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My name is Todd Patterson. I had Gulf War Syndrome and
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rived at the Circle of Life Spa for my first of many wraps, sauna sessions, and massages. I had some difficult and emotional periods as my body detoxed. Janet worked on changing my diet to encourage an alkaline en-vironment which promotes health and healing. Janet and Carla were right there supporting me through it all.
After 2 weeks, the 3 of us stood in the foyer of the spa hugging and crying as I prepared to go home, a healthy man. I never thought I would be pain free, yet here I stood feeling amazing. My swelling was gone and I looked vibrant be-cause I had color and energy. Most importantly, I no longer felt pain. I was a vision of health that none of us had seen in quite a while.
Today, my wife and I are adopting a baby girl from China. I can be the father I want to be be-cause I am healthy. I thank Janet and Carla for giving so much of themselves to help me heal.
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Healthy AdventurerHans Frischeisen
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Nasya TherapyConscious Living Center
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Hypnosis for Self EsteemJune Milligan
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Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease
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Inside This Issue
PUBLISHERletter contentsTo our Readers,
Ahhh, at last June is upon us... the wedding month, graduation, Father’s Day, summer solstice…National cel-ebrations include roses and rivers, suitable for Reno, too! It’s safe to plant our tomatoes! Lo-cally, we are tending to our summer gardens or thinking about Farmer’s markets. Or perhaps both!
Healthy Beginnings is right in step: we are forging new relationships, and broadening our community connec-tions and coverage; the magazine is growing and flower-ing as never before! We have increased our circulation to 20,000/month and are continuing to expand our distribu-tion, an ongoing process.
Two new columns are unfolding for your reading and educational fun: the first by Hans Frischeisen, the Healthy Adventurer of Reno, who owns a local health center and travels the world on his bicycle! The second is by Dr. Taylor Donovan, chiropractor about town, who writes about the fascination of being alive and healthy in Northern Nevada/Lake Tahoe.
Be sure to watch for new and expanding departments, and more community events than ever. Marvelous things are happening in June -- and every month of the year!
Until next month, Best in Health and Happiness!
Dawn M. GoweryPublisher / FounderCarole BucherContent EditorHealthy Beginnings
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Our Cover Written by Carole Bucher
The yellow rose stands for friendship and caring. Throughout history the rose has been as a symbol of romantic love and marriage, explaining perhaps, why June is national rose month.
The Romans used roses at weddings and funerals, and they scattered rose petals at banquets to prevent drunkenness. Persian Warriors are said to have adorned their shields with red roses. The rose was the symbol of many armies in medieval times. The rose has also long been used as part of meditation rituals for the monks.
Rose hips are sometimes eaten, mostly for their vitamin C content. They are pressed and filtered to make rose-hip syrup, as the fine hairs surrounding the seeds are unpleasant to eat. They can also be used to make herbal tea, jam, jelly or pie filling.
In aromatherapy roses are often used for the skin; rose essential oil is good for all skin conditions, especially mature or sensitive skins. Roses are said to have a calming effect for grief, resentment, anger and depression. Rose essential oil has a sedative effect, which aids in times of shock and bereavement, being used to ease nervous tension and stress, and to lift the heart.
To most of us, the rose is a symbol of freshness and health, beauty and peace.
NEWSbriefs
Health Professional NetworkHealthy Beginnings Magazine proudly sponsors the HPN (Health Professional Network).This
networking group meets the second Thursday of each month. If you are in a health-related field and are interested in joining us, please email [email protected] or call (775) 828-4547 for confirmation
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New non-invasive scans help diagnose heart disease earlier at Barton Memorial HospitalOutside of Barton, the nearest healthcare facility to offer this heart scan technology is in Sacramento. In Nevada, it is located in Las Vegas. By using this new state-of-the-art 64-slice Com-puted Tomography (CT) scanner at Barton Memorial Hospital, you can now find out in advance if you have the same heart disease that claimed the lives of one of your parents and grand-parents. Barton’s new Brilliance CT scanner features advanced technology that produces split-second high quality images, permitting doctors to see more anatomical detail in a fraction of the time needed for other tests This type of early detection test, which takes less than 10 seconds will help doctors rec-ommend the most effective treatments and lifestyle changes to reduce risk and save lives. For more information: Denise Sloan Smart, Communications Coordinator, Barton HealthCare System (5�0) 54�-5617
Art Beneath Our Feet at Wildflower VillageDuring the months of June and July you can create your own mosaic work of art to be part of the permanent walkways and driveways at Wildflower Village. An Homage to Jean Cocteau - Mosaics in the mode of French and Italian Village. This First Annual Mosaic Event will be an homage to the mosaic works of Jean Cocteau. In the French Village of Menton on the Ital-ian border. We are seeking artists and amateurs with diverse talent; from sculptors, painters, graphic designers, textile art-ists to jewelry artists. Wildflower Village will furnish the tools and materials for artists to make one or more �’x�’ individual sections of river rock and concrete of their own themes. Entry fee is $20; special discounts for groups and families. The event will be judged and awards presented to three winners on July 21st at 6pm. Prizes will be Certificates for Art or Classes from Wildflower Village; 1st $1,000.00, 2nd $500.00, �rd $200.00. Please contact Pat Campbell-Cozzi or Patty Melton for housing information and application packages. Email: [email protected]: Pat 775 827-5250 or Patty 775 250-4568.
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Tickets are available for dinner and a concert with our favorite Celtic rock band, Tempest. Saturday June 9th at Fitzpatrick Winery. $�5 gets one of 100 seats at a wood-fired oven dinner followed by two sets of music with a dessert intermission. Drinks are a la carte. Call us at 800-245-9166 or 5�0-620- �248 to reserve your tickets now. www.fitzpatrickwintery.com
The Great Basin Food Basket, June-Oct 2007Introducing an 18-wk subscription program that brings you weekly produce, fruit and flowers from local, certified organic farmers, beginning June 5th and continuing through October 4th, 2007. Our regional farmers are committed to serving your family, using the highest sustainable practices and cooperative work. This food has NOT traveled thousand miles, NOR been refrigerated prior to consumption. Once the farmers plant for you, you are committed to sup-port them for the entire season. This system provides you with the best quality, freshest food and gives fair compensa-tion to our family farms, a way of life on the verge of extinc-tion. We appreciate your joining this grass-roots effort to link local organic farms to your table, in the most efficient way: Community Supported Agriculture. Pick up sites are located around Reno, Sparks, Carson, Fallon, Gardnerville & Tahoe City. Email: [email protected] to register
Kerry White Personal Training/Pilates has moved to a new location: Sierra Lakeside Professional Offices; at the corner of Moana and Lakeside. She would like to remind everyone that Pilates is a great way to get/stay fit and flexible. With personal attention paid to proper form, she can help you develop that strong core you need to do everything better. She is offering free introduc-tory Pilates reformer sessions at her new studio. If you’re looking for the personal touch, please give her a call @771-7589 to set an appt. with her.
New Certification for Health & Well-Being with Life Enhancement HypnotherapyVirginia Parsons, President of Life Enhancement Services, LLC, just completed 50 hours of advanced education through The America Council of Hypnotist Examiners. Topics included “Healing Addictions with NLP”; “Being Ageless –Using Hypno-sis for Lifelong Health”; “Hypnoanaesthesia and Pain Control”; “Hypnosis and Weight Loss”; “Medical Hypnotherapy” and “Transforming Therapy.”For information, contact: Virginia Parsons, MS, CCHT, CTLC www.VirginiaParsons.com (775) 850-582�
Get to Know Your Neighbor Day Saturday, June 23The City of Reno is a sponsor of Get to Know Your Neighbor Day and encourages residents to participate in the 2nd annual event on Saturday, June 2�. Please consider doing a gathering in your neighborhood, whether a potluck, BBQ, block party, or just go out and say hello to your neighbors. Each of us can make a contribution to a better world by starting right on the
Going “Green,” the Next StepInput from citizens participating in the City of Reno’s “Green Summit” will help shape “Green Priority Action Plan.” The Reno City Council accepted a Detailed Summary Report of the Green Summit and approved objectives derived from citizen input: 1) Provide public education programs on sustainability practices for public officials, staff, residents & businesses. 2) Provide leadership and encourage the design of new buildings to meet energy conservation & environmental standards. �) Create pedestrian and bicycle-friendly developments. 4) Re-duce harmful impacts on the environment which result from the City’s purchasing program. 5) Expand opportunities for residents and businesses to recycle. 6) Expand opportunities to recycle in City facilities. 7) Reduce vehicle trips generated by employees driving to work. 8) Reduce consumption in City practices. (For example, turning of lights, 2-sided copies) 9) Encourage methods of transportation that reduce impacts on the environment. For details, see article on the Reno Green Summit, page 11 of Healthy Beginnings Magazine. Terri Hendry, Senior Communi-cations Specialist. www.cityofreno.com
State Homeopathic Medical Examiners Board Adds 2 Board MembersThe State of Nevada Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners (BHME) recently welcomed two new board members appointed by Governor Jim Gibbons. Dr. Cyrus Pourzan, MD, HMD and Leticia Gardea are the new board members. Dr. Pourzan, is a licensed allopathic doctor and homeopathic doctor and practices out of his offices in Incline Village, NV. Ms. Gardea is Executive Director for the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals Foundation (NVAHREP) based in Las Vegas, NV. Both members received their oath of office at recent board meetings held in Reno. The State Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners was created to regulate the practice of homeopathic medicine in Nevada and any activities that are within the scope of such practice, to protect the public health and safety and the general welfare of the people of this state. Contact: Nancy Eklof, Executive Director 775-�24-��5�, or email [email protected]
Washoe County Trail Building Volunteer DaysA Washoe County Regional Parks & Open Space Project. Please join us! Fun for the whole family! Meet new folks and enjoy the wonderful Reno area. Tools are provided. Please wear sturdy shoes, gloves, hats and sun block!!June 9, 10 & 24: Browns Creek: meet at the Brown’s creek trail parking area east off of Joy Lake Road at 8:�0am.Please call (775) 527-1684 for more information.
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The Hea l thy Adven turerWould riding a bicycle in lieu of driving
a car be a wholesome response to the threat of global warming? I strongly believe so. But who am I and why should you care?
Allow me to introduce myself -- I’m Hans Frischeisen, Reno resident, age 66, and I prac-tice what I preach. I have just completed the first segment of my third bike ride around the world. Yes, my third!
In a series of forthcoming columns in Healthy Beginnings, I will share my adventures with you, especially the ones that relate to health, stamina, ecology, economy, education and the pure enjoyment of living! Oh, one other note -- I haven’t been sick since 1972.
I am also an artist. My art is the mastery of traveling with less then 10 lbs of total luggage, on very long bike trips to very remote places. And imagine this -- my 10 lbs includes � days worth of food reserves. I’ll tell you some of my secrets in future columns, too.
A short history: I was born in Germany and was educated there in the field of naturopathy. I immigrated to the US in 196�, began with IBM in 1966 as a sales representative in Anchorage, AK; transferred to IBM Las Vegas in 197�; to IBM Reno in 1978, and retired in 1990 in Reno.
Then began the first of my non-motorized travel adventures, including kayak trips from central Canada to the Arctic Ocean; through a Polish lake district, around the islands of Oahu and Grand Cayman; along the coast of Yucatan, Belize and Baja California. I hiked over 2,000 miles of the 2,600 miles long Pacific Crest Trail. Incredible things happened…and you can read about them here, too!
I am passionately interested in natural health and have worked in the field non-stop since I left IBM. In 1990, I founded the Everlasting Health and Professional Center for natural healing, with 17 therapists and consultants. It is located at 1515 S. Virginia in Reno, and its primary treatment modality is Ayurveda, the oldest known method of healing, worldwide.
In 1999, I began a non-profit corporation to explore the creation of a European-style natural health community in Truckee Meadows. The Nevada Health Forum, part of that endeavor, is in its 11th year, and has sponsored several well-known keynote speakers, e.g., Wayne Dyer, Patch Adams and Deepak Chopra. I also started the Organic Odyssey, Reno’s only organic, vegetarian restaurant at the time, and assisted my wife Lois in development of the Nevada Health Alliance, a quarterly natural health publication. So, enough of my history…
I hope you will stay tuned for my first adventure installment, and be in-spired to have healthy adventures of your own!
Peace, joy and health!
-Hans
8 June 2007
Massage has long been recognized as one of the oldest modality’s used in the history of humanity, not only as an aid for the prevention of sickness, but for helping to
rebalance the physical and energetic conditions of the body.
Thai Yoga Massage, Tuina (pronounced “tway-naw”), and Shiatsu are three styles of massage, or bodywork, that are becoming more popular in mainstream society. What is their commonality and how do they work? The answer lies in the direct approach and focus on the body’s intrinsic energy, which is called prana in India, chi in China, and bio-electricity in the West. To understand the fundamentals behind this kind of work, two things are needed: a basic knowledge of our energy makeup, and a brief history of these unique arts.
Our bodies are a network of channels and points most commonly referred to as meridians and acupoints. These are conduits through which energy travels, feeding, nourishing and sustaining the human form. When the flow through these avenues is free and uninhibited there is health and vitality. When it becomes restricted, sluggish and blocked, there is sickness and pain.
Perhaps no one has pioneered this subject more than the great physicians and masters of India and China, whose ancient
forms of bodywork were developed over 2,500 years ago. Along with working the physical structure of the body, they created techniques for stimulating the movement of energy through the meridians and acupoints. This balances the yin and yang, or deficient and excessive conditions of energy throughout the body. It is on the foundation set forth by these two great civilizations that the principles of Thai Yoga Massage, Tuina, and Shiatsu are based.
