Nature's Pathways Mar 2011 Issue - South Central WI Edition

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departMents5 letter rom the editor

6 healthy kids

11 average jane

12 intuitive insights

16 healthy eating24 t bodies

26 healthy pets

32 community calendar

33 resource guide

34 advertiser directory

18 feature storyShana Conradt, Getting Fit With Food

ContentssoutH CentraL WIsConsIn March 2011

6 Te use o chiropractic or colic

8 Choosing the right ooring it even eels good

14 Losing ear amidst change and fnding unity

17 Feeling at home leads to empowerment

22 Te magic o old masonry

27 Women have many options to deal with hair loss

10Healthier homes

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20Chiropractic for earproblems in children

Zen professional 3Nutrition concerns 28

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ideas. Be sure to read more about Shana and her labor o love.So here we are in March. echnically, the rst day o spri

March 20. (Whether it eels like spring remains to be seen.) being said, we are nearing the nish line o this seemingly endmarathon o cold, wind, snow and ice weve had to endure omany weeks. Tere is light at the end o the tunnel...

Hang in there!

dont know about you, but Im ocially overwinter. Done. Kaput. Unortunately, the calendarisnt cooperating.

Considering what the East Coast has had to endurethis season, I eel a tad guilty saying that, but the older Iget the less I can tolerate extreme weather events.

My attitude about weather in Wisconsin is airlypredictable. I relish the 10 minutes o summer weget each year. Obviously, it doesnt last long enough.Ten, beore I know it, its back-to-school time, bring-ing cooler days and crisper nights, ootball games andcozy sweaters. Halloween and Tanksgiving and theaccompanying get-togethers with amily and riendsare great. Come December I start to get a little excitedabout Christmas and hope or snow to have thatauthentic-looking backdrop or my holiday rivolity.In January, I put on a brave ace as my amily sleds,skates and tubes our way through the longest montho winter. Feb. 1 arrives and, like clockwork, Im readyto blow this Popsicle stand.

Tis year, however, to break up the monotony Ive setmini goals or mysel so I have things to look orward

to. I wont bore you with all o them, but one entaileda Moms-only weekend in Milwaukee last month. Teanticipation I had or the trip, not to mention actu-ally going on it, were just what I needed to put a littlespring in my step. A change o scenery, a ew laughsand no one needing me, i only or a night, were theicing on the cake. Im sure my amily agrees it wasgood or everyone involved.

Another mini goal o mine is to mix it up in the kitchena bit. I seem to make the same things over and over andIm determined to sample some o the recipes in ShanaConradts Getting Fit With Food. Te book eatures101 nutritious (and, equally important, delicious) meal

JenDo you hav a commnt or quston about somthng you rad n Natur's Pathways? is thr a story you'd

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By Dr. Jolene M. Garvey Pintar

Colic, also known as inantile colic, is a condition in which anotherwise healthy baby cries or screams requently and or extendedperiods o time, without any discernible reason. Teir crying oenincreases during a specic period o the day, typically early in theevening (the so-called witching hour). Other common character-istics o colic include stomach bloating, excessive intestinal gas anddrawing o the legs upward towards the chest. Tere is no knowncause o colic. For any parents who have had experience with colic orknow someone who has, it is not a un situation and everyone in theamily is aected.

Te medical denition o colic includes a healthy baby withperiods o intense, unexplained ussing/crying lasting more than3 hours per day, more than 3 days a week, or more than 3 weeks.Granted, this is a broad denition as everyone perceives ussiness a

little dierently. Persistent inant crying is much more than a parent-ing nuisance. Crying and the exhaustion associated with it can triggerserious problems, such as marital stress, breasteeding ailure, shakenbaby syndrome, postpartum depression (aecting 10 to 15 percento new mothers and many dads), excessive visits to the doctor/emer-gency room, and unnecessary treatment or acid reux. It is esti-mated that 500,000 inants per year are believed to have colic, whichalso has quite the nancial burden in medical costs, lost productivityand adverse long-term health eects. It is estimated the cost o colicexceeds $1 billion per year, paralleled by even greater human andemotional costs.

Tough the word colic is derived rom the ancient Greek wordor intestine, recent studies have proven otherwise. Over the decades,researchers have oered various hypotheses or colic, including theexposure to cigarette smoke, insucient melatonin production,lactose intolerance, lack o probiotics, GERD (gastro-esophagealreux disease), circadian rhythms, and stress o the mother in thethird trimester. A New Zealand study showed that chocolate and ruitwere the oods most consistently eaten by mothers o babies with colic.Approximately 5 percent o colic cases are caused by actual illness,most common being an intestinal allergy. However, parents shouldbe especially suspicious o illness or pain i their baby is ussing, and

the cry is accompanied by persistent moaning or weak crying, a hpitched shrill cry, vomiting, change in stool, ussing during eaabnormal temperature, irritability, lethargy, bulging so spot onhead, and poor weight gain. Babies showing any combinatiothese symptoms and chronic ussiness should be checked by a hecare provider to rule out illness, inections, etc. Tough no parti

cause is currently accepted and there is no straightorward treatmavailable, many parents are le wondering what they can do.

