December 2005 Newsletter from Ecopolitan

This month features: 'The Occasional Junk Food' Continued, Compassionate Living Film Series Continued, Dr. T Lectures Resume and More!

Today's FIRST quotation:

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to
grow sharper"- Bertrand Russell

Today's SECOND quotation is prominently embedded within this newsletter... Find it, email it back to us, and be entered into a monthly raffle for a free Berry Parfait and an Infrared Sauna (for one or two) OR a Free 'Should We Cook Our Food?' Doctor T Lecture CD from Ecopolitan!

If you would like to help others improve their health and learn about eco-friendly living, email this letter to a friend.

Let us know how we're doing!

With Appreciation,
ECOPOLITAN
Your comments and ideas are always welcome - please write us.

December At Ecopolitan

         1.  December's Article: Ask Dr. T: "The Occasional Junk Food" Article Continued.
         2.  What's New at Ecopolitan- New Menu, Private Uncooking Instructors
         3.  Free Tuesday Meetings and Lectures
         4.  Un-Cooking Class Sunday, Decembert 18th, 2-4 pm at Ecopolitan
         5.  Minneapolis Living Foods Potluck & Support Group
         6.  Eco Adventures with Dr. T
         7.  Space donated to you at the Ecopolitan Building
         8.  Ecopolitan In The Media
         9.  What's Dr. T up To?

1. December's Article - "The Occasional Junk Food", Continued

In our last e-alert we started a discussion about the infrequent consumption of junk foods- how bad can it be if it's "only a rare occurrence"? Today we will complete this discussion. The article began as follows:

Often enough, during parties or meetings, or during my travels (in and out of the airplane...), I am asked questions resembling this: "what if I have a Big Mac just once in a while? Or a Cheese Pizza once a week? Or chocolate just infrequently?"

Dr. T's Answer: The Occasional Junk Food

Another way is to instantly prove how the cumulative damage of an unhealthy behavior affects our quality of life, by simply quoting a pertinent scientific article that provides an excellent analogy to the point we try to convey. Analogies are not nearly as threatening as tackling an issue head on... Here it is:

Article Continued: The Occasional Junk Food

2. What's New at Ecopolitan

• New Menu: Our menu is now bigger and better! A new design, regular new favorite foods (from the successful specials list), ethnic foods, Budget EcoFoods section, Healthiest EcoGreen Smoothies section, specific description of our signature EcoVegan and EcoRaw Lifestyle, and a comprehensive listing of our unique services will keep you busy while enjoying our tantalizing appetizers with organic NSF wine.   
• Eco-To-Go: In a few weeks we will have a new feature of convenience for those of you who must "grab their food and run"- allowing quick lunches during short breaks from work or play, and providing "Eco-Fast Food" if you are in a hurry for a sports event or a concert, or if you want to quickly bring healthy food to a meal at your parents' home... The Eco-To-Go corner will feature a small display refrigerator, and next to it there will be a heating lamp (so you can warm it yourself to room temperature or slightly above it). Needless to say (we'll say it anyway), all the packages are biodegradable/compostable and sustainably produced, as Ecopolitan's tradition dictates. Expect lasagna and casserole servings, eggplant quiche, falafel servings, pizzas, Eco-Burger (with Raw Buns), and whatever specials the chefs have concocted (mashed "potatoes" made of cauliflowers and cashew-garlic? Eco-Loaf made from sprouted lentils?? Expect to be surprised!)  
• Private Uncooking Instructors: In addition to offering monthly uncooking classes, we now have one-on-one raw food instruction available for a very reasonable price, with several of our experienced Ecopolitan chefs. Participants are taught the essential skills, methods and recipes for getting started in raw-food preparation. Call or speak to our staff for registration.
• June 2005  Raw Beauty Eco-Spa and The Minneapolis Eco-Hostel both enjoyed well-attended and successful openings in the Ecopolitan building. The pampering and skin therapy at the chemically-free Eco-Spa has received rave reviews, as well as the nail and hair care. The EcoHostel has been attracting numerous appreciative guests from around the world, looking for a welcoming place to stay that is eco-friendly, non-toxic, and low-budget.
• June 2005 Ecopolitan's dehydration space has been expanded to meet increasing demand for our "addictive" dehydrated goods! 
• We have expanded our selection of bulk nuts, seeds and dried fruits, offering Raw, Organic Cashews, Walnuts, Pistachios, Brazil Nuts, Filberts, Macadamia Nuts, Pine Nuts, Almonds, Dried Blueberries, Cherries, Mango, Golden Raisins, Medjool Dates, Sun Dried Tomatoes, Wild Rice, Quinoa, Garbonzos, Rye, Buckwheat and more!   
• "Ask Dr. T" CD  (from Ecopolitan lecture series): The first edition, "Should We Cook Our Food?, our informative 2-Hour double CD is available for purchase and may be shipped internationally. It discusses the effects of exposing our food to heat in a completely scientific manner (crucial, unique data for anyone seeking a healthy nutritional lifestyle)!  To hear the MP3 version online, click here: "Should We Cook Our Food?.
• Remember : The Ecopolitan is a wireless communication "hotspot" - you can sit anywhere in the restaurant and access your email and the internet on your own laptop using your own email software.
• Ecopolitan and Dr. T are assisting River Hayven (an Eco-Community in a beautiful area north of Menomenie, Wisconsin) in creating a new Raw Food HEALING Retreat, The Ecopolitan Country Spa! The Retreat will be using Ecopolitan's recipes and ideas, and will be the only one of its kind in the Midwest.
• Remember to enjoy discount wine specials during our "Hours of Happiness", 4-6pm everyday.

