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The Whole Food Guide to Strong Bones

Blum Center for Health Presents: A Special Evening with Guest Author, Annemarie Colbin, PhD “The Whole Food Guide to Strong Bones”

Free Book signing, discussion & gourmet food tasting

  • Enjoy samples from delicious mineral rich, bone building recipes
  • Learn how to make smarter food choices to help prevent and treat osteoporosis
  • Purchase a copy of Annemarie’s book to try all her great recipes!

Prior Registration is required.

Click Here or call 914-652-7800 to sign up.

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Wine Enthusiast & More – An Organic Wine and Food Event

Featured in Wine Enthusiast, Serendipity Greenwich, Westchester Magazine, Suzy Said and More… Blum Center for Health, a Westchester County integrative medicine and lifestyle education center, is hosting an organic wine and food event that’s co-sponsored by Wine Enthusiast and Mike’s Organic Delivery on Friday, May 13 beginning at 7 pm.

The event will feature a four-course tasting menu made with ingredients from local Hudson Valley and New Jersey farms. Marti Wolfson, culinary director at Blum Center for Health, together with Mike Geller of Mike’s Organic Delivery and Ben Walmer of Highlands Dinner Club, will prepare organic dishes focused on cheeses, vegetables, seasonal greens, fish and meat that pair with organic wine from Wiemer Vineyards in the Finger Lakes and Cabernet donated by Wine Enthusiast.

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Blum Center for Health Presents its Premiere All Organic Food and Wine Event

Co-Sponsored by Wine Enthusiast & Mike’s Organic Delivery

Friday, May 13th 7:00 – 9:00pm

Join us for a fun filled, educational evening including:

  • Four-course tasting menu using seasonal ingredients from local farms
  • Food and Wine pairing by an expert team from Wine Enthusiast, Wiemer Vineyard, Highlands Dinner Club and our Culinary Director

Reserve now – space is limited – $40/person
To sign up please call us at 914-652-7800

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Well and Good NYC – What is Functional Medicine?

Integrative medicine, which draws from Eastern and Western practices for a well-rounded view of health care, has held the wellness spotlight.

But another approach called Functional medicine, popularized by physicians like Frank Lipman, MD, and Mark Hyman, MD (and their best-selling books, Revive and UltraPrevention, respectively), has been generating buzz, and might just be an improvement on the integrative model. So what’s Functional medicine all about? We investigate.Read more:

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Field Trip: Blum Center for Health

Last week, I hopped a train outta Grand Central to Rye Brook, to visit Blum Center for Health and gather lots of groovy, wellness-oriented info to file away for future use.

Of course it isn’t surprising that I’d learn so much on my little field trip. Faithful readers of this blog know that I’ve recently featured the center’s founder – integrative doc Susan Blum – as one of my Mama Gurus. Read more:

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Rye Patch – New Rye Brook Rx for Holistic Healing

Blum Center for Health focuses on personalized, comprehensive integration of mind-body-nutrition and functional medicine under one roof in new setting that recently opened in Rye Ridge Plaza.

“Physician, cure yourself” is a well- known medical adage. And Dr. Susan Blum has–healed herself, that is. Blum successfully utilized a technique called Functional Medicine and lifestyle changes to successfully  cure herself of a disease called Hashimotos Thyroiditis, an auto-immune  thyroid condition.

Blum successfully utilized a technique called Functional Medicine and lifestyle changes to successfully  cure herself of a disease called Hashimotos Thyroiditis, an auto-immune  thyroid condition.

That life-changing experience led her to found the new and innovative Blum Center for Health in Rye Brook. The center may well be the first integrative medicine and lifestyle education center in Westchester. In addition to treating patients with chronic medical conditions, the center also offers cooking, nutrition, mind/body/spirit  classes, cancer prevention, weight loss, medical detoxification and more. Read More…

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Ryebrook center’s integrated approach to chronic diseases

Those who are suffering from chronic illnesses can now find relief at the Blum Center for Health in Ryebrook, New York, which offers multidisciplinary treatment plans for each patient.
Individuals have the opportunity to participate in cooking classes and programs designed to teach useful ways to deal with stress.

Irene Mays was frustrated with daily pain from headaches and arthritis.  “I would just go to my medicine chest and start everyday with a coffee and a big fistful of meds,” she says.