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by David Y. Goodman

12 Learning that Transforms

Rethinking how we see our world changes everything

by Linda Sechrist

14 Cures in the Kitchen

Dr. Mark Hyman is fed up with our national health crisis

16 Living a Healthy Life

5 simple ideas for daily living

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18 The Swedish Dentist

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newsbriefs Five-Day Holistic Healing Event October 9-13

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n amazing five-day holistic healing event is being hosted by The Master Within Community and the Gainist Free Church. This is a nondenominational spirit-filled community who has been working, living, and co-existing with compassion and unconditional love. Many are healers, guides, and creators, and some just give great hugs.

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illiam (Billy) Danella III has been named Store Manager of the Ocala Earth Origins Market location. Originally from Pasco County, Danella joins the team with 16 years’ retail experience from Sweetbay Supermarkets. He has a strong background in physical fitness and has been involved in personal training for the past two years. He is the proud father of twin boys and enjoys golfing and football.

Christopher (Chris) Mayo is the new Assistant Store Manager. He joins the Ocala team from the Palm Harbor location. He has extensive experience in retail and has a strong background in customer service. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his dog and watching movies.

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healthbriefs Flaxseed Lowers Blood Pressure

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ating flaxseed reduces blood pressure, according to researchers from Canada’s St. Boniface Hospital Research Center. They attribute the effect to its omega-3 fatty acids, lignans and fiber.

The researchers examined the effects of flaxseed on systolic and diastolic blood pressure in patients with peripheral artery disease, a condition typically marked by hypertension. Patients consumed a variety of foods that collectively contained 30 grams of milled flaxseed or a placebo each day for six months. The flaxseed group experienced significantly increased plasma levels of certain omega-3 fatty acids and lower average systolic blood pressure (by 10 mmHg) and diastolic blood pressure (by 7 mm Hg). Those in the flaxseed group with initial systolic blood pressure levels over 140 mmHg saw reductions averaging 15 mmHg.

Medicinal Mushrooms Boost Athletic Performance

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esearch from Italy’s Pavia University found two medicinal mushroom species—cordyceps (Cordyceps sinensis) and reishi (Ganoderma lucidum)— significantly improve race performances and recovery times among competitive cyclists.

The researchers studied seven male cyclists who had competitively raced for more than 10 years. For one month, they were given placebo supplements, after which the researchers tested their performance and recovery during races and workouts. Then, for the next three months, the cyclists daily used medicinal mushroom supplementation.

The researchers found the mushrooms significantly increased performance and recovery in both workouts and races compared with the placebo period.

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Cycling Rx

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Doctors Order Up a Bike for Patients

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he Prescribe-a-Bike program (Tinyurl.com/Prescription Bikes) allows doctors at Boston Medical Center, in Massachusetts, to write low-income patients prescriptions for a one-year membership to Hubway, the city’s bikesharing system, for $5, which is $80 less than the regular charge. A free helmet is part of the deal.

According to The Boston Globe, one in four Boston residents is obese, and Kate Walsh, chief executive of Boston Medical Center, believes the program can help.

“Regular exercise is key to combating this [obesity] trend, and Prescribe-a-Bike,” she says, “is one important way our caregivers can help patients get the exercise they need to be healthy.”

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True Grit

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ome educators believe that improvements in instruction, curriculum and school environments are not enough to raise the achievement levels of all students, especially disadvantaged children. Also necessary is a quality called “grit,” loosely defined as persistence over time to overcome challenges and accomplish big goals. Grit comprises a suite of traits and behaviors that include goal-directedness, motivation, self-control, and a positive mindset.

A meta-study of 25 years of research by John Hattie and Helen Timperley, professors at the University of Aukland, New Zealand, has shown that giving students challenging goals encourages greater effort and persistence than providing vague or no direction. Students aren’t hardwired for these qualities, but grit can be developed through an emerging battery of evidence-based techniques that give educators a powerful new set of tools to support student success.

A famous example of the power of self-regulation was observed when preschoolers who were able to withstand the temptation of eating a marshmallow for 15 minutes to receive a second one were more successful in high school and scored about 210 points higher on their SATs later in life than those with less willpower (Tinyurl. com/StanfordMarshallowStudy).

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Airports Establish Bee-Friendly Acres he Common Acre is a nonprofit partnering with the airport serving Seattle, Washington, and the Urban Bee Company (UrbanBee.com) to reclaim 50 acres of vacant land to plant native wildflowers as pollinator habitat for hummingbirds, butterflies and disease-resistant bee colonies. A GMO-free (no genetic modification) wildflower seed farm is also in the works. Bees present no threat to air traffic and the hives discourage birds that do pose a danger to planes.

Beekeeper Jim Robins, of Robins Apiaries, in St. Louis, Missouri, rents an area with a plentiful supply of white Dutch clover, and Lambert Airport views his enterprise as part of its sustainability program. O’Hare Airport, in Chicago, the first in the U.S. to install hives, is rebuilding to its full complement of 50 hives after losing about half of them to 2014’s extreme winter. It’s a project that could be a model for airports everywhere—using inaccessible scrubland to do something revolutionary, like supporting a local food system. One hundred foods make up 90 percent of a human diet, and bees pollinate 71 of them.

Learn more at CommonAcre.org.

Harvesting Fog

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Why Persistence Counts

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he WarkaWater tower is providing an innovative new way to harvest safe drinking water, normally an onerous task in Ethiopia and many other parts of Africa. Obtaining water via repeated trips to the nearest source is extremely time-consuming and what’s collected is often highly contaminated and harmful to drink.

