Health & Wellness Section :: Page 26

• Fighting the bedbug bite

  By Megan BachmanOctober 17, 2013

  

  Yellow Springs, located in a region known as a bedbug hotspot, is not immune from the small blood sucking-parasite. Read more on how to prevent an infestation.

• Yellow Springers take a first look at Obamacare

  By Megan BachmanOctober 10, 2013

  On Tuesday, Oct. 1, a newly-created healthcare marketplace opened with a slew of new private health plans for individuals to choose from, along with government subsidies to make them affordable. From his initial research, Chris Glaser could save a lot of money.

• Yellow Springs art and health event takes donations for domestic violence shelters

  By YS News StaffOctober 8, 2013

  

  The Culpeper House will host an open house and artist reception on Friday, Oct. 18, 6–8 p.m.

• Dr. Van Ausdal hangs up his stethoscope

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 26, 2013

  

  Dr. Paul Van Ausdal is retiring after 34 years at Community Physicians, now a part of the Kettering Health Network. He will be feted at an open house at his office on Friday, Sept. 27, from 2 to 5 p.m. The public is invited.

• Yellow Springs Healers embrace holistic approach

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 19, 2013

  ust as 1960s counterculture icon Timothy Leary famously told fellow hippies to “tune in, turn on, drop out,” local holistic health practitioners Douglas Klappich and Deborah McGee have some advice today for health and healing: “Tune in, tone up, bliss out.”

• Yellow Springs healers embrace holistic approach

  By Megan Bachman

  Just as 1960s counterculture icon Timothy Leary famously told fellow hippies to “tune in, turn on, drop out,” a couple of self-described “New Age flower children” local holistic health practitioners have some advice today for health and healing.

• Yellow Springs foodies try a new vegan product that has yet to hit the commercial shelves

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 10, 2013

  

  Chef Tetsuko Okada came to town over the weekend to demonstrate the unlimited capacity of her new vegan food product to morph into a facsimile of almost any meat on the planet.

• Fighting West Nile in the village

  By Megan BachmanJuly 28, 2013

  

  To keep the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus at bay, local groups are urging residents to remove mosquito breeding sites on their property.

• New Reiki Gong business — A life path that veered to healing

  By Megan BachmanJuly 11, 2013

  Philip Love found in meditation and Eastern spirituality the enlightenment he once sought in a Messiah and a materialistic lifestyle and created his own unique practice that blends Tibetan Reiki healing with the Chinese practice of Qigong.

• Starflower says ‘no’ to GMO

  By Megan BachmanJune 27, 2013

  Starflower Natural Foods owner Marnie Neumann recently vowed to stop purchasing new items that contain GMOs for her store, saying that GMOs are both unhealthy to eat and bad for the environment. Soon Starflower may be completely GMO-free.