On Wednesday, May 2nd, Urban Healing hosted a private Chopin piano recital with the famous Russian Pianist, Zoya Shuhatovich.

This was Zoya’s third appearance in the UK after having played at St. Martin in the Fields in 2010 and 2011. The Recital Hall at the London Showroom of Steinway & Sons was filled to the last seat with friends and business partners of Urban Healing and the artist.
Many guests came from London and the Midlands, but some had traveled from Essex and even Glasgow to take part in this special event.

There was great excitement in the room when Zoya welcomed her audience and thanked all involved in the preparation of this event and promised to play a good recital. Zoya introduced each piece, stated in which phase of Chopin’s short life it was created and explained the mood the composer wanted to convey, as it reflected his own emotional state at the time.

Zoya’s musical sensitivity, her purity of style and integrity as she interpreted each composition, moved the entire room and allowed the audience to tune in to what Chopin intended to express. And when Zoya played the final piece of the evening, all four movements of the Sonata No. 3 Opus 58, many watched in awe the amazing physical skills, charisma and integrity of an artist who plays all pieces by memory with incredible passion and articulation.

We sincerely thank Zoya for sharing her talent and presence with us during this wonderful evening as well as our friends and business partners who joined us on this special occasion.
We also like to thank our sponsors, Steinway & Sons for providing us with their recital hall, the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel London for provding Zoya with a home during her stay in London and Orchard Print for producing the programmes.

The evening ended with a cocktail reception giving everybody the opportunity to meet Zoya personally and to catch up with friends and acquaintances.

This was the first time we have organised a musical event, and encouraged by the overwhelming positive response during and after the recital, we are confident that it was not the last time.

Click the image below to listen to Zoya’s last piece, Sonata No. 3 Opus 56 and her encore, Waltz No. 7 Opus 64, 3 Cis-Moll

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Urban Healing, in cooperation with Steinway & Sons and the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, London, is proud to be hosting a piano recital by famous Russian pianist and Steinway artist, Zoya Shuhatovich as part of its responsible business community service.

There is a limited amount of seats available and we strongly recommend reserving a seat. Please click here to R.S.V.P.

Ms. Shuhatovich studied music with the highly regarded pianist and teacher Ilia Fridman, a pupil of the legendary piano teacher, Heinrich Neuhaus and  received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the Gorky State Conservatory in Russia.  After several years of teaching piano as member of faculty of the same institution, Zoya immigrated to the United States in 1993. She started working at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston until 2001.

She has a very active concert life, appears with orchestras and solo recitals throughout the US, France, UK, Germany, Russia, Poland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. She made her New York debut in 1998, where she was invited to open the Chopin Festival with a solo recital. Since then she has performed in New York regularly. In April 2002 she performed for President Bill Clinton. In July 2005, Ms. Shuhatovich performed a private recital for the members of the Spanish Royal Family. Her recitals are frequently transmitted on National Public Radio, Sirius™ Satellite Radio and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

Zoya Shuhatovich has participated in many international music festivals including: Warsaw Autumn, Texas Music Festival, Shostakovich Festival, Bravo! Festival, Ramapo College Summer Festival, Neuhaus Piano Festival, Germany.
Another important feature in her work is chamber music. She collaborates with artists such as Yair Kless, Laszlo Varga, Boris Garlitsky, Emmanuel Borok, St. Petersburg String Quartet and many others.

Artists and critics have expressed a consensus related to Zoya Shuhatovich’s outstanding pianistic qualities and all have acclaimed her musical intelligence, beauty of tone, as well as her technical skills which define her as a uniquely sensitive virtuoso performer.

In December 2010 she made her UK debut in London at St. Martin-in-the-Fields and played there again to standing ovations in December 2011.

Join us for this exclusive UK performance of Zoya Shuhatovich on Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 18:30 pm at the Steinway & Sons recital room at 44 Marylebone Lane, in London W1U 2DB.

During this all Chopin recital, Zoya will play the following pieces:

• Polonaise-Fantasie op.61

• Five mazurkas:

1. op.6 # 2,  C# minor
2. op.24 # 4 F minor
3. op.30 # 2 B minor
4. op 33 # 4 B minor
5. op 50 # 3 C# minor

• Sonata # 3 op.58:

1. Allegro Maestoso
2. Scherzo Molto Vivace
3. Largo
4. Finale  Presto ma non troppo.

After the concert Steinway & Sons will serve refreshments during which you have the opportunity to meet with the Artist.