Also, this task is commonly carried out by females, putting them in danger of sexual harassment or worse enroute.

The towers, inspired by the native warka tree, are a vertical bamboo system that harvests potable, clean water from the air through condensation, using a fog-harvesting fabric that can collect up to 25 gallons of safe drinking water per day. Each tower costs about $550, and can be built in a few days by village residents using locally available materials.

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ecotip New School Year Eco Strategies for Back-to-School Prep

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amilies preparing for the coming school year will welcome easy ways to stretch the budget while protecting the environment our kids are growing up in. n Buying new clothes can be expensive, and most of today’s synthetic fibers are petroleum-based, while toxic pesticides are commonly used to grow cotton, which is also frequently genetically modified these days. For healthier alternatives, check labels for clothes made from organic, low-impact or recycled materials such as organic cotton, hemp, bamboo or recycled fibers. Inexpensive options can be found in Salvation Army and

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other thrift store locations, as well as repurposing hand-me-downs among siblings. It’s easy to get kids excited about shopping in thrift and consignment shops, especially when they begin to spot their own special finds.

Too (MyPlasticFreeLife.com), suggests searching MightyNest.com and LifeWithoutPlastic.com, makers of stainless steel, naturally lacquered wood and other non-plastic, durable children’s bowls, cups, plates and utensils.

n Avoid buying all new school supplies. Gently used binders and book bags can last years. Sturdy, simple backpacks skip the cost of faddish brand-name and celebrity products.

For supplies that must be replenished, such as paper, seek out post-consumerrecycled options.

n Healthy after-school extracurricular activities today typically require driving commutes. Look into carpooling with nearby families to save time and gas, cut vehicle emissions, and expand friendships.

n For lunch boxes, food containers and utensils, look for retro metal, a cloth bag and other alternatives to plastic (which can contain harmful chemicals) and glass (which can break). Beth Terry, in her book, Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can

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n Check the school’s eco-practices.

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Ornamental Plants

by David Y. Goodman

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ver the years I’ve had many conversations like this: ME: “What’s this plant?”

FRIEND: “It’s a [insert name of ornamental].”

ME: “Can you eat it?”

FRIEND: “I don’t think so.”

ME: “What about this one?”

FRIEND: “No.”

ME: “This one?”

FRIEND: “No.”

ME: “WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU? DON’T YOU HAVE ANYTHING USEFUL IN YOUR YARD? YOU’RE NOT MY FRIEND ANYMORE!!!”

Okay, that’s an exaggeration.

I have plenty of friends who grow ornamental rather than edible plants. I just don’t like it when they move into my neighborhood.

Yet recently, I’ve softened a little in my stance on ornamental plants.

Don’t get me wrong: I really think it’s foolish to fill your yard with plants and grass that can’t feed you. This is Florida—we can grow piles of food here. Persimmons, mulberries, loquats, pears, cassava, arrowroot, yams, grapes, chestnuts, figs … if you’re not planting at least a dozen edible and easy-to-grow plants in your yard, you’re wasting your property and the mild climate.

Once you have a good set of edible vegetables and fruit, however, it might be time to think about “supporting” those plants with other plants that may not be edible.

What do I mean?

Creation contains a complex web of interactions between widely divergent species. For instance, look at gopher tortoises: according to the

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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, their burrows may be shared with more than 350 other species.

Plants and trees are the same way. It’s rare to see just one type of plant growing alone, yet we humans

have a “thing” for planting blocks of plants together. Look at our lawns, our pine tree farms, our citrus groves, our cornfields … even our vegetable gardens.

However, in Creation, you won’t see one thing growing without other species around it. A big lawn with a sycamore tree in the middle is not a healthy or robust ecosystem, though it may look nice.

A robust ecosystem contains many hiding places and food sources for beetles, reptiles, toads, birds and bees.

It contains a diversity of plant species, ranging from poisonous to delicious.

It contains mushrooms, fallen logs, rocks, drifts of leaves and predators.

Together, these things balance out problems. One insect eats another; one plant provides nitrogen; another provides an abundance of growth that

feeds the soil when it freezes in the winter. Fallen wood feeds soil fungi, which in turn feed the roots of nearby plants.

A large mix of species also keeps disease and pests in check. A swath of a single species looks like a buffet to hungry caterpillars, yet a mix of plants confuses them and allows places for caterpillar-eating predators to hide.

With this in mind, I have to confess: I’ve started adding some “ornamental” plants to my acre of gardening projects.

If they attract the butterflies and the bees (like sweet almond verbena), I want them. If they grow rapidly and can be cut back to make compost (like Mexican sunflower), great. If they fix nitrogen with their roots (like Christmas cassia), wonderful.

The problem is, most of us have concentrated on growing pretty things and forgotten how to grow our own food. We buy heavily sprayed berries from the grocery store rather than planting a mulberry tree. We eat E. coli-laced spinach greens from a thousand miles away rather than plant a few pots of organic greens on our porch.

This is foolishness! We can grow year-round in Florida—don’t waste what we’ve been given.

Plant some edible plants first. After you do that, give those plants some support by planting useful ornamental species. I also like to plant native species that bring in our indigenous creatures.

Taylor Gardens Nursery in Sparr is my number one go-to source for beautiful natives and pollinator plants.

Dave and Guda Taylor know their plants and they’ve provided me with many of the beautiful trees, shrubs and flowers in my food forest project. Their nursery is also lovely and worth a visit just to see the blooms and butterflies, not to mention the ripening U-pick grapes in the back.