Thai Yoga Massage, called Nuad Borarn (ancient mas-sage), is gaining rapid recognition for it’s tremendous thera-peutic value. Though it’s teachings have been passed down for generations from the ancient temples of Thailand, it’s roots can be traced back more than 2,500 years to India’s yoga and Ayurvedic medicine.
Thai Massage consists of gentle assisted yogic stretching, with thumbing and palming along distinct points and energy lines called marmas and sen lines, in combination with mas-sage, and meditative breathing. This array of techniques opens the client to a deeper, and often times, more immediate release, both physical and emotional.
Tuina, literally means push-grasp. It originates from China and was already an established discipline by 221 B.C. The many different hand techniques or massage strokes used in Tuina, can range from very rapid and invigorating, to slow and relaxing. In addition to this a Tuina practitioner applies stretches, stimulates meridians and acupoints, and maneuvers joints to nourish ligaments and tendons. Tuina is well known for it’s exceptional healing results.
Shiatsu, translated as finger pressure, is the youngest of the three modalities. It was developed in Japan in the early 1900’s as an independent therapy from their ancient traditional mas-sage called, Anma. Shiatsu’s consistent finger and hand pressure along acupoints, meridians, and anatomical structures helps to harmonize the flow of blood and energy throughout the body. A good Shiatsu treatment can be an extremely effective and healing experience.
In the present day search for holistic alternatives for health, more people are turning to eastern wisdom and integrating it within the western lifestyle. The eclectic approach has always proved best for optimal health as there is no single modality that is a cure-all for our ailments. But as our personal journey to healing deepens, we begin to see that the most powerful tool we possess is our awareness itself.
Rick Eyester is a LMT and certified Thai Yoga Massage prac-titioner. For info. call The Meridian @ 775-852-0446. www.themeridianreno.com.
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With so many different alterna-tive health modalities available to us, it can be overwhelming
choosing an option when we are seeking to regain or preserve our health naturally. A very valuable option in our Reno area is Dr. Jessica Edge, one of only a handful of medically-trained, certified Naturopaths in Northern Nevada. Dr. Edge, a fourth generation Nevadan, graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Dr. Edge’s interest in Naturopathy developed as an outgrowth of her research– she recog-nized the inherent link between nature and human wellness.
“Something shifted while I was in col-lege,” Jessica said “I came to believe that the body has an incredible ability to heal itself. Naturopathic medicine resonated with me.”
She left her hometown to attend the 4-year accredited National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Or-egon. Here she accomplished two years of science-based courses in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacol-ogy and pathology. The last two years she was trained in clinical Naturopathy. In Portland she completed multiple internships, including time working in homeless clinics, primary care offices, geriatrics and more. She moved back to Reno to be with her family and today is a nationally board-certified Naturopath, as well as a member of The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians. Dr. Edge practices at the Reno Alternative Medicine clinic.
You have probably heard of Naturopa-thy, but what exactly is it, and how can a Naturopath help you? Dr. Edge presented the seven key principles of a Naturopath to Healthy Beginnings Magazine:
1. First, do no harm– For instance, Dr. Edge is trained to understand drug and nutrient reactions and can help offset the side effects of medications.
2. The Healing Power of Nature–This is the principle that most attracted Dr. Edge to Naturopathic medicine. Naturopaths use minerals and western herbs to aid in healing. Hydrotherapy, the use of alter-nating cold and hot water, is also used by Naturopaths to alleviate allergies and digestive disturbances and to increase circulation.
3. Identify and treat the cause– One of the most defining principles of natural medicine is to reject the band-aid ap-proach to healing using prescription med-ications that only covers up symptoms. Instead, a Naturopath works diligently to uncover the root cause(s) of illness and then, to treat– this is a primary principle –a cornerstone– of Dr. Edge’s practice.
4. Treat the whole person– As part of her patient consultations, Dr. Edge assembles a comprehensive health history for each person, and performs a parallel review of symptoms by assessing lifestyle hab-its, energy levels, stress levels and sleep cycles. According to Dr. Edge, a common theme in illness is “chronic stress lead-ing to chronic disease, as well as mood disorders. Stress uses up all our coping mechanisms.”
5. The Doctor is a Teacher– “I spend a lot of time educating patients on what is going on in their body,” Dr. Edge says. This gives the patients an ability to see the big picture and how they can be in control of their health.
6. Prevention is the best cure - Keeping yourself healthy is far easier than trying to repair a health condition. Dr. Edge recommends being aware of genetic
predispositions by taking into account your immediate family’s history, and knowing what to focus on to preserve your health. A healthy diet, one that is customized to an individual’s needs, is one of the most important components of maintaining a healthy body. Dr. Edge believes in system detoxification to allay the negative consequences of our toxin-laden environment.
7. Establish health and wellness– Dr. Edge compares health to a staircase, the bottom of it representing poor health. Her primary goal is to help her patients reach the top.
When looking for an alternative health option Dr. Edge can aid with diet counsel-ing, digestive disturbances and women’s health. As an under-graduate student at the University of Nevada, Reno, Dr. Edge was primarily interested in women’s medicine. She felt then, as she does today, that there are not enough health options for women. In her practice Dr. Edge works with hormone imbalances, fibroids, fi-brocystic disease, PMS and menopause. She is also interested in the widespread side effects of birth control. Women today often complain of mood disorders, dwin-dling energy and bloating, all of which are commonly related to depletion of nutrients (e.g., B-vitamins which support a healthy nervous system) due to the use of birth control. Naturopaths are helpful in recognizing and alleviating possible medication side effects.
“As a Naturopath, I can stimulate the patient’s vital force and promote healing,” Dr. Edge says “Naturopathy stimulates healing by using the least invasive -- but most effective -- methods.”
To contact Dr. Edge, please find her ad on page 37.
Dr. Jessica Edge, B.S., N.D.“What is a Naturopath?”
By Erina Fischer
10 June 2007
Flashes &Floaters
Flashes and floaters are probably the two biggest concerns that patients bring to their optometrists. So what
are they? What do they indicate? Why do we get them?
Floaters are commonly described by the person experiencing them as specks, dots, threads, and “squigglies” or “spider webs” in the field of vision. They are particularly noticeable when reading, when looking at a blue sky, or at a blank, light-colored wall or bank of snow. What exactly are these objects that move when you move your eyes and seem to appear out of nowhere?
Actually called vitreous floaters, floaters are areas of liquid within the clear gel that fills the inside of the eye. This gel is the vitreous humor. It is almost perfectly transparent to light (i.e. light passes directly through it without being altered) but these small areas of liquefac-tion are not; instead, they scatter incident light and produce a showing effect on the retina. This is actually what you perceive when you notice a floater- it is not the object itself, but rather the shadow it casts on the retinal photoreceptors. These vit-reous floaters can range in size from tiny dots to areas large enough to look like a mouse running across the floor!!
Floaters themselves are usually com-pletely harmless; they might persist or they can settle below one’s line of vision over time and not be noticeable. Often, even if they do not go away or change position within the vitreous, the brain can simply “learn” to ignore them by em-ploying a process called “psychological disregard”. Floaters can be of concern, however, when many of them (potentially hundreds) suddenly appear and produce an effect much like a reddish-brown curtain being lowered over the field of vision. This type of effect is associated with a retinal tear or detachment and must be evaluated as soon as possible by a qualified eye care professional. These floaters are reddish-brownish in color (red blood cells) and are very small and uniformly round in shape, unlike normal floaters which may be several shades of gray or black, various shapes and sizes and do not suddenly appear in very large numbers.
A particularly large floater associated with retinal tears, may also be associated with flashes of light in the periphery of one’s field of vision. These flashes of light are the next topic we will explore.
Flashes of light off to the side of the field of vision are also intricately connect-ed with the vitreous humor. In addition to filling the inside of the eye and providing the structural integrity of the eyeball itself, the vitreous effectively “holds” the retina in place. Occasionally, the vitreous can pull away from the retina in a localized area. This is called a posterior vitreous detachment, or PVD, for short. PVDs are often harmless in and of themselves, but they can often result in the produc-tion of these flashes of light at the visual periphery. These flashes are caused by a stronger than normal, localized pulling force on the retina by the vitreous at the edges of the vitreous detachment. This extra pulling, or tractional, force results in a stimulation of the retinal photorecep-tors in that area – hence the perception of flashes of light. A single large floater or multiple floaters can also accompany a vitreous detachment.
These flashes of light may also be a symptom of a retinal tear or detachment. We always recommend seeing your eye care professional when flashes of light appear -- a retinal tear or detachment must be ruled out in these cases, since the signs and symptoms of a benign vitreous detachment can be SO similar to those of a retinal detachment. Similarly, when a multitude of floaters appear suddenly, particularly if they are reddish/brownish in color and obscuring any part of vision, the condition requires immediate, close scrutiny by an eye care professional.
Always remember, when in doubt about an eye condition, err on the safe and get it checked out quickly. You only have one set of eyes!
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GREENbuilding & SUSTAINABILITY
On April 19, 2007 nearly 400 residents participated in the City of Reno’s Green Summit event.
One of the Reno City Council’s top pri-orities is to create a green or “sustainable community” action plan for the coming fiscal year. As part of this effort, they will draw on local expertise and from the community to help determine what ad-ditional efforts the City government can do to benefit the environment.
The Green Summit was an opportunity for residents to participate in the devel-opment of plans to reduce emissions, improve energy efficiency, recycle, cre-ate sustainable building practices, use environmentally friendly products, and to protect our environment.
The keynote speaker was Bill Becker, a national expert on sustainable devel-opment.
Becker is the executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project and the organizer of the “National Leadership Summits for a Sustainable America,” a series of 4 conferences in 2006 and 2007 to advance America’s sustainability in a time of global warming. In 1996, he founded and directed the U.S. Depart-ment of Energy’s (DOE’s) Center of Excel-lence for Sustainable Development and its Smart Communities Network Website. Before joining the University of Colorado at Denver in January 2007 to direct the Presidential Climate Action Project, Becker was senior advisor to the Global Energy Center for Community Sustain-ability and an adjunct faculty member in the Colorado Energy Research Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. He served both functions while on sabbatical from DOE, where he was director of their Central Regional Office.
More recently, he organized and led a team of United States sustainable design
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experts to Beijing to help Chinese officials make the Olympic Village for the 2008 Olympic Games green. In 2006, he par-ticipated in providing advice on tsunami reconstruction in Thailand. Becker was one of three national experts deployed by the State of Louisiana to help residents of the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans plan “sustainable reconstruction” after Hurricane Katrina.
Following Mr. Becker’s address, community members and local experts participated in four breakout group dis-cussions on transportation, green build-ing, zero waste, and renewable energy initiatives for creating a more sustainable, green Reno.
If you are interested in reading more about the specific break out group discus-sions please visit our website at www.hbmag.com. As always Healthy Begin-nings Magazine will keep you abreast of what is happening in the Reno and Lake Tahoe Region regarding the efforts and actions of municipalities and residents In their on going quest to preserve our planet…Mother Earth.
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SUPPLEMENTS 101
This amazing Amazon super fruit comes from a palm tree that Bra-zilians call “the Tree of Life.” Acai,
(pronounced ah-sigh-ee) is being praised for its health improving and healing quali-ties by celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Wynonna Judd, James Taylor and NBC’s “Today Show”.
Why is this small, round fruit attracting so much attention? The reason is because the antioxidants (free radical fighters) in acai berries are uniquely powerful. Re-search shows that their dark, purple skin contains almost twice the antioxidant strength of pomegranates, more than
five times that of blueberries and 50 times as much as mangoes. The Acai berry offers a powerful � pronged attack against free radicals and the damage they cause:
1. They prevent free radicals from form-ing in the body. 2. They scavenge existing free radicals before they can damage the body. 3. They repair or replace molecules damaged by free radicals.
The Acai contains several nutrients known for their immune-supporting char-acteristics, including the tried and proven beta-carotene, beta-sitosterol, vitamins C and E, magnesium, zinc, selenium, ly-sine, polyphenolic flavonoids, anthocyanins and other anti-oxidants. These immune boost-ers sustain or-gans and glands such as; thymus, spleen, liver and lymph nodes, plus bone marrow, that are vital in supporting the im-mune system.
A single serving of acai berries can provide over �0 times the amount of health-boosting anthocyanins as red wine and all the beneficial fatty acids of olive oil, without the health diminishing factors of alcohol, fat and sugar found in the wine or oil.
Studies show that anthocyanins en-hance blood circulation, relax blood ves-sels, and promote normal clotting. They help you maintain healthy blood pressure
levels and even boost your memory, mood, libido and sexual performance.
Acai berries are extremely high in es-sential fatty acids and the omegas. Essen-tial fatty acids have been shown to relieve joint stiffness, boost immune function and promote healthy cholesterol levels. Linoleic (omega 6) and oleic (omega 9) are monounsaturated essential fatty acids which help to lower LDL (harmful choles-terol) while maintaining HDL (beneficial
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that can measure the antioxidant activity of any substance and give it a number. The higher the ORAC number - the stronger the antioxidant properties of the substance.
The USDA recommends we consume �,000 to 5,000 ORAC units daily. In truth, 80% of the population is consuming less than 1,000 ORAC units a day. The USDA recommended an ORAC score of about 1,750 units. Fruits and vegetables tend to have the highest ORAC values. Apples score a 218, Bananas a 221 and blueberries 2,400. What about the Acai berry? Acai has an amazing �871 ORAC score per 1000 mg.
Other Benefits Of Acai Berries:For men, there is life beyond BHP (benign hypertrophic
prostate or swelling of the prostate). The acai comes from the same family as the saw palmetto berry and also contains high amounts of phytosterols, the powerful plant compound shown to promote prostate health. Multiple studies suggest phytosterols can reduce frequent and painful urination, ease prostate swell-ing and support long-term prostate health.
