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14 February/March 2011 The Vine, BriarPatch’s Community Newsletter Heart Health Nurture your heart health with joy and gratitude We know t h i s : eating well, exercise, and relaxation are integral aspects of optimal heart health. What does that look like for you? How do you manage to bring balance into your daily life to include a satisfying effectiveness in your personal and/or professional environment—as well as the essentials: shopping for and cooking healthful meals, moving your body on a regular basis, and cultivating a routine quieting/self-soothing practice? Each of us will take care of our physical and emotional hearts in our own way, using our unique perspectives, priorities, and resources to cultivate the balance that will support our heart health. This individuality fits into the framework of the essentials. Eating well, shopping locally, and avoiding processed foods are topics familiar to many BriarPatch shoppers; I am inviting you to contemplate the opportunities around fitness, quieting, and positivity. Routine fitness is important. It need not be Olympic effort—it’s the duration of Studies validate that feelings of joy, contentment, and gratitude are associated with a commitment to being well by engaging in healthful daily life choices. each session and the frequency with which you exercise that is relevant. Choose an activity that is pleasurable, comfortable, and convenient, and one that can be done for (ultimately) 30 minutes non-stop, and four to six times per week. Individualized exercise programs are determined by your current level of fitness and general health considerations. Your physical heart health is benefitted by eating well and exercising regularly, yet there is a greater value to nurturing your emotional heart health. Studies validate that feelings of joy, contentment, and gratitude are associated with a commitment to being well by engaging in healthful daily life choices. The same studies demonstrate that feelings of anger, sadness, loneliness, By Robin Mallery, RN and resentment are closely linked with unhealthy daily life choices and ultimately, with disease. That’s powerful medicine—within your thoughts and emotions lay the ability to change your physiology. Experiencing daily joy and gratitude is a practice; the more often they are invited in and their presence acknowledged, the more familiar they become. The physical body responds to this practice by decreasing catecholamines (stress hormones), lowering systemic inflammation, softening blood The same studies demonstrate that feelings of anger, sadness, loneliness, and resentment are closely linked with unhealthy daily life choices and ultimately, with disease. vessels to lower blood pressure, slowing down the heartbeat, and changing brain activity from busy/hectic to quiet/relaxed. These shifts in our physiology, related to the positivity of joy and gratitude, create the pleasant-to-navigate path to Routine fitness is important. It need not be Olympic effort—it’s the duration of each session and the frequency with which you exercise that is relevant. optimal health and well-being. Celebrate your heart: move through the day with mindfulness, sit quietly, express gratitude, share blessings, and honor your physical self with nourishing foods and activities. Because your heart matters! Robin Mallery, RN is the founder of HeartMatters, a behavior-change healthmanagement program for busy people. Robin works with her clients to achieve their Health Vision by incorporating small-step daily goals that lead to pleasant and sustainable health behaviors. Learn more at http://www.heartmatters.pro.
The Vine, BriarPatch’s Community Newsletter February/March 2011 15 Get back to BriarPatch basics Brown Cow Lowfat Yogurt all avors 6 ounces 89¢ 123456-789012 12345 T We w a n t b a s i c healthful foods to be affordable to everyone, so we offer the foods and products listed here at a discount every day. Look for the bright new shelf tags! Bulk Beans, Legumes, Grains, Flours Green Lentils, organic Pinto Beans, organic Brown Rice, Long Grain, organic Thai Jasmine White Rice Flour, Whole Wheat, organic Cornmeal, organic Rolled Oats Peanut Butter, organic Tofu, bulk (in Produce Dept.) Produce, organic Apples, Red Delicious Oranges, Navel & Valencia Bananas Potatoes, Russet Carrots, Loose Celery Broccoli Meat & Poultry Ground Turkey, natural Ground Beef Ground Chuck Bacon Dairy Products Clover Unsalted & Salted Butter, 1 lb. Clover Organic Whole Milk, 1 gal. Clover Organic 2%, 1% Milk, 1 gal. Clover Organic Fat Free Milk, 1 gal. Tillamook Med. Cheddar Cheese, 2 lb. Nancy’s Plain Low fat Yogurt, 4 lb. Brown Cow Yogurt, all flavors, 6 oz Grocery Goods Field Day Spaghetti Pasta, 1 lb. Muir Glen Organic Tomato Basil Sauce Pacific Organic Chicken Broth, 32 oz. Nature’s Path Heritage Flakes Cereal, 32 oz. Pamela’s Products Gluten Free Baking & Pancake Mix, 4 lbs. Imagine Rice Beverage, orig. & vanilla, 32 oz. New Morning Graham Crackers Juice and Kombucha Santa Cruz Apple Juice, 96 oz. Uncle Matt’s Orange Juice, 59 oz. High Country Kombucha, all flavors Millennium Synergy Kombucha, all Vibranz Kombucha, all flavors Baby Stuff Earth’s Best Baby Foods Healthy Times Baby Foods Earth’s Best Diapers, Stages 1-5 G-Diapers Nature Babycare Diapers, all sizes Dry Goods Field Day Toilet Paper, 4-pack Natracare Feminine Hygiene Products Seventh Generation Feminine Hygiene Products Body Care Sappo Hill Soap, Oatmeal Nature’s Gate Herbal Daily Shampoo Nature’s Gate Herbal Daily Conditioner Jason Power Smile Toothpaste Tom’s Silly Strawberry No-Fluoride Toothpaste (Children’s) Alba Stick Deodorant Supplements Rainbow Light Just Once Multi-Vit. 30 Tabs Nature’s Life Basic C, 500 mg. Source Naturals Wellness Formula In the Patch Smart chicken means sustainable chicken he importance of having a more sustainable product in this day and age is clear, but what makes a chicken producer, like Smart Chicken®, sustainable? There are many aspects of chicken farming and processing that can allow a company to be more sustainable. Factors include where eggs and feed come from, what water sources are used, and where the final products are shipped. While Smart Chicken® comes from Nebraska, several states away from BriarPatch, the Great Plains are ideal for producing sustainable chicken due to being near to all of the local natural resources needed for producing chicken. The company claims, in fact, that “There is no poultry company in the country more strategically located to limit adverse environmental impacts than Smart Chicken®.” Here’s a quick overview of poultry resources: Eggs Nearly all of the country’s eggs that hatch into broiler chickens come from the Missouri/Arkansas area and throughout the Southeastern United States. Feed Nearly every All-Natural Grain Fed and Organic chicken in the United States is fed a diet of corn and soybean meal. More than 50% of the feed corn in the United States is grown in the five states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska. Soybeans also come primarily from this area, with 51% of U.S. soybeans grown in those same five states. Water While water usage is of particular concern in a large portion of the United States (including California), the Ogallala Aquifer—the largest underground aquifer in North America and one of the largest in the world sits underneath Nebraska. Jason Siebert of Smart Chicken® compares the advantages of raising chickens in Nebraska with production in other regions of the U.S.: “Think of a poultry company from the coast that has to ship their eggs from the Southeast, ship 12 pounds of grain feed per chicken—the amount of grain it takes to raise a Smart Chicken® to maturity—from the “Corn Belt,” and use one to two cups of their local water source per chicken, per day; they then ship their products locally. Now consider Smart Chicken®. We bring in our eggs from nearby states, purchase local grain feed, utilize an almost unlimited local water source, and only ship the final products.”
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