After Taylor Gardens, I also buy a lot of my butterfly and bee plants from Connie at The Potter’s Bench.

She sets up a booth across from mine at the 326 Community Market every Thursday, and I find myself going

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home with many of her plants more often than I probably should. The prices are too low to pass up!

Wherever you get your plants, make sure you scatter them about like they live in nature. Plant some Joe Pye weed around your pear tree … put a bottlebrush near your citrus … plant a cassia by your loquat. The mix of species helps all the plants grow and keeps the air filled with the pollinating insects that ensure bountiful harvests of fruits and vegetables.

Just don’t plant only ornamentals or I’ll mock you in one of my columns, okay?

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Learning that Transforms Hearts and Minds Rethinking How We See Our World Changes Everything

by Linda Sechrist

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n the 30 years since Harrison Owen introduced Open Space Technology (OST), it has been used hundreds of thousands of times by three-quarters of the world’s countries. Whether a few people gather in a circle to share ideas and brainstorm personal issues, or thousands discuss a bulletin board of topics around tables, OST is a safe, informal venue for transformative learning.

Guided by purpose-based, shared leadership, it allows individuals focused on a specific task to freely speak their thoughts and be heard. It also encourages breakout groups to mine for more information—learning individually, as well as collectively, and self-organizing in order to concentrate on more complex topics. “Boeing engineers used OST to learn how to redesign airplane doors,” comments Owen.

Circle Principle

For Owen—­like 20th-century Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and Juanita Brown, co-founder of The World Café—learning is transformation, the keystone of life, and the essence of meaningful education. “The

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circle principle contains the predictability of fresh, emerging thoughts and learning that never occurred previously,” explains Owen.

He points to an experiment regarding children’s capacity for selflearning initiated by Sugata Mitra, Ph.D., the former science director of an educational technology firm in India. On the outside wall of the building where he worked, Mitra installed a computer facing a New Delhi slum where most children were unschooled and illiterate and had never seen a computer. He turned it on and told children they could play with it.

Via a noninvasive video camera, he watched 7- to-13-year-olds discover how to use the computer and teach each other how to play music and games and draw using Microsoft’s Paint program. Repetition of the experiment in other impoverished sections of India yielded similar results. Wherever he established an Internet connection, children who could not read English, the Internet’s default language, taught themselves how to use the Web to obtain information through their interac-

tions with each other and the computer.

“I agree with what Mitra surmised from his experiment—learning is emergent, which is another word for selforganizing,” remarks Owen. Like Freire, Owen likens traditional education to the “banking” method of learning, whereby the teacher passes information to students who become dependent on someone else rather than learning how to think on their own.

Suzanne Daigle, a Sarasota, Florida-based consultant with a Canadian multidisciplinary consulting firm, explains how the OST learning environment changed her life: “My personal transformation began in 2009. Even though I was a leader in my corporate career, I doubted myself and often believed that what others had to say was more significant and interesting than what I could express.”

Now she says she has shed her people-pleasing tendencies and former attempts to control other people’s agendas and discovered the freedom and courage of her own voice. “As an OST facilitator, my life work now occurs in the moments I am collaboratively learning and listening for opportunities to enter into meaningful conversations that can lead to actions,” says Daigle.

Co-Learning

In a compulsory two-year Theory of Learning class for an International Baccalaureate degree at California’s Granadas Hill Charter High School, math and science educator Anais Arteaga helps students apply two major elements of transformative learning: self-reflection to critique one’s own assumptions, and discourse through which they question or validate their judgments. She focuses on the roles that perception, language, reason and emotion play in a student’s learning and decision-making abilities.

“Questions and lively discussions are the basis of the class,” Arteaga says.

“We begin with a question and explore what we know, how we know it and any conclusions drawn from the process.”

Using a democratic model in which the teacher welcomes critical discussion, Arteaga and her students

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have mutually discovered that knowledge is not static, but has a history and changes over time.

“When we first started the class, it was challenging to accept that in many situations there is no right or wrong, just relativity and a matter of perception. We don’t really know anything for certain,” she remarks.

Worldview Explorations

Katia Petersen, Ph.D., is the executive director of education at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), headquartered in Petaluma, California.

She co-developed the tools, practices and 22 lessons in the pioneering organization’s Worldview Explorations (WE) project. Founded on 40 years of IONS research, WE engages everyone in age-appropriate ways in reflecting upon long-held assumptions and how beliefs create the lens they see through, ultimately improving how they understand and respond to the world.

“When individuals understand the power of offering their story and are open to the worldview stories of others, they no longer focus attention on differences and limitations,” says Petersen. “They realize that everyone has their own truth.

“WE’s transformative learning experiences draw from the heart and soul of individuals, rather than stuffing heads with ideas and perspectives, which serves them well as they embody and apply these tools and practices in their daily lives.”

She cites a particularly powerful moment for a group of young people she worked with. “A student was killed in a drive-by shooting two weeks before their certification. The transformative moment came when they said that their new awareness and capacity for compassion and understanding would not allow them to seek revenge. Instead, they chose to save lives in their communities using their new skills.”

World Café

Like OST, the World Café, co-

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created by Brown and David Isaacs, of Burnsville, North Carolina, creates a transformative learning environment for individuals of all ages. Its primary principles are: set the context, create hospitable space, explore questions that matter, encourage everyone’s contributions, connect diverse perspectives, listen together for patterns and insights, and share collective discoveries.

Webs of conversation created around actual or occasionally virtual tables resemble those found in coffeehouses.

