By Dr. Bryan Natusch

Have you burnt too many kale chips in the oven? I’ve come up with an updated recipe and cooking method that gets great tasting chips without the burn factor!

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 bunch fresh organic Kale (we like the frilly kind the best, but any leafy green will work)
• Olive Oil
• Sea Salt

DIRECTIONS:

Pre-heat oven to 350 deg.

Tear 1 bunch of KALE into 2-3 inch pieces, discarding the thick stalk

rinse off and put in bowl, use a few paper towels to get as much water off as possible.

Sprinkle Olive Oil on.. just enough to lighly coat everything (people often put too much on)

Lay out flat on baking sheet. The best results come from as much air flow around the leaves as possible, so we use a wire “vegetable roasting tray” typically used for grilling, but you can use oven safe drying racks, roasting pans with the vents in them, pizza sheets with the holes, etc.Season with a little SEA SALT (or other spices if you wish)

Put the trays into the oven and immediately turn the temperature down to 210 deg.

Do this 3 times (15 minutes total)  Usually by this point the frilly parts of the leaves and edges are getting morecrunchy.  If they’re still quite soggy, you may want to do an additional 5 minutes.Open the oven door for about 10 seconds every 5 minutes to let the steam out.

Then turn the oven off, leaving the kale trays in the oven for 30 – 45 minutes or longer.  Remove when ready(with the oven off you can leave it overnight, or during work, and take them out when you get back and they’ll be perfectly done!)

Remove from oven, share the healthy goodness with kids, family, and friends.

Some people crumble these up and put them over popcorn, over salad, or on sandwiches to give an extra nutritious kick!

Free Workshop
Legacy of Clean “Why Be Green”

At: Upper Valley Chiropractic

February 28th 2012 from 12:30pm to 1:30pmDo you have questions about biodegradable products?
Do you know the difference between biodegradable and hazardous waste products?
Do you question if you’re using the safest products for your family?
Do you or a love one suffer from illness that can’t be explained?
Are you are constantly reading labels and having a hard time determining what’s, what?

Then you need to go to Carri’s Free Workshop.
Get the right answers on Home products and Personal care products. It’s time to take control!

RSVP:  Facebook Event Site

Questions?

Contact: Carri Davis
ced03252@yahoo.com
603-393-0564

or
Upper Vallley Chiropractic

603-298-7400

Grand Opening for 3 businesses’ new locations:

• Upper Valley Chiropractic, PLLC
  • Dr. Bryan Natusch and Dr. Amber McLelland
• Bear Intent Massage Therapy and Bodywork
  • Tonimarie Tassinari, LMT
• Yogapiphany Yoga and Pilates Studio
  • Nicole Carriere and Team

Join us in celebration of the growth and expansion of these businesses to a beautiful new location at:

103 Hanover St., Lebanon, NH 03766

12 noon – 4 PM

Door Prizes, Games, Healthy Foods, Office Tours, Free Chair Massage

There will be fun for the whole family!  This will be an excellent event for pregnant women, newborns, babies, kids, teens, adults, athletes, active people, and those that want to rely less on medications and surgeries, more on whole body healthy living principles!

Meet: Garlic Mashed________.

Ingredients:

• 5-6 new potatoes
• 1 small yellow squash
• 1/2 of a medium zucchini
• 3-4 large cloves of garlic
• 1 large Chioggia Beet
• 2 Tbsp. Organic Butter
• Sprinkle of Sea Salt
• Dash of Ground Pepper
• 1-2 sliced up Green Onion shoots

Chop up the garlic, potatoes (skin ON), squash, zucchini, and beet into quarters or chunks then boil until it’s all soft.. 5-10 mins. Drain and add salt and pepper, and butter to taste. Next mash up all the ingredients until it’s well mixed together. Add in the Green Onion, mix a bit and there you have it!

Here’s a tasty alternative to the high glycemic regular mashed potatoes.. much more nutritious and lower glycemic for keeping that blood sugar down, energy up, and arteries healthier. This would be a great alternative for people with diabetes, too! If you could go without the potatoes altogether that would be even better!

Dr. Bryan Natusch and Dr. Amber McLelland, www.uppervalleychiropractic.com

Thanks to: Hurricane Flats Farm for your amazing food that sustains our family week after week…. and for your desire to be organic farmers as well as cart your goods to the Lebanon Farmers’ Market every Thursday from 4-7PM.