Want to feel good and breathe deep? Acai berry also con-tains theobromine, a natural mood enhancer and bronchial dilator. It may help to relieve the symptoms of asthma and/or allergies without using harmful stimulants and suffering their side affects.
Tired of hormone enhanced milk products? Surprisingly, acai berries contain more useable calcium than milk. Plus they sup-ply other crucial minerals like chromium (for sugar balance), manganese, and boron, making them especially good for your bones and teeth.
Considering the proven research and anecdotal claims for its healing qualities and for improving health, it’s no wonder people have sworn by acai’s revitalizing, energizing properties.
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Greetings one and all! There’s a slew of good living to be had so I’ll be brief. I’m Taylor Donovan, DC (Doctor of Chiro-practic). One of my primary missions is to simply remind you that your life is a miracle to be enjoyed while supplies last. Saying it is the easy part, putting it into action is the thrilling part. I have been the benefactor of many magnificent experiences. The tapestry of my lifeline has moved through the following threads: a study of cellular bi-ology and medical anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, eight-years of working with teenagers and families with youth-at-risk adolescents in a wilderness setting, an immersive �-year stewardship on a permaculture farm on the big island of Hawaii and a homestead in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, Chiropractic School, and lately, to the domain of natural living and com-munity wellness through Health for Life Chiropractic and Wellness Center in Reno.
I’ll remind you that you are champions of life -- being the byproduct of the sperm that beat out mil-lions of others to find a host in that one magnificent egg that became you, and laid the foundation for the body through which you experience your life. Now treat yourself like the champion that you are and flesh out a way of being in the world that suits your deep-est calling. The truth is that we have an opportunity to live a magnificent and righteous life that can be of benefit to ourselves and to all of those lives that we are interconnected with. I chose to dedicate my life to the study and practice of health because it is the cornerstone of the activities that sustains the quality in my life.
In this column you will find stories of activities and people in the area that are creating and provid-ing opportunities for the wellspring within to move outward into our community. Your correspondence is encouraged via e-mail or phone.
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Getting More Out of Your Vegetable Garden Naturally
Many gardeners have learned through experience which plants flourish or fail whenthey are planted near each other. This chart is for the rest of us, who need all the helpwe can get in our monumental efforts to produce a successful backyard or communitygarden – one that yields great quantities of exquisitely delicious and superbly-scentedfruits and vegetables. Fresh, crunchy, beautiful and bursting with nutrients & vitamins!A cornucopia of information including regional specifics can be found online.
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Asparagus Basil, marigolds, parsley, tomatoes Garlic, onions
Beans Cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn,cucumbers, eggplant, marigolds, potatoes,strawberries
Beets, cabbages,kohlrabi, onions
Broccoli Beets, carrots, celery, cucumbers, kale, lettuce,marigolds, onions, potatoes, spinach
Pole beans,strawberries, tomatoes
Cabbage See broccoli See broccoli
Carrots Bush beans, brussel sprouts, cabbage, leaf lettuce,leeks, marigolds, onions, peppers, red radishes,tomatoes
Pole beans, strawberries
Corn Bush beans, cabbage, cantaloupes, cucumbers,early potatoes, leaf lettuce, marigolds, peas, redradishes, squash
No known aversions
Cucumbers Bush beans, cabbage, corn, lettuce, peas, radishes,tomatoes
Potatoes
Eggplants Bush beans, marigolds, peppers No known aversions
Onions&/or garlic
Beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, kohlrabi, leeks,lettuce, parsnips, peppers, roses, strawberries,tomatoes, turnips
Asparagus, beans, peas
Peas Beans, carrots, celery, corn, cucumbers, marigolds,potatoes, radishes, turnips
Garlic, onions
Peppers Carrots, eggplants, marigolds, onions, parsnips,tomatoes
No known aversions
Potatoes Bush beans, cabbage, corn, horseradish, eggplant,marigolds, parsnips, peas, raspberries, rutabagas
Cucumbers, pumpkins,tomatoes, turnips
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Life is Problems: Stress Relief in a Stressed-Out Society
NOTE: The Feldenkrais Method‚, a movement-based learning format, was developed by Dr. Moshé Feldenkrais (1904-84), an Israeli physicist who worked at the Curie Institute in Paris. A series of crippling knee injuries left him unable to walk, facing surgery and a poor prognosis; instead he treated himself. After a long struggle, Feldenkrais taught himself to walk again without pain, and refined his methods, (Awareness Through Movement‚ (ATM) and Functional Integration‚) to teach and help others.
Life is, in essence, a series of problems. Our earliest problems are “Where’s food? I’m hungry” or “I’m tired and need to sleep.” We graduate to bigger problems: “How can I reach that cookie jar, way up there on the counter?” Pretty soon, we are solving problems like: “Do I ask him out on a date?”
Then we have problems like buying and maintaining a house, relating to another person in a long-term, committed rela-tionship (or not!) and all of the wonderful problems of parenting. The more we mature, the bigger and better our problems seem to get.
When problem-solving is not fun or challenging in a positive way, it causes stress. We all know when stress gets to be too much — and the damage it can cause. But our problems aren’t going to go away. So how can we learn to handle them?
When I first took a weekly Awareness Through Movement® class, it was an island of sanity and relaxation in my insanely stressed-out life. I spent at least 20 minutes of every class fast asleep!
Learning to identify and respect my physical, mental and emotional limits has been gradual, but the quality of my life is
now so improved, I can’t imagine how I lived like that. I now use my body as a barometer and listen to it when it tells me where my limits are. I still accomplish a lot, but only if I take the nonlinear approach I learned in those Feldenkrais® classes.
Thus Awareness Through Movement® classes are a down-to-earth approach to dealing with the problems of life. In an ATM class, participants explore solutions to various movement challenges. This transforms “problem-solving” into fun, as it was when we were children. ATM helps us learn to handle stress in two ways simultaneously: physically and mentally:
On the physical side, ATM lessons release us from our habits of hunching the shoulders, holding or restricting the breath, locking the chest and rib cage, tensing the belly, and oth-erwise preparing to fight or flee. ATM teaches us ways to notice those signs of stress and de-stress our selves throughout the day.
On the mental side, ATM helps us identify and respect our limits, and to focus on the process, instead of chasing one goal after another with nothing but stress in between.
Moshe Feldenkrais insisted everyone should have at least three distinct options for doing every action. The more options avail-able, the more chances of drawing upon one of the previously “superfluous” options in handling an unexpected problem. Respecting our limits is often a new experience, as there is little cultural support for it. If you begin to identify and respect your limits, be prepared for resistance—respecting your limits is a revolutionary thing to do. But it is an idea whose time has come, and you will be a role model for others when they see you at peace, with plenty of time to spare.
Improved Awareness Leads to Greater Workplace Comfort
So many of our repetitive postures began in childhood that we are barely aware of them any longer. Even as adults, rep-
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Lessons release us from our habits of hunching the shoulders, hold-ing or restricting the breath, locking the
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Teaching the body how to re-program thebrain is the Feldenkrais ‘miracle ’
• Release unhealthy postural habits: hunching the shoulders, holding thebreath, locking the chest and rib cage, belly tension, fight/flight anxiety.
• Functional Integration lessons can produce remarkable improvement inneuromuscular conditions and trauma, including back, neck and shoulderpain; stiffness and immobility; brain injury, stroke, and cerebral palsy.
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Awareness and etition deadens our physical awareness -- our brains basically stop noticing when we are not comfortable. Many computer users, for example, extend their mousing arm far from their body while working, and unnecessarily hold up the weight of their whole arm.
If we unconsciously hold our heads forward while work-ing on the computer, we place a similarly unnecessary strain on our shoulders and neck. But we usually don’t notice these unnecessary tensions until we are in pain! By then, of course, damage or injury to tissues may have already occurred.
Increased sensory awareness helps us to notice sooner when our unconscious postures are moving toward strain and injury. The Feldenkrais Method® teaches us how to improve our awareness of our physical status, and provides options for sitting, moving and rebalancing our weight. With new choices for movement, the nervous system can adapt more quickly and thus modify our postures before real strain or damage sets in – even while we are deep in thought and hard at work.
Mini- Awareness Through Movement® EASY FLEXIBILITY LESSON
To do this lesson, sit at the edge of your chair.
1. Turn your head to look to the right. Notice if there is any strain or pain in the movement and if you hold your breath. Do it again and notice where do you initiate the movement from.
2. Repeat this simple movement, but reduce the effort. Don’t go to the limit. Make the movement light as though floating through air or oil.
�. Now leave the head in the middle and turn both shoulders to the right. The left shoulder comes forward as the right shoulder goes backward. Again reduce the effort and repeat several times, don’t hold your breath, and make the movement lighter each time.
4. Turn your head a few times to the right and notice if more of you participates in the movement now. Is it a little easier? Pause a few seconds in the middle.
5. This time leave the head in the middle, but move your left knee a little bit forward so that the pelvis rotates, with the left side of the pelvis coming forward and the right side going backward. Repeat several times without strain or holding the breath.
6. Now again turn your head to the right and let all the parts of yourself participate.
Is the movement easier now? Do you turn further? Do you initiate the movement from a different place than you did in the beginning? Can you feel how using more of yourself has freed the head and neck?
7. Repeat the same sequence, turning to the other side.
For more information about the Feldenkrais Method® or for a catalogue of tapes, workshops and trainings contact Feldenkrais Resources at www.feldenkraisresources.com or call 800-765-1907. Find ad on page 16.
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Neurologists would define Epi-lepsy as a neurological disorder that causes seizures and brain
malfunctions. I would define Epilepsy as a challenge I have lived with for almost 22 years. I also don’t consider it a disorder. Epilepsy is a big responsibility, but you get used to after a while. Getting used to it hasn’t been an easy journey for me.
I believe that I got Epilepsy from a childhood brain injury. When I was � years old I was climbing on my bookshelf and I pulled it down on top of me. That night I had my first seizure. Normally, doctors wait and see if you have more than one seizure before diagnosing you with Epilepsy. So when I was six and had another seizure, I was officially diagnosed as epileptic and put on a prescription
of Phenobarbital. At age ten, I had yet another seizure. Needless to say, my neurologist changed my prescription to Tegretol, and I haven’t had a seizure since -- for almost 19 years.
Was my life perfect after Tegretol? No. It was far from perfection. As a young child, I had a cloud of insecurities hang-ing over my head. I figured no one would want to be friends with me because of the Epilepsy. I began writing stories to take my mind off it. I just couldn’t accept be-ing different -- I wanted to have friends like all the “normal” kids at school. I felt out of place and I thought everyone was pointing and laughing at me. Not every-one was though.
In second grade, I met my best friend. I won’t mention her name, but she has
been there for me through the good and bad times. She has been through her share of problems too, but so has everyone. I realize today that I am better off than a lot of people with Epilepsy. Some people have to wear helmets so they don’t injure themselves when they have seizures.
Epilepsy is not only caused by head injuries. It can also result from drugs and alcohol abuse. Alcohol isn’t healthy for anyone, but to someone with Epilepsy drinking alcohol is like inhaling carbon monoxide. And why do you think they put the birth defect warnings on cigarette packages? Because if you smoke, your child runs the risk of being born with Epilepsy. Birth defects, you see, also include brain trauma. Lack of sleep, poor diet, a traumatic experience, or many over-the-counter drugs can sometimes cause seizures.
There are certain symptoms that come with having Epilepsy such as spac-ing off, fatigue, and nausea, which are minor problems. The more important is-sues are depression, anxiety, thoughts of or attempted suicide. I have had them all. When I’ve had such episodes, I would be alone in my bedroom. I’d pace back and forth while thoughts of suicide swirled around in my head.
The brain is in constant overdrive when you are anxious or depressed. All you do is think about how you are feel-ing. The real world is of no importance to you. You don’t want to be around friends or family. You think everyone is against you and they don’t care. Yes, it can be called acting like a teenager, but not when you’re 25.
Some people have told me it’s normal to have such feelings. O.K. But to plan your funeral and write out your will when you’re young and in good health? This doesn’t seem normal to me. Not to men-tion planning the day you are going to end your life. I’ve done all these things.
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I used to pray to God asking him why he put me on this earth to torture me. I would beg him to end my life that night so I wouldn’t have to suffer through another horrible day. This is what depression is like, though people who haven’t experi-enced it don’t know it.
Being stuck in your own little world also engenders other abnormalities and excesses, like obsession and jealousy. But being able to talk about all your problems with loved ones helps tremendously. Having family and friends around whom you have trust completely to support you is a huge help throughout all this. But talking with your parents isn’t easy because they take your mistakes as just an intentional way to break the rules, instead of as a learning experience. You definitely learn more by going out and making mistakes than staying at home watching Lifetime movies with your mom.
Still, I must say my parents raised me right. I am a strong, open-minded woman with a legal craving for adventure. I don’t drink, smoke, or do drugs, but I do love staying out past midnight with my boyfriend. So all in all, I am very happy with my life and where it is headed. And just as with my Epilepsy, I am ready to accept whatever challenges life has in store for me in the future.
How can you help someone who is having a seizure?
1. Stay calm- don’t try to restrain or revive the person. If the person is seated, help ease him/her to the floor.
2. Remove hazards such as hard or sharp objects that could cause injury if the person falls or knocks against them.
3. Don’t move the person far unless the area is clearly danger-ous, such as a busy street.
4. Loosen tight clothing and remove glasses.
5. Protect airways by gently turning the person on one side so any fluid in the mouth can drain safely.
6. Never try to force something into the person’s mouth!
7. Don’t call an ambulance unless the seizure lasts more than five minutes, or is immediately followed by another one, or if the person is pregnant, ill, or injured.
