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Help OCA mobilize millions of organic and socially responsible consumers into a powerful force for change, both in the marketplace and in the political arena.By John B. Saul
The Seattle Times - WA, Aug 19, 2007
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The food world is catching up with Fred Berman.

The emphasis lately in that changing and often socially conscious world has been on eating local foods, organic alone not being enough to cure the ills of the world. No pesticides or herbicides, yes, but also no food that burns up more calories getting to the dinner plate than it can deliver once it’s there.

Author Barbara Kingsolver is the latest to discover food doesn’t have to travel hundreds of miles in a refrigerated truck. She writes about that discovery in her new book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.”

And for their book, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon spent a year eating only food that came from within 100 miles of their Vancouver, B.C., apartment.

That’s nothing for Berman: Most of the food he and his family ate for more than 20 years came from within 500 yards of where they lived. An organic farmer for 27 years and a chef for 24, he’s glad the books have made more people aware of the benefits of eating locally grown food. But he was already there.

He’s seeing that awareness in his job of the past 16 months as Small Farms Program coordinator for the Washington State Department of Agriculture. As “farmbudsman,” he’s working to develop markets for local farmers, awarding grants and trying to make it easier in general to eat something grown here instead of there, especially when “there” is thousands of miles away.

The reasons for eating local offered by both Berman and the more recent advocates are many: Cutting down on the fuel used to transport food could help slow global warming, and a local food system makes it easier to police for food safety, puts more money into the local economy and fresher, better-tasting food in your mouth.

Berman, 62, says his views on food and agriculture sprouted not from growing up on a farm but from living across the street from one. His family’s home was on the leading edge of the suburbs about to sweep over the fields of Southern California’s San Fernando Valley. From his front yard, he watched the dairy farm across the street disappear. Then the walnut orchards. Then the fruit and vegetable fields.

By the time he finished his degree in environmental science at California State University, Northridge, suburban lawns and strip-mall planter boxes were the closest things to farming left in the valley.

Berman didn’t think it was the only thing going wrong with America…

For more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw08192007/2…

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Another reason not to trust the poor excuse that doles out drug “safety” called the FDA: The Department of Health and Human Services reports about 9,200 prescription drugs aren’t listed in the most current FDA National Drug Code Directory.

What’s more, the directory continued to list some 34,000 medications that were put there by error and discontinued for whatever reason, ballooning the number of drugs listed to nearly 124,000. Another subtle sign of the unchecked greed of the mega-drugmakers at work: The size of the directory has tripled in the past 16 years, when the book listed just 39,000 drugs in 1990.

The origin of the problems with the directory stems from drug companies ignoring mandatory listing requirements, something the FDA could better enforce but hasn’t since the agency set up new guidelines for misbranded drugs a year ago.

Instead, the FDA would rather speed up the testing of dangerous, experimental drugs and fast track others.

San Francisco Chronicle August 14, 2006

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Even if some Americans are getting wiser about genetically modified (GM) foods, they’re certainly having a tougher time avoiding them at their neighborhood grocery store. An amazing 75 percent of all processed foods manufactured in America have ingredients originating from GM crops.

Perhaps, the task of choosing between “Frankenstein” foods and safer ones would be an easier one if food companies were compelled to label their tainted products properly, something most Americans want. Doing so, however, may scare some consumers away from processed foods, something the grocery industry and the federal government wants to avoid at all costs.

A list of quick tips to help you steer clear of GM products for good:

• Examine produce stickers on the fruits and vegetables you buy.
• Buy organic produce as often as you can.
• Don’t be concerned whole foods are more expensive than processed foods, because they aren’t.
• Stay away from processed foods.

ABC News August 21, 2006

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As you know, consuming a copper-rich diet along with a multi-vitamin supplement can be very problematic, especially for seniors who may elevate their risk of a faster mental decline leading to Alzheimer’s.

Based on a more recent study of more than 3,700 seniors (older than age 64), researchers specifically monitored the diets of some 600 who consumed at least 1.6 milligrams of copper every day from high-fat foods and drinking water, close to twice the recommended limit.