  3. Free Information Meetings

(Every Tuesday 6-8+ PM, Upstairs).

Join us for free lectures, discussions, or socializing. The presentations begin sharply at 6:30 PM- please come at 6 PM to meet others, wind down, and have a drink (organic NSA wine, smoothie, or fresh juice...) or a snack (optional). If you wish, you can order from the restaurant before the meeting and we will bring your order upstairs to you. Or, you can just sit and relax, since no purchase is
necessary.

December Meeting Topics... (All presented by Ecopolitan Founder Dr. Adiel Tel-Oren ['Doctor T'] except where noted):

Date	What	Who	When
Tues, December 6th	Compassionate Living Film Series: Featuring THE FUTURE OF FOOD (see below).	Jane Kolles	6:30
Tues, December 13th	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Viruses (not just the Bird Flu!), and How to Defend Yourself!	Dr. Tel-Oren	6:30
Tues, December 20th	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Fats! The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Divine!	Dr. Tel-Oren	6:30
Tues, December 27th	This Time For Real! The Definitive EMF Lecture, Electrical Pollution, Causes and Solutions!	Dr. Tel-Oren	6:30

December Lecture Details:

December 6th: The Compassionate Living Film Series continues at Ecopolitan!

There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America — a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth
investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.

From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives a voice to
farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed by the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply.

Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today.

Don't miss this very informative documentary, created by Deborah Koons Garcia, Jerry Garcia’s wife.
Visit www.nationearth.org to learn more.

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For more information about the CLFS, please contact
Jane Kathryn Kolles at artistandactivist@yahoo.com or 612-790-5985, or visit
her blog: artistactivist.typepad.com

Restaurant Happenings

ECOPOLITAN - providing for the ECOlogy of our metroPOLITAN area
100% Organic, Vegan, Raw Food Restaurant & Bar Natural Home & Body Goods-
'For Your Health, the Earth, & the Taste!'

Open 9am-10pm Seven Days A Week (11pm Fri & Sat).
2409 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55405
(612) 87-GREEN.

More Restaurant pictures

The Minneapolis Ecopolitan EcoRaw Restaurant, Eco-Shop, and Organic Wine Bar, is excited to have its newly expanded menu available online in its entirety. You can now print it if you wish, or order take-outs while browsing the Ecopolitan website: Be sure to check out our enhanced bulk section (nuts, seeds, dried fruits, grains and legumes for sprouting) and our Eco-Shop (Safecoat products and other goods for a healthy, non-toxic home and body; Kitchen appliances; Organic Cotton & Hemp clothes and accessories; organic coconut and olive oils; books & magazines; Rebounding Excercisers, air filters, and shower filters; all these and other products are sold here as well as online or by phone. Everything is discounted, since we are a non-profit!). Remember to ask for a prescription when necessary (for special-order 100% organic cotton mattresses, and for tax deductions on health products and services, including the Infrared Therapy Sauna and the Oxygen Bar, for medical need).

Read below about our Uncooking Classes, and the potluck meetings.

4. Uncooking Class Sunday, December 18th, 2-4 pm

(December 18th, 2-4 pm)

Taught by our illustrious chef James, this monthly class (at Ecopolitan's Lecture/Meeting room upstairs) is focused on healthful food preparation "a la Ecopolitan".

December's class topic:  Rawsome Eco-Burgers! Walnut Mushroom burgers, Sprouted Buckwheat Buns, Raw Ketchup and Mustard & Raw Coleslaw.

