A number of Cancer centers in the U.S. are using what is called "Integrative Medicine" - treatments like acupuncture and other unconventional treatment that are not typically seen at a hospital, as they use holistic approaches to help patients overcome the side effects of Cancer treatment.

"People seem to think needles hurt, but they really don't," said Glenn Jones, who is undergoing Pancreatic Cancer treatment at the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center. In addition to his bi-weekly Chemo treatment, Jones is also getting acupuncture. "I tell people I've been hurt worse a lot of times. I hurt myself worse than that shaving."

Jones said he has received acupuncture treatment six or seven times since he began treatment.

"I place the needles on generally the hands, the arms, the legs, the feet and I use the ears a lot because they're very affective for a variety of treatments," said Patricia Emslie, who is an acupuncturist.

According to Jones, the acupuncture provides relief from from some of the symptoms that are brought on by the Chemo treatments. Jones said it has helped with hot flashes, nausea, and pain.

"It helps right now, the main thing I'm having is what's called Neuropathy and it's due to the Chemotherapy and I really have no feeling in my feet," said Jones. "The end of your fingers feel cold all of the time to me, and it gets to where it's hard to pick up things, button your shirt, stuff like that. The acupuncture does help."

Jones is one of many patients that are now using Integrative Treatment. The type of care that is now being used alongside traditional treatment came about, thanks to the James M Cox Foundation Center for Prevention and Integrative Oncology.

"What we focus on is strategies to help people with lifestyle decisions, which means diet, excercise and managing stress, which we focus a lot on," said Dr. SantoshRao, a Medical & Integrative Oncologist.

Besides acupuncture, Yoga and massage are also offered.

"You're dealing with a very specific patient population," said Dr. Rao. "There are Breast Cancer survivors who have had surgery and have limitations. Older patients who are doing yoga sometimes for the first time. You want to be gentle. You want to make sure you're with somebody who's experienced, who knows from a cancer standpoint what's safe and what's not safe"

Other therapies are also offered, such as a Holistic Tobacco Recovery Program.

Integrative Therapies historically have not been a part of prescribed treatments, but with increasing patient demand, Rao is hoping Integrative Therapies will continue to grow, so patients like Jones can get the relief they need.

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Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court today dismissed a petition filed by the Sant Asaram Ashram challenging an I-T Department notice about special audit of alleged shell companies owned by it.

A division bench of justices M R Shah and B N Karia allowed the I-T Department to go ahead with special audit of the group of companies owned by the controversial godman asaram, and his institution, Sant Asaram Ashram.

The ashram floated several shell companies which indulge in money laundering, the notice alleged.

With the court dismissing the petition, the department will be able to carry out a special audit as provided under section 142 (2)(A) of the Income Tax Act.

Asaram was arrested by Jodhpur police on August 31, 2013 in a case of rape filed by a minor girl. Later, two sisters from Surat also levelled allegations of rape against Asaram and his son.

The self-styled godman is in jail, facing trials in the two cases.

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The name of Vincent Van Gogh probably isnt one that springs to mind for most people in connection with pop-country superstar Shania Twain.

But the Canadian singer and songwriter feels a special connection with the 19th century post-Impressionist painter in terms of how shes gone about writing the songs for her first new album in more than a dozen years, one that shell preview this weekend during her headlining set Saturday at the 2017 edition of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio.

Relaxing on the sofa in her Beverly Hills hotel room last week during a bit of downtime between rehearsals for that performance, which serves a key role of the grand rollout of her return to the pop spotlight this year, Twain made a comparison between the process her songs went through and Van Goghs methodology in his famous Wheat Fields series of dozens of paintings of haystacks.

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Look at how many of those there are, she said with a combination of excitement and curiosity. There are all these different lightssome are dark, some are bright, some show different times of day, some are foggy. Why would somebody paint the same painting over and over and over again?

He had to go through that same experience over and over and over again, she said, answering her own question. Some paintings are just not done until theyre done. Theyve got to paint that subject out of their system. And thats what I had to do. These songs just evolved. They started one place and ended in another.

Her new album wont surface until the fall, and at this point still doesnt even have a title. Its being scheduled for release during the all-important fourth quarter period during which the music industry sees its biggest sales, and consequently holds back its biggest guns for that time.

