Health & Fitness
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Lomilomi Massage Master Coming to Santa Barbara
The Art of Making Room
Most massages are all about compression — pushing down on muscles, rubbing tight spots, and kneading knots away. Read story.
Healthy Kids Day
The Channel Islands YMCAs are teaming up to help put some healthy play back in your day with fun-filled and educational activities to encourage you and your child to adopt healthy behaviors and lifestyles. Read story.
Bici Centro
Bici Centro, the year-old community bicycle service at the Chicano Cultural Center, is about to have a home of its own. Read story.
The Vegan Monologues
For the past three years, I have chosen to give up something for Lent. Read story.
Investigating, Fixing Hidden Hunger
Wednesday Conference in Santa Barbara Addresses Global Micronutrient Deficiencies
Wednesday conference in Santa Barbara addresses global micronutrient deficiencies. Read story.
You Are What You Eat
Gerri French pulls a crowd at Adult Ed with her enticingly titled class, Food for Our Future. Read story.
Knock, Knock: Plow’s There
Farmers market right to your front door every week! Read story.
Cynthia Martin’s Solo Flight Addresses Bipolar Disorder
Certain illnesses become popular social issues — the “obesity epidemic” being a good example. The discussion around mental illness, however, tends to be stifled no matter what the political or social climate, and sufferers rarely have the will or the opportunity to speak out and inform the community. Read story.
Never Fear, Acupuncture Is Here
Nikki Doner-Sherwood, licensed acupuncturist and former clinic director of the Santa Barbara College of Oriental Medicine’s intern clinic, will be opening the Community-Centered Oriental Medicine Clinic on January 7, 2008. One year ago, the Santa Barbara College of Oriental Medicine announced it would be closing after 25 years of business. Read story.
No Gain for the Holidays
A few weeks ago, while treadmilling my way through an America’s Next Top Model marathon, I noticed a poster at the gym advertising a contest that promised $1,000 to the disciplined soul who could maintain her weight from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve. Read story.
Another Round of Meds Gets Pulled from Shelves
Gone, Baby, Gone
Over-the-counter (OTC) cough, cold, and allergy medicines for children younger than two years of age are now mercifully departed from drugstore shelves. Some people might be tempted to think that kids are safe from the harm these sickly sweet syrupy drugs (which have never been properly tested on young bodies) can — and have — wreaked. They would be wrong. Read story.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Don’t you just love it when treating yourself doubles as a way to contribute to a worthy cause? Santa Barbara-based skincare company TESS (Teen Everyday Skincare System) will support Breast Cancer Awareness Month by donating 10 percent of the proceeds from all pink — or strawberry — products purchased on the Web site (tessskin.com) during the month of October to the Santa Barbara Breast Cancer Research Center (bcrcsb.com). Read story.
Personal Retreats
“I think I need a vacation.” “I need some ‘me’ time.” “I just want to get away from it all for a while.” Chances are, you’ve said these words before, or heard them from burned-out friends and colleagues. At this time of year, the refrain often takes on a new level of irony: “I think I need a vacation from my vacation.” Read story.
Dream Foundation
Flower Empower
Life is short, but flowers are forever. Well, they may begin to fade after a week or so, but they’re a very nice gesture and the Dream Foundation, based in downtown Santa Barbara, has been donating bouquets of colorful blossoms to the sick and elderly for 12 years through a program called Flower Empower. Read story.
Meet the Indy-Sponsored Athletes Training for the S.B. Triathlon
On Your Marks …
Last spring, The Indy, first-time sponsor of the Santa Barbara Triathlon, issued a challenge to S.B. desk jockeys and jock wannabes: Tell us why we should pick you as one of our Independent-sponsored triathletes. If you do, you’ll be entered to win free registration and — more notably — the services of a personal trainer who’ll whip you into tip-top shape for this race of a lifetime. We recruited Peter Park, of Platinum Fitness Performance, to play the role of sadistic drill sergeant, a k a trainer. Read story.
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