The transition is complete for our phone system at the new office.  Thanks to the technology available today, we’re able to keep the same great number you have known for the last 5 years!

Thanks for your patience with this, and we’re trying to make the transition as easy as possible.

Your wellness team at UVC

Dr. Bryan Natusch

Dr. Amber McLelland

Mary Decato

The 2400 sq. ft. office houses 2 exam rooms, a separate kids play room, exercise area as well as all the other amenities we had before.  We have two rooms to sublet to other health care practitioners, one of which has been leased to a massage therapist.  We’re excited about the new place and hope you will be too.   Can’t wait to see you there!

The phone number stays the same:  603-298-7400

Directions can be found here

Find us on facebook.com/uvchiro for photos of the build out process.

If you are

• a loving parent just trying to do something for your child as they go through the teething process,
• often using cough drops, throat sprays, canker sore/cold sore gels or liquids,
• using products to kill pain from cuts and scrapes

You NEED TO START READING LABELS of the products you use!!!! The life of your child or yourself is in jeopardy!!!!

The FDA has put out a new warning on products that contain an ingredient called Benzocaine. There is a condition resulting from it’s use carrying varying degrees of severity, with toddlers at the greatest risk because of their teething treatments. It’s called Methemoglobinemia, and it’s a direct result of benzocaine use where the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood is significantly reduced to the point of possible death!

“Benzocaine is a local anesthetic commonly used as a topical pain reliever. You can also find it in cough drops, throat sprays, and gels or liquids used for teething and canker sores (cold sores).

Over-the-counter benzocaine products are typically used for pain associated with cuts and scrapes, sore throats, canker sores, and teething. There are far safer alternatives to treat all of these discomforts.” See more info on this HERE on mercola.com

According to Drugs.com:

“Methemoglobinemia has been reported with all strengths of benzocaine gels and liquids, and cases occurred mainly in children aged two years or younger who were treated with benzocaine gel for teething.”

Drugs.com April 7, 2011

You should be reading your labels carefully anyway, but this is an ingredient you want to make sure NEVER enters anyone in your family again. The skin is your body’s largest organ and whatever you put ON the skin gets IN the body as well.. so remember that just because you’re not getting it in the mouth or in an open wound that you’re safe.

Every medication has side-effects which are actually your body’s toxic response to the chemicals and ingredients in the medication.. and there really is no such thing as a safe medication.

There are many all natural and safe ways to manage pain in general, as well as teething, throat pain and sore throats, cold sores and canker sores, cuts and scrapes, chronic pain, etc. Here’s a link to Dr. Mercola’s article for some great descriptions on these.

• Ice is the best pain reliever… keep them handy.. and apply 10 minutes for thinner body parts and 20 minutes for thicker parts. Never more than 20 minutes, but to optimize the process take it off for 30 minutes or more, then re-apply for another 10-20 and repeat. Make sure to keep a thin layer of fabric (like a cotton t-shirt) between the ice and your skin.
• For teething help: refrigerated teething rings, or frozen dampened washcloths, or even the mesh baby snack holders with frozen fruit in it work great. Also check on homeopathic teething tabs or liquids as these have been helpful, too.
• Raw Honey for: Sore Throats and wound care. See Dr. Mercola’s descriptions here for more info on how to use these.
• Canker Sores/Cold Sores are often an autoimmune response relating to chocolate, citrus, or wheat! Stop eating these foods and you’ll likely see an improvement.
• The best pain killer that’s 100% natural, powerful, and can be done anywhere without any cost is a self-administered form of emotional, needle-less acupuncture called EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique. We use this and recommend you learn it as well.

Also, don’t forget that the nerve system communicates the appropriate messages from your brain to your body, and from the body back to the brain for injury and wound feedback as well as healing response. Chiropractic checkups followed by regular chiropractic care and additional visits during challenging times are recommended to insure that optimal messages are getting through between the brain-body connection. This keeps the healing response optimal for the body and provides the foundation for the most speedy recovery possible.

Ask us if you have any questions about how chiropractic checkups may help you, or if you want ideas of other safe, all natural options for your family.

