Archived Exhibit: Sustainably Caring for your 50 Trillion Cells, July-August 2010
July 1st 2010: Exhibit explored the roots of America’s health crisis at the A.P.P.L.E. center for Sustainable Living, though August 30th 2010.
In the midst of our health insurance crisis, while Americans fill billions of prescriptions per year, the A.P.P.L.E. Center for Sustainable Living is examining how we each can and must be more in control of our personal health, with an exhibit titled Personal Health and Vitality Now! Sustainably Caring for your 50 trillion cells.
Since the rise of big drug companies and even bigger insurance companies, Americans have become less and less in touch with their health, and more reliant on their doctors/insurance companies/prescriptions to be “healthy”. However, American heath is on the decline, mostly do to health problems caused by unhealthy behaviors such as high fat diets, little exercise, high stress, and little sleep.
For the healthcare pendulum to swing back toward disease prevention (and away from treatment) we as individuals must take responsibility for our own health! It’s easier than you might think, and the new exhibit at the A.P.P.L.E. Center can show you how.
The exhibit shows how human systems are interconnected, and by understanding some basic principals, our health and vitality is in our hands. For example, immune system strength is tied to digestive system health and the physical signs of stress can be self-treated with simple mind exercises before stress causes disease.
“Most Americans are so out of touch with their bodies, they don’t even realize they are unhealthy until it’s too late, and they end up in emergency care,” explains Erin Hense, RN at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley. “With this exhibit, we’re trying to show our community how much individuals, moms, and families really can do to prevent that traumatic scenario.”
The A.P.P.L.E. Center is a community hub for the Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy of Nevada County. In the wake of the gulf oil spill and narrowing predictions of when the globe will experience peak-oil, the A.P.P.L.E. Center is increasing its outreach on the effects of less available fossil fuels. The current healthcare system is precariously dependent on plastics, disposable tools, energy and manufactured pharmaceuticals, all of which depend on cheap, abundant availability of fossil fuels.
Accompanying the 2 month exhibit were 4 public events hosted by the A.P.P.L.E. Center. Three panel presentations covered the topics of Plant-based Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and Mind-Body Medicine. The fourth event was a community forum exploring what real, local healthcare reform would look like in Nevada County. see our calendar of events for the details.