8. Be calm and reassuring because the person may feel disori-ented or embarrassed after having a seizure. When the seizure ends, let the person rest or sleep.
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Nasya TherapyCONSCIOUShealth
“…a tree grows well when its roots are free from defects, so the body grows properly only if the head is free from diseases…”-Charaka Samhita
Imagine lying back onto a soft massage table and relaxing into a sumptuous face, neck and shoulder massage with an ancient blend of warm, aromatic natural oils. Imagine
a luxurious aromatherapy steam facial, complemented with the absolute best in high quality organic essential oils wafting through the air and absorbing into your skin for the ultimate in healing. Imagine that this is actually a treatment for disease! But you don’t have to imagine…
This beautiful application of oil and heat ready the body for Nasya, the ancient Ayurvedic nasal application of herbal medicine. Nasya is one of the five main therapies of Pancha Karma, but is also powerful medicine as a stand-alone thera-py. A unique and profound treatment that has been utilized for centuries, Nasya is considered one of the best forms of medicine to address any imbalance above the shoulders. Tra-ditionally, Ayurveda has utilized Nasya for everything from al-
lergies and sinusitis to tinnitus, neck pain, in-somnia, convulsions, migraines, memory loss, emotional stress, and the inability to express
oneself – and so much more.
In Ayurvedic medicine the nose is the door to the brain, and to consciousness. Imbalances in the
body are due to excess dosha (vata, pitta, or kapha) or ama (toxins). Nasya’s purpose, on the physical and subtle
level, is to remove excess dosha and ama from the neck up. Administering the herbal formulas via the nasal passage al-lows for direct healing action on the brain, sinus and nasal passages, and nervous system. Dr. David Frawley, a renowned Ayurvedic Practitioner, advocates that “…right function of the nasal passages is necessary to keep our minds and senses clear and sharp.”
Prana is a Sanskrit word that means “breath”, or vital life energy. It is the life energy which flows through the nadis, or subtle energy channels of the body, and chakras, and vitalizes every cell of our being. The nose is the first site where Prana is absorbed. Nasya Therapy clarifies the mind and conscious-ness by increasing our ability to absorb Prana, or life energy, and elevates the spirit.
According to the Charaka Samhita, the oldest and most important writings on Ayurveda, the head is one of the three vital organs of the body. Rhinitis is the most important of the diseases of the head, as it can give rise to several others if it is not properly treated and lifestyle changes are not instituted. Acute rhinitis appears as the common cold. Hay fever is a form of seasonal rhinitis and nasal allergies can be deemed perennial rhinitis. For all of these, the Charaka Samhita recom-mends inhalation therapy – Nasya – as well as dosha-alleviat-ing food and drink.
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Siro-roga – Diseases of the HeadExcess Dosha:
VATA (air & ether)Physical Symptoms: post-nasal drip, sneezing, tinnitus, nervous system dis-eases in the brain and sense organs, dryness, loss of sense of smell, itching, atrophy, convulsions, dizziness, insom-nia, memory loss, allergies, stiffness in the neck and shoulders
Mental/Emotional Symptoms: worry, anxiety, overwhelm, nervousness, fear, spaceyness, emptiness, indecisiveness
Excess Dosha:
PITTA (fire & water)Physical Symptoms: inflamed sinuses, migraines, burning eyes, conjunctivitis, hair loss, hemor-rhage, convulsions, toxicity
Mental/Emotional Symptoms: anger, in-tensity, being critical, resentment, jealousy, ir-ritability
Excess Dosha:
KAPHA (water & earth)Physical Symptoms: congestion, blocked sinuses, excess mucous production, sticky eyes, edema, heavy head, tumors, convulsions, excess sleep
Mental/Emotional Symptoms: brain fog, depression, over-attachment, greed, melancholy
If any of these symptoms are some-thing you are presently experiencing, then Nasya Therapy may be just what you’ve been searching for to help you achieve optimal health and peace of mind. The proof of the benefit of Nasya therapy lies in the fact that it has suc-cessfully been treating siro-roga (diseas-es of the head) for many centuries. More recently there have been many scientific studies in India confirming the effective-ness of Nasya.
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More Tips to Try:1. Olive oil: Use to lubricate, clean and polish wood furniture and panels (� parts olive oil to 1 part vinegar; or 2 parts olive oil to 1 part lemon juice).2. Potatoes: Potatoes cut in half can remove rust from metal pans; follow with a salt scrub or dip the potato in salt before scrubbing.3. White vinegar: Cleans linoleum floors, counters and when mixed with water and (add a little liquid soap for tough jobs). It cuts grease and removes stains, and removes soap scum and cleans toilets (add a little baking soda if you like). Pour down drains once a week for antibacterial cleaning. Use in a spray bottle to kill mold and mildew.4. Tea tree oil: Can be added to vin-egar/water solutions for its antibacte-rial properties. Use it to kill mold and mildew, and on kitchen and bathroom surfaces in place of chemical products. Add 50 drops to a bucket of water to clean countertops and tile floors.
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Professionally and caringly adminis-tered, Nasya Therapy can begin to help you as soon as you come in for your first visit. With the information gathered at your initial consultation, dosha-specific herbs and oils are blended to address your specific needs. Nasya can be ben-eficial for tonification or purification, based upon the underlying imbalance. Improve the function of your mind and senses - begin Nasya treatment today!
Frawley, Dr. David, and Dr. Subhash Ranade. Ayurveda: Nature’s Medicine. Twin Lakes, WI: Lotus Press, 2001.Halpern, Dr. Marc. Principles of
Ayurvedic Medicine, 5th ed. Grass Valley, CA: Califor-
nia College of Ayurveda, 2003.
Lad, Dr. Vasant. Ayurveda: The Sci-ence of Self-Healing. Twin Lakes, WI: Lo-tus Press, 1984.Ranade, Prof. Dr. Subhash and Prof. Dr. Avinash Lele. Pancha Karma and Ayurvedic Mas-
sage. Delhi, India: Chaukhambha San-
skrit Pratishthan, 2004.Sharma, R.K., Bhag-
wan Dash, trans. Caraka Samhita. Varanasi, India:
Chaukhambha Sanskrit Series Of-fice, 1992.
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22 June 2007
Self esteem is the basis of all our accomplishments. We have to believe we can do something or we can never pull it off.
But because of derogatory input from the people who matter most, we are often programmed to believe that we are not capable of doing much with our lives. This is an extremely unfortunate
situation, but the psychology profession believes that about 85% of all families are dysfunctional, so if we have low self esteem, we are certainly not alone.
Parents, teachers or other authority figures in our lives may not have MEANT to handicap us in that way, but they didn’t realize the impact their words had. Siblings and peers have a huge influ-ence on our self-esteem as well.
Your subconscious mind is a non-valu-ing organism. It just accepts everything you hear, feel, read, see or experience as the absolute truth. As we grow older, our conscious mind learns to reason, and to reject certain statements as untrue, but the subconscious mind lacks that reasoning ability. In addition, when you hear words that are delivered with great emotion, either positive or negative, that emotion embeds those words even deeper into your subconscious.
So if you were told over and over that you were stupid, lazy, unattractive or whatever, the emotion those words evoked caused you to believe them even more, and the repetition sealed the deal. On the other hand, if you were told you could achieve anything you wanted, then you have a completely different view of life. Those positive thoughts will help you to consider new ideas, to risk, to step out into life knowing the positive truth about yourself, that you can achieve anything you set your mind to.
People with higher self esteem are more inclined to focus on their strong points rather than their flaws, and have a general sense of happiness. They tend to choose more compatible mates, friends and careers.
People with low self esteem are inclined to have perceptions of guilt and helpless-ness and are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol. Depression and suicide are
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also associated with low self esteem. As children, those with low self esteem are more likely to become bullies.
The good news is that you aren’t permanently stuck with the negative
programming that you may have received. Through hyp-nosis, new pos-
itive ideas about yourself can be instilled, which will cause you to act in completely different ways. During hypnosis, sug-gestions and directions are given to your subconscious mind, which can cause the original programming to have less and less effect. The new positive program-ming seems to reduce the impact of the old words of lack and limitation. Science does not know exactly why that works, but scientists in this field know that it does work.
Shirley McNeal, Ph.D., recipient of the 200� Milton Erickson Award for Scientific Excellence, is the author of more than 20 scientific papers. Her recently published work on the use of hypnosis for “Ego Strengthening” is recognized nationwide as the standard by the clinical hypnosis community.
As an example of how negative pro-gramming can work, if you verbally admired an especially beautiful home when you were a child, and your parents said, “Oh, rich people are unhappy,” or “rich people are crooks,” then those state-ments are in your subconscious mind, continuing to quietly tell you that rich people are unhappy or unethical, so your programming won’t ALLOW you to be wealthy, because of those words spoken so long ago, words which your conscious mind actually may have forgotten. In the meantime, you don’t understand why you have such a hard time making sales calls, why you are uncomfortable around wealthy people, or why you can’t seem to get beyond a certain salary.
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How safe are these? Did you know that industrial chemicals are the basic ingredients in these products? Check the label on your favorite lotions and you will find a list of anywhere from a few to sever-al dozen ingredients, many of which you can’t pronounce. You will find on most labels ingre-dients such as pro-pylene glycol, the main ingredient in antifreeze, as well as numerous alco-hol and petroleum based ingredients. Since the companies are not required to list all the ingredients on the label, you have no way of knowing what other objectionable, toxic products may be in it.
The average person applies 126 unique ingredients to their skin on a daily basis.
No premarket safety testing required — this is a reality of both the personal care product industry and the broader chemical industry as a whole. For indus-
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Not only are all ingredients NOT listed on the label there is insufficient safety data on many ingredients that are listed. Possible adverse effects include, eye, skin and lung irritants, and allergies. Some ingredients have been classified as toxic and cancer hazards. Immune and Reproductive systems can also be adversely affected.
Your skin is the largest organ in your body. Whatever is applied to the skin is absorbed in less than one minute. Check it out for yourself by peeling a clove of garlic and
standing on it with your bare foot and see how soon you taste garlic in your mouth.
It isn’t easy finding a skin moisturizer that is truly “natural” and chemical free. It means checking the label and knowing what ingredients are harmful and what aren’t. Look for cold pressed oils and emollients and natural fragrances.
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24 June 2007
COOKINGforHEALTH
As temperatures rise and daylight lengthens, people begin to move into play mode. The climate of
this wonderful season presents the op-portunity to enjoy the outdoors, and to celebrate the exciting and refreshing flavors of summer cuisine. Summer rolls, a delightful Vietnamese dish is the perfect way to jump into a summer filled with healthy flavors. The rolls are served either cold or at room temperature. Traditionally summer rolls are delicate, flexible rice paper filled with mint, basil, lettuce, rice vermicelli and shrimp or pork. The rolls are typically served with a light peanut sauce.
Method of Preparation:
For the rice papers:Ingredients: 12 rice papers (found in the Asian section of most grocery stores)Take 12 paper towels and dampen with cold water. On a separate plate, layer the wet paper towels and rice papers so that each rice paper is sandwiched between two paper towels. Let the rice papers ab-sorb the moisture for about 5 minutes. The woven designs on each rice paper should be almost gone and the rice papers will be pliable rather than hard.
For the salad mix and Fresh Herbs:Ingredients: 2 cups broccoli slaw 1/4 cup of diced tomatoes1/4 cup micro greens1/4 cup thinly sliced cucumber� leaves of basil6 leaves of fresh mintSlice cucumber into very thin spears and set aside. Stack basil leaves and roll tightly. Hold in place and cut in very thin slices at an angle. This process is called chiffonade. Set basil aside with cucumber and fresh mint. These ingredients will be added to the final construction the rolls.Pour 2 cups of broccoli slaw and diced to-matoes into a small mixing bowl. Drizzle the mixture with rice vinegar and toss.
For the Tofu:Ingredients:Six small slices of firm tofu (1/4” x 1”) 2 tablespoons honey2 limes 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper 1 tablespoon sesame seeds1 tablespoon peanut oil or vegetable oil Begin by juicing each lime into a small mixing bowl. Add all other ingredients and mix. Coat each slice of tofu in mix-ture and set aside. Heat a small sauté pan over medium heat. When the pan is hot, add the peanut oil and disperse it evenly. Now place slices of the tofu in the pan and brown for about a minute on each side. When finished, remove from pan to cool slightly.
For the Shrimp: Ingredients: 6 medium sized pre-cooked shrimpFor the Indonesian Peanut SauceIngredients: 1 cup smooth peanut butter1/4 cup soy sauce1 cup brown sugar2 tablespoons lime juice2 tablespoons rice vinegar1 1/2 teaspoon garlic1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Fresh Summer RollsBy Jillana Miller
1 teaspoon crushed red chili pepper1 bunch of green onion1 bunch of cilantro 1 cup chili sauce This list of ingredients may appear over-whelming. However the preparation is simple. The only items that need to be chopped are the garlic and the green onion. After chopping these items, add all the ingredients into a food proces-sor or a blender. Blend until smooth. The recipe makes a lot of sauce, which is great because it is very versatile. By adding a little rice vinegar you can make an excellent Asian style salad dressing. Indonesian peanut sauce is also a great addition to stir-fry.
Assembling the Rolls:Now that the prep work is done, it is time to roll. Place one sheet of rice paper on a clean surface. Spoon a small amount of salad mix in the center of the rice paper. Atop the salad, layer tofu and or shrimp, micro greens, cucumber, basil and fresh mint. To roll, grab the left and right sides of the rice paper and pull toward the center as far as possible. Hold these sides in this position, while you tightly roll the bottom side up and over these ends; like a burrito. Repeat this step with a second sheet of rice paper to prevent the roll from falling apart. If you have never done this before, your first roll may be a little sloppy. Don’t worry. You’ll do better as you practice with the next ones! Remember that this recipe is just one variation of summer rolls. After enjoying these, you may find yourself brainstorm-ing what additions may delight your flavor preferences. This dish invites your creativity. Now relax and enjoy -- sum-mer is here!
