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SEPTEMBER 2014 WHAT TO EAT Two stores offer a ‘whole’ new grocery experience. PAGES 4-5 BODY KNOWLEDGE From barre fitness to weight loss to nutrition-response testing. PAGES 8-9 PET PROJECTS Here comes the groom! How to handle your pet’s health. PAGES 10-11 HOLISTIC ALTERNATIVES From acupuncture (Page 3) to essential oils (Page 12), the choices for inproving your health have never been more varied. Inside, find stories of people who swear by holistic alternatives. Healthy Living YOU. YOUR HEALTH. YOUR FUTURE.

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Page 1: Healthy Living September 2014

SEPTEMBER 2014

WHAT TO EATTwo stores offer a ‘whole’ new grocery experience. PAGES 4-5

BODY KNOWLEDGEFrom barre fitness to weight loss to nutrition-response testing. PAGES 8-9

PET PROJECTSHere comes the groom! How to handle your pet’s health. PAGES 10-11

HOLISTIC ALTERNATIVES

From acupuncture (Page 3) to essential oils (Page 12), the choices for inproving your health

have never been more varied. Inside, find stories of people who swear by holistic alternatives.

Healthy LivingYOU. YOUR HEALTH. YOUR FUTURE.

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When Executive Editor Brian McMillan asked me to spearhead the Healthy Living

section this year, I was excited to interview holistic veternarians and finally figure out what the word organic really means.

But a slight panic set in around lunch time, when I got my daily Chick-fil-A craving and reminisced about all the garbage I had put in my stomach the past week. How could I, someone who is on a first-name basis with

the employees at Dunkin’ Donuts, teach people what it means to live healthy? Needless to say, I felt like was in way over my head.

I searched through Pinterest, spent hours reading healthy magazines and diet books, trying to come up with some basic steps towards a greener, GMO-free, pure water-drinking, yoga-practicing, deep-breathing, healthier life. But everything I read felt so urgent.

The Internet yelled at me via capital letters that my body was a disaster and I should cut out basically everything that tastes good from my diet if I want to live to see 25. Personal trainers made me lift weights that felt heavier than my food-obsessed Rottwieler and expected me to walk afterward. After a week of pure mis-ery I felt the complete opposite of healthy — dead.

I just thought there was no way anyone

could honestly do this every day and be happy. And isn’t being happy the goal of living healthy? And isn’t eating a large stuffed-crust pepperoni pizza basically the same thing as happiness?

Sure, we all want to look good on the beach and not like total newbies at the gym, but can we pur-sue happiness through kale and spinach smoothies?

If you think about it, we will never be happy if we’re search-ing for happi-ness through a diet. Diets are not only urgent and terrifying, but they’re also temporary — something we do for a few months to feel better about ourselves and then we can really “start living.” But that mindset just makes us fall right back to where we were before. That’s why the diet industry is so huge. People are always going on — and quickly off — diets.

What if, instead of going on a diet, we just decided to make little chang-

es that would gear us toward a healthier life? Maybe removing the urgency factor would inspire us to stick with the healthy habits. Maybe if we knew we could still have a slice of chocolate cake every once

in a while, we would be more likely to eat veg-

gies and lean meat for dinner.

If you’re like me and you know healthy will really make you happy, let’s try imple-menting a few of these little changes to our life:

• park at the far end of the parking lot

• add fruit or veggies to every meal

• drink a glass of water before your coffee

• wake your-self up each

morning with 10 jumping jacks

Each week, try to add a few more habits to your schedule and really start to make that lifestyle change. Check out the rest of our Healthy Living section for more inspi-ration and tips to living healthy.

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Just what is ‘healthy living’?In the pursuit of happiness, adhering to the food pyramid doesn’t seem like enough anymore.

EATING LIMIT

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Bob Brewster, of Ormond Beach, said the doctors told him in 2008 that he need-ed back surgery. He decided to try acu-puncture, and after 24 treatments, he has no back trouble and is pain free.

Gretel Timan had success with treat-ments for her diabetes and bursitis.

There are many adherents for the prac-tice of acupuncture, but it’s still relatively new in the U.S., after being practiced in China for 2,500 years.

“It’s growing very slowly,” said Lorenzo Phan, doctor of oriental medicine and an acupuncture physician, of Acupuncture & Skin Care Clinic, 725 W. Granada Blvd., Suite 15, in Ormond Beach.

“It’s one of the oldest noninvasive pro-cedures,” he said. “It’s safe and effective.”

