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Holistic Around Hunterdon Radio Show Promotes Healthy Lifestyle and Local Practitioners

Holistic Around Hunterdon is a live, one-hour interview-style weekly internet radio show broadcast through the Hunterdon Chamber Radio. Sponsored by Fifth Dimension Healing Energy, LLC, and hosted by owner Sue Ann Seccia-Harnden, the program educates listeners and promotes awareness on living a healthy, holistic and balanced lifestyle. The show includes a wide variety of topics that endorse health and well-being for the body, mind and spirit. Although regional and national guests are features, the program seeks to showcase practitioners and businesses in and around Hunterdon County so local listeners become aware of the holistically-oriented neighborhood resources available.

The third Thursday of each month features a live call-in program called “The Healers Roundtable.” This monthly program focuses on a select topic with a panel of practitioners speaking to and taking calls on various subjects. The conversation is aimed at giving listeners an assortment of perspectives and approaches to each topic. Additionally, at the beginning of each season, there is a quarterly astrology forecast from professional astrologer Rev. Vikki Anderson and a seasonal herbal tune-up from herbalist Cheryl Karcher.

Listeners can find program listings, call-in times, topics and post questions and comments for the monthly panel as well as the weekly guests through the Holistic Around Hunterdon Facebook page and on Twitter @HolisticAroundHunterdon.

To hear live and recorded podcasts, visit HunterdonChamberRadio.com. For more information, call 908-730-0658 or visit FifthDimensionHealingEnergy.net.

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Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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