Some parents resort to old wives tales or colic cures, such arides and/or starting the vacuum cleaner up to soothe the bcrying. One particular medical doctor, Dr. Karp, suggests that incrying is related to under-stimulation. He believes babies cry becthe rich symphony o womb sensations has been replaced byproound stillness o our homes. He argues that in the womb, eexperience non-stop hypnotic rhythms. Dr. Karp suggests tryin5 Ss with your baby (Swaddling, Side/Stomach position, ShusSwinging and Sucking).

It is hypothesized that since colic produces excessive intesgas that inappropriate unction o the digestive system may bcause. We have to remember the digestive system is contrby the autonomic nervous system through a balance betwthe sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves. Stimulation osympathetic nervous system or inhibition o the parasympatnervous system could produce eects in the digestive tract simto those associated with colic.

Te symptoms o colic have led many to start linking a disordthe upper cervical spine and colic which seems to disrupt the regtion o the abdominal muscles. Colic babies tend to display simila

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including hypotonia (muscleweakness) o the trunk, unilateral(one-sided) muscular hypertonia(muscle spasm) o one extrem-ity, shoulder retraction, posturalasymmetries, impaired posturalcontrol, and a non-ideal quality o spontaneous movements. Tesesymptoms make a unctional disorder o the sensorimotor appara-tus a prime suspect. And once we get that ar it seems obvious to

think about having a chiropractor trained in pediatrics checking theupper cervical spine as a potential cause. Parents have been turningto chiropractic care more and more or the treatment o colic (andmany other conditions such as ear inections, bedwetting, projective

vomiting, plagiocephaly, to name a ew) in their children becausechiropractic care integrates neuromusculoskeletal conditions.

Te Danish Chiropractors Association conducted a study oninantile colic or which chiropractic consultations were soughtand the outcome o the chiropractic care rendered. O the present-ing chiropractic consultations or inantile colic, 51 percent werecompletely cured and 36 percent reported moderate improvement,together showing an 87 percent improvement with chiropractic care.Te average number o treatments perormed in this study was 2-3adjustments over an average one week time period with the averageinant being 6 weeks old. Another study showed that 94 percent oaected inants responded satisactorily to a chiropractic adjustmento the C1 vertebra aer an average o 3 chiropractic adjustments overa period o 2 weeks. Tese are some very promising results or the

treatment o colic with chiropractic. I you are currently dealinginantile colic or know someone who is, please reer them to a chpractor trained in pediatrics. From personal practice experi

there are no better words to hear than, Can we come back tomrow so you can do it again? especially rom a amily nally gerelie rom the exhausting and rustrating inantile colic with gchiropractic care.

SOURCES: Anrig, Claudia, Plaugher, Gregory. Pediatric Chiropractic. LippWilliams & Wilkins: New York. 1998; 201, 605-606.

Biedermann, Heiner M.D. Manual Terapy in Children. Churchill LivingNew York. 2004; 295-299.

Fysh, Peter D.C., F.I.C.C.P. Chiropractic Care or the Pediatric Patient. Intional Chiropractic Association Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics: Virginia. 22010; 62-63, 129-131, 137, 139, 142-144, 168-170.

Wikipedia search results or Colic. Retrieved rom the World Wide Web o28, 2010.

Jolene M. Garvey Pintar, D.C., is the owner o Garvey Chiropractic, LLC, a

practic wellness center in Green Bay. She earned her bachelors degree in hbiology rom the University o WisconsinGreen Bay and the University o A

Anchorage. She earned her Doctor o Chiropractic degree rom Palmer ColChiropractic in Davenport, Iowa. She is certied in the state o Wisconsin in

practic and nutritional counseling. Questions can be sent to jolenegarveydc@com or visit www.naturalchiropracticgreenbay.com or more inormation.

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Using locally grown and manuactured hardwoodooring is now among the dozens o choices or woodooring, although this new option is actually an oldone. Many people believe that is the healthiest, most

beautiul, and greenest option o all.Tis may not be an option in some places today due to rst

the industrialization then second the globalization o the timberindustry. A growing number o small businesses in SW Wisconsinand other parts o the U.S. are again making locally grown woodproducts available to homeowners.

Kathy Bastin o Spring Green explained why she had a local

wood oor installed in her home. I hated the tiles and the caing was hard to maintain with two boys and two dogs. Juscarpet cleaning cost hundreds o dollars each year. Wood is soto keep clean. It eels good that the trees were grown right Te installer let me do some o the work, giving me the optunity to learn something new. Now I work or the companytime making and installing ooring mysel. It is good to work people with passion or the earth. Tis solid wood will outlasbuilding, unlike the manuactured or plywood imported oothat soon ends up in a landll.

