Wellness
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2.0K2New WAMM Garden Promises Heirloom Cannabis for the People
Compassionate care collective partners for expanded grow space.
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1.5KSanta Cruz Ayurveda Explains Autumn’s Seasonal Body, Mind Shifts
The fall transition is a powerful time to make these healthful adjustments
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1.1KVape Wars: Are We Missing the Bigger Picture?
Controversial e-cigs surge in popularity as smoking declines
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2.6KJacob’s Heart Celebrates 20 Years of Community Support
The nonprofit helping families battling childhood cancer is still going strong
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1.9KResponding to Catcalls
Clara E. Minor of Minorsan shows women how to take back power in her free self-defense classes
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1.8K1Cannabis Newcomers Flock to CBD
After prohibition, Santa Cruz sees increase in adults seeking medicinal over recreational products
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1.2KOne Man’s Quest to Become More Literate in Body Language
How a sea change in posture can change your world
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2.0KWhat’s In Your Wine?
Megan Bell of Margins Wine explains the ‘natural wine’ movement
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3.6KThe Latest Better-Sleep Trend May Actually Work
How weighted blankets may help insomnia and anxiety in children and adults
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42.8KWhat Anthony Bourdain Taught Us About Ourselves
Why mental health issues are inseparable from society’s overall well-being.
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22.4K2How Craniosacral Therapy Activates the Body’s Self-Healing
Craniosacral Therapist Inna Dagman explains how the modality works as a preventative and healing measure
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953Does the FDA’s Menu Labeling Rule Help Consumers?
A closer look at the mandate on calorie counts
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1.7KIs Barre the Next Zumba?
Our writer goes out on a limb to try the hottest new trend in fitness classes
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1.5KIs Chilled Water Really a More Healthy Choice?
The science behind iced, room temperature, hot and sparkling water
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5.1KConference Takes On Human Trafficking in Santa Cruz
Coalition Hosts Free ‘Human Trafficking Happens Here: Understanding Child Sexual Exploitation’ Conference
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1.9K‘Transcending Madness’ Workshop Presents Holistic Tools for Mental Health
Meditation guru Bill Scheffel leads workshop alongside Santa Cruz’s Annica Rose and Aleksandra Wolska
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2.6K2California’s Sobering Air Quality Reports Hit Close to Home
A closer look at Santa Cruz County’s ‘F’ in air quality
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3.3KSanta Cruz’s Regular Contra Dances Provide Fun and Exercise
Santa Cruz’s vibrant Contra Dance community emphasizes inclusivity and playful creative energy
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8.3KAfter Cannabis is Legal, Could Magic Mushrooms be Next?
Marina mayoral candidate files proposal to begin psilocybin’s road to legalization
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1.8KHow Super are So-Called Superfoods?
A rational look at the superfood trend
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3.5K1Vegan Chef Beth Love Takes On Healthy Dessert
‘Desserts in the Raw’ class proves an Earth-friendly diet no longer means dessert doldrums
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7.4KThe Truth About the Flu
One hundred years after the Great Flu, are we immune?
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4.3K1Eco-Friendly Burial Practices May Make Death Greener
The newest Earth-friendly movement targets the funeral industry
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2.6KStudies Show High Carbon Dioxide Levels Deplete Nutrients of Food Supply
Science wakes up to how CO2 levels are threatening nutrients in our produce
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2.1KThe Benefits of Writing by Hand
When it comes to learning, handwritten notes trump digital
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3.4K1Incorporating Seaweed Into Your Diet Just Got Easier, and More Delicious
Seaquoia Wild Seaweeds provides local sustainable harvest of nutritious seaweed varieties
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3.4K1How to Read the FDA’s New Food Label
What the changes mean for how we figure out what we’re eating
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6.0K2The ABCs of CBD
How cannabinoids put the ‘medical’ in medical marijuana
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5.0KPsychologist Steve Whittaker on Taming Digital Chaos
Steve Whittaker on his book The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff
