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Healthy Seniors As you age, it’s important to stay healthy and fit. Our Move It Or Lose It article on page 56 gives seniors five different moves to keep them at the top of their game. Looking for more healthy ideas? Just head to naturalsolutionsmag.com and type in the keyword “seniors.”

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Ask the DoctorEmail your health questions to [email protected]. Enter “Ask the Doctor” in the subject line.

The best part about our holiday issue (besides the gift guide) is our holiday recipes. This year we’ve included a delectable spice-crusted duck recipe along with mouth-watering desserts and side dishes everyone will love. Check out our website to see the full recipe list!

Baking is very important to many people during the holidays, which is why our giveaway this month is a baking sup-plies gift basket. Go to naturalsolutionsmag.com to sign up and win!

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We have a little something for everyone in our holiday gift guide. From bracelets to wine and from bikes to cat scratching posts, we’ve got you covered. Find it all at naturalsolutionsmag.com.

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features 44 Toward Better Prostate HealthAn integrative approach toward better prostate health.

48 Setting the Bar If you or someone you know is gluten-sensitive, the FDA setting a stan-dard on what qualifies as gluten-free is reason for rejoicing.

50 Muscle ImbalanceMuscle imbalance? Get to the root of the problem and fix it.

52 Staying Young, Strong, and Pain-FreeWant to prevent sagging skin, memory lapses, and high cholesterol as you age? Read on.

56 Move it or Lose itIt’s important for seniors to keep moving and learning, so try these five moves to put you back in the game.

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on the coverHoliday Gift Guide 6 Tips for Glowing Skin Healthy HolidaysA Million Years of Pistachios Joint Pain Young, Strong, and Pain-FreeExercise for Seniors

cover photography: Wine Poached Pears from The Vegucation of Robin by Robin Quivers. Reprinted by arrangement with Avery, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, A Penguin Random House Company. Copyright ©2013, Robin QuiversPhoto © Tara Donne Photography, LLC

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Food MatterS28 What Food Means to You31 Off the Shelf: Foods to Get You Through the Holidays 32 Cook’s Corner: Healthy Holidays Here is your guide to baking (and cooking!) your way through the holidays. 40 Just Raw: Keeping it Simple

FocuS oN41 Superfood: A Million Years of Pistachios A look at the health benefits of one of nature’s greatest nuts. 43 Focus on: Vitamin D

iNNer balaNce60 Eliminate Stress Understanding the root causes of stress can help us lead happier, more peaceful lives.

SiMple SolutioNS62 Products to improve your simple, green, and healthy lifestyle.

get iNSpired64 Nothing is Impossible Master Tao Porchon-Lynch shares her secrets on life, health, and yoga.

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health MatterS10 The Joy of Doing it Differently 12 In Season: Sweet Potatoes 13 What’s This Season’s “In” Color?

holiday giFt guide14 Gifts for AllSearch our holiday guide for the perfect beauty, fitness, pet, home, and kid gift ideas!

aSk the doctor20 Is Food Making Be Sick?Every month we ask top practitioners to address your health concerns. This month we search for answers on how you can know if the food you are eating is making you sick.

Natural radiaNce23 Six Tips for Glowing Skin Due to the myriad of photos now being posted online, more people than ever are undergoing cosmetic procedures. However there are several other options to achieve beautiful skin.26 Five Winter Hair Care Tips

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holiday cooking issue. We have a larger number of recipes in this year’s article, so we decided to break the cookies into their own section, which will be published in our December issue. That issue will be available right after Thanksgiving to ensure that you can try these new cookie recipes before Christmas. Furthermore, all of the recipes will be available at naturalso-lutionsmag.com. If you have a chance to try one of these recipes, let us know how it turns out. Send your comments to [email protected] and your comments may win you a special gift from Natural Solutions.

I want to close my letter with a special thanks to all of our advertisers, contributing writers, internal staff, and you—our readers. I appreciate all the support that we receive and look forward to continuing to publish this magazine. I hope you have a relaxing and healthy holiday season!

are you too busy to enjoy the holiday season?

publisher's note

Dick Benson PuBlishER

If you are like me, it is hard to believe that we are approaching the holiday season. Of all holidays, Thanksgiving is by far my favorite: spending time

with family and friends, enjoying a home-cooked family dinner, with no expectations to do anything but relax and have a good time. While working on our holiday issue this year, one of the points we at Natural Solutions discovered was that the average American consumes 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving Day (which is over twice the number of recommended daily calories). So if you overindulge on Thanksgiving, don’t be too hard on yourself. Check out our tips in our Food Matters section to find a few calorie-cutting strategies.

I also want to point out the article by Sara Wiseman on page 10 discussing her holiday plans. Sara talks about discovering the real meaning of holidays and making sure you celebrate them in a way that allows you to enjoy them. In our commercialized society, too much time and money are wasted on purchasing gifts, traveling long distances, and overcommitting ourselves—and we are exhausted before the holidays even get here. This should be the time of the year that we slow down, give thanks for what we have, and enjoy what we have worked for.

You will also find that this issue includes part one of our annual

3 things i learned in this issue:

The difference between a yam and a sweet potato (page 12)

Eating antioxidant rich foods can result in fewer wrinkles.

Pistachios are not a botanical nut. The pistachio is actually the seed of a fruit.

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For years, I traveled north for Christmas—packed up my partner, kids, dog, and a car full of gift-wrapped presents and hustled the I-5 corridor from Portland to Seattle.

The trip was no over-the-river-and-through-the-woods … everything about it was stressful! Traffic on Christmas Eve was difficult, at best. We were cooped up and restless in my mom’s tiny one bedroom condo, stuck in the city instead of the nature we loved. And yet, I gritted my teeth and did this trip for 29 years because it was my family tradition.

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