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You are what you eat. Although we have heard this com-ment many times in our lives, many people have never stopped to think about what this statement is actually
telling us. Food is the core building component of our bodies. The foundation upon which your body is built is made from what you consume. Thomas Jefferson said that the doctors of the future will not use medicines but rather proper diet for their patient’s well being.
Imagine the impact that this has on you personally. Control over your health and the health of your family is right in your own kitchen. I haven’t talked with a naturopathic doctor yet that does not include a change in diet as part of a program to help their patients heal. Stop for just a moment to examine what this means. It means that most people are not eating optimally. With this in mind, let’s explore food as the foundation for living a vibrant healthy life.
I think most people know that they could use a shift in their diets to create better health. What I suggest is to add these good foods into your diet without first cooking the life out of them. When we eat fresh whole foods in their natural state, they are pre-packaged as a whole unit with components that work together to provide the nutrition and fuel our bodies want and need. When we apply heat, take components out, add synthetic products, or alter food from its original design, we are literally playing with “fire”. Many of us have lived for years under the assumption that cooking food is absolutely appropriate and even optimal. We don’t even think about it, yet when you start to look at this process it seems so obvious that the food itself has lost vitality. It has lost nutrition and in some cases even become toxic, as in the process of charbroiling or caramelizing. Most of us now know that it is recommended we not overcook our vegetables due to the loss of valuable nutrition. My question is this: why should we even partially cook the nutrition out of our food?
What then is optimal eating? What foods contribute to vi-brant health? Which foods can your body digest, assimilate, and eliminate efficiently? Fresh, whole, raw, fruits and vegetables are at the top of the list. Many people have eliminated the symptoms and causes of serious health issues by adopting this way of eating. But with few exceptions, most people are not eating enough fresh fruits and vegetables. If you have chosen not to eat fresh fruits and vegetables because you experience discomfort when eating these foods, I would suggest that you do some type of detoxification program and then try them again. By adding these foods into your diet you will see great benefits in a short time.
Does it have to be boring or a chore? Not at all! Learn to make healthy eating fun by incorporating raw food recipes into your regime. Recipes like spaghetti with marinara sauce, tacos, fudge balls, date nut bread with butter and jam, and even ice cream all have a raw cuisine equivalent – and many of them taste much richer than food that has had the flavors
cooked out! Using raw food recipes is a very effective means of adding more excellent raw nutrients into your diet and to begin the transition to a predominantly OR even 100% raw food diet.
Hippocrates, the Father of Medi-cine said, “Let food be thy medicine”. I would add, “Eat primar-ily whole foods in their natural raw state”. If you apply these concepts you will live in optimal health through prevention. What will you do with all of that extra energy? Perhaps build a life worthy of you.
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Improve & Protect Your Garden
KNOWyourHERBS
Most plants favor a companion-type arrangement in the herb garden. The plants that are
planted closely together affect each other in a variety of different ways. For instance plants with many large leaves can be used by smaller plants nearby as protec-tion from the heat of the sun or vigorous winds. Hedges provide shelter from the wind or sun and warmth for nearby plants and herbs in the herb garden.
Some plants will attract useful birds and bees to the herb garden. Planting your garden with this in mind is an easy way to enhance pollination. Beneficial insects that act as valuable pollinators can be drawn to the herb garden by many of the more common flowering plants. Bees and other pollinating insects can be at-
tracted to the garden by borage, hyssop, and thyme, among others.
Certain fragrant herbs are useful when planted among vegetables. Some herbs can act as repellants when grown near other plants or when you make an infu-sion and use it as a spray. For example, the carrot fly finds its victims by scent, and can be confused by planting aromatic herbs close by. These are some of the most effective repellants: chives, garlic, lavender, nasturtium, pennyroyal, tansy, thyme, sage, and wormwood.
Planting garlic in between roses will increase their perfume and also helps the roses to fight off *black spot*. Many gardeners have sown legumes into fallow fields, knowing that it is good for the soil, yet unaware that legumes add nitrogen.
As a general rule fragrant herbs - chives, hyssop, marjoram, parsley, sage, and thyme - are beneficial in maintain-ing the health of the vegetable garden. Their benefits have not been analyzed scientifically but a number of garden-ers have reported improvements in the general health of their vegetables when inter-planting with these herbs.
Here is a sampling of herbal compan-ions that can improve your gardening results: * Basil repels flying insects if planted ‘tween tomato plants. * Borage planted with strawberries will attract bees for pollination and improve the crop yield. * Caraway, buckwheat, and flax will improve the general soil of your planting area. * Chives will prevent scab in apple trees and will prevent black spot in roses. * Chamomile planted with onions will repel flying insects and improve crop yield. Chamomile is known by many gardeners as “the plant’s physician”, as it is beneficial to the surrounding plants in any garden.
* Coriander planted with anise im-proves the flavor of anise and attract bees to the garden, which will increase pollination. * Dill & fennel will attract beneficial insects to your garden. * Hyssop will improve the crop yield of grape vines. * French marigolds will repel aphids that may attack a tomato crop and ward off pests from bedding plants. * Mint in the garden will repel flies and cabbage grubs. * Nasturtium, when planted near apple trees, will ward off aphids and when planted near tomatoes will attract the blackfly to itself, and therefore away from the tomatoes. * Nettle will control blackfly and can improve the oil content of angelica nearby. * Pennyroyal repels ants and is there-fore generally beneficial to any herb or vegetable garden. * Rosemary repels the carrot fly and is a good companion for sage. * Sage is a wonderful companion crop for many other plants. It will repel cab-bage moths from your cabbages and will repel a large number of harmful flying insects, especially those around vines and predators of rosemary. * Summer savory will attract bees to your garden and will enhance the growth of beans. . * Tarragon and Yarrow are known to be generally therapeutic in the garden. When you are planning your herb gar-den, pay attention to the companions. It may make your job a lot easier and your garden a delightful joy. Happy herb gardening!
From http://www.greenplanet.com.au/(The herbal information presented here is not a substitute for your Professional Health care. If you are under the care of a physician, please consult him/her before trying any remedies, be they herbal or otherwise. If you have any serious problems, see your Doctor.)
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Improve & Protect Your GardenOrganic is a versatile word used
commonly to describe systems or processes that parallel those in
nature. Organic decision-making refers to people working harmoniously together; an organic lifestyle means to live simply and cleanly. In business, organic growth describes the process of increasing pro-duction at an intelligent pace; an organic organization is one that is adaptable and evolving. And more broadly, organic is a key concept differentiating between liv-ing and non-living matter.
We often talk about food being grown organically, and many people will go far out of their way to ensure that they are consuming organic products. But what exactly is organic food? What does or-ganic food mean?
The term was popularized in the 1960s and 70s by people who sought to localize food systems by creating networks of small-scale farms. To them, the concept of organic went far beyond simply growing food without the use of petrochemical pesticides and fertilizers. They envisioned long-term soil health, economic prosperity for growers, and a short supply chain from producer to consumer. In short, “healthy, fresh and sustainable” in today’s jargon.
After food scares in the 1980s that were related to the use of synthetic ma-terials (inputs) in conventional agricul-ture, the demand for organically grown food exploded. Many growers expanded dramatically to meet the demand. Non-organic producers saw a burgeoning new market of consumers willing to pay top dollar for such products. Organic produc-ers sought government support to create legal organic standards and a system of oversight -- and thus the organic certifica-tion program was born.
Today “Organic” has a very clear agricultural definition. For a farm to be considered “organic”, it must be certified by an agency accredited by the USDA based on standards set by the National
Organic Program. Many of these certify-ing agencies are private organizations, and some are also state run. The Nevada Department of Agriculture has its own certifying agency.
For the farmer, acquiring an organic certification requires a clear farm plan and three years of detailed records, as well as a thorough inspection performed by the certifying agency, all part of the application process. A very small-scale gardener could become certified organic in Nevada for less than $200. However, the fees increase substantially in relation-ship to the grower’s projected revenue, and the cost of certification will be much higher for professional producers. An-nual inspections and associated fees are necessary to maintain certified organic status, so the costs to the organic grower are ongoing.
Although the idyllic family farm has been largely replaced with industrial organic agriculture to meet the growing demand, you can be sure that produce labeled “organic” is produced without petrochemical or sewage-based fertiliz-ers, conventional pesticides, genetically modified stocks (GMOs), or radiation.
In addition, organic meat, eggs, and dairy must come from animals not treated with growth hormones or antibiotic drugs. The regulations for processed foods are more complex, as foods labeled “100% organic”, “organic”, and “made with organic ingredients” each have different requirements, so read labels carefully!
While many people with chemical sensitivities and allergies are committed to certified organic food, increasingly people are setting their priority on food that is also grown locally. Nevada has 21 certified organic farms and six certi-fied processing facilities. However, many of the small-scale producers seen at farmer’s markets choose not to invest in the process of organic certification, yet still use “sustainable” farming practices. Ultimately, it is up to the consumer to
ensure the quality of their produce. As organic food production becomes more industrialized, the local-food movement represents a commitment to supporting local farmers and local economy.
For more information about obtaining an organic certification or selling through farmer’s markets, contact the Nevada Department of Agriculture at 775-688-1180.
Mojohito Tchudi is a Nutrition and Life-style Consultant and kombuchero. He can be contacted through his website: http://mojohito.com/References:1. Michael Pollan. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of 4 Meals. Penguin Press 2006.2. Nevada Department of Agriculture Website; http://agri.state.nv.us/3. California Certifieed Organic Farmers Website; http://www.ccof.org/
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Being sick can be very costly in terms of time, money and most importantly, in the quality of life category. Accord-ing to a recent study by Harvard University, researchers
found that 50% of all bankruptcy filings in the U.S.A. were the direct result of excessive medical expenses. Health care spend-ing in the United States is more than $1.8 trillion, which is more than 4 times the amount spent on national defense and almost 40 times the amount spent on Homeland Security.
While these numbers are big and impressive, it’s important to remember that these health care costs are not the cause of the health care crisis. They are merely a measure of how severe the health care crisis really is. The reason why the health care crisis exists is simple: there are too many sick people. This simple statement commu-nicates a real truth about the source of the problem. Any proposed solution to the health care crisis that does not spe-cifically lead to more people being less sick is doomed to failure. Just like changing seats on the Titanic, it can only, at best, delay the inevitable. The health care business is the fastest growing failing industry in our country.
America is a fabulous place to have a medical emergency as our emergency care is unrivaled, but in the lifestyle diseases arena, our country struggles severely. Allopathic medical care seeks to treat symptoms by adding something from the outside – a medication, a surgery or procedure. Wellness care, on the other hand, seeks to turn on the natural healing ability of our bodies by removing anything that might interfere with normal function.
In my chiropractic practice I work hard to get people to understand that it’s much better to prevent disease from hap-pening in the first place than to treat it once it has a stronghold
in the body.
Living a wellness lifestyle requires you to be a proactive change agent for your body. You need to treat it well and not wait until you hurt before you decide to take care of it. Health is not merely the absence of disease, any more than wealth is an absence of poverty. Health is not simply “feeling fine,” for we know that problems may progress for years without causing any symptoms whatsoever. For example, heart disease often progresses unnoticed for many years before it rears its ugly head.
In fact, the first symptom that many people experience with heart disease is a heart attack or death.
By creating a state of optimal health with-in your body, you will feel better; have
more energy and an increased quality of life. You will also reduce your risk of the expense and pain associated with get-ting hooked into the downward spiral
of disease and dependence on more and more prescription medications.
Wellness is a state of optimal conditions for normal function… and then some. The wellness ap-
proach is to look for underlying, root causes of any disturbance or disruption (which may or may not be causing symptoms at the time) and make whatever interventions and lifestyle adjust-ments that would optimize the conditions for normal function. The founder of chiropractic, D.D. Palmer, described three chal-lenges to wellness: (1) trauma or injury, (2) chemical toxicity or nutritional insufficiency, and (�) autosuggestion or mental and emotional stress and dysfunction. Once these three challenges have been attended to, the body will maintain an environment that encourages natural healing, and minimizes the need for invasive treatment, which should be administered only when absolutely necessary. When the body is working properly, it tends to heal effectively, no matter what the condition.
The Wellness LifeStyleMore than leaving well enough alone
Living a wellnesslifestyle requires you to be a proactive change agent for
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A Few Fascinating Facts About FeetThe feet contain about 25 % of the bones in the body, 52 out of the usual 206. There are �� joints, 107 ligaments, and
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The average person takes about 8,000 to 10,000 steps per day. That is about 100,000 miles over a lifetime, or about 4 trips around the earth! Your feet carry 100% of our weight. They work all day every day. They are the business end of our locomotor system, but are also intimately associated with our overall comfort, and well being.
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More than leaving well enough alone
A wellness lifestyle then adds the component of mind care to the wellness equation that requires healthy structure and nerve system physiology, clean blood and body chemistry, and a mental and emotional environment that is conducive to happy and fulfilled living.
Learning to interpret the events of your life with positive realism gives you a perspective from which you can assign uplifting meanings to those events. Sometimes the silver lining is more than worth its weight in gold when it teaches us the importance of living well with a long-term commitment to well being. Rather than waiting around for mental and emotional symptoms, you can proactively develop habits that make you mentally and emotionally healthier on an ongoing basis. By adopting positive behaviors like eating well, exercising, say-ing affirmations and developing healthy self talk, structuring a healthy system of values and beliefs, creating functional and fulfilling relationships, and balancing physical, mental, emo-tional and spiritual energy, you build a foundation of wellness that preserves a well attitude, wellness-driven lifestyle choices, and an overall experience of wellness in life.
