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Natural Path to Health: Healthy Holidays
By Dr. Carol McIntyre
Staying well during the holidays
can sometimes be a challenge. Everyone
has their own secret formula to staving
off a cold or flu, but I thought I would
share a couple with you. It’s always
good to have a reminder…
Onions and garlic- eat up! The
raw form of these immune enhancers
and anti-microbes are best. A trick in the
McIntyre family is to eat the heart of a
raw onion when you feel the start of a
cold coming on. Try it out and see what
you think.
Vitamin C- A wonderful anti-
viral and immune stimulator. Increasing
your vit C intake through the winter
months can help keep your immune
system boosted up to avoid contracting
an illness. It’s also very good for your
collagen and will help you to maintain
healthy skin through the drier months.
Although oranges and other fruits are
high in vit C, it is best to get your extra
via a supplement of some kind to avoid
the excess sugar (because the sugar
weakens your immune system). Rose
hips are also a great source and make a
tasty tea.
Water- Staying hydrated is
extremely important for overall health.
If you do contract the common cold,
an upper respiratory infection or sinus
infection, staying hydrated will help to
keep the mucous thin. This will make it
easier to expectorate the phlegm and get
the infection out of your system faster.
Natural Path Health Services
is participating in the Holiday
Bucks program. Anyone purchasing
supplements will get a card stamped and
put in the box for the drawing. So swing
in and stock up to take advantage of the
program~ who knows~ maybe you’ll
win! That would be a nice holiday treat.
The office will be closed from
Friday December 21st – Tuesday January
1st. We will re-open with normal business
hours on Wednesday January 2nd.
Kimberly and I will be working hard to
install a new medical program that will
help us to be more efficient in the office
and more HIPPA compliant. The new
system will also allow for established
patients to do online scheduling and
communicate with me through a closed
system to ensure privacy and HIPPA
compliance. I am very excited to be able
to bring this system into the office and
take another step toward providing you
more efficient health care.
A reminder too that Qigong will
begin on Monday January 7th. Class will
be from 7:30-8:30am. First class is free so
come check it out. Drop in fee will be $7
and monthly rate will be $20 (a savings
of $8). I look forward to bringing the
practice back and am excited to see who
shows up. Qigong is very nourishing and
can be done by anyone at any skill level
so don’t be afraid to try it out.
Enjoy your holidays. Eat lots of
onions and garlic. Drink your rose hip tea
and try not to over-indulge at the holiday
dinner table! But of course, if that does
happen, take a nice brisk walk instead
of a nap and your body will thank you.
Happy Holidays to you all~ Be Well.
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Rech says she has the
whole series of stories written
and is just waiting for an illus-
trator to catch up.
The main character
in Rech’s stories, Miss Della
Webb, was a real woman that
Rech knew when she was
growing up in Montana. “She
was a wonderful lady, that was
her name, Miss Della Webb,
who never married,” explains
Rech. “She was born around
the turn of the century, around
1899. She worked at the coun-
ty courthouse until she retired.
She was just sort of a neat old
gal and let me into her home,
even though I was a little pest
as a kid. If I saw she was home
I would ring her bell until she
answered the door. But she was
always great about having me
in and we would just talk and
she always entertained my fan-
tastical mind at that age. She
was just a really good person.”
Rech says she had al-
ways wanted to base a charac-
ter on her old friend. “She was
a strong woman who had mor-
als. She always made me mind
but she wasn’t cruel. And she
was smart. I wanted to put that
into my character. In my sto-
ries she is kind, generous, in-
telligent and independent and
those were all qualities of her.”
Rech also gives credit
to her mother for instilling in
her a love of reading and of
stories. “She made a point
of reading to me every single
night,” says Rech about her
childhood. “And it really had
a huge impact and I loved the
stories.” Rech says she has
taken those childhood stories
and “borrowed” tiny pieces for
her books. “In my books you
will see a little bit of The Lit-
tle Red Hen, a little bit of The
Three Little Pigs, a little bit of
Ferdinand the Bull. Not that I
took the stories but I was able
to grow my characters around
images I had in my head from
my childhood. And it has really
worked out well for me.”
Rech says that in ad-
dition to her Miss Della Webb
story books, she has also re-
cently written a children’s log-
ging story in honor of her boy-
friend who works in the woods
and his new grandson. She
says she may have an idea for a
sequel to that story as well.
Rech says she really
enjoys living in the Pacific
Northwest. “I love the garden-
ing, I love the flowers, and I ac-
tually like the rain.” says Rech.
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