“Conversation is a core meaningmaking process, and people get to experience how the collective intelligence of a small or large group can become apparent,” says Brown. After several rounds of conversation on one or more topics, participants offer their harvest of key insights, learning, and opportunities for action with the full group gathered to reflect together on their discoveries.

“World Café provides an environment in which you are comfortably drawn forward by the questions you are asking together. When enough diversity is present, varied perspectives are offered and people feel listened to and free to make their contribution,” observes Brown.

What participants learn in this setting creates the climate of conditions that support the kinds of transformations that can change lives. Brown remarks, “When it happens to me, I feel like my brain cells have been rearranged.

I know something in the collective, as well as the individual, has been evoked, so that something never before imagined becomes present and available.”

Transformative learning has been compared to a sea journey without landmarks. Adventurous individuals who are open to traversing its highly engaging processes can emerge as autonomous thinkers, capable of contributing fresh, new ideas that just might transform the world we live in.

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Cures in the Kitchen Dr. Mark Hyman is Fed Up with Our National Health Crisis

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by Judith Fertig

n the groundbreaking new documentary film, Fed Up, Dr. Mark Hyman prescribes a major overhaul of the diets of all family members in communities across America to prevent far-reaching unwanted consequences. Hyman practices functional medicine, which takes a wholesystem approach to treating chronic illnesses by identifying and addressing their root causes, starting with poor diet. He is also the bestselling author of a series of books based on The Blood Sugar Solution.

What has your experience with Fed Up shown you about the root cause of many diseases?

In Fed Up, I met with a family of five to talk with them about their health and understand the roots of their family crisis of morbid obesity, pre-diabetes, renal failure, disability, financial stress and hopelessness.

Rural South Carolina, where they live, is a food desert with nearly10 times as many fast-food and convenience stores as supermarkets.

The family’s kitchen was also a food desert, with barely a morsel of real food. There were no ingredients to make real food—only pre-made factory science projects sold in cans and boxes with unpronounceable, unrecognizable ingredient lists.

This family desperately wanted to find a way out, but didn’t have the knowledge or skills. They lived on food stamps and fast food and didn’t

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know how to navigate a grocery aisle, shop for real food, read a label, equip a kitchen, or cook nutritious meals. Their grandmother has a garden, but never taught her children how to grow food, even though they live in a temperate rural area.

What results did the family see when they changed their eating habits?

I got the whole family cooking, washing, peeling, chopping, cutting and touching real food—onions, garlic, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, salad greens, even asparagus. After 12 months, the mother had lost 100 pounds and was off of blood pressure medication, and because the father had lost 45 pounds, he finally qualified for a kidney transplant. The son originally lost 40 pounds, but because he was stuck in a toxic food environment at school and only able to get a job at a fast-food eatery, he gained much of it back. I’m happy to report that he is now working to get back on track.

How is sugar a primary factor in creating obesity?

Of some 600,000 processed food items on the market, 80 percent contain added sugar. Sugar calories act differently from fat or protein calories in the body. Sugar calories drive food addiction, storage of belly fat, inflammation, and fatty liver (now the number one reason for liver transplants).

They also disrupt appetite control, increasing hunger and promoting overeating, and are biologically addictive.

Sugar calories are the major contributor to heart attacks, strokes, cancer, dementia and Type 2 diabetes. Sugar is a root cause behind the tripling of obesity rates in children since the 1970s.

As just one example illustrating government policy culprits, although poor people are disproportionately affected by obesity, the food industry vigorously opposes any efforts to limit the use of food stamps for soda. Every year, the U.S. government pays for $4 billion in soda purchases by the poor (10 billion servings annually) on the front end, and then pays billions more on the back end through Medicaid and Medicare to treat related health consequences that include obesity and diabetes.

What are the consequences if we don’t attack the problem of poor diet now?

The costs of a poor diet are staggering: At the present rate, by 2040, 100 percent of the nation’s federal budget will go for Medicare and Medicaid. The federal debt soars as our unhealthy kids fall heir to an achievement gap that limits America’s capacity to compete in the global marketplace. At the same time, having 70 percent of young people unfit for military service weakens national security.

In a detailed scientific analysis published in The New England Journal of Medicine, a group of respected scientists reviewing all the data affecting projected life spans concluded that today’s children are the first generation of Americans ever that will live sicker and die younger than their parents.

Health issues due to poor diet comprise a national crisis. They threaten our future, not just for those fat and sick among us, but all of us.

For more information on Fed Up, visit FedUpMovie.com.

Judith Fertig blogs at AlfrescoFood AndLifestyle.blogspot.com from Overland Park, KS.

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Five Simple Ideas for a Healthy Lifestyle

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ometimes patients will say things like, “My father ate everything and lived to 89.”

Yes, that was possible, but that was before the depletion of nutrients from the soil and the many changes in the food supply: GMO (genetically modified), hormones, antibiotics, chemicals, fillers, packaging and adulteration using “food-like substances,” along

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When the body is bombarded with more and more toxins, it will try to protect itself from contamination by encapsulating the toxins in pockets of fat and storing them until the body, or processes, can remove them safely.

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Detox daily Physically: Open the channels of detoxification (liver, kidneys, lymphatic system and colon) with a good program. This is followed by healing the gut and strengthening the immune system.

Spiritually: Take time to feed your spirit with prayer, meditation, good thoughts and lots of laughter.

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Eliminate inflammatory foods Grains, dairy, corn, soy, sugars, and artificial sweeteners are damaging. Pay attention because often it’s a guarantee that the one you don’t want to give up is the one that is causing the most problems.

