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This edition includes information Greenmarkets in NYC, excerpts from an interview with the author of "Your Body's Many Cries for Water", tips for drinking more water, and a recipe for Crunchy Vegetable Slaw.

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This month's newsletter includes:

1. Quotes of the month
2. Link of the month
3. July's Recipe: Crunchy Vegetable Slaw
4. Five Ways to Drink more Water Every Day
5. Interview with author of "Your Body's Many Cries for Water"
6. 6-Month Counseling Program
7. More about Katherine Jamieson, Holistic Health Counselor

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QUOTES OF THE MONTH

Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.

-- Linda Hogan, Northern Lights, Autumn 1990

Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.

--H. Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

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LINK OF THE MONTH

New York City GREENMARKETS
www.cenyc.org

The Council on the Environment of New York City website has the current updated list of greenmarkets all over the city. Greenmarkets are a great way to buy affordable, just-picked, fresh produce, which has a noticeably different quality from supermarket produce. The website also has information on environmental education projects, waste prevention and recycling, reducing noise pollution and ways to detox your home of common chemicals.

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JULY RECIPE

This is a delicious, refreshing mid-summer dish that was labeled "tha bomb" by one of the younger participants in my last hands-on cooking class. If that's not enough of an endorsement, I don't know what is!

Crunchy Vegetable Slaw

Ingredients: (serves 4)
5 stalks of bok choy (about 1/2 a head), thinly sliced
1/2 a small red onion, thinly sliced
1 granny smith apple, sliced
1/2 cup of alfalfa sprouts (optional)

Dressing:
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
2 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar (or lemon juice)
1/4 cup olive oil
2 teaspooons honey or brown rice syrup
Salt and black pepper to taste

Directions:
1. In a bowl combine all ingredients.
2. Either eat immediately or chill for up to one hour and then
add the apples just before eating.

Variations:
-Use cabbage instead of bok choy.
-Use carrot slices instead of onion.
-Add fresh herbs like cilantro, parsley, mint or scallions.
-Double the dressing ingredients and use on leftover grains.

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FIVE WAYS TO DRINK MORE WATER EVERY DAY

With increased activity and exposure to sunlight, summer can be the season of dehydration if you don't begin to think more consciously about your water intake. The following are some simple tips to make sure you drink at least the minimum 8 glasses a day. Enjoy!

1. Drink two glasses of water each morning when you wake to rehydrate your body after sleep and start the pattern of hydration for the day.

2. Drink water half an hour before you eat food so as not to interfere with digestion by diluting the stomach fluids. Also, avoid drinking during and shortly after meals.

3. Always carry a bottle of water around with you during the day. Make it a practice to have water available whenever you need it.

4. Reduce soda and other caffeinated beverages that dehydrate the body. If you do drink them, make sure to drink an extra glass of water for each caffeinated beverage you consume.

5. Notice if your cravings for sugar or snacks are reduced when you drink a glass of water. Sometimes people mistake thirst for hunger!

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ARTICLE: Interview with Dr. Batmanghelidgj, author of Your Body's Many Cries for Water

While serving his sentence as a political prisoner in an Iranian jail 21 years ago, Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D. successfully treated 3,000 fellow prisoners suffering from stress-induced peptic ulcer disease with the only medication he possessed at the time: water. From this experience he concluded that the body indicates its water shortage by producing pain.

Dr. Batmanghelidj-- also known as Dr. B or Dr. Batman - has spent most of his scientific life researching the link between pain and disease and chronic dehydration. Dr. B believes that most common health concerns, including heartburn, arthritis, backpain, angina, migraines, autoimmune disorders, colitis, asthma, high blood pressure and diabetes, are directly linked to a lack of adequate water intake.

Dr. Batmanghelidj, MD is best known for his provocatively titled book, "Your Body's Many Cries for Water" which has been translated into six languages. He gives exhaustive evidence and scientific backing for his theories, but they really boil down to one thing: DRINK MORE WATER. Most people realize that this is an important step toward health and wellness, but if you have any doubts about it, his work is a great motivator to imbibe your full 8 glasses a day!

More about Dr. Batmanghelidj, MD and his extensive work on dehydration can be found on his website, www.watercure.com.

Excerpts from Interview with Dr. Batmanghelidj

Dr. B: Chronic, unintentional dehydration is the origin of most pain and degenerative diseases in the human body. The body manifests dehydration in as many ways as we, in medicine, have invented diseases. Dry mouth is not a sign of dehydration and waiting to get thirsty is wrong. Thirst should be prevented. When the body doesn't receive water and you have pain, that is a sign of dehydration. The mouth is not dry.