He points to the World Health Organi-zation as the most important advocate of acupuncture. It recommends acupunc-ture for 40 conditions.

Phan said that acupuncture was virtu-ally unknown in the U.S. until President Richard Nixon visited China in the 1970s. James Reston, a journalist travelling with Nixon, had an appendicitis attack, and doctors used acupuncture for anesthe-sia. When he got back to the U.S., Reston wrote columns on the success of the pro-cedure.

Phan said acupuncture treatments can balance chemicals and stimulate the ner-vous system to help the body repair itself. It inhibits pain messages, opens nerve pathways and regulates oxygen and nutri-ents, proponents say.

“Instead of popping pills, the body can produce what it needs by stimulation with acupuncture,” Phan said. “My pas-sion is preventive care, to prevent things from happening.”

The most important part of the body is the mind, Phan said.

Phan said that 80% of doctor visits are stress related and stress contributes to 50% of all illnesses in the U.S.

“Happy thoughts mean a happy body,” he said. “Always think positive. Mind con-trol is everything.”

In mid-September, he was scheduled to begin offering free treatments for return-ing veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder, from 4 to 6 p.m. each Monday.

“I want to help as many veterans as I

can,” he said.Phan earned a bachelor of science de-

gree in biochemistry at the University of Hawaii, and continued at the American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Houston. He is also a mes-sage therapist and laser therapist.

He said currently about 3,000 doctors in the U.S. practice acupuncture and he pre-dicts that in three to four years it will be covered by Medicare. Classes are taught in many major medical schools.

It’s covered by insurance in New York, New Jersey, California and Arizona, but

growing slowly in Florida. The only insur-ance company that lists him as a provider is Florida Health Care Plus, which is for those over age 55.

Cecil Pearce, president of the Florida In-surance Council, a trade group, said that it hasn’t been discussion industrywide.

Robert J. Mills, spokesman for the American Medical Association, said some medical doctors practice acupuncture.

However, Phan said a person should be careful about choosing a doctor. He said acupuncture is a complex practice and takes four years of study.

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Acupuncture offers alternative treatmentDr. Lorenzo Phan predicts that, in three to four years, Medicare will cover acupuncture. Clinics are offered for PTSD.

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The top five healthy foods from the foodporiumLooking to give your fridge a makeover? These trendy eats will give you just the extra boost you need.

After being in the business for 35 years, the employees behind Richard’s Foodpo-rium have seen health food trends come and go. The store’s original mission was to provide all-natural bulk health foods, but it has grown to include supplements and groceries.

“I think we’ve created a nice little niche for ourselves,” Public Relations and Mar-keting Coordinator Deva O’Donnell said. “I think the convenience factor is really important. ... We also really pride our-selves on the education of our employ-ees.”

O’Donnell said she grew up eating whole foods and has seen a re-emergence of some of the things she ate when she was younger. The following top five health foods are big sellers in the store, 236 Palm Coast Parkway NE, Palm Coast:

1) SPIRULINA“It’s like a green, vibrant power. It

is really high in protein, and I’ve seen that pop up a lot. It’s really good for vegans and vegetarians who need protein, and you can get about 15 grams in one ounce.”

2) NUTRITIONAL YEAST“It’s another great one for vegans and vegetarians as a source of B-12. I like

nutritional yeast because it kind of has a cheese flavor and makes a good substi-tute for cheese. I’ve seen it on salads at a couple restaurants.”

3) CAULIFLOWER“It’s the new ‘it’

vegetable. You can find a lot of good recipes with cauliflower.”

4) SUNFLOWER OIL“It’s a hidden gem. It actually doesn’t have GMOs (genetically-modified organism) and a lot of people don’t know that. It’s prob-

ably going to stay that way for a very long time. Growers have found it to difficult to alter and there are too many wild and weedy relatives to it. It’s also a really functional cooking oil and has zero trans fat.”

5) NUT AND SEED BUTTER“You can get a lot

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Mitchell Booth, own-er and founder of Love Whole Foods, isn’t your typical executive. Rath-er than spend his work hours behind closed doors, Booth is out in the open, taking orders, assisting with custom-ers, and always making a lasting impression.

“It just gets real per-sonal,” Booth said. “My partner became very ill from some very bad medical advice. She ba-sically rebuilt her health by going to a whole foods store (Bread and Circus) that was in Amherst, Massachussetts. That’s where the whole foods movement started.”

