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Stress No More                      Relax, my darling
When Food Is Love                Look into your eating patterns to help your children with theirs
Holistic Mama's Guide             Everything you need to eat great when its hot outside
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OHMazing Kids Yoga with Ms Kelly

Doylestown Food Coop

Reference Articles 

Nutrasweet
Warning! Aspartame/Nutrisweet is a Neurotoxin
http://www.kauhawaii.com/healalasnutp.html
Stevia, an all nautral sweetener, competes with Aspartame http://www.rense.com/general37/stev.htm
Aspartame, Say NO!
http://www.dorway.com/#new_news
Aspartame Expose-Realplayer Investigator Piece from Fox 5 News in Washington, DC Nov 15, 1999
http://aspartame.com/fox5.rm
Donald Rumsfield and Aspartame
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive15.htm

Nutrition for Babies and Toddlers
Good Food Today, Great Kids Tomorrow: 50 Things You Can Do For Healthy, Happy Children
http://www.drjaygordon.com/development/nutrition/index.asp 
Dangerous Foods: Dairy Products for Children
http://www.drjaygordon.com/development/nutrition/danger01.asp
Simple Steps to preparing Homemade Baby Food
http://www.healthy-baby-food.com/simple_steps.htm

Buy Organic
When it pays to buy organic, February 2006, Consumer Reports
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/food/organic-products-206/overview.htm
Weakening of organic label law
http://www.eco-labels.org/featurePrint.cfm?FeatureID=10
Chemical health risks of conventionally produced foods
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/food/organic-products-206/chemical-health-risks.htm

Movie Recommendations
To whet your palate for social change and really good food:
The Future of Food
What the Bleep do we know?
Super-Size Me
The Corporation
Like Water for Chocolate
The Secret
The Peaceful Warrior
The Inconvenient Truth
Food Inc.

Recipe Websites
http://www.integrativenutrition.com/recipes.asp -Great whole food recipes, most taking less than 20 minutes!
http://www.pennypackfarm.org/recipes.html -Recipes from my local CSA, based in Horsham, Pa.  A great way to cook with the seasons.
http://eat.epicurious.com -Tons of recipes, and you can search by food type

*LINKS 
Online search sites for spas, yoga and more www.spafinder.com , www.thespasdirectory.com 
National resources for yoga studios www.yogafinder.com , www.yogadirectory.com 
International guide to Vegetarian Restaurants www.vegdining.com 
Guide to green businesses and natural food and restaurants www.ecodirectory.com 
Coop Directory Service: Find A Natural Food Coop Near You www.coopdirectory.org
The Organic Trade Association www.ota.com 
Online International Macrobiotic Directory www.macrobioticdirectory.com
Very opinionated website on the harms of milk, but good article resource www.notmilk.org

Associations supporting Health Counseling

American Association for Adult and Continuing Education www.aaace.org 
American Association for Health Freedom www.apma.net 
American Holistic Health Association www.ahha.org 
American Massage Therapists Association www.amtamassage.org 
Citizens for Health www.citizens.org 
Coalition for Natural Health www.naturalhealth.org 
Food First www.foodfirst.org 
Green Peace www.greenpeace.org 
Slow Food www.slowfoodusa.org
National Association of Nutrition Professionals www.nanp.org 
National Health Federation www.thenhf.com 
Oldways Preservation and Exchange Trust  www.oldwayspt.org 
Organic Consumers Association www.organicconsumers.org 
Vegetarian Resource Group www.vrg.org

Community Sponsored Agriculture Links

To find a CSA or Farmers Market close to you: www.LocalHarvest.org , www.sare.org

National Farmland Preservation
American Farmland Trust www.farmland.org
Equity Trust www.equitytrust.org
Institute for Community Economics www.ieclt.org
The Land Trust Alliance www.lta.org
The Trust for Public Land www.tpl.org
California Farmlink www.californiafarmlink.org

