IHPC to Host Special Fall Assembly Meeting on October 30
Mark you calendars to join IHPC for a special fall assembly meeting on Thursday, October 30. Stay tuned for details on the discussion and a special guest speaker.
IHPC Submits Landmark Policy Recommendations to MAHA Commission in Response to Children’s Health Crisis
In a major development for national health policy, the Integrative Health Policy Consortium (IHPC) has submitted a sweeping set of recommendations to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, chaired by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The submission responds directly to the Commission’s 2025 Children’s Health Assessment Report, which revealed that over 40% of American children now live with at least one chronic condition.
The Integrative Policy Consortium’s Submission
The IHPC urged the Commission to take bold action in four key areas: (1) Inclusion, (2) Research, (3) Prevention, (4) Legislative and Executive Action.
The IHPC’s submission also includes a detailed analysis of the economic and health burdens posed by environmental toxins such as lead, arsenic, bisphenols, and PFAS (“forever chemicals”), which disproportionately affect children and underserved communities in a newly released white paper titled “The Public Health Threat of Pollutant Exposure”.
View the full recommendation and white paper here.
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The Foundation for Living Medicine
The term, “living Medicine,” is based on the ancient Native American definition of ‘MEDICINE,’ which means ‘LIFE.’ Therefore, the term, “Living Medicine,” translates to “Living Life.” It is the process of living one’s life and following one’s individual path to Wholeness. Specifically, our lives represent a journey that each of us is taking in order to be WHOLE—emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Living Medicine is the name of that journey.
By consciously ‘Living’ our lives and ‘Listening to the Physician Within,’ we are practicing the ‘Medicine’ that we need for growing and healing physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
Paramount to the Living Medicine approach is the fundamental ideal that Love and Life are the true healers. Living Medicine recognizes each individual as a WHOLE Spiritual Being who creates their own recipe for living life and who does best when following their own unique path. It empowers each individual to take charge of their own life by consciously working with the Physician Within.
Learn more about The Foundation for Living Medicine here
How Libraries are Creating Community through Food
For the last five years, Michelle Coleman has attended cooking and culinary education classes in a light-filled teaching kitchen at her local library in Boston. The kitchen, designed for hands-on cooking and demonstrations with four gas cooktops and a 17-foot-long counter, was included in the building’s redesign in 2020 in response to community feedback.
Here Coleman learned how to compost and repurpose leftovers, thereby reducing her food waste, a bonus to learning about new foods and flavor profiles.
Across the country, libraries are using culinary programs to evolve beyond traditional book-lending, adapt to users’ needs, and reshape themselves into contemporary centers of community.
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