Lynne Weil o Black Earth says I love my oor. It is nothaving a unique and awesome oor its eeling good a

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Lynne and her husband, Peter, had rst visited the Spring Gimber Growers store, sawmill, solar heated kilns, workshop,orest. imber Growers harvest just a small portion o the treesnaturally die in their 200-acre orest each year. Te logging is dwith the smallest possible equipment and the average distanclogs are moved to the sawmill is 900 yards. A WoodMizer sawis used, quartersawing most straight logs or the spectacular gpatterns and greater stability. Solar-heated lumber dry kilnimber Growers claim to ame and the most visible sign the bness is truly sustainable. An old dairy barn was converteddry lumber storage and warm workshop or making the ooWorkers deliver and install and nish the natural wood ooright in the customers home promising satisaction guaranLow-VOC water-based polyurethane varnish is normally uthough some people preer a natural oil nish.

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Mary Devitt rom Cross Plains said, erry and I both love ournew oor. It is a unique work o art and every board is unique. Iespecially love the inlay ourish that uses a piece o walnut my

dad cut years ago. Tis oor grounds us. We get to know it meach day, one board at a time. o operate the business in a susable manner, imber Growers must sell what their orest natuproduces. Each oor is an extension o the natural orest oregion. Using nearly all o the lumber rom each tree and mdierent species just as in the natural orest, these oors are sningly beautiul. Devitts oor is red oak, white oak, and elm (a touch o walnut), just like the orest that surrounds their ho

Kelly Pankratz o Belleville also chose local wood or her di

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Te City o Madison recognizes that continuing programhome maintenance and improvement not only move the homeits inhabitants toward healthy living, but also are vital to the hand wellbeing o the community o Madison as a whole. Te HouRehabilitation Services Program (HRSP) o the City o Madisocommitted to the conservation o its older, basically sound resitial areas, and to the rehabilitation o existing housing. Tis comment seeks to result in a healthier economic climate in Madisowell as improving the homes and liestyles o many eligible Madhomeowners and amilies.

Te City o Madison has several loan programs designed to aboth new and current Madison homeowners. Down PaymentHomebuyers Assistance loans are tailored to buyers who are looto purchase a home that may need some immediate x-up. Teo Madison also oers Deerred Payment loans and Installment lthat assist current Madison homeowners with unding their hremodeling projects.

Tis program was approved in 1974, and its goals are the s

today: to provide nancial incentives to upgrade eligible homneed o rehabilitation. Te City provides loans to amilies witrequired monthly payments (provided the owner continues to an annual income which does not exceed guidelines). Te prinloan amount and a one-time nance charge o 10 percent areback when the owner sells, vacates or transers the property. I, ve years, the owners income increases above the program gulines, the loan is converted to an installment loan at 10 percent iest payable over 15 years. Eligibility is determined on amily sizeincome level, and is actually more inclusive than one might ima

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In an ongoing eort to investigate comple-mentary and alternative paths on the

journey to complete wellness, I recentlyscheduled a hypnosis screening appointmentat Capital Hypnosis in Madison. When Ischeduled the ree hypnosis screening, I toldthe person on the telephone that I was havingtrouble dealing with the clutter o my busylie and had heard that hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) could assistme with how to organize and prioritize theobligations. As a working mother o threekids, I was at times overwhelmed with amily,personal and work responsibilities.

I admit to being a bit nervous prior tomy appointment, never having experiencedhypnosis other that what Ive seen in Vcomedy skits or in stage shows. Te environ-ment o the Capital Hypnosis oce relieved

some o my nervousness with its comortablelighting and warm, welcoming atmosphere.Michael Glowacki, the director o CapitalHypnosis, made me eel comortable andanswered my questions as he evaluated mysituation to determine i he could accept meas a client. Aer he and I spent a ew minutestalking about my issues o clutter, I elt likeMichael really understood me. Trough a ewsimple questions in the screening, Michaelquickly helped me see that the real issuewasnt the clutter o my obligations, but whatwas really going on in my lie. I was amazedthat Michael could know and understand somuch about me so quickly.

My ideas about hypnosis could not havebeen urther rom the truth. Aer learn-ing what hypnosis and NLP are and howthey work, I got to read the results that localpeople like me got using the methods andtools rom Capital Hypnosis. Tey had givenpermission to let others read their stories

to help people like them, and they were alldierent. I began to hope that I could getresults, too. Ten the discussion turned towhether Capital Hypnosis could accept meas a client. I was glad to buy a program whenI learned I am a good candidate or hypnosis.I was really eager to get relie rom what wasbothering me.

Troughout the session, I was relaxed,warm and comortable. While I dont recalleverything that happened, I do remem-ber eeling very secure and sae during theentire session. I realized at the end o thesession that I even experienced amnesia ornumbers, and my hands had become numb.I was deeply hypnotized on my rst try.

Capital Hypnosis has used hypnosis oraiding individuals with smoking cessation,helping people to achieve amazing weight

loss, to sleep better, to achieve greater successin their careers, and helping others (like me)to overcome eelings or ideas that might beholding them back rom achieving all theycan in their lives.

I was not at all certain beore my appoint-ment i I would even be able to be hypno-tized. I wanted to keep an open mind, andthe proessionalism o Michael Glowacki andCapital Hypnosis allowed me to maintain apositive attitude about the experience.

Hypnosis has actually been clinicallyproven to provide measurable therapeu-tic benets, not only or weight loss andsmoking cessation, also most certainly in thereduction o pain and anxiety. Te experi-ence o hypnosis can vary dramatically romone person to another.