Twains album will test to what extent she retains the commercial power she held as the biggest female country star of the 1990s and early 2000s, and who was rivaled for a time perhaps only by Garth Brooks as the most potent pop star in the world.

The Recording Industry Assn. of America has certified her album sales at 48 million in the U.S. alone, and her biggest seller, 1997s Come On Over, has logged hearly half that figure on its own: 20 million copies, placing it among the Top 10 biggest selling albums of all time.

Her show at Stagecoach is a coup for festival organizers, who say theyve had their sights on her since the event began a decade ago.

The fact that she was offered it [a headlining slot] says a lot in itself, said Gary Bongiovanni, editor of Pollstar, the concert-industry-tracking publication. Its a good move for Stagecoach--It adds a little freshness, and thats what they need for shows like that. Shes not been around a lot, so there are a lot of people who havent seen her for a long time.

Thats because Twain had stepped out of the limelight when Stagecoach was born in 2007. Having survived the tragedy of her parents death in an automobile accident when she was a young adult, Twain, who was born Eilleen Regina Edwards on Aug. 28, 1965 in Windsor, Ontario, suffered another round of personal and professional setbacks in the new millennium that once again left her reeling.

Her high-profile marriage to longtime producer and frequent songwriting partner Robert John Mutt Lange disintegrated after he allegedly had an affair with her best friend, and they divorced in 2010 after 17 years together. She told Billboard at the time she didnt know whether shed ever be able to perform again, so closely were she and Lange involved with her music career.

She also developed problems with her voice, a condition known as dysphonia that can be brought on by stress, but which she attributed to contracting Lyme disease.

Whatever the cause, it left her for a time virtually unable to sing. She went through extensive physical therapy for her voice, and now continues an intense regimen of warmup and other voice-strengthening exercises that allowed her to accept an offer from Caesars Palace to launch a residency at the Colosseum that ran from 2012 to 2014.

A singers typical problem is nodules on the vocal cords from overuse or poor technique, she said. That was not my problem. My problem isnt unique, or rare, but the exercises are very different than for nodules, and I cant get an operation for mine. The only way to fix it is to work hard.

With nodules you cant speak; youve got to rest, rest, rest, she said. With mine, youve got to work, work, work. Then she laughed again. I know, I know.

From her experience doing the Still the One residency in Las Vegas, she said, I learned a lot about myself, and my voice, from the Still the One residency in Las Vegas, she said, both because Id been having a lot of problems with my voice prior and because this was a real plunge into the unknown.

The big question?

Was I going to be able to hold up? she said. The environment is very dry there, and its very, very hard on a voice. A lot of singers have problems there. And theres the discipline required for doing a show like that ever night.

This is why I ended up going on a tour [the Rock This Country tour in 2015-2016] after that, because I thought, Wow, I can do this! If I can do it here, I can do it anywhere, she said, bursting into laughter at her spontaneous allusion to the Frank Sinatra late-career anthem New York, New York. It gave me courage to do more shows and get out on the road again. It was a good test for me.

In fact, that tour brought her back into the Top 10 of Pollstars ranking of the highest-grossing North American concert tours of the year. In 2015, she grossed $69 million from 72 shows in 56 cities, including dates at Staples Center in L.A. and the Honda Center in Anaheim.

Her business was generally very good, Bongiovanni said, although not all her shows were sellouts.At one time she was one of the top acts in country music, and then she went away for a while. Now a whole other groups of acts that have come along.

Having passed the test of whether she could still endure the rigors of touring, and having stabilized her personal life and remarrying in 2011to Frederic Thiebaud, the ex-husband of her former best friend---Twain gave herself another challenge: to write all the songs for her next album on her own. After the soul-searching she did while writing her 2012 autobiography, From This Moment On, she had no shortage of raw material to draw from.

Right from the beginning, I was not going to collaborate with anybody for this one, she said. This needed to be an independent experience.

I hadnt written by myself for a long time, she said. I was married for 14 years to my collaborator, and I really just needed to do that again. I needed to go back and do that by myself and have an uninterrupted flow of creativity that was insular, to see what I was made of, to see what I have there.

