges, or anyone who loves to eat.

The Art of Entertaining is located at 8796 Big Bend Blvd., Webster Groves, MO 63119. Visit us online at www.theaofe.com or call 314-963-9899 for all your holiday food needs!

BiomATs & PorTABle sAunAs

Eclectic Accessories Furniture Home Goods Open Mon-Sat Mon-Sat 10-6 Open 10-5 Unique Wall Art 314-368-8184 10050 Manchester Rd. Used Books GTWOMissions.org Glendale, MO 63122 African Goods

Biomats are Energy-enhancing and detox-ing tools that reduce cortisol levels by 78% in 30 minutes, boost immunity, and give you more energy.

There are a Limited Number of Financed Biomats & Saunas, with FREE SHIPPING & NO TAX, so call today.These Warm & cozy gifts keep giving, year after year

Free Biomat loaners and portable Sauna are available for 3-4 days, delivered to you. Biomat and Far Infrared Portable Saunas are $ 64 - $88 a month, with Monthly payments for 11 months, debited from your checking acct, with FREE INTEREST. We offer a 60 day Money Back SatisfactionGuarantee, a 30 year warranty, and the Lowest price guarantee. (314) 562 -0844. email: clint@biomatmedical.com. www.biomatsynergy.com.

The Book house for gifTs

Looking for a unique shopping experience filled with the unexpected? Come visit The Book House located in the heart of Maplewood at 7352 Manchester Road. The Book House is literally packed with thousands of books of all kinds. New, used, rare, unusual, first editions, bargain books, art, history, literature, children’s books . . . Come with lots of time to browse for treasures! They also have late night music concerts, book signings, readings, and events for all ages. The Book House is not only a great place to shop but believe in making the world a better place! A percentage of all sales support charities such as Second Chapter Center. For more information please visit www.bookhousestl.com.

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YOU CAN DO IT ALL, BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO

OrdER ONLINE HOLIDAY MEALS, ENTRéES, SIDES, DESSERTS, PARTY PLATTERS, APPETIZERS, AND MORE FoR IN-STORE PICK Up wfm.com/holidays Whole Foods Market - Town & Country 1160 Town & Country Crossing Dr. 636-527-1160

Whole Foods Market - Galleria 1601 S. Brentwood Blvd.

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Natural liviNg gift & Holiday guide For your holiday menu

Freddie’s Market offers delicious hams, fresh natural turkeys, party trays, sandwiches, salads, appetizers, and local wines that are perfect for your holiday party or family dinner. Let Freddie’s Market make your holiday meal planning stress free by doing the work for you. This full service, family owned market provides their customers with exceptional service and the freshest, healthiest options to ensure you and your holiday guests are happy. Be sure to call early to order your fresh turkey or boneless, honey glazed baked ham and all your other party food needs. Visit www.freddiesmarket.com or search for them on Facebook. You can also stop in at 9052 Big Bend Road at Rock Hill in Webster Groves, MO 63119 or call 314968-1914 to place your order today.

holiday christmas Festival

Celebrate the 2014 holiday season, French Colonial style in charming Ste. Genevieve, MO. The annual Holiday Christmas Festival will take place on December 6th and 7th and feature a traditional Christmas parade, free photos with Santa in Lion’s Club Park and over 30 performances of seasonal music spread out over two days. Local shops and art galleries feature holiday hospitality and shopping bargains. The Felix Valle State Historic Site will host ‘Le Reveillon’ on Sunday, December 7 showcasing French Christmas customs, decorations, music and food. The Bolduc House museum presents a winter wonderland of lights in the Vieux Noel. For more information, please contact the Ste Genevieve Welcome Center at 800-3737007 or online at www.VisitSteGen.com.

experience the magic!

Give a gift like no other - the excitement and thrill of live Gift Certificates entertainment with a Fabulous Fox Theatre gift certificate. For birthdays, anniversaries and other holidays, tickets to the Fox are a unique and memorable gift suitable for anyone. Gift certificate recipients can choose tickets for Broadway musicals, dance companies, family shows, gospel plays, comedy artists and a wide variety of concerts including pop, rock, rhythm and blues and country. And they are all set in a spectacular venue that is second to none. To purchase, visit metrotix.com, the Fox box office or call (314) 534-1111.

eat. drink. Be merry!

you forgot that you were looking for! Sign up on our "Wish List" in the store and we'll help you find what you're looking for. Come in for a true shopping experience and a walk down memory lane. Hours: Wed – Sun 10-5, Always Closed on Tues., Mon 114. The Green Shag Market, 5733 Manchester Rd., 63110, 314-646-8687. thegreenshagmarket.com.

karma~naturals

SPECIAL GIFT COLLECTIONS, unique metaphysical, art and holistic items plus a plethora of natural body products crafted with divinely scented essential oils will make your gifts the hit of any celebration when you shop for

the holidays at KARMA~NATURALS. As well as our many distinctive individual items, we make shopping simple with popular gift collections for women, men, or little ones. New this season is the PEPPERMINT COLLECTION consisting of our virgin coconut body scrub, old fashioned soap, luxurious body cream and moisturizing lip balm – all peppermint scented & attractively gift boxed for just $35. Easier yet...order online & we’ll ship it anywhere! Or, visit us at 126 S. Central Ave. Eureka, MO. karma-naturals.com.

puravegan health giFts

Give the gift of a healthy lifestyle. A PuraVegan gift certificate can be used towards a meal in the cafe, Health Coaching, Thai Therapy, Private Yoga Classes, Cooking Classes, hemp clothing or a 3-Day Cleanse Program! Help yourself or someone you love get a head start on healthy changes in the new year! Call 314-932-5144. www.puravegan.com.

This holiday season show your appreciation with Schnucks Gift Cards! They take the guesswork out of gift giving and are always appreciated. Gift Cards are perfect for family, friends, teachers, co-workers and anyone else who makes your life a little easier throughout the year. It’s a gift the whole family can enjoy! For more information visit Schnucks.com.

repurposed giFts

At the Green Shag Market, we are all about repurposing, reusing, and reclaiming used items and furniture. We are a 7,000 square foot antique mall with a small shop feel. We have over 60 booths of unique merchandise. Come look around you just might find that "one thing"...that "something"...that

Over 100 Local Products including: Stringbean Coffee Rain Crow Ranch American Grass Fed Beef Goshen Coffee Two Men & A Garden La Cosecha Coffee Pickels & Salsa

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VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK

Eating Lightly is a collection of over 400 vegetarian and vegan recipes from friends of the Missouri Coalition for the Environment. This is a cookbook with personality! Eight Missouri artists have contributed work to make Eating Lightly a visual feast as well. In addition to offering a wide range of vegetarian and vegan appetizers, soups, salads, breads, side dishes, entrees, and desserts, this collection notes which of its recipes are gluten-free.

Call 314-727-0600 or you can order online at www.moenviron.org.

WIld WREAThs / PRAyER WhEEls

By Pat Tuholske.

My Wild Wreaths and Prayer Wheels are crafted from Ozark native grasses, wayside weeds, everlasting flowers, tree bark, lichens, seeds, cones and feathers.

As I weave these gifts of the wild, I envision each as a portal into nature - a circle of life crafted from living elements of the prairie, meadow and forest that is a symbol of the turning of the year and the web of life. Wreaths have been used throughout history to celebrate the changing of the seasons, bless the home, tend the sick, and honor the ancestors.

View photos and full descriptions at WillowRainHerbalGoods.com.

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shOP A REAl COUNTRy sTORE

Bird Feeders, what a great gift for anyone on your Christmas list! We carry over 70 types of bird food and hundreds of bird feeders and houses and supplies. Everyone loves to get a new bird feeder, especially Grandpa. Pick up some locally made soaps locally roasted coffees, mushroom logs, home made pies and canned goods.(Try the hot and spicy pickles) we have something for that special person on your gift list or for those holiday visitors. Don’t forget to look at our locally raised pork, beef and chicken packages they make great Christmas gifts for those family members who love tasty and healthier meat. Greene’s Country Store & Feed, 8621 Hwy N, Lake St. Louis, MO. 636-561-6637. www.greenescountrystore.com.

lET dIERBERGs dO ThE COOKING

Dierbergs Markets has established itself with the Midwest’s largest selection of prepared foods. At no time is that more evident than at the holidays.

Dierbergs’ Holiday Entertaining Menu of fully prepared meals takes you from Thanksgiving right into the New Year. Order a complete meal, including entrée, 3 sides and dinner rolls, or just choose an entrée (from ten menu options) or individual sides to complement your own holiday meals and specialties.

Quick tip: Buy a side, transfer it to your own serving ware, and you’ve got the easiest bring-a-dish ever.

Order now at Dierbergs.com. more holiday listings on page 8

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Natural liviNg gift & Holiday guide HEALTHY PET GIFTS

Four Muddy Paws – We specialize in Holistic and Raw nutrition for both cats and dogs, plus earth-friendly and natural products including toys made of recycled materials, organic catnip toys, recycled knitwear and collars and leads and more. Our stretch fleece popover jacket will be your go-to pullover when the weather gets cold. It's super soft and stretchy and includes recycled polyester.

It washes like a dream and is the perfect cold weather gear for short hair dogs both inside and outside. Plus it's super comfortable for dogs and works with or without a coat. Available for both small and larger dogs, starting at $20 and available in five colors. Four Muddy Paws has two locations: 1711 Park Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63104 (314)773-7297 and in Illinois at 2127 S. State Route 157, Edwardsville, IL 62025 (618)6924729. www.FourMuddyPaws.com.

HAnd-ETcHEd BookMArk

One-of-a-kind handmade gifts tell everyone that you care. Stone Hollow Studio begins its 35th year of creating the finest in handetched scrimshaw by Michelle "Mike" Ochonicky. Her artwork will again grace the National Christmas Tree Display in Washington,D.C. this season--include it in your holiday traditions, too! Many gift ideas from one of the region's best known artists at www.StoneHollowStudio.com.

cELTIc For Good TIMES

Llywelyn’s Pub is a true Celtic pub serving up Celtic /American fare & world-class spirits. If you're looking for a place to watch the next big game, we offer HD TV's, free Wi-Fi, and over 60+ domestic & craft beers to choose from. Or hop aboard Llywelyn's trolley on

your way to the stadium or dome! Plus, enjoy outdoor seating, happy hour specials Sun-Fri and banquet areas for your next party. Ready for a great time? Llywelyn's features Live Music every Friday and Saturday night highlighting St.Louis’s favorite local bands. With 6 convienent locations, you’re sure to find a pub near you. It's all at Llywelyn's Pub. Celtic for good times. www.llywelynspub.com.

crEATIVITY For THE SoUL

Linda Wiggen Kraft is a mandala artist, photographer, workshop leader and garden designer. This holiday season many of the things she creates are available as gifts and gift certificates. Linda is creator of Mandalas Every Day coloring book. Her Flower Mandalas are available as photos and greeting cards. She also creates rustic pottery, up-cycled winter scarves from recycled sweaters and envelopes from magazines.

Linda’s art and crafts will be available on Saturday Dec. 6 at Spirited Hands Art Studio in Maplewood, 2814 Sutton, 63118. Her Esty store – Creativity For The Soul has these items online 24/7. Visit www.CreativityForTheSoul.com

GArdEn HEIGHTS HoLIdAYS

Looking for some inspiration this holiday season?

