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Feature Index arts & entertainment ...............................34-35 astrology ........................................................ 36 awareness .................................................24-28 the Billboard ............................................ 3 &17 thriving Business ........................................4-5 Compassion Flower resource guide ...... 38-39 dining delights .............................................. 16 essential living guide ............. 14,24,25,30,31 Fitness & sports ............................................ 32 green Business directory .............................. 6

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Well Known Scientist Sounds The Alarm On Geoengineering

Marvin Herndon, Ph.D. , is a scientist of considerable notoriety. Marvin contacted me recently to express his growing concerns about the constant toxic aerosol spraying of our planet and the obvious human health and environmental ramifications we all face from this contamination. Dr. Herndon has shown a level of courage that is so very rare in the circles of the science community, he is taking a stand on the aerosol spraying issue and making his voice heard. There are so many in academia who have sheepishly hidden themselves in the shadows while they perform whatever task is asked of them in exchange for a paycheck and a pension. Marvin is the antithesis of this. He has sacrificed much in his life and career in order to

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premature brain degeneration or cancer? What horrors lie in store for our children and grandchildren who unknowingly play outdoors, or the pregnant women with their unborn offspring, or the runners and other outdoor recreationists? What about those of us who suffer asthma or who have compromised immune systems? What about the elderly? What about your own family? Are we San Diegans no longer free to breathe uncontaminated air? Why are San Diego’s Mayor and members of San Diego City Council silent about this imminent public health threat? Were you duped into believing that toxic chemical clouds will keep Earth from warming? Clouds might reflect sunlight back into space but those same artificial clouds also keep Earth from cooling by not letting Earth’s heat escape during the night. Clouds, artificial or natural, trap heat! Why the silence? Are you afraid there will be demonstrations or riots in the streets if the truth were told about the ongoing activity that poisons the air San Diegans are now breathing? Deception by acquiescence and silence is fundamentally wrong, unless you are a willing participant in activities that will likely come to be characterized as crimes against humanity. As elected officials you have the responsibility to advise and protect all San Diegans. Please speak the truth and stop this spraying over our homes. The following links provide information you may find of benefit. Chemtrail websites: http://www.geoengineeringwatch. org/ http://stopsprayingcalifornia.com/ http://www.endgeoengineering.com/ index.html Interview with a neurosurgeon: h t t p s : / / w w w. y o u t u b e . c o m / watch?v=X3lW-TGGlk0 Please advise me of your intensions to make public disclosure of the chemical spraying over San Diego. Kindly respond before the close of business on January 23, 2015, or I will assume you have no intention of responding. Sincerely, J. Marvin Herndon, Ph.D. Permission to post this letter was granted to geoengineeringwatch. org from Marvin Herndon, Ph.D.

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to wash up on our shores. The final stage of the BP trial has begun. Tell BP and their lawyers: Stop your campaign of denial and deception and pay the maximum fines for which you are liable! Nearly five years since the start of the Gulf oil disaster, the ongoing effects of the spill are only becoming more apparent. It is appalling and unjust that you are avoiding responsibility by continuing to appeal the court’s decisions and funding a misleading PR campaign that suggests everything in the Gulf is fine. In the last year alone, studies have shown that dolphins and turtles in the Gulf are dying in record numbers, commercial fisheries are seeing decreased catches for several varieties of seafood and tar mats continue to wash up on Gulf Coast beaches. It’s time to come clean and accept responsibility stop your campaign of denial and deception and pay the maximum fines for which you are liable! http://tinyurl.com/qg9nryx

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Solving 9-11: the Deception That Changed the World

Feb. 28th at the Resource Center for Non-Violence. Christopher Bollyn, Journalist & Author of Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed the World Sponsored by Santa Cruz Peace and Freedom Party 7pm, February 28th at the RCNV 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. How Can We Not Try to Solve This Horrendous Crime and End the Coup That Took Place on 9-11-01? The following 10-minute video, Solving 9-11 Destroying the Evidence, explains how the FBI, under the supervision of Michael Chertoff, allowed the crucial steel evidence from the World Trade Center to be destroyed. Rather than conducting a forensic examination of the steel to determine how the buildings were destroyed, this crucial evidence was hastily cut up, mixed with other scrap, and shipped to steel mills in Asia. See more at: http://tinyurl.com/mkfwqgj Second of 3 Short Videos below: http://tinyurl.com/mkfwqgj

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Just Say “NO!” to Cell Towers (When You Can) Wireless is everywhere and we’re living in a brave new world where we cannot escape wireless microwave radiation. Some people think we might as well surrender and at best we should try to just deal with it. Sometimes I feel this way but most of the time I realize it is up to each of us to protect our children. That is why I recently attended a meeting regarding the proposed installation of a cell tower in Soquel Village. Verizon is attempting to install a cell tower on a building located at the corner of Soquel Drive and Porter Street. Verizon representatives assured the landlord that: • The tower meets FCC rules. • It is a repeater that handles data, and not voice communications so the radiation is less • A metal shield installed under the transmitter will avoid emitting radiation to the building occupants • Cell phones emit more radiation when they are not getting a strong signal, adding another cell tower would lower the exposure. True? I am old enough to recall corporations hiding incriminating data for years on products like smoking, asbestos, and lead paint. Here are some facts about microwave radiation that you can verify for yourself: • Why is the US standard 100 times higher than Russia’s standard? FCC standards are outdated and inadequate. • Radiation can travel around a metal shield like water around a wall. • The 24/7 tower radiation addition may more than offset the reduced cell phone radiation reduction. • Verizon representatives admitted that they plan to install another cell tower at the high school. We are constantly told that there are no studies linking wireless with cancer. Sound familiar? When the independent studies are separated from the industry funded studies, biological health effects are found in cell phone usage. Radiation is causing double bond breaks in human DNA which are not repairable. Watch the documentary, “Take Back Your Power” for more information. The landlord in this particular case claims

he is not considering approving the Verizon tower for the money but rather for the health of the students who attend a nearby high school who are “always using their cell phones.” He reasons that someone is going to agree to accommodate a cell tower and he wants to do it “in the safest way possible.” Is he playing with fire? What about the children attending three other three nearby schools (Soquel Elementary School, Main Street Elementary, Tara Redwood Elementary)? These kids are at a greater risk because they are younger, their brains are still developing, and the schools are closer—all within a range of 450650 ft. There also is a day care center and karate school located even closer to this proposed site. The landlord personally investigated each school site and determined that all were already bathed in radiation from wireless WiFi, transformers and “Smart Meters.” I suppose the argument is “the radiation is already present so what the heck?” But remember that people have a choice to turn the phones and Wi-Fi on and off. No one in Soquel will have a, choice to turn off the cell tower emitting micro-wave radiation, 24/7. In Europe some communities are not allowing cell towers to be near schools or libraries. The documentary, “Full Signal” shows when a village discovered residents living next to cell towers developed cancer, they removed all cell towers from the village and went back to using land line phones. The cities of Watsonville and Capitola are local examples of recently voting down the proposed cell towers. In 1996 the U.S. Congress passed a law that dis-allows state and local governments from prohibiting installation of a cell tower on the basis of health concerns. Guess which lobbyists contributed millions to get it passed. As a former teacher, I care about the kids. As a former computer programmer I understand the need for technology. As a current nutritionist, I know it’s critical to protect health. It would be good for Soquel Village if this landlord and the next ones approached would just say “NO!” to proposed cell towers. Go to www.nacst.org/watch-a-movie.html for a list of informative videos.

The French Parliament passed a law addressing electromagnetic fields and electromagnetic hypersensitivity. While the new law does not go nearly far enough, it is the first of its kind in the world.

3). Within one year from today, the ANFR will produce a municipal-level map of all cell towers in France. 4). Any advertisement for cell phones must mention, clearly and legibly, the recommended use of an accessory device that reduces exposure of the head to radio frequency radiation. Violators are subject to a fine of 75,000 euros. 5). Advertisements promoting the use of cell phones without such accessories are prohibited. Violators are subject to a fine of 75,000 euros. 6). Anyone selling a cell phone must provide, upon request, an accessory designed for children under 14 years of age that reduces exposure of the head to radio frequency radiation. 7). Wireless internet is prohibited in places dedicated to the welcome, rest, and activities of children under 3 years of age. 8). Wireless access for internet in elementary schools must be disabled when not in use for teaching. 9). One year from today, the government shall submit to the Parliament a report on electromagnetic hypersensitivity.

New French Law Sets Precedent

Among its provisions are the following:

1). Anyone who intends to build one or more radio installations regulated by the ANFR (France’s equivalent of the FCC) must submit to the local government, if requested by the mayor, calculations of electromagnetic fields that will be generated. This information must be made available to the public. 2). A national dialogue committee on levels of public exposure to electromagnetic fields is created within the ANFR. This committee will give information to all stakeholders. The ANFR will give annual reports to the dialogue committee on the results of all electromagnetic field measurements in France as well as measures taken to reduce exposure levels at “atypical” locations where the levels are greater than usual. The ANFR will compile a annual census of atypical exposure locations and periodically report on measures taken to reduce exposure at suchlocations.

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Why Build a Geodesic Dome?

by Aaron Carvajal Why go round instead of square? For starters take a look at how nature designs everything. The movement and momentum of life happens on a platform based on the circle. There aren’t really any straight lines or squares in the growth of life and movement of the heavens. So why do we build most everything using squares or straight lines? We don’t live in MineCraft, so we may want to explore the world of circles and natural ratios to build our future homes and products. Here are just a few very good reasons why this makes sense. The geo dome structures weigh less when completed because of the air-mass inside the dome. When it’s heated warmer than the outside air, it has a net lifting effect -like a hot-air balloon. This is almost unnoticeable in smaller structures, like houses, but as geodesics are based upon spheres, the effect increases geometrically with size. So you’d be able to notice it in a sports stadium, and a sphere more than a half mile in diameter would be able to float in the air with only a 1 degree Fahrenheit difference in temperature. “The Geodesic Dome is, simply stated, the strongest, lightest and most efficient means of enclosing space yet devised.” American Institute of Architects. This says it all, but here are some more reasons. Geodesic domes use about a third less building materials for some substantial savings. The primary factor affecting efficient use of materials and energy in a structure is its shape. Think of a soap bubble. A

from under a closed door? The nature of the spherical design provides strength because the stress is shared evenly by all the points of the structure. The dome shape allows resistance to movement from earthquakes, high winds, and spreads stress from snow load evenly throughout the structure. The geometry of the triangle offers additional strength to the dome shape. Interior advantages of the dome include greater freedom of floor plan design, high ceilings, and even light, heat, and sound distribution. Domes display superior light characteristics as The lower the total outside spherical shapes tend to amplify light surface area (walls and ceilings) the while rectangular shapes tend to trap light. Acoustical advantages greater the efficiency in include more even sound energy use for heating distribution and less outside and cooling. A dome has noise infiltration. approximately one-third Most interesting and less surface area to the important are recent studoutside than a box-style ies that show that the full structure. The amount of spectrum of energy waves surface area exposed to are available in the center the elements has a much of a dome. In a box, the greater impact on energy energy waves are blocked. efficiency than insulation Aaron Carvajal Thus the saying, “I feel like values. Efficient airflow inside a dome adds to the energy sav- I am boxed in...” We seem to know ings further; the curved surface of a instinctually and feel physically the dome provides a natural circulation comfort of being inside a dome. The of internal air. Outside the dome, the importance of the natural energy round shape provides an aerodynamic waves all around us is just beginning effect; so wind passes over the dome to be understood. Lastly, let’s not with less resistance. In comparison, forget they are simply good looking a box-style structure provides a flat and cool. barrier to wind, creating positive wind See how we are taking action today pressure and suction. Ever notice how by visiting future at futureofthefree. a door will slam shut when a door to com and e-mail us at connect@futurethe outside is left open, or air blows in ofthefree.com. sphere represents the smallest amount of material surface area needed to enclose a given volume of space. A divided sphere becomes one of the most efficient shapes known to enclose a given floor area.