Because everyones experience withhypnosis is dierent, I wont share all o thedetails o my session. I will say that I cameaway rom my session being more calm,

relaxed and motivated than Ive elt in myears. Within 30 minutes o my appment, I dealt with an issue that had bothering me. I hadnt realized the imthis personal issue had on my lie until ale my session with Capital Hypnosis. Iable to all asleep that night very quicklynaturally, and I have slept through each nsince my rst session. I have been so protive each day, too. Te ree hypnosis scring and the rst session were worth the I paid or the entire program.

I will be going back or my second sein a ew days, and I cannot wait. Te sencalm and peace I ound aer my rst seswas amazing, and I cannot wait to see urther changes will come aer my session.

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intuitiveInsIgHtsA Monthly Advice ColumnFor Your Energy System

Everything in the universe containsenergy, yet energy is something many ous dont understand. Every month inaBensman, a practicing clairvoyant andenergy healer, is here to answer any ques-tions you have about your energy system.opics may include energy anatomy, dreamanalysis, chakra balancing, maniestation,lie patterns, etc. Te ideas written here donot replace medical attention. Always listento your body, mind and intuition whenreceiving advice o any kind.

Dear ina,

Every time I am surrounded by a lot opeople I get really uncomortable, anxiousand panicky. I am a very outgoing person,and I like being social, but in crowds, largeparties or in the elevator I eel almost sick.What is going on with me energetically, ianything?

People Panicker

Dear People Panicker,

Yes, there is something going on withyour energy, and although you may notthink so now, its a gi! Let me explain.

Tere are a number o intuitive gis outthere, and most o us naturally use at leasttwo o them regularly. Tere are eelingor kinesthetic gis, visual gis and verbalgis. Each o these innate abilities helpsus receive intuitive inormation. Im nottalking only about seeing the uture orhearing voices. Im talking about gettinginormation about the world (and maybebeyond) that you cant experience with

your ve senses. A hunch, a bad vibe, inner voice all o these are pieceinormation that you dont actually see

Te gi youre describing is a kinestgi. When you are in a situation large numbers o people, you are litebombarded by all o their energy. Youeel it, the good and the not so good. Wwhy on earth is this a gi then, you be asking? Hold your horses, Im gettinthat!

Imagine i you were able to have boaries or lters surrounding you that alloyou to choose when, where and what o energy you can eel. Imagine that

could use the energy you are eeling toknowledge about or or people. Imathat this energy did not aect you. Inyou could eel it to understand, and theit go. Ah, I know Im eeling much bett

When you have proper boundaries, gi will not be attacked and insteadgain the control over your system. Ayou get a handle on your boundarieseel comortable, you would make a therapist, social worker, HR rep, enworker or simply a great riend!

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By Bob Reber

Te one inevitable thing in lie is change. Change is happening allaround us, all the time. All o us have changed rom the children wewere into the people we are now; even the trees are changing withthe coming o spring. Te changes that weve seen over the pastseveral years have brought about sweeping changes, not only in oureconomic reality, but in how we look at our lives, our place on thisplanet and in our amilies as well.

We can allow these changes to provoke ear and uncertainty withinus, or we can allow them to bring us into a new state o thinking andunderstanding; a state o existence where we can ully appreciate theinterconnectedness we have with all other living things.

Fears arise out o our perceived expectations o things that haveyet to come into existence. In other words, FEAR is False EvidenceAppearing Real. Isnt it unny how we can never ear what has beenin our past or what is happening today, yet we construct all kinds oscenarios around what is to come tomorrow and then ear what wethink may come. Te change may be real, but the ears o what willcome rom the changes are solely in our minds; until we ocus on

them so intently that we bring them into our reality. Concentratingour thoughts on the things we ear will only serve to maniest ourears into our lives.

Ive seen many o these ears as Ive encountered changes in myown lie. Some o them have been milder than others. When mywie Lisas twin sister contacted us our years ago and was leaving herhusband, I didnt expect the changes their relationship would bring

into my lie. Lori and I are a lot alike, which antagonizes changboth o us. Tankully, her stay was short lived at that time.

However, with the recent economic changes, Lori and her hushave once again joined our household; which has brought anowave o changes, on top o those aecting our lives.

For several months Lisa has been quite ill and even spent somein the hospital right aer the rst o the year. With looming mebills, dwindling resources aer losing my day job and picking upslack at home, the changes they are bringing by moving in witare mostly welcome ones. So, instead o turning my attention tthe ear-lled scenarios, Ive turned my attention to the small bings and trusting that solutions will present themselves; along wsense o humor.

Ask most any man i he ever had a antasy o being with tw

and hell most likely say yes. Well, let me tell you, the reality is nall like the antasy. When you are being given instruction in styoull understand what I mean; and aer they say the words in unthere is always the laughter in stereo that lingers. Te biggest thinalways remember is to not take any o lie so seriously.

Sure, there is the old expression that there is saety in numhowever, sheer numbers cant take away the thoughts that leaueling our ears. It is the nature o our human mind when we dconsciously watch the thoughts we are thinking.