We ’ v e spent the past year refreshing and expanding Garden Heights’ gift and décor offerings. Our buyers are always looking for new things that will set us apart from the crowd and provide our customers with great ideas. You’re sure to find unique items from local artists and makers

alongside traditional favorites – all displayed in ways we hope will encourage and motivate you – just the opposite of holiday stress. If you haven’t been here recently, come see for yourself. Garden Heights Nursery, 1605 S. Big Bend Blvd. St.Louis, MO 63117 gardenheights.com.

GIVE THE GIFT oF coMForT

Top 10 Benefits: All natural Latex Mattresses 1)More Durable & Longer Lasting- Made from natural rubber, wool, and cotton not petroleum based foams and synthetic materials.

2) Modular-Parts can be changed or replaced. 3) Healthier-No Harmful Off Gassing. 4) More Bang For The Buck-Won’t need to buy a new mattress every 5-7 years. 5) Not Ridiculously Thick-Mattresses range from 7” to 13” thick. 6) Sustainable - Made from natural rubber, organic wool, and organic cotton. 7) Safer- No Harmful Toxic Chemicals. 8) Sleep CoolerBreathable. 9) Does Not Disturb Partner- Unique individual design makes it virtually movement-free.

10) Customizable Support for Each Sleep- Nearly endless possibilities for needed back support and cradling comfort. For more information call St. Louis Beds at 636-296-8540 or visit STLBeds.com.

AnUScHkA HAnd BAGS AT LE SHoE

The Finest European Footwear and Accessories for the Active Woman, the Business Woman, the Fun & Fashionable Woman in You! Le Shoe carries all the hottest brands that look and feel great. Arche, Beautifeel, Birkenstock, Bos. & Co., Camper,

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Dansko, Domedaris, Earth, Ecco, Fly London, Gabor, Naot, Pikolinos, Taos, Wolky Footwear and Anuschka hand bags. Check out the Coolest Collections Monday - Saturday 10a - 6p & Sunday 12p - 5p at LeShoe, 2538 S. Brentwood Blvd. in St. Louis. 314-963-1300.

See more of our selections and click to ‘Win a Pair’ at le-shoe.com.

For Chess Lovers & More!

Visit Q Boutique and find the perfect holiday gifts for hostesses, stylish adults, children, and chess lovers!

Our diverse assortment of treasures pairs chic design with intellectual inspiration for a shopping experience unlike any other. Located at the World Chess Hall of Fame in the historic Central West End, Q Boutique is a convenient jaunt from everywhere.

We invite you to see why local tastemakers have made us their favorite destination when looking for something truly original to St. Louis.And the good giving continues long after your holiday purchase: proceeds% from Q Boutique % support WCHOF’s cultural and educational programs. www.qbou% % % tiquestl.com.

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shop For Fair trade giFts!

This holiday season give a gift that can positively change the world! SoLuna is a nonprofit Fair Trade store dedicated to providing a fair, living wage to artisans in developing countries by selling their unique handmade products. These beautiful items include jewelry, clothing, accessories, gifts, and home décor made by artists in over 35 developing countries.

Our store is located in Downtown Kirkwood across from the Train Station. Our address is 101A West Argonne Dr, Kirkwood, MO, 63122. 314-698-2662.

Store hours: 10-6pm. For more information visit www.facebook.com/SolunaFairTrade.

CaraMeLs For ChristMas

The Caramel House sets itself apart from the pack by offering all-natural caramels that do not stick to your teeth in a variety of lip-smacking flavors. All of the meltin-your-mouth, salted caramel recipes are made from scratch with no preservatives, additives, or stabilizers. Only the finest, freshest ingredients from the heartland. Since what goes around comes around, The Caramel House hand wraps each piece in environmentally friendly, 100% recyclable packaging. Come see us for individual or corporate gifts.

Owner Janet Ansehl Shulman takes great pride and joy in cooking, packaging, and delivering artisan caramels for you and continuing her mission to help make the world a better place one mouthwatering bite at a time. The Caramel House, 9639 Olive Blvd. 63132, 314-707-5777. thecaramelhouse.com.

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Natural liviNg gift & Holiday guide Isabee’s beekeepIng supplIes

Isabee’s is your local bee-centric gift source for the holidays. Isabee's has a professional selection of clothing, tools and equipment for your favorite beekeeper, as well as books and gifts for anyone interested in honeybees or beekeeping. We offer local and hand-made soaps and cosmetics, seeds and garden gift baskets, solitary bee habitat, and of course, local honey. 314-894-8737. www.isabees.com.

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HOlIDaY gaTHeRIngs

Holiday get-togethers with colleagues, friends and family are more festive at SqWires. Dining by the fire is a time-honored tradition (and comfy, too). SqWires holiday menu items feature the best of the season with plenty of pumpkin, cranberry, chocolate and gingerbread. Reserve a table for happy hours Tuesday thru Friday 4-7pm, or lunch, dinner or Saturday and Sunday Brunch served 8am - 3pm. Holiday gift-giving just gets a whole lot easier with a SqWires Gift Card "the size is always right"! Be sure and visit Lafayette Square on Sunday December 14 for the Holiday Parlour Tour - fun for the whole family. For more information call 314-865-3522 or visit online at www.sqwires.com.

geT THe WORD OuT...

Consignment, Thrift & Global Goods is a not-for-profit Resale Shop that also sells items from other countries and cultures around the globe.

Tax-free shopping creates an income stream to pay for children in Kenya to attend school. Get the WORD Out is a ministry, specifically a 501[c](3) corporation that supports an orphanage, shop, & other micro-finance opportunities in western Kenya.

Supported by donations and consigners, there is a wide

variety of everything for your home including furniture, décor, art and interesting salvage! Open Monday through Saturday, 10-6pm. 10050 Manchester Rd. Glendale, MO 63122, 314.368.8184, gtwomissions.org

TRavelIng Tea FOR THe HOlIDaYs

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(travel size) or 1 ounce (7-20 cups depending on the tea).

Save money and purchase 2oz, 4oz, 8oz or more. New to looseleaf tea? Personal service, guidance and advice.

Freshly brewed tea – cups “to-go” (including creamy chai or matcha lattes). Freshly brewed tea for events. 2707 Sutton Blvd, Maplewood 63143. 314-647-8832. www.travelingtea.com. Mention you saw us in The Helathy Planet magazine and receive a tea surprise with purchase!

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All are welcome to enjoy sampling Cheryl’s Herbs’ warm, refreshing teas while shopping a wide array of unique

herbal, hand-crafted products appropriate for holiday giftgiving. Visit us at 7170-A Manchester Rd, 314-645-2165, www.cherylsherbs.com.

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Come to a December Holiday Workshop and make something special, or give Gift Certificates for classes and workshops at either location, Delmar Loop and Grand Center. Kids Winter Break Workshops for ages 4-14 on December 29 & 30 are perfect for budding artists. Winter/Spring classes and workshops for all ages and levels, beginner to advanced, begin January 10. View the catalog and register online at www.craftallaince.org or call 314-725-1177.

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Creating Christmas Ornaments And Memories To Treasure In Ferguson

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ARTful Living St. Louis Area Fine Arts, Crafts & Performing Arts Michelle “Mike” Ochonicky, Arts Editor

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t was an ordinary day in late September when I received an email…from an assistant in the Missouri Governor’s Office, asking me to design Missouri’s ornaments for the National Christmas Tree display in Washington, D.C. this holiday season.

It’s the fourth time I’ve been asked to take on this project---an honor of incredible proportions—unexpected, to be sure. As “the” artist, I would design and make an original ornament, and then work with a school, also selected by Governor Nixon, with the students replicating my design on many more ornaments (It’s a big tree to decorate!). The school had not yet been determined, I was told. In past years, I’ve worked with schools as far away as Joplin, so I had no idea where I’d be heading for this year’s project.

A few weeks later, I was notified that the school had been selected, based on a directive from the White House: McCluer SouthBerkeley High School, in Ferguson.

I pondered the design for a long time. It needed to incorporate symbols of the holiday season in our state, as well as some reference to a National Park Foundation site in our state, since NPF hosts the National Christmas Tree display in President’s Park (the “backyard” of the White House). I wanted the piece to be

Ornament Artist, Michelle “Mike” Ochonicky, works with students at McCluer South - Berkeley High School in Ferguson, on numerous ornaments for the National Christmas Tree display in Washington, D.C. meaningful. After throwing a lot of sketches in the recycle bin, I finally completed my design work, made the original piece and organized plans to go to the school.

It might be natural to select only the best art students to work on a project of this level but I designed the work in multiple stages to give many, many students a hand in the project. I think it’s important that as many students as possible get to work on the pieces, especially those who may never again have such an opportunity. Imagine, if you will, to always be

able to say, “Once I worked on a project that was displayed in Washington, D.C. where thousands and thousands of people saw it.”

So, 136 students in McCluer South art classes worked with me to make a lot of ornaments…

The students at McCluer South were awesome. They were so enthused and eager to work on this project, and their work was beautifully done. The faculty and staff were great to work with as well (not many schools would welcome a day’s disruption to regular classes!). The project was completed without a

13 hitch. It was a delightful, fun day for us all, full of paint and glitter and glue and smiles.

As we worked, it was clear that we all shared the same goals for that day: we all knew we were working on something special and we all wanted it be just right. Missouri will be well-represented in Washington as a result of these students’ efforts.

I don’t presume to have any answers to any of the issues that face us these days. Nor do I think that solutions to problems are simple. As this goes to press, many serious concerns face our region. But I do see that there are some things that can bring us together, on common ground. We can all appreciate a fine work of art, a beautiful piece of music. These things inspire us and move us, no matter who we are, or where we are from, or even what holiday we celebrate. The effort to do our best, the effort to work together, the effort to do something beautiful and lasting---these things matter, and touch each of us.

So, in this holiday season, seek out something beautiful.

Share it with someone. Make a valuable memory to treasure.

That’s what I did this year.

The holiday season in St. Louis offers a calendar-full of ARTful things to see and do. Our online ARTful Happenings calendar can be found at www.TheHealthyPlanet.com. It offers an easy-to-access listing of everything going on in St. Louis this month. Take the kids; take the visiting relatives or friends; take a date or spouse, or just yourself to any of the wonderful exhibitions and events to make this holiday season a very special ARTful season!

Artist Michelle “Mike” Ochonicky and Students of McCluer SouthBerkeley High School Selected to Create Missouri’s Ornaments to be Included in the 2014 “Pathway of Peace” in President’s Park

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he National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks, announced today that artist Michelle “Mike” Ochonicky of Eureka, Mo., and the students of McCluer South-Berkeley High School in Ferguson, Mo., have been chosen to design and create ornaments to be included in the 2014 Pathway of Peace in President’s Park in Washington, D.C. Ochonicky and the McCluer South-Berkeley High School students join local artists and youth from each U.S. state, territory, and the District of Columbia.

The Pathway of Peace is one of the highlights of the National Christmas Tree Lighting, a national event presented by the National Park Foundation and the National Park Service.

“Words cannot describe how very honored I was when asked to design Missouri’s ornament for a fourth time,” said artist Michelle “Mike” Ochonicky. “Working with the McCluer SouthBerkeley students was wonderful.”

“We are thrilled for our students to have this opportunity to be a part of the Pathway of Peace,” said Lawrence W. Larrew, acting superintendent of the Ferguson-Florissant School District. “The experience working with Ms. Ochonicky was amazing, and it is a great honor for our students to have their work displayed in our nation’s capital.”

