Mossy foot is a disease that manifests itself as a massive swelling of the feet and legs. Its common name describes the appearance of the skin that becomes very rough and bumpy and changes to look like moss.
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Westminster Free Clinic
Lisa Safaeinili speaks with Paulette Mahurin about Westminster Free Clinic in Ventura County. Safaeinili is the Executive Director of Westminster Free Clinic, which offers basic, non-invasive health care to serve the working poor of Ventura County. Physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and other medical professionals volunteer their time at the clinic after their regular jobs. Community volunteers and teens also assist with the program. A limited number of paid staff provides a necessary infrastructure and consistency.
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The Health Benefits of a Raw Food Diet
Roger Bezanis is the author of The Ancient Raw Food Diet. In this animated interview with Our Ventura TV host, Nicole Pyle, Bezanis discusses raw food, health, enzymes, detoxification and water.
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Live Longer and Stronger Through Weight Training and Nutrition
Larry Pollock and Jessica Orgovan speak about fitness, weight training and nutrition with Our Ventura TV host, Hanna Lynn Roth.
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Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association (PSA)
Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association was founded in 1947 by a group of civic-minded business and professional people who saw a need for the provision of home care services as an alternative to institutionalizing the frail, elderly, sick and disabled.
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Helping People Off Addictions Through Nutrition
Joanie Blaxter speaks about helping people recover from drug and alcohol addictions through healthy food, supplements and nutrition, instead of changing their biochemistry through more drugs.
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Nutrition and Wellness with Cynthia Norton
Health expert, Cynthia Norton, speaks with Our Ventura TV host, June Noakes about nutrition and wellness.
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Should California Require Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods?
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Ron Whitehurst discusses California Proposition 37, which is “The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act.” Here is a summary of this proposition: -
“Cancer Doesn’t Discriminate, Neither Should We”: A Cancer Survivor Helps Others
Rachel Shur is a two-time cancer survivor who was diagnosed in 2006 and 2007 with terminal leukemia. In this interview she talks about the United Cancer Advocacy Action Network (ucaan.org) that she founded in 2009 to aid cancer survivors/patients after diagnosis. Part of her philosophy is “attitude is everything” in regards to surviving cancer and finding some way to laugh about it.
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