After the recession hit in 1988, Booth and his wife had the opportu-nity to move to Daytona Beach where their kids had migrated. That’s when they decided to open Love Whole Foods in The Trails Shopping Center.

“We found there was virtually no organic pro-duce at all,” Booth said. “None. We introduced the first consistent source of organic fruits and vegetables. And we

threw out more than we sold. We did it for our own health and our community’s.”

When they opened, they modeled their standards after Bread and Circus, the whole food store that saved his wife’s life. Bread and Circus was bought by the Whole Foods Corp. in 1992, and Booth said he wouldn’t recognize it now.

“Our standards have stayed exactly the same, except for genetically modified foods,” Booth said. “If you went into a Whole Foods today, you would be hard-pressed to match that. Especial-ly on the GMO and local issue. We’ve been com-mitted to that almost from the beginning.”

Booth says he holds true to his standards, which he believes can help improve the qual-ity of life for every shop-per, just like it did for his wife.

“In the 1990s, organic foods were looked at as sort of ‘yuppy’ foods,” Booth said. “Every-body was doing real good. Now there’s been

a major shift. The baby boomers have gotten older, and now cancer has touched every fam-ily in America. We have other autoimmune dis-eases that are just scary. Autism didn’t exist in the form that we have it now before 1994.”

Booth has stores in both Ormond Beach (275 Williamson Blvd.) and Port Orange.

“‘Natural’ basically means nothing,” Booth said. “Organic is the only standard that pro-tects us from genetically modified foods. As a nu-tritional advocator, it’s real simple. The three elements never change: it’s exercise, making the right food choices and using supplements.”

Eating organic is im-portant because foods with GMOs can cause allergies to gluten and might have a direct re-lation to an increase in autoimmune diseases, according to Booth.

“Where did all this ir-ritable bowel syndrome come from?” Booth said. “Where did all this Crohn’s disease come from? It was so rare be-

fore, barely existed in the 1980s. Now it is so prevalent that there are drugs being produced for it. The marriage of the pharmaceutical in-dustry with the bioen-gineering companies has created an environ-ment that is dangerous to the entire country. We are the only country in

the big eight that allows genetic engineering of their food supply.”

Booth continues to fight the GMOs by visit-ing congressmen.

“People are realizing that your best insur-ance policy is preventive medicine,” Booth said. “You fight disease one meal at a time.”

‘ONE MEAL AT A TIME’ By Emily Blackwood | Staff Writer

A whole foods store with heartWhen Mitchell Booth and his wife opened Love Whole Foods in 1990, they had a mission to always maintain their high standards. So far so good, 24 years later.

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barre fitness By Shanna Fortier | Community Editor

BEACH BARRE FITNESS focuses on low-impact

The trend in fitness right now is shifting to small studio settings, and Gayle Jaffe jumped on it when she opened her studio, Beach Barre Fitness in Flagler Beach.

The studio focuses are barre fitness, another growing trend. Barre fitness is a 55-minute, full-body workout that fuses Pilates, yoga, ballet barre conditioning and therapeutic stretching for a unique workout targeting women’s problem ar-eas.

The nonimpact exercise is ideal for those who have suffered injury. In fact, Jaffe’s love of Pilates stemmed from her own rehabilitation for an injury.

“From Pilates, I’ve kept myself from further injury,” she said. “I also bring

in what I’ve learned in cross fit and fit-ness throughout the years. It all revolves around keeping the spine in proper align-ment and keeping safe with proper move-ments.”

The workout focuses strongly on the mind and making small movements, but creating intensity through the mind.

“Most of the clients love it because it’s different from anything they’ve ever done,” Jaffe said.

Beach Barre Fitness is located at 213 S. Second St., Suite 8, in Flagler Beach. Visit beach-barre.com for rates.

Email Shanna Fortier at [email protected].

The two standard approaches to losing weight seem like a lot of bother and work: Changing your diet and exercising more.

People search for alternatives.One approach is to take natural weight-

loss supplements, typically pills or pow-ders that are marketed with the goal of suppressing hunger or increasing metab-olism and lean body mass.

Dr. Rachel Scheerer, a family doctor employed in Florida Hospital Health Care Partners, said the problem with using a pill is that you might lose weight, but will probably gain it back if not combined with a new, healthy lifestyle of proper diet and exercise.

“There’s no magic pill for weight loss,” she said.

She also points out that many supple-ments are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, and there is little research to show how they affect the body.