April 25, 2011 Bryan Natusch, DC, www.uppervalleychiropractic.com

Dr. Natusch and Dr. McLelland at 2011 Homelife Show Hanover, NH

Why do pregnant women, babies, children, or even athletes need chiropractic care?  Dr. Natusch and Dr. McLelland are at the home show teaching people why it’s vitally important to seek chiropractic care in these situations and others.

You can have a demonstration scan done on your neck that shows the NASA certified space technology used at Upper Valley Chiropractic to evaluate the functional efficiency of each person’s nerve system.  If there are any areas of nerve interference between your brain and your body, the scan shows colors like green, blue, or even red to show the severity!

You can also see the digital foot scanning system they use to evaluate your feet and determine if you’re prone to injury, fatigue, degeneration, or lack of strength and performance all based on a picture of your foot while standing!

Stop by to see some pictures of babies and kids getting adjusted for optimal health, or ask the doctors questions about how to improve the health and development of yourself or your family.  You can even find out how to get a free E-Book on their Facebook welcome page.

The show goes on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, March 25-27 2011.  See the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce site for more info.

If you would like to hear Dr. Amber McLelland and Dr. Bryan Natusch on the air more, or think it would be helpful, let us know too.

He was able to discuss the fact that chiropractic care is not just for people with back and neck pain, but for everyone with a spine and nerve system that wishes to have proper function of their body, improved healing and adaptation, better health, and to live long and live strong!  The age groups they work with are newborns all the way up through the elderly, with techniques that are comfortable and safe for each person.

They also talked about how important it is for people that feel fine to get a checkup because of the fact that 90% of the nerves in the body can’t be felt, and if there is interference or malfunctions in those areas, the only way to know is to have a chiropractic checkup.  These interferences can lead to decreased immune system response, low energy, problems focusing and cloudy thought, sensitivities and allergies, and organ problems like asthma, ear infections, digestive concerns, and much more.  On a physical level the same misalignments that cause interferences to the nerves also lead to faster degeneration of the bones and joints otherwise called arthritis, as well as being more prone to injuries.

Dru also had a question regarding sleep issues and how chiropractic may help with this.  Dr. Bryan mentioned that if there is subluxation or misalignment of the spine causing nerve intereferences in the body and brain, the body doesn’t clearly know when to shut down and sleep, or when to wake up and be active, but gets all jumbled and confused.  Dr. Bryan and Dr. Amber have seen many adults, children, and babies that note improved sleep habits when they are getting adjusted.

You can contact Dr. Bryan Natusch and Dr. Amber McLelland at www.uppervalleychiropractic.com for more information and questions, or you can call them at 603-298-7400.  The office, Upper Valley Chiropractic, PLLC. “A Family Health and Wellness Center” is located on 12A in West Lebanon, NH.  The address is 107 South Main St, West Lebanon, NH 03784.

Health, Money & Love

Upper Valley Family Focus Day

(Educational Workshops and Exhibits)

Saturday, November 7th, 9:30am – 3 pm

Lebanon College – 15 Hanover Street, Lebanon, NH

Admission w/Donation!

This event is put together by a group of professionals dedicated to improving the lives of others by educating families in the Upper Valley on Health, Financial and Relationship issues.  It is a fund raiser for the Hannah House, so just bring a package of diapers size 2, 3, or 4 as your donation!

www.uvfamilyfocus.org for registration and more information

Workshops and Exhibits Available:

• Putting Your Financial House in Order Leonid Palanov, CLU, ChFC, Financial Advisor
• Surviving & Thriving: Life, Work, and Kids Connie Ingalls, MFT, MS/PhD
• Discover Wellness: How Staying Healthy can Make You Rich Bryan Natusch, DC
• Planning for a Comfortable and Dignified Retirement Leonid Palanov, CLU, ChFC, Financial Advisor
• Legal Documents Every Family Must Have Michael J. Work, J.D., Attorney at Law
• Will You Be Ready When Your Child is Ready to go to College? Stephen Whitney
• Panel of Experts: Your questions answered in a panel setting
• Free Health Analysis with a Customized Solution of Natural Supplements.  Diana Bascom
• Massage and the Healing Arts.  Jenny Gelfan, MAed and P.J. Morgan, Massage Therapists.

Please Register by Friday 11/6 to help us prepare for the event!

See you there!

The Team At Upper Valley Chiropractic: Bryan Natusch, D.C., Amber McLelland, D.C., Jill Perkins, Certified CA