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Heirloom Plants and Your Health

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Eternal love...Seeds Not Sugar — Feb. 15th - Sunday This semi-annual seed swap is a free event and will take place on Sunday, February 15th from 11 AM - 4 PM at the Native Revival Nursery located at 2600 Mar Vista Drive in Aptos. It is a free event open to the public and will include seed savers of all levels of experience. At 1:00 PM there will be a presentation from author and educator, David Blume of Whiskey Hill Farms discussing the latest organic techniques. Until then, come and enjoy the wonderful Celtic bluegrass music from well-known local artist, John Michael. The festival will allow attendees to stay connected after the event for

future seed swaps and projects. This will also be a fundraiser for the Santa Cruz County Fair Agriculture/Horticulture Department in order to promote youth education with regard to community gardening and farming. There will be thirty varieties of open pollinated seeds and organic and local family heirloom seeds, as well as garden-saved seeds in the free give-away. In addition, Allen Morgan, steward of Santa Cruz Heirloom Seed, and distributor of Seed Saver Exchange, will have one-hundred, fifty-seven heirloom varieties of Seed Saver Exchange vegetable and herb seeds available for sale.

Your Health and the “Three Sisters” Knowing, Sowing and Growing (2 of 3-Part Series) In Part Two of Your Health and the Three Sisters, we will discuss the health benefits of the heirloom pole bean and its role in the Three Sisters. We will be happy to make suggestions as to what beans to purchase and where to buy them so you can enjoy planning your spring garden.

Cherokee “Trail of Tears.” A pole bean offered by Seed Saver Exchange

The beans are encased in 6-8” greenish-purple pods and can be left to dry on the vine before picking or can be picked green and prepared like snap beans. Days to Maturity: 85 days; Sun: Full Sun; issuu Direct Sow after fear of frost has passed; Fruit Size: 8 inches; Use: In an array of traditional American and non-American dishes You can choose other varieties of pole beans from the Seed Saver Exchange catalog like the Ideal Market, Kentucky Wonder Pole or the True Red Cranberry.

Health Benefits

• Fresh green beans are very low in calories (31 calories per 100 g of raw bean pods) and contain a very good source of vitamins, minerals,

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radicals. • In addition, beans contain healthy amounts of minerals like iron, calcium, magnesium, manganese, and potassium, which are very essential for body metabolism. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps controll the heart rate and blood pressure.

Featured Pole Bean: Cherokee “Trail of Tears”

The Cherokee “Trail of Tears” is a shiny jet-black bean that can be harvested fresh or dried, and is a hearty and nutritious pole bean offered by Seed Saver Exchange (SSE). These were the beans carried in the pockets of Cherokee Indians on their tragic forced relocation from North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains to Oklahoma in 1838 - 1839, leaving a trail of 4,000 graves. Cherokee “Trail of Tears” seeds were given to SSE in 1977 by seed member, Dr. John Wyche, whose ancestors carried them with them on the tragic journey.

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and micronutrients. • The beans are a very rich source of dietary fiber, which acts as a bulk laxative. Fiber helps to protect the mucous membrane in the colon by decreasing its exposure time to toxic substances. • Green beans contain excellent levels of vitamin A, and health promoting flavonoid poly phenolic antioxidants such as lutein, zeaxanthin and ß-carotene. • Zea-xanthin is an important dietary carotenoid in the beans and is selectively absorbed into the retinal macula lutea in the eyes where it thought to provide antioxidant and protective UV light filtering functions. • Snap beans are a good source of folates. Folate along with vitamin B-12 is one of the essential components of DNA synthesis and cell division. • They also contain good amounts of vitamin-B6 (pyridoxine), thiamin (vitamin B-1), and vitamin-C. Consumption of foods rich in vitamin C helps the body develop resistance against infectious agents and scavenge harmful oxygen-free Where to Purchase Seeds: Allen Morgan: SantaCruzHeirloomSeed@outlook. com Seed Savers Exchange: www.SeedSavers.org/ Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds: www. RareSeeds.com/store/vegetables/ Request a free catalog to Seed Saver Exchange at: www.seedsavers.org/Catalog.html

According to Garden Web, The Internet’s Largest Home and Garden Community, growing the Three Sisters is an ancient method of gardening using an intercropping system which grows corn, beans, and squash crops simultaneously in the same growing area that is typically a rounded mound of soil, often called a hill. Corn is the oldest sister. She stands tall in the center. Squash is the next sister. She grows over the mound, protecting her sisters from weeds and shades the soil from the sun with her leaves, keeping it cool and moist. B e a n s are the third sister. She climbs through squash and then up corn to bind all together as she reaches for the sun. Beans keep the soil fertile by converting the sun’s energy into nitrogen filled nodules that grow on its roots. As beans grow they use the stored nitrogen as food.

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by Adora Deva odern research shows that the heart plays a much larger part of our intelligence and our health. The latest research in neurocardiology says the heart has a brain and consciousness of its own that takes in information. This heart brain can remember and make decisions that are independent of our own brain. Study has shown that the heart signals the brain first and that influences the decisions being made about perception and emotional processing. It now makes sense that we get a knowing from our heart first as research shows that the electromagnetic field produced by the heart is about 60 times greater in amplitude than the brain. The heart’s magnetic field is so large it can be detected several feet away from the body. When we feel love or appreciation, our serotonin level increases and that helps us feel better, and it can lower our own blood pressure. Just saying thank you to someone makes such a difference. When we are laughing, or exercising, we increase our endorphin levels. When those good hormones stream into our bloodstream, we feel so much better. It is so important that we do everything we can to learn how to relax, feel good and love ourselves for our own health and wellbeing. New research has shown if you are depressed, in pain and decide to do something selfless or giving toward another person, that act of caring can stimulate oxytocin and dopamine to be released within you and you automatically feel better. Humans are really beautiful creatures. When you give thanks for anything that is going right and put your attention there, the

statistics say you’re going to be better off. When living with an “attitude of gratitude” things don’t just look better; they actually get better because where attention goes, energy flows. “A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things”— Plato We can begin by writing down at least 5 things we are grateful for. It can be as simple as the joy of being able to have a warm shower. We can begin catching ourselves being good. We can acknowledge any kind deed we ever offered anyone. We can remember all the times we enriched someone else’s life. This attitude of gratitude has shown to improve our own wellbeing which affects every aspect of our lives from improved sleep, less depression and overall better health in many ways. O p r a h Wi n f r e y m a y h a v e s a i d i t best:“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” For assistance in connecting with the Wisdom of your Heart, sign up for a complimentary 15 minute discovery session with Adora today. Adora Deva’s heart-centered practice combines Clinical Hypnotherapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, Therapeutic Massage, Polarity Therapy, ‘Raindrop Technique’, Hawaiian Temple Bodywork, Usui Reiki Healing, Advanced Light Therapy and Oxygen Therapy. She is a Transformational Coach/Clinical Hypnotherapist. Adora Deva, CCHT, CMT, RM, also specializes in Stress Relief, Sleep Therapy, Weight Management, Life Clarification and Longevity. adoradeva@got.net, (831) 566-9678, www. LifeSpiritHealing.com.

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ingredients in most vaccines and the dangerous side-effects they cause, including death, autoimmune disorders, and the very diseases the vaccines are supposed to prevent. Even worse, vaccine manufacturers and the doctors who administer vaccines are completely shielded from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths. So it is with great urgency that we alert you to the intention of two state senators, Richard Pan (D-Sac.) and Ben Allen (D-Redondo Bch) to introduce legislation to eliminate “personal belief exemptions” that allicensed esthetician • 27 years experience low California parents to refuse to vaccinate their children. Also, CA US Senators Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein recently issued a press release saying only limited medical Private Santa Cruz Studio exemptions should be allowed. Page 11

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NOT SURE WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE MEASLES VACCINE? YOU’RE NOT ALONE!

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by Dr. Amy Kelchner, ND he big splash in the media about the measles is raising a lot of fear in all of us. As a naturopathic doctor and mom of 2, I have a big interest in this issue and have done a lot of research on the subject. I’d like to address the lies I keep hearing: #1: Measles will kill your children. Actually, measles in a healthy, well-nourished child is not a big deal. Really. Yes, it’s uncomfortable, and yes, you will have to miss work to take care of your sick kid, but they will get over it. And, the measles is so rarely fatal in this country, it’s hardly worth mentioning. In 1963, the last time any real statistics are available, the death rate from measles was .015%. There’s a much higher chance of dying in a car accident, and an equivocal chance of dying from the flu. The statistics about how many people will get pneumonia and die are worldwide statistics, and includes the poorest, most malnourished populations in the world. Contrary to what conventional doctors say, there is a lot we can do to treat viruses like measles and the flu. Naturopathic medicine’s goal is to support the immune system to do what it already knows how to do: discharge the illness and return to vibrant health. We do this through herbal medicine, homeopathy, nut rition, and hydr otherapy. #2: Measles is spreading rapidly and will most certainly show up in your elementary school tomorrow. Actually, 68 cases in 11 states were reported between January 14th and the 23rd. The 68 cases in a population of 317 million is not very many. This is not a comeback of measles.

#3: The measles vaccine is 100% safe. Although the CDC (Center for Disease Control) refuses to acknowledge the risks of vaccines and their failures, no vaccine is 100% safe. The MMR has one of the worst safety records of all. In fact, last fall a senior scientist at the CDC admitted that research done 10 years ago revealed a significant increase in autism in African-American boys following the MMR. The fact is that we still don’t know. The research has not been sufficient. Other reactions have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Reporting System, ranging from digestive inflammation to autoimmune disease to encephalitis to SIDS. Most children given the vaccine will be perfectly fine, just like most children who contract measles will be fine. #4: The vaccine is 100% effective. No vaccine is 100% effective. Of the 52 cases that originated at Disneyland this year, 6 were in fully vaccinated children. I am pro-informed choice. Parents need to understand all sides of the issue and make their own choice. Dr. Amy Kelchner, ND has had a holistic family practice since 2003 with a focus on pediatric health and craniosacral therapy. Because building a child’s health can make a lifetime of difference, she loves to empower parents to care for their children naturally and prevent unnecessary medication. Her great joy comes from working with people who are seeking wholeness, for themselves and their children. Call (831) 477-1377 for more information or to make an appointment, www.scnmc.com, http://tinyurl. com/kokqr8p

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Now is the time for everyone to take a few moments to contact their state representative and senator, their governor and lieutenant governor, and their U.S. Congressional Representative and U.S. Senators to educate them and share some key facts and your stories. Your rights to make informed vaccination decisions for yourself and your family are critically dependent on your legislators understanding why protecting the right to delay or decline a vaccine is so important. Do not put this off thinking somebody else will do it. If this issue is important to you, make the time to educate your legislators because if you don’t, the only information they are getting is the pharma/medical-lobby-funded-forcedVaccination-agenda that has been responsible for instigating the current frenzy in the media. Do not let these decisions be made for you by those whose power, positions or profit are dependent on forced vaccination. For guidance and information in reaching out to your legislators, please visit the National Vaccine Information Center at http://www.nvic. org, click on the NVIC Advocacy Portal link, then scroll down to Action Needed Now and click on YOU NEED TO ACT NOW – Vaccine Exemptions Threatened in Multiple States. There you will be able to locate the contact info for your legislators along with talking points to help educate them about why you oppose mandatory vaccinations, and all forms of medi-

cal fascism! This is urgent, as most legislators, including those for Santa Cruz County, are unduly influenced by the Big Pharma Lobby and the public health agendas that they control. Once you register with the NVIC Advocacy site, you will be kept informed of further developments with this legislation. One more thing: Please share this action alert far and wide. The lives of our children truly depend on our willingness to take action now!!! EDITOR’S NOTE: And, please read Connection Magazine and tell others to do so as well. We have been educating our Readership for 22+ years now on this issue of vaccines/vaccinations. Now, more than ever, we must investigate and stay awake; actually, we need to participate in a BIG way in our own lives and for the sake of our children, ourselves, the world. Read what we publish, tell others, check out the resources. Recently, we were asked why/how we can be so honest and the only ones in our distributorship to get as much truth out to the community/our Readership as we do . . . and, my response is we don’t have the advertisers in our magazine that promote vaccines and other questionable drugs telling us what to do. So . . . we are free to be 100% truthful, as we have always been & intended. And, we do the investigations and research before we publish information. Follow the money . . .

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FOOD LOVE

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“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” —George Bernard Shaw

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et’s admit it, we love to eat. When we eat well, we choose fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, whole grains, legumes, and organic animal products. This is the Eating for Health way. But when we are stressed, we eat to calm down, stimulate, and find pleasure. When these are our motivation, many of us tend toward comfort foods like pizza, burgers, fries, and a soft (or hard) drink. These “happy meals” may make us feel better in the moment, but they are addictive junk foods that work like drugs — quickly, powerfully, and predictably — making us want more even when we know they aren’t good for us. Pleasure seeking, pain avoidant, food programming runs deep. It’s an unconscious reflex response when fatigue, sadness, and uncomfortable emotions surface.