According to everydayhealth.com, re-

cent studies show that there’s no research to support that supplements, whether one designed to speed up metabolism or to suppress your appetite, leads to a sig-nificant or a sustained weight loss.

Scheerer said it’s good if supplements “kick start” a weight loss campaign, but they need to be combined with a lifestyle choice.

It’s important, Scheerer said, that if pills, including prescription or over-the-counter drugs, are taken, that the patient must closely be monitored by their doc-tor.

“Before you take anything, you should be sure it’s not going to interact with other medications,” she said.

Other “alternative” weight loss mea-sures some people employ include acu-puncture, acupressure and hypnosis. These are areas that Scheerer does not get involved with in her practice, and again says that there’s little supportive research.

“If acupuncture helps, that’s wonder-ful,” she said.

The alternatives that Scheerer suggest include getting help from a nutritionist or dietician, and she says a person’s general physician can refer them. Personal train-ers can also be used.

Another alternative is bariatric surgery. She said there are several types now, and if a person is morbidly obese, or has a health condition aggravated by excess weight, they might want to look into pro-cedures that are available.

But again, surgery is done in conjunc-tion with a lifestyle change, which likely includes trips to the gym.

“It’s hard to maintain a healthy weight,” she said. “If it were easy, there wouldn’t be such a business built up around weight loss.”

Scheerer said obesity is common be-cause we have a more sedentary lifestyle and more food available than past gen-

erations do. She encourages people to be more ac-

tive in their day-to-day routine, but her advice varies depending on the patient’s condition. Some are able to exercise a lot, and others only a little. She also discusses portion sizes with her patients.

She said there’s a lot of information online, which can be good and bad. She encourages people to ask their personal physician about things that they learn.

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It is completely silent in Lynn Klein-schmit’s office. Unlike your family physican’s office, there are no sounds of screaming kids and it smells like a fresh-ly lit candle, rather than a bottle of hand sanitizer.

When Kleinschmit finally does appear, it’s from a small corner in the back of the room where she was tucked away listen-ing to her “heart sounds” with a cardio-graph. Originally developed by Russian physicists to train Olympic athletes, the graph determines how healthy your in-ternal organs are and how well your au-tonomic nervous system adapts to stress.

“We have stress externally, like you could have a crappy boss,” Kleinschmit said. “But what this is measuring is in-ternal stress like virus, food poisoning or heavy metals. With nutrition-response testing you can move into a healthier lev-el.”

Kleinschmit is a physical therapist for ViaPure Wellness, a nutritional company at 31 Lupi Court, Suite 140, Palm Coast, that uses a noninvasive testing technique called nutrition-response testing to de-termine what the body needs to give itself support.

Kleinschmit uses 154 different organic whole food supplements to help the body heal itself.

“It’s food,” Kleinschmit said. “It is not synthetic vitamins. People think disease needs a medicine. But disease is just your body missing a nutrient. So, over time, if your body is missing a nutrient, then you

develop symptoms. Synthetic vitamins can actually make you sick.”

The nutrition response testing is an en-ergy test to figure out what nutrients your body is missing and what organ “wants to be fed.” Kleinschmit has her client lie down on a table and scans his or her vital organs with her hand. The client holds his

or her right arm up, and Kleinschmit can push it down if the organ she is scanning is weak; or, it might stay upright, indicat-ing that organ is strong.

If she finds more than one organ that is weak, Kleinschmit does another scan to find out which organ is the weakest and the best place to start.

Once that is determined, then she ap-plies stress kits, which contain individual tubes of food, metals, chemicals and im-mune challenges.

“All that I’m doing is putting my hand on the sympathetic nerves of the organs,” Kleinschmit said. “Your arm tells me what organ is stressed out by not being able to hold up your arm. All my hand is doing is providing a little bit of a lack of oxygen to the area and putting a little stress there.”

Before Kleinschmit was a trainer, she was a former client. For most of her life, she had a struggle with losing weight and staying alert, despite constant exercise and healthy eating.

“I was running six miles a day and gain-ing weight,” Kleinschmit said. “The doc-tors couldn’t give me any answers. They told me I was healthy, but I didn’t feel healthy. By the time I was 42, they wanted to start cutting out body parts. I said no.”

Once she found nutritional-response testing and started on whole food supple-ments, her symptoms were gone within four weeks. She then made it her personal mission to give the same results to other people.

