finding out how to safeguard your health is what the free talks at this year’s Natural Triad Health Fair & Symposium are all about. You can turn a deaf ear and figure you’re eventually go- ing to die anyway, or you can pay attention and learn what you can do at home to protect yourself and the kids. The fact that you’re reading this favors the likelihood you’ll choose the latter. And Dr. Vaughan is hop- ing you’ll do just that. “I want people in this


“I want people in this community to get up to the minute accurate information so that they can make decisions for themselves, and implement a program that will enhance their health and prevent illness in the future.”


community to get up to the minute accurate information so that they can make decisions for themselves, and implement a program that will enhance their health and prevent illness in the future,” she asserts. This is the reason Vaughan is spearheading the free presentations at this year’s Natural Triad Health Fair and Symposium with the detox theme. To help you, your kids, and herself, “because I am chemically polluted, too,” she insists. Not that can you can tell by looking at her. The brilliant


magnum cum laude graduate of Duke University is the picture of health, and plans to stay that way. “In some ways I’m getting younger as I get older—and that’s what I offer to people in my practice,” Vaughan reveals. Now in her 28th year of practice, Vaughan is just now coming into her own as an advocate for living your best life in a chemical world. She insists that while we focus on cleaning up the environment we must not overlook our bodies, which need detoxifying as well. It is at Vaughan Medical Center, her primary care internal medicine practice on Wendover Avenue in Greensboro, where Vaughan dedicates her time to making a positive difference in her patient’s lives, and beyond. Vaughan’s medical expertise reaches far and wide through her bi-weekly segments on the WGHP FOX 8 Morning News. And now she is reaching out to health fair goers with informative must-hear free talks by select health experts.


So what can you expect to gain from these free detox-themed seminars?


“First, the realization and knowledge that there is a prob-


lem,” Vaughan explains. “Second, you’ll learn what the symp- toms (of toxicity) are. Third, discover how you may still have a problem even though you may feel great. Fourth, we’ll tell you how toxins are affecting not only you, but your children and grandchildren. And finally, learn how to treat toxicity through avoidance, supplementation, and cleansing.” If you’re discounting this about now, figuring you can’t


possibly be all that polluted, consider some facts Dr. Vaughan points out as a wake-up call: The CDC has done 3 studies—The Third National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport, came out in 2005 and found varying levels of 148 toxins in blood and urine of everyone tested. The Environmental Working Group, http:// www.bodyburden.org, has done 6 studies since 2000 looking at blood, urine, breast milk and newborn’s umbilical cord blood all showing unexpectedly high numbers of 455 chemicals. Most of these haven’t been tested by industry for safety. Studies


have even shown the breast milk of Eskimos is contaminated with toxic pesticides. Sure, the North Pole may seem light years away from the Triad but check out the stats for your own backyard at www.scorecard. org. This environmental watch- dog site ranks Guilford County among the dirtiest ten percent of all counties in the United States in terms of air releases of recognized developmental toxicants. In other not so good news, Dr. Vaughan refers to Dr. Doris


Rapp, an environmental pediatrician, who predicts men will become sterile in 75 years due to all the toxins out there. Research suggests toxins are contributing to today’s increase in the infertility rate, cancer, neurological, autoimmune, and hormonal disorders. And those toxins may be as close as your bedroom lurking in your jammies and mattress. The fire retar- dants in these products have been linked to thyroid disorders and are found in breast milk and house dust. If all this bad news has you throwing up your hands in


disgust figuring it’s all so hopeless, take heart. Dr. Vaughan offers some words of comfort: “People have more choice and control then they realize. Given the right support, the human body can heal itself. We can never get all the toxins out of the environment or our bodies, but we can reduce the amounts and enhance our bodies’ ability to clean them out. That way we avoid the damage. But this isn’t going to happen if we ignore the problem. We must take action to help our bodies cleanse themselves, and to protect future generations.” So come enhance your body and clean out the crud by


considering the wealth of valuable information presented in the free talks at this year’s Natural Triad Health Fair and Sym- posium. Decide for yourself just how polluted you really are... and what you can do about it. Join Dr. Elizabeth Vaughan and her hand-picked crop of health experts Saturday, March 24th in the Pavilion at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. Learn about detox, and while it can seem so overwhelming it makes your brain ache, as Dr. Vaughan points out, “Better to let it ache from information overload than from toxicity.”


See pages 32 and 33 for the Health Fair talk titles and speaker bios.


Vaughan Medical Center is located at 1301-A West Wendover in Greensboro. Visit www.VaughanMedi- cal.com or call 336-808- 3627. See ads on page 3 & 27.


Elizabeth Vaughan, MD


Visit Dr. Vaughan's booth at the Natural Triad Health Fair on March 24.


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