“My weaknesses have always been food and men—in that order.” —Dolly

Parton Our relationship with food is a primary one. It can be healing, or it can be damaging. Without a loving relationship with our self and our loved ones, food addiction can easily manifest. Rather than cook, people eat out or have food delivered and eat while watching TV. Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, and with too many calories, poor quality food, and too little physical activity, mind numbing chronic stress sets in, which is managed by emotional overeating. When stressed, the brain and body become fatigued and exhausted. At these moments of physiological and psychological depletion, people instinctively reach for the comfort foods they crave and beverages that provide pick up, pleasure, and distraction from conflict.

“I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.” —Elizabeth Gilbert

There is a solution to this fatal attraction to food. When we love ourselves and others, we are active, joyful, and content; we eat less; and show love by cooking for and eating with our

beloveds. Food is the center of healthy culture as witnessed by the Slow Food Movement members who take time to dine together during leisurely meals without a TV in the background. Eating well is a self-loving activity. It is a form of recreation, culinary art, and a daily practice. Start by designating one day a week to source, prepare, and enjoy a meal of fresh, local food with friends and family. Take time to practice mindful eating to fully experience the sensory pleasure of eating something whole and unprocessed. Practice taking a deep breath and have a glass of water or a cup of tea to calm and soothe your nerves when stressed. Pull back on eating your comfort foods, but don’t eliminate them completely. Let them be a part of your holistic nutrition program so as to not trigger more craving by deprivation. Develop a loving relationship with your food — smile, sip, and enjoy your next meal. Dr. Ed Bauman, M.Ed., Ph.D. is the Founder and President of Bauman College. He is also a founding father of the Berkeley Holistic Health Center and National Association of Nutrition Professionals. After studying traditional health and nutrition systems for more than 30 years, Dr. Bauman created the Eating for Health approach, which forms the basis of his professional and community programs. He is the author of the bestselling Holistic Health Handbook, Flavors of Health Cookbook and Whole Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors. For more info about Bauman College, please visit www.baumancollege.org or call (800) 987-7530. Please tell us that you read this and saw our Ad in Connection Magazine. Thank you!

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Evolving Bacteria Outsmarts Vaccines by Dr. Mercola Over the past few years, parents of unvaccinated children have been publicly blamed for increasing cases of B. pertussis whooping cough and deaths. This despite the fact that even the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) admits that the rise in reported whooping cough cases cannot be blamed on unvaccinated children because “they are not the driving force behind the large scale outbreaks and epidemics.”1 Going back decades, rates of whooping cough have been nearly identical in countries with high and low vaccination rates. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pertussis vaccination rates in the U.S. have remained stable or have increased since 1992. It’s important to realize that the pertussis vaccine has never conferred lifelong immunity to whooping cough—even after multiple doses.2 Other viruses and bacteria, such as parapertussis and RSV (which are not covered by the vaccine) can also be clinically misdiagnosed as pertussis if proper lab tests are not performed, while many cases of pertussis are never diagnosed by doctors or reported to the CDC. Most importantly, researchers are now realizing that B. pertussis bacteria have evolved and become vaccine resistant. It is reminiscent of the way that bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics, thanks to the massive overuse of antibiotics in food production.

Evolving Whooping Cough Bacteria Outsmarts Vaccine

As reported in the featured article,3 after 2012 whooping cough outbreaks, researchers turned to genetics to determine the cause. The study, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases,4 analyzed the genomes of whooping cough bacteria, finding that the “acellular vaccine antigen encoding genes are evolving at higher rates than other surface protein encoding genes.” This suggests that the disease is not being prevented with mandatory, mass vaccination programs. According to the featured article:5 “The researchers said that it was happening even before countries like the United States and the U.K. switched from the wholecell whooping cough vaccine to the acellular whooping cough vaccine, but the evolution of whooping cough bacteria has progressed more rapidly since the new vaccine was introduced a decade ago. The researchers further added that the old whole-cell vaccine produced longer immunity to whooping cough bacteria than the current acellular whooping cough vaccine and that the current vaccine may be generating an expanded pool of carriers, particularly teenagers.” In 2013, the FDA discovered that while the whooping cough vaccine may reduce symptoms in those who are vaccinated, the pertussis vaccine does not prevent infection and transmission of the disease. In fact, you can get a series of pertussis shots and still become an asymptomatic carrier who is contagious and can spread the disease to others without even knowing it. That study effectively shattered the long-held illusion of vaccine-induced herd immunity.

Mumps Vaccine Isn’t Working Well Either

As recently reported by Forbes,6 the mumps vaccine isn’t working very well either, further proving that vaccine-induced herd immunity is a fallacy. In the middle of December, more than a

dozen NHL hockey players contracted mumps, despite having received their childhood MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccinations. Gregory Poland, director of the Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group told Forbes there are three likely factors at play: 1. Waning immunity 2. The vaccine’s initial effectiveness (or lack thereof) 3. The quality of the individual vaccine given As noted in the article, childhood MMR vaccination may be insufficient to prevent disease in adulthood: “When the CDC began recommending the vaccine in 1971, they recommended only one dose... The agency didn’t begin recommending a second childhood dose until 1991, following a series of measles outbreaks in the ‘80s... In an outbreak, the CDC recommends that a third dose of the MMR be considered.” According to the CDC,7 one dose of the MMR vaccine has a disease prevention rate of 78 percent, so right off the bat you know it’s not going to prevent disease in everyone. A second dose is claimed to increase protection to 88 percent. But outbreak rates suggest the vaccine’s effectiveness wears off, and might be lower than expected to begin with. In 2010, two Merck virologists filed a federal lawsuit under the False Claims Act against their former employer, alleging the vaccine maker has been lying about the effectiveness of their mumps vaccine (which is part of the trivalent MMR vaccine). The whistleblowers claimed they witnessed “first hand the improper testing and data falsification in which Merck engaged to artificially inflate the vaccine’s efficacy findings.” Merck allegedly falsified the data to hide the fact that the mumps vaccine in the MMR shot has in fact significantly declined in effectiveness over the years. Lack of effectiveness may account for why Penguins captain Sidney Crosby contracted mumps despite having received a booster shot that same year. According to mandatory vaccination proponent Dr. Paul Offit: “That’s surprising, but he could have had vaccine failure, or he may not have developed vigorous enough antibodies. Like all medical products, vaccines are not 100 percent. A vaccine dramatically lowers your risk, but it doesn’t eliminate it.” A lowered risk might sound like a good thing, but if bacteria and viruses are evolving and becoming vaccine resistant, mirroring what we’re seeing with growing resistance against antibiotics, the entire vaccine program would need a serious review. What if we’re misusing vaccines like we’ve misused antibiotics, creating far worse diseases and reduced immune function in the process?

developed a staph infection that led to her death. While this tragic story is played up as evidence for how dangerous seasonal influenza can be, there are a couple of factors to take into consideration before hitting the panic button. First, this year the CDC actually issued a warning saying that the 2014/2015 flu vaccine is a poor match to the influenza A strain causing most cases of influenza this year because the H3N2 strain has mutated. This means that this year’s flu vaccine offers little protection against illness caused by the most prevalent influenza strain circulating this year. Despite that, health officials are still urging people to get a flu shot, claiming the vaccine can make symptoms less severe. This is ironic, considering the fact that some research suggests the flu vaccine might make you more susceptible to severe respiratory illness. In 2012, Canadian researchers found that the flu vaccine increased people’s risk of getting sick with H1N1, and caused more serious bouts of illness to boot. So, could the flu vaccine itself have contributed to the woman’s death? There’s no way to know for certain, but I think it’s a pertinent question. Moreover, the actual cause of death was not type A or type B influenza strains—it was a staph infection. These kinds of hospital-acquired infections have become increasingly prevalent and deadly because of one thing—antibiotic overuse. So should her death really be blamed on influenza or on the routine misuse of a pharmaceutical product?

Authorities Urge Following Vaccine Schedule Regardless of Actual Value

A study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases9 in September 2014 investigated the effect of influenza vaccination over the course of eight seasons. They found that seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness in children under the age of nine was significantly higher among vaccinated children who had NO prior flu vaccination history, compared to vaccinated individuals with a history of frequent influenza vaccinations. Similar results were obtained when analyzing data for adults between the ages of 18–49. What this suggests is that, as you keep getting the flu vaccine year after year, your chances of the vaccine not conferring protection increases—and there are plenty of studies showing the flu vaccine does not work as advertised to begin with. Take the 2012 independent study review from the Cochrane Collaboration10 for example. Tom Jefferson, an influenza researcher with the Cochrane Collaboration told Northwestern. edu:11 “There is no evidence that vaccines can prevent deaths or prevent person-to-person spread of infection.” Basically, the evidence suggests that the more you’re vaccinated, the less responsive your immune system gets. According to the authors: “vaccine-induced protection was greatest for individuals not vaccinated during the prior five years. Additional studies are needed to understand the long-term effects of annual vaccination.”

Unfortunately, health officials are turning a blind eye to growing suspicion that vaccines may do more harm than good, especially for individuals with both known and unknown biological high risk factors that make vaccination especially dangerous for them. Even when the benefit is known to be negligible for some individuals or society as a whole, they still urge everyone to go ahead and “take the shot.” Why? In late December, a 37-year old Missouri woman died from complications from the flu, despite getting the flu vaccine.8 After being hospitalized, she initially began showing signs of improvement, but quickly

Red Flag Raised for Universal Flu Vaccine

Flu shots work, or more aptly often don’t work, because they are supposed to protect against just three or four strains of type A and type B influenza that public health officials predict will be the strains most commonly circulating in the upcoming flu season. The three or four influenza strains contained in annual flu shots represent a small fraction of the more than 300 influenza strains which may circulate during a flu season, in addition to the many other different viruses that cause respiratory symptoms the CDC identifies as “influenza-like illness” (ILI).

Repeated Flu Vaccinations Reduces Vaccine Effectiveness

Vaccine developers working for different pharmaceutical companies in partnership with federal health agencies are racing to create a “universal flu” vaccine that they say will, theoretically, protect against every one of the hundreds of strains of influenza. However, the discovery12 that vaccinating against one strain of influenza can raise your risk of severe respiratory infection after exposure to a related but different strain of influenza has raised a big red flag.13 This previously unknown effect is now called “vaccine-associated enhanced respiratory disease.” The research, which was done on pigs, was conducted by the US Department of Agriculture’s Research Service and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The problem can be summarized as follows: Typically, most flu vaccines stimulate the production of antibodies to the main protein of the flu virus, called hemagglutinin, which is located on the outer shell of the virus. This protein gives you the “H” designation of a given strain, and it is this protein that attaches to the cell it’s trying to invade. There are 17 known hemagglutinins and the antibodies created to an H1 virus will not protect against an H3 or H5 virus, and so on. There are also different strains within each of these subtypes, and the artificial immunity you get from a vaccine may or may not extend to all strains of any given hemagglutinin subtype. To get around this, the vaccine industry is trying to boost vaccine-acquired immunity by targeting “stalk antibodies.” Here’s what this means, and why their efforts may end up producing the opposite effect they’re seeking: The hemagglutinin is shaped much like a lollipop, with the mutating part making up the head. Researchers have learned that the stem or stalk of the protein, on the other hand, tends to remain fairly unchanged across the various viruses. This is the discovery that has resulted in the current crusade to develop a “universal” flu vaccine. Vaccine developers believe that by removing the head portion, namely the stalk—i.e. the dominant protein portion of the virus—they might be able to induce cross-reactive antibodies capable of protecting against virtually any influenza virus, regardless of whether it’s an H1, H3, or H5, and so on. However, the flu vaccine research in pigs calls into question the validity of this hypothesis. After giving piglets an H1N2 vaccine, they were then exposed to the H1N1 virus in circulation during 2009. But instead of being protected, the H1N2-vaccinated pigs developed more severe respiratory disease than that experienced by exposed unvaccinated pigs. As it turns out, the vaccinated pigs had high levels of antibodies attached to the stalk of the H1N1 hemagglutinin, but not to the head of the protein. The researchers are now trying to figure out why this produces more severe disease, but one theory is that the stalk antibodies bind to invading viruses, and help them enter the cells and multiply. This effect was seen in humans in Canada14 and Hong Kong15 during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, and in subsequent research on ferrets.16,17 Here, too, ferrets in the vaccine group became significantly sicker than the unvaccinated animals.

Are We Weakening Our Bodies’ Ability to Fight Disease?