What she found translates as painfully vulnerable in places, commandingly resilient in others, happily grateful elsewhere. (You let me go/You had to have her/You told me so/I died faster, she sings in Im Alright.)

The solo approach was limited, however, to her songwriting. In place of Langes production, which had also played a key role in her commercial success by bringing a sonic edge from his hard rock background into the world of country music, she has teamed with a variety of different co-producers for most of the new tracks.

Yet the new songs largely extend, rather than dramatically break from, the sound and style that kept her atop the charts for an extended period with a string of No. 1 country hits including Any Man of Mine, You Win My Love, Honey, Im Home and Youre Still the One.

She hadnt settled firmly on which new songs shell unveil this weekend at Stagecoach, but said the prime contenders are Swingin and Lifes About to Get Good, both of which are full of the lyrical and melodic hooks shes specialized in all along.

She said that Lifes About To Get Good was a textbook example of the reward she gets out of writing songs.

I was thinking OK, what is life about? I was being kind of serious; I was reflecting: Lifes about joy, lifes about pain, lifes about this, lifes about that, she said. Then all of a sudden: Lifes about to get good. And I thought, What a great play on words! How fun is that? Who uses about as a play on words? Im sure no ones ever written that before and I was all excited.

I was getting satisfaction out of [considering] aspects of life and what its all about, then I have this really cool artistic moment--a writers thing, like Oh, yeah, thats really good, thats a great twist, she said. When those things come together, its all very satisfying. That is where the craft of writing comes in, the more soulful purpose of the meaning of the song comes out.

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Liz Mehrtens and her husband built onto their back porch and then enclosed it so they could enjoy a relaxing sanctuary from the world. And it would have been a cozy room if it weren't the neighbors. Thousands of them thundering by at 60 miles per hour on James River Freeway.

"I hate listening to it," Liz explained. "It goes all day and all night."

For the most part, they never use the quiet space they dreamed about, Liz said, "Now it's all fixed up, but it's still too noisy to sit out here. When we moved in here, it wasn't here, the James River Freeway. And it just got worse and worse."

Even with thick insulation, the traffic noise penetrates through the walls. So when Liz received a letter from the Missouri Department of Transportation-- it was sweet music to her.

The agency is looking into building a sound wall on the south side of James River Freeway and east of Freemont Avenue. People like Liz who live adjacent to Route 60 can share their thoughts on the proposal at an upcoming public meeting from 5 until 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2, at Campbell United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 1747 E. Republic Road.

MoDOT has already conducted a noise study to look at all areas north and south of James River Freeway but concluded the south side--east of Freemont--was the only section that would benefit from a barrier.

After the public meeting, MoDOT will mail the residents in that area a ballot to vote on the wall.

For Liz, it can't go up soon enough. "It would be nice if we could sit out here and enjoy it. Watch a ballgame or listen to the Price is Right," she said.

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April 24, 2017

David McInerney, co-founder of Fresh Direct, a leading online fresh food grocer delivering directly to the doors of consumers in greater New York, New Jersey and Connecticut metro areas, has been announced as the fourth keynote presenter for the Organic Produce Summit 2017 in Monterey, CA.

Fresh Direct is recognized as one of the pioneers in e-commerce/direct-to-consumer delivery, starting in 2002 by offering fresh food and comparatively lower prices directly to consumers in high-density metro areas in the Northeast. McInerney and his team spend more than half the year travelling around the globe to learn, investigate, explore and taste fresh food.David McInerney

Understanding what were eating and whos growing it are the most important yet often forgotten details when it comes to what we put in our bodies, McInerney said in a press release. To meet and talk with those individuals and companies growing organic fresh produce and marketing it to consumers across the globe is truly an honor.

Fresh Directs McInerney rounds out an engaging series of four keynote presentations at OPS 2017. In addition to McInerney, attendees will hear from noted dietician and author Ashley Koff; Dennis Hoover and Erica Helton, the co-founders of The Organic Coup, Americas first USDA-approved organic fast food; and a Retail Roundtable presentation exploring the insights, opportunities and challenges facing retailers in the multi-billion dollar organic fresh produce industry. The three Retail Roundtable panelists are Dave Corsi, vice president of produce and floral for Wegmans, Heather Shavey, assistant vice president of global produce for Costco, and Chad Miller, vice president of produce procurement for Sprouts.