For directions to the Steinway hall, please click here. To preview the Steinway & sons facilities, including the recital hall, click here.

There is a limited amount of seats available and we strongly recommend reserving a seat. Please click here to R.S.V.P.

If you want to download and print a pdf version of the piano recital poster, please click on the link below.
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Campain report by Patrik Holford, 21 January 2012

Vitamin B3 (niacin) is the most effective substance, even better than statins, for both lowering LDL cholesterol, but importantly raising HDL. Niacin is usually given in doses of 1,000mg to 2,000mg, in a non-blushing or slow-release form since, in high doses, it causes vasodilation.

There are many good reasons to supplement high dose niacin, which is both available on prescription and in health food stores. According to a major review of what works in the New England Journal of Medicine, “the most effective way” to lower cholesterol is with the B vitamin niacin (also called B3), not statin drugs.[1]

A number of studies show that it is effective not only in raising the good HDL by as much as 35%, but also in reducing LDL by up to 25%. By way of comparison, statins only raise HDL by between 2% and 15%. Niacin also reduces levels of two other markers for heart disease – lipoprotein(a) and fibrinogen, the latter of which is also involved in binding lipoproteins to the artery. Niacin is more effective than any drug for lowering lipoprotein(a), another marker for heart disease risk, lowering high levels by about a third when high doses of niacin, 1 gram or more, are given for several months. One study from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, reported a 35 per cent decrease in lipoprotein(a) after 26 weeks on niacin [2]. Other studies have shown the same thing and a recent review concludes that no drugs really do this effectively and that ‘the strongest effects are seen with niacin at high doses.’ [3]

The most obvious side-effect of taking fairly high doses is a blushing effect which is diminished by taking with food, but non-blush or extended-release niacin is now easily available. Other reported side-effects include dyspepsia (indigestion), raised plasma glucose and uric acid levels, although these last two have not been confirmed in recent studies. Overall, it has nothing like the side-effects associated with statins. Niacin was actually discovered to lower cholesterol back in the 1960′s, as a ‘side-effect’ of giving high doses to those with schizophrenia as a highly effective therapy pioneered by the late Dr Abram Hoffer. So, it has only taken 50 years for this discovery to come to market, largely because drug companies have explored ways of combining it with substances, or processes that effectively ‘slow release’ it, which can be patented. You can buy straight niacin for very little, and while taking 500mg twice a day will produce major flushing for the first couple of days, the blushing soon diminishes as long as you keep going. A recent big review of niacin trials found that because it had a “markedly beneficial” effect on a particularly dangerous combo of risk factors – a low level of the good cholesterol HDL and high levels of triglyceride fats in the blood – it might be particularly useful in treating people heading towards diabetes [4]. Studies have shown that it inhibits atherosclerosis, reduces risk of heart attack and, if taken over 15 years lowers risk of death [v]. The strongest evidence, however, has come from trials combining statins with niacin [5]. I suspect that, as the patents for statin drugs run out the option of getting a patent of a combination of niacin plus drug, is seen as one way to extend the process of making money from statins.

However, all was going well until a study called AIM-high, combining niacin with statins last year was stopped because the niacin wasn’t adding benefit to the drug regime [6]. The study gave two groups aggressive statin therapy plus either 2,000mg of slow-release niacin or a ‘placebo’ of 50mg of niacin – enough to induce a vasodilatory blush hence to ‘disguise’ whether a person was in the ‘active’ treatment group or not. There was no difference in risk between the two groups of a cardiovascular event. I suspect the most likely reason is that the statins interfered with the ability of nutrients to make a difference. Another possibility is that the so-called placebo actually had a beneficial, hence contributing to no perceivable difference between the two groups. (Click here if you’d like to hear a debate on this trial from one of the authors.) [Link to see speaker below] What we really need is a niacin vs statin trial, but that’s not in the interest of the pharmaceutical industry who make lots of money from statins and fund most of these trials.

My recommendation, especially if you have low HDL, would be to take the niacin instead of the statin. After all, it lowers LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and Lp(a), raises HDL, has clinical evidence of reducing risk of cardiovascular disease and death, and is a naturally occurring nutrient, with no side-effects beyond the blushing effect.