So the big question is: Are we in fact weakening our overall ability to fight viruses by getting too many vaccines? While this question can apply to any vaccine, it’s particularly pertinent with regards to influenza vaccine, which public health officials say we must get each and

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every year from the age of six months throughout our lives until death. An even larger question, and one which researchers looking at epigenetics have only just begun to scratch the surface of, is whether or not universal use of vaccines can have a generational effect. One 2013 study18,19 suggests that this may indeed be the case. The study found that infants born to mothers who received the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine lose natural, passively acquired immunity from their mothers sooner than those born to mothers who’d been naturally infected with measles. The reason for this is because vaccinated mothers tend to have lower concentration of measles-specific antibodies. Another study20 published in the same issue of the same journal found that, on average, the duration of passive protection against measles was two months longer for infants born to unvaccinated mothers. Sadly, the authors use these alarming facts to support recommendations to get infants vaccinated sooner, rather than address the elephant in the room, which is whether or not one-sizefits-all mandatory vaccination policies have

way to improve your beneficial bacteria ratio is to avoid sugars as they will feed pathogenic microbes. Additionally, processed foods and most grains should be limited and replaced with healthy fats like coconut oil, avocados, olives, olive oil, butter, eggs and nuts. Once you change your diet, then regular use of fermented foods can radically optimize the function of your immune response. 5. Optimize your vitamin D levels. This is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of ALL kinds, and vitamin D deficiency may actually be the true culprit behind the seasonality of the flu – not the flu virus itself. Regularly monitor your vitamin D levels to confirm your levels are within the therapeutic range of 50-70 ng/ml. Ideally, you’ll want to get almost all of your vitamin D from sun exposure or a tanning bed. Supplement with an oral vitamin D3 supplement to make sure your level is 40-60 ng/ml. Just be sure to take vitamin K2 and magnesium if you are taking oral vitamin D as it has a powerful synergy and will help prevent any D toxicity. 6. Avoid sugar and processed foods.

your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system has a better chance of finding an illness before it spreads. Be sure to stay hydrated – drink plenty of fluids, especially water. However, it would be wise to radically reduce the intensity of your workouts while you are sick. No Peak Fitness exercises until you are better. 10. Take a high-quality animal-based omega-3. Increase your intake of healthy and essential fats like the omega-3 found in krill oil, which is crucial for maintaining health. It is also vitally important to avoid damaged omega-6 oils that are trans fats and in processed foods as it will seriously damage your immune response. 11. Wash your hands. Washing your hands will decrease your likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth or other people. Be sure you don’t use antibacterial soap for this. Antibacterial soaps are completely unnecessary, and they cause far more harm than good. Instead, identify a simple chemical-free soap that you can switch your family to. In addition to washing your hands regularly, cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze. If possible, avoid close contact with those, who are sick and, if you are sick, avoid close contact with those who are well. 12. Use natural immune-boosters. Examples include oil of oregano, liposomal vitamin C, and garlic. Unlike pharmaceutical antibiotics, these do not appear to lead to resistance. 13. Avoid hospitals. I recommend avoiding hospitals unless you’re having an emergency and need expert medical care, as hospitals are prime breeding grounds for infections of all kinds—including antibiotic-resistant diseases. The best place to get plenty of rest and recover from illness that is not life-threatening is usually in the comfort of your own home.

Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions

With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines, it’s critical to protect your right to make independent health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination. It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in state public health and employment laws. The best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators and educating the leaders in your community.

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seriously compromised natural immunity over the past 50 years and will further compromise it for generations to come? Most of the childhood diseases for which children are vaccianted today are not deadly for the vast majority of children. Moreover, why are we trading a more robust and longer lasting natural immunity for an artificial more temporary vaccine acquired immunity?

How to Protect Your Health During Flu Season

Avoiding serious complications from influenza and resisting other influenza-like illness during the flu season is primarily about taking positive steps throughout the year to maintain a healthy, well functioning immune system. By following these simple guidelines, you can help keep your immune system in optimal working order so that you’re far less likely to acquire the infection to begin with or, if you do get sick with the flu, you are better prepared to move through it without complications and soon return to good health. 4. Optimize your gut flora. This may be the single most important strategy you can implement as the bacteria in your gut have enormous control of your immune response. The best

Sugar impairs the quality of your immune response almost immediately. It also can decimate your beneficial bacteria and feed the pathogenic yeast and viruses. Be aware that sugar (typically in the form of high fructose corn syrup) is present in foods you may not suspect, like ketchup and fruit juice. If you are healthy then sugar can be consumed but the LAST thing you should be eating when you are sick is sugar. Trans fats in most processed foods also play havoc with your immune response. 7. Get plenty of rest. If your body is overly fatigued it will be harder for it to fight the flu. Be sure to check out my article “Guide to a Good Night’s Sleep” for some great tips to help you get quality rest. 8. Have effective tools to address stress. If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider using an energy psychology tool such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which is remarkably effective in relieving stress associated with all kinds of events, from work, to family, to trauma. 9. Get regular exercise. When you exercise, you increase your circulation and your blood flow throughout your body. The components of

National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the state level. It is at the state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights can have the greatest impact. It is critical for EVERYONE to get involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices in America because those choices are being threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies, medical trade associations, and public health officials, who are trying to persuade legislators to strip all vaccine exemptions from public health laws. Signing up for NVIC’s free Advocacy Portal at www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate, easy access to your own state legislators on your Smart Phone or computer so you can make your voice heard. You will be kept upto-date on the latest state bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and get practical, useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your own community. Also, when national vaccine issues come up, you will have the up-to-date information and call to action items you need at your fingertips. So please, as your first step, sign up for the NVIC Advocacy Portal.

Share Your Story with the Media and People You Know If you or a family member has suffered a serious vaccine reaction, injury, or death, please talk about it. If we don’t share information and experiences with one another, everybody feels alone and afraid to speak up. Write a letter to the editor if you have a different perspective on a vaccine story that appears in your local newspaper. Make a call in to a radio talk show that is only presenting one side of the vaccine story. I must be frank with you; you have to be brave because you might be strongly criticized for daring to talk about the “other side” of the vaccine story. Be prepared for it and have the courage to not back down. Only by sharing our perspective and what we know to be true about vaccination will the public conversation about vaccination open up so people are not afraid to talk about it. We cannot allow the drug companies and medical trade associations funded by drug companies or public health officials promoting forced use of a growing list of vaccines to dominate the conversation about vaccination. The vaccine injured cannot be swept under the carpet and treated like nothing more than “statistically acceptable collateral damage” of national one-size-fits-all mandatory vaccination policies that put way too many people at risk for injury and death. We shouldn’t be treating people like guinea pigs instead of human beings.

Internet Resources Where You Can Learn More

I encourage you to visit the website of the non-profit charity, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), at www.NVIC.org: 14. NVIC Memorial for Vaccine Victims: View descriptions and photos of children and adults, who have suffered vaccine reactions, injuries, and deaths. If you or your child experiences an adverse vaccine event, please consider posting and sharing your story here. 15. If You Vaccinate, Ask 8 Questions: Learn how to recognize vaccine reaction symptoms and prevent vaccine injuries. 16. Vaccine Freedom Wall: View or post descriptions of harassment and sanctions by doctors, employers, and school and health officials for making independent vaccine choices.

Connect with Your Doctor or Find a New One That Will Listen and Care

If your pediatrician or doctor refuses to provide medical care to you or your child unless you agree to get vaccines you don’t want, I strongly encourage you to have the courage to find another doctor. Harassment, intimidation, and refusal of medical care is becoming the modus operandi of the medical establishment in an effort to stop the change in attitude of many parents about vaccinations after they become truly educated about health and vaccination.

However, there is hope.

At least 15 percent of young doctors recently polled admit that they’re starting to adopt a more individualized approach to vaccinations in direct response to the vaccine safety concerns of parents. It is good news that there is a growing number of smart young doctors, who prefer to work as partners with parents in making personalized vaccine decisions for children, including delaying vaccinations or giving children fewer vaccines on the same day or continuing to provide medical care for those families, who decline use of one or more vaccines. So take the time to locate a doctor, who treats you with compassion and respect and is willing to work with you to do what is right for your child. www.DrMercola.com. Printed with permission.

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Q&A with Vani Hari, the Food Babe Q&A with Vani Hari, the Food Babe

What inspired you to write The Food Babe Way? When I started to investigate the food industry and found out exactly what’s in our food, I was shocked. I realized there was a lot of information out there about the food industry no one knew, including me. I have made it my life’s mission to tell people the truth about what’s in their food and how it could affect their health, and now in this book I get to give people the most critical information, and a roadmap for how to live in this overprocessed-food world. When I started to understand what’s in my food, and changed my eating habits and food choices, things dramatically shifted in my life. I went from someone overweight and sick to a new being full of vibrant health. There’s a way to survive and look good without always having to be on a diet. The Food Babe Way contains the 21 essential habits that I taught myself to take control of my health. This book is for anyone who is tired of the food industry hijacking their taste buds, andwants to take matters into their own hands and become their own food investigator, nutritionist, and food activist. We have the power to change our health faster than anyone else, and I wrote this book to show people how to do just that.

Your blog, FoodBabe.com, has millions of readers now. How did you start?

I began my food journey, like most people, by following the standard American diet. As a successful management consultant, I was either in the office eating whatever takeout was available, or on the road eating every meal out. Al-

though this lifestyle allowed me to fit in with my peers and work crazy hours, it also took a huge toll on my body, and I became very ill. Over the holiday season over ten years ago, I found myself in a hospital bed. I was sick and overweight, and I was ready to change! I made a personal promise that from that point on I was going to make health my number one priority. FoodBabe.com was born in April 2011, from my years of learning, investigating, and researching how to live a healthy lifestyle in this overly processed world. As I learned more about the habits needed for a healthy lifestyle and what dangerous ingredients to avoid, my friends and family begged me to start a blog in order to share everything I had uncovered. My first investigation was into my favorite yogurt chain. After the CEO responded to my writings by yanking some of the misleading marketing, I continued writing about the injustices and corrupt practices of the food industry. Over the past three years, FoodBabe. com has grown to have a readership of over four million inspired individuals who are seeking to lead heathier lives and to rid our food system of deadly ingredients. It is through the help of the entire Food Babe Army that the investigations and petitions on FoodBabe.com have forced some of the largest food corporations to change, including Kraft, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle, Subway, Anheuser-Busch, and Starbucks.

What is the easiest good habit someone can start following today?

There is a reason I made this habit Day #1! Start your day with warm lemon water and

cayenne pepper. I love hearing how well people feel once they start this ritual. Doing this one small habit every morning provides a super stimulant to the liver, your main detoxing organ in the body. Keeping your liver and digestive system clean and in optimal condition will help your body prevent diseases like cancer in the future. Combining cayenne with lemon increases the detoxing effect and raises the temperature of your body, increasing your metabolism. Drinking this combination will cleanse your body every single day safely and naturally. I plan to do it for the rest of my life.

What was your biggest lesson learned from writing The Food Babe Way?

It was impossible to put everything I have discovered about our food system in one book. I worked very carefully to choose what I felt were the most urgent and important topics to share. On a personal level, writing this book has taught me a great lesson about taking care of myself no matter how large the project at hand. There were times when I let the stress of deadlines start to impact my habits, but thankfully the message I was writing helped me get back on track.

We are proud to feature The FOOD BABE, Vani, in our Center THEME this issue. Our THEME for this issue, traditionally is “Relationship, Relationship, Relationship!”. Now, for this issue, the ‘Relationship’ refers to the ‘relationship’ that we have with ourselves and ‘food’. We present info about food and what is going on from Vani, The FOOD BABE in many of our issues. Please read and enjoy; stay tuned to more from The FOOD BABE. Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you Sweethearts!! Pattie & Thom

What is your advice to people just starting to implement healthy changes in their lives?

In The Food Babe Way, I methodically take people through the healthy changes they can make to live a more energetic and vibrant life while still being exposed to the food system we have today. I share the life-changing habits that have allowed me to maintain my weight for over a decade after losing the extra pounds I had been holding onto for years. After learning to maintain these habits, I have never had to diet again, despite the challenging environment we live in, with an abundance of tricky marketing and addictive additives in our food that make us eat more than we should.

What is the first and most important thing that someone should shift about the way they eat?

The most important thing someone can do is to start reading ingredient labels and stop looking at the front of packaging for information about the product and its health benefits. Read labels and start to research. In The Food Babe Way I highlight the top fifteen sickening ingredients to avoid if you want to lose weight and feel and look years younger.

