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22 THE RISE OF FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE New Paradigm Gets to the Root Cause of Disease by Lisa Marshall

26 THE POWER OF CONSCIOUS DANCE Creative Movement Connects Body, Mind and Spirit by Gail Condrick

28 GOOD REASONS TO TRY ACUPUNCTURE Thousands of Studies Show Healing Results by Kathleen Barnes

30 SUPER SOUPS New Twists on Old Favorites Heal, Nourish and Soothe by Judith Fertig

34 TREATING AUTISM NATURALLY Plus Strategies for Prevention by Meredith Montgomery

36 ITS EASY TO BE GREEN At Home and On the Road by Avery Mack

38 BRUCE LIPTON ON THE EPIGENETICS REVOLUTION Our Beliefs Reprogram Our Genetic Destiny by Linda Sechrist

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I have had a little fun lately sharing this cute story, so I thought I would share it with you. A young woman went to her doctor complaining of pain. Where are you hurting? asked the doctor. You have to help me, I hurt all over, said the woman. What do you mean, all over? asked the doctor. Be a little more specific. The woman touched her right knee with her index fin-ger and yelled, Ow, that hurts. Then she touched her left cheek and again yelled, Ouch! That hurts, too. Then she touched her right earlobe, Ow, even that hurts, she cried. The doctor looked at her thoughtfully for a moment

and asked, Do you think you may have a broken your finger? As I begin to set and perhaps reassess my intentions for the New Year, I try to remember that the issues I care to address may not be defined by what I believe they are. At Natural Awakenings magazine, we continually share a wealth of re-sources, tools and inspiration that help to create the life we envision, but the possibility of optimal wellness has moved to a whole new level with functional medicine. With all that we are able to discover via blood, gene and gut assess-ments, there are new possibilities to treat and even eradicate health issues and chronic disease at our fingertips. (literally, if you are having a blood test). With new discoveries being made every day, healthcare and medical professionals are able to get to the root cause of diseases. This, combined with knowledge the individuals own metabolic and bioavailability to heal, allows functional medicine doctors to fine-tune a personal wellness path designed specifically for that person. As health care begins to open these new doors and discover these new frontiers, we may be doing away with our present views to adopt a fresh new look at the possibilities. I recently discovered the concept and value of being a possibilist, verses an optimist, or even pessimist. When I embraced the term, I learned it means to recognize that all possibilities exist, although they may not yet be manifested. A possibilist believes that opportunities can be assessed and brought to life. Anythings possible if you believe it to be so. As my son shared that his creed is the opposite of Seeing is believing; he says instead, Believe it and you will see it, which means we must be willing to be possiblilist. I invite you to join me to become a possiblist today. As you begins to set your intentions for the coming year, take a moment to dream of the possibilities know it is possible and never stop believing.

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URU Yoga & Beyond is holding a grand opening for its third location at 913 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Suite 26, Harbortown, in Gulf Breeze, on January 30 and 31. Other loca-tions include 2400 Executive Plaza Drive, by the airport on Tippen, and 955 East Nine Mile Road, Suite 102, in Pensacola. Within each yoga studio, students are warmly welcomed and honored for who they are. Students can choose from a variety of classes for all ages and comfort levels such as beginner yoga, aerial yoga, acro yoga, hot yoga, meditation, childrens classes, music, birthday parties, workshops, music events and

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The Capitol Steps Live in Concert

The Capitol Steps, a troupe of former congressional staffers-turned-comedians, will perform their repertoire of comedy and song at 7:30 p.m., January 15, at the Pen-sacola Saenger The-atre. For a preview, tune in to 88.1 FM at 8 p.m. January 1. The Steps, includ-ing co-founders Elaina Newport, Bill Strauss and Jim Aidala, have been entertaining fans

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Change Belief Systems and Experiences with ThetaHealing

THE Healing Clinic is hosting Jill Isbell, an ad-vanced practitioner and teacher of ThetaHealing. Level one will be held February 5 through 7 and level two will be held March 4 through 6. ThetaHealing is a healing modality developed by Vianna Stibal, a naturopath, massage therapist, and medical intuitive who had an instant healing of termi-nal lymphatic cancer in 1995. She says, Each of us creates everything in our lives. We draw to us people and experiences based on our belief systems. These beliefs function like computer programs, creating wealth or poverty, sickness or health, success or fail-ure. With ThetaHealing, you can choose your new be-liefs and consciously create your life, health and success. In a sense, ThetaHealing is the process that we reprogram our own individual computer programs.

