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I’m elated to announce that the next step forward for our magazine has arrived. We have a new web presence! Although it is now live it will continue to be a work in progress as new features, opportunities and sections are introduced. 

This digital effort will allow us to add current content quickly and easily. For example, we just posted an article and video on “The Amazon Fires” to help draw attention to this global catastrophe and its far-reaching effects on our collective society and planet. Local content, articles and videos are also on our drawing board.  


 

Over the last 25 years Natural Awakenings has been committed to connecting and educating community through sound editorial on topics that affect the health of people and planet. Now we can be so much more. Through our interactive website, readers and advertisers will have a greater opportunity to become involved. 

We are currently filling a free events calendar with a variety of local activities, things to do, places to visit and just plain interesting stuff. A custom calendar for our advertisers is also being coded and will soon be up and running. This will automate our submission process and carry forward to print the offerings made possible by our advertisers.  

Most important to us is interacting with readers to learn firsthand what helps you, moves you and inspires you. We invite you to our share your thoughts and ideas in the comment section at the bottom of the pages. Let us know topics you’d like us to include or expand on, modalities that have worked for you, even general impressions. When you share what is meaningful to you, you help us shape the magazine. With comment sections on each page, it’s easier than you think, and more important than you know to let your voice be heard.

Natural Awakenings magazine has always enjoyed a unique relationship with our readers, whose loyalty shows itself through magazines that are picked up each and every month. We are committed to keeping it that way, and your help with this is priceless. 

With much gratitude,

Joe Dunne

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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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