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The Food Babe Way Book Review: Breakthrough Guide Exposes Harmful Factory Food Ingredients That Are Still Poisoning Our Children by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor A hard-hitting new book just being launched today blows the whistle on toxic ingredients in the food supply. It’s so compelling that Big Food and Big Biotech corporations hired armies of negative P.R. trolls to try to crush the book even before it was published. Ever wonder what’s so dangerous about this book that they’re desperately trying to make sure you never read it? You’re about to find out. The book is called The Food Babe Way, and as you no doubt guessed by now, it’s authored by the Food Babe (Vani Hari) with a foreward by Mark Hyman, MD.

Exposing the unethical business practices of Big Food

The Food Babe pulls no punches in calling out food manufacturers for their continued use of toxic chemical ingredients that cause harm or deceive consumers. For example, she reveals the Silly Putty ingredient still used in fast food French fries, the fat-promoting pesticide sprayed on fresh fruits, and the wood pulp filler used in popular packaged cheese products. Chapter one of the book is courageously entitled, “We’ve Been Duped,� and chapter two reveals what the Food Babe calls “The Sickening 15� chemicals you should avoid. Chapter three is entitled, “Cut Out the Chemical Calories.� No wonder the factory food corporations are trying to crush this book: these 15 chemicals are the backbone of the processed food industry, delivering the chemical preservatives, artificial taste enhancers and fake food textures that make “dead foods� seem more than what they really are. Without these 15 chemicals, the food industry would be clueless of what to sell and how to make it seem appetizing. But The Food Babe Way isn’t merely about what’s wrong with the processed fake foods sold by the corporate conglomerates; it’s also about how to make your own diet far healthier and more nutritious. The second part of the book is dedicated to healthy food habits, including juicing, cleansing, supporting liver health and much more. The book outlines a 21-day plan described as a way to “lose weight, look years younger and get healthy in just 21 days!� That plan covers

topics like doing a “kitchen cleanout,� supplementing with “10 superhero foods,� increasing the portion of raw foods in your diet and how to shop for healthy foods in what the Food Babe describes as a “Little Grocery Shop of Horrors.� Vani’s advice is outstanding. This book, I dare say, should be the commonsense food and diet bible for America. If more Americans knew this information and acted on it, we’d see rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and obesity plummet, saving the economy billions in health care costs and boosting the profits of healthy food manufacturers.

Truth you will not find reported in the mainstream media

What’s also fascinating about this book is that you won’t find much of this anywhere in the mainstream media. That’s because the media is utterly beholden to its advertisers: Big Food, Big Ag, Big Pharma and so on. I’ve literally heard mainstream media journalists tell me they could never cover the truth about food ingredients because “they would be immediately fired� for doing so. Even many bloggers that seem to be independent actually “self censor� their work to make sure they don’t step on the toes of the big corporate advertisers. This phenomenon of blogger self-censorship is far more widespread than you might suppose, and it’s why the very same bloggers who used to write for mainstream sites suddenly sound a lot more informed and intelligent when they launch their own independent blog sites or news sites. The Food Babe Way is a treasure trove of food wisdom you simply won’t find anywhere except from independent authors, bloggers and journalists whose paychecks are not controlled by corporate interests.

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In a world where so many popular health gurus are terrified of offending the food giants, the Food Babe has the courage to stand up and speak the truth. The food industry, in fact, seems downright terrified of her petitions and her extremely loyal fan base known as the “Food Babe Army.� Through grassroots activism, the Food Babe and her fans have achieved a series of stunning victories that saw large corporations like Subway agreeing to remove questionable ingredients from their formulations. Most recently, the Food Babe petition calling out Kellogg’s and General Mills for using the chemical preservative BHT in American cereals -- while having already removed the chemical from the same cereals sold in Europe -- caused at least one company to surrender in less than 24 hours. Now, General Mills says it’s “phasing out� BHT in its products. That decision almost certainly would never have been made without the pressure of the Food Babe Army, a powerful group of informed activists who help bring real transparency to the deceptive food industry. Printed with permission from NaturalNews. com

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A Million Good Men

by Carmel Jud, Founder & Executive Director Rising International ’ve been thinking about all the amazing men who enable Rising International to economically empower women and girls around the world. There is no shortage of them. You’ll find these men everywhere; in far-away places like Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and right in our backyards; in Fremont and Santa Cruz, California.

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Some of Rising’s work starts with men like Kim Tha.

At age 16, Kim Tha lost his mother and six siblings to the Khmer Rouge regime. He went on to work in translation, and as a social worker. He also had opportunities to travel while studying about textiles and design along the way. In 2000, Kim Tha became the director of the Cambodian Handicrafts Association Skills Training Program. Kim’s program

enables women with disabilities (from landmines or polio) to earn vital income and recapture their dignity. Women with disabilities, especially in Cambodia, experience much higher levels of violence than women without disabilities. The women in Kim Tha’s program sew beautiful silk scarves to sell at Rising Home Parties in the U.S.

This work continues because of men like Sergio Viramontes.

Sergio first learned about Rising International in a Career Communication Class at Ohlone College in Fremont. Sergio and a team of fellow students competed for a donation to Rising made by their professor. Sergio’s team won. Soon after volunteering, Sergio joined Rising International as a social entrepreneur and Rising Representative. He runs his own Rising Home Party business. “I realized that I didn’t have to wait until I’m retired someday to do something about what is taking place against women,” said Viramontes. At Rising Home Parties, Sergio sells products handmade by women who are rising above poverty, war, and human trafficking.

Men like Bruce Berwald and Patrick Carstens complete the cycle.

Bruce is a retired Administrative Law Judge. Patrick owns and operates Hot Spring Spas. These two Santa

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Kim Tha Proudly Teaches Weaving to Disabled Women in Cambodia who accompanies Rising’s female project manager to a Western Union office so she can receive payment safely. There are three men on Rising International’s Board of Directors. It was a man from Nepal who first taught me that women, especially in developing countries, often have different spending habits than men, and that if more women had a chance to an earn an income, less families would go hun-

gry. More children would be in school. Then there’s, of course, my husband. When we sold almost everything we owned and moved into a barn so I could launch Rising International, my husband never once hesitated. This is not about women helping women. This is about all of us joining together to accomplish, without fail, what journalist Nicholas Kristof calls the greatest moral challenge of our time – ending the oppression of women. If you’re inspired to join Rising International on its mission to economically empower women everywhere, there are many ways to take action: • Make a donation to benefit Rising International’s local-global solution www.risinginternational. org/donate • Host a Rising Home Party – It’s the most fun you’ll have changing the world! www.risinginternational. org/about-us • Host a Rising Global PopUp Marketplace at your place of work • We bring our beautiful handmade products made by women living in the poorest and most dangerous places of the world to your company. We set up in an appropriate area for employees to shop for a cause! • Become a Rising Business Mentor! You’ll be a catalyst for economically vulnerable women and teens in the Bay Area to become global change makers! Visit www.risinginternational.org/mentor for more info. • OR, purchase a beautiful silk scarf handmade by women in Cambodia – www.risinginternational.org/ apparel/yim-scarf-green

Visionary Authors… Share Your Voice! by Candace Stuart-Findlay Are you feeling nudged to share your voice of vision and enlightened transformation? Perhaps the negating thought pops in murmuring that your message has been said before…maybe, but not by YOU. We are in truth fields of Electro-Magnetic energy, and I assure you that if you are feeling strongly nudged, it is because the message must come through your unique frequency in order to be heard and embraced by those who resonate in a similar frequency bandwidth. Not exactly sure where to begin to bring your voice into print? I c omple te ly understand, because I have been there. After searching out and speaking to various traditional publishing and self-publishing companies, I soon realized the need for new thought visionary combined selfpublishing and marketing services. Like a bolt of lightening, I was guided and propelled to found the Empowered Whole Being Press. Founded specifically to publish books that inspire reawakening, enlighten awareness and support lasting positive transformation,

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by Susan Springfield t took me a long time to know the difference between longing and love. As a younger person, I had several long distance relationships filled with the sweet sadness of an aching heart. I know I’m not alone. Just listen to the music. I know, now, that romantic love is a narrow description of a powerful life force. Even still, holidays like Valentines Day require a certain fortitude for those of us who are single. It can seem that love is reserved for those with soul mates. I have long been a champion of the many forms love takes, but after reading Barbara Fredrickson’s recent book, Love 2.0, I realize I’ve been thinking way too small! Fredrickson, a leader in the field of Positive Psychology, has spent two decades researching positive emotions such as joy, gratitude, hope, and love. She contends that although these emotions are fleeting, as all emotions are, they can ignite powerful forces for personal growth. What about when positive emo-

tions are shared? Turns out that a lot happens! Brain waves mirror each other and levels of oxytocin, dubbed the love hormone, come into sync. It may not sound romantic, but new terms are coming out of the research lab, terms like neural synchrony, brain coupling, and positive resonance. The most surprising aspect of this new research is this: “love blossoms virtually anytime two or more people—even strangers—connect over a shared positive emotion. Positivity resonance between brains, as it turns out, requires only connection, not intimacy or shared history…” Proximity is a pre-requisite for positivity resonance. According to Fredrickson, connection must be made in real time. Eye contact, smiles, and touch can facilitate connection, but the key seems to be emotional positivity that is mutually experienced. It is no surprise that there are health benefits to love. Chronic feelings of loneliness can weaken a person’s immune system, but evidence suggests that even micro-moments of love can increase oxytocin lev-

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by Candace Stuart-Findlay hhh, February… here you are again with your focus on the Heart! There once was a time when your arrival signaled emptiness as I compared myself to those who may have, at that moment, been twitterpated in “love”. Let me assure you that being in “twitterpation”, as Friend Owl called it, is a lovely state of being and am I in no means knocking it. However, I would like to place our February Heart contemplation upon the expanded interpretation of love, or Love. This column is focused on the importance of our expanding interconnectedness, and the role it plays in ushering forth the frequency shift from predominantly fear-based to that of Joy/Love. So, where do we begin? We begin with the most important component…you…and me! Yes, we have all heard this before, and that is because it is spot on Truth…self-realization evolution begins first within each of us. When we hear the encouraging statement…”Love yourself more”, what does that mean, and more importantly, how exactly do we do that? As in any growth experience it is unfolding step-by-step process. This

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is true whether we are learning to walk, ride a bike, or embarking on our reawakening odyssey. The moment a decision is made to be willing — to be open — to the possibility that you are more than your physical self and its story, the process is activated. By acknowledging, accepting, and then, embracing the Divine Essence within us, we are well on our way to feeling more Love for ourselves. Until I connected these “dots”, I struggled with the discord between having the “Loving myself” intellectual concept and the actual SelfLoving experiential knowing/feeling. I had not realized that Loving Myself meant opening the door of my Heart and accepting my Greater Self identity…embracing that I am more than the physical being. There is much information in the realm of Quantum Science that backs this up…cool fun stuff, and I promise to highlight it in subsequent columns. For now, I simply invite you to ask yourself this one question…”Am I willing to open my heart to the possibility that my mortal story may not be my true identity?” Ask and then

els, helping people become calmer, friendlier and more attuned to others. And it doesn’t stop there, these micromoments of back and forth sharing, however small and subtle, create positive spirals that uplift others, building and strengthening whole communities. I love this expanded version of love. Positivity is central to the spiritual philosophy of Science of Mind and terms like “neural synchrony,” “brain coupling,” and “positive resonance,” delight a Science of Mind practitioner ever eager for science to find evidence of our oneness. What most excites me are all the new opportunities to love. After reading this book, I have new respect for the micro-moment and a new appreciation for all kinds of relationships. Couples in committed relationships can nourish their relationships with shared positivity and keep their love alive. Single people, a growing demographic, need not abandon the hope of love. It is everywhere. There is good news for all of us. We can all welcome ordinary, everyday exchanges that present themselves as opportunities for life-giving connection. Susan Springfield is a practitioner at the Center for Spiritual Living Santa Cruz, 1818 Felt Street. The Sunday celebration service begins at 10:30 with an earlier meditation at 10:00. Susan speaks on the 2nd Sunday of each month. Learn more about our line-up of classes at cslsantacruz.org. or call (831) 462-9383. observe what thoughts and images present themselves in your awareness. Observe if your physical body reacts by tightening (fear frequencies) or relaxing (joy/love frequencies) in the chest, belly, and/or throat… important feedback revealing what is being experienced unconsciously. How awesome that we receive instant biofeedback! If a tightening occurs…no worries, its simply notifying you that an unconscious blocking perception is present. Remain willing to be open… I promise, you will receive guidance on where to step next. If you wish to share your experiences with our readers, please reach out to me through my web site. We never know whose heart will open through our sharing, because, after all, Together WE create the Shift! Candace StuartFindlay is an Author, Speaker, New Thought Educator and Transformation Facilitator. C ontac t C andace through her website: www.empoweredwholebeing. com.