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Unity in Fort Walton Beach will conduct their annual Burning Bowl Ceremony on January 3. In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, and thereby of gates, doors, doorways, passages and endings. He is usually de-picted as having two faces, because he looks to the future and to the past. It is conventionally thought that the month of January is named for Janus. Many New Thought churches such as Unity look backward in January to remove any unwanted behaviors or beliefs through a Burning Bowl Ceremony. That ceremony is followed looking forward into the new year with a White Stone Ceremony. The performance of this ritual helps us to let go of old hurts, grudges, resentments, regrets and suffering; indeed, to relinquish anything that is holding us back and which we wish to release. In the Burning Bowl Ceremony, we write down on a small piece of pa-per whatever it isit may be more than one thingthat we want to be free of. There is great power in the act of put-ting in writing what we want to release from our life, and it is a very important part of letting go. Then we gently fold the piece of pa-per and spend a moment or two in quiet prayer or meditation of personal com-mitment and surrender before placing the piece of paper in the burning bowl. If there is anything holding us back, we

become aware of what it is and let that go, as well. As we ignite our paper and drop it into the bowl, we release what-ever it is that no longer serves us. The White Stone Ceremony is derived from an ancient teaching which helps individuals to focus on what lies on their path by selecting a new name. This new name is written on a white stone tablet, indicating our freedom from the past. In this ceremony, we are given a flat, white stone that can be written on. As we welcome the New Year and enter the deep meditation of the ceremony, we clear our mind and gently release the random thoughts that chatter through it. As we deepen the meditation, we keep our mind clear and remain open to any image, color, name or word that comes clearly to us. As our conscious-ness begins to focus clearly on that one word, it is calling forth a new name for us in this unique ritual. Name means nature, and as our word is revealed to us, it indicates changes that will be important to us as we move forward through the new year. We write our word on our white stone and keep it where we can see it often and reflect on what it means to us.

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Autism Spurs Creative ThinkingThe UKs University of East Anglia and the University of Stirling con-ducted a study of individuals with au-tistic traits among 312 people recruited through social media, including 75 diagnosed with autistic spectrum dis-order. Each of the subjects completed a series of creativity tests in which they determined uses of mundane objects. Published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, the study found that while the autis-tic people chose fewer uses for each object, their choices were significantly more original and creative. The sub-jects developed a greater range of divergent thinking. Martin Doherty, Ph.D., co-author of the study, confirms, People with high autistic traits can have less quan-tity, but greater quality of creative ideas. They are typically considered to be more rigid in their thinking, so the fact that the ideas they have are more unusual or rare is surprising. This differ-ence may have positive implications for creative problem solving. The researchers found that while the average person will utilize simple mental strategies to produce more obvious answers first, autistic people tend to first utilize more demanding strategies during their processing, thus producing the more creative result.

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Feel Young, Live LongResearch published in the Journal of the American Medical As-sociation has found people that feel younger than their years have a lower incidence of earlier mortality. Conducted by scientists from the UKs University College London, the research analyzed data from 6,489 people and measured their self-perceived age with the ques-tion, How old do you feel you are? Then, over more than eight years, the scientists tracked the number of deaths from all causes.

Almost 70 percent of those that averaged a little over 65 reported feeling at least three years younger than their chronological age. Only a quarter said they felt close to their age and about 5 percent said they felt more than a year older. The research found that deaths among those that felt younger were 14 per-cent, while more than 18 percent of those who felt their own age and more than 24 percent of people that felt older died during the follow-up period. The research further found that individuals that felt at least three years younger were less likely to die later from heart disease or cancer. These relationships prevailed even when other health and lifestyle factors were eliminated. Co-author Andrew Steptoe, Ph.D., says, We expected to find an association between self-perceived age and mortality. We didnt expect that the relationship would still be present even when wealth, other socio-demographic indicators, health, depression, mobility and other factors were taken into account.

