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Environmentally Healthy is UltraHealthy
Achieving UltraHealth consist of what you put in your body and on you body, as well as your relationship with yourself, others and the environment. Similarly to making a change in your diet, something as simple as recycling can have a profound effect.
I have been passionate about recycling and waste reduction since my senior year in college when I started a recycling program while working in the university President's office. My initiatives quickly lead to a campus wide recycling program serving more than 25,000 students.
At Austin UltraHealth we have recently implement several changes in an effort to do our part to reduce our paper waste.
* On September 1st we implemented the use of Electronic Medical Records.
* We turned our New Patient Adult Intake Form (Child's Intake Form coming soon) into an interactive PDF; which means that you can fill it out online and then email it to us. We can download it straight into your Electronic Medical Record and no paper will ever printed.
* We are asking all new patients to limit their medical records requests from other doctors to those that are absolutely necessary for Dr. Myers and Mel to review. Each night we receive hundreds of pages of faxed medical records and of those pages only a few are actually relevant.
* Our office uses 100% recycled copy paper including toilet paper, paper towels and tissues. (We also use glasses for serving water.)
* We are excited to have replaced our vinyl New Patient Binders with 100% recycled cardboard binders.
* Have you seen our new Jute (a plant fiber) shopping bags displaying the Austin UltraHealth logo? Each new patient receives a bag at their initial visit. Existing patients may purchase a bag for $10. These bags are great for grocery shopping, errands and weekend getaways. Each time you use this bag (or any bag you bring) for supplement purchases we will give you a $.10 discount on your purchase.
* And we continue to recycle all paper, cardboard boxes and glass in the office.
I was surprised to learn from The National Recycling Coalition (http://nrcrecycles.org/) that the average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year! We also throw away approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper away every year.
One 15-year-old tree can be made into 700 paper grocery bags. A busy supermarket like Whole Foods, Central Market or HEB could use all 700 of them in less than an hour! This means in one year, just one supermarket can go through over 6 million paper bags.
Americans use and throw away about 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour!
And each year, 1 million sea birds, 100,000 marine mammals, and 50,000 fur seals are killed as the result of eating or being strangled in plastic.
Please join us at Austin UltraHealth in supporting our environmental and recycling efforts and email us your New Patient Intake Forms, buy a jute bag or bring your own for supplement purchases and use a reusable stainless steel water bottle rather than buying it in plastic bottles.r wait until you have boarded the plane and ask the flight attendant to fill your bottle with water. By doing this you not only save money by not purchasing bottled water, you also avoids toxins from plastics and you help our environment.
Dr. Amy Myers
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