Eat greens daily. Remember

to rotate your greens. Buy organic and local in order to avoid pesticide and herbicide residues as well as GMO. Keep a food journal to track what you eat, drink, and how you feel. This provides a roadmap and increases accountability.

Eat while being present. Honor the food and the nourishment you will receive from it.

Exercise Stretch daily.

Go for a walk. We call it walking meditation.

Find any form of movement that you enjoy, whether it’s dancing, Pilates, Qigong, Tai Chi, yoga, swimming etc. In other words, do anything that you enjoy which increases your heart rate.

De-stress Remember that stressed spelled backwards = desserts!

Stress throws off the hormone balance. This is followed by imbalances in the adrenals, thyroid and pituitary glands.

Remember that 50% of what people worry about never happens, and the other 50% is out of their control, so they cannot do anything about it.

Become centered Find and experience the joy in your heart.

Forgive yourself and others.

Release any attachments.

Manifest mercy, compassion and unconditional love.

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Be Happy Now Simple Ways to Quickly Lift Your Spirits

by April Thompson

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inger-songwriter Pharrell Williams, whose infectious hit song, “Happy,” has spread joy worldwide, seems to know the secret to happiness. More than 1,500 people from 140-plus countries have posted their own happy video spinoffs at WeAreHappyFrom.com, inspired by his daylong music video featuring Los Angeles residents from all walks of life dancing and lip-syncing to the tune.

Can happiness really be just a finger snap away? It depends on our unit of measurement—a moment versus a lifetime.

Research by such authorities as Psychologist Martin Seligman, Ph.D., director of the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psy-

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chology Center, suggests that several basic ingredients are keys to long-term happiness, including a sense of purpose, engaging activities, quality relationships and achievable goals. Ultimately, happiness is a subjective state, gauged only by personal perception.

Still, there are quick, simple things we can do to shift our mood into a higher gear, according to Jonathan Robinson, author of Find Happiness Now: 50 Shortcuts for Bringing More Love, Balance, and Joy Into Your Life. “Broadly, happiness shortcuts fall into two categories—those that help in letting go of negative emotions and those that help in tuning into or expanding positive feelings,” says Robinson. “The end result is the same.”

Practice gratitude. When the day’s affronts seem excessive, we can reframe them by counting our blessings mentally or in a journal. Review the day with an eye to everything that went right. “Soon, you’ll start to see everything as a gift,” observes Robinson.

Pencil it in. Take a few moments at the start of each week to block out a little time every day for happy activities.

Pay it forward. It doesn’t take much to make someone’s day, advises Robinson.

Give someone a compliment or a piece of chocolate and watch their attitude instantly change, which in turn lifts you into their happy cloud.

Sing and dance. Williams applies this secret: Moving our bodies and vibrating our vocal chords helps shake us out of our mental cages. “It’s hard to feel bad when you sing.

It’s a choice: You can stay angry for four hours or sing for 15 seconds,” Robinson notes.

Don’t underestimate the power of a simple jumpstart to happiness. Research from the University of Arizona shows that as little as a forced smile not only releases stress-fighting neuropeptides and moodlifting serotonin in the brain, it activates a chain reaction of happiness around us.

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Osteoporosis Drugs and Osteonecrosis of the Jaw

by Perry Ekstrand, DDS, LVIF, The Swedish Dentist

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ho would have thought?

Even short-term use of medications taken to improve bone density can cause a condition that can leave the jaw vulnerable to a devastating situation known as osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ).

If you have osteoporosis, you need to learn about osteoporosis medication as it relates to the possible side effects to your jaw. Bisphosphonates slow down the turnover of your bone, especially the cells that “eat” your old bone so that other cells can produce new bone.

Many patients we meet who have had prescriptions for both oral or injectable bisphosphonates have not read the fine print, or perhaps have not been told by their doctors or pharmacists about the oral health risks associated with the use of these drugs that have at least a 10-year halflife in bone tissue. Even people who have been off these medications for years are still at risk, and they need to be aware of the potential side effects when making decisions with their dentist about their teeth.

Generally these things don’t get talked about until you visit the dentist, who should always be made aware of any medications you take and updated about changes you’ve had for prescription medications between visits. It is your responsibility to update your dentist with any changes in your health or medications so they can do their best to protect you from potential harm. That means any and all medications, not just for osteoporosis.

You might never know about the challenges of this side effect unless you are forced to remove a tooth that has become infected or broken in the jaw and there are no other alternatives.

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To determine if you are at risk, a C telopeptide blood test can be ordered prior to extraction. You should fast for 12 hours prior to drawing the blood.

It takes about 3-4 days for results.

The test results can be skewed and affected by patients who have cancer (too high numbers) or take prednisone (too low numbers). The telopeptide is measured in pg/ml (picograms per milliliter). There are still discussions about “normal ranges” and they have not been established for the elderly; however, rule of thumb says that a value below 100 is considered highrisk, 100-150 medium-risk, and more than 150 is regarded as low-risk.

Osteoporosis affects millions of Americans. ONJ is a biofilm bacterial process, meaning that the bacteria infecting the mouth and jaw tissues reside within a slimy matrix that protects the bacteria from many conventional antibiotic treatments, and bisphosphonate use may make the infection more aggressive in adhering to the jaw. The danger is especially pronounced with procedures that directly expose the jaw bone, such as tooth extractions and other oral surgery.

Treatment to address ONJ could include multiple immersions in a hyperbaric chamber that can cost thousands of dollars to rid the body of this infection. However, rather than having to treat this problem if it happens, prevent it instead; make sure that you are always taking very good care of your natural teeth. If you are taking osteoporosis medication: • See your dentist regularly for check-ups and cleanings, and protect your natural teeth so you do not have to have unnecessary extractions in the future.

