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• Sunscreen: Healthy or Toxic? May 9, 2011
  It’s not an easy question. Most of us know that there is a relationship between sun exposure and skin cancer. But how many know about the problems inherent in many of the lotions that are on the market – there to supposedly limit damage to our skin? What if the products you were buying and [...]
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• A Spring Cleanse – For the Body and Mind March 19, 2011
  My husband and I, along with a group of 15 people from my practice, are on day 2 of our annual spring cleanse. It is an event that I always look forward to and relish when it comes – feeling the warmth of spring, new sprouts of life everywhere, and taking some time for our [...]
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• Spring Cleanse is here at last March 16, 2011
  I can’t believe it is the middle of March! But here is sit with a table of vegetable sprouts, daylight that stretches well past winter’s 5 pm shut down, and 17 brave souls starting together the spring cleanse! I am really excited about this cleanse. I always am. I love doing the twice/year detox classes. [...]
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• Food Allergies: Fact or Fiction May 16, 2010
  I recently read an article in the NY Times that said that many people who have been diagnosed with food allergies don’t actually have them. They felt that perhaps only 8% of children and less than 5% of adults actually have them. I feel that quite the opposite is true. In my practice, I see [...]
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• Permaculture and Naturopathic Medicine March 30, 2010
  I have long felt a connection between the earth and naturopathic medicine. So it wasn’t much of a stretch for me to want to investigate how permaculture principles might influence the practice of naturopathic medicine.  I took a year-long course recently at the Regenerative Design Institute (RDI) in Bolinas, California, one of the premier permaculture [...] […]
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• PCBs Found in Fish Oil March 7, 2010
  A study was released this week that shows that many of the popular brands of fish oils have high amounts of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compounds. PCB’s, once widely used in the electricity industry, are very toxic and have been banned from use since 1979. But because they do not break down easily, they persist in [...]
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• Divine Digestion February 24, 2010
  I feel that there are a few disorders that are nagging. And a few that make us absolutely miserable. Then there are things like diabetes and heart disease, which while causing great health problems and costing our country billions, don’t usually present with physical symptoms. The more miserable, the more likely people are to make [...]
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• Health care: Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth? January 22, 2010
  Most people pay $300-$3000 per month for health insurance, depending in whether or not they have a high deductible or family v. individual coverage. Not to mention that your employer, if you have employer-based insurance, is putting in about the same amount, rather than giving that money to you.  How often do you need health [...]
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• Celebrating Solstice December 27, 2009
  I took one of the little snowmen statuettes to place on the alter at the Solstice Circle I went to on Sunday. I have mixed feelings about him, but such deep appreciation for the spirit in which it was given. And the spirit of celebration, which my mother always fostered this time of year. I [...]
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• Re-form the Healthcare Paradigm September 1, 2009
  I recently read the article in the Washington Post by Kathleen Sebelias, our new Secretary of Health and Human Services. It brought this issue that has been nagging in the back of my head to the fore. She really believes that Obama’s plan will improve the health of Americans. But that is impossible. That is [...]
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