Vitamin E and D Supplements Hinder Alzheimers and Falls Among ElderlyTwo common vitamins are making headlines in medical research. A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that supplementation with vitamin E may reduce the progression of Alzheimers disease. The five-year study followed 561 Alzheimers patients and included a placebo and the pharmaceuti-cal drug memantine. Those that took vitamin E had a reduced progression of the disease compared to both a placebo group and the memantine group. Also, researchers from the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center found that vitamin D supplementation reduced the risk of falling for elderly folks. The study had a vitamin D supplement or a placebo delivered through a Meals-on-Wheels program to 68 people. The subjects were given blood tests and their history of falls was measured. Diaries revealed that the individuals taking vitamin D supplements fell less than half the number of times than the placebo group.


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Playing Outside Before Lunch Spurs Kids to Eat Healthier

Researchers from Brigham Young University and Cornell University have determined that simply moving recess to precede lunch significantly increases students consumption of fruits and vegetables at lunch. The researchers tested first- through sixth-graders from seven schools in Utah for 14 school days. In three schools, recess was switched from after to just before lunch. In the other four schools,

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Sunlight Reduces Risk of Pancreatic Cancer Researchers from the University of Cal-ifornia (UC) School of Medicine at San Diego have determined that regions with greater exposure to ultraviolet (UV)-B radiation from the sun and reduced cloud cover have significantly lower incidence of pancreatic cancer. In an analysis of global rates of the disease, the research, published in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, demonstrated that areas with more sunshine had only one-sixth of the pancreatic can-cer rates of areas with less sunshine. The farther from the equator, the less is the exposure to UV-B radiation, leading to less body production of vitamin D. Study author Cedric F. Garland, doctor of public health, a UC profes-sor and member of the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, says, If youre living at a high latitude or in a place with a lot of heavy cloud cover, you cant make vitamin D most of the year, which results in a higher-than-normal risk of getting pancreatic cancer. According to World Cancer Research Fund International, 338,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer are di-agnosed annually, and it is the seventh most lethal form of cancer.

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Leave Them at the Door: Shoe Soles Harbor Risky BacteriaResearch from the University of Houston has determined that a species of bacteria that has become resistant to many antibiotics might be tracking into homes on the soles of shoes. More than a third of randomly tested homes were contaminated with Clostridium difficile bacteria, and 40 percent of doorsteps were also infected with the bacteria. Depending upon the strain, C. dif-ficile can cause intestinal infections, inflammation and severe diarrhea. Study author M. Jahangir Alam, Ph.D., comments, Shoes are con-taminated from diverse sources, and we are regularly contaminating our doorsteps by shoes. The researchers tested three to five household items within 30 houses in Houston, Texas. They col-lected 127 environmental samplesfrom 63 shoe bottoms, 15 bathroom surface samples, 12 house floor dusts and 37 other household surfaces They found that 41 of them harbored C. difficile and nearly 40 percent of the shoes were positive for the bacteria. They also found that a third of the bathroom surfaces har-bored the bacteria, a third of house dust and 19 percent of other surfaces maintained the bacteria. The cause of many intestinal disorders, this bacteria species has become increasingly resistant to antibiotics and many household cleaning products.

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Drive-Thru VeganAmys Opens Organic Fast Food RestaurantCalifornia now hosts the nations first Amys Organic Drive-Thru restaurant, in Rohnert Park, with a vegetarian menu sporting veggie burgers, salads and dishes served in both regular and vegan varieties. Ingredients are sustainably grown and GMO-free (no genetically modified ingredients). The companys signature frozen pizzas have been popular for yearsin health food and grocery stores nationwide, and now Amys first restaurant is serving them hot, with toppings ranging from spinach and diced tomatoes to a choice of mozzarella cheese or vegan cheeze. While some other fast food restaurants import almost all of their products from factory farming operations and give nothing back to the community, Amys Drive-Thru grows produce sustainably on its own roof. Amys Kitchen, a family-owned, privately held organic frozen food company, reportedly pays workers a living wage with health benefits. On the inaugural restaurants popularity, Manager Paul Schiefer remarks, Its given us a lot of hope that this is a concept that works.