“My goal in life is to help people not have to take drugs, because all that drugs do is stomp out a symptom,” Kleinschmit said. “They’re not handling the cause of anything. With this, you can handle the cause. ... I can make people feel wonder-ful so they can pay it forward by going out into the world and doing what they need to do without paying attention to their

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Lynn Kleinschmit credits her lifestyle change to nutrition-response testing and now loves helping others with their own adjustments.

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“They are really what puts oil into the dog’s skin coat. Most quality dog foods have the proper amount of omega 3 and omega 6 oils, but if your dog or pet is on a low-fat diet, they might not be getting enough. There are supplements out there and most have sunflower oil or salmon oil in them, which is where the omega 6 and omega 3 oils can come from. It can also cut down on the dog’s shedding. If you have a dog that sheds a lot, you can increase their omega oils and they should decrease on their shed-ding.”

1) BRUSHING“The real quality of a dog’s skin

and coat can be measured by the attention to brushing. Brushing a dog’s coat really makes a big different to keep tangles and mats out. It also, for short hair dogs, gets the loose hair and creates a shinier coat. Regular brushing is really a key to having a dog look well and keep the coat clean and healthy. It can be daily or two to three times a week.”

3) DENTAL CARE.“The pet owner’s responsibility should be to keep good dental care

in their pets. There is nothing better than a regular brushing of your dog’s teeth. That could be daily or three times a week with a good toothpaste or gel that is made for pets. There will be a noticeable improvement in the breath of the dog, and they will not have tarter build-up. If you let the pet’s teeth go to the point where they have a lot of tarter build-up, they will get gingivitis and the gum line will recede. Untreated or uncleaned, the bacteria can lead to kidney, liver and heart problems. It can happen even early in life if you don’t take care of the dog’s teeth.”

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“We have the owner in there with them,” Rosado said. “They are usually very re-laxed.”

Acupuncture is one of the many types of holistic medi-cine Rosado performs on her pet patients at the Flagler Inte-grative Veterinary Center, 208 N. Second St., Flagler Beach. Animals are also treated with Chinese herbals, food thera-py, western herbals, stem cell therapy, supplements and cold laser therapy. But holistic medicine isn’t the only option Rosado offers.

“I want to be able to prac-tice the traditional medicine I went to vet school for, spent four years and a lot of money doing,” Rosado said. “I truly feel that holistic and tradition-al western medicine are best utilized together. They both have strengths and weakness-es, and they compliment each other. So I think I can provide much better care and services

if I can provide both things.”Providing the two types of

treatment is no extra cost her to patients’ owners, and Rosa-do said it helps animals to get over diseases.

“Western medicine is really good at diagnostics,” Rosado said. “Holistic isn’t. But drugs tend to have to more side ef-fects than herbs and supple-ments. The downside of sup-plements is that they have to be on them for much longer to really see a difference. I don’t want my patient to suffer for that long of a time. So I get them on the drugs and then use the supplements to even-tually stop the meds.”

Rosado and her team also help their patients with nu-trition and physical activity. They are currently working on a trial session of their Doggy Fat Camp where dogs — and possibly cats — can walk on the treadmill and learn fun exercises to help them be at a healthy weight.

“A lot of owners don’t have the time or the energy to exer-cise their pet as much as they need,” Rosado said. “The fat

camp helps because it’s kind of like going to the gym. We walk them up and down the Intra-coastal bridge. We try to teach them exercises that are going to be fun and entertaining for them. We help the owners so they don’t have to think of it as an exercising session but as

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“It’s not like I think holistic medicine is the end-all,” Ro-sado said. “It’s just tools in the tool box, is the way I see it.”

TOOLS IN THE TOOL BOX By Emily Blackwood | Staff Writer

Flagler Beach vet blends holistic treatment with western medicationDr. Terri Rosado uses acupuncture, cold laser therapy and traditional medicine to give her pups the best treatment.