In addition to an informative series of educational sessions, we are thrilled with our line-up of keynote presentations. Our attendees will have an opportunity to learn from influential thought-leaders in three major areas of organic produce sales- retail, the up-and-coming foodservice sector, and the dynamic direct-to-consumer model changing the way all shopping is done," Susan Canales, director of operations for OPS, said in the press release. Our attendees will gain insightful and useful information on how leading companies are marketing organic fresh produce to consumers and the opportunities to drive sales into the future."

Canales also said only a very limited number of general registrations to OPS 2017 remain, with the event expected to sell out by the end of the month. The overall response and enthusiasm for OPS is unbelievable. We wish we had greater capacity to handle a larger audience, but we are confident the intimacy and energy of OPS 2017 will be unlike any other industry trade event," she said.

Further information about Organic Produce Summit 2017 is available at http://www.organicproducesummit.com.

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It starts with a seed.

No single person is going to fix the worlds food-supply and food-inequality issues, but Hamptons farmer Frank Trentacoste understands that its important to get your hands dirty and do what you can.

So Trentacostes Bhumi Farms in Amagansett has announced that its becoming a completely donor-based, not-for-profit enterprise. It will give away nearly all of its organic produce, thousands of pounds each year, to organizations that are dedicated to fighting hunger. Trentacoste will start by providing food to New York Common Pantry and The BronxsPOTS.

Like a public-radio statio, Bhumi Farms is looking for donors to support its efforts. Those who donate can receive farm-share boxes or other incentives, like a private dinner at the farm, but Trentacoste also hopes that some will pledge money simply to give those in need access to nourishing food free of GMOs, pesticides and fungicides.

I was feeling like food policy in the U.S. was terrible and about special interests, he says. A lot of issues are tied to poor food quality, including childrens health.

Trentacostes goal is to grow food for mass consumption, so hes focusing on crops like greens, carrots, beets, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers. He used to grow more esoteric produce like kohlrabi, but hes got a different mission now.

I feel like farms, especially organic farms, are more of a public service, Trentacoste says. A farm is a community and a conduit for an exchange of wealth: People who can afford to pay more can be willing to pay more. Food is the core of a lot of health issues. So food can be the core of a lot of healing.

Trentacoste clearly realizes that higher-quality food is more expensive and out of reach for a large part of the population, so hes doing what he can to equalize things.

Bhumi Farms is, of course, not alone in this movement of providing better food to a wider audience. San Franciscos Free Farm Stand has given away more than 28 tons of produce. Sprout City Farms has pay-what-you-can farmstands in Colorado.

Prominent chefs all over the country are doing their part, too. In Philadelphia, Michael Solomonovs Rooster Soup Co., which was just named one of GQs 10 Best New Restaurants of 2017, serves broth made with spare chicken parts from Federal Donuts and uses 100 percent of its profits to provide food and other support to the needy. Roy Choi and Daniel Patterson opened Locol in L.A.s Watts to give an underserved community access to better fast food. Italys Massimo Bottura, widely considered one of the worlds best chefs, has plans to open Food for Soul community kitchens in the United States and has scouted locations including The Bronx. Daniel HummsNomad Truckhas been selling chicken burgers created by different L.A. star chefs and donating the proceeds from those burgers to charities.

Trentacoste, though, made his decision independently. He spends a lot of time alone, he says, so he was mainly influenced by what was going on in his own head.

I was just looking at the historical context of food, he says. People would come to your door, and you would feed them. This is a modern take on the old act of feeding people. Even though youre not feeding somebody at your table, you can still feed them.

Trentacoste left his job as a New York City financial analyst in 2012 because he wanted to feel more connected to the world.

A lot of New Yorkers try to be spiritual and try to connect and reconnect, but they dont talk to the person next to them in the subway, he says. You go to a bar because you dont want to be alone, but you only talk to the person you went to the bar with.

Plus, Trentacoste was sitting at a desk all day, trying to maximize returns for faceless shareholders. Like so many New Yorkers, he would eat breakfast and lunch at his desk in a hurry.

