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A Common Pesticide Destroys Our YOUTH – TOXIC BABY

The TED Talks have been known to be some of the most well designed workshops of our time.  I hope one day to host one of these talks, I think it would be a GREAT place to launch my message about sugar in our diet. ATRAZINE From WIKIPEDIA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine) Atrazine is a herbicide of the triazine class. Atrazine is used to prevent pre and post-emergence broadleaf weeds in crops such as maize (corn) and sugarcane and on turf, such as golf courses and residential lawns. In other words, atrazine is a very common chemical.  Yet this common chemical has made its […]

Unfamiliar Territory – when cancer “Strikes”

Nobody expects it. Or, some expect it, and I often wonder if those people created it. I know it sounds crazy, but in a world where we continually unfold new understanding about epigenetics, and how we influence our genes through lifestyle, you really cannot write anything off. For more on that, read Dr. Bruce Lipton’s book, The Biology of Belief. But, the average person, receives the news in a moment of shock. How? What? But… Why? I have been privileged to receive experience from working with hundreds of patients fighting cancer. Cancer Killers. That is our new name for these […]

Joy – The 60 Day Turnaround Way

I haven’t pulled out my “Happiness” talk for the participants yet, so I figured I would give them a taste of it here.  Well, this is actually not from the workshop I do, this is an excerpt from the book I am writing.  And this part is ALL ABOUT JOY.  Honestly, I think after reading the books I have read on happiness, and hitting the retreats that I have… I would place this one area more important than all the rest. Oddly, I have found with many people, well nearly all people if you can look at their WHOLE life; […]

Week 4 – Fitness

by Dr. Mark Richards We are half way through. Great job coming this far for the 60 Day Turnaround people. I haven’t talked about fitness all that much (I know you all hear plenty from Dr. Eric).  Everyone knows the benefits of exercise and that it promotes health. So I won’t go into the whole convincing you its important, because I’m sure you already know that it is. I always knew it was something I needed. But, as with a lot of things, knowing the right path and actually doing it are far from each other. As I’ve said before, […]

Ebola now, Love Later?

It is a hard line to draw.  When do I hug a stranger who wants a hug, or spray them with disinfectant?  I think these days it would be easy to disinfect first then hug later.  But I am not too sure that is what we are called to do.  From the fear of Ebola contaminated people running around rampant in the streets, to Christ sacrificing Himself for the world, there is a large disparity in associated actions. I had a patient ask me this morning “What is the real story? Is this hype too, like Avian Flu, or SARS, […]

Workout of The WEEK

With all this EBOLA Talk this week, I think we need something to de-stress.  And this is exactly what you need.  A hard workout.  Now, if you have never read my exercise posts, or come to one of my exercise talks… well…. shame on you.  If you have, well done. The point of most of my talks are quite simply this – More of your workouts should be low time and high intensity, like todays.  Some distance or endurance is ok, but you would be hard pressed to find an Exercise Phys Journal these days not publishing articles on greater […]

EBOLA UPDATE

As you probably know, the plane that carried the nurse from Cleveland to Dallas, made its way to Atlanta before being decontaminated.  This means that individuals who flew from Dallas to Atlanta, or from Atlanta onward, on that plane, are at risk of developing symptoms. I imagine Atlantans were on that plane, and I imagine they are in the community, and around others.  The chance of them catching this virus is very low.  But what about the one person who sat in Amber Vinson’s seat?  Is he/she here?  In Woodstock? You see, I can begin to start this off, and I […]

Week 3 – Planning

By Dr. Mark Richards I’m sure you’ve heard  the saying “if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.” Well this has shown itself true throughout this experience. The first time around Amanda and I had planned out all our meals for each week. Every Saturday night we would make a list of each dinner we were going to make and then shop for what we needed on Sunday. It really worked great. It solves that daily question of “what’s for dinner?” It seems like such a simple question, but it would always cause us all sorts of grief […]

Ebola – This is For Real.

As we move into the next phase of the Ebola crisis, Ebola in America is a crisis, we are moving into the question of “do I really need to be concerned or is it another Avian Flu story”.  This is not Avian flu.  If you have read my least common denominator theory in prior daily sprouts, you understand where I come from in my opinion of public health decisions.  (brief discussion on that below) The opinion that ALL of public health decisions are made in light of the weakest in our society, not the strongest.  Weak/Strong as it relates to […]