For the more serious culinary students, we offer private (one-on-one) un-cooking lessons with one of our chefs. Participants are taught by an Ecopolitan chef the essential skills, methods and recipes for getting started in raw-food preparation. Call or speak to our staff for registration.

Find more on the vegeterian un-cooking classes and private instructions.

5. Minneapolis Living Foods Potluck & Support Group

(December 18th, 5:30 PM, right after the un-cooking class)

Do you sometime feel that you are alone in your quest for a healthy, sustainable lifestyle that can heal both your body and your Planet? Joining our monthly Minneapolis Eco-Raw Potluck will definitely improve this feeling, as you find other people with whom you can share your friendship, compassion, stories and knowledge! Our potluck meetings, which welcome everybody regardless of race, religion, status, personal preferences, political affiliation, and eating habits, take place the last Sunday every month, upstairs.....

Go to the potluck page for more information on the exciting Minneapolis Living Foods Potluck & Support Group, what to bring and how to prepare.

6. Eco-Adventures in Thailand and Nepal

Thai Pictures Album

1. It's not too late to join our Thailand Tropical Healing Retreat (March 9-17, 2006) - a great opportunity for a much-needed vitamin D! Click here for more details on the next Tropical Thiland Tour and Healing Retreat.
   
   
   
2. If you are in good shape and want to experience the ULTIMATE NEPAL TREK (March 17-30), an ecological, sustainable, humanitarian, community-based trip to areas in the Himalayas where no Westerners have ever been before, traversing rhododendron forests during their multi-colored bloom, then this is the trip for you! You can combine it with the Thailand Retreat! Nepal Treak Details.

7. Ecopolitan in the Media

Recent events:

• Ecopolitan was featured as the cover story in the latest edition of "Food Service News".
• In response to an award we received from Mpls/ St. Paul Magazine, Dean Zimmerman of the Minneapolis City Council sent Ecopolitan the following letter:
  "I am proud to have you and your business in the 6th ward. Your outstanding achievements are greatly appreciated by your friends and neighbors as well as the City of Minneapolis. Thank you for your ongoing contributions to making our community a vibrant and unique place to live."
• We were featured as Best Vegetarian-Friendly Restaurant in the "Best of the Twin Cities" edition of last weeks City Pages, who called our cuisine "Yummy and wildly inventive". Go to www.citypages.com  for the complete listing.
• Pulse of the Twin Cities featured Ecopolitan in their article, Virtuous Businesses: Seven Local Entrepreneurs Who Get it Right.  It can be read online at www.pulsetc.com.
• Ecopolitan was nominated in the Best Healthy Dining category at Aol City Guide, who stated that "This one-of-a-kind venue is the ultimate health source." Go to www.aolcityguide.com/best for more information.
• Buon Gusto Magazine gave Ecopolitan a splendid review in their new November issue, noting our "Delightfully colorful & texture pleasing" cuisine.
• Minnesota Monthly reviewed us in the vegetarian section of their latest Restaurant Issue, citing the food "attractively presented" as well as "The most politically correct plate".

8. What's Doctor T up to?

(in addition to Tuesday Meetings lectures, consulting to nutrition companies, founding international health-related projects, organizing treks, retreats & festivals, seeing patients, writing books and producing CD's, overseeing the clinic, the EcoHostel and EcoSpa at the Ecopolitan Building, directing Ecopolitan restaurant's operations, and other activities summarized here)

March 31- April 12, 2006: Trip to Israel for Lectures, Mole Removal, ect
 
March 10-30, 2006: Tropical Thailand Healing Retreat (you are welcome to join
Dr. T)!  Followed by (for those interested in both) Trekking in  Nepal, a challenging Himalayan trek!

Late January/early February, 2006: Lecturing to Twin Cities doctors about EMF, Electrical Pollution, and Practical Solutions - a continuing-education credit seminar of 6 hours.
 
Late December, 2005, to mid-January, 2006:  Continuing the promotion of functional laboratory
tests in Israel, plus other projects.

November 2005: Tropical Thailand Healing Retreat (you are welcome to join
Dr. T)!  Followed by (for those interested in both) Trekking in  Nepal,
a community-based humanitarian eco-trek (email us if you are interested
in more information).

November 2005: Mole removal in Atlanta.

September 2005: Mole removal in Oregon

  Late June- Early July 2005: Continuing Public Health Projects in
Israel  (including the Israeli Association of Biological Dentistry) ,
meeting  regional HMO doctors, Hospital directors, and the ministry of
health  officials to promote functional medicine there.