• Put crowns on teeth where there

are old fillings so that they are less likely to fracture, forcing removal.

• Always cap a root canal tooth so that it is more protected from fracturing down the weakened center of the tooth, forcing extraction.

• When your dentist says he sees fracture lines or compromised teeth, fix it so that you don’t risk the loss of the tooth down the road.

• Make sure you floss and brush.

Become a bit of a fanatic so you protect yourself from periodontal disease and caries and do not wind up in a situation where you would need to have teeth removed.

If you have taken or are taking these medications, it might be wise to have the C telopeptide test taken in advance of visiting the dentist so you know the risk factor you might have.

Risks lessens the longer you have been off the medication, so it might be a relief to know you are not at risk and to have that information available for your dentist should the challenge ever arise.

Thanks to the Internet, you can do your homework, as you should be doing with anything you put into your body. “Just Google it,” I say—which I learned from my daughter. Amazing the resources we all have at our fingertips for free.

The information in this article has come from personal experience and has been aided in part by my own research online which included a story and research done

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Medical Myths that Can Threaten Your Life

by Dr. Michael J. Badanek, DC, BS, CNS, DACBN, DCBCN, DM(P)

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n many ways, modern medicine is a wonder to behold, while in others it is still very primitive and, at times, inhumane and barbaric. New research has produced ingenious ways to treat previously deadly and debilitating disorders, while many current procedures are more life-threatening and debilitating than the disease itself.

One of the great pitfalls of medicine is its treatment of chronic disease, and more specifically its failure to utilize nutritional methods to enhance the effectiveness and safety of medical care and prevent many diseases in the first place.

We prescribe antibiotics to treat infections, yet do not use powerful nutritional immune stimulants to assist the body in fighting these infections.

Doctors perform surgeries, but fail to support healing with proper nutrition and immune support, despite the fact that both surgery and anesthesia are powerful immune suppressors.

Doctors treat strokes and heart attacks, but ignore the harmful excitotoxic effects of food additives and protein supplements that lead to those events.

Modern medicine treats cancer with powerful drug combinations that have little positive impact on the majority of cancers. However, these drugs do make many curable cancers incurable and often shorten lives. Likewise, doctors ignore recent scientific advances in nutrients and nutrient supplements that do suppress cancer development and growth.

Worse yet, modern medicine ignores scientific evidence that common food additives such as MSG, omega-6 oils, and aspartame dramatically promote cancer growth. Ironically, many cancer patients are even encouraged to include these cancerpromoters in their diet.

Myth #1: Medicine Is All About Science: In its quest to become the epitome of scientific discipline, the medical

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profession has lost sight of its original goal; that is, to relieve suffering. Today, with our obsession with the “scientific method,” we have deviated far from that goal. That is why the medical elite have coined the term “evidence-based medicine,” to emphasize that the new medicine of today is based solely on science. In the past, great doctors recognized that medicine should entail not just cold, hard science, but also humanistic arts and compassion.

Myth #2: Lower Blood Pressure is Always Better: We have known for a long time that hypertension is linked to many health problems, including strokes, heart attacks, loss of vision, dementia, and heart failure, to name just a few. What they don’t agree on is what actually constitutes high blood pressure; that is, at what level does a person have hypertension?

As we get older, our blood vessels become stiffer, making it more difficult for the blood to flow. As a result, the heart increases its blood pressure in order to force blood through hardened vessels and ensure a continuous supply to all areas of the body.

Then there is the blood pressure drug scam.

In recent years, the medical establishment has suggested that not only were normal values of blood pressure to high, but that all people should be placed on antihypertensive medications, even if they are in the “normal range.”

Myth #3: Only Antibiotics Can Stop Infection: I am amazed that the typical treatment for infections is antibiotics. On the other hand, the possibility that nutrition may be able to prevent infections and even aid in recovery never seems to cross most physicians’ minds. Many scientific studies prove that nutrition plays an integral part in survival and recovery from a wide variety of infections, both bacterial and viral. Taking antibiotics in most cases suppresses the immune system and destroys the normal gut flora, thus promoting harmful bacteria and viruses to grow and overtake the immune system.

Myth #4: Vaccines Prevent Sickness and Disease: It is simply an utter travesty as to the people exposed to the deadly toxic effects of vaccinations in flu, pneumonia, hepatitis, HPV and childhood vaccines. This is because many vaccines contain a full dose of mercury as well as brain-damaging aluminum. Even worse is the fact that for the vast majority of

people, the flu vaccine doesn’t work. And for many, it increases their risk of becoming seriously ill. Because most doctors know little or nothing about the interrelationship between the body’s immune system and the brain’s special immune system (cells called microglia), they don’t understand that giving a large number of vaccines to a child damages the brain, thus causing autism, ADD and ADHD.

Myth #5: Cancer Cannot Be Cured: Modern alternative cancer specialists are curing and controlling advanced and sometimes very aggressive cancers that the best conventional treatments couldn’t control. Time and time again, patients told to go home and die are getting involved with alternative medicine and are living and thriving against all conventional medical opinions and failed conventional treatment protocols. I have also noticed that when using nutritional treatments with conventional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the secondarily side effects of nausea, vomiting, hair loss, weakness, and weight loss are dramatically reduced or eliminated. Make no mistake, alternative means of treatment of cancer is far, far more effective, less costly, and certainly much more humane in the treatment, and offers a more positive outcome than traditional means.