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New Dimensions of Relationship “How We Internalize Blame�

by Joyce and Barry Vissell e all carry some degree of self-blame, ways we accuse or condemn ourselves. Often these feelings come from our childhood, where we were blamed for mistakes we made. It’s sad how other people’s blame of us can turn into our blame of ourselves, which then often becomes our secret shame, and can keep us from the happiness we want. When we blame ourselves, it’s then easy to go to step two, which is unworthiness. Rather than seeing ourselves as good people who made mistakes, we can easily choose toxic blame which says we didn’t make mistakes, we ARE the mistakes. With toxic self-blame, there is the deep and hidden feeling that we don’t deserve to be happy and free. When I was somewhere between 10 or 12, my mother described me as “very hard to handle and too strong-willed.â€? Now I understand this was my mother’s (and father’s) problem, not mine. They just weren’t strong enough, and didn’t have the tools, to set clear limits with me. I remember one incident vividly. My mother was standing in the kitchen cutting vegetables for dinner. I was wanting something that she didn’t want me to have. I was hoping I could wear her down until she gave in to me. So I persisted with my begging and pleading. She just stood there cutting the vegetables without saying another word. I didn’t know she was having a very hard day. I didn’t know how close she was to the breaking point. I simply wanted what I wanted. I could never have been prepared for what happened next. Without warning, her hand shot out and the knife was plunged into my right forearm. Shocked at what she had just done, she pulled out the knife while I stared in disbelief at the stab wound in my arm that was beginning to bleed. Next thing I knew, she was pulling me into the bathroom and trying to stop the bleeding with a wet towel. My arm hurt, but didn’t have near the life-long impact as the words I heard her say, “Now look at what you made me do!â€? In my childlike mind, it seemed crystal clear. My mother stabbing me was my fault! And in the years that followed, my mother often spoke about how incorrigible and stubborn I was at that age. Even Joyce heard about this early in our relationship. Of course, in my mature adult mind, I understood the stabbing ZDV D VLJQLĂ€FDQW PLVWDNH P\ PRWKHU KDG PDGH But I still carried my mother’s words with me in some deep childlike part of me. Self-blame was buried deep in my feelings. One day in one of our workshops, when I was 50, I had an epiphany. I saw how I still held on in my feelings to my responsibility in the stabbing. I realized what I had needed as a child instead of this violence. I needed to hear something like, “Barry, I’m getting so upset that I could lose it right now!â€? I needed her emotional honesty. I needed clear limits. I knew I needed to confront my mother. The timing was good. My mother had just EURNHQ KHU DQNOH DQG , Ă HZ WR 6DQ 'LHJR WR help her out. I worked up my courage during the visit, sat down on the couch next to her, and opened with, “Mom, remember the time when you stabbed me in the arm?â€? Her response was immediate and almost automatic, “That was a time when you were VR GLIĂ€FXOWÂŤÂľ But I was now prepared for that re-

sponse, for the years-old story. I reached out and gently stopped her with my hand and spoke, “Mom, it’s never a child’s fault when a mother stabs a child.â€? I spoke without anger, just a certainty of the truth. What happened next was what I had been needing for the last 40 or so years. She started to cry and very vulnerably spoke, “For two years after I stabbed you, I felt so bad about what I had done that I cried myself to sleep every single night. Barry, I’m so sorry.â€? My heart melted. All I needed was for her to take responsibility for her own mistake. I suddenly felt closer than ever to my mom. I held her while she cried. I forgave her for stabbing me, for blaming me, for it all. Seeing her authentic pain, shame and remorse opened my heart to forgiveness. Sometimes I tell the stabbing story in a workshop to emphasize the need to take responsibility for all our actions and words. And sometimes, during a phone call with my mother, I’d say, “Mom, I told the story about the stabbing in our last workshop.â€? She’d say, “Oh Barry, people must think I’m a horrible mother!â€? I’d reassure her, “No Mom, we all see you as a mother who made a big mistake, but you’re QRW GHĂ€QHG E\ WKDW PLVWDNH $QG , VHH \RX DV D mother who has more than made up for all the mistakes. You haven’t been a perfect parent, but who is? I feel deeply loved by you, and for that I am very grateful.â€? Self-blame will never serve you. Look within to see if you, too, carry a long-held story where you have been blamed and now are blaming yourself, perhaps in the same way. No matter what mistakes you have made, you deserve love and forgiveness. And, come to think of it, so do your parents and anyone else who has wronged you. My mother died last September, three days EHIRUH KHU QLQHW\ Ă€IWK ELUWKGD\ :KHQ , ORRN DW the healed half inch scar on my right forearm, I’m so glad I was able to heal this emotional wound with her. Here are a few opportunities to bring more love and growth into your life, at the following longer events led by Barry and Joyce Vissell: Feb 14-21—Valentine’s Day Spirit of Love Cruise for individuals and couples (LA to Mexico); Jul 19-24—Shared Heart Summer Retreat at Breitenbush Hot Springs, OR; Oct 14-20—Living from the Heart in Assisi, Italy for individuals and couples; Jan 31-Feb 7, 2016—Hawaii Couples in Paradise Retreat

Joyce & Barry Vissell, a nurse/therapist and psychiatrist couple since 1964, are counselors near Santa Cruz, CA, who are widely regarded as among the world’s top experts on conscious relationship and personal growth. They are the authors of The Shared Heart, Models of Love, Risk to Be Healed, The Heart’s Wisdom, Meant to Be, and A Mother’s Final Gift. Call Toll-Free 1 (800) 766-0629, locally (831) 684-2299, or write to the Shared Heart Foundation, P.O. Box 2140, Aptos, CA 95001, for further information on counseling sessions by phone or in person, their books, recordings or their schedule of talks and workshops. Visit their web site at SharedHeart.org for their free monthly e-heartletter, their updated schedule, and inspiring past articles on many topics about relationship and living from the heart.

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The Chi of our living environment impacts all aspects of our life; health, prosperity, reputation, finances, career, marriage, relationships, creativity, benefactors and self-knowledge. Adjusting the energy flow to bring balance to the space will support balance and harmony in the lives of the occupants. Different Approaches to Feng Shui Also known as the Chinese art of placement, Feng Shui was developed in China approximately 3-4,000 years ago. There are many different schools of Feng Shui and some take different approaches to meet the same end goal of bringing harmony to a living space for the benefit of the occupants. I practice Black Sect Feng Shui, which is also called Black Sect Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui, BTB, Black Hat or Grandmaster Lin Yun’s Feng Shui School. Black Sect Feng Shui, developed by Grandmaster Lin Yun, is an innovative approach rooted in tradition yet adapted to support our modern way of living. Feng Shui Consultations The practice of Feng Shui requires deep looking and listening to the place and to the client, on different

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Scrooge was destined to while growing up in America so I infrastructure of mom and pop busiadvantage of the less active, less busy live a loveless life without the expe- cannot help but wonder why so much ness, has chosen to become a land of time of Winter and spends more time rience of true friendship, however, of the business and politics in the U.S. a box store monopolies. in contemplation, meditation, journal- fortune befell him and he received today is based on the model of the Is this what everyone wants? Do an intervention through a dream that untransformed Scrooge? Is not the we need to have the ghosts of Christing and writing. I was raised in a household with transformed his outlook on life and moral of the story about the conscious mas Past, Present and Future come to strong moral values and learned early his way of being in the world. 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I spent healing and unity. Upon many occaI was stubborn, wanting my way, and this fable every Winter season, be it hours with family and friends playing sions he showed kindness to those became uncaring toward others, I felt storybook, play or film. Not one of this game, relishing the triumphant who would hurt him. In my adult life icky. This is a pattern that played out my friends or family members ever windfalls of unexpected income, the I have come to embrace all paths and over and again throughout my child- wanted to be Scrooge when we acted convenience of Free Parking and traditions that liberate our minds from hood as I was learning the difference out the drama. Why was this so? sulking after loosing my last home to past trauma and conditioning. 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takes a full 24 hours to complete its journey. World Sound Healing Day is extremely powerful. Our sound and our consciousness has the ability of interfacing with that of our planet Earth and influencing the consciousness of all beings. Another thing I know is that, we are at a particularly interesting period in a planetary development and that by helping awaken others on the Earth, we are helping raise the vibratory awareness of ourselves and our planet. And, the last thing I know for sure is that this interfacing of sound and consciousness is truly the ultimate tool in terms of shifting and changing our vibratory levels. Through events such as World Sound Healing Day, we can create change! We can make a difference. As I like to say: “We heal the planet, we heal ourselves. We heal ourselves and we heal the planet!” Indeed, we can make a difference. It is our choice. http://tinyurl.com/o3ls77c Printed with permission.

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argaret and I just returned from our participation in the Third Annual UPLIFT Festival in Byron Bay Australia. Simply, it was an amazing evolutionary experience, filled with ancient and modern wisdom and music concerts that uplifted the audience in the room and on the web around the world. Highlighting the festival was the planethealing wisdom offered by indigenous people from around the world (including Aboriginal Elders, Lakota, Iroquois and Sioux First Nations participants, Tibetan monks, and the Cogi Indians from La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Columbia). It is clear that we must raise our consciousness about Mother Gaia, especially in light of the fact that we are facing our own extinction. The Festival family has created an “energybased” community of like-minded individuals that would declare their conscious commitment to “Restore Mother Earth’s Rights To Her Natural Constitution.” Currently, there is a biocultural crisis on earth. Half of the world’s cultures have disappeared or are in danger of extinction. Likewise, ecosystems are growing more fragile each day. In spite of existing local and international laws, and significant advances in science and technology, Mother Earth and all her beings today confront an ecological crisis that places life itself in jeopardy.

We ardently invite global society and governments to embrace and activate a Unification Process which brings forth the natural wisdom of the Original Mandate and transforms harmful ways of living to “Living Well”. For example, to alleviate Mother Earth’s fever, transitioning towards clean energies is imperative. Restoration of the original right of Mother Earth to her natural constitution Mother Earth’s rights are equivalent to Human Rights. The reactivation of sacred places and sacred sites is vital for the reconstitution of a healthy and balanced life on Earth. In this task, restoring and reactivating the neglected and injured sites of Mother Earth is urgent. It is necessary to carry out this task on a global level in all biocultural regions of the earth and to revitalize the sacred elements of life: Air, Water, Earth and Fire. The Natural Rights of Mother Earth should be upheld and endorsed by the United Nations System and by national and regional laws. The designation and protection of sacred areas of Mother Earth are a way to reinforce ancestral wisdom and the very constitution of Mother Earth. Within this endeavor for cultural preservation, we recognize that songs, dance, music, prayer, restorative ceremonies and other cultural elements are invaluable and important. The Four Pillars framework, which outlines this Unification Process, was articulated and brought into effect in La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the Heart of the World, in 2013 in collaboration with UNESCO. This document will be available soon on upliftconnect.com. Thank you all, Dr. Bruce Lipton & Margaret Horton http://tinyurl.com/jvpj7bm www.brucelipton.com

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Facial Massage, and the contraindications and benefits for both Abhyanga and Ayurvedic Facial Massage. An important focus of the course, students will learn and perform the Ayurvedic Warm Oil Massage called Abhyanga as both a two-handed and four-handed massage.

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traditional and modern forms of Meditation, Movement and Healing Work. In 1997, Narayani attended the prestigious Swedish Institute for Massage Therapy in New York and soon started her private Healing Arts practice. In 1999, she became certified as an Integral Yoga instructor and was initiated into the lineage of Sri Swami Satchidananda at Yogaville in Virginia in 2001. She began concentrating on Ayurvedic Bodywork in 2002 and began training other Therapists in 2004. Narayani specializes in Intuitive Healing Work, Western and Eastern Massage Therapy, Yoga and Ayurvedic Education plus Spiritual and Wellness coaching for individuals and groups. www.EcoSpiritualWellness.com Next Program Begins March 13, 14 & 15, 9am to 6pm each day. Location: Cypress Health Institute 1119 Pacific Ave Ste 300, Santa Cruz. CypressHealthInstitute.com. Call (831) 4762115 for more info or to register.

