If you use the link provided below, with every purchase of a $15 general admission ticket, the buyer pays only $10 and Healthy Lombard receives a donation from the Red Stars Soccer Team!

Tickets may be purchased on line at http://chicagoredstars.com/healthylombard/ or use the QR code above.

MAKE SURE YOUR USE THE PROM CODE: HEALTHY

AND ENTER IT BEFORE YOU CHOOSE

THE NUMBER OF TICKETS YOU ORDER

IF THE CODE IS ACCEPTED,  

A HEALTHY LOMBARD ORDER LINE WILL APPEAR.

ENTER THE NUMBER OF TICKETS YOU NEED THERE

TO RECEIVE THE DISCOUNT.

If you are not registered for the Healthy Lombard Flat Apple Summer Activity, go on-line to participate at: www.healthylombard.org/2014flatapple or use the link in the blue/purple bar at the top of very Healthy Lombard web page. You will receive a copy of our logo when your registration is confirmed. You can print it out from the email, or if you click on the logo when you open the confirmation on your cell phone or computer, it will download it into your photos.

Stop by the Healthy Lombard table upon arriving at the Red Stars Game to fill in a “Bite of the Apple” raffle ticket.  Then earn another ticket each time you share a Healthy Hint to be broadcasted on Healthy Lombard’s cable show, Health Local.

BTW,  take a “Healthy Selfie” of yourself/child attending the game with Flat Apple, the Healthy Lombard logo, included in the photo.  Then e-mail that photo to jay@healthylombard.com.  Include your name and phone number with email. (This provides a way for Healthy Lombard to find your registration and adds in two additional e- raffle tickets for you.) *Registering grants permission for photo to be posted on the Healthy Lombard Internet sites.

Questions? Email Jay at jay@healthylombard.com or phone: 630-916-0519.

The Village of Hoffman Estates Department of Health and Human Services will offer back-to-school physicals for school-age children from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Mondays Aug. 4 and Aug. 18 at village hall, 1900 Hassell Road.

Physicals are available for children attending preschool to grade 12 and will be performed by physicians from Alexian Brothers Medical Group.

The cost for a clinic physical is $10 for uninsured or AllKids and $30 for those who are insured. Only cash or checks will be accepted. Appointments for these clinics are recommended, but walk-ins will be accepted. Call (847) 781-4850 to schedule an appointment or get more information.

Fibromyalgia is more than just a sentence to a life of chronic pain. There may be innovative and natural ways to manage your fibromyalgia that you haven’t considered.

New information shows that 40-60% of patients with fibromyalgia may have some component of vitamin D deficiency. Also, 81% of fibromyalgia patients report irregular bowel habits. These and other findings show that lifestyle and nutritional interventions may help in many cases.

Would you like to learn more about managing fibromyalgia? Attend our free “Get Educated” presentation on: “Why I Hurt: The Truth Behind Fibromyalgia.”

When: Monday July 28th at 7:00pm

Where: NUHS Whole Health Center – Lombard

200 E Roosevelt Rd

Lombard, IL 60148

Building B, Room 539

The Daily Herald posted this bit of information today:

Case reports in medical journals detail nickel allergies from personal electronic devices, including laptops and cellphones. But it was an Apple iPad that caused an itchy body rash in this 11-year-old boy recently treated at a San Diego hospital, according to a report in Pediatrics. Nickel rashes aren’t life-threatening but they can be very uncomfortable, and they may require treatment with steroids, and antibiotics if the skin eruptions become infected, said Dr. Sharon Jacob, an associate professor and dermatologist at the University of California, San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital, where the boy was treated.

Here’s a book that has me rethinking how I shop.  It is ased on ten years of surveying farming communities around the world, Barber’s The Third Plate offers a radical new way of thinking about food.

The Third Plate is grounded in the history of American cuisine over the last two centuries. Traditionally, we have dined on the “first plate”, a classic meal centered on a large cut of meat with few vegetables. Thankfully, that’s become largely passé. The farm-to-table movement has championed the “second plate”—where the meat is from free-range animals and the vegetables are locally-sourced.  It’s better tasting, and better for the planet, but the second plate’s architecture is identical to the first. It, too, is damaging–disrupting the ecological balances of the planet, causing soil depletion and nutrient loss–and in the end it is not a sustainable way to farm or eat. Continue reading →