Produced by 136 students, Ochonicky’s design is themed in black and white; the year on

the ornament bottom and hosts a variety of family-oriented “We are thrilled for our red berries and pine holiday attractions, including students to have this branches on the top. The nightly holiday performances and Gateway Arch serves a a model train display. opportunity to be a part giant hook for a lantern, its For talent announcements, as of the Pathway of Peace,” candle the symbol for the well as other event details, please said Lawrence W. Larrew, holiday season and reprevisit www.thenationaltree.org and acting superintendent of the follow the National Christmas senting the hope that Missouri is a light for truth Ferguson-Florissant School Tree on Twitter at and justice (as recent @TheNationalTree. Join the conDistrict. “The experience events in Ferguson have working with Ms. Ochonicky versation online using the hashdrawn attention to the tag #NCTL2014. area). “Missouri” has joyful was amazing, and it is a great winter touches of honor for our students to have ABOUT THE FERGUSONsnowflakes and a candy their work displayed in our FLORISSANT SCHOOL cane, set against snowy DISTRICT nation’s capital.”

The Ferguson-Florissant crystals, frosty swirls and sparkling gold to highlight the beauty of the seaSchool District, located in suburban St. Louis, son. serves more than 11,000 students from pre-school Four weeks of holiday events in President’s through 12th grade with an excellent comprehenPark will kick off with the 2014 National sive educational program. Fully accredited by the Christmas Tree Lighting, scheduled for December State of Missouri, the Ferguson-Florissant School 4, 2014.

District operates 17 elementary schools, three As one of America’s oldest holiday traditions, middle schools, three A+ and NCA-CASI-accredthe National Christmas Tree Lighting began on ited high schools and an alternative school. In Christmas Eve in 1923, when President Calvin addition, the District includes a nationally recogCoolidge lit a Christmas tree in front of 3,000 nized early education program, the award-winspectators on the Ellipse in President’s Park. ning Challenger Learning Center space education Since 1923, each succeeding President has carried facility and the Little Creek Nature Area, a 97on the tradition of what now has become a monthacre nature preserve which offers experiential long event presented by the National Park learning opportunities for students in science, Foundation and National Park Service. In addibiology, ecology and related areas of study. For tion to the Pathway of Peace, President’s Park more information, visit www.fergflor.org.

ABOUT MICHELLE “MIKE” OCHONICKY Michelle “Mike” Ochonicky has operated Stone Hollow Studio in her native Missouri as a professional artist since 1979, specializing in the American folk art of scrimshaw. She has vast experience in the arts, as an arts administrator, awards judge, educator and arts editor for the Healthy Planet magazine. Governor Jay Nixon has selected Ochonicky to create Missouri’s ornaments in 2010, 2011, 2013 and now in 2014. Her award-winning artwork can be found in museum, university, corporate and private collections throughout the world. www.stonehollowstudio.com.

ABOUT THE NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION The National Park Foundation is the official charity of America’s national parks and nonprofit partner to the National Park Service. Chartered

by Congress in 1967, the National Park Foundation raises private funds to help PROTECT more than 84 million acres of national parks through critical conservation and preservation efforts, CONNECT all Americans with their incomparable natural landscapes, vibrant culture and rich history, and INSPIRE the next generation of park stewards. Find out more and become a part of the national park community at www.nationalparks.org.

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Ffresh R E S H fare FARE EntErtaining With tEa Pairing Tea With Food

By Kateri Meyer Owner of Traveling Tea

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id you know tea is like wine, in that its flavor profile is developed by its terroir, or the environment in which it grows? For example, Assam tea is a hearty and malty tea native to the Assam region of northern India. When I sampled the result of this same cultivar grown in Hawaii’s volcanic soil I found it to be mellow, with honey notes. Quite a surprise!

Also like wine, pairing quality tea with food can enhance the experience and enjoyment of both. A guideline for choosing which teas to serve, is to consider the country of origin and foods and flavors native to that region.

Japanese teas will pair with seafoods, chicken, rice and other foods that have umami qualities (pleasant savory taste). Black teas from Yunnan, with varying degrees of smokiness, pair with roasted beef, pork, or lamb; as well as sweet or spiced desserts and baked goods, especially those with fruit components (apples and peaches originated in China and central Asia).

If you normally pair wine with your food courses, consider offering tea as a wine/beer/cocktail (or even coffee) alternative to your guests. It is very affordable in this setting. Guests who do not consume alcohol or soda may appreciate being treated with a beverage of comparable class. Tea drinkers, especially, will appreciate having quality options comparable to wines and

coffees and liqueurs during, and after, dinner. There are many caffeine free dessert type tea options as well.

Think outside the teacup!

There are no “rules” that say how you must serve tea. Oolongs, Darjeelings, various green teas would all be lovely served in a wine glass at room temperature.

Lung Ching Dragonwell: Mixed nuts, chestnuts; rich or aged cheeses such as Brie or Gruyere; light vegetable dishes; fish; fruit.

Oolongs can tame the fire of hot, spicy dishes.

Heartier, smoky oolongs such as Wuyi are ideal with pork or spiced chicken, or fruity, earthy desserts, spiced tea breads, stone fruits. Lighter style oolongs (more similar to green tea) pair beautifully with lightly spicy or curried foods, smoked foods, shellfish, buttery desserts, and fresh fruit.

Assam: Often the base of breakfast blends. Pair with sausages, buttery pastries. Also with dark chocolate, sharp cheeses, mushrooms, smoked fish and meats, eggs, spiced desserts or anything with cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar or caramel. Mexican food and chilies.

When planning menus, feel free to discuss your tea/food pairing options, ways to simplify tea prep, and make an appointment to sample teas at our shop.

Tell us you saw us in the Healthy Planet magazine and you receive a “Tea Surprise” with your purchase" when you stop by the store at 2707 Sutton in Maplewood. www.traveling-tea.com. 314-647-8832.

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There’s No Magic Bullet for Health

by Monica Stoutenborough

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ow often do you read about a new supplement or diet plan that is the easy and quick way to find the good health you are searching for? We’ve been led to believe that each and every ailment has a magical fix that does not require any effort on your part and that you can continue with your current lifestyle. Whether it’s pills, vitamins, supplements or rituals there is no single thing you can add to a less than healthy lifestyle that will transform you into your healthiest self.

For example, many of us know that calcium intake is important for strong bones, however that is only part of the equation. To ensure strong bones we have to also maintain sufficient Vitamin D levels, eat enough foods with magnesium, be physically active and minimize calcium loss that can result from smoking, heavy drinking, excessive caffeine intake and poor diet.

Vitamins certainly can provide benefit in many situations, however whole foods provide the best natural source of vitamins compared to many synthetic vitamin supplements.

Consider Vitamin A as a great example. Taking synthetic Vitamin A supplements can be toxic in excessive doses. Instead if you eat foods that are rich in beta-carotene such as kale, sweet potatoes or oranges, your body efficiently converts the carotenoids into Vitamin A, which is more natural. You also eliminate the risk of

Vitamin A toxicity as your body will not make more than is needed from foods. In this case you will also benefit from all the other minerals, vitamins, fiber and nutrients found in the plant food. To enjoy good health you have to invest time and effort into changing your lifestyle. What if I told you that the same diet and lifestyle that is known for preventing cancer risk also reduces the incidence of high blood pressure, heart disease, type II diabetes, headaches, depression, osteoporosis, dementia and more? It is true. For most of us, the benefit obtained from eating a diet rich in nutrients while also becoming active is the most direct and long lasting way to enjoy a long and healthy life. All of our systems work together synergistically and when given the nutrients needed for cellular repair and health we can even reverse many chronic diseases. Eat foods as close to their natural state as possible and enjoy a wide variety of them. Learning to laugh, relax, exercise, and meditate are some of the most powerful behaviors when combined with great food for a long and healthy life.

Monica Stoutenborough Owner, Chef & Instructor at PuraVegan. Monica will be offering a Group Health Coaching Support Program that takes place over 16 weeks, helping individuals with the tools to make lasting life changes. Sign-up is available through her website at www.PuraVegan.com.

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MeMBeRS atlas Restaurant, 5513 Pershing, 63112, 314-367-6800 www.atlasrestaurantstl.com atomic Cowboy, 4140 Manchester Road, 63110, 314-775-0775 www.atomiccowboystl.com Bailey’s Chocolate Bar, 1915 Park Ave 63104, 314-241-8100 www.baileyschocolatebar.com Bailey’s Range, 920 Olive, 63101, 314-241-8121, www.baileysrange.com Brasserie by Niche, 4580 Laclede, 63108, info@brasseriebyniche.com Bridge, 1004 Locust St, 63101, 314-241-8141 www.thebridgestl.com Crushed Red, 8007 Maryland, 63105, 314-725-8007 140 S. Kirkwood Rd. 63122, 314-238-0100, www.crushed-red.com extra Thyme Café and Catering, 11885 Lackland 63146, 314-573-5996 www.extrathymecatering.com Flying Rolls, 3674 Forest Park Ave, 63101, 314-898-0008, www.flyingrolls.com Foundation Grounds Café and Coffeehouse, 7298 Manchester Rd 63143, 314-601-3588, www.foundationgrounds.com Gelateria del leone, 3197 Grand Blvd, 63116, 314-776-3500, www.thegelateria.com Great Harvest Bread Co. (Kirkwood), 125 W. Argonne Dr 63122, 314-821-1848. www.greatharvestkirkwood.com Handlebar, 4127 Manchester Ave. 63110, 314-652-2212, www.handlebarstl.com I Scream Cakes, 2641 Cherokee 63118, 314-932-5758, www.iscreamcakes.com Kakao Chocolatier, 7272 Manchester Rd 63143, 314-645-4446, www.kakaochocolate.com local Harvest Café, 3137 Morganford Rd. 63116, 314-772-8815 www.localharvestcafe.com lulu’s local eatery, lulu’s Food Truck 3201 S. Grand, 63118, 314-300-8215 www.luluslocaleatery.com Mangia Italiano, 3145 S. Grand, 63118, 314-664-8585, www.dineatmangia.net Maryville University, Gander dining Hall, 314-249-7982, maryville.edu/location/gander-hall

Maplewood: The Nation’s First Green Dining District

By Rachelle L’Ecuyer

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ne of the pleasures of dining in historic downtown Maplewood is the prevalence of “farm to table” practices embraced by many of its food purveyors putting good food on the table for you. However, that isn’t how a business becomes a St. Louis Earth Day’s Green Dining Alliance (GDA) member. (www.greendiningalliance.org) GDA member practices include banning indoor smoking, not using Styrofoam products; participating in Single Stream Recycling; phasing in CFLs and/or LEDs; and setting waste reduction goals. Maplewood became the nation’s first Green Dining District when 25% of the businesses joined the GDA. The area stood out as a natural model for a district with a high walkability score and concentration of independent businesses in the 7200 and 7300 blocks of Manchester and the 2700 block of Sutton.

Let’s take a quick tour of the district starting with Schlafly Bottleworks, a longtime supporter of St. Louis Earth Day’s GDA. The Schlafly Bottleworks is a beehive of activity that includes the Schlafly Farmers Market.

Of course, there’s lunch, dinner and beer. water Street Café is known for its delicious food and specialty cocktails. The establishment is family owned and operated. You will often find Water Street’s chef at the Schlafly Farmers Market.

Nationally recognized, award-winning

Niche, 7734 Forsyth Blvd, 63105, 314-773-7755, www.nichestlouis.com

chocolate, need we say more? Kakao Chocolate is home to famous sea salt caramels but they have an entire store filled with delicious confections often made with products from area businesses.

