Where do these nutrients come from? Avocado is a great source of glutathione and boron and almonds are a great source of boron too. Lentils and green leafy vegetables are a great source of folate. Men who won’t eat green vegetables are literally choosing disease. Brazil nuts (from South America) are by far the best source of Selenium but also a good source of Boron. Pumpkin and squash seeds are a great source of Zinc as is spinach, mung beans, mushrooms and cashews. Oysters are the best source of zinc but they are also potentially quite toxic so you shouldn’t rely on a lot of them. Vitamin K 2 is a really crucial nutrient for the transport of calcium into the bones where it should be rather than the arteries where it does damage.

Pomegranate has been found to be excellent for arteriosclerosis, skin cancer prevention and bladder and prostate function. Healthy adrenals and pituitary are really an important part of healthy hormone levels too. Its obviously much more complex than I can discuss here, and its also a lot more complex than just having testosterone injected for life and thinking it will solve the issue without making the necessary lifestyle changes. Low testosterone is like the canary in the coal mine. It’s the warning of systemic issues rather than the problem itself.

There are numerous other great sources for nutrients that influence male hormones, if you would like a list e-mail me and I will be happy to send it out to you. I wonder how many of these issues would be solved over time by simply having one meal a day of raw salad including some of these foods.

The conclusion was that people that are overweight aren’t responsible for their condition because it is dictated by hormones and brain patterns. Well guess what. Hormones and brain patterns can change without removing organs. We are the master of our ship and the captain of our destiny. We are not hopeless helpless victims of our hormones, brain patterns, or anything else people like to blame.

I’m not suggesting it’s not difficult. It is immensely difficult. But you can do it, and you can remain whole without having organs removed. Yes you can! But if you believe the conclusions of this type of research you are beaten before you start. Of course if you have developed strong habits over a lifetime they are hard to break and don’t change overnight.

A hairdresser once told me she had a client who was a General Medical Practitioner. This G.P. had worked overseas in undeveloped countries and assured her if she knew anyone who had