Our thoughts are very important and revealing. Te emowe eel stem rom our thoughts and ear is just another one oemotions. Consciously paying attention to your thoughts is crnot only or maniesting the changes you want in lie, but its imptive when events are changing in your lie. Without casting awareness on your thoughts, there is no way to know what your mis paying attention to.

Ever have those days when you eel drained and worn down? those are the days that you never paid attention to your thouYour awareness was outside o yoursel and your emotions gobest o you. Tats how it is with the ears that change provokour lives. We are so concentrated on managing the events thacausing the change that we arent aware o our thoughts; then

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mind wanders into the ears o tomorrow.Te changes o our modern time are creating changes in our

undamental ideas on how we live our lives. For my amily thatmeans coming together to allow or us so that we can create a newreality amidst the changes that are happening. Tis has brought withit a new understanding o unity as well.

What is interesting about unity is that we can never dene whatunity is. Ironically, the very act o dening it means that you are not apart o it; you have to dene unity rom a point o view o duality. It is

rom duality, or separateness that we have built our society, that is nowundergoing tremendous change. Our ocus on the individual and theirindividuality (indivi-duality) has perpetuated our sense o separate-ness, and kept us rom recognizing our connection to each other.

We perpetuate our separateness not only through our thoughts,our striving to express our indiv-duality, but also through the judg-ments we place upon the dierences between us. When we placeour own belies, thoughts and desires above those o another, weperpetuate that duality and separateness. Yet, this separateness itselis changing and as it does it is creating its share o ears. Just look atall the doomsday prophecies about 2012 i you dont believe that earis rampant in our thinking.

Let go o the ear and know that we are all connected. Lose the earo being lost in the unity and let go o your indivi-duality. Becomeconsciously aware o your thoughts and come together with others inunity to create changes amidst the changes o our time.

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Tink eating healthy ood means sacricing avor? Not i Shana Conradthas anything to say about it.

Te 32-year-old Greenville woman has assembled a collection o heravorite healthy recipes in a new book titled Getting Fit With Food,which eatures 101 delicious and nutritious appetizers, meals and dessertsthat are not only easy to prepare, but will appeal to the pickiest o eaters.Each recipe includes step-by-step instructions and is accompanied bya ull-color photo. Tey also include prep, cook time and nutritioninormation including serving size, and calorie, at, carbohydrate andprotein content.

Te book is the latest venture or the wellness proessional whosemission is to do her part to combat the obesity epidemic in theUnited States and convince people that healthy ood can be deliciousand, dare we say, un to make.

Tese arent your typical diet ood recipes, Conradt says. Noone can subsist on plain chicken breasts and rice cakes their wholelie. I want to show people that, with a minimal amount o eort,you can whip up a meal that tastes really good. Its just a bonus thatits good or you, too.

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(where Biggest Loser contestants Kristin Steede and CathySkell got t) worked with clients on the proper way to eat andexercise to lose weight and get healthier.

Exercise is only part o the equation, she says. You haveto think o ood as uel. You can work out or an hour a day,but youre not doing yoursel any avors i youre lling your-sel with junk. All that working out will not negate the excesscalories you could be taking in.

Conradt recalls that rarely a day went by at Ellipse that she

wasnt asked or recipe recommendations or advice on mealpreparation.

People would always say, I wish I could nd a healthyrecipe thats easy to make that my whole amily will eat, shesays. I realized it was very easy or me to rattle o recipesbecause I was making healthy things or mysel at home all thetime. I love to cook and Im always cooking. Its something Ind very enjoyable.

Conradt worked to see i she could come up with enoughmaterial to ll a book. Tat questioned quickly answered,she partnered with riend and editor Maria urner to createa ormat. Te two concluded that 128 pages was the perectsize, and Conradt decided to sel-publish. Getting Fit WithFood is sold online, and at several outlets in the Fox Valley,including Festival Foods, among others (see ino box).

One o the things that Im really excited about is partneringwith Festival Foods, a Wisconsin-based company that I reallyrespect, she says.

In addition to allowing her to sell her book at their stores,Conradt will be doing cooking demonstrations on a rotatingbasis through nine Wisconsin stores, showing customers howto make the recipes and giving other nutrition tips. Becausecorporate wellness presentations are another area in which sheexcels, its a natural t.

I love meeting with people and helping them gure out

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meet rom the Grandmawho wants to be more activeor her grandchildren, to theperson who wants to lowertheir cholesterol is what

makes this so interesting or me.Always looking ahead to the next challenge, Conradt is

at work on her next book, Getting Fit With Family Food.aims to have it completed by June 2011, less than one yearthe introduction o her debut book. It will cover an arrtopics rom how to make homemade baby ood to dewith a picky toddler, and more.

Were also going to tackle 20 recipes that kids love, liken cheese and chicken nuggets, and rework them to make thealthier without sacricing avor, she says.

Each book is a labor o love, but Conradts a rm belthat eating healthy shouldnt be a chore.

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ar problems can be excruciatingly painul, especin children. With 10 million new cases every yearinections (otitis media) are the most common ilaecting babies and young children and the number

reason or visits to the pediatrician accounting or more thapercent o all pediatric visits.