Community Action, Food Security and Urban Agriculture
Agriculture and Land-Based Training www.albafarmers.org
Bioneers www.bioneers.org
Center for Ecoliteracy www.ecoliteracy.org
Center for Food and Justice http://departments.oxy.edu/uepi/cfj
Center for Food Safety www.centerforfoodsafety.org
Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens www.fairviewgardens.org
Community Alliance with Family Farmers www.caff.org
Community Food Security Coalition www.foodsecurity.org
Center for Science in the Public Interest www.cspinet.org
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy www.foodfirst.org
Growing Power www.growingpower.com
Heifer Project International www.cob-net.org/hpi.htm
Just Food www.justfood.org
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture www.sustainableagriculture.net
Rural Advancement Foundation International www.rafi.org
Urban Nutrition Initiative www.urbannutrition.org

Sustainable Agriculture and Gardening
Abundant Life Seed Foundation www.abundantlifeseed.com
Accokeek Foundation Ecosystem Farm www.accokeek.org
American Community Gardening Association www.communitygarden.org
Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association www.biodynamics.com/csa.html
Bio-Dynamic Farming Association www.biodynamic.org.nz/
Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems www.zzyx.ucsc.edu/casfs/
Ecological Farming Association www.eco-farm.org
Ecology Action www.growbiointensive.org
Fukawoka Farming www.pathtofreedom.com/links/gardening/permaculture.shtml
Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture www.kerrcenter.com
The Land Institute www.landinstitute.org
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/leopold
National Gardening Association www.garden.org
Northeast Organic Farming Association www.nofa.org
Rodale Institute Experimental Farm www.rodaleinstitute.org
Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture www.winrock.org/what/wallace_center.cfm
Native Seeds/SEARCH www.nativeseeds.org
Occidental Arts and Ecology www.oaec.org
Ocean Arks International www.oceanarks.org
Organic Farming Research Foundation www.ofrf.org
Seed Savers Exchange www.seedsavers.org
Urban Nutrition Initiative www.urbannutrition.org
William McDonough Sustainable Design www.mcdonoughpartners.com
Wild Farm Alliance www.wildfarmalliance.org
UCSAREP www.sarep.ucdavis.edu
UC Davis Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program On-line www.ipm.ucdavis.edu

Sustainable Agriculture Resources for Southeastern Pennsylvania
Buy Local Campaign for Southeast PA www.buylocalpa.org
CADCOM www.cadcom.org
Fair Food Project/ White Dog Cafe Foundation www.whitedog.com/foundation.html
Farm to City www.farmtocity.org
Foodroutes www.foodroutes.org
Garden State Heirloom Seed Society www.historyyoucaneat.org
Lancaster Farmer www.lancasterfarmer.com
Natural Lands Trust www.natlands.org
Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture www.pasafarming.org
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society/Philadelphia Green www.phs.org
Rodale Institute Experimental Farm www.rodaleinstitute.org
Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia www.sbnphiladelphia.org/Phila/

International Sustainable Agriculture Organizations
City Farmers cityfarmer@unixg.ubc.ca
Earthrights International www.earthrightsinternational.org
Intenational Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements www.ifoam.org
International Right to Know Campaign www.irtk.org
International Society for Ecology and Culture www.isec.org.uk
Organic Materials Review Institute www.omri.org
Percy Schmeiser on Genetic Engineering  www.percyschmeiser.com
Permaculture Institute www.tagari.com
Research Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology www.vshiva.net/index.html
Sustainable Alternatives Network www.sustainablealternatives.net
World Hunger Year www.worldhungeryear.org
World-Wide Opportunties on Organic Farms www.wwoof.org

CSA specific resources
Find the closest CSA at
www.localharvest.org

Consumer Advocacy, Food Safety and Pesticide Exposure
Campaign for Safe and Affordable Drinking Water www.safe-drinking-water.org/rtk.html
Greenpeace Genetic Engineering Campaign www.greenpeace.org/international_en/campaigns/
Natural Resources Defense Council's Chemical Exposure Database www.scorecard.org
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides www.pesticide.org
Pesticide Action Network North America www.panna.org/panna
Physicians for Social Responsibility www.psr.org
Public Citizen's Global Safe Food Alliance Coalition www.publiccitizen.org/cmep/foodsafety/

*Please note that these links are provided for information purposes only.  Links are not regularly tested or reviewed.