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By the end of 2014, Trina Mills, of Parker, Arizona, had given up on conventional medicine. Shed been diagnosed with a thyroid disorder 17 years earlier and taken medication ever since without feel-ing her symptoms of fatigue, muscle aches and stomach problems ever fully subside. Shed visited endocri-nologists, gastroenterologists and a half-dozen other specialists, each of which offered a different diagnosis and prescribed a different drug. At one point, she had her gall- bladder removed. At another, her doctor suspected she had bleeding in her brain and sent her for a computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan. Some thought she was a hypochondriac; others said she was depressed. I would tell them,

Im just depressed that you cant figure out why Im so sick, she says. Weighing a skeletal 82 pounds, the 54-year-old mother of three finally wrote out a living will and braced for the inevitable. Then she heard of a new Center for Functional Medicine opening at the prestigious, century-old Cleveland Clinic. As the first clinic of its kind to open at an academic medi-cal center, it promised to look at the underlying causes of disease, while focusing on the whole person, rather than isolated symptoms. Intrigued, Mills caught a flight to Ohio and soon was offering up 30 tubes of blood, stool and saliva sam-ples, as well as an exhaustive life his-tory. One year later, thanks to a series of personalized diet and lifestyle changes,

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Distinctive Characteristics In the 25 years since nutritional bio-chemist Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D., of Gig Har-bor, Washington, coined the term, this science-based, whole-body approach to addressing chronic disease has gained widespread traction. More than 100,000 physicians60 percent of them medical doctorshave trained with the Institute for Functional Medicine he founded in Washington and New Mexico, and numerous medical schools have added its tenets to their curricula. More naturo-paths and chiropractors are also distin-guishing themselves with a functional medicine emphasis. It is not alternative medicine at all, stresses Bland, whose latest book, The Disease Delusion, details how functional medicine can curb chronic diseases like arthritis, diabetes, de-mentia, and heart disease, which con-stitute 78 percent of U.S. health care costs. Its the basis of 21st-century health care, he says. For most of the 20th century, conventional medicine centered on a singular objective: Arrive at a diagnosis and treat it with drugs or surgery. Then, the alternative medicine movement prof-fered a toolbox of more natural therapies, including acupuncture, herbs and mas-sage to address these same diagnoses. The 1990s brought integrative medicine, a best-of-both-worlds approach. While all of the above have merit, they lack the necessary guidance to help practitioners determine which tools work best for which patient, says Dr. Mark Hyman, director of the Cleveland Clinics Center for Functional Medicine. Alternative therapies and conventional treatments are tools. We need a new map that can teach us how to skillfully use those tools, maintains Hyman. That map is functional medicine. Because one chronic disease such as diabetes can have dozens of under-lying causes, or one culprit such as a genetic predisposition or exposure to toxins can lead to multiple chronic

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conditions, functional medicine fo-cuses on systems, rather than organs, and origins, rather than diseases. Its about listening to the patients story in a different way, where the objective is not simply about arriving at a diagno-sis, explains Bland.

Ferreting Out Key CluesKey to discovering the underlying ori-gins of a health issue are a host of new gene, blood and gut health tests. They allow us to look under the patients metabolic hood at the genetic and biochemical factors influencing health, says Naturopathic Doctor Kara Fitzger-ald, who heads up a functional medi-cine clinic in Newtown, Connecticut. For instance, certain genes influ-ence how a person burns and stores fat. Depending on which variant a patient has, based on a genetic test, they might be guided toward a higher- or lower-fat diet. Those genetically prone to difficulty in metabolizing the amino acid homocysteine (an excess of which can raise the risk of heart disease) might be advised to take folic acid supplements. If a patient displays intractable gut problems, rather than simply look for blood or pathogens in the stool, Fitzgerald also looks at the DNA of their gut microbiome, mapping out which strains of good bacteria are present or absent and prescribing pre-biotics, probiotics or whole foods to promote a healthful balance. For another patient with thin-ning hair and aching joints, she might use specialized blood tests to look for micronutrient deficiencies, signs

