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Holistic Health Counselor Certification Program

Dian Freeman, of Dian’s Wellness Simplified, is expanding both her nutrition consulting business and her Holistic Health Counselor course to a new location at Summus Body Mind, in Morristown. The course begins May 3 and runs every other Sunday for six months. 

Dian has studied nutrition since the 70s and has been a professional nutritional consultant since the early 80s. She has graduated over 850 people in her nutritional certification course in the last 16 years. She explains, “I was initially asked by other practitioners how I developed such a large nutrition consulting business and if I would consider teaching them how to grow their own businesses.” She continues, “To grow a nutrition business, what you do and what you recommend has to work. This business grows from referrals. When clients have success with their health issues, they send to you every person they know.”  To learn that, training must come from someone with a great deal of experience. One should not teach in a field that directly effects peoples’ health without being an expert. With her decades of experience, Dian fits that bill. Initially designed for practitioners, her course is now open to the public. Many of her students take the course for personal health knowledge, while others want to start a practice of their own. 

Besides her six-month nutrition course, Dian has also developed many day classes open to the public.

Location: Summas Body Mind, 173 Washington Street, Morristown. For more information, call 973 267-4816 or email [email protected]. See ad, page 13.


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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