Almost hal o all children will have at least one middle ear ition beore theyre a year old, and two-thirds o them will haveat least one such inection by age 3. Te symptoms can incear pain, ever and irritability. Otitis media can be either bactor viral in origin, and requently results rom another illness as a cold. For many children, it can become a chronic probrequiring treatment year aer year, and putting the child at ripermanent hearing damage and associated speech and devemental problems.

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antibiotics, which can be eective i the culprit is bacterial (anti-biotics, o course, do nothing to ght o viruses). But, accordingto many research studies, antibiotics are oen not much moreeective than the bodys own immune system. And repeated doseso antibiotics can lead to drug-resistant bacteria that sco at thedrugs, while leaving the child screaming in pain.

Frequent ear inections are also the second most common reasonor surgery in children under 2 (with circumcision being the rst). Insevere cases or example, when uids rom an ear inection havent

cleared rom the ear aer several months, and hearing is aected specialists sometimes prescribe myringotomy and tympanos-tomy, more commonly known as ear tubes. During the surgicalprocedure, a small opening is made in the eardrum to place a tubeinside. Te tube relieves pressure in the ear and prevents repeateduid buildup with the continuous

venting o resh air. In most cases, themembrane pushes the tube out aer acouple o months and the hole in theeardrum closes. Although the treat-ment is eective, it has to be repeatedin some 20 to 30 percent o cases.And this kind o surgery requiresgeneral anesthesia, never a minorthing in a small child. I the inectionpersists even aer tube placement andremoval, children sometimes undergoadenoidectomy (surgical removalo the adenoids) an option that iseective mostly through the rst year aer surgery.

Beore yet another round o maybe-theyll-work-and maybe-they-wont antibiotics or the drastic step o surgery, more parentsare considering chiropractic to help children with chronic earinections. Dr. Joan Fallon, a chiropractor who practices inYonkers, N.Y., has published research showing that, aer receiving

a series o chiropractic adjustments, nearly 80 percent o the chil-dren treated were ree o ear inections or at least the six-monthperiod ollowing their initial visits (a period that also includedmaintenance treatments every our to six weeks).

Chiropractic mobilizes drainage o the ear in children, and ithey can continue to drain without a buildup o uid and subse-quent inection, they build up their own antibodies and recover

more quickly, explains Dr. Fallon. Shed like to see her pilot sused as a basis or larger-scale trials o chiropractic as a therapmodality or otitis media.

Dr. Fallon uses primarily upper-cervical manipulation on dren with otitis media, ocusing particularly on the occiput, or o the skull, and atlas, or the rst vertebra in the neck. Adjuthe occiput, in particular, will get the middle ear to drain, she Depending on how chronic its been and on where they atheir cycle o antibiotics, children generally need to get thro

one bout o uid and ght it o themselves. Tat means, oaverage child, between six and eight treatments.

I a childs case is acute, Dr. Fallon will check the ear everyusing a tympanogram to measure the ear and track the movemo the eardrum to make sure that its draining. Ill do adjustm

every day or every other day couple o days i theyre acute,then decrease requency over tishe says.

Dr. Fallon, whose resegarnered her the acclaim o drearing magazines like Parenand Baby alk, oen sees success when she treats a childotitis media. Once they ghthemselves, my kids tend to do well and stay away rom ear intions completely. Unless thereenvironmental actors like smo

in the house, an abnormally shaped Eustachian tube, or sometlike that, they do very well, she says. I have two large pedigroups that reer to me on a regular basis. In the winter, when is most prevalent, I see ve or six new children each week each group, says Dr. Fallon. Its sae and eective and sometthat parents should try, certainly beore inserting tubes in

childrens ears.

Tis article was submitted by Madison Chiropractic. Te doctors o MaChiropractic will talk to you about your childs ear inections. Doctors o

practic are licensed and trained to diagnose and treat patients o all ages anuse a gentler type o treatment or children. In addition, the doctors o MaChiropractic can also prescribe exercises designed to help children develop smuscles, along with instruction in good nutrition, posture and sleeping hab

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Masonry: Brickwork, stone work, oldstucco. We are surrounded by it. We live in it.Some pay no attention to it; some are asci-nated by it. I coness a smoldering passion. Iam a keeper. Many o you are. You just dontknow. Keepers are a quiet society o thosewho live in or work on or relish the gravi-tas, the quiet comort, and the balance oold stone or worn brick. Te cracked lintelsabove a doorway. Te worn stone stoop oan entrance with welcomes long past andyet to come. Tese are things a keeper sees.Te soot o old res. Green or black lichengrowing below a windowsill. Tese are thesigns o lie past lived. Te signs o lie livingright now. You the keeper are a part o it,you see it, you are aware. So many are not.

Teir busy rabbit lives have no time or thetapestry o a shadow cast brick pattern. Tework o quiet undulation o stones piled oneatop another, so mortars joining stone tostone. Each year, each decade o living o joyor grie echoes woven into the mortars, thewalls. Te windows, the doorways, each awelcome, a way into those who came beore.o those who come behind. o those whoare keepers, I bid you welcome.

