Miss Eco Glam

Intro here written by me, Anna Rodgers - Most of us dream of living in an eco community surrounded by like minded 'loving' people who are into health and vegan living. Some of us will do anything such as pouring our life savings into a development which promised beautiful houses, luxury surroundings and would be run by 'trusted people.' Well what if you believed the lies you were told and gave ALL your money into a development that never got off the ground? What if you were told that you could 'have your money back at any time' yet when it came down to it, that promise was never fulfilled, even after years of being told many other promises. What if you found that your money actually went into other business's and were told that this was how you were going to get your money back! Well, read on, this is not a fantasy story, this is true.....approx 30 investors gave close to 1 million US dollars to Storm and Jinjee Talefero's Raw Vegan Village who to this day have not returned a dollar to any of the victims....

If macrobiotics is not a philosophy you’ve yet looked into, chances are the term conjures up visions of image-obsessed celebrities and other food fanatics and a dietary regime of extreme complexity and rigidity. While there is an element of truth to this stereotype, you may be surprised to learn that macrobiotics, practised intelligently, is all about freedom. The term macrobiotics actually means “big life” (from the Greek “macro” which means “big” or “great”, and “bios” which means “life”).

Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? Are you very perceptive and intuitive? Do you find that you need regular time alone in order to be at your best? Does being hungry really knock you off centre, derailing your concentration and/or mood?

Of the nutrition questions I’m asked most often, “What do you think about very high fruit diets?” is near the top of the league.

Every morning Lara Williams sits down to a breakfast of cottage cheese on rye bread. A multivitamin tablet chased down with a 150ml glass of pomegranate juice (out of a bottle) completes the first meal of the day. Lunch is usually a chicken breast with half a cup of brown rice or pasta and a carefully-chosen selection of grilled vegetables. Dinner is fish with different vegetables (this time steamed or boiled) and a side salad.

We’re just four weeks into 2012 and I’ve already made a health discovery that’s really got me excited. I’ve started eating 1-3 bowls of fresh miso soup every day after learning about the amazing properties of miso.

We always trust people in the natural health world, more so than Medical Doctors, yet are they always giving us the best advice? 

By Max Tuck, veterinary surgeon It’s obvious really isn’t it? We know that wild dogs, cats, birds, horses, rodents and rabbits all eat raw food in their natural habitat. And it really isn’t that long ago that we started to domesticate these species for our own pleasure and companionship; certainly not long enough ago for them to have “adapted” to eat cooked food.