You need 1,000mg a day for a therapeutic effect. Some people take 500mg of pure niacin twice a day with a meal and report the blushing stops after a few days. (best to try 100mg first, twice a day will meals until the blushing effect subsides – it lasts for about 20 minutes). You can also get a slow-release form of niacin, called Niaspan, on prescription. There’s also a non-blushing form called inositol hexanicotinate. How well this lowers cholesterol isn’t known since it hasn’t been tested in clinical trials.

Don’t forget, members of my 100% Health Club have full access to 100s of Special Reports and Newsletters online. You too can become a member from only £9.99 a quarter and experience all the health benefits that being in the 100% Health Club gives you – visit here for more information.

Wishing you the best of health,

Patrick

[1] M.D. Ashen and R.S. Blumentahl, ‘Clinical Practice. Low HDL cholesterol levels’, New England Journal of Medicine, 2005; 353(12):1252-60
[2] D. Holmes, ‘An answer to angina’, Holistic Health, 1995; 46:20-23
[3] I. Gouni-Berthold, HK Berthold, ‘Lipoprotein(a): Current Perspectives’, Current vascular pharmacology, 2 May 2011. [Epub ahead of print]
[4] M. J. Chapman, et al., ‘Niacin and fibrates in atherogenic dyslipidemia: Pharmacotherapy to reduce cardiovascular risk’, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2010; 126(3):314–45
[5] P.L. Canner, K.G. Berge, et al., ‘Fifteen year mortality in Coronary Drug Project patients: long-term benefit with niacin’, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1986; 8, 1245−1255.
[6] M. John Chapman, P. Giral, et al., ‘Niacin and fibrates in atherogenic dyslipidemia: Pharmacotherapy to reduce cardiovascular risk’, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2010; 126:314–345
[7] AIM-High Investigators, ‘Niacin in patients with low HDL cholesterol levels receiving intensive statin therapy’ New England Journal of Medicine, 2011 November 15

Click here to see Patrik’s article on his website

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Often you hear complaints about guest service when staying in hotels or visiting restaurants. And sometimes you are totally surprised and delighted by their actions and want to share the experience with others. Here is a story of great service to warm your heart.

After staying at the Premier Inn Thetford recently, I (Alison) left my special travel bear ‘Frugal” behind.  Mortified at this I called the hotel to find the bear was safe and sound and waiting to be rescued.

A few days later the bear arrived home in a Royal Mail special delivery bag with a wonderful letter from Peter the Receptionist at the Premier Inn Thetford which said:

‘Mrs Snelling, I feel a bit guilty that this poor bear has travelled to you in a plastic bag! I hope it is not too traumatised from the travel, and that it has reached you in a good condition. Because this bear is really important to you, I have sent it Special Delivery. Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience this has caused you, I hope that this has restored your faith in Premier lnn and the team that work here in Thetford’.

Frugal, looking somewhat dissheveled after his journey in a plastic bag

I was really happy to read the letter and it made me reflect on what a fantastic impact can be created through emotionally engaging with the guest.  Because the Receptionist, Peter, took the time to recognise the bear was important to me and engaged with me through his letter, not only was I surprised  and delighted – I have been enthusiastically telling as many people as possible about this experience.

Engaging with guests is one of the behaviours Dieter and I feel passionate about and we build this learning into our work with clients. Emotional behaviour is learned by imitation and experience and to be authentic it has to be felt personally by the guest.  When we work with clients we work towards embedding engaging behaviours which are authentic and genuine and truly make a difference for guests.

Well done to Peter at Premier Inn Thetford for demonstrating these behaviours so successfully.

Thank you also for making my day!

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Last month, Alison and I attended a “Happiness at work” conference in the Cotswold Conference Center.
We had heard about the concept of Happiness as government policy for a couple of years. Much has happened since the King of Bhutan launched this concept based on the principle that every human being aspires for happiness, so governments should be measured on how well they contribute to happiness.

In July this year, the UN General Assembly called on United Nations Member States to undertake steps that give more importance to happiness and well-being in determining how to achieve and measure social and economic development.

In November 2010, UK Prime Minister David Cameron declares to make happiness the new GDP and acts on his pledge to find out what makes the nation content.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy is leading the way. One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Sarkozy launched an inquiry into happiness, commissioning Nobel prize-winning academics Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen to look at how the relentless search for a rise in GDP sometimes trampled over a government’s other goals, such as sustainability and work-life balance.

These examples suggest that we can expect a tremendous increase in the focus on happiness by governments, corporations and multinational organisations.