Now lets consider things to ponder. Didyou know that old mortars are consideredmillennial mortars? Tink o Winchester

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moment to show up newly in any situation, no matter how resem-blant o past lines o events it may be. Te more I choose and practicemindul thinking, the broader my perspective, and the greater mycompassion and responsibility or the choices that ultimately havegiven way to my current state and circumstance.

Te more at home we eel in our lives, the more empowered weare in generating more intentional experiences or ourselves and ourworld. Next to the gi and miracle o lie itsel, the generative power oour words is perhaps our most divine heritage. Our words and arche-typal storylines have created our individual and collective worlds.Choosing a more empowering archetype naturally engenders theexperience and ow o inclusion, peace o mind, and orgiveness.

Consider that each event o your lie has been exactly in alignmentand on purpose, and that who and where you are right now is exactlywho and where you need to be. When we bring acceptance or grati-tude to the experiences o our lives even and especially the painulones we open ourselves to new levels o compassion and awareness.Accepting the circumstances o our lives, just as they are and just asthey are not, we can make peace with who we have become.

Embracing who we are, making home with our lives, we stop resist-ing. As we open ourselves to engaging with the world through whatweve learned and what ignites our hearts, we begin to nd ourselveswith new inclinations. Perhaps instead o judging another, we provide

a compassionate ear or wise words, or we know there is lie beyondthe victim perspective. Te more we integrate being at once o and inthe world, the more the world becomes home to us, and we becomehome to others.

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By Cheryl Breuer

Dan and Faye Antolec were worried when their usually active12-year-old Labrador retriever, Jake, started having trouble gettingaround. Jake was reluctant to exercise, restless when he tried tolie down, and would sleep into the late morning, recalls Dan. Weeven had to coax him into eating.

X-rays revealed arthritis in Jakes lower back. Dan and Faye werentsure they wanted to put Jake on medication, possibly or the rest ohis lie, as their vet recommended. We didnt want to rely on chem-icals, having done so or a previous dog who suered with arthritis,Dan explains. Tats when our vet suggested acupuncture.

Aer just two acupuncture sessions, Jake was running, playing,and eating with renewed enthusiasm. Nearly a year later, Jake isactive as ever, and still medication-ree. He continues to receivemonthly acupuncture treatments. My wie and I are happy to seehow well he is doing at age 13, and still have the option o addingtraditional pain medication to help him, i that should ever becomenecessary, Dan says.

Acupuncture is just one aspect o raditional Chinese VeterinaryMedicine (CVM), which also includes Chinese herbal medicine,tui-na (a orm o chiropractic massage and acupressure), nutri-

tion, and Qi Gong (pronounced Chee Gung), a orm o energyexercise).

Practiced or thousands o years in China, CVM is still consid-ered alternative medicine by many in the U.S., but thats changingquickly. Acupuncture is now recognized by the AVMA (AmericanVeterinary Medical Association) as an accepted and scientically

valid treatment modality. Several large U.S. veterinary schools have

added acupuncture classes and other CVM modality tracktheir programs.

Tough dierent in approach, CVM and Western veterimedicine share a common goal: to keep animals healthy happy.

Western medicine is especially eective or identiying intions, acute and contagious diseases, and when advanced surtechniques are required.

Te Eastern approach to veterinary care is particularly eewhen treating chronic diseases, especially those that Western mcine can only partially control, but not cure, such as:

CVM can also be used to strengthen the immune system, wis helpul or geriatric animals that cant tolerate the side eecconventional medication, and or overall disease prevention.

According to the Chi Institute o Chinese Medicine, integraCVM with conventional veterinary medical practices helps enthe best care possible or animals.

Dr. Andrea Lanphear agrees. One o a handul o Madison- veterinarians certied in veterinary acupuncture, Dr. Lanppractices CVM with Anshen Veterinary Acupuncture. JakeAntolecs Labrador retriever, is one o her clients.

Many times Ill have a client that had an incorrect Western dnosis or hasnt been to their vet recently, Dr. Lanphear says. able to tell the owners, you need to go back [to your primary or you need to get an X-ray o this. Ive had clients come to marthritis and it turns out they have cancer. She continues, Twhy you have to be a veterinarian to do [animal] acupuncturlayperson wouldnt pick up on those things.

In Eastern veterinary medicine, the practitioner looks pattern o imbalance in the animals body. Te goal is to discthe true basis o the disorder, not simply suppress the symptFor Dr. Lanphear, that is the biggest benet o CVM. Yoencompassing everything, including nutrition, she says. Its

just acupuncture and thats the whole key. Its about balance.

Cheryl Breuer is a reelance writer living in Madison. A lielong animal Cheryl is a member o the Dane County Humane Society board o directoran assistant dog trainer with Dogs Best Friend raining in Madison. You canmore o Cheryls writing on her blog at http://peculiar-girl.com and on Examcom/Madison.

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By ony Bednarowski

As we age rom our 30s, 40s, 50s andbeyond, one thing never changes: our nutri-tional concerns with respect to our overallhealth and wellbeing.

In honor o March being National Nutri-tion Month, here are some o the top concernspeople o all ages have, as well as strategies tohelp keep you living happy and healthy longinto your golden years.