Myth #6: Cholesterol and Saturated Fat Hurt the Heart: Of all the myths discussed in this article, this is the biggest and most sinister lie ever perpetrated on the American public. Most of what you have heard about saturated fat and cholesterol is dead wrong.

In fact, there is no linear relationship between cholesterol or saturated fat levels and heart attacks and stroke risks. What’s more depressing is that we have known this for decades!

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arving out time from crammed calendars for a week or more away from home can pose such a hurdle that more than half of all Americans forfeit hard-earned vacation days every year. Sometimes a long weekend in an inspiring place is all we need to recharge our batteries.

Short vacations invite welcome rest and relaxation and are often more sustainable, according to Gary Diedrichs, publisher of the online Green Traveler Guides (GreenTravelerGuides. com). “Airplanes pollute more than any other form of travel. When you take shorter trips by other means, whether bicycle or a hybrid rental car, you’re way ahead environmentally,” says Diedrichs, whose family enjoys road-tripping in an old Mercedes converted to run on recycled vegetable oil.

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ents to reinforce that living sustainably isn’t just something you do at home,” notes Diedrichs.

We can prescribe—and reward— ourselves with one of the following mini-vacations, whether it’s a trip to a green spa if we’re stressed or a hike in a park or the woods if we’ve been sedentary.

Travel on tracks to trails. Leave behind stressful traffic and uninspiring highway views by hopping a train to a nearby state or national park. Riders can venture through a variety of terrains without leaving their seats. Amtrak reaches more than 237 national parks and monuments (AmtrakToParks. com), many of which offer stunning backdrops for outdoor music festivals.

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Go farm to fork. Escape city crowds, live bucolic fantasies, and learn about sustainable agriculture during a farm stay. Organic family farms across the country offer overnight accommodations to supplement farming incomes and connect with local consumers.

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Anti-Aging Medicine

by Paula Koger, BSN, MA, DOM

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ecently, my husband and I met some friends at a ballroom dance. We had not seen them for about six months. Lifelong friends, they are honest and direct, and they said, “Wow! You two are getting younger.”

We use only alternative medicine and have steadily improved our health and physical performance.

So I decided to add a testing device called HeartQuest to our evaluation instruments. This newest version allows me to evaluate cellular age, stress, cellular vitality, neurohormonal balance, 5-elements, doshas, and organ energy balance.

When I used it to assess myself, it opened a whole new door of awareness that is allowing me to treat myself for sleep disturbance and improve the quality of my sleep; it started working the very first night. I also discovered my cellular age at 69 is 59.

HeartQuest allows us to measure multiple responses to treatments including the cellular age. Now that I have this device, I can adjust my treatments, food, and recommended activities on myself and clients. I have a way to monitor their progress and adjust treatment protocols. It is a new updated version that allows us to monitor energy levels of each organ, the brain, thyroid, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, and the effects of hormone balance or imbalance. Now I feel inspired to improve and surpass this 59 number and learn how to adjust my food,

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herbs, supplements and homeopathy.

I am motivated to be healthier and younger. And it shows: at the end of three treatments using gem therapy, oils, and plant essences, I had reached a biological age of 40 according to the scans.

According to the HeartQuest FAQ, “The human body appears to be designed to live up to 1,000 years.

All the organs have the capacity to regenerate.” Although 1,000 years is more than I want to achieve, I like the idea of seeing how much I can improve and regenerate. Degeneration is usually caused by toxins, stresses, traumas that are stored in the cells, and generational issues and patterns we have adapted from environmental and family stressors. Since stress causes 90% of disease, and the 95% unconscious causes the stress, it is anti-aging and proactive for health, happiness and longevity to deal with what is causing these stresses.

The HeartQuest is able to show clients how stress, which I know as the silent killer, is affecting their body.

It also able to tell clients how what they are doing is working. It is a good motivator and evaluator.

Heart rate variability is widely used in mainstream medicine to determine how stress is affecting the body. High heart rate variability equates with robust health, whereas low variability means the body is overor under-functioning, causing stress in the cardiovascular and central nervous system, leaving us vulnerable to acute or chronic disease.

Using spectral analysis, fractal analysis, Fast Four Transformation, and other mathematical algorithms and methods, the developers of HeartQuest were able to extrapolate from a person’s heart rate variability a range of information about the physiology and emotional state. This program gives a baseline for us to assess our health level, and it actually gives a reading calculating the percent of health quality.

From this information, I can add to the data I collect from pulse analysis, tongue analysis, biofeedback, and history to determine the treatments to reduce stress and disease potential and optimize the regeneration and antiaging needs of the body.

After my first self-evaluation, I woke up feeling highly motivated to stay with healthier choices and remain calm. Knowing that stress is the number one killer, I am more in tune with my thoughts, activities, and the choices that exaggerate my stress response.

Over the past few years of studying the heart, I see the vital role it plays and how it is responsible for the movement of regulatory information through the body to adjust and perform many functions. A woman came in today with chest pains. We were able to determine the cause.

With the treatments, she was able to release the tension that was causing the pain, and her pulse returned to normal immediately.

As a practitioner whose primary motivation is the empowerment of the patient to remove the issues, toxins, and mental attitudes that cause diseases, I am excited for my patients to be able to track their progress. I just love helping others and getting helped for myself.

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Green spas use natural products such as unbleached organic linens and botanically derived oils, which are gentler on skin. Most practice sustainability in other areas as well, such as water management, energy use and waste reduction. Search for the perfect getaway treat at GreenSpaNetwork. org.

Numerous farms, spas, parks and vineyards are waiting to be explored; many nearby that we may overlook draw visitors from around the world.