Foundation Grounds serves organic food made with love. Breakfast and lunch menus are available in this friendly neighborhood coffee shop.

Foundations Grounds’ business model is based on strong sustainability practices.

Great Harvest Bakery offers hearty flavorful breads made fresh daily. The bakery partners with many local businesses and you will find delicious combinations of ingredients baked into their products.

The post Sports Bar is an award winning sports bar that has embraced sustainability.

The Post serves their fare in a vibrant atmosphere lit by LED lights.

While you sip delicious teas, hot or cold, you should know that Traveling Tea has a GDA 5-star rating which means an exemplary performance for enhanced sustainable practices.

What’s fresh and in season? Whatever the time of year, pie oh My! is baking it into a pie. Sweet and savory, you will find mini pies to quiches to pot pies.

You can learn more about these businesses or take a self-guided tour of Maplewood’s Green Dining District, please visit online at www.cityofmaplewood.com/gdd.

pie oh My! 2719 Sutton Blvd 63143, 314-704-4416, www.pieohmystl.com

Schlafly Bottleworks – 7260 Southwest 63143 Tap Room 2100 Locust St. 63103, Schlafly is proud to be seen as a leader in sustainability among local businesses. First of all, we took two abandoned buildings and put them back into use as the Schlafly Tap Room and Schlafly Bottleworks. We purchase a large amount of locally-produced food and even grow some ourselves in the Schlafly Gardenworks for our restaurants, and host a weekly Farmers Market. We’ve received grants for a pilot composting project for post-consumer food waste at both restaurants. We are a charter supporter of Ameren’s Pure Power renewable energy program and use ultra high efficiency heating, ventilation and air-conditioning units. And we host and support many local Sustainability organizations.

314-241-BEER www.schlafly.com/bottleworks www.schlafly.com/tap-room Small Batch, 3001 Locust St. 63101, 314-380-2040 www.smallbatchstl.com Taste, 4584 Laclede, 63108, 314-361-1200 The dam, 3173 Morganford 63116, 314-771-3173, www.thedamstl.com The post Sports Bar and Grill, 7372 Manchester 63143, 314-645-1109 763 Old Ballas Rd 63141, 314-736-1205, www.thepostsportsbar.com The Royale, 3132 S. Kingshighway 63139, 314-772-3600 www.theroyale.com The UniGrille (UniGroup) Fenton, MO 63026, (636) 305-5000 www.unigroupinc.com The wolf, 15480 Clayton Rd. Ballwin, 63011, 636-527-7027, www.thewolfstl.com Traveling Tea, 2707 Sutton 63143, 314-647-8832, www.traveling-tea.com

pura Vegan Cafe & Yoga At PuraVegan, our commitment to preserving planetary resources is demonstrated through our menu, packaging and best practices. According to “Diet for a New America” it takes 8,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef, but only twenty-five gallons to produce a pound of wheat.

Plant heavy diets are a most efficient use of water and land, while causing less pollution. We take recycling a step further and encourage REUSE, which is even more effective. Juice subscriptions and cleanse drinks come in reusable mason jars, with store credit given upon return. We offer our customers glass straws for purchase and our food delivery is done via bicycle.

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Urban Chestnut UCBC is known for both our modern, American craft beers and reverential, European beer styles.

Our Grove Brewery & Bierhall (4465 Manchester) and Midtown Brewery & Biergarten (3229 Washington) locations are open 7 days a week. UCBC works to reduce our carbon footprint by recycling all qualifying materials and composting all biodegradable waste. We also donate all of our spent grain to local farmers.

Our brewing equipment allows us to capture and reuse water and heat normally lost or wasted during the brewing process. Finally, both locations feature solar power arrays and use LED lighting to reduce energy needs.

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onesto pizza & Trattoria, Onesto opened in 2008 with the belief that we could change the world one meal at a time. Since then we have become a proud 5 star Green Dining Alliance member by sourcing our meats, vegetables & other products locally. So local that we even have our own garden in which we grow basil, tomatoes, peppers & more! All of our menu items, including our sauces, dressings, and seasonal specials, are made from scratch in our kitchen. We also reduce, reuse, recycle & compost at our restaurant and throughout our catering events in order to help reduce our carbon footprint. 5401 Finkman St, 63109, 314-802-8883, www.onestopizza.com

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COAlITIOn REPORT

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UNAVUT, CANADA – Work just finished on the first LEED certified structure in the North Pole and not a day too early. Business as usual in the North Pole was interrupted early this morning when the northwest corner of Santa’s workshop sunk 6 feet below the building’s foundation. Eighteen elves were pulled to safety. There were no reports of major injuries.

Ingfred, Santa’s public relations manager, reported that few toys could be salvaged from the devastation before a fresh layer of snow covered the scene and estimated financial losses at $240,000. “These costs are just the tip of the iceberg,” said Ingfred.

The chief engineer, Roscoe, reported the cause of the slumping event as melting permafrost. “Climate change is impacting our operation quicker than anticipated,” he said. Santa’s underground systems, including water and septic lines are also at risk. In addition to the sinking and slumping, researchers at Woods Hole Research Center report that thawing permafrost

Watching Out

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hings happen which make environmentalists keep their eyes open. December 2014 episodes of Green Time TV look at antibiotic resistance which can be traced to factory farming, social and environmental problems with cannabis prohibition, social environments of black children, and promises to reduce carbon emissions.

Nearly 80% of antibiotics sold in the United States are used on factory farms rather than for human medicine. At the same time, two million Americans get an antibiotic resistant infection annually, and in 2013, 23,000 of those infected died. The first December Green Time show features Alyssa Hartman, of Food and Water Watch, discussing the FDA’s being aware of problems associated with antibiotic resistant bacteria but continually failing to act.

What sort of resources does the state of Missouri expend to enforce the prohibition of cannabis?

During the second December show, John Payne, of Show-Me Cannabis, discusses effects of an arrest and conviction for a cannabis offense for the individual and society. They look at how decriminalization laws (such those in Columbia and St. Louis) have helped address these problems. If decriminalization for some users helps, should we advocate full legalization?

The third December Green Time is an episode of Harambee 101. It examines the necessity of caring environments for black children. Host Xavier Silva is a youth member of the Junior Black Chamber of Commerce (JBCC). He interviews Darryl L. Wise, CEO, Annie Malone Children & Family Service.

They discuss foster care, children’s homes and the many services that Annie Malone continues to provide to children and youth in the St. Louis area.

For the final December show, Adolphus Pruitt and Sam Cummings discuss the NAACP’s new report “Just Energy Policies: Reducing Pollution & Creating Jobs?” Reducing air pollution is critical because

releases carbon dioxide and methane into the air, exacerbating the warming that causes the permafrost thaw in the first place.

Fortunately, elves completed work on a renovated workshop earlier this week with a LEED Platinum certification. The new workshop has energy efficient windows, meaning no more iconic, frosty window panes, but also a draft-free workplace. The woodburning fireplaces have been replaced with a radiant floor heating system powered by the new solar array behind the reindeer shed. State of the art solar panel heaters will melt accumulating snow.

C.H.E.E.R., or Coalition of Happy, Energetic Elves and Reindeer, report a 9% increase in employment at the North Pole this year due to energy improvements. “Our workers have been spared from countless hours wearing silly shoes in overcrowded malls this season by finding work retrofitting the North Pole. We have created jobs in manufacturing, construction, and efficiency,” according to a statement from C.H.E.E.R. Reduced air emissions are predicted to decrease respiratory illnesses, strokes, and heart disease. Life expectancy of elves is expected to increase from 9,720 years to 10,420.

In related news, Santa has updated the naughty and nice list. In addition to pulling your sister’s hair and insider trading, Santa has added using incandescent bulbs, fracking, and driving a gas guzzler to the naughty list, all of which, Santa says, threaten his North Pole operation. Whether the guilty receive a hard lump of coal or something more sustainable remains to be seen.

Visit www.moenviron.org to learn more.

Follow us on Twitter: @MoEnviron childhood asthma is epidemic in the African American community. This could be due to 68% of African Americans’ living within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant. The clean energy field may bring jobs to the African American community.

December shows include the trailer from “Reefer Madness” and the movies “Down to Earth Farming,” “Rain Drops,” “Asheville Beyond Coal – Green Jobs,” and “The Cost of Coal: Michigan.”

Green Time appears at noon on Saturdays in St. Louis on Channel 24-1 and at 8 pm on Mondays in St. Louis on Channel 24-2, Springfield on Channel 39, Joplin on Channel 36 and Marshfield on Channel 17.

Green Time programs air on these dates: · December 6 & 8: “Antibiotic Overdose” · December 13 & 15: “The Criminal Injustice of Cannabis Prohibition” · December 20 & 22: “Harambee 101 (Rain Drops)” · December 27 & 29: “Just Energy Policies” “Like” Gateway Greens on Facebook and click “Get notifications.” Also see Green Time on greentime.tv. If you would like to help produce Green Time TV call 314-727-8554 or email don@greentime.tv.

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he organization “Missouri Environmental Fund” was established in 1993 as a workplace giving campaign for environmental organizations. The organization has been operating as “Earth Share of Missouri” for the past 12 years, but recently re-organized and is now back to its roots and called “Missouri Environmental Fund” again. The organization a federation, somewhat like a co-op, that represents 36 non-profit environmental organizations working on the ground in Missouri.

Missouri Environmental Fund organizations work on wide range of programs: clean air, clean water, protecting Missouri prairies and forests. Parks, trails, recycling, conservation, preservation of plants, wild animals, natural habitat, and environmental education are all accomplishments of Missouri Environmental Fund organizations. The Sierra Club, Missouri Botanical Garden, Audubon, Ozark Regional Land Trust and many more are included. Please visit www.moenv.org for a complete list and details

about each organization.

The Fund’s mission is fundraising via workplace-giving campaigns on behalf of these organizations. A great secondary accomplishment is awareness building of important environmental work. The federation enables employees to make a single donation that benefits a variety of environmental causes.

Missouri Environmental Fund and all of its affiliated organizations are 501(c)3 organizations, so contributions are tax-deductible as defined by the IRS. Contributions may be shared with all of the organizations, or donors may direct that their gift go to their favorite environmental organization(s).

Currently Missouri Environmental Fund is offered in many workplaces, including federal employees’ Combined Federal Campaign, Missouri State employees, a number of municipal and county governments, HOK Architects, Bass Pro Shops, and others. Missouri Environmental Fund volunteers would be happy to talk to you about how to start up a campaign to benefit the environment in your workplace.

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Gardening Blogs...

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nspiration and information are two things gardeners can find online through blogs. Inspiration and information are both magical and practical. The best blogs are a combination of the two.

Blogs from different kinds of gardeners, florists, and crafts people come to my email inbox to fill my head and heart with new garden dreams and a need for things to make my gardening chores easier. I subscribe to the ones below (except one). I get an email notice and link when a new blog post is online.

I have subscribed to some garden blogs for years. Others are new and await the time test to see how long they keep my interest. I am drawn to blogs that are mainly photos and few words. As much as words inspire, I am primarily a visual person. Photos are also time savers in getting the message of the blog across. As the saying goes, those pictures are worth many words.