So, think about what a happy, satisfying, fulfilling life would be like, and pay attention to what you would have to do to have the best chance of creating that life for yourself. The more you act like the kind of person who would have the life you want, the more likely you’ll do the things that kind of person would do, and that will lead to having those things in reality. By notic-ing how you are already like this ideal version of you, and by recognizing where you need to focus your energy to build the resources you need, you can grow into an enhanced version of yourself, more capable and more attractive, which leads to a better quality of life, by your own definition.
People who are well enjoy their lives and want them to last as long as possible. That’s why the wellness mindset usually accompanies other constructive, healthy lifestyle habits. You not only extend your life, you extend your quality of life deeper into later life. This is the ultimate objective of a wellness lifestyle – to have the best life possible for as long as possible.
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Hypnosis for self esteem can help because it focuses on replacing negative emotions and fear with positive emotions and confidence, in any given situation, by changing your thoughts and feelings. You are totally in control and you choose what you want to change.
Hypnosis is not a weird state where you give away your control to someone else. That happens just on stage or in the movies, and there are some very simple well-studied reasons why people act that way on stage. The truth is, you go in and out of hypnosis all day. For instance, when you watch TV, you’re participating in the most powerful trance inducer in our society. Advertisers are well aware of that.
Hypnosis is very natural. It’s simply a state of deep relax-ation where your conscious mind, although always listen-ing, gets out of the way for awhile so your subconscious mind can become more alert and listen up. Suggestions and directions given during that deep state of relaxation go directly into the subconscious mind and assist you in becoming more of whom you want to be. With higher self esteem you feel better, carry yourself with more confidence, emanate a can-do attitude, are much happier plus you feel that there is nothing you cannot accomplish. This change in attitude leads to more productivity, more positive actions, which lead to more self esteem. It’s a wonderful cycle which spirals up and up and up. This is a built-in capability. We are hard-wired to remove negative imprints and to improve ourselves in this manner. Why not use it so you can live your very best life?
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BOOKreview
Based on the findings of a 20-year study first published in the American Journal of Cardiology, Dr. Esselstyn explains how this plant-based nutrition program can be a cure, not just a treatment for heart disease. He gives many examples of how patients who had
received virtually a death sentence because of coronary artery disease, were sent to him as a last resort and are now healthier and more active than they ever believed possible.
This book is well illustrated and easy to read, with no fill-ers and little repetition. It is highly recommended by T. Colin Campbell, author of The China Study, recently reviewed in this magazine, as well as Dr. Dean Ornish, well known for his views regarding diet as a way to reverse disease. Dr. Esselstyn is serious about his subject, as he knows that one half of all American men and one third of all American women over 50 will die from complications of heart disease. This book contains life saving information for anyone currently following the SAD (Standard American Diet).
Dr. Esselstyn knows that most Americans are confused about what makes up a truly healthy diet, so in this book, he is very clear, concise and direct. He has been developing this plan for 20 years and he knows it works.
In the first continuous 12-year study of the effects of nutri-tion on severely ill heart patients, patients who complied with his program were able to stop the progression of heart disease and and to reverse the arterial effects of the disease. In some cases angina disappeared after a few weeks on the program and abnormal stress tests return to normal.
Here are the rules of Dr. Esselstyn’s program in simple form:
1. You may not eat anything with a mother or a face (no meat, poultry or fish)
2. You cannot eat dairy products
3. You must not consume oil of any kind – not a drop.
4. Generally you cannot eat nuts or avocados
5. You CAN eat a wonderful variety of delicious, nutrient-dense foods including:
• Leafy green vegetables, root vegetables, veggies that are red, green, purple, orange, and yellow and everything in between
• All legumes – beans, peas and lentils of all varieties
• All whole grains and products, such as bread and pasta that are made from them – as long as they do not contain added fats
• All fruits
And to help you along, this book has 150 delicious recipes to show you how to implement this plan. Tastes change as you eliminate fats. Before you know it, healthy foods will not be what you ought to eat, but what you want to eat.
Dr. Esselstyn tells how these dietary changes that have helped his patients over the past twenty years can help you, too. They can actually make you immune to heart attacks. And there is much evidence that they have benefits far beyond coronary artery disease. If you eat to save your heart, you eat to save yourself from other diseases of nutritional extravagance: strokes,
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hypertension, obesity, osteoporosis, adult-onset diabetes and possibly senile mental impairment as well.
You gain protection from a host of other ailments that have been linked to diet, such as impotence, cancers of the breast, prostate, colon, rectum, uterus and ovaries. Plus, for the rest of your life you will never again have to count calo-ries or worry about your weight.
Over the past one hundred years, the surgical and pharmaceutical treatment of disease has dominated the medical profession in the United States. America contains just 5 percent of the global population, but physicians here perform more than 50 percent of all angioplas-ties and bypass procedures in the entire world. One reason is that those surgeries are dramatic, a natural magnet for media attention; another is that nutrition is not a big part of medical education; yet another reason is that doctors are not rewarded for educating patients about the merits of truly healthy lifestyles.
Physicians have had little financial incentive to study other ways of managing disease, so the surgical/pharmaceutical approach which addresses symptoms only continues to dominate the profes-sion even though it offers little to the unsuspecting millions about to become the next victims of heart disease. The surgical/pharmaceutical approach does not address the cause, which is our diet. Asians call heart disease, strokes and diabetes Western Diseases, because we have so much of them and Asians don’t, because of the difference in our diets. Modern hospitals also offer almost noth-ing to enhance public health. Esselstyn calls them cathedrals of sickness.
It is hard to deny the evidence, which mounts every year, that people who have spent a lifetime consuming the typical American diet are in big trouble. Dr. Lewis Kuller of the University of Pittsburg recently reported the ten-year findings of the Cardiovascular Health Study, a project of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. His conclusion is startling: “All males over 65 years of age, exposed to a
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traditional Western lifestyle, have cardio-vascular disease and should be treated as such.” All males.
Each of us has friends, family and acquaintances who are the victims of coronary disease. For the great majority of this planet’s population – the 4 billion who do not participate in the Western lifestyle – the problems of coronary disease simply do not exist. It’s time to
do something for ourselves and for our children. Dr. Esselstyn states that if you follow this nutritional plan, your disease is history. He asks you to pay attention and take control of your health, now.
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Last time I told the story of Mary Alice. Mary Alice was 8� years old when she began to lose her vision
to macular degeneration. It had gotten to the point that she could no longer read or drive. That was the bad news. The good news is that she responded very well to a course of medical ozone therapy. She is now five years older, still lives on her own, and is happy to tell you how well she can read. And yes, she has even passed her driving test.
Mary Alice is not an unusual case. Fortunately, most people respond to ozone therapy. So in this month’s issue, I am going to give you a primer on what ozone therapy is, and why it works so well.
What Is Ozone?The oxygen you breathe is present
in the air as a colorless, pair of oxygen atoms. This is the most stable form of oxygen. Ozone is a blue colored form of oxygen (it’s what makes the sky blue), and unlike regular oxygen, it is composed of three oxygen atoms instead of two. It is the addition of the third oxygen atom that makes ozone “supercharged” oxygen, and gives it all of it’s remarkable medical properties.
The use of ozone to treat various medical conditions was first developed
in Germany in the early 1950’s. Today, medical ozone therapy is common throughout Europe. In America, the use of ozone has increased gradually over the last 25 years.
Isn’t Ozone Toxic?Anything, including water and oxy-
gen, is toxic if given in amounts that exceed the body’s capacity to utilize it. Ozone is found naturally in the body. The white cells make it as part of the immune response. Pure medical grade ozone, when it is used according to the established medical guidelines, has a safety record that is unparalleled.
Medical Properties Of Ozone Ozone has five properties that ac-
count for why it works so well, not only for macular degeneration, but also for most other chronic age- related condi-tions:
1. Ozone is a potent regulator of the immune system. This means that when the immune system is overactive (as in auto-immune diseases), ozone will calm it down. Conversely, when the immune system is under active, as in cancer, AIDS, and chronic infections, ozone will stimulate it. This unique abil-ity of ozone stems from its action on the membranes of white cells that causes them to produce immune-related messenger molecules called cytokines. Examples of cytokines are gam-ma interferon, interleu-kin-2, colony stimulating factor, and TNF-alpha.
2. Ozone increases uptake of oxygen by stimulating the enzyme diphosphoglycer-ate (DPG). DPG enables the release of oxygen from hemoglobin so that it can be taken up into cells. In the absence of an adequate amount of DPG, our cells become starved for oxygen, a common problem in diabetics.
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Ozone is a potent regulator of the immune system. This means that
when the immune system is overactive (as in auto-immune diseases), ozone
will calm it down.
�. Ozone improves circulation. It does this by enhancing the flow characteristics of blood as a liquid. This effect enables more of the oxygen carrying hemoglobin to reach the capillaries where ultimately the cells will receive more of the oxygen they require. Many patients with chronic inflammatory conditions have impaired circulation.
4. Ozone increases antioxidant pro-tection more than any other therapy including vitamin C. Most people with chronic disease have deficient antioxi-dant defenses.
5. Ozone is a powerful mitochondrial stimulant. The fundamental underlying cause behind all degenerative disease, from diabetes to heart disease to cancer, is decreased mitochondrial energy pro-duction. Ozone can often correct this problem.
How Is Ozone Used Medically?Ozone therapy should only be used
by professionals who have been fully trained in its use. Doctors who want such training can receive it from Dr. Shallen-berger, who offers training sessions twice
a year in the United States and internationally.
A u t o t h e r a p y is the most com-mon, and in most cases the most ef-fective way ozone is administered. The patient sits in a chair and has
from 6-12 ounces of blood removed into
a sterilized bottle. Then ozone is injected into the bottle,
and the bottle is gently shaken, allowing the red and white blood cells to take up the ozone. The ozonated blood is then returned to the body. The entire procedure takes about �0-40 minutes.
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HEALTHYpets
Is your pet comfortable? The weather affects our pets just like
it does us. If your pet lives outside he should have a house that is just as well built as your own. No animal should have to depend solely on his coat for protection from the elements. Rain can bring your pets body temperature down and cause severe medical problems. In-cluding skin infections and foot problems from the mud. Freezing temperatures are just as dangerous for our pets as for us. If it’s too cold out for you then it is too cold for your pet. Bring your pet inside whenever it is too cold outside for you. You can purchase inexpensive crates at discount stores just for this purpose if your pet is not housetrained.
Too hot for our pets? Heat stroke is a common problem for
animals, especially in the summertime. Heat stroke occurs when the core tem-perature of an animal exceeds its normal set-point and reaches temperatures in excess of 106*F. From these elevated tem-peratures, death may occur in less than an hour as a result of permanent organ damage and blood clotting disorders. A high temperature occurs rapidly when the animal’s environment is enclosed and has poor ventilation, such as in a parked car with the windows closed or even cracked. The temperature inside a closed car in the direct sun may exceed 120*F in less than 20 minutes, even when it is only 70*F outside. Therefore, pets are at risk of heatstroke inside a parked car during the hot temperatures of our summers.
Humans differ from dogs and cats in their cooling mechanisms. People can rely on sweating to cool off, but dogs and cats must cool themselves through their lungs by panting. When the air gets too warm, the animal is no longer able
to cool itself because the air is too hot for the lungs, and as a result its core tem-perature begins to rise.
An owner can recognize that their pet is suffering from heat stroke by noting the appearance of the animal. The owner can look for excess panting, hyper saliva-tion (drooling), very dark mucous mem-branes (gums), diarrhea and/or vomiting, lethargy or even coma.
If heat stroke is suspected, the pet should be immediately seen by a vet-erinarian. The whole body of the animal needs to be cooled immediately to avoid a fatal outcome. This is best accomplished by rinsing using cool, not cold, water. Cold water is not recommended because cold water constricts the vessels in the animal which will inhibit heat loss and slow the cooling process. The veterinar-
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A few tips can be easily followed to keep your pet safe and healthy this sum-mer. Be sure never to leave your cat or dog in an unattended car. Also, your pets should have plenty of water and shade if they are left outdoors. An especially close eye should be kept on dogs and cats that have not had significant exercise recently, are overweight, or have respira-tory disease.
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FAMILYhealth
Even if you think you’re eating a ‘perfect’ diet, you might not be.
Even if you eat only fresh, organic food, you might actually be damaging your health every time you take a bite. Even if you are following the very best dietary advice you’ve ever heard, it might be completely wrong for you.
How could this be?If you remember that food is the fuel
your body runs on, it will become clearer. Think of it this way – eating the wrong food is like putting diesel fuel in your gasoline car. You can bet that if you did this, your car would stop running before long.
It’s the same with your body. If you put in the wrong fuel (foods), you won’t get far. Even when the foods you eat are all-natural, organic and fresh, if they’re the wrong ones for your unique metabolism, they won’t nourish you in the long run.
The result over time is a slow progression of having less energy, getting sick more often, and feeling as if you’re get-ting older far too quickly. Ultimately, the so-called diseases of old age crop up – arthritis, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Everyone is DifferentThere’s lots of evidence to suggest
that everyone is as different on the inside as they are on the outside. One set of food guidelines simply can’t take into account all of the unique qualities that make up your body. There is no one diet that’s right for everyone.
To see the truth of this, imagine what your ancestors ate a thousand years ago. If they lived in northern climates (think “Eskimo” or “Scandinavian”), they likely had a diet consisting largely of fats and proteins – fish, meat, natural fats and very little vegetables.