“Local travel gives us a chance to dig more deeply into the places that surround us,” says Diedrichs. “We can have fun playing tourists in our own backyards and support sustainable, local businesses we discover along the way.”

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in & Tonic

by Melody Murphy

That’s My Spot

“That’s my spot. It is the singular location in space around which revolves my entire universe. In an everchanging world, it is a single point of consistency.”

Sheldon Cooper, “The Big Bang Theory”

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f you watch “The Big Bang Theory,” as I do, you know that lovable nut job Sheldon Cooper has an affinity for one particular spot on his couch that borders on the obsessive. He has his reasons: “In the winter, that seat is close enough to the radiator to remain warm and yet not so close as to cause perspiration. In the summer, it’s directly in the path of a cross-breeze created by opening windows there and there. It faces the television at an angle that is neither direct, thus discouraging conversation, nor so far wide as to create a parallax distortion. I could go on, but I think I’ve made my point.”

Point taken, Sheldon. And I’m with him on that. We all have our spots, and I certainly have mine.

I have two Adirondack chairs on my porch. They both have cushions.

They are equal in every way. And yet it is clear from the deep indentation in one that that is where someone—and that someone is me—always sits.

There are six chairs at my dining room table. I always sit in the same one, whether I am alone or in company.

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I always sleep on the left side of my bed. Even though it’s a full bed and I could very easily sleep in the middle of it, or on the right side, I don’t.

Why do I gravitate to one particular chair or side of the bed?

Because that’s my spot.

Upon reflection, I can see the reasons why some of my spots are my spots, and they are just as logical as Sheldon’s.

My house is on a corner lot.

“My” chair is on the northern corner of the porch, so I can easily see the intersection of streets to the south and whoever is coming or going. It also gives me a wider view of sky and trees.

I write at my dining room table in the mornings. The dining room is on the east side of the house, so the morning light is beautiful as the sun comes up over the tall hedge across the street and shines through the giant live oaks festooned with Spanish moss. “My” chair faces the windows.

I always prefer to face a window, so I can look out it. “My” chair is also on the side of the table nearest the kitchen, so that when I have company, I can easily get up and down to fetch whatever is needed.

I sleep on the side of the bed by the nightstand and nearest the door. Those reasons alone are logical enough, but there’s more: There is a small, high, east-facing window in the opposite corner, so that when the sun rises in the mornings, I can wake up with it. I enjoy lying in bed looking up at the rosy clouds and golden

light shining through the moss in the treetops across the way. And yet, “my” side of the bed ensures that the sun’s rays are not shining directly into my eyes.

Even outside my home, I always find a spot that is “mine,” whether or not anyone else understands that it is. I always have a favorite tree to sit under.

I have a favorite pew in church. I have a favorite seat at the theatre. I gravitate to a certain chair at the dining-room and kitchen tables of many friends and relatives.

When a place becomes your spot, it is because it is composed of many smaller spots which are your spot, and they all add up to the greater whole of a that’s-my-spot. It is pointillism put into practice. Like carefully placed dots of paint on a canvas which, over time, create a complete picture, all the little “single points of consistency” about a place form “a singular location in space around which revolves your entire universe.” And when that happens, that is home.

Home has nothing to do with whether or not your name is on the deed to it. You don’t have to own a house for it to feel like home. A sense of ownership is based on affinity rather than legality. I don’t own a single house, not even the one I live in, but there are at least half a dozen houses that feel like home to me—and more have been throughout my life.

The only problem with that is, sometimes your heart gets broken if a house is not yours to legitimately call home and keep as such. So you could choose not to get attached to a place—or you could do as you’ve always done, dig in a little deeper, and for whatever time you have there, gravitate toward, love, and immerse yourself in the place which makes you say:

“That’s my spot.”

Melody Murphy is a writer whose current location in space is Ocala.

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* Healthy eating class, 10:30noon. “Proteins and Fats: Your Best Friends?� presented by Maritza Acevedo, B.S. Alternative Medicine.

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* Tarot Readings and Sound Healing with Rev. Steve Henry. Your choice of a reading, sound healing session or both, $35/half hour, $60/ hour. Call to sign up or walk in. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd, High Springs. 386-454-8657, www.highspringsemporium.net.

Thursday, August 14

Benefits of Acupuncture and Colonics, free seminar, 6pm. Lemire Clinic, 11115 SW 93rd Ct. Rd., Ocala, 352-291-9459, www.LemireClinic. com.

Saturday, August 16

Reiki Among the Crystals: Healing Sessions with Cindy Zsolnai, Reiki Master. $30/hour session. Call to sign up. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd, High Springs. 386-4548657, www.highspringsemporium.net.

Saturday, August 23

* Scalloping trip. Unity of Ocala, 101 Cedar Rd., Ocala, www.

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* The Master Class: Opening up Infinite Gateways with Stellar Beam Calcites, Workshop with Sharron Britton. 2-4pm, $20. Call to sign up.

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A prayer class begins, using the book Come Apart for a While by the Ellsworths. Facilitated by Rev. Marge. Unity of the Villages, 10935 SE 177 Place, Suite 504, Summerfield, FL 34491, www.UnityOfTheVillages.org, 352-454-3120.

Saturday, August 30

Chakra Balancing on the BioMat. Experience the therapeutic benefits of the BioMat over a powerful crystal grid. 15-minute sessions $10, or free with purchase of $20 or more. Walk in. High Springs Emporium, 660 NW Santa Fe Blvd, High Springs. 386-454-8657, www. highspringsemporium.net.

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