For many patients, all that extra copper in their diets wasn’t beneficial either, as it added nearly two decades to their ages in relation to mental decline. The primary culprit targeted by scientists — taking a multivitamin — makes sense, since many inexpensive supplements use cheaper inorganic copper, further exacerbating its toxicity.

Generally, taking a multivitamin with copper is a very bad idea, unless you monitor your health regularly and know precisely you are deficient. Synthetic, man-made supplements certainly may be more convenient, but they are no panacea, as nutrient-rich whole foods are a far better option for your health.

Some natural guidelines that can protect your body from the risks of Alzheimer’s without the need for a drug:

• Eat plenty of vegetables.
• Right-size your intake of omega-3 fats by taking a high quality krill oil daily.
• Start an exercise plan.
• Get the right amount of sleep.

Archives of Neurology, Vol. 63, No. 8, August 2006: 1085-1088

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by Harry Henshaw, Ed.D., LMHC

Music has always been a very important part of our lives, from childhood to our being an adult. As a part of our experience, music can have both a physiological and psychological affect upon us as human beings. In addition to the influence that it has on our life, music also has many therapeutic qualities and has been utilized in promoting a variety of healings throughout the ages. As we know further, music can be a very powerful medium for altering our state, of changing how we actually feel. More specifically music can be very effective in producing a very deep and healing state of relaxation and in the process, reduce stress and even promote sleep. Music can also be used to assist one in improving his or her self-esteem and furthering an individual’s personal growth and development, transformation.

As a therapist I have always used relaxation music in my clinical and counseling work with others. I have found that when I use relaxation music during both an individual and group counseling session that my clients do more productive work, are able to focus more effectively on themselves and the issues that they are becoming present to because they are more relaxed, focused and centered and as a result, better able to concentrate. Being relaxed during the counseling process always tends to generate more productive results for the individual being counseled. Relaxation music can be a very effective and powerful aid for assisting a client to reach resolution with respect to that which he or she is working on with their counselor.

The relaxation music that I now utilize during both my individual and group counseling sessions with others is that which is found on the CD, Prescription for Stress. The musical patterns that are on Prescription for Stress were originally developed for my work in counseling and especially in my hypnotic work with clients. In addition to its application for a traditional counseling session, the musical patterns on Prescription for Stress are excellent for assisting in the induction of a hypnotic state in that this music helps the client enter into a very relaxed state of hypnosis more easily. In the past I have used a variety of other musical compositions in my counseling practice but was very dissatisfied with the results that my clients and I achieved with them. As a musician I eventually decided to compose my own music and have found the results of my compositions with the clients that I work with to be excellent. After using the relaxation music that I composed for my work in counseling, I also discovered that the music had another application as well, that is, to assist anyone in achieving a very deep state of relaxation and as a result to effectively and efficiently reduce the stress in their lives.

Managing our stress is very important if not crucial to our overall well being. Prescription for Stress is an audio product specially designed to assist an individual in managing and reducing the stress that he or she may experience on a daily basis. This audio health care product utilizes two components to assist an individual in effectively experiencing a very deep state of relaxation, reducing stress and also in promoting a peaceful, restful sleep. The first component is the musical pattern itself. I have found that musical compositions that are harmonically slow, repetitious, with sustained voices, which are rhythmically, random in tempo assists an individual in experiencing a very deep state of relaxation. The second component of this product is the binaural audio tones that are interwoven into the music. The binaural tones, through a process referred to as entrainment or frequency following, gently guides or directs the mind/body to generate more of the targeted frequency of brain wave activity whether it be for either profound relaxation or sleep. The first CD contains binaural audio tones within the alpha and theta range, which induces a very relaxed state. The second CD contains binaural audio tones within the delta range and thereby assists one in experiencing a peaceful, restful sleep.

Anyone can experience the technology and effect of Prescription for Stress by merely playing it on their home audio system. Use of this powerful relaxation music can be accomplished by listening to it with ones stereo speakers or with headphones, the latter being the more effective way to listen to his product. Listening to Prescription for Stress with headphones allows one to experience the full effect of the technology, the uniquely designed music compositions combined with the binaural audio tones and thereby gain a deeper state of relaxation. Those who practice meditation, self-hypnosis or yoga will find that their practice is even more enhanced while listening to this audio product. I now also recommend that mental health and addiction counselors use this product when conducting counseling sessions with their clients whether it is in a group or individual setting. While many counselors are not present to the power of this type of relaxation music when utilized within a counseling context, those who do employ it find that their sessions with a client to be more effective and productive due to the reason stated above.