The blog that has me swooning over its photography and stories is from a Brooklyn NY floral design shop called Saipua (saipua.blogspot.com). The floral designs and photos remind me of old Dutch paintings of fantastical exuberant bouquets. The on-going story of buying a farm to grow even more

flowers than what are available at the NYC flower market lets me in on the dream all flower lovers have, of owning a flower farm.

I’m not sure how to subscribe to this blog, so I have to go to their site often to see what they are up to.

On the practical side along with inspiration is A Way to Garden, Organic Gardening and Landscaping (awaytogarden.com).

Margaret Roach was an editor and garden writer at Martha Stewart Living for years. She moved to the country to grow her large garden.

There is lots of info about gardening here, both inspiring and helpful. It was through her blog that I found out about Water Right garden hoses. I am replacing all my heavy, hard-tohandle, toxic to drink out of, regular hoses with these. I never would have known about these garden helpers otherwise.

A daily inspiration of garden photos that I can quickly browse through comes from

Gardenista (www.gardenista.com). The gardens are from the US, Britain and Australia primarily. Again lots to swoon at.

Years ago I came across You Grow Girl (yougrowgirl.com) a Toronto urban garden blog mainly about edible gardening along with some crafts. I am going to try making walnut ink for art projects from the instructions here. I have always loved a t-shirt they sell with the words “garden hoe” on the front. I haven’t quite gotten up the nerve to wear one though.

Another “let me live the dream through other people” blog is Farmgirl Fare (www.farmgirlfare.com) by a woman who 20 years ago, left her life in California to move to the 200+ acre farm in “the middle of nowhere” Missouri. Her blog is full of her adventures, her animals, her garden and lots of recipes.

Eastern Kentucky is the home of the

19 Mother of a Hubbard blog (www.motherofahubbard.com). This gardener grows most of the vegetables her family eats. Her garden is also a year round garden in a zone 6 garden region. There are lots of tips to extend the edible gardening season here.

There are other gardening blogs I want to check out. If there are garden blogs that I should know about, please let me know. For now, try these out for garden inspiration and information.

Linda Wiggen Kraft designs sustainable holistic flower and edible gardens. She is also a mandala artist and workshop leader. She will be leading a 5 day creativity and nature connection retreat in North Carolina in August 2015. Please visit her website, contact her and you can subscribe to her blog at CreativityForTheSoul.com.

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the 29th world Peace Day, “heart of Joy”- 6 a.m., Dec. 31

by Jeannie Breeze

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t. Louis is a heart center where all the arteries come together (the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Meramec). Each year at World Peace Day, we acknowledge the truth that peace begins with us, and we understand that what we imagine and create here in the heart circulates into the body of our Mother Earth.

Never has this truth been more evident than in these months since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. This event has reached across this nation and around the world. It could not be more obvious that what we do here matters. It seems that our whole community is tasked with the heart-wrenching and heart-opening job of healing the divisions among us.

Each of us, a single heart cell in the heart of our nation, like a heart cell, has a beat. Join us at the 29th World Peace Day Celebration, “Heart of Joy”, December 31, 2014, to tune into the beat within your own heart, to remember the love that pulses there.

Realize that when we connect, like heart cells do, we come into synch! We become ONE HEART. Together we can be a part of healing the whole. You may think that what you do cannot possibly make a difference, but remember, as Gandhi said, “What you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it!”

Please join us at 6 a.m. at Central Reform Congregation, 5020 Waterman (at Kingshighway), where we will gather in the darkness of the early morn to do our part to heal the world. Doors open at 5 a.m., so that you may inscribe your prayers on a peace flag at artist/photographer Jeane Vogel’s project “Dare to Touch the Face of God”, while you listen to the musical musings of RAVEN WOLF (C. Felton Jennings) on

flute. Or you may wish to enter the sanctuary to greet your friends, or sit in silent meditation in the Shabbot Shalom (Shelter of Peace) as you listen to the sounds of morning songbirds.

The musical line-up features the mystical sounds of Robert Fishbone on shofar, gong, and drum, the musical artistry of John MacEnulty on Native American flute, the magical energy of Maggid Georgy Rock, accompanied by Mr. Dill, the musical wizardry of vocalist/guitarist Tim Mead, accompanied by Charlie on drums, and the bells and drums of JOIA World Percussion Ensemble. The warm & wonderful Rabbi Randy Fleisher will welcome congregants to the celebration.

Green Jean Ponzi, of KDHX fame, who oversees the creation and placement of the luminarias, will regale us with her exuberant wisdom regarding caring for the Earth, and event organizer Jeannie Breeze will once again lead the meditation, accompanied by the heavenly vibrations created by Sound Healing artist, Patti Pellerito, on Tibetan singing bowls and gongs. As always, a pot-luck breakfast follows (please no pork or shellfish). This universal faith gathering is always FREE and OPEN to ALL! Your love donations are invited to support the continuation of this fabulous event.

We need volunteers to come to CRC on Tuesday, December 30, from 1-4 pm to help with the creation and placement of luminarias, breakfast setup, and interior decorations. Call Jeannie Breeze at 314-601-3789 to sign up or contact her by e-mail at jjbreeze46@gmail.com. To find out more about the 29th World Peace Day, and how you can support it, please visit www.wpdaystl.com. Peace, love and healing to all beings! See back page of this magazine for more information.

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Earthworms’ Castings with Jean Ponzi

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here are great-hearted people in all times and lands all over the Earth whose sacred – and often unofficial – job is to keep our human celebrations lively, growing, truly meaningful, and full of joy.

This Celebration-Keeper work is so important that many ancient legends say if the ones who do it ever stop, our world will end. So you know it’s pretty serious stuff.

It’s one of life’s Great Mysteries that the women and men who accept this monumental job have so much fun keeping festivity cycling ‘round, through holidays and normal days, year after year, that all their efforts, attention to detail and world-tending responsibility feels - like PLAY! And when you become their helper?

Ho-Ho-Ho! It’s fun for you too!

I’ve been blessed to play along with one of these legendary humans, my beloved friend Sarah Linquist, who many recognized as a Queen of Christmas.

Sarah was profoundly inspired by the classic example, the ultimate CelebrationKeeper: Santa Claus. He started out as Nicholas, seventeen hundred years ago, in a place we now call Turkey. In his real job as a Bishop he enjoyed giving secret gifts so much that the legend of his generous spirit spread far and wide, and pretty soon he had Celebration-Helpers assisting him in his special month, December, as Santa Nicola in Italy, in the Netherlands as Sinterklaas – and in many other names and places. Today at his North Pole address, he leads legions of magical Elves – the hardest-working, most-fun helpers anyone could possibly have – working/playing with Nicholas/Santa to keep his festive tradition giving through centuries of Decembers.

Celebration-Keepers have their specialties, and our Sarah’s strength was making every celebration preparation FUN. She did this in addition to her real job, being an Artist.

Sarah Jean Linquist was born in Park Ridge, Illinois, in the United States of America, in 1952 on the 18th of December.

Sarah’s coming into this sweet world was the

December, 2014 best Christmas present for her mother Jean, her father Alan, and her three older sisters Suzanne, Kate and Ann. They knew a little Queenie had come into their lives!

The Linquist family was rich in traditions.

Little Sarah learned from her earliest days pleasant ways to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, changes of the seasons, and the year’s parade of holidays – especially Christmas.

Her jolly roles included: making cards and presents, dressing up and decorating her environment, singing, preparing and sharing special meals – and befitting her zippy efforts to the spirit of each event.

Sarah adored all holidays and welcomed many different ones into her own family. With her (equally festive) husband Robert, children Tyler and Liza (Artists all!) and many intertwining circles of friends, Sarah led the lace-snipping of Valentines, the hand-dipping of Hanukah candles, and the baking of and wishing on countless Happy Birthday cakes. She gathered autumn leaves and spring blooms to festoon Thanksgiving and Passover tables for our grateful gatherings. She cut paper shadow-puppets for our candlelit, bewitching neighborhood Halloween pageant in her Haunted Driveway. We filled her home with flowers and games and wore Sarah-fashioned crowns to ring in decades of New Years. So much celebrating together!

And come every December, our Christmas Queen pulled out all the stops and all her boxes of Yuletide tunes and treasures.

Her loyal helpers – her Elves! - trooped in to munch a cookie, raise a glass, and decorate her home for days with old-time baubles found at church sales and yard sales, made by crafty lady hands and antique craftsmen.

Then friends gamboled in for a luminous night of caroling. Then the children’s rooms stilled to await the bells of Santa’s sleigh.

And all through her favorite month, twinkling colors in her home rivaled stars in the winter sky.

Love and joy are the source of Queen Sarah’s power!

Shared through a life of royally Keeping Celebrations!

Jean Ponzi is an Earth Elf, who talks on the radio every week about all things environmental. Tune in Mondays 7-8 pm to “Earthworms” on FM-88 KDHX, or catch a podcast anytime from www.kdhx.org/ondemand.

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Since I’ve first held a crayon, I’ve always enjoyed art. But, despite this appreciation for the creative process, I’d always thought that people who spent money on art were idiots. But, that all changed for me when I actually saw the painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte� by Georges Seurat at the Art Institute of Chicago. Seeing this massive canvas of tiny dots of brilliant color, I was literally moved to tears.

The emotions that coursed through me were vibrant and stirring, and I understood at this point the power that art possesses.

I experienced first hand what scientists in the field of neuroaesthetics have recently been documenting. It seems that the intense pleasure one has at the sight of a beautiful piece of art is cog-

nitively equivalent to gazing upon a loved one. Professor Semir Zeki, chair in neuroaesthetics at University College in London, noted that when participants viewed works of art considered to be beautiful, the blood flow in the medial orbitofrontal cortex (the part of the brain associated with pleasure and desire) increased by as much as 10 per cent – the equivalent of gazing at a loved one. One can conclude that art can induce a feel good sensation within our brains.

Personally, I’ve often wished that any gift that I might give would continue to produce pleasure for them year after year. I’ve rarely seen that happen with most of the gifts I’ve given. But, since experiencing the power of art when viewing Seurat’s work, I’ve vowed to fill my life and my loved one’s lives with works of art to touch their hearts and stimulate their brains. We all want the lives of our loved ones to be full of health and happiness. Given what we know about the relationship between beauty and health, a gift of art is a gift of well-being.

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he holidays are officially upon us, and if you’re like most people, you are riding them out with mixed feelings, vacillating between anticipation and dread as you hustle off to the next party or family commitment, wondering how you will sit through one more minute of small talk, stress, or family feud without combusting into a million pieces. You might be wondering how you will manage to keep a smile on your face, when all the while you dream of being at home, tucked away from all the expectations that abound at this time of the year.

We all have an image in our mind of what the “perfect holiday” will look like, complete with foods, people, gifts, baked goods, songs around the fire, and warm embraces from those we love. And no matter what promises we’ve made to ourselves before to do it differently, we engage in the holidays each year, determined that this will be the year that we get it done right. However, despite our best efforts to control the world around us, reality rarely measures up to our own internal image of bliss, but often falls short, evidenced by frustration which comes out in angry words or silent seething, stress, over-eating, over-drinking, and for many, finally succumbing into defeat and simply just trying to “get through” the holidays.

The dilemma around all of this stems from the fact that as long as we continue to engage in our present day lives, determined to make up for all the hurts, disappointments, and ruined holidays from early on, we set ourselves up for continual failure and disappointment in the here and now. In this manner, we carry with us all the expectations of a

wounded child still looking for something outside of us to sooth the distress that we carry deep within. And no matter how hard we work to achieve happiness or fulfillment, as long as we continue to look outside of ourselves for this, we will always end up short of these goals. It is like chasing a shadow that is always moving just beyond our reach.

