SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2017
Community Health Fair
returns with new events
The annual Community
Health Fair is back and bigger
than ever. This year’s event
will be held at the Florence
Events Center April 7 to 9.
Admission is free all three
days, and each day offers
something different. Each day
at noon, the first 100 people to
arrive will receive a free
healthy lunch.
On Friday, April 7, from 1
to 5 p.m., attendees can inter-
act with more than 30 exhibit-
ing experts from across the
spectrum of healthcare.
Also on Friday, the public
can chose from two classes:
a free adult certification class
in
CPR/First
Aid/AED
presented by Western Lane
Ambulance or a free
overview class on mental
health first aid, taught
by Jonathan Betlinski, M.D.,
of the Department of
Psychiatry at Oregon Health
and Science University.
On Saturday, April 8, atten-
dees can choose from a variety
of seminars by experts from
different areas of healthcare
starting every half hour from 1
to 5 p.m.
Sunday will be the annual
5K fun walk and run. Thee
will also be a day of activities
for kids from 1 to 5 p.m. There
will be a giant obstacle course
for older kids and a bounce
house for the younger ones.
There will also be other
games, prizes and exhibits that
include tips for living health-
fully to 100.
The annual Community
Health Fair is presented by the
Florence Seventh-day Adven-
tist Church and underwritten
by the Korando Dental Group.
For more information con-
tact Linda Lydick, 541-999-
2052 or LindasVeggies@
gmail.com.
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J OEL F UHRMAN , MD
Treating autoimmune conditions naturally
Autoimmune diseases affect
23.5 million Americans, and
that number is rising.
Autoimmune diseases are
one of the top ten leading caus-
es of death for women under
the age of 64.1 In autoimmune
diseases, the body undergoes
an inappropriate immune
response that causes excessive
inflammation that becomes
destructive to the body.
Psoriasis is a chronic inflam-
matory skin condition-the most
prevalent autoimmune disease
in the U.S. affecting about 7.5
million Americans; and it is
much more than a cosmetic
concern. Depending on the
severity of psoriasis, it can also
cause skin cracking and bleed-
ing, pain, and a significant dis-
ruption of quality of life.
In addition, psoriasis is asso-
ciated with increased cardio-
vascular risk. Even mild cases
of psoriasis may increase the
risk of heart attack by up to 29
percent. The chronic inflamma-
tion characteristic of psoriasis
(and other autoimmune dis-
eases such as rheumatoid
arthritis and lupus) puts
patients at risk.
In addition to cardiovascular
disease, psoriasis patients are
also more likely to suffer from
insulin resistance, depression,
cancer, osteoporosis, and liver
disease-also likely due to
chronic inflammation.
Nutritional
intervention
should always be tried first,
before powerful and potentially
dangerous drugs are pre-
scribed. Conventional treat-
ments for autoimmune diseases
suppress the immune system to
halt the body’s immune attack
on itself.
However, this makes the
body more susceptible to infec-
tions and even cancers — one
study found that autoimmune
patients with the greatest expo-
sure to immunosuppressive
drugs had an almost 5-fold
increase in cancer risk.
The FDA has issued warn-
ings on certain drugs used to
treat autoimmune diseases
because of increased cancer
risk. Mild to moderate psoriasis
can often be treated with topi-
cal medications only-these are
safer than systemic medica-
tions, but still have significant
side effects such as skin thin-
ning, pigmentation changes,
bruising easily, stretch marks,
redness, and acne.
They also may stop working
over time.
Nutrition is a powerful and
safe tool for preventing and
treating autoimmune diseases.
Although there is a genetic
component, autoimmune dis-
ease is also influenced by what
we eat. For example, those
with a high intake of green veg-
etables, carrots, tomatoes, and
fresh fruits are less likely to
develop psoriasis.
Oxidative stress, which can
be lessened by these antioxi-
dant-rich foods, is thought to
contribute to skin inflammation
in psoriasis. Furthermore, pso-
riasis symptoms have been
shown to improve using dietary
methods in several scientific
studies.
I have been recommending a
high-nutrient (Nutritarian) diet
combined with selected supple-
ments and when needed, and
episodic fasting to help the
body to calm inflammation and
remove cellular toxins. High
nutrient plant foods supply
substances
that
support
immune system function,
allowing the body to have
proper defenses against infec-
tions and cancers.
Supervised water fasting is
another important component
to autoimmune treatment-I
have documented the contribu-
tion of fasting to remission of
autoimmune disease in pub-
lished case reports. The only
side effects of nutritional treat-
ment are positive ones-protec-
tive effects against heart dis-
ease, diabetes, and cancers.
This health promoting proto-
col longevity as it normalizes
immune function.