Self-esteem is also extremely essential to ones well-being. Enhancing My Self Esteem is an audio health care product uniquely designed to assist an individual in improving his or her self esteem, supporting the development of a positive self-image and promoting the individual’s personal growth and development, transformation. Enhancing My Self Esteem will assist a person in changing negative and possibly even destructive thought patterns to positive and empowering beliefs about him or herself. Utilizing the same combination of original musical compositions and binaural audio tones as Prescription for Stress, Enhancing My Self Esteem is an audio health care product that creates a very profound and relaxing auditory environment, a space for the individual to become open or highly suggestible to a series of very positive affirmations. Within a conversation of transformation, the thoughts that we think and say or commit to word are very important, very powerful for improving our self-image and transforming our lives. Enhancing My Self Esteem is an audio product that creates a very relaxed auditory environment for the person to listen to, begin to practice and eventually accept 50 positive affirmations, affirmations designed to improve a person’s self esteem and begin the process of transforming his or her life.

To fully experience the beneficial effects of Enhancing My Self Esteem it is recommended that a person listen to both tracks once a day for a minimum of 90 days. The first track has been designed for use with your stereo system’s speakers and should be listened to during the morning or afternoon hours. Track One provides a person the opportunity to consciously practice all of the positive affirmations, to commit them to word, to make them real. Track two has been developed exclusively for use with headphones and should be listened to during the evening hours preferably before the individual goes to sleep. The second track has been developed for a person’s unconscious mind and will be that which the individual takes into his or her dream state. Each listening should be done when the individual will be completely free of any distractions. After the first ninety days of use, it is recommended that the person listen to both tracks two times a week for another 90 days to further enhance the beneficial effects.

In addition to anyone wanting to improve their self esteem and further his or her personal transformation, I also recommend that mental health and addiction-oriented counselors utilize Enhancing My Self Esteem with their clients. Most of the clients that mental health and addiction counselors see in treatment in either an individual or group setting have an impaired self-image and are continuously experiencing extremely low self-esteem. For whatever reason the clients that are seen by mental health and addiction oriented counselors tend to have many negative thoughts and beliefs about themselves, many negative affirmations about who they think they are. Assigning Enhancing My Self Esteem as homework for a client to listen to outside of the counseling session allows that client the opportunity to begin a process of improving his or her self-esteem and as a result to be more productive within the counseling session.

I am currently using Enhancing My Self Esteem with all of the clients at the Holistic Addiction Treatment Program, a residential and outpatient program in North Miami Beach, Florida. The Holistic Addiction Treatment Program is an agency that treats individuals who suffer from alcohol or drug dependency. The vast majority of clients of this agency experience chronic relapse. Within Transformational Counseling, Enhancing My Self Esteem is assigned as homework for all of my clients, as a way of continuing the work that is presented in my individual and group counseling sessions, as a way of transforming the thoughts and words of the client. The prescription for use of this product is the same as mentioned above. After the assignment is made I always ask the clients about their use of this product, about what they are becoming present to as they listen. In addition to assisting the individual in eventually feeling better about themselves and increasing their motivation with their recovery, I have also found that Enhancing My Self Esteem tends to elicit important thoughts and memories from the past, thoughts and memories that are then processed in the preceding counseling session.

Enhancing My Self Esteem is a very powerful, healing product. With continued use, clients tend to always report that they feel better about themselves and are more motivated, especially with respect to their recovery. When utilized in conjunction with Transformational Counseling, the effects can be extraordinary for a client. As Transformational Counseling is about an individual altering his or her very thoughts and words, that which has defined their very being in the past, Enhancing My Self Esteem is a product that allows a client to powerfully practice their transformation on a daily basis. While the basis or foundation for the actual transformation is in an individual’s language, the thoughts that he or she thinks and the very words that they say, the environment from which this takes place is one that is initially created through the power of music.

Harry Henshaw, Ed.D., LMHC
www.enhancedhealing.com

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