On the other hand, if your ancestors came from the Mediterranean region, they had lots of choices for fresh fruits and vegetables and ate more of these.
Such different climates have very dif-ferent naturally available foods. People who lived in these areas before modern times adapted to the foods they found around them. Those foods became their ideal foods.
How to Figure Out What’s Right For You
Since there is obviously a wide range of possible ‘ideal diets, how can you figure out the right one for you?
Most of us get our cues about what to eat from our family or friends and from advertising or the latest fad diet book. These aren’t always the best sources.
There is, however, one infallible source that will tell you every single time what foods work for you. Are you ready to learn it? All you need to do is memorize this rule:
Your body never lies.
That’s it. Your body knows what it needs and what it doesn’t.
Of course I realize that it’s hard sometimes to tell the difference between a positive response to foods and an ad-diction or craving. To help clarify this, let me give you some of the basic signs you might notice if you eat the wrong foods:
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• Changes in your energy level – either a drop in energy or a feeling of agitated, hyper energy.
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• Depression – some people have a sense of overwhelm, hopelessness or being ‘stuck’ that they can trace to food reactions.
• Mental focus and clarity – if you get a bad case of ‘busy brain’ or you feel like you’re in a mental fog check to see how your foods are affecting this.
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Taking a ShortcutIf we’d all listened to our body signals
when we were young, we wouldn’t have so many health issues as we get older. Like most of us, you probably didn’t do that. But if you start paying attention right now, after a while you will have a much better idea of your best food choices.
If you’re like me, you don’t want to wait to see improvements in your health. Fortunately, there is a faster way to tell which foods are best for you. It’s a pro-cess that reduces the learning curve by at least a year, called Metabolic Typing. Metabolic Typing recognizes that each of us is as different on the inside as we are on the outside.
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Whether you use Metabolic Typ-ing or choose to simply listen to your body’s natural responses to food, you can determine your unique food needs. As your awareness of exactly what works for you improves, your health will also improve.
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Now that summer is upon us, families are thinking, “Let’s take the kids on a va-cation”. If you are like many parents that I talk to, they want something different. They’ve done Disney; camping can be done on any given weekend and visiting relatives just isn’t exciting to the kids. Many families are looking for an excit-ing and memorable trip to go on. Family adventure travel is on the rise. Costa Rica, Jamaica, Hualtco Mexico, Galapagos Is-lands, just to name a few. The ecology of each of these destinations is unique.
Multi-generational cruising is ex-tremely popular. Where else can you visit multiple exotic locales, eat all the gour-met food you could possibly desire and enjoy fun and crazy activities that will keep everyone of all ages occupied? Not only do you get this and more, you get
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Beaches Re-sorts which are found on Jamai-ca and Turks & Caicos Islands are among the better known. They are Ultra Al l - Inclus ive. Meaning that everything is included in one price. All sports -- including scuba diving and golf -- luxurious accommodations, gourmet food and drinks, Fitness Center, Disco-theque, video games, and best of all, NO TIPPING allowed are all included. The biggest attractions for the kids are the Sesame Street Characters. Your kids will get the opportunity to interact and play games with the some of the best loved characters, even baking cookies with Cookie Monster! They have supervised Kids Kamps so the parents can arrange to have some fun of their own. Infants are not left out. There are certified nannies to care for them. Awesome adventures await the teen crowd. Beaches Resorts understands teens, so they have their own special spaces and places to play. From their very own pizza and soda bar, to their own nightclub with dance parties and
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Is Ozone Therapy For Me?This is a decision that a doctor who is trained and experienced
in the medical use of ozone, should help you make. Some conditions simply will not clear up unless ozone is used, and of course many conditions will clear up without ozone. Because of its many therapeutic properties, ozone can be used as part of a therapeutic plan for almost every disease.
It is invaluable in the treatment of heart disease and circula-tory disorders. Chronic infections such as hepatitis-C, herpes, Lyme Disease, and AIDS respond very favorably to ozone. It is also very helpful in chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and autoimmune diseases.
It is important to realize that ozone therapy is not a panacea or some kind of magic bullet. Although it is often an indispens-able modality, it is only rarely effective by itself. In the great majority of cases it must be combined with an individualized program of other alternative and natural therapies, such as nutrition and detoxification.
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DR. BRUCE EICHELBERGER, OMD�400 Kauai Ct Ste 100Reno, Nevada 89509(775) 827-6901
Reduce pain, stress and fatigue; improve mental focus; increase motivation and energy; emotional weight loss. You can look and feel better with time-tested healing tech-niques. Find ad on page 27.
8 DIMENSIONS HEALTH CENTERDrs. Hollinger, Rammel, and Richards �00 S. Wells Ave. Ste. #� Reno, NV(775) 324-4008 Experience the Gonstead Chiropractic difference! Proven to get fast results with low back pain, herniated discs, headaches, and sciatica. Gentle and ef-fective for adults and children.
AYURVEDIC MEDICINEJEREMY ANDERSON, CAS, PKS, CMT 95 La Rue Avenue • Reno, NV 89509 (775) 825-5668 www.consciouslivingcenter.com
Jeremy will customize an Ayurvedic program for you based on your initial consultation, which can in-clude nutrition programs, custom-made herbal remedies, aromatherapy, color therapy, sound therapy, Ayurvedic body therapies, yoga asana, meditation, and Pancha Karma. Find ads on page 21.
BACK PAIN THERAPYTHE NEVADA CENTERSamuel Winter, DOCarson City, Nevada 8970�(775) 884-3990
www.antiagingmedicine.com
Dr. Winter is a graduate of the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in Illi-nois. He specializes in Osteopathic Ma-nipulative Treatment, ProloZone Therapy, and customised orthotics to remove the primary causes of low back pain, degenerative disc disease, and sciatica. Find ads on pages 19 & 31.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIESTHE BALANCE COMPANYDinny Harter(530) 414-1420
www.thebalancecompany.com/usa
Want to balance what you love, with how you earn a living? You can with The Bal-ance Company. Liquid Nutrition designed for fast absorbtion. Visit our website to learn more.Find ad on page 12.
SIX FIGURE INCOME FROM HOME(775) 473-4632 www.CreateWithoutLimits.comProducts based on Law of AttractionTraining and Support providedDirect sales NOT MLMCommission of $1k, $5k and $8KNo travel required.
INCLINE ACTIVE AIRWill LewisIncline Village, NV(775) 530-0420, (800) 461-7903Need to Clear the Air! Fire and Allergy Season got you down? Get a Fresh Air System and make your home a haven. One small unit cleans an entire house. We’ll bring it to you! Ask about the suds-free revolution.
AIR PURIFICATION
DR. ANNIE POLUCHA2005 Sierra Highlands, #147Reno, NV 8952�(775) 448-9595 17 years experience rehabilitating all types of injuries. Gentle chiropractic with soft tissue mobilization and sacro-occipi-tal balancing techniques. Full spine and extremity adjusting,head to toes.
CHOCOLATIER
CHIROPRACTORS
BROOK HOLLINGER, OMDThe Meridian9�9� Gateway Dr, Reno, NV 89509(775) 852-0446
Providing acupuncture to treat a wide variety of conditions including stress, fi-bromyalgia, addictions, allergies, chron-ic pain and pregnancy. Brook believes in treating the whole patient, mind body and spirit spending an hour session. Call today to make a difference in your health!
XOCAI, THE WORLD’S 1STHEALTHY CHOCOLATE!Pat & Ralph Dickson 775-�58-7448www.mxi.myVoffice.com/worldsbestchocolate
DECADENT, DELICIOUS & HEALTHY!! You won’t believe how good it is until you try it! Full of antioxidants and energy producing nutrients - learn about the 22 reasons to eat & drink dark chocolate daily! Sales and business opportunities. Find ad on page 13.
HEALTH FOR LIFE CHIROPRACTIC WELLNESS CENTERDr. Taylor Donovan1875 Plumas St., Reno, NV 89509(775) 323-1230www.renohealthforlife.com
A place dedicated to reconnecting the disjointed parts of your life starting with your body and working outward. A unique and innovative way of restoring resilient health by removing stress and enhancing quality-of-lifestyle choices. Feel free to call for our complimentary newsletters, health talks, and consulta-tions offered to the public.
WILDFLOWER VILLAGE4275-4�95 W 4th St, Reno, NV 8952�(775) 747-8848 (office); (775) 787-3769 (gallery)(775) 827-5250 (Pat Campbell-Cozzi real estate & questions)www.wildflowervillage.com
Artists’ haven; 6+ acre site with room to grow & bloom. Apartments, studios, B&B, Motel, Coffee Shop w/Peets Coffee, Penske Truck Rental & Moving Supplies. 2 Art Gal-leries with works of 100+ artists; Art House for Art Classes; Art Retreats; Meetings, Wedding Chapel & Partnership Unions.Find ad on page 24.
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RENO ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE CENTERCarol Christian�400 Kauai Court #100Reno, Nevada 89509(775) 827-6888www.rahcc.com
Colon Hydrotherapy is a valuable pro-cedure and treatment for a wide variety of health conditions, as a toxic bowel is a source of many health challenges. Take Action Now! Find ad on page 19.
DETOX
FENG SHUIFENG SHUI CLASSICAL CONSULTINGRebecca Moore(775) 830-8168www.fengshuiclassicalconsulting.com
Use Feng Shui for your existing home or business, to select a new home or business, or for floor-plan layout for new construction.
CHERYL VAN REETH, I-ACT CERTIFIED95 La Rue AvenueReno, NV 89509(775) 825-5668 www.consciouslivingcenter.com
New ‘eco-friendly’ facility, certified tech-nician, private bathroom, ultra-purified water, flexible hours (Monday-Sunday) and current special rate of $70 per colon-ic. Spring is a great time for purification. Ask about a colon cleanse and get ready for summer… you’ll look and feel great! Find ads on page 21.
THE NEVADA CENTERSaundra Koeck12�1 Country Club DriveCarson City, Nevada 8970�(775) 884-3990www.antiagingmedicine.comColonOx Hydrotherapy is a safe, gentle, & extraordinarily effective method of systemic detoxification that combines traditional colon hydrotherapy with medical grade ozone. ColonOx hydrotherapy is a valu-able treatment for most conditions from allergies to cancer. Find ads on pages 19 & 31.
THE NEVADA CENTERColleen Mahoney, RN, APH 12�1 Country Club DriveCarson City, Nevada 8970� (775) 884-3990www.antiagingmedicine.comClassical homeopathy works for chronic illnesses, pediatric disorders, allergies, depression, and anxiety. Inexpensive and gentle. Find ad on pages 19 & 31.
CLASSICAL HOMEOPATHY
RAND FAMILY CAREDr. Robert Rand, MD1699 S. Virgina Street(775) 337-0703www.randfamilycare.com
Infants to geriatrics, Board Certified Fam-ily Medicine. Specializing in medical acupuncture, alternatives for nonsurgical pain management, substance abuse help, latest treatments to help stop smoking, Nutritional supplements. Complete Care for the Whole Family!
FAMILY CARE
ZENY N. OCEAN, D.D.S., LTD.1155 West 4th Street, Suite 211Reno, Nevada 8950�(775) 329-1333 www.wellness4u.com
Dr. Ocean’s practice centers on bio-logical and biocompatible general and cosmetic dentistry. A major focus is im-mune system enhancement for inflam-mation control. Affordable adult invisible braces are available. New patients welcome. Find ad on page 35.
DENTISTRY
CONSCIOUS LIVING REJUVENATION CENTER95 La Rue Avenue • Reno, NV 89509 (775) 825-5668 www.consciouslivingcenter.com
New ‘eco-friendly’ facility where all mo-dalities and products used are organic… Ayurvedic body therapies, massage therapy – CranioSacral – FIR far-infrared sauna - lymphatic drainage – body wraps and steam sessions, reiki, ear candling. We invite you to visit our website. A facility beyond compare. Find ads on page 21.
COLON HYDROTHERAPY
THE GREAT BASIN COMMUNITY FOOD COOPERATIVE271 Wonder St. Reno, NV 89502 (775) 324-6133 www.greatbasinfood.coop
LOCAL & ORGANIC! We invite you to visit/join – we are a MEMBERS-ONLY, VOLUNTEER-OPERATED FOOD CO-OP, specializing in local, organic, special or-ders, and bulk foods. We will be closed from June � to June 11 so we can EXPAND into a larger space. If you would like to help or get information about joining, please contact us at: [email protected]
THE GREAT BASIN FOOD BASKETCommunity Supported AgricultureLocal small organic farms serving Reno with seasonal produce. June-Oct 2007Register/info: [email protected]
18-wk subscription for FRESH, WEEKLY produce, fruit & flowers from local, cer-tified organic farmers. Regional farmers using the highest sustainable practices provide you fabulous seasonal veggies and luscious summer fruits. Convenient pick-up sites: Reno, Sparks, Carson, Fallon, Gardnerville & Tahoe City. Join Community Supported Agriculture -- Linking local organic farms DIRECTLY to your table!
FOOD SUBSCRIPTION
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NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANJESSICA EDGE, B.S., N.D.(775) 827-6888www.rahcc.comAssisting the body’s natural healing process using sci-ence-based alternative healthcare. Clini-cal nutrition, botanical medicine, dietary supplements, lifestyle modifications and hydrotherapy used to address the causes of dis-ease and not just the symptoms. Find ad on page 37.
RICK EYESTER, LMT9�9� Gateway Dr, Reno, NV 89509(775) 852-0446
Utilizing a unique blend of techniques from Thai Yoga Massage, Shiatsu & Tui-na, allowing for a more immediate re-lease and alignment, both physically & emotionally. This bodywork is provided with the client fully clothed.