Personally, I believe that happiness is the future, as it is a dimension that embraces wellbeing in many aspects. Social, economical, physical, spiritual dimensions are all covered with the term happiness. I have reason to believe that happiness will replace profit as the only corporate goal during my life time. GDP as the only measurement of success will soon be a thing of the past.

That’s why we at Urban Healing create tools for companies and individuals to help make behavioural changes that lead to sustainable happiness.

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In Dying To Have Known, filmmaker Steve Kroschel went on a 52-day journey to find evidence to the effectiveness of the Gerson Therapy — a long-suppressed natural cancer cure.

I first heard about the Gerson Therapy during a fasting retreat at Dharma Healing International on the tropical island of Koh Samui in Thailand. I heard it was a very effective treatment to beat cancer but that is was very controversial. Then I read about Prince Charles being rebuked during a medical conference in 2004 for daring to suggest to look further into the research done by Dr. Max Gerson. Most doctors outright reject even the thought of considering Gerson Therapy in the treatment of degenerative diseases. However, few if any actually spent time in reviewing the results achieved or invested in further research as suggested by Prince Charles. This film gives a good insight into the denial to investigate by the medical establishment while encouraging the viewer to make up their own mind about the potential to give this treatment more attention.

The filmaker’s travels take him across both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, from upstate New York to San Diego to Alaska, from Japan and Holland to Spain and Mexico. In the end, he presents the testimonies of patients, scientists, surgeons and nutritionists who testify to the therapy’s efficacy in curing cancer and other degenerative diseases, and presents the hard scientific proof to back up their claims.

You will hear from a Japanese medical school professor who cured himself of liver cancer over 15 years ago, a lymphoma patient who was diagnosed as terminal over 50 years ago as well as noted critics of this world-renowned healing method who dismiss it out of hand as “pure quackery.”

So the question that remains is, “Why is this powerful curative therapy still suppressed, more than 75 years after it was clearly proven to cure degenerative disease?” The viewers are left to decide for themselves.

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	SpaTRAINER™ ‘Deliver brilliant training in your spa’ “Any spa who considers training to be an essential element of excellence should consider this workshop” 29 November – 1 December 2011 Urban Healing Training Centre Blisworth Hill Farm, Northampton Nearest airports: London Luton (LTN) and Birmingham (BHX) Only GBP 850 – plus VAT per learner 6 learner places available so book TODAY to secure your place! +44 1604 859 441 book online now download brochure
SpaTRAINER™ is a powerful 3-day workshop that will inspire you to design and deliver successful training. It incorporates the best practice of trainer training, whilst focusing specifically on the needs of trainers in the Spa and Wellness community. We pride ourselves on developing and delivering high quality bespoke learning initiatives, ask anyone who has attended one of our workshops and they will confirm this. We set ourselves high standards and consequently you our learners benefit and are inspired to change. For more information about how are exciting November’s workshop can improve your training performance contact us NOW on +44 1604 859 441
	“SpaTRAINER™ was insightful, it gave me loads of ideas and the confidence boost I needed in order to deliver fun, interactive and interesting training sessions!” (Aoife Murphy, Assistant Spa Manager, Nádúr Spa, Ballygarry House Hotel, Ireland)“SpaTRAINER™ develops trainers skills to make spa training more effective at any level. Urban Healings workshop inspires and motivates the trainers to want to be the best they can be.” (Tina Herridge, Head Therapist, SenSpa New Forest, UK)

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Join James Wong, an ethno-botanist from the UK, in this exciting show airing on the BBC in the UK.
In this episode James talks about wild harvesting fruits and berries, including Goji berries. He then shows a fantastic flu fighting winter soup recipe loaded with medicinal foods. If you are a vegetarian you can make this soup without the chicken but if you do eat chicken make sure it’s organic and free range!

James and Laurentine, Producers and Directors of ‘Food Matters’ write on their website foodmatters.tv  that what James Wong is doing with this show is fantastic, raising the awareness of introducing more medicinal foods into our diets in a whole and natural form (and bringing this into the mainstream consciousness).

Grow your own drugs: an interview with James Wong

Plants can be much more than a pretty backdrop to life. Read this and you’ll never look at a garden in the same way again.

You’re probably using plant based remedies on a daily basis without realizing it. There’s something about the word ‘drugs’ that makes you think of cannabis plants, lines of coke or white pills in a packet (bought over the counter or through dodgy deals).