So he decided to put his hands in the soil, to slow things down a bit. He started with 2 acres, quickly expanded and now has settled into a comfort zone of growing crops on about 10 acres. Instead of looking at a million things at once blinking up on your Bloomberg screen Trentacoste now finds peace starting at plants.

You can look at a plant, and it doesnt look like its changing, Trentacoste says.

Nature is about patience. Give nature enough time and something wonderful will bloom.

Even though hes often by himself on the farm, Trentacoste knows hes growing something that will better somebody elses existence. So he doesnt struggle with loneliness or feel lost the way he did in Manhattan.

There is a connection, Im producing something tangible, he says. I know Im feeding someone, and feeding someone is a pretty sacred thing.

His finance background, his understanding of how to analyze situations, helps him at Bhumi Farms.

Im big on efficiency: I want everyone to get access to the food, but I want them to get access to it efficiently, says Trentacoste, who adds, somewhat jokingly, that hes half capitalist, half socialist.

He found nonprofit groups that have a proven track record of distributing food in large quantities. Both NY Common Pantry and POTS were vetted by the Robin Hood Foundation, which works with more than 200 New York City nonprofits.

Feeding people, Trentacoste stresses, is just part of this.

These nonprofits are also focused on ending the cycle: programs to help people get stabilized, to get them out of poverty, he says.

In many ways, running a farm thats also a social enterprise suits Trentacoste better than being in finance.

I never had that killer instinct because I didnt want to squash anyone or get rich, he says.

He doesnt have to spend much time fixating on numbers anymore. Hes not sure if its more appropriateto track the pounds or the calories of food he donates each year. And how do you compare the value of a crate of kale to the value of a much heavier crate of zucchini? These are things he thinks about, no doubt, but he doesnt stress out about them.

When I ask Trentacoste his age, he has to think for a moment about what the correct answer is. Actually, I have to help him figure out the answer. Hetells me what year he was born. I ask when his birthday is. He turned 44 last August. He hesitated giving me an answer because he doesnt ever think about how old he is.

Age is one of those things that boxes us in, he says. I never say my age. Its one of those things: Socially, when youre a certain age, people expect something from you.

But when youre alone on a farm with your tractor, you dont sweat social conventions. Instead, you think about things like how your farm and what it represents extends far beyond your acreage. Youre fortified by a belief that wealthy people who can afford organic food would want to give other people access to the same high-quality food.

My base case is that people are good and people are empathetic, Trentacoste says. If Im right on these two things, I think this model should work. And its something I want to expand to other cities.

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The National Organic Standards Board voted unanimously on Friday to recommend that regulations designed to hold organic meat and poultry producers to higher animal welfare standards be enacted immediately, the Organic Trade Association reported on Twitter.

In order to receive organic certification, the rule requires animals to be able to exhibit natural behavior, such as the ability to sit, walk, stretch and stand without touching other animals or the sides of their pen, as well as having free and clear access to the outside. The NOSB, which provides recommendations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has proposed that the rule should become effective on May 19.

The recommendation has been a long time coming, with some NOSB proposals for the rule dating back to 1994. Following the unanimous recommendation from the NOSB in 2011, the USDA first proposed the changes in April last year, when Barack Obama was president.It prompted 6,711 comments on the issue.

A new Consumer Reports survey suggests the rule has overwhelming consumer support, with 86% of those who buy organic food saying they strongly support holding organic producers to higher animal welfare standards. Eighty-three percent of consumers said it was important that organic eggs come from hens that are able to go outdoors. The USDA under Obama has said boosting these standards was likely to increase trust in the organic seal.

Even though the rule has faced backlash from some producers, food manufacturers are taking note of consumer demand for humane treatment of animals. The latest annual report from the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare found nearly three-quarters (73%) of brands assessed had a formal animal welfare policy in place, up from 46% in 2012. However, nearly 66% of companies had not implemented a strong system for monitoring animal welfare.

Its an increasingly important issue, as consumers tend to support brands known to have humane animal welfare standards, and are quick to boycott those that dont.

Whether the Trump administration's USDA will green light the rule remains to be seen. The department still doesn't have a permanent leader, with a confirmation vote on nominee Sonny Perdue scheduled for Monday evening. Without a secretary in place, big policy decisions have been put on hold.

