We’re hoping to send out our newsletter via U.S. mail on a quarterly basis. Bring this newsletter into the store in January with the mailing label affixed and we’ll treat you to either a FREE package of Zand throat lozenges or a lunchbox size bag of goji berries
We are pleased to announce that Debra’s Natural Gourmet has once again been honored by The Commonwealth Institute and The Boston Business Journal as a Top 100 Women-Led Business in MA. We love that folks outside our neighborhood recognize how hard we work. Did you know that there are 45 people who work at our store? Thank you for making us a part of your lives and being part of ours!
Have you ever walked into our store and felt overwhelmed and not sure where to begin? Our local friend and frequent customer, Hilary Boynton, Certified Holistic Health Counselor, is offering hour-long tours of our store.
Jennifer will enhance your own beauty with our natural makeup. Contact Jennifer directly at jmjohnston78@comcast.net to set up an appointment (she’s thinking Mondays, between the hours of 1:00-6:00). Jennifer charges $20 for a 30-minute makeover.
This is Grace’s (Grace Pintabona, RN) monthly column.
ACUPUNCTURE CAN PREVENT RADIATION-INDUCED CHRONIC DRY MOUTH
Xerostomia, more commonly known as dry mouth, is a clinical condition that is a decrease in (or in some cases, a complete lack of) the production of saliva. Although it occurs in approximately 40% of all adults, it is most commonly seen in patients receiving radiation therapy for head and neck cancer. Dry mouth can also be a symptom of diseases such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, sarcoidosis, sjogren’s syndrome or hypothyroidism.
It’s January. The days are dark but starting to lengthen. Still. If you’ve splurged at the holidays and need help paying bills, try soothing soul and pocketbook with good food like soup. I always say that one can feed an army on a handful of lentils…
There’s probably no such thing as an original lentil soup recipe. That’s because lentils are found in every country, eaten by every people. Wikipedia says, “The plant likely originated in the Near East and has been part of the human diet since the aceramic (non-pottery producing) Neolithic time … With approximately 26% of their calories from protein, lentils are rich in protein…”
A Child’s Christmas in England
By Jim Leahy
“One Christmas was so much like another in those years…” A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas has become a fond tradition for me in the 27 years I have lived in Concord, attempting for myself to recall the lost world of a receding childhood romanticized by selective memory and an ever-present love for the family that we once were. My father, grandparents, uncles, aunts, “alas no longer whinnying with us,” live on in remembrance of Christmases past.
It’s been almost ten years since we last covered acne in this newsletter. Now, a new decade, a new generation… time to cover the subject again.
Now that some of us are “all grown up,” it’s easy to forget how bad acne was, how miserable, how awful, how flat-out tragic every pimple and blemish could be. But they were, and for the next generation, they are. Research now shows that even moderate acne is associated with levels of anxiety and depression normally seen in chronic, debilitating illness. Let’s take acne seriously!
We make vitamin D in our skin using a type of solar radiation called ultraviolet B (UVB). Unfortunately, UVB is filtered out by the atmosphere. As the Earth tilts on its axis in winter, the sun’s rays travel through more atmosphere to get to us, and more and more UVB is filtered out. Some estimates have it that, in our part of the country, we simply do not make vitamin D during 4-5 months of every year. Even in summer, morning and afternoon sun has to angle through more atmosphere, filtering out most if not all UVB.
Dark-skinned people have an especially difficult time using UVB. Which isn’t surprising when you think about it: after all, dark skin is built-in sunblock! In the Boston study, for example, black women averaged half the blood D levels white women did[1]. Obviously, supplements are especially important here.
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