  June- July 2005: Start co-authoring the book "Novadermy, a Non-Surgical
Facial Rejuvenation with Permanent Results - the Ultimate in Anti-Aging
Medicine" with Salvador Vargas, MD.

June  2005 Opening of the Minneapolis Eco-Hostel below the Ecopolitan
Restaurant.

June  12 , 2005 Opening of the Eco-Spa above the Ecopolitan Restaurant!

May-June 2005 Building the web site for electrical pollution
remediation and protection- www.emfpollution.com

May 2005 Expanding the Ecopolitan's dehydration space to meet the
increasing demand for our "addictive" dehydrated goods!

April 24-27 Business trip to  Cyprus, to initiate the collaboration of
Cyprus dentists with the IABD (see below), for the purpose of training
these dentists to become biological dentists, and to plan for a future
Biological Dentistry Association in  Cyprus.

April 6-24 Business trip to  Israel for lectures, meetings, and
non-surgical mole-removal, plus to continue progress with the newly
 founded Israeli Association of Biological Dentistry (IABD).

March 28-April 5, Overseeing and Documenting the pilot group for
Novadermy (a non-surgical, safe, and extremely effective permanent
facial rejuvenation procedure performed successfully with no
complications on a thousand patients by Dr. Vargas, M.D. since 1979),
after a recess of 4 years. Check out www.novadermy.com soon! (the site
should be up in a week or two!)

Organize and head the educational and training aspects of Electrical
Pollution Remediation (Filters available at Ecopolitan, see
 www.electricalpollution.com and www.stetzerelectric.com )

January 5-24, 2005, trip to Europe and Israel for combined rest and
business activities

Late Nov 2004, at  Israel for lectures, seminar, and medical projects
plus for removal of skin growths (moles, tags, etc.).

Nov 2004 Thai Retreat/Yoga-Trek in  Nepal

Previous Activities

For previous activities - click here.

9. About This Newsletter

This Newsletter has been authored by Doctor T (with some assistance of others), who apologizes profusely for any grammatical or spelling errors that may have occurred, and promises to correct any error promptly upon being notified...

Adiel (“Doctor T”) Tel-Oren, MD (Europe), DC, LN, DACBN, DABOM, CCN, FABDA, DABCT(c), the founder and President of Ecopolitan and its Eco-Health Network, specializes in disease prevention, non-invasive clinical medicine, nutritional and environmental medicine, and functional medicine (science-based holistic approaches to diagnosis and therapy). Trained as an MD in Europe and the USA, Doctor T is board-certified with the American Board of Oxidative Medicine, American Clinical Board of Nutrition, and the American Board of Chelation Therapy (candidate). He is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist and a professor with the Clinical Nutrition Certification Board of the International & American Association of Clinical Nutritionists; a doctor of chiropractic (trained & licensed in the USA); a Licensed Nutritionist (Minnesota); a Fellow of the American Board of Disability Analysts; a member of the ACA Nutrition Council; and President Emeritus of the University of Natural Medicine (Santa Fe, NM), where he serves as Dean of Medical Sciences and Professor of functional, nutritional, & clinical medicine.

Doctor T is founder and president of: The Functional and Dental Health (FDH) Foundation (2001), with local and international chapters; the innovative Integrated Healthcare Clinics (1994-2000); America’s first urban Eco-Spa & Eco-Hostel (2005); and Ecopolitan, America's most ecological & environmentally friendly urban complex, which includes an EcoSpa, an Eco-Healing Clinic, an Eco-Hostel, and Ecopolitan, America’s first sustainable restaurant offering 100% Organic EcoRaw Living Cuisine , an Eco-Shop, & an educational resource center (2001). Besides seeing patients and lecturing internationally & on radio/ TV shows to doctors, nurses, & the public, Doctor T consults for nutritional, military, government, and community organizations and is currently writing books and producing CD’s of his popular ‘Ask Doctor T’™ lectures. He also practices wilderness and humanitarian medicine in remote areas; organizes and guides humanitarian Eco-Treks in Nepal; and leads ecological health and education retreats in Wisconsin, Tropical Thailand, and in Nepal, where he also directs CCODER’s Community Health Plan (www.ccoder.org), managing the health of nearly 200,000 people.

He is seeing patients just one or two days each month, plus does laboratory tests when indicated for his patients and for other doctors' referred patients. More information about Doctor Tel-Oren.

To reach Doctor T (for medical concerns, or to join the FDH Foundation or
any of the Treks or Retreats) please call his assistant, Ecopolitan Director Joe
Noreen, using our secondary phone line (612) 870-2974, or email Joe.