While USDA generally follows the recommendations of the NOSB, it is not bound to them. Trump's administration, which favors less regulation overall, may choose to cancel this one through another executive order. At the time the regulation was published, in a written statement National Pork Producers Council President John Weber called these rules"precisely the type of executive branch overreach that Congress will reign in through regulatory reform."

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With the tourist season rapidly approaching, it is a good time for a friendly reminder to raise awareness regarding the proper way to tip fairly and thoughtfully. So a review of the why, when, where and what you are tipping for may prove enlightening.

Why? The history of tipping in America goes back to the 1850s and 1860s, when wealthy Americans traveling in Europe brought back the custom of tipping to demonstrate how cultured they were. Since the custom of tipping became a fixture in the food service industry, a legal system has developed allowing restaurant employers to keep their labor costs and food and drink prices lower by paying their employees less than the minimum wage, thereby outsourcing a portion of their employee's wage to the customer.

How much? It is important to recognize that the customary tip has changed over the last 175 or so years. There was a time in the 1950s where the customary tip was approximately 10 percent. That percentage has increased over the last 50 years as people have adjusted the recommended tip to reflect that more of a tip is needed to allow servers to meet their day-to-day expenses. The standard tip is 18 percent for satisfactory service and 20 percent or more for exceptional service.

Where? It is also important to recognize the location where one is tipping. The cost of living varies across the nation, regionally and even within a few miles. A tip that may be sufficient for a waitress in Yoder, may not be sufficient for the waiter in Manitou Springs as the cost of living for the server differs according to where they live.

What? One of the most common mistakes in tipping is a lack of awareness of what the customer is actually tipping. The customer is tipping for the services of the server and for those things he or she is responsible. In its most basic form, the waiter is responsible for greeting the customer, taking their order and serving their food. However, they should not be held responsible for any waiting a customer must endure because of the volume of business.

These are but a few of the considerations customers should consider when dining or drinking out.

Sarim Thomas

Manitou Springs

Don't punish policemen

I am responding to your headline "ACLU, Colorado Springs agree to settlement on racial profiling lawsuit" April 20:

Racial profiling is not racist. Police departments don't profile people because of the color of their skin. Profiling is simply an acknowledgment of the economic fact that a shameful practice of slavery, reinforced by 200 years of abuse and prejudice, put a significant percentage of our black-skinned fellow citizens in such a collective "hole" that, for those still climbing out, crime sometimes seems the only way to survive.

If profiling were truly racist, we'd be reading stories of far more Hispanics, Asians and American Indians being pulled over for no good reason. Bottom line: cops should not be punished for making reasonable inferences based on the very essence of human intelligence i.e., "The ability to cross-reference." Don't punish policemen for the unrelated sins of past slave owners. They're simply doing their job. And stop giving away precious tax dollars for "PC" purposes.

Gregory Olinyk

Colorado Springs

A place of respect and dignity

Why is it not surprising at all that in Donald Trump's White House there are people of the caliber of Sarah Palin, Kid Rock, and Ted Nugent, who pose in front of Hillary Clinton's portrait mockingly?

No matter who has been president in the past, the White House has been a place of respect and dignity, but when this man was elected it was obvious that those days were over. Ted Nugent is a vile, disgusting person, Sarah Palin is laughable. Leave it to Trump to associate with these people.

Sally Alberts

Monument

Organic food has many benefits

For the past three or four decades, the percentage of obese and people with health issues has been increasing in the nation. Because of this, concern for the well-being of neighbors and friends has increased. Organic food should be consumed more than nonorganic food.

Organic food is a concern due to its expense. Although it is hard on the wallet, it has many benefits and advantages for human health. Organic foods help maintain better health, give nutrition for the brain, have fewer artificial stimuli, reduce doctor bills - all leading to a more success in every aspect of life.

The solution for the high cost of organic food is to lower the price and gain support from the government and the public providing the same quality.

Research has shown that organic food has 17 percent more antioxidants than nonorganic food, which helps to lower the risk of stroke and cancer. Another problem is schools don't explain the benefits of organic food, so the people are not aware of what to buy to be healthy. There has been some progress towards instituting programs like SNAP, an alternative to food stamps, to encourage healthier food. Overall, organic food has many benefits for general health.