The answer to this is simple but not easy. In order to find peace and happiness, we have to address the trauma leftover from childhood in order to be able to meet the world in a realistic manner, with realistic expectations, and an internal stability that is untouchable by the chaos in the outside world around us. This is not an easy task, and many choose not to begin this healing work, but instead continue in the same behaviors and choices that keep them in a loop of disappointment or despair. But for those who decide to begin the hard work to recover and rebirth their wise and beautiful soul child inside, the rewards are immense. And what a wonderful gift this would be to give to your self during this holiday season of reflection and celebration.

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start hearing it sometime in November each year: “I can’t wait until next year! I need a fresh start.”

If you’ve had a difficult year, the sentiment is understandable. We all have challenges every year, but some times are more challenging than others, and if you’re in one of those times, there’s something about the promise of a new beginning that can make you feel hopeful again.

However, it’s highly unlikely you’ll experience the new year you want, if you neglect to do one simple thing right now: find a way to make peace with where you are.

I know. If you’re feeling frustrated, angry, or sad about the way things have gone this year, asking yourself to make peace with where you are may seem too much. And yet, as long as you hold on to a story about how terrible this year has been, it will be almost impossible for you to feel peaceful and happy later.

Here’s why: every time you replay the painful stories from your past, you create more painful feelings in your present. And your future arises from your present experience. So do whatever you can to shift toward an experience of peace and gratitude.

Don’t worry: I’ll help, you. We can do it together, right now.

Notice your breath. Allow it to gently fill your chest, and your belly. Hold on to it for a second, and as you do so, imagine that the oldest, wisest and most compassionate part of who you are is giving

you a hug and whispering, “you’re alright. No matter what else is going on, I’m right here. And while you may not understand, somehow, all is well. It really is.”

Now, release your breath, and as you do, go ahead and release whatever stories you’ve been telling yourself about 2014.

Repeat. And repeat. Repeat this process at least 1,000 times between now and December 31st. Repeat it every time you notice yourself caught in an old pattern. Repeat it whenever you feel tired, or scared, or angry. Repeat it when you’re bored. Repeat it when you don’t know what else to do.

And of course, keep doing it, right into the New Year.

I promise, you’ll feel better. Come on, don’t you feel a little better already? I thought so.

Breathe. Relax. Smile. There’s nowhere else to go. No one else to be. Everything you need is right here.

Happy Old Year.

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s it possible that parasites are still a problem as a global environmental problem in this modern age? Recently, I gave two similar lectures on parasites at the American Academy of Environmental Medicine in New Mexico and at the Medicine Week in Baden Baden, Germany in November, 2014. My lectures focused on parasites as a new emerging global environmental threat that have been overlooked by main stream conventional medicine and environmental medicine doctors.

Let me give you a quick summary of the lecture on why and how parasites have become a new global environmental threat. Most of the common parasite problems are caused by Ascaris, Hookworms, Whipworms, Filarial worms, Flukes, Malaria, and Entamoeba histolyca.

Global statistics on parasites indicate a total of 4.46 billion people are infected by parasites.

Millions are dying as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality on a global scale, much greater than any viral, bacterial, or fungal infection (World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control).

Media sensationalism and statistics can be misleading. The Ebola virus epidemic in Africa has stolen the headlines and captured the imagination and fear by the public. But, every day, more people are not only dying from obvious parasites but also from undiagnosed parasite problems causing malnutrition, anemia, or compromised immune systems. Yet, precious resources are mis-directed due to the Ebola virus sensationalism.

Why are parasite problems overlooked?

They’re overlooked because there are no reliable ways to detect parasites, and we assume parasites are only in third world countries. Also overlooked is the transfer of parasites on a global basis due to worldwide global migration, change in diets around the world, effects compounded by global climate changes, and global travel.

I just saw a patient from the east coast of the U.S. who was in good health until she took a vacation in Jamaica in December 2013. She thought she had some benign insect bite. However, several weeks later she developed vague upper abdominal pain and, later, shoulder and arm pain. She ended up seeing about ten different specialists with a final diagnosis of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome with a recommendation for a special operation. Her problem was most likely from an unrecognized parasite problem. I put her on triple parasite meds. I will soon find out if she responds to the medications.

Often, I use a U.S. Army military operation point of view as an analogy to explain that parasites are like an asymmetric threat, and engaged in unconventional warfare to mankind.

Unconventional warfare must be dealt with by using unconventional counter-solutions based on Energy Medicine and acupuncture meridian assessment to track, monitor (Pattern Recognition), and neutralize them.

One of the main emphases of the lectures was that most parasite problems may manifest outside of the GI tract, i.e. as asthma or bronchiectasis in the lung, brain fog or migraine headache, anemia, cyst, tumor, allergies or suppression of allergies, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, behavioral or vision problems, etc. The other emphasis is thinking of parasites and parasitic infectious relationships. Parasites have their own associated concurrent co-infections with viruses, bacteria, and fungi.

The worldwide medical literature reviewed by the University of Calgary, Canada demonstrated many parasites mimic malignancies, such as Spinal cord tumors by Angiostrongylus, lung cancer by

Strongyloides stercoralis and Paragonimus westermani, Brain tumor by Schistosoma, Colon tumor by Fasciola hepatica, and Duedoenum adenomacarcinoma by Strongyloides stercoralis.

A review by Tufts University School of Medicine also showed a connection between chronic bacterial and parasitic infections and cancer, such as Salmonella Typhi with carcinoma of gallbladder and pancreas, Chlamydia with carcinoma of lung, ovary, and lymphoma, Schistosoma with bladder, cervical, colorectal, and liver cancer, Liver flukes with cholangiocarcinoma, and chronic osteomyelitis with myeloma, fibrosarcoma, and angiosarcoma.

(The most common source of osteomyelitis comes from hidden dental/jaw infections).

One of the hardest parts of treating parasites as a physician is that there are no reliable tests available. In previous articles, I have addressed this short coming in using a stool test. I also discussed how I started using parasite medications while I was in Bolivia as a U.S. Army medical officer.

Veterinarians are familiar with parasite problems for animals. They routinely prescribe parasite medications. But medical professionals are afraid to treat parasites unless we can identify and name the type of parasites. They do not initiate routine parasite medications even when they highly suspect that their patient might be suffering from parasite infestations.

Regular deworming and routine dental care may have prolonged the average life span of horses from less than 20 years to about 40 years according to professional horse breeders. (This information is from a patient who is a professional horse breeder). Can you imagine doubling the human life span by routine deworming and dental care? That would be an absolute nightmare for the government! Anti-aging medical doctors may need to know how to use parasite medications if they are serious about prevention, healing, and longevity medicine.

The most common medications I use include Ivermectin, Pyrantel pamoate, Albendazole, Mebendazole, Tinidazole, Alinia, Praziquantel, and Levamisole. I encouraged the medical doctors who heard my presentations to try parasite medications on themselves first, then on their families, and finally, when they feel comfortable, try on patients they suspect have parasite problems.

Acupuncture meridian assessment, a new biometric system based on ancient knowledge, measures conductance and resistance at the acupuncture meridian points. It maps out a new way of pattern recognition for detecting and treating parasites. Parasites may be a hidden, new, emerging global environmental threat: a paradigm shift in the field of environmental medicine on a global scale.

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eveloping your skill as a parent is an ongoing process that benefits from a thoughtful focus. So many of us are busy and preoccupied with just getting through our day that we forget to be present and actively choose the way we are in relation to our children.

So here is a gentle reminder list of some important points to consider that will help you create more of what you would prefer. #1 Get clear on what really matters to you about your relationship with your child. What do you like about your relationship and what are your recurrent frustrations or disappointments? #2 In case the first item triggered some selfblame or guilt, just take a moment to appreciate yourself for your willingness to become more aware of yourself and your choices. #3 Calmer parents are better able to choose how they respond to their children. Create pauses in your day to gift yourself with space to unplug. Try just five minutes of turning off your phone and gazing out into nature or recalling a happy memory and notice how this simple practice improves your interactions. #4 Share your journey as a parent by connecting

with supportive others. You were never meant to raise your children on your own. #5 When a challenge arises, step back from the situation. The time you take to gain perspective on your options and any course corrections makes a huge difference. Remember that reacting means acting out old patterns, most of which we want to delete not repeat. #6 Notice and be grateful for all the good in your relationship with your children EVERY DAY! This deliberate focused attention creates new brain and behavior pathways. Share all the good you are appreciating out loud with your children. What you focus upon and express is powerful and validates and creates change for you and your children. #7 Get some professional support to re-work any of your old programming that is creating conflicts or communication issues. Know that parenting is challenging because your children often trigger any unfinished business you have with your own parents or your childhood experiences. This is a natural process of growing into your role as a parent and a wiser adult.

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Why Isn’t My Son Getting Better? Part II of III upon the severity of a boy’s presenting problems, appointments need reviously (in part I), I addresto occur at least on a sed how an inadequate psyweekly basis and, somechological evaluation typicaltimes, even at a higher ly results in a treatment failfrequency. ure. Lack of rapport, lack of experience, Fourth, poor-boundlack of intensity, and poor boundaries are aries are yet another reaadditional reasons why boys do not benson for treatment failures. efit from mental heath treatment. Let me Although many MHPs explain: believe that they can conFirst, no boy is going to trust or open currently treat boys and up to a mental health practitioner (i.e., their parents; many boys “MHP”) where ample rapport or a good would disagree! connection is lacking. For this reason, Typically, this takes from the get-go, a MHP should be devot- James with therapy dog Grace the form of a MHP either ing his or her attention to establishing rapsplitting sessions by first seeing the boy and then port with both parents as well as their son, and his parents, or alternating sessions between the before embarking upon treatment. boy and his parents. Not surprisingly, many boys Second, attempting to make a boy “fit” the don’t trust MHPs who play on both sides of the treatment approach a MHP was trained in often fence because they (i.e., boys) believe that whatresults in a poor fit as well a treatment failure, ever they disclose to these MHPs will be directly too. A MHP must meet a boy where he is; and, relayed to their parents. Sadly, this is often the this requires extensive knowledge of and skills in case. If more than one modality of treatment is many different treatment approaches. Not surprisindicated (e.g., individual psychotherapy, parent ingly, a recent study found psychologists 5-10 training, family therapy, &/or marital therapy), years post-graduation tend to be eclectic and use different MHPs need to render these modalities of techniques from multiple treatment approaches. treatment.

Suffice to say, choose a MHP based upon educaSo, if your son is not progressing in mental tion and training as well as experience. health treatment and some of the above issues are Third, lack of intensity or appointments present, it’s definitely time for a second opinion. occurring on an infrequent basis (e.g., @2-3 To contact, Dr. James Feinberg, child clinical weeks) isn’t going to result in much treatment psychologist, and his therapy dog extraordinaire, progress, either. Appointments occurring here and Grace, please call his office at 314-966-0880 or there, at best, are about re-connecting and catchconsult his website: www.stlouischildpsycholoing up versus conducting treatment. Depending gist.com.

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Garden Glow Light Exhibit Now Open At Missouri Botanical Garden Through Jan. 3, 2015

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he Missouri Botanical Garden is excited to announce its plans for an expanded “Garden Glow 2014,” the Garden’s second annual winter light exhibit. Visitors will have the opportunity to stroll through the Garden at night surrounded by a spectacle of unique light installations. The exhibit will open Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014 and run through Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015.