Pain in the body is a crisis call of the body for water. If you have heartburn, your body is telling you it's short of water in your gastrointestinal track. You've had a heavy meal, there wasn't enough water to liquefy and break down the food and get it absorbed and it gives you pain. You didn't have a dry mouth because you swallowed all the food, but nonetheless, since you didn't have enough water in the body, it manifested dehydration by producing heartburn. Heartburn can be cured with water. I use the word "cured" because it is a sign of dehydration. When you cure dehydration, the disease will go.

Interviewer: So if you're having heartburn after a spicy dinner, just drink a bunch of water?

The best thing is to drink water before food. Drink water half an hour before food if you're a heartburn sufferer. That is the best time because that water will go into the stomach and then into the intestines and get absorbed. Then that water is re-secreted entirely in the stomach, simultaneously priming the mucus membrane to receive food. And, water is in the stomach to be used for liquefaction of food - to break it down, to prepare the food into smaller particles so they can be absorbed. That is what water does.

If you don't drink water beforehand, the body doesn't have enough water that it can liberate for other activity. Any water that is in your body is already engaged in an activity. You need fresh water for fresh activity. If you're introducing solid food, this is a fresh activity, you need fresh water to dissolve it and break it down.

Basically, the major pains of the body, such as, heartburn, rheumatoid joint pain, back pain, colitis pain, migraine headaches, fibromyalgic pain, even angina pain are signs of dehydration in the human body. Where you have pain, it's showing that that area is dehydrated. The mechanism is very simple. Toxic chemical waste builds up when you don't drink enough water. If there is not enough water to wash away the chemical toxic waste from an area that is still active metabolizing, then toxic waste builds up.

It is just like the garbage collector not collecting the garbage that you are still creating and putting it in front of the house to be cleared away. When that garbage doesn't get cleared away, in time it will become stagnant and it will produce stench in your environment. It is exactly the same in the environment of the cells in the body. When there is activity, there is a build-up of toxic waste. If that waste is not cleared up, the environment becomes pungent. It will become acidic and this acidic toxic environment is sensed by the nerve endings in the area. The signal is sent to the brain and the brain registers it with our conscious mind in the form of pain.

Pain means build up of toxic waste where you have the pain. All you need to do is to wash that toxic waste by drinking more water, letting it circulate to the area, clean the area, wash the toxic waste, bring it out into the circulation and then pass it out through the kidneys or neutralize it in the liver or some of the gases could be passed through the lungs. That's what pain means.

There are a 110 million Americans who have pain, not knowing that they didn't drink enough water to wash the toxic waste out of their body.

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6-MONTH HOLISTIC HEALTH COUNSELING PROGRAM

Nutrition is a fundamental aspect of health. The food we eat becomes part of our blood cells, which then feed our tissues and vital organs. When we eat food that has limited nutritional value, our cells weaken. When we eat quality foods our bodies reflect that nourishment through vitality, balance and joy.

Whole, natural foods--vegetables, whole grains, beans, fruits--are quality foods. By shifting your diet to healthy, balanced, quality foods, you can support your body to heal itself and prevent future disease.

My fully supported 6-month program includes :

-- Two one-on-one counseling sessions a month
-- Hands-on cooking classes
-- Health Food Store Tour
-- Books, tapes, and articles on health and wellness
-- Easy to cook recipes
-- Yoga, meditation and breathwork
-- Food and supplement samples
-- Reiki and massage

Working together, we will discuss all the issues that contribute to your relationship with health and nutrition. Often our health concerns arise from a lack of attention to our mental, physical, spiritual and emotional needs. Holistic health care addresses all of these needs equally. As a result of our work together you will feel healthier, more energized, and you will have the skills to maintain this state of wellness for years to come.

One-hour initial consultations about the 6-month Holistic Health Counseling Program are FREE.

Consultations are held in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Simply Living Well
80 E. 11th St, #336
Between Broadway and University
718-858-0031
Katherine@SimplyLivingWell.net

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ABOUT KATHERINE JAMIESON, HOLISTIC HEALTH COUNSELOR

Katherine was trained in Holistic Health Counseling through the Professional Training Program at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York, and certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. She was certified to teach yoga in 2001 through the New York Open Center Prana Yoga Teacher Training, instructed by Dr. Jeffrey Migdow, MD. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Wesleyan University.

Her practice combines cutting-edge, holistic nutritional theory and yoga breathing and postures, to help people address their health concerns and attain optimal health and well being in their lives. She has taught yoga and Holistic Health practices with the New York City Department of Health Wellness at Work program, the Hospital for Joint Diseases, and Beth Abraham Health Services. She has a private practice in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as lecturing and presenting at Health fairs and seminars.

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