Lobby for ChangeTo lobby for consistent insurance coverage of more complementary therapies, check out these resources. CoverMyCare (CoverMyCare.org). This national grassroots advocacy cam-paign, a project of the Integrative Healthcare Policy Consortium, aims to sup-port the proper full implementation of Section 2706 of the Affordable Care Act, which states that insurers cannot leave licensed practitioners like naturopaths, chiropractors, massage therapists or Oriental medicine practitioners out of their provider networks. It still lacks enforcement at the state level, although Oregon and Rhode Island recently passed legislation to fix the existing loophole; California, Hawaii, Minnesota and New Mexico are working to do the same. American Sustainable Business Council (Tinyurl.com/Integrative Reimbursement). The organization recently launched a campaign to urge insurers to cover integrative practices.

of allergies or certain autoantibod-iesproteins produced by the immune system that mistakenly attack ones own tissuesthat might herald a brew-ing autoimmune disorder. Research shows that predictive autoantibodies can show up in the blood 10 or even 20 years before an autoimmune dis-ease such as Type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis makes itself known, says Fitzgerald, pointing to a seminal review published in 2007 in Scientific American: If a patient with mild, early-stage symptoms is pro-active with diet and lifestyle changes, they may be able to fend it off. High-tech tests aside, Bland stresses that whats most important is a tool that has been largely lost in medicine today: Knowing how to listen to the patient. In a typical exam, Fitzgerald thor-oughly inspects often neglected body

parts, including the tongue and finger-nails, which can hold important clues to underlying health. She asks about past emotional trauma which might trigger chronic disease, and inquires about what environmental toxins and harmful chemicals both the patient and their birth parents may have been exposed to. One example might be a patient exposed to cigarette smoking in utero having a bias toward an al-lergic disease. If their parents grew up in a period of famine, they might have inherited a genetic disposition for rapid weight gain. She spent two-and-a-half hours with me, in her initial consultation, recalls 52-year-old Lauren Zambrelli, of Long Island, New York, who credits Fitzgerald for helping her tame her mul-tiple sclerosis into remission. It was like having a sister for a doctor.

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Who PaysFunctional medicine doctors dont shy away from prescription drugs when nec-essary, but they do lean decidedly toward the lower-tech modalities, using dietary supplements, allergen-free diets, exercise, mind-body practices and toxin avoidance as their primary tools. We basically take out the bad stuff from the body and put in the good stuff, says Hyman. Maintaining good health is price-less, but without conventional insur-ance coverage, it can be expensive. While Mills doctor visits were covered by insurance (which is rare), she spends roughly $1,000 a month on supple-ments to address her diagnosed leaky gut syndrome, nutrient deficiencies and mercury poisoning. Zambrelli has paid thousands out of her own pocket, too. Some people worry that, like most conventional physicians, some func-tional medicine practitioners place too much emphasis on expensive tests and too little on the most crucial and afford-able remedyself-care. Functional medicine as a concept is an important step forward, says integrative medicine pioneer Dr. James Gordon, founder of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. However, some practitioners do a lot of tests and prescribe a lot of supplements and work on cleaning out the gut, but neglect the psychological, spiritual and social issues. That concerns me. Bland and Hyman concede that some practitioners over-test, but say that will fade over time as they learn to better discriminate which ones are useful for specific patients. Several efforts also are underway to get more functional medi-cine providers and the acupuncturists,

massage therapists and nutritionists they work with covered under the Affordable Care Act, which expressly emphasizes a need for more preventive medicine. Viewing the big picture, Bland believes that functional medicine is just what the country needs to save on exploding healthcare costs. Rather than spending dollars on extraordinary measures to save heart attack victims or diabetics in emergencies, we can pre-vent such dire situations by identifying underlying problems sooner and halting their progression. In the meantime, some patients are finding priceless relief. Am I poorer right now? Yes, says Mills. Am I healthier? Way. Its been so worth it.

Lisa Marshall is a freelance health writer in Boulder, CO, who specializes in health care. Connect at LisaAnn Marshall.com.

