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Chemical free living, Mind Stuff, Natural Personal Care, Real Food

Soft Plastics? No Way!

Soft plastics. Unlike fallen leaves, decomposing bodies and mineral stones, soft plastics neither break down nor healthfully assimilate with the natural environment. This is a pickle for Mother Nature.

I love Mother Nature.

Here’s a cute snap of me hanging out in one of her glorious trees.

Aren’t we just loving the fact that this little hollow looks like a vaginal canon? Perhaps the caption could read “greetings from Mother Nature’s hoo-ha’, or ’emerging from the womb-tree’.

She has asked me to have a word with you about ending your long-term love affair with soft plastics. She’s also asked me to use lots of F-bombs to emphasis the seriousness of her plea. I have altered the spelling to protect sensitive eyes. To be clear, it’s pronounced ‘far(k) and far king’.

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Genuine Reads For Genuine People, Mind Stuff, Non-foodie reads

Immune to Ignorance

Disclaimer: I am not against vaccination. Read that again. This is not a poem written with the intention of changing minds, but rather opening them to research loopholes, that honestly, I myself was shocked to find.

I write this disclaimer because I have no intention of being a poster child for the anti-vaccination movement.

There are two sides to every story and though the benefits of vaccination are evident in the significant decrease of infectious disease outbreaks we witness in society, it does appear that preliminary research is giving us cause to question a one-size-fits-most schedule as well as the “placebo” injections used in safety trials.

I wonder whether in time, brilliant minds will find ways to make immunisations without ingredients that pose a threat to vulnerable subsections of the population or, alternatively, pioneer immune-building alternatives that revolutionise the practice of preventative medicine.

This poem endeavours to start a conversation, about the controversial topic of immunisation.

Discussing the science (or lack thereof) as it currently stands, to feed lesser known information into our deserving hands.

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Genuine Reads For Genuine People, Mind Stuff, Real Food

Break The Fast on YOUR Terms

Holy Moly! How random is it that I feel this intense drive to write a post about breakfast of all things? Someone out there must really be in need of some clarity, and the universe has called upon me to rectify the supposed ‘rules’ and idealisms that accompany breaking the overnight fast.

I’ll keep things brief because this matter is stupendously simple; 

“You can break the fast whenever you feel called to, and when you do, your body appreciates it to be done with REAL FOOD!”

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Genuine Reads For Genuine People, Mind Stuff

Life After An Eating Disorder

A friend and I were chatting the other week and it dawned on us that there is very little written on the topic of life after an eating disorder.  There’s plenty of advice given for what to do when someone has an eating disorder ranging from – in my personal experience and opinion; borderline cruelty, to practical, common-sense suggestions, but nothing much after that.

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Genuine Reads For Genuine People, Mind Stuff, Vegan

Fifty Shades of Vegan

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Okay, so I’m actually only going to be talking about 3 or so shades of vegan today, but I wanted a captivating, snazzy title and “two-to-three shades of vegan” doesn’t sound anywhere near as thrilling.

Those of you that have been loyal readers since this blog’s very beginning – way back in late 2014, will know that I’ve had quite a rollercoaster ride with my health. I’m a firm believer that diet and lifestyle play a huge role in health outcomes and so this is always the area I come back to when thing’s aren’t right. I’m not against medications in all instances, but was on so many for so long, that if I can avoid them, I will – simply so that my liver and kidneys have less to deal with. I’ll also avoid surgery wherever possible, especially after the gallstone dilemma of 2016! Which brings me to today’s topic of discussion – where am I up to now?

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Chemical free living, Essential oils, Fitness and Movement, Genuine Reads For Genuine People, Mind Stuff, Non-foodie reads

Stay Well This Winter (no supplements required!)

Most of us see a cold, flu or sniffle and an inevidable part of the Winter season. I used to think it was the cold weather that made us more susceptible. Not directly apparently. It actually has far more to do with how our lifestyles change in Winter. We spend more time inside, so we’re breathing in more recycled air, thats likely full of germs. The heating systems don’t do much to help and can dry out our mucous membranes (remember that mucous is one of our first lines of defence against pathogens).

We may become more sedentary, as we think it’s too dark, cold and miserable to get outside. This also means we’re getting less Vitamin D – a hormone that has immune-modulating effects. Then there’s the craving for comfort foods that might be a bit stodgier and less nutritious that our Summer and Spring cravings for smoothies and vibrant salads.

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It’s Not All Doom and Gloom

If you’re listening to health-conscious thought-leaders and paying attention to the media sources daring to inform us of  inconvenient truths, then chances are you’re at least vaguely aware that we are living in a pretty toxic world.

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Safely Kicking Goals

In my last post, I wrote about how after years of being sceptical about the gym environment, I now find myself shamelessly addicted and quite the convert. I admitted that my scepticism came from my preconceived ideas about gym-buff stereotypes and not liking some of the trends that sweep through the fitness industry.

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Fitness and Movement, Genuine Reads For Genuine People, Mind Stuff, Non-foodie reads

I never thought I’d become a gym junkie!

Keeping in theme with 2017 – the year of fun! Today I’m talking about recent obsession; the Les Mills classes at my local gym.

I never thought I had it in me to become a gym junkie (or whatever the correct title is for someone addicted to group atmospheres and endorphin rushes),  yet here I am, quite the convert. I’ve always preferred outdoor sports; jogging, walking, hiking, swimming and team sports, such as netball and tennis. Sure I played badminton indoors in eighth grade, became quite a stickler for my fave pilates DVD, and wasn’t opposed to using the treadmill on rainy days, but that was the extent of my ‘indoor training’.

I had this stigma that gyms are for people that …

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