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TARA L. FINLEY, O.M.D., N.D.With Brian Finley, P.T., O.C.S., C.O.M.T.(775) 337-1334www.TheFinleyCenter.com
Therapeutic Nutrition, Vitamin/Mineral and Herbal Prescriptions, Bio-identical Hormone Replacement, Acupuncture, Physical Therapy, hydrotherapy, physical exam and lab work are combined to ad-dress all aspects of a Healthy Lifestyle, Optimal Health and Disease Prevention. Insurance Accepted.Find ad on page 17
TAHOE YOGA & WELLNESS CENTER1085 S. Virginia St., Reno(775) 348-9642www.meditationinnorcal.org Offered every Monday Evening, 6:�0-8 p.m. by the Mahakaruna Buddhist Medi-tation Center. All are welcome for these meditation sessions. Introductory level commentary and meditation. Chairs and floor cushions provided. No special dress requirements. Come after work and learn to meditate to improve your life.
CHERYL CHRISTENSENCircle of Life Spa5�01 Longley Lane #A7 Reno, Nv 89511(775) 379-9345www.beautifultransformationsofreno.comImprove Your Self Esteem. Paramedical & cosmetic expertise includes: Scar Camou-flaging, Face lifts, burns, dog bites, hair transplants, areola restoration & surgical incisions, camouflaging Birth Defects & Genetic Shortcomings. Permanent Make-up- Eyebrows, eyeliner and lips for men and women including corrective work. Personal Complementary Consultations! Find ad on page 8.
MEDITATION
MICROPIGMENTATION
MASSAGE THERAPY
TIFFANY HOFFMAN, MS, ATC, MT9�9� Gateway Dr, Reno, NV 89509(775) 852-0446
Providing a combination of Therapeutic body work, massage and prenatal mas-sage. Each therapy is effective for a wide range of health conditions and is tailored to meet your individual needs.
DOROTHY DUMBRA 516 Emerald Bay RoadSouth Lake Tahoe, CA 96158(530) 544-8557
Dorothy Dumbra is an R.N. Clinical Nu-tritionist and Specialized Kinesiologist in private practice. She has over 1200 aca-demic hours in Alternative Medicine.An hour session includes muscle testing for nutritional structure and organ imbal-ances and their corrections. Glycemic Conditions, Natural Hormones, fatigue, weight are some of the specialties cor-rected with nutritional emphasis.
KINESIOLOGY
THE NEVADA CENTERMarc Hiscox12�1 Country Club DriveCarson City, Nevada 8970�(775) 884-3990
www.antiagingmedicine.comFEELING STUCK? If you want something different in your life but aren’t sure how to get there, discover the � easy steps to make lasting life change. You’ll soon improve your health, quit addictions, increase your professional success and multiply your happiness.Find ads on page 19 & 31.
YOUR INTENTIONS IN A BOOK?June Milliganwww.joyfulchanges.com(775) 786-9111
I am finishing a book detailing the agree-ments between souls which were made before coming into this life. Everything both here and in non-physical is all about energy, frequencies and intention. I may need your story. Find ad on page 22.
HYPNOTHERAPYVIRGINIA PARSONS, MS, CCHT, CTLCLife Enhancement Services LLCwww.VirginiaParsons.com(775) 850-5823
Specializing in Weight Loss, Stress Man-agement and Positive Lifestyle Change. Whether you’d like to lose weight, in-crease your vitality, improve your image or change negative habits and thinking, Virginia provides caring and supportive guidance to help bring out your very best. 20 years experience.Find ad on page 27.
HOT SPRINGSSTEAMBOAT HOT SPRINGS HEALING CENTER & SPA16010 S. Virginia, Reno(775) 853-6600 www.steamboatsprings.orgNatural hot springs withhealing waters. Private indoor tubs and 5-person outdoor tub. Offering therapeutic massage, detox mud body wraps, facials and skin care. Find ad on page 18.
DRY CREEK GARDEN CO. LLC7250 S. Virginia St. Reno, NV 89521(775) 851-0353 “PLANTS THAT THRIVE BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE”Specializing in drought tolerant plants and landscapes; unique perennials, trees and shrubs; vegetables, herbs, fruit trees and garden gifts.
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REIKITHE MERIDIANKim Roubo, Reiki Master Teacher9�9� Gateway Dr.Reno NV 89509(775) 852-0446
A gentle, safe and effective treatment which calms the Autonomic Nervous System. Reiki allows for mental clarity and physical healing, benefiting people with conditions from chronic pain to emotional stress. Reiki classes available.
WELLNESS CENTERSCIRCLE OF LIFE SPA5�01 Longley Ln A-8Reno, NV 89511 (775) 825-7727www.circleoflifespa.com
Reno’s premier healing spa with mineral body wraps, far-infrared sauna, floata-tion tank, supplement counseling, coun-seling, massage and dance studio for men and women. Find ad on inside front cover.
VIRGINIA PARSONS, MS, CCHT, CTLC, NAACLife Enhancement Services LLC(775) 850-5823-officewww.VirginiaParsons.com
Transitions Lifestyle System is a healthy approach to losing weight without going hungry. Lose body fat and increase lean muscle mass to achieve & maintain a healthy weight for life. Call for a FREE in-troductory session. Find ad on page 27.
WEIGHT LOSS
RAW FOODS
SPAS
OPTOMETRISTSADLINGTON EYE CENTER500 W. Plumb Lane, Suite A Reno, NV 89509 (775) 284-3937
• Personalized Eyecare • Fabulous Eyewear • State-of-the-art Technology • Professional, Experienced Optical Staff Find ad on page 13.
SUPPLEMENTSTHE BALANCE COMPANYDinny Harter(530)414-1420 www.thebalancecompany.com/usa
Only one ounce of BalanceOne Sup-plemental Drink once per day offers: •Unique synergy • �5 super-nutrients •Replaces 7-10 pills •Multiple servings of fruits & veggies per ounce Find ad on page 12.
THE HEALING MEAL, LLC(775) 412-1891www.thehealingmeal.com
Schall Adams, Raw Food Chef and Educator is the founder of The Healing Meal LLC, a company committed to empowering people to live happier, healthier lives by making better food choices. She teaches classes, workshops, and seminars all across the U.S. on the subject of raw food nutrition and cuisine. Find ad on page 25.
INSTITUTE FOR INSPIRED LIVINGCheryl Blossom85 Washington St, Reno(775) 338-8617
The Institute for Inspired Living is dedi-cated to integrating many alternative approaches for expanded awareness and healing. Our mission is to provide workshops, seminars, classes and per-sonal sessions that will transform one’s way of living - ultimately life itself. Find ad on page 17.
TRAVEL
Experienced Dental Assistant to work in a general dentistry prac-tice. Call (775) 329-1333
C L A S S I F I E D S
Wanted: young, high energy sales person. Must be health minded, winning personality, ethical & high achiever. Straight commission. Design your own income!! Not an MLM. Call (775) 828-4547.
Studio Apts, Art Studios, Art Class-es, Retreats, Weddings, Partner-ship Unions & Penske Truck Rental offered by Wildflower Village. Call the Main Office: (775)747-8848. wildflowervillage.com.
Beauty Salon, Restaurant, Of-fice and Unique Retail Space at reasonable rates offered by Wild-flower Village. Also seeking those interested in doing a community garden. Please contact Pat Camp-bell-Cozzi at (775) 827-5250 or [email protected].
Classroom space for rent at Insti-tute for Inspired Living. Washing-ton St., Reno. Call Cheryl Blossom (775) 338-8617.
Wanted: Massage Therapist or Body Worker at an established Massage and Spa in Carson City. This can be commission or rental. Call (775) 888-9988.
Wanted: Part time admin assistant 20 hours per week. Great person-ality, efficient and excel spread sheet a must. Call (775) 828-4547. Located in Southwest Reno.
DEB’S TOURS & [email protected](775) 626-7848
Specializing in Luxurious and Health Spa Vacations, Adventure and Ecco Tour Travels, Cruise Specialist, Be it a get away for one or a large wedding party…Deb’s Tours & Cruises will search to find you the Best price for your healthy escape.
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June 28 – July 1, 2007Visionary Craniosacral WorkTM, 9am -6pm. Reno, Nevada. Giorgia Milne will introduce technical & intuitive approach-es to the Work. $600. More info: Natalie Little, 775-746-8�00, [email protected], or www.milneinstitute.com
June 16th Picture Framing Workshop. Rebecca Grif-fin Gross will give a lecture and demon-stration in picture framing on Saturday, 1-5pm at the Wildflower Village Art House. Students will be shown the materials, tools and techniques needed to frame like a pro! $40. To register: (775) 787-�769.
June 18th LOSE WEIGHT FOR GOOD! Free in-troductory seminar to the “Mind Over Matter” Weight Loss System. Monday, 7-8 PM. Learn about the Mind/Body Science behind permanent body fat loss. To regis-ter call (775) 850-582�. Virginia Parsons. www.VirginiaParsons.com
June 23rdGet to Know Your Neighbor Day! Please consider doing a gathering in your neigh-borhood or just go out and say hello to your neighbors. To find out more about Neighbor Day in your neighborhood, go to www.itstimereno.org/neighbor.asp.
June 21st Empower Your Inner Mind For Success! You have the power to change your life for GOOD. Learn the facts about hypnosis and the empowering benefits of learning self-hypnosis. Receive “Goal Imaging” CD. $10.00. Thursday, 7-8PM. South Meadows Executive Suites. For reserva-tion: Virginia Parsons (775) 850-582�
June 23rd“Nevada On Napkins” a unique show to benefit Scenic Nevada. 6pm-8pm. Hors d’oeuvres, wine & soft drinks will be served. The art will be featured dur-ing Artown. For info: Patty Melton at (775)787-�769 or Pat Campbell- Cozzi at (775)787-�769. wildflowervillage.com.
June 19th - July (� class series) Infant Massage. Instruc-tion includes Swedish & Indian Massage techniques, specifically developed to benefit a baby’s circulation, digestion & respiration. Barton University, S. Lake Tahoe, CA. Information & Registration: (5�0) 549-5549
June 30thInstitute for Inspired Living presents: Reiki I Certification, 10am-5pm. $150. Be at-tuned and certified to do Reiki. Space is limited -Call to reserve your space.Cheryl Blossom: (775) ��8-8617
June 13thBarton University Stress Management Techniques. Learn about ways to manage stress, including meditation techniques & physical Qi Gong exercises. Barton Uni-versity, South Lake Tahoe, CA. Informa-tion and Registration: (5�0) 54�-5549
June 2ndThe Secret: Quest Workshop. 9am-�pm. Learn more about the Law of Attraction. This full day workshop will focus on: The Magnetic Power of Thought, Mindset to Manifest, Crystal Clear Creation & More. $149 early reservation, $169 at the door. Tamarack Junction, 1�101 S. Virgina, Reno. Email [email protected] or call (775) 85�-25�0 to reserve your space.
June 7thNV Health Forum Free Lecture. “The Sympathetic Nervous System: Fight or Flight Response Patterns” presented by Tom Ramel, DC. Thursday, 6:�0 to 8PM. Reno Council Chambers, 1 E. First Street. 1.5 CEU’s available for Massage Therapists. Contact Virginia Parsons: (775) 850-582�
June 13th, 18th, 20th, 25thIntro to Pilates. 6:�0pm. Learn about the benefits of Pilates in core strength, improved posture, Increased athletic performance & decreased pain. Learn how to apply the Pilates principles. Pre-sented at Truckee-Donner Recreation & Park District, Truckee,CA. To register call (5�0) 582-7720.
June 2BARTON FAMILY HEALTH AND WELL-NESS DAY. South Lake Tahoe Middle School, South Lake Tahoe, CA. Booths and activities focusing on health for the whole family. 8am –Noon. (5�0) 54�-5615. Admission is Free!
June 1st - JulyArt Beneath Our Feet: create a �’X�’ mo-saic as part of the permanent walk/drive-ways at Wildflower Village. $20. � prizes to be awarded July 21st at the Wildflower Gallery. For applications & info, contact Pat Campbell-Cozzi or Patty Melton at( 775) 827-5250; Patty (775)250-4568. www.wildflowervillage.com.
June 7th, 14th, 21st Beginner-intermediate Watercolor Classes w/Eileen Fuller. Learn how to paint and draw. Eileen will take away the fear & put in the FUN! Art House, 550 Twin Lakes Road (street west of Wildflower Village Coffee Shop) $100 + materials. Class size limited. Contact Wildflower Village, (775) 787-�769 for more information.
June 5thInstitute for Inspired Living presents: The Secret, Accelerated - Free Introduc-tion evening. 7-8:�0pm. In this seminar you will be given tools to accelerate the changes that will create & manifest your dreams. Cheryl Blossom will teach you powerful formulas that will fulfill your dreams. Call (775) ��8-8617.
June 9thThe Institute for Inspired Living (85 Wash-ington St, Reno) presents: The Secret, Accelerated Workshop. Noon to �pm, $40. Space is limited. Please call Cheryl Blossom (775) ��8-8617.
June 10thInstitute for Inspired Living presents: Reiki I Certification, 10am-5pm. $150. Be at-tuned and certified to do Reiki. Space is limited- Call to reserve your space.Call Cheryl Blossom (775) ��8-8617
June 9thOncology On Canvas. Join us for a day of art & inspiration! Paint a visual of your journey with cancer. Free to all those who have experienced cancer personally or through a loved one. Barton Memorial Hospital, South Lake Tahoe. 11am–2pm. For information call, (5�0) 54�-5615
July 1stInstitute for Inspired Living presents: Reiki II Certification, 10am-5pm. $150. Be at-tuned to the higher levels of Reiki and get certified to do Reiki at the second level. Space is limited - Call to reserve your space. Cheryl Blossom: (775) ��8-8617
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