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JourneyDance Toni Bergins, from the Massachusetts Berkshires, is a frequent presenter at the Kripalu Center and Omega Insti-tute for Holistic Studies. After years of studying and teaching movement, drama, creative visualization and gestalt techniques, she combined them in creating JourneyDance. More than 400 trained facilitators now offer it in 60- or 90-minute classes worldwide based on the philosophy, Move into a new story! Every class includes visualization, creative movement, affirmations and evocative music, all

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The ancient Chinese art of acupuncture is gaining popularity in modern Western medicine for many reasons. Theres lots of research to support the effectiveness of acupuncture for a wide variety of condi-tions, says Thomas Burgoon, a medical doctor who practices internal medicine in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and is president of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture, an association of doctors of medicine and osteopathic medicine that use acupuncture in con-junction with conventional treatments. Acupuncture treatments typically involve the nearly painless insertion of very thin needles to stimulate the bodys natural repair and regulation mechanisms based on the fundamental Chinese medi-cine principle that the inside of the body can often be treated from the outside. Burgoon explains that acupuncture works by stimulating and releasing the bodys natural pain relievers, including endor-phins, producing the feel-good brain

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acupuncturist Paul Buchman, adds, Acupuncture differs from conven-tional Western medicine in many ways, primarily in that when it treats a disease on the physical level, it also has far-reaching effects on our mental, emotional and spiritual aspects. Chronic back pain: Chronic low back pain affects 80 percent of us at some time and is the second-most common cause of disability in Ameri-can adults, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A recent study of Australian patients arriving in Melbourne hospital emergency rooms complaining of low back pain found that those treated with acupuncture experienced as much pain relief in an hour as those given drugs.

When I treat a person for low back pain, I always take pulses in several parts of the body, and then take into account many factors, including age, gender and life situation, says Buchman. The underlying causes of the pain may be dif-ferent in a 20-something student with a stressful academic load than a 50-some-thing woman thats a recent empty nester redefining her future, he explains. When researchers at Chinas Cen-tral South University reviewed 13 stud-ies on acupuncture and low back pain, they concluded that comprehensive treatment plans that involve acupunc-ture are urgently needed. Headache: Acupuncture has long been used to relieve the pain of mi-graines and tension headaches. Aus-tralian research published in Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine found that 16 acupuncture sessions cut in half the number of days that patients experienced migraines, significantly reducing pain. Acupuncture is a must-try therapy for anyone with migraines or chronic or tension-type headaches, says Burgoon. He notes that Aetna Insurance Compa-ny policy considers acupuncture among accepted, medically necessary treat-ments for migraines, chronic low back pain, knee osteoarthritis, postoperative dental pain and nausea associated with surgery, pregnancy and chemotherapy. Asthma and allergies: More than 25 million Americans have asthma, includ-ing 6.8 million children. Danish research published in the journal Alternative Thera-pies in Health and Medicine showed that 10 acupuncture sessions given over a three-month period reduced asthma symptoms and use of inhaled steroids, but only when acupuncture was ongo-ing. Benefits diminished when treatments were discontinued. German researchers at Berlins Charit University Medical Center found similar effects for seasonal allergies by comparing it with the effects of antihistamines and sham acupuncture. Patterns of bad health get more ingrained in our body systems as we get older, says Melanie Katin, a licensed acu-puncturist specializing in treating children in New York City and professor at the Pa-cific College of Oriental Medicine. If we can catch an illness in a childs first seven or eight years, we may be able to prevent it from becoming chronic in adulthood.

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Digestive problems: Acupuncture has been found to be effective for treating colic in babies, irritable bowel syndrome, morning sickness and post-operative nausea caused by anesthesia and chemotherapy treatments, verified in research from Australias University of Sydney on patients after surgery for metastatic liver cancer. Several other studies, including one from the Milwau-kees Medical College of Wisconsin, show that acupuncture rebalances the nervous system and restores proper digestive function, while relieving pain. The World Health Organization review of research notes how acupunc-ture relieved gastrointestinal (GI) spasms better than atropine injections, and also recommends acupuncture for relief of nausea. Acupuncture helps calm down an overactive GI tract and stimulates an underactive one, explains Burgoon. Acupuncture is a non-pharmaceu-tical remedy for many health problems, Burgoon says. I fell in love with acu-puncture when I discovered I could use it to treat some problems that nothing else helped. I almost never prescribe any medications. Instead, I help people get off pharmaceuticals.

