Jackson Park Yacht Club hosts seasonal wellness fair to promote healthy living

CHICAGO (WGN) — In an effort to get people off the couch and learn new ways to care for themselves, the Jackson Park Yacht Club (JPYC) hosted its seasonal wellness fair Sunday.

Chef Tatiana Winters and her husband, who own Peace of Mine Sweets and Spice in Englewood, are part of a group of vendors participating in the JPYC’s quarterly wellness fair.

After being diagnosed with kidney failure last year, Winters changed her eating habits and was able to get off the kidney transplant list. As a result, she’s even more intentional about what goes into her nutrient-rich products and encourages others to make life-saving health changes too.

“My kidneys, when I went into renal failure, were functioning under 5%,” Winters said. “After three months, I got them functioning to 30% and now a year later, I’m at 55% because I’ve managed to change my diet and go raw.”

Arlis Ball, Entertainment Chair for the JPYC, said the information shared at the wellness fair is making a difference throughout the community.

“One woman came in and she started working on one of the detoxes with one of the other vendors that’s here and she’s lost 50 pounds since the last event,” Ball said.

Along with watching what you eat, D’Bora Emory is introducing folks to phototherapy patches, which she said help activate your body’s stem cell growth.

“And also awakens those that have gone dormant through the aging process,” Emory said of the patches. “With that comes about a whole new healing modality.”

Emory’s sister, April, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and herniated disks with a pinched nerve. After trying the phototherapy patches, she said they changed her life.

“After a month, I no longer had to have the surgery and that was just life-changing for me,” April Emory said.