Benafsha Shakari

Colorado Springs

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#Ivanka Trump is a major supporter of #Organic Food. Being a mother of three beautiful kids, Ivanka prefers organic food over other food supplies. Being a hotel executive, she has also helped in shaping the Trump Institute of Wellness, which currently has only organic food for children.

According to Ivanka, a healthy menu for kids in hotels is really important. Being an entrepreneur herself she, along with a health coach, advises parents to take the organic route for their children. According to Maria Marlowe, it is the best option as it helps people remove toxic chemicals from their diet. Maria also stated that normally available apples are sprayed with many toxic chemicals such as carcinogens, and neurotoxins, which can cause severe damage to our brain cells..

Ivanka is the Presidential advisor for the White House. However, when the ban of the chlorpyrifos received a reprieve from the Trump administration, Ivanka remained 'mum' on the matter. This pesticide is seen as a threat to children and their brain development by scientists. Many early scientific studies found the pesticide to be a neurotoxin.

Though the pesticide was banned by scientists some 17 years ago, it is still being used as an important component in agriculture. However, many researchers including Virginia Rauh, who found the content of neurotoxin in the pesticide, clearly stated its potentially harmful effects. Chlorpyrifos, when consumed even in low quantities may cause problems during pregnancy which can harm the brain development of the child. According to the Environment Protection Agency (EPA), the use of chlorpyrifos must be completely banned in the U.S..

Despite knowing the possible side effects of pesticides and its harmful effect on children, the question which would be on most peoples mind is whether organic food is safe. Essentially, vegetable and fruits which are grown sans the use of herbicides or pesticides are organic.

According to the official health advisor of Ivankas official website IvankaTrump.com, people should purchase organic food after studying the Dirty Dozen plus list. This list details products that have a high pesticide content and advises what should be avoided. Ivanka has come under fire for not expressing her thoughts on chlorpyrifos. Critics have asserted that she should have voiced her thoughts on the use of the pesticide because of its known dangers. Ivanka, however, continues to champion the organic food cause and has stayed quiet on the controversy. #Ivanka Trump Advocates Organic Food

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A customer picks up a product from a shelf featuring organic cosmetic products at a supermarket in Frankfurt. Photograph: DPA/Alamy

The makers of many organic beauty products have been accused of confusing and meaningless labelling, according to a new survey in which 76% of consumers admitted they felt misled.

According to the Soil Associations recent market report, sales of organic health and beauty products swelled by more than 20% in 2016, with the market now worth about 61.2m in the UK.

But the industry has put money into marketing products it claims are green rather than spending money on formulating environmentally friendly, toxin-free products that are not harmful to the skin, the Soil Association warns.

Unlike organic food, which must adhere to strict EU regulations, there are no legal standards for the use of the terms organic or natural on beauty products. In practice, any brand or beauty product can be labelled as natural or organic even if it contains virtually no organic or natural ingredients.

Faced with this lack of legislation, expert organisations have created a series of robust, independent, voluntary standards to encourage responsible use of the term organic. Cosmos and NaTrue are two well-known examples, with the NSF-ANSI standard from the US also appearing on some products on the UK high street.

This is the tip of the iceberg, said Soil Association policy director Peter Melchett. The labels on products we encountered were littered with confusing terms. Our consumer research shows that it is very difficult for consumers to know they are making the right choice when doing their shopping.

New research to support the Soil Associations Campaign for Clarity which aims to clean up greenwashing in the beauty industry reveals that 72% of people say they would lose trust in a brand that made misleading claims about being organic.

The Soil Association published a league table on Monday revealing a cross-section of brands and beauty products on the market which make potentially misleading organic claims on the label. The brands include the word organic on some labels, even though the products are not certified as organic.

Emeritus professor Vyvyan Howard of the Centre for Molecular Bioscience at Ulster University, who assessed the ingredients, said: I was shocked to find ingredients which could contain human carcinogens in products with labels which could misleadingly suggest that they might be organic. Genuine organic products are independently certified and I would encourage consumers to choose those.

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Consumers being misled by labelling on 'organic' beauty products, report shows - The Guardian