Covenant Natural Health Care

Are your eggs really organic?

Your best bet for good, high quality, nutritious eggs? Buy them from your local farmer!

 

Find out why eggs are really good for you here.

3 great tips for organic lawn care

 

Interview with Whole Foods Market regarding genetically modified foods

 

Read the article that spurred this interview here.

Health News Roundup

• Parents: You Can Say No to Vaccinations, Right? Maybe Not for Much Longer...: The proposed new law will legally require doctors and nurses to personally sign off on all religious or personal belief exemptions to vaccination filed with the state. Parents seeking non-medical exemptions will be required to include a signature from a vaccine provider on the exemption form stating that they have been given vaccine benefit and risk information. 3 Currently Washington state mandatory vaccination laws 4 only require signatures from medical personnel when medical exemptions are filed.
 

• Another Reason to Skip the Soda: High Blood Pressure: There's plenty of evidence that guzzling sugared drinks like sodas can harm your health. The extra calories can lead to obesity and contribute to heart problems and diabetes. Now researchers say the sweet beverages may boost blood pressure as well.

• 14 Ways to Save Money on Groceries: Learning to be a savvy food shopper is not only about the price tag (looking for freshness and food quality are also important), but, that being said, the more you can keep your grocery bill down, the better.

• Svelte 30 Recall: OTC Diet Pill Contains Undeclared Prescription Drug: Svelte 30 Nutritional Consultants, a diet pill manufacturer with an office in Kissimmee, Fla., is voluntarily recalling its "Svelte 30 orange & gray capsules" after a January test conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed that the pills contained sibutramine, the FDA-approved prescription diet drug sold as Meridia.

In October 2010, Abbott Laboratories voluntarily pulled Meridia from the shelves, under pressure from the FDA, after data showed that the drug increased the risk of heart attack and stroke.

• Can't Beat Food Cravings? Four Steps to Help You Kick Your Addictions: It's estimated that up to 100 percent of women and 70 percent of men experience food cravings in any given year. Entirely separate from hunger pains, which can be satisfied with a variety of foods, food cravings make you yearn for a taste of something very specific, usually a food rich in sugar, salt or fat.

• And the Nation's Fast-Food Capital Is...: Are you hankering for a Whopper? How about a Gordita Supreme, or a bucket of Extra Crispy? According to numbers crunched by AggData for the Daily Beast, you'd have the best luck in Orlando, Fla., the U.S. city with the highest concentration of Burger King, Taco Bell and KFC restaurants per capita.

• Is It Time to Make Health Freedom a Constitutional Right?: A core principle of what we call Health Medicine is a patient's right to freedom of choice and their right to know. Whom are we kidding when, because of monopolistic medical practices, patients are not informed of all the treatments known from evidence to benefit their condition -- especially alternative-medicine and natural healing treatments? What's the point of extending insurance to all Americans if they're blocked from making choices outside today's allopathic "sick-care" paradigm?

• Local and organic food, farming: Here's the gold standard: More and more consumers and corporations are touting the benefits of "local" foods, often described as "sustainable," "healthy," or "natural." According to the trade publication, Sustainable Food News, "local" as a marketing claim, has grown by 15 percent from 2009 to 2010, and it's likely that number will increase in the coming year. (1) Even supermarket giant and junk food purveyor Wal-Mart, with total sales in 2009 of $405 billion, has jumped on the bandwagon. It has pledged to reduce food miles and increase its purchase of "local" fruits and vegetables to include 9 percent of its produce by 2015.

• Shoppers Wary of GM Foods Find They're Everywhere: You may not want to eat genetically engineered foods. Chances are, you are eating them anyway.

Upcoming Workshops: Heart Health, Allergies & Asthma and Organic Gardening

If you haven't been to one of our monthly, free workshops, you're missing out on information that could improve your health. Our goal is to educate the community about proper nutrition and clear up any confusion about what's healthy and what's not. We encourage you to take control of your health and give you the tools you need to make healthy decisions for you and your precious family.

It's not too late to sign up for our February workshop on heart health (heart problems, cholesterol, high blood pressure), presented by Dr. Blanchard. You'll learn:
• The most prevalent nutritional deficiency of the heart today
• Two “foods” that help contribute to cholesterol imbalance
• The most common things that contribute to high blood pressure

Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011
Time: 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Place: LaQuinta Inn and Suites, Conference Room

350 Meijer Drive (behind Best Buy on Houston)

Florence, KY 41042
Cost: FREE

We have two workshops coming up in March.

 

Allergies and asthma workshop, presented by Dr. Blanchard. You'll learn:
• 7 key factors that may lead to allergies
• 10 potential nutritional remedies to help reduce allergy symptoms
• Introduction to Accelerated Allergy Clearing Technique (AACT)

Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011
Time: 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Place: LaQuinta Inn and Suites, Conference Room

350 Meijer Drive (behind Best Buy on Houston)

Florence, KY 41042
Cost: FREE

Organic gardening workshop, presented by Christy Eggert and a representative from Worm's Way. We'll discuss:
• The current state of the economy and rising food costs
• How to get started with gardening
• How to grow your garden organically
• The easiest foods to grow
• Container and in-ground gardening options
• Garden-to-table recipes and more!
• Plus: You'll leave the workshop with a large packet of information to help you be successful with your organic garden, your own little garden that we'll start together, building plans for garden essentials (if you choose to DIY), and organic lawn tips and tricks.
• Oh, and there will be door prizes! Organic seeds, books, and more!

Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Time: 2:00p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Place: Scheben Library, Union, KY
Cost: $20/person
DEADLINE TO REGISTER: March 12, 2011
NOTE: This workshop is being offered to current clients first. If it is not filled up by March 1^st 2011, we'll open up the class to the public.

To register for any of these workshops, please call 859.653.4923.