Very few people consider dandelions, nettles and mint growing in the back garden as ‘drugs’.

Growing and using plants as remedies is nothing new. But all too often natural remedies get labeled as, at best, ‘alternative’; at worst ‘mumbo-jumbo’ or new age quackery.

So this is exactly why the BBC series ‘Grow your own drugs’, was so intriguing. It was presented by James Wong, who certainly doesn’t look or act like a hippie. Rather, he’s an ethnobotanist (ethnobotany is the science of studying how people use plants) who trained at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. Here was a fresh faced, groovy 27-year-old guy showing us how to make the likes of sage and raspberry leaf tea for women’s hot flushes and a garlic foot bath for Athlete’s Foot.

The idea of growing your own drugs smashes through the mainstream conventional conception of what drugs look like and where we get them from. It also radically changes the way we look at gardens and the role of plants in them.

‘Understanding the medicinal use of plants around us is not some superhuman or supergeeky ability but is actually the way in which every other culture on earth sees plants – the way, in fact, that we all did until a few short decades ago,’ Wong says.

Not just a pretty plant

Nowadays we tend to view plants as pretty objects. Although more people are beginning to grow their own fruit and veg, the chances are, most of the garden will be dedicated to ornamental plants with only a small patch for food.

In rural Malaysia where Wong grew up it was the other way round. ‘There “ornamental” is one of the many uses of plants. 90 percent of the garden is grown for use’, he says.

His family garden was filled with flowers and plants grown for medicinal and food purposes. He remembers watching his grandmother pour mixtures of pungent spices and brightly colored roots from the garden into a huge stone pestle and mortar, then ground them up into a fragrant mixture to make remedies to soothe mosquito bites or a cold.

‘I was bought up to see plants as solutions in life – not just a pretty backdrop too it,’ he says.

It is this way of seeing plants that he hopes he can spread in the UK. Since he moved here in 1999 he’s been applying this ethos, growing plants in his mother’s garden in South London (he shares a flat that doesn’t have one).

He’s keen to break down the distinction between natural and conventional medicine. ‘A lot of people here put a big black line between traditional plant remedies and conventional ones. Yet up to 50 percent of the world’s top conventional drugs are originally derived from natural sources. Major drugs such as aspirin, morphine, penicillin have natural origins.’

The World Health Organisation estimates that in some African and Asian countries up to 80 percent of the population relies on plant-based medicine as the key form of healthcare, and actively promotes its use. Scientists estimate there are up to 50,000 potential medicinal plant species.

Drugs in disguise

In fact you’re probably using plant based remedies on a daily basis without realizing it. Common ones include mint, thyme, chilli and garlic. So accustomed are we to viewing these as food and flavor enhancers that it’s good to find out – or be reminded – that trapped within these cells are biologically active chemicals with proven medicinal properties, many of which are commonly found in over-the-counter drugs.

Take chilli. Anyone who eats a spicy curry when they have a cold to clear it – the same chemical is used in loads of over the counter drugs,’ says Wong. ‘Coffee is another one – a traditional remedy for fatigue that’s been used for thousands of years.’

Many of the ‘drugs’ Wong talks about are easy to grow – as easy as keeping a bunch of basil or mint in glasses of water on a kitchen window sill. The majority of his ‘Top 100 Plants’ he lists in the back section of his book, Grow Your Own Drugs, (£16.99 HarperCollins) will ‘happily root in your back garden.’ Otherwise you can find them in hedgerows or buy them from garden centres, health shops or online.

Making a remedy can be as simple as pouring hot water over some mint leaves. Wong’s book has over 60 recipes for teas, tinctures (chopped plants steeped in alcohol), herb infused-honey, vinegars, infused oils, balms, gargles, syrups, sweets – ‘all easy, cheap and fun to make.’ It’s a far cry from popping a pill and in these frugal times they have the advantage of being cheap.

More plants, less pills?

Does he think we take too many pills? ‘I didn’t study medicine enough to be able to answer that,’ he says, diplomatically.

Whatever your stance on natural or ‘conventional’ remedies it certainly makes sense to pop less pills. As John Naish writes in the Ecologist article ‘Drugs on tap’ the implications of our pill-for-every-ill culture go far beyond the adverse effects on human health. The complex chemicals in modern pharmaceuticals, as well as the manufacturing processes involved, leave a massive industrial footprint on the natural world, contaminating the food chain and our drinking water. As he also points out, swallowing more over-the-counter (OTC) painkillers makes people increasingly prone to ‘rebound headaches’ – headaches caused by withdrawal symptoms from OTC painkillers which encourages habitual pill-poppers to take more painkillers, and the costly cycle continues.