The 2014 show will feature over a half million lights illuminating the Garden and plenty of engaging activities for visitors of all ages. The display will adorn the Garden’s most iconic locations including the Climatron®, Kaeser Memorial Maze, the Central Axis, Tower Grove House, Shoenberg Fountain and the Cleveland Gate House.

More than over 600,000 lights - 200,000 more lights than last year have been added, and walkways

will once again be transformed into multi-Garden Glow 2014 colored light tunnels creating an explosion of visual magic. Photo opportunities will be plentiful throughout the display from the popular “Glowmen Glen,” to the “Kiss Goodnight” and a new “Snow Globe.” Even more traditional displays have been added such as candlelight village displays and carolers – sure to delight crowds of all ages.

The exhibit will also include an interactive area where visitors can decorate life-size snowmen, creating a fun photo opportunity.

Food and drinks will be available at a number of locations on the grounds including stations located on the Central Axis featuring fire pits for s’more-making.

For more informaton and to buy tickets, 314-6787442, www.mobot.org/glow or in person at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Staying Active During The Holidays

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

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s winter settles in around us, we often start to slack off when it comes to physical activity. It’s not difficult to see why this happens – it’s cold and snowy outside, which limits the ability to do fun, outdoorsy activities, and we fall into the lazy comforts of cozying up on the couch with loved ones and snacking on the abundance of holiday goodies.

Additionally, the days are much shorter and the limited hours of sunlight don’t encourage us to get outside and get moving.

However, it’s important to stay active throughout the holiday season and the rest of the winter.

Being physically active every day helps us avoid weight gain, keeps our tickers ticking properly, increases our energy levels, wards off depression and anxiety, and helps prevent cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases. That long list of benefits should be enough to help encourage us to get off the couch and get moving, but it’s more difficult to get motivated to exercise during the holidays and cold winter months.

There are ways to make sure we get up, get out, and get going, even if it’s snowing! Here are few tips: • Embrace the season and enjoy outdoor winter activities. Ice-skating, sledding, building snowmen (especially if you have young children or grandchildren) can be tremendously fun and are great forms of exercise. Be sure to bundle up – having a good supply of thick, warm gloves, scarves and hats handy will help ensure you’re

ready for some refreshing outdoor events.

• The holiday season also brings on the shopping season. Great news for your waistline (maybe not for your wallet) is that shopping is great exercise. Round up a few friends or family members and hit the mall.

Just be sure to have a healthy snack before you head out on your shopping adventure – most shopping mall food courts don’t offer up the healthiest options.

• Invest in a set of 5-10 pounds dumbbells and keep them by your couch. Since you’ll likely be spending more time indoors and in front of the television (Christmas movie marathons, perhaps?), keep your muscles strong by lifting weights while you watch. Lifting weights at least two to three times per week will guarantee you build and maintain muscle mass, which incinerates calories even while you’re at rest.

• Don’t forget about Fido! If you have a dog, make sure you’re keeping man’s best friend active as well. Dogs need daily exercise, and a brisk, long walk will keep both of you in shape during the winter. Don’t have a pet of your own? No worries. Many animal shelters need people to volunteer to walk their dogs. You’ll be getting exercise and it is all for a good cause. I call that a win-win.

Join the Anchors & Reporters of KMOV-TV between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Thursday, December 11 at the West Oak Dierbergs store in Creve Coeur, MO and the Green Mount Crossing Dierbergs in Shiloh, IL. They will be on hand between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. to say hello and collect food for our neighbors in need during their Thanks4Giving Can-a-thon to benefit Operation Food Search!

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Q: My skin gets so dry during the winter months.

What can I do to help prevent the itching and scaling?

A: Cold air outside and dry warm air inside usually does make our skin dry. Using a humidifier helps a lot, but there are several things you can do to keep your skin hydrated. Essential Fatty Acids (EFA's) such as fish oil and flax oil are good examples. Another great choice is Hyaluronic Acid. It acts as an internal moisturizer and lubricant. It rejuvenates skin and smooths premature lines and wrinkles. As an added benefit, it lubricates and cushions joints. Our bodies naturally produce hyaluronic acid, however, as we age, we produce less of it. Visible signs are dull, dry and wrinkled skin. These are a couple of ways to nourish your skin from the inside, now for the outside. Never use lotions that contain parabens or petroleum products. Look for lotions that contain naturals oils such as; jojoba, coconut, sesame, olive, wheat germ or sweet almond.

You want your skin to drink up the oils, not just sit on top of the skin making it appear softer and more moisturized.

Q: The holidays are coming and I can already feel my stress levels going up. I really don't want to take any type of pills but would like something to help calm me. Any suggestions?

A: Welcome to the holidays. A lot people are feeling exactly like you. Lavender essential oil is a good choice for promoting calmness. You can diffuse it in a

room, add it to a bath, mix with your favorite lotion or even put it directly on your skin as a cologne. Putting it on neat may make you too relaxed and you may want to fall asleep, so experiment with it first. Rescue Remedy is probably one of my favorites for stress. It is a blend of flower essences that can restore peace of mind and emotional balance. It is believed that if your emotional balance is correct, your body's natural ability to throw off illness can be strengthened. Rescue Remedy can be taken any time you feel stressed or anxious, including if you have an argument, accident, before public speaking, taking an exam, loss of a loved one, fear of something or even a visit to the dentist or doctor. This also includes holiday shopping and relatives. This works strictly on an emotional level and is considered safe for everyone, even our pets. There are no side effects and will not interfere with any other form of treatment or medication.

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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. — Gandhi

Ho! Ho! Ho! Santa Says to Protect Your Pets from the Dangers of the Christmas Tree!

by Dr. Doug Pernikoff, DVM

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hristmas is a wonderful time for family and friends to share the miracle of life, with all the love and merriment of the holiday season. Our homes are adorned with holiday lighting, poinsettia plants and mistletoe. Lots of goodies like brownies and other wonderfully fattening foodstuffs, and of course, the central adornment being the family Christmas Tree that umbrellas a score of presents of all sizes and shapes, covering the tree’s base. So, What’s To Worry???? Let me tell you what to be alert to in order to protect your beloved family pets from potential dangers insidiously integrated into this most joyful holiday setting.

As with Thanksgiving, there are any number of food items that can encourage intestinal problems in our dogs and cats, some that can even prove life threatening. With Christmas, a new further collection of potential health issues can arise with our pets’ exposure to many of those objects associated with Christmas, and in particular, regarding our Christmas Trees.

Puppies and especially kittens or cats, are notoriously interested in exploring and grasping objects into their mouths. Electric cords to light our trees can be very concerning, causing any degree of damage from simple skin burns to actual electrocution through biting and chewing actions. Try to keep them covered and out of direct access to our pets.

Another significant issue regards the yarn, string and other binding objects associated with all those exciting presents surrounding the tree. In particular, cats will begin to play with loose ends of these twine like objects, and will actually begin chewing and swallowing them without good reason. The same issue concerns reflective tinsel dangling from Christmas Tree branches, a real bait for our predatory cats, who love the motion as well as the reflectivity of this item. As the cat swallows these items, they move slowly along the intestinal tract, after a portion exits the stomach. The bowel inherently attempts to contract and move the string items along, and as a result, causes a bunching up of intestines. Soon the intestines have tightened up and as their contractility persists, can actually scissor through the lining, eventually rupturing and allowing dangerous intestinal bacteria and debris to fall free into the abdominal cavity. A life threatening condition called peritonitis can ensue, and nary an evening passes at the Emergency clinic without a very sick cat entering in need of immediate and significantly dangerous surgical exploration and more.

And remember that any plastic or glass ornament can break, exposing pets to lacerations, or again, if ingested, and only God knows why they would do so, may impose serious medical and sur-

gical needs in caring for our animal patients.

Many people adorn their Christmas Trees with chocolate candies, that we have learned in the past, can prove toxic to our family pets. Keep such items well away from Fido and Felix. Finally, remember that animals will explore and chew at plants that are featured at the holiday time. Poinsettias and mistletoe, can both be irritating and if ingested in large amounts, can prove very toxic.

As with any of these concerns mentioned herein, I encourage committed pet owners to take serious note to prevent any of these potential calamities to occur, most certainly impacting the peace and tranquility intended for all of us to enjoy this wonderful holiday time.

Be well! Be safe! Enjoy the Christmas and New Year season with all your family, your friends and of course, your family pets. All my love!

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The Marvels of Medicinal Mushrooms

By Teresa Garden, DVM

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any cultures throughout the world have known and revered mushrooms for their medicinal powers for hundreds of years. Modern research can now explain what the ancient healers already knew through practical experience. Studies indicate medicinal mushrooms contain polysaccharides (beta glucans), lysozymes, and triterpenes, which have antibacterial, antiviral, and antitumor properties. Mushrooms can stimulate the immune system and assist in healing liver, heart, and kidney tissue. Medicinal mushrooms are Qi (life energy) tonics and can support the body in the treatment of edema, diarrhea, urinary tract infections, prostate problems, kidney disease, and inflammation. The most common use of these mushrooms may be for cancer.

Clinical trials in Japan showed mushrooms not only inhibited tumor growth and regeneration but also minimized side-effects from chemotherapeutic drugs. Beta glucans, one of the active constituents of medicinal mushrooms, were shown to stimulate macrophages and T-lymphocytes. Whole mushroom extracts contain compounds that modulate carcinogenesis at different stages. A few of the more popular medicinal mushrooms are Reishi, Shitake, and Maitake.

Reishi Mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum) is known as “the herb of immortality�. Animal studies have confirmed numerous pharmacological activities and effects of this mushroom upon the body.

Polysaccharides contained in Reishi demonstrated antitumor and immunostimulating activity.

Polysaccharides stimulate macrophages to produce more tumor necrosis factor(TNF-alpha) and a number of interleukins. Reishi’s polysaccharides were shown to increase RNA and DNA synthesis in bone marrow.

The Japanese government officially listed Reishi as an adjunct herb for cancer years ago.

Reishi contains more germanium than any other plant or mushroom. Germanium increases oxygen utilization of the blood. This can help with heart disease and altitude sickness. Lysozymes in Reishi are antibacterial against Staph, Strep, and Bacillus pneumoniae bacteria. Triterpenes in Reishi can help with allergies by inhibiting histamine release. Triterpenes also have antioxidant activity and protect the liver. Other healing effects of Reishi are: enhances bone marrow proliferation, regenerates bronchial epithelium, increases white blood cells, protects against ionizing radiation, and provides analgesia and muscle relaxation.

Shitake Mushroom (Lentinula edodes) is considered an “elixir of life� in Japan. Polysaccharides extracted from the fruiting bodies of this mushroom showed anti-tumor and immunostimulating activities by increasing phagocytic activity of the peritoneal macrophages. One of the polysaccharides contain a

peptide complex (KS-2) which strongly inhibited tumor growth in animals when given orally.

Powdered Shitake taken orally inhibited the growth of sarcoma 180 and mon-46 tumor by 40%. If fed to animals after tumor implantation, the tumor inhibition rate increased by 54%. Powdered whole shitake fruiting bodies given orally to animals with tumors improved macrophage phagocytosis which plays a role in tumor-inhibiting activity. Lentinan, another component of Shitake, produces an anti-tumor effect by activating natural killer cells which cause tumor suppression.