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on the low setting for 24 hours. Then she ladles the broth through a coffee strainer into another container, refresh-es the slow cooker with more water and simmers the bones and seasonings for another 24 hours. Eventually, the broth will have less flavor and color, and thats when McGruther starts all over again. I call this perpetual soup, she says. She blogs at NourishedKitchen.com. Slowing it down. With homemade broth on hand, its easy to make the Italian winter staple of Tuscan Vegetable Bean Soup. Cookbook authors and slow cooker experts Kathy Moore and Roxanne Wyss, from Lees Summit, Mis-souri, love to make this when theyre working on a cookbook deadline. They simply use what they have in the refrig-erator, freezer or pantry. With a soup like this you can always substitute one vegetable for

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SOUPS ON!Tasty Recipes for Winter Meals

Tuscan Vegetable Bean Soup

Yields: 6 servings

2 Tbsp olive oil1 large yellow onion, chopped3 carrots, chopped1 stalk celery, chopped1 cup frozen, cut green beans2 cloves garlic, minced1 can (14.5 oz, BPA-free) diced tomatoes, with liquid4 cups bone broth or 1 carton (32 oz) vegetable broth2 tsp Italian seasoning1/8 tsp crushed red pepper flakes, optionalSalt and pepper, to taste1 cup chopped fresh broccoli1 can (15 oz, BPA-free) cannellini beans, rinsed and drained2 Tbsp minced fresh basil, plus additional for garnishFreshly grated Parmesan cheese

Heat the oil in a Dutch oven over me-dium high heat. Add onions, carrot and celery and cook, stirring frequently, for 3 minutes. Stir in the green beans and cook, stirring frequently, for 2 to 3 min-utes or until the vegetables are tender. Stir in garlic and cook for 30 seconds. Stir in tomatoes, vegetable broth, Italian seasoning, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper. Heat, covered, until boiling, and then reduce heat to a simmer and cook 15 to 20 minutes.

Stir in broccoli, cannellini beans and minced basil. Simmer for 5 minutes or until the vegetables are as tender as desired. Ladle into bowls. Sprinkle

another, adjusting the recipe to what you enjoy and have on hand, advises Moore. The pair blogs at PluggedInto Cooking.com. Speeding it up. Sometimes, we need a single serving of homemade soup fast. Award-winning recipe de-veloper and cookbook author Camilla Saulsbury, of Nacogdoches, Texas, whips up a Pumpkin Sage Soup that can simmer in a saucepan within min-utes, ready to be enjoyed in a mug. Saulsbury uses organic canned pumpkin, full of vitamins, which can vary in sweetness. If needed, she suggests, add a drizzle of maple syrup to enhance the flavor of the soup. Making bisque in a high-speed blender. Karen Adler is an avid grower of organic tomatoes in her Kansas City garden. When the seasonal harvest comes to an end, Adler grills or oven roasts the tomatoes, along with organic peppers and onions, and then freezes them, ready to make Roasted Tomato Bisque any time of the year. My secret to a light bisque without using cream is to blend all the roasted vegetables together with a high-speed blender to give it body. A swirl of extra-virgin olive oil at the end finishes ensuring the satisfying flavor, she says. Going cold. Douglas McNish, head chef at Torontos raw and vegan restaurant Raw Aura, serves a popu-lar Lemon, Cucumber and Dill Soup, which is easy to make in a food proces-sor. This soup is amazing this time of year, when most of our diets may be lacking in healthy fats and trace miner-als, says McNish. Warming up. Two cookbook au-thors teamed up across many miles to write 300 Sensational Soups. Meredith Deeds lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while Carla Snyder resides in Cleve-land, Ohio. Theyve mutually discov-ered the naturally warming properties of curry powder in Curried Coconut Chickpea Soup. Snyder observes, A good soup nourishes the heart, as well as the stom-ach, spreading a feeling of satisfaction and contentment.

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with grated Parmesan cheese. Garnish if desired with additional minced basil.

Adapted from PluggedIntoCooking.com, by Kathy Moore and Roxanne Wyss

Pumpkin Sage Soup

Yields: 1 serving

cup ready-to-use chicken or vegetable broth 2/3 cup pumpkin pure (not pie filling) tsp dried rubbed sage 3 Tbsp half-and-half, whole milk or coconut creamer Salt and freshly ground black pepper

In a saucepan, bring the broth, pump-kin and sage to a simmer over medi-um-high heat. In the mug, stir broth, pumpkin and sage until blended. Stir in cream and heat for 1 minute more. Season it to taste with salt and pepper befor

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