Does Wong still take pills? ‘Yes! I was told off for buying it in a supermarket. Someone said to me, “I can’t believe you’re buying this – the program was another BBC scam”.’

But he says they were wrong for two reasons. First, just because you make your own doesn’t mean you can’t also use conventional drugs. Second, even in the areas of the world where people rely on plant based medicine for health they still mix and match. ‘My grandmother would dish out aspirin and a traditional remedy like chicken soup to boost the immune system. When people take herbal medicine in other parts of the world, it’s not a lifestyle choice. It’s practicality,’ he says. They need solutions that are ‘cheap, easy and quick to prepare – basically made from the contents of their backyard.’

The trouble with plant remedies is citing the evidence. Whilst there is a funding structure to develop trials around pharmaceutical drugs, very few companies have a commercial interest in funding trials on plant preparations. Wong’s book includes a number of disclaimers – results will vary from person to person, consult a doctor before trying natural remedies, and particularly if you are on any other medication, check for allergies, make sure you have identified the plants you use correctly, and so on.

He may be wary of making claims and diverting people from conventional drugs but what he does well is stand up for natural remedies. It’s about time someone with a big, wide reaching voice did just that and gave credit where credit is due.

Natural remedies are sometimes portrayed as wishy washy and ineffective. His book and TV series reveal that many plants contain the same active ingredients as over the counter drugs. Get growing!

TOP TEN SUPERSTAR MEDICINAL FOODS FOR YOUR VEGGIE PATCH

Even in the smallest garden, you can create a complete medicinal herb patch. With space at premium, you need to make sure that each plant is really earning its keep.

Below is a list of the top ten plants that are as versatile as they are effective.

• Chamomile (Matricaria recutita) – soothes indigestion and colic, eases tension, and is good for skin irritations.

• Echinacea – boosts the immune system, and lessens the severity of colds and flu

• Lavender – calms and relaxes, eases pain and is antiseptic for cuts and bruises.

• Lemon balm – soothes nervous tension and anxiety, promotes sleep, and is good for cold sores.

• Marigold (Calendula officinalis) – good for sunburn, and for acne and spots, soothes ulcers and digestive problems.

• Peppermint – good for digestion, wind and headaches.

• Rosemary – helps memory and concentration, improves mood, sweetens breath.

• Sage – for coughs, colds and congestion, hot flushes.

• St John’s Wort – anti-depressant and promotes skin healing

• Viola (Viola tricolor) – anti-inflammatory, good for eczema and skin eruptions, and loosens phlegm.

If you have a greenhouse you can boost the contents of your herbal cabinet by growing useful but tender plants such as ginger and cucumber. If you have a windowsill only, an aloe vera plant is a great option.

Many of the above plants can simply be taken as a tea (wash, chop and steep in hot water for 10 minutes).

Source: www.theecologist.org/green…

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Obesity in America has reached a crisis point. Two out of every three Americans are overweight, one out of every three is obese. One in three are expected to have diabetes by 2050. Minorities have been even more profoundly affected. African-Americans have a 50 per cent higher prevalence of obesity and Hispanics 25 per cent higher when compared with whites. How did the situation get so out of hand?

In this episode of Fault Lines, Josh Rushing explores the world of cheap food for Americans living at the margins. What opportunities do people have to eat healthy? Who is responsible for food deserts and processed food in American schools? Fault Lines finds food revolutions taking place and speaks with the people that are fighting back.

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Blisworth, 27 June 2011

Today marks Urban Healing Company’s 4th birthday. We started on 27 June 2007 in Bangkok as a learning and development company, initially focusing on the spa and wellness community.

Since then we have extended our scope of work and geographical reach to the Middle East, Europe and the UK and now offer bespoke solutions in the areas of people development, well-being through change, responsible business and service excellence across a range of industries.

We are very happy having been able to measurably contribute to the success and well-being of so many teams and individuals. The need to combine business success with sustainable wellness of all stakeholders is ever increasing and we are full of confidence and optimism about the future where we will continue to support our existing and future clients with outstanding service and dedication.

We like to thank all our clients, partners, suppliers and supporters for the great cooperation and support over the last four years.

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