Five tips for a healthy pet

1) Keep a healthy diet. “The less processed, the better. Dry food is the most processed that you are going to get. If someone has time and can afford to do it, a home-cooked diet, as long as it is formulated by a vet nutritionist, is the way I prefer people to feed their pets. Feeding by a recipe out of a book or a recipe by the Internet is extremely dangerous. A healthy balanced dog food, avoiding fillers, dyes. Feeding them the right amount. Treats should be considered like dessert for people.” 2) Provide environmental enrichment. “Dogs and cats are meant to be in the wild and have a job. When we put them in our houses, we have to give them a job. Most of the time, that’s going to be play activity. Every animal needs plenty of play.”3) Plenty of fresh water. “The water bowl should be washed every day. They should be given clean water at least once a day, pref-erably twice.” 4) Regular check-ups with your vet. “Every year as a young animal. When they get older, they tend to develop more diseases, so twice a year.” 5) Heart worm and flea prevention. “Over 30% of dogs in Florida that are not on heart worm prevention will develop the disease. The treatment is dangerous, and the disease is often fatal. Even for people who don’t like the idea of giving their pet a monthly pesticide, the benefits tremendously outweigh the risks. Indoor-only cats should get heart worm prevention, too, because every time we open our doors, mosquitos can fly in, and they transmit it. It may not be fatal in the cat, but it can cause lifelong ill-nesses.”

ROSADO DEFINES ‘HOLISTIC’“Holistic care is based on the whole patient, not only on

their illness. It works under the premise that the body gets sick because it is imbalanced. Fixing the imbalance will allow the patient to fight off the disease better themselves, and keeping them in balance helps prevent disease.”

Emily Blackwood

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‘no vodoo here’ By Emily Blackwood | Staff Writer

Essential oils have turned into a necessity for one Palm Coast family Paige Sorensen never thought lavender would be the solution to her son’s two-year-long battle with extreme eczema. Now the whole family uses a variety of oils every day.

Paige Sorensen found the solution for her son’s extreme eczema at a Super Bowl party.

Luke had been battling his condition for two years with little help from doctors and prescribed medication. A friend recommend-ed lavender to treat the eczema. After three weeks, it was gone — and it hasn’t come back.

“At first, I remember thinking, ‘Is this re-ally happening or is this just by chance?’” Sorensen said. “Since Luke’s eczema, we’ve had hundreds of things happen in our family where the oils have been so useful, so benefi-cial and so healing.”

Four years later and Paige Sorensen has made essential oils an essential part of her life as a holistic health coach specializing in essential oil education for doTERRA Inter-national, an essential oils company. Though some people are wary of holistic medicine, Sorensen swears it isn’t voodoo.

“Essential oils are little sacs that are pulled off plants and once extracted they are very powerful,” Sorensen said. “Some people are really adamant on just the medical world, which is really funny to me. Because if you think about manmade medicine or synthetic medicine, it was taken from some sort of nat-ural element. So it’s really funny to me when people are like, ‘What is this voodoo stuff?’”

The extracted oils are full of a number of constituents, which is how many ailments the oil can be used to treat. Syntethic or man-made medicines usually only have one con-stituent. Sorensen has found many uses for her family’s daily routine.

“Every day, I use grapefruit on my three kids because all the citrus flavors are mood lifters,”

Sorensen said. “It also helps speed up our me-tabolism. The company I work for has a blend of five or six different oils that is called In Tune. I use it for my kids on school days so they can focus on learning. My husband uses Balance for anxiety. A lot of men are drawn to that.”

Sorensen’s husband, Scott, works as a hear-ing specialist, so they haven’t completely giv-en up on western medicine. Paige Sorensen said it’s really about finding a balance be-tween the two types of medicine.

“It’s interesting: I feel like holistic medi-cine in general is on the rise.” Sorensen said. “People are looking for alternative options because, like me, the medical field could not solve my problem, and I was desperate to help my child. We do still believe in the medical field, but I feel really empowered as a mom to be able to help my children with what I have in my house.”

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The Sorensen family, Paige, Maximus, Scott, Luke and Naomi, have been using essential oils for four years.

TOP FIVE ESSENTIAL OILS FOR BEGINNERS

1) Lavender “Every family needs

lavender. Lavender is all things calming, and it helps with any kind of skin issues. It can help you sleep, too, if you’re dealing with insomnia.”

2) Peppermint “A drop of peppermint

is equivalent to 20 cups of peppermint tea. It can energize you and wake you up and also help with migraines. There are so many ways to use pep-permint.”

3) Lemon “It is a cleanser. It

helps with sore throats, with any kind of cough. It’s a good one for basic aliments.”

4) Frankinsense“This one has been

around for hundreds and hundreds of years. It’s very healing. It can heal any kind of wounds, cuts or sores. It’s also emo-tionally healing. It can level your mood and bring everything down to an even feeling.”

5) On Guard “This one is a protec-

tive blend that I feel like every home needs. It protects from viruses and bacteria. If you feel like you’re getting sick, you can throw some on your kids’ feet, and it will fight all the viruses in the body.”