Natural methods can help
you calm the inflammation in
your body and reduce or even
eliminate your need for med-
ications. I urge everyone with
an autoimmune disease to try
Rhododendron
Drive,
between Highway 101 and
Greenwood
Street,
will
include Americans with
Disabilities Act improve-
ments.
The contractor will also be
installing two six-foot bike
lanes along Rhododendron
Drive, between Ninth and
Hemlock streets.
“The water lines are all
installed, except for some
tie-ins and hydrant extensions
that should be completed
this week. This is weather
these natural methods before
resigning themselves to a life
of dangerous medications and
progressively worsening dis-
ease:
1) High-nutrient, vegetable-
based diet rich in greens;
2) Fresh vegetable juices;
3) Fish oil or plant-based
EPA and DHA supplements;
4) Probiotic supplement;
5) Avoidance of salt, wheat,
and oils;
6) Assuring no micronutri-
ent deficiencies are present.
Using these methods, many
of my patients who once suf-
fered from autoimmune dis-
eases have now recovered and
are free of illness as well as the
toxic side effects of the drugs.
Some of people with these
recoveries have written me, but
I have never actually met them.
All they did was read one of
my books and follow the proto-
cols detailed online.
Dr. Fuhrman is a New York
Times best-selling author and
board certified family physician
specializing in lifestyle and nutri-
tional medicine.
Visit his website at Dr
Fuhrman.com, or submit questions
and comments to news questions
@drfuhrman.com.
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just trench patching, will
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Miller said.
He said the sidewalks along
dependent, but we look to
have things pretty well
wrapped up by the end of
March,” Miller said.
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Alcohol Justice and The
Washington Post are research-
ing why more white middle-
aged women are becoming
heavy drinkers. They report
this trend to normalize heavy
drinking coincides with a 15-
year trend of increased adver-
tising of alcohol products
aimed at women, and why
white middle-aged women are
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increasingly dying of alcohol
poisoning and cancer.
Hospitalized
intoxicated
women increased by 40 percent
over the last 15 years.
The Washington Post report-
ed “The rate of alcohol-related
deaths for white women ages
35 to 54 has more than doubled
since 1999, accounting for 8
percent of deaths in this age
group in 2015.”
Katherine M. Keyes, alcohol
researcher
at
Columbia
University, said “It is a looming
health crisis.”
According to federal health
officials, “researchers are
increasingly convinced that
even moderate drinking poses
health risks.”
Ads “normalizing” excessive
alcohol drinking for women,
appear to violate the alcohol
industry’s code of ethics,
according to a Washington Post
analysis of alcohol marketing.
Rear
Adm.
Susan
Blumenthal, a former U.S.
assistant surgeon general and
an expert on women’s health,
said “We saw it first with tobac-
co, marketing it to women as
their ‘right to smoke.’ Then we
saw lung cancer deaths surpass
deaths from breast cancer. Now
it’s happening with alcohol,
and it’s become an equal rights
tragedy.”
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and Prevention data show
women who drink are more
prone to suffer brain atrophy,
heart disease and liver damage.
Professor Szabo at the
University of Massachusetts
Medical School said, “Even if a
woman stops drinking, liver
disease continues to progress in
ways it does not in men, and
women who drink have an
increased risk of breast cancer.
“There is no gender equity
when it comes to the effects of
alcohol on men versus women.
Females are more susceptible
to the unwanted biological
effects of alcohol when they
consume the same amount of
alcohol as men and at the same
frequency even when you
adjust for weight.”
Robert D. Brewer of the
Centers for Disease Control’s
(CDC) alcohol research report-
ed that “Many women in the
U.S. don’t know the damage
caused by alcohol or under-
stand ‘excessive’’ drinking is
more than one drink a day.
“Women shouldn’t drink
more than 1 ounce of distilled
spirits, 12 ounces of beer or 5
ounces of wine in 24 hours.
Four drinks, two-thirds of a
bottle of wine, consumed with-
in two hours is ‘binge’’ drink-
ing.”
Brewer went on to say that
most people don’t understand
what binge drinking looks like,
and they don’t yet recognize
how dangerous it is.
“Eating unhealthy foods, not
exercising — people know
what that can do to your health.
But we are in a dangerous stage
with binge drinking,” said
Brewer.
Siuslaw Area Partnership to
Prevent Substance Abuse,
SAPPSA, is a charitable educa-
tion nonprofit that provides
community outreach education
in the Siuslaw Area.
Visit www.sappsa.org or
email sappsa@oregonfast.net
for more information.
Meetings are the second
Monday of each month at 3:30
p.m. at Siuslaw Public Library.
Meetings are free and open
to the public.