FiberMany people complain o irregularity

and constipation. Lack o dietary ber is thebiggest culprit here, no matter what the agebut especially in respect to Baby Boomersand beyond. It can be a challenge to get eventhe minimum recommended intake o 25 to

35 grams every day.Beore you run out to buy

a ber supplement, look oroods that are naturally berrich and give you the biggestbang or your ber buck. ryber-rich cereals like FiberOne, All Bran Flakes or Grape Nuts. Wheneaten on their own or mixed with other cerealavorites, you could get up to 50 percent oyour ber needs in a single serving.

Fiber One makes some very tasty barswith nearly 50 percent o your ber needs ina single serving. Plus, the calories are quitemodest. In addition to ruits and veggies,look or ber-ortied oods, includingyogurt. You can really boost your ber intakewithout expanding your waistline. But do it

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ProteinProtein needs increase over the age o

Although extremely important at all agemany reasons, one reason is that proteour bodys building block or muscle tigrowth, maintenance, enzyme produchormone production and DNA producTe other reason protein is so importathat it has a thermogenic eect on your

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1,200 mg to 1,500 mg range. Not a dairyconsumer? Soy-based products are calciumortied as well. Dark green vegetables likebroccoli, spinach, arugula and kale provide a

very well-absorbed source o calcium.

Cholesterol/FatsReducing your intake o saturated ats

is a must. Te majority o these are the atsound in animal sources. Low- and non-atdairy are a plus. Heart-healthy ats shouldbe used or cooking. Olive, safower andaxseed oils are great choices but monitorcareully to minimize extra calories. Lookingor Omega 3 ats? Flaxseed and walnut oilsare great heart-healthy oils. Keep in mind,however, that heart-healthy oils have thesame caloric content as their artery cloggingcounterparts.

SaltCutting down your salt intake can help

lower blood pressure or many people. First,lose the salt shaker. Next reduce the amounto processed, boxed and canned oods you

eat as they are ull o sodium. ry using low-sodium condiments and sauces. Aim orless than 2,500 mg o salt (sodium) per/day.Many people consume upwards o 5,000 mgdaily. A little attention to this can really lower

your salt intake and contribute to better hearthealth.

AntioxidantsWe hear so much about these rom cancer

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nutrients you will get rom ood, just someo them.

Finally, make sure your meals are color-ul. Pigments in ruits and vegetables arechocked ull o antioxidants, not to mentionall the vitamins and minerals they have tooer. A variety o colors in your diet willprovide a ull spectrum o natures antioxi-dant protection. ry avoiding canned prod-ucts and instead look or resh or rozen.Seasonal products are most nutritious andeconomical. Look or locally-grown prod-ucts when possible.

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Zen proessional: person incorporatingzen practices into the personal and proes-sional day. A person is capable o prioritiz-ing intuition, sel-contemplation, medita-tion, and relaxation among the day-to-dayresponsibilities. You are able to practice a zenattitude without a radical religious adjust-ment. Its a positive interaction with yourseland others.

At rst reaction, many would think beinga zen proessional means an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.agenda. But, just like todays 24/7 connectiv-ity, a successul zen proessional incorporatesthese principles into all areas o the day, not

just the ocial business day. A proessionallives with a proessional mentality, proes-sional attitude and proessional actionthroughout the day. Now, put the zen intoyour overactive mind, body and soul. aken

a step urther, involve your entire amily romthe moment they arise rom bed and spreadthe zen throughout the day.

Prepare yoursel and your amily orthe day in a relaxed, inspirational ashion.Morning pages, a journaling approach madepopular by Julia Cameron in Te ArtistsWay, is one such way to begin the day. It canbe practiced by all ages. A 5-year-old can setan intention and write a ew words o ocusor the school day: courage, patience, etc.In doing so, the zen proessional parent notonly sets the amily on the right oot, butrelaxes in the comort o the zen amily whilealso setting onesel out on the right oot orthe day.

How about the commute to work? In theworld o dangerous road rage and textingwhile driving, this is one o the most impor-tant areas to incorporate a zen approach orpeace, happiness, and saety or yoursel andothers along the road. Ten, beore walkinginto the workplace, take a ew minutes toground and protect yoursel rom conron-tations, negative people and energy zappers.Beore opening the rst e-mail, but aersecuring your hot herbal tea, review yourcalendar and dra your zen productivityplan or the workday. Its moving away rombusy-ness and ocusing on zen productivitytools, while remembering less is more. Eachpersonal interaction, one-on-one and inperson, is approached with a zen mentalityand communication style.

At lunchtime, you come back to homebase. You make adjustments based on thereality o the morning and the anticipatedenergy o the aernoon. Tis is your time to

practice centering activities and enrich body, mind and soul with your zen nutrilunch. As you embark on the aernoonremember the importance o a mid-anoon break with breathing and string exercises. Practicing exibility expbeyond the physical and incorporatesmental. Responding (instead o reactinthe work days surprises in a relaxed asdemonstrates the reality o a zen liestylyou wrap up your aernoon and preparthe commute home, keep the oce aoce. Learn zen ways to put closure towork day or a peaceul evening as you sition into amily mode.

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