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by Jaimi Ellison cupuncture is a form of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and has been practiced for thousands of years dating back to the Sung Dynasty (960AD1270AD). Acupuncture can be used for hundreds of reasons from relaxation to weight loss and can even work well to help people quit smoking. A method that is becoming extremely popular recently is facial rejuvenation acupuncture. Facial rejuvenation acupuncture is not a type of facial rejuvenation that one might think of trying to get rid of wrinkles or plump up the skin, instead people opt toward the more mainstream and riskier procedures such as botox or face lift. Facial Acupuncture is a safe and effective type of treatment. Some are calling this method “the new face lift!�. Martha Lucas, PhD, LAc, a Colorado acupuncturist, says after a series of 10 treatments (twice a week for five weeks), skin becomes more delicate and fair, and there are fewer wrinkles. She says the treatments also result in an erasing of fine lines and a reduction of deeper lines, less sagginess, a lifting of droopy eyelids, and a clearing or reduction of age spots. As an added bonus, she says, “there is an overall rejuvenation that is not confined to your face� because when receiving a treatment, the individual is also receiving a fullbody treatment. Not only are the aesthetics being treated, but the source of the aging is being treated as well such as stress, emotions,

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digestion, etc. She also explains that acupuncture is a great alternative for those that don’t want to risk the side effects of other treatments. Jessica Devlahovich of Santa Cruz Core Fitness is an expert in facial rejuvenation acupuncture and shares that the needles are threaded underneath wrinkle lines and cause a plumping effect making the skin look younger and more supple. This occurs because when approximately 30-40 micro thin needles are inserted into the skin of the body or face it stimulates the production of collagen and improves the skins elasticity. Essentially as the needles penetrate the skin your brain registers this stimulus and rushes blood cells and nutrients to heal what it perceives to be an injury. So, when the needle is removed the area is still full of fresh healthy blood cells and nutrients. Other surgical procedures or injections can have dangerous side effects and injecting poisonous toxins into your body is never a good idea even if you look firmer afterward. On the contrary, Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture allows the body to produce the results of a surgical procedure with added benefits instead of the risks associated with potentially harmful procedures. Not only can it reduce wrinkles, but can also reduce eye bags, dark circles, puffiness, age spots, and “crow’s feet.� It can help Increase collagen, muscle tone, and moisture in your skin as well as Eliminate fine lines, discoloration, stress and anxiety. This form of acupuncture not only improves your appearance on the outside but also improves your energy on the inside. Jessica Devlahovich is

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an expert in rejuvenation acupuncture and is currently accepting new patients at Santa Cruz CORE Fitness. Jaimi Ellison is the founder and President of Santa Cruz CORE Fitness + Rehab. Her commitment is to help as many people as possible achieve their optimal health. Having been through a serious life-changing injury herself she decided to open up an integrative

facility and learn how to heal others. As a trainer, massage therapist and corrective exercise specialist she has the compassion and drive to manifest her goal. At Santa Cruz CORE Fitness + Rehab they not only treat clients but offer continuing education to practitioners in order create a progressive learning community. As leaders in the industry Santa Cruz CORE offers an integrative approach in which the practitioners of massage, chiropractic, personal training and rehab, as well as acupuncture work as a team to get each person to their optimal health goal. Jaimi writes for the Connection Magazine, Santa Cruz Waves, Santa Cruz Core Blog and her articles have also been published in Shape Magazine. Santa Cruz CORE Fitness + Rehab, 317 Potrero St Ste C, Santa Cruz CA 95060, 831.425.9500, SantaCruzCore.com Reviews are always greatly appreciated! Please share your experience on Yelp! and Google Review.

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Journey of the Wujifa Practitioner Martial Arts

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any martial arts have long been tied to various traditions of enlightenment. It is often the case that the practitioner is led to ‘the source’ as the journey between the mind and the body meet. There, at that precipice, one may or may not come to see clearly various patterns born of fear and shame within themselves. Various standing meditation practices are sometimes trained to illicit various feelings in the practitioner. Standing meditation is the foundation of many Qigong and martial art practices stretching as far back as the earliest recorded Daoist histories. As there are many variances of standing practice, there too are many intentions which bring practitioners to stand: from enlightenment, to cultivation of the dantian, development of the connective tissue for health or martial proficiency, relaxation, and even esoteric alchemical processes. Even something as simple as discovering what it means to relax is a profound journey in and of itself which can appear, on the surface, as a simple notion. Yet, as we delve into the subtleties and nuances of these simplistic practices we find significance and depth which generally is hidden to the uninitiated.

One of the foundational principles of Wujifa, for example, is relaxed is not limp. This principle is preceded by, and inextricably integral to one’s structural alignment. The discovery of structural discrepancies can take years, or even a lifetime, as we change and adapt to various environmental influences, whether they be physical or psychological. Wujifa is an ‘alive’

Trevor Caruso art that is in a constant state of change. Even though practices such as standing meditation may appear as being still on the surface, the inside is in a state of dynamic change. The journey of relaxation is

really the journey of discovering excessive tensions. These holding patterns can manifest in various ways. Often times students discover anew the drama which is played out within our bodies (and surely outside of our bodies) as we navigate the effects of gravity on our structure. Beginners often tend to feel very uncomfortable. A sense of ‘what the hell am i doing?’ can be a mantra that the inner dialogue adopts as an avoidance pattern against seemingly trivial irritability and a sense of futility. As the mind-body relaxes into the various adjustments, we may begin to notice and discover connections which crossover into various realms of our lives. We are then confronted with a paradigm: control (which implies suppression) and on the other side a passive noticing which can seem like an elusively shy cat. This noticing is where we discover connection and in so doing may come to the source of our inner conflict; that very thing which provides sustenance to our various holding or avoidance patterns. It can sometimes be the case that we bring to light emotions which are hidden under layers of various aspirations and social dynamics. There may be a sense of vulnerability as we open up and give in to the relaxation that comes with proper

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Birds Of Paradise (Ages 18+) Mar 10 Jackie Greene (Ages 21+) Mar 11 & 12 Rebelution (Ages 16+) Mar 14 The Ghost Inside (Ages 16+) Mar 16 Walk The Moon/ The Griswolds (Ages 16+) Mar 17 Aer/ Shwayze (Ages 16+) Mar 18 Shpongle/ Phutureprimitive (Ages 16+) Mar 20 Ok Go (Ages 16+) Mar 20 Andrea Gibson At Kuumbwa (All Ages) Mar 21 Immortal Technique/ Talib Kweli (Ages 16+) Mar 27 Bone Thugs N Harmony (Ages 16+) Mar 28 Y & T/ SJ Sindicate (Ages 21+) Mar 29 Pink Floyd Experience (Ages 21+) Apr 3 & 4 IAMSU!/ Rome Fortune (Ages 16+) Apr 10 Sturgill Simpson (Ages 16+) Apr 11 Reverend Horton Heat (Ages 21+) Apr 15 Bad Religion/ OFF! (Ages 21+) Apr 16 Antemasque (Ages 16+) Apr 17 Berner (Ages 16+) Apr 19 Tech N9ne/ Chris Webby (Ages 16+) Apr 23 Frankie Ballard (Ages 16+) May 2 Infected Mushroom (Ages 18+) May 7 Yellowcard (Ages 16+) May 21 Dustin Lynch (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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by Janet Leonard usicians from the Santa Cruz Symphony are spreading out across the county over the next two weeks to bring the joy of classical music to elementary school classrooms from Boulder Creek to Pajaro Valley. Volunteer docents will team up with musicians to make the visits a fun and interactive experience that brings music to life. Students will learn what makes an orchestra and how conductors guide the musicians to make musical sound greater than the sum of its parts. This is in preparation for over 4,000 students and their teachers attending a Symphony performance either at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on Mon. Feb. 23rd and at Watsonville’s Mello Center on Tue. Feb. 24th. The Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony will be playing alongside professional Symphony musicians. The Symphony will also partner with the Kuumbwa Honor Jazz Band and the Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre to make the experience diverse and memorable for both the eyes and the ears. For children and others not in fourth and fifth grades, the Symphony will offer a “reduced admission Family Concert” for all ages, entitled “Peter and the Wolf” with Shakespearean actor, Paul Whitworth, at the Santa Cruz

strating their skills. Crow’s Nest: Fri. Feb. 20th, Lenny’s Basement, high energy danceable rock ‘n roll. Severino’s Bar & Grill: Sat. Feb 21st, Kaye Bohler Band, dynamic voice singing classic blues-flavored soul and R & B. Fri. Feb. 27th, 7:30pm, The Billy Martini Show, fun 70’s music with flair! Don Quixote’s: Sun. Mar. 1 st, 7pm, Nicholas David, alternative soul music from the heart by a vibrant, dynamic, and multi-talented singer/ songwriter/pianist, recently a finalist on “The Voice”. Concerts in Retro: Here are my reviews of some recent shows. Remember this is only my opinion. At Seabright Brewery: A.C. Myles, phenomenal blues guitarist with three-piece band, full of humor, very entertaining. The Joint Chiefs had everyone up and dancing by their second song. The bongos and saxophone really add to their sound, with outstanding Don Caruth on guitar, keeping the dancing going all night long. Are you a local band that would like your CD reviewed in this publication? Send your CD to Music Connection, c/o Janet Leonard, PO Box 3916, Santa Cruz, CA 95063. Call (831) 325-4605 or email janetfaplanet@ gmail.com to tell me about gigs for live reviews. Put “Music Connection” and your band’s name in the subject line.

British sensibilities), Paddington enchants with true Old World charm (1 hr 35 min).

also born too soon to have her talents recognized. Cumberbatch shines in his brilliant, award-nominated portrayal of a complex, radically innovative and secretly gay man – at a time when homosexuality was illegal. The story is at once gripping and painfully poignant … a must-see (1 hr 54 min).

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The Music of the Spheres:

Astrological Insights by Susan Heinz

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upiter is a brilliant chip of light wedged in the blue blackness of night’s passage, while the Big Dipper stands straight up in the North, balanced on the tip of it’s handle. It’s winter and Aquarius pours out the beauty of the Milky Way to us. Venus graces the Western sky at twilight, as Sirius glitters, blue, white, red, a beacon through the night. The full Moon rises on the 3rd with Jupiter, together revolving and

marking our night with beneficial influence. This is a time to find what you love, embrace it, enjoy it, and express it. In contrast, Saturn and Neptune challenge us to find balance between what is true and what is ideal, between the practical and the imaginative, between creative reverie and the hard work of survival, between hype and spin, and the deep truth of this uncertain time. Find your center while going with the flow, and making a commitment to

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with others. Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 21): The first part of the month is an excellent time to reassess your resources, including financial, and your talents, what you offer others. Your ideals and goals may need adjusting now. Take time to see how your daily activities are supporting what you would like to accomplish, the key for success. You may meet someone from a foreign country or background that inspires you. On the 20th, launch something new in your work or career. Leo (Jul 22-Aug 22): At the end of January and as the moon increases into its fullness on the 3rd, you experience abundance and confidence. The experience of well being promotes creative and expressive energies within you. Performance is highlighted. You experience appreciation! The balance between discipline and imaginative possibilities finds positive expression. After the 20th, begin new collaborations or projects with others. Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22): You may experience a renewal of love, or a new love enters your life. This may also take the form of a creative project that inspires you. For success take your time and balance grounding yourself in day to day realities and with the potentials before you. Define what you are wanting and what your needs are, so you are not sweep away. If you need to loosen up into creative possibilities, now is the time. You are creating new foundations for your life and family. Transformation of situations takes place after the 19th. Libra (Sep 23-Oct 22): February highlights creative work. Spending time alone heightens your imagination. Scheduling structured time is essential for bringing to fruition what you intend. During this period don’t take on too much and get enough rest. Watching what you eat and how you nourish your body is also essential. After the 19th, focus on relationship is much greater! Your passion is excited. Be careful, if not channeled positively, you can experience irritation and frustration, even loosing your temper. Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21): This month your heart is filled with love, with imaginative possibilities. This is a time for tapping a deep love (including for a child) or passion, for creating and expressing yourself, for healing old wounds. But you also experience worry, and question if you are proceeding the way you should. Take your time, slow things down and enjoy yourself with others of like mind. This is a time of integrating and growth.

Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 20): As the waxing moon fills itself with light and becomes full on the 3rd, enjoy yourself. Notice the areas of life that are supporting you and your life in new ways. Rely on trust in your own self reliance to fulfill this next phase of your life. Define clearly what you want to create. It is the right time to take on for these new responsibilities. The romantic within you is active and can carry you away into reverie or unrealistic situations. Know your boundaries, otherwise impulsive actions create problems. After the 19th is the time to start something new. Capricorn (Dec 21- Jan 19): This is a sorting time for Capricorns. Your dream, ideal outcomes, or creative possibilities are present. Let yourself move with this imaginative energy. Explore it. And yet there is a tension between responsibility and imaginative possibility. The solution is to thoughtfully schedule your time to include both. If you hear that doubtful, skeptical voice, imagine putting it into another room and diminish its power. Schedule a day for your own reverie. Then that voice will come to your aid, helping you give form to your dream, after the 19th. Trust the process. Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 17): This is a highly fruitful and creative time for you! Your mind is at its peak, reviewing past situations, integrating new insights, sharing, and collaborating with others. Travel is highlighted at the beginning of the month, connecting and meeting new people is beneficial. There is a need to balance social time with quiet reverie, discipline with openness. Communications, writing, are emphasized after the 19th as is giving form to new inspirations. A burst of energy engages you. Pisces (Feb 18-Mar 19): Ah, your romantic heart! Your great capacity for sharing love is highlighted. Saturn now demands that you be grounded. Use your discerning abilities to carefully assess your situation. Don’t let yourself get swept away by seductive charms. It may be difficult to know what is true or not. So harness the power of your love, the power to create your reality into imaginative and productive ways that serve both yourself and others. Susan Heinz is a professional astrologer in Santa Cruz for 33 years, bringing together traditional & esoteric astrology, Tarot and Qabalah. For info on her Friday monthly astrology groups, her Qabalah, astrology and or, painting classes, and for personal consultations, call (831) 479-3751, or go to www.susanheinz.com.

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hese past two weeks have been a test for me... of my resolve to be a kind and loving human being. I came down with flu after a night at Stanford Hospital preparing for a colonoscopy that ultimately failed. I have had an ileostomy for the last 2 years, healing my digestive system to be finally put back together. I had an allergic reaction to the ten hours of prep poured through my stoma, and then, a failed colonoscopy. The doctor suggested I return home, continue fasting over the

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weekend and then come back to try again. I awoke on Saturday morning vomiting with a temperature of 101.8. I can honestly say this was one of the most debilitating experiences, and I am still not 100%. As I lay in bed over the last two weeks, I read and reread an affirmation my friend Annie gave me: “All is well with my world.” I meditated; I prayed. There were moments when I was not sure I would pull through, but even that would have been O.K. should that be what was best for my soul. I surrendered, and I improved. My time is not up yet! I have more books and paintings to do. It is so obvious that our body’s state of being affects our thinking process; I had to work at being kind, and I occasionally lost control. Even that was fine as releasing tears helps.

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I had vivid dreams and realized I had the opportunity to heal the past. I recalled moments emotionally as a child, things I had not remembered in many years. I traced through my relationships seeing how life was more challenging because of my generating drama. I felt gratitude for my teachers, so many: Maharishi, Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Dee, Annie, my beautiful daughter, Thom and Pattie, the men who loved me, all my beloved pets, especially my cat Bianco who curled up beside me and kept vigil through these weeks of growing wellness. So, maintaining balance is an act of will, a choice, a knowing that “All is well with my world.” Blessings, Melanie Melanie Gendron is available for intuitive tarot readings, offering also art, unique gifts, tarot services and products, (831) 335-9064, email gentarot@comcast.net, visit www. melaniegendron.com.

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3 TELLTALE SIGNS THAT YOUR DOG IS COLD

by Dr. Becker any dogs, just like people, feel cold when winter weather arrives. But many dog guardians are confused about whether putting a sweater or coat on their pet makes sense, because after all – the animal is covered in fur! But not every dog has a long or dense coat, or a double coat. Shorthaired dogs are often vulnerable to cold temperatures, as are very small dogs, light-bodied breeds, seniors, and pets with health conditions. So it’s certainly possible that your canine companion may be uncomfortable in cold weather. How to Know If Your Dog Is Cold One sign that your dog is feeling chilly is a hesitance to go outside to potty. And if she insists on lying on you or in contact with you at bedtime, it’s another sign she’s looking for warmth. And of course shivering is

always a red ag. If your dog is sending “I’m coldâ€? signals, is a small or toy breed, has a short or thin coat, is older and perhaps doesn’t get around well, or has a chronic health condition, a sweater or jacket may the best thing for her. Dogs that aren’t likely to need outerwear are large breeds with dense coats – breeds like the Saint Bernard, Malamute, and Siberian Husky. These breeds and most dogs bred for cold climates can actually overheat in a sweater or jacket. Overweight dogs often don’t need extra insulation, either. But breeds like the Chihuahua, many of the terrier and pinscher breeds, and the Greyhound, are examples of dogs that often need a little help staying warm. Choosing the Best Sweater When picking a sweater for your dog, I recommend a fabric that can be easily washed and dried, and one that won’t itch or irritate your pet’s skin. You’ll want to measure the circumference of your dog’s neck and

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chest, and the length of his body from neck to waist, plus take his weight, so that you can select clothing that ďŹ ts. A dog sweater should be snug, but not tight. The length should end at about the waist, leaving the dog’s back end free. The neck and leg holes should be big enough that your dog can move freely, but not so big that he can pull his head or a leg out. I recommend plain sweaters without zippers, hooks, buttons or other adornments that can be both annoying to your dog and a choking hazard. The sweater should be easy to put on and take off without a struggle. I also look for sweaters made of natural (chemical free) material, like this organic, recycled 100 percent cotton sweater I just found for Lenny. You may have a few misses before you hit on the right size and ďŹ t, so either take your dog with you so you can try things on him, or shop at retailers with liberal return policies. Additional Tips If you put a sweater on your dog, especially indoors, make sure to check regularly to insure she’s comfortable. I recommend taking sweaters on and off every few hours to prevent overheating or an itchy rash. And keep in mind that not every dog who needs a coat will wear one – it’s just too unnatural for some. So don’t force your dog to wear any item of clothing if it means she can’t act or move naturally. And one more thing‌ dogs rarely, if ever, need pants. And rain-

coats are unnecessary, as are boots, in most instances. Dogs feel the ground with their paws, and anything that interferes with their ability to perceive their environment isn’t a great idea for most dogs. http://tinyurl.com/mzf6s5o Printed with permission.

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Medical Marijuana Visits in SC and Monterey 5 AmAzing new Discoveries About the PotentiAl of mArijuAnA thAt You won’t heAr in the corPorAte meDiA

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by Paul Armentan cientific discoveries are published almost daily in regard to the healing properties of the cannabis. But, most of these findings appear solely in subscription-only peerreviewed journals and, therefore, go largely unnoticed by the mainstream media and by the public. Here are five just-published cannabis-centric studies that warrant attention. Men Who Smoke Pot Possess a Reduced Risk of Bladder Cancer Is cannabis use protective against the development of certain types of cancer? The findings of a just released study in the Journal Urology imply that it might be. Investigators at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Department of Neurology assessed the association of cannabis use and tobacco smoking on the risk of bladder cancer in a multiethnic cohort of more than 80,000 men aged 45 to 69 years old over an 11-year period. The results? While men who smoked cigarettes possessed a 1.5-fold increased risk of cancer, those who only smoked pot possessed a 45 percent reduced risk of being diagnosed with the disease. “After adjusting for age, race or ethnicity, and body mass index, using tobacco only was associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer (hazard regression 1.52) whereas cannabis use was only associated with a 45 percent reduction in bladder cancer incidence (HR 0.55),” investigators reported. The study is not the first time that researchers have identified an inverse association between marijuana use and the development of cancer. In 2009, Brown University researchers similarly reported that the moderate long-term use of marijuana was associated with a reduced risk of head and neck cancers in a multi-center cohort involving over 1,000 subjects. In addition, the largest case-controlled study ever to investigate the respiratory effects of marijuana smoking found no positive association between inhaling pot and lung cancer risk. “We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use,” pulmonologist Dr. Donald Tashkin, Professor Emeritus at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA told The Washington Post. “What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect.” Long-Term Pot Exposure Isn’t Damaging to Lung Health Unlike tobacco smoking, the inhalation of marijuana cigarettes— even long-term—is not associated with significant adverse changes in pulmonary health, according to data published online in December in the journal Annals of the American Thoracic Society. Investigators at

Emory University in Atlanta assessed marijuana smoke exposure and lung health in a large representative sample of US adults age 18 to 59. Researchers reported that cannabis exposure was not associated with FEV1 (forced expiratory volume) decline or deleterious change in spirometric values of small airways disease. They further reported that marijuana smoke exposure may be associated with some protective lung effects among long-term smokers of tobacco, acknowledging, “[T]he pattern of marijuana’s effects seems to be distinctly different when compared to that of tobacco use.” Their findings are similar to those of a 2013 literature review, published in the same journal, which concluded: “[H]abitual use of marijuana alone does not appear to lead to significant abnormalities in lung function. Findings from a limited number of well-designed epidemiological studies do not suggest an increased risk of either lung or upper airway cancer from light or moderate use. ... Overall, the risks of pulmonary complications of regular use of marijuana appear to be relatively small and far lower than those of tobacco smoking.” Alcohol, Not Pot, Alters the Brain It was less than a year ago when the mainstream media was chock-full of headlines like this one: ‘Brain changes associated with casual marijuana use in young adults, study finds.’ But, a funny thing happened when a team of scientists from the University of Colorado and the University of Kentucky tried to replicate these results in a larger, more well-controlled cohort of subjects. They couldn’t. “We acquired high-resolution MRI scans, and investigated group differences in gray matter using voxel-based morphometry, surface-based morphometry, and shape analysis in structures suggested to be associated with marijuana use, as follows: the nucleus accumbens, amygdala, hippocampus, and cerebellum,” researchers summarized in the January 28 edition of The Journal of Neuroscience. “No statistically significant differences were found between daily users and nonusers on volume or shape in the regions of interest. Effect sizes suggest that the failure to find differences was not due to a lack of statistical power, but rather was due to the lack of even a modest effect.” They concluded, “In sum, the results indicate that, when carefully controlling for alcohol use, gender, age, and other variables, there is no association between marijuana use and standard volumetric or shape measurements of subcortical structures. … [I]t seems unlikely that marijuana use has the same level of long-term deleterious effects on brain morphology as other drugs like alcohol.” Marijuana Use Doesn’t Lead to Depression

“Regular use of marijuana has also been linked to depression, anxiety, and a loss of drive or motivation.” So says the online publication, ‘Marijuana: Facts for Teens,’ published by the US National Institute on Drug Abuse. But, is this claim true? No, according to longitudinal data published online ahead of print in the Journal of Affective Disorders, which reports that future incidences of major depression are not higher among cannabis users compared to nonusers. Investigators concluded, “Our results do not support a longitudinal association between cannabis use and increased incidence of MDD (major depressive disorder); rather, they indicate an inverse relationship between the two, which may be attributed to self-medication factors.” Previous studies have similarly dismissed the notion that pot use is associated with increased suicide risk. Specifically, a 2013 study published in the American Journal of Public Health reported a drop in suicide rates in states that had legalized marijuana compared to those that had not, finding: “Suicides among men aged 20 through 39 years fell after medical marijuana legalization compared with those in states that did not legalize. The negative relationship between legalization and suicides among young men is consistent with the hypothesis that marijuana can be used to cope with stressful life events.” Marijuana Possesses a Unique Margin of Safety Compared to Other Legal and Illegal Drugs Despite the US federal government’s ongoing insistence that pot is one of the most dangerous substances known to man, an objective review of the plant’s safety profile finds that it is comparably safer than most other drugs, particularly alcohol. Writing in Nature.com this past January, an international team of German and Canadian researchers published a comparative risk assessment of the toxicity of tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis. Their evaluation concluded that the risks of cannabis have likely been “overestimated” while the dangers associated with booze “have been commonly underestimated.” They concluded: “[Our] results point to risk management prioritization toward alcohol and tobacco rather than illicit drugs. … [and] suggest a strict legal regulatory approach [for cannabis] rather than the current prohibition approach.” Author’s Note: Paul Armentano is the Deputy Director of NORML — the National Organization for the reform of Marijuana Laws — and also serves as a senior policy advisor for Freedom Leaf, Inc. He is the co-author of the book, Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? (Chelsea Green, 2013). http://tinyurl.com/khc88d8 Printed with permission

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