Shitake contains 30 enzymes, 10 aminoacids, and are high in many minerals. Recent studies show Shitake mushrooms can lower blood pressure, decrease cholesterol, prevent heart disease, and fight cancer. The Japanese believe Shitakes can enhance vital energy and cure colds. This mushroom has been shown to stimulate white blood cells, antibodies, and interferon.

Maitake Mushroom (Grifola frondosa) is known as the “dancing mushroom� in Japan and the “chicken of the woods� in the West. In animal studies, powdered Maitake was shown to enhance the activities of macrophages, natural killer cells, and cytotoxic T-cells, inducing an 86% tumor growth inhibition. Their polysaccharides have both anti-tumor and immune-enhancing effects in animals. One component, b-1,6-glucan, was shown to stimulate interleukin which may be responsible for its anti-tumor action. The fruiting bodies of Maitake contain a polysaccharide called DFraction. D-Fractions demonstrated efficacy in inhibiting tumor growth and restoring immune functions that had been suppressed due to growing cancers. Other health benefits of Maitske include: lowering blood pressure, decreasing cholesterol, protecting liver tissue, and decreasing blood glucose.

Medicinal mushrooms are powerful healers that can help with many diseases afflicting dogs, cats, and people. Combining two or more of these mushrooms together results in synergistic activity. Medicinal mushrooms are safe and without contraindications for use. No interactions with drugs have been reported. At Animal Health & Healing, we employ these mushrooms first and foremost to treat our cancer patients.

Other patients that can benefit from their use are those with liver disease, cardiac problems, geriatrics with weakness and muscle atrophy, cats with Feleuk, FIV, or chronic URI, and weak puppies and kittens with severe parasitism. These are but a few of the marvelous healing benefits of medicinal mushrooms.

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. phone: 314-7811738. AnimalHealthandHealing.com.

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Mind Fest Kicks Off Unique - Even Quirky - ‘Fun Classes Outside The Box’ for the Intellectually Curious Adult

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Mind Fest classes are planned to be informal entertaining learning experiences offered one evening a week.

“Mind Fest classes are exactly the type of classes that make you think ‘I always wondered about that, but didn’t know who to ask’, or, ‘I never heard of this, but now I’m curious and want to know more’,” says co-creater Jane Langa Co-creater Anne Murphy adds “When Jane and I met, we found we shared a passion for the curious and quirky, The more we talked, the more inspired we were by the interesting-ness of life.

We founded Mind Fest to bring people together to

share knowledge and have fun.”

Mind Fest’s first class, Be Selfie-Savvy, debuts January 7. January’s class schedule: Jan. 14: Exploring Jazz and How St. Louis Added The Cool, Jan. 21: Select Your Tech: How to Choose Your Handheld Devices, and Jan. 28: Philosophy and the Art of Living. Presented at The Novel Neighbor bookstore, 7905 Big Bend Blvd., 63119

as well as subject-appropriate locations.

Students must register in advance. Limited to 20 students per class.

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Classes are taught by Subject Matter Experts – highly regarded professionals or avid amateurs who are knowledgeable and passionate about their subjects.

Visit www.mindfeststl.com for more information and to register for classes. COST: From $20. Students register for each class or buy the month and save $10. Registration is limited to 20 students per class.

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November 29 & December 1 WilDerNess AcT: 50Th ANNiversAry Airs on KNLC Channel 24 11/29 at noon and KNLC Renewable Energy Channel Channel 24-2 12/01 at 8:00 p.m. The year 2014 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Host Don Fitz explores why this law is important for protecting our country’s environment with guests Toni Armstrong and Richard Spener. The guests tell us and how viewers find out about wilderness areas in Missouri and visit them.

December 6, 8 ANTibioTic overDose Airs on KNLC Channel 24 12/06 at noon and KNLC Renewable Energy Channel Channel 24-2 12/08 at 8:00 p.m. Nearly 80% of antibiotics sold in the United States are used on factory farms. At the same time, two million Americans get an antibiotic resistant infection annually. Alyssa Hartman and Don Fitz discuss the FDA’s being aware of these problems since the 1970s but continually failing to act.

December 6th & 13th GiNGerbreAD house Workshop AT Whole fooDs mArkeT Noon - 4pm, $19.99 per house (includes house, icing and decorating materials). $6.99 per Gingerbread Man (includes Gingerbread Man, icing and decorating materials). Reservations required.

For many, gingerbread houses epitomize family togetherness during the holidays. Continue the tradition with your loved ones at our how-to workshop.

We’ll provide the gingerbread house or gingerbread man, icing and candy – you bring the creativity! All ages welcome. To make reservations, call 314.968.7744 for Whole Foods Market Galleria or 636-527-1160 for the Whole Foods Market Town & Country. You can also sign up our Customer Service desk.

December 7 GreeN shAG mArkeT holiDAy opeN house Holiday Open House serving food and drink from 11:00 am til 7:00 pm at The Green Shag Market,

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

At The Natural Way, you’ll find additive and chemical-free foods, high quality herbs & vitamins, and items for people following special diets or who have food allergies and sensitivities.

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December 9 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.

December 9 AlpiNe cheeses AT Whole fooDs mArkeT 6 – 7:30pm, Free, Advance registration is required and is available by calling our store at 636-527-1160 or sign up at our Customer Service desk With Melanie Coffey, Certified Cheese Professional and Katie Cook, Cheese Expert Taste and learn from our experts! In this class, all things Alpine and fondue will be tasted and discussed so you can replicate at home and share with your guests. Melanie and Katie will be talking about some tips for making selections and how to pair your picks with your favorite beverages. Ray Maxwell from Lohr Distribution will be on hand to describe the wine pairings. Whole Foods Market Town & Country.

December 11 ThANksG4GiviNG cAN-A-ThoN Join the Anchors & Reporters of KMOV-TV between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Thursday, December 11 at the West Oak Dierbergs store in Creve Coeur, MO and the Green Mount Crossing Dierbergs in Shiloh, IL. They will be on hand between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. to say hello and collect food for our neighbors in need during their Thanks4Giving Cana-thon to benefit Operation Food Search! For more information visit operationfoodsearch.org or call 314-726-5355.

December 13, 15 The crimiNAl iNjusTice of cANNAbis prohibiTioN Airs on KNLC Channel 24 12/13 at noon and KNLC Renewable Energy Channel Channel 24-2 12/15 at 8:00 p.m. John Payne and Don Fitz discuss effects of an arrest and conviction for a cannabis offense for the individual and society. They look at how decriminalization laws (such those in Columbia and St. Louis) have helped address these problems.

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December 16 free moNThly WellNess supporT Group Free Monthly Prevention and Healing Support Group. This month's presenter is Paul R. Johnson M.Div., "Getting in Touch with the 'Knower' Within", Learn ways to access "Your Voice of Inner Wisdom "and make healthy decisions that can improve Health and Wellness. 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."

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December 16 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.

December 18 commuNiTy supporT DAy To beNefiT reADy reADers AT Whole fooDs mArkeT 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Free, Reservations not required Ready Readers is a non-profit organization dedicated to “inspiring preschool-age children from low-income communities to become readers by reading aloud to them, increasing their exposure to quality books and providing literacy-related experiences. At the two Whole Foods Market® stores in St. Louis on December 18, 2014, 5% of all sales will be donated to Ready Readers, a recipient of the Whole Foods Market® Community Support Day. Ready Readers volunteers will be on hand at the stores with information about the importance of reading aloud to children and how to choose highquality books, including nutrition-related books, to read to your preschool-age child. Additional Ready Readers activities will include, bookmark making, sampling of simple recipes that preschool-age children can make with their families, and getting your picture taken with the Ready Readers mascot, Mr. Worm, announcing “Kids Who Read Succeed.” For information, visit www.readyreaders.org. Or call Whole Foods Market at 314-968-7744.

December 20, 22 hArAmbee 101 (rAiN Drops) Airs on KNLC Channel 24 12/20 at noon and KNLC Renewable Energy Channel Channel 24-2 12/22 at 8:00 p.m. This episode of Harambee 101 on Green Time examines the necessity of caring environments for black children. Xavier Silva and Darryl L. Wise discuss the many services that Annie Malone Children & Family Service continues to provide to children and youth in the St. Louis area.

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peration Food Search is selling holiday greeting cards with proceeds going toward the purchase of food to benefit local men, women, and children in need of basic daily sustenance. Operation Food Search holiday cards are available in sets of 25 cards for $25.

Operation Food Search (OFS) was established in 1981 to address the growing problem of hunger and has since become the largest distributor of free food in the bi-state region. Each month, Operation Food Search distributes nearly 3 million pounds of food and household items to 250 community partners, which in turn feed 190,000 local individuals

each month who struggle with hunger and food insecurity. One-third of these individuals are children. For every dollar donated, Operation Food Search provides $21 worth of food and nutrition services to support the area hungry.

Operation Food Search holiday cards may be purchased at its headquarters at 6282 Olive Blvd during regular business hours.

To order cards or for more information contact Karen Klaus at (314) 726-5355 ext. 23 or karen.klaus@OperationFoodSearch.org. Cards may also be purchased on line at www.OperationFoodSearch.org. There will be a small shipping charge for mail orders.

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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

For more information please contact Kathleen Christ, Therapist & Owner

St. Louis Aquatic Healing Center 314-432-5228 • Watsu11@yahoo.com • www.watsu1.com

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December, 2014

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imagine, llc * massage therapy, energy Robert Fishbone: Jumpstart Drum work & personal clearings Circles, to Inspire and Rejuvenate teams Karuna Reiki Master Jayne R. Wright of all types * www.robertfishbone.com MA, LMT * Call 314-799-7860 Garden of Life Spiritual Center, Rose Jenkins * World-Bridger, Cosmic Crestwood * www.GLSC-STL.com Tuner * Inspired and Inspiring Wedding Chapel * Metaphysical pathfindnews.com * plasma@brick.net Sunday Services * Rental Space 314-863-2241 Gateway to Peace Memorial Day RAVEN WOLF C. Felton Jennings II 5/25/15 * Ceremony, Parade & Picnic Healing Sound Recording Artist Call Van Alstine Veterinary Clinic 7 Albums Available for Holiday at 636-282-2221 purchases * www.pugdogrecords.com Harmony Fellowship * Harmonizing JOIA World Percussion Ensemble Mind, Body, & Spirit * Dogma-free Drumming at the speed of life!

10:30 Sundays at Garden of Life Rick Kramer * 314-276-1208 Spiritual Ctr *harmonyfellowshipstl.com www.joia.com The Healing Arts Center & KDHX Earthworms with BioCranial Institute International Green Jean Ponzi 10073 Manchester Rd., Ste. 100, 63122 www.kdhx.org/ondemand 314-647-8080 Rhonda Leifheit * 314-644-0641 * See The Healing Energy Blanket * Living Resources @ www.pathfindnews.com the Healed Life * 314-921-3366 LIVING INSIGHTS CENTER www.ImprovedHealing.com A Religious/Spiritual Center for all Healing Room: Nutrition Consultation, 6361 Clayton Rd in Clayton Stress Management, Energy Balancing 314-721-4455 * www.livinginsights.com & Therapy * Anutara Geiss, MSN, BBHS In Loving Memory of Ken Palmer, 314-749-4466 recognizing his Creative Spirit!

A HUG for everyone who needs one!

Mark Madsen, Carl Van Alstine From an anonymous angel. & his many friends.

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Have the life you want. Live and Create from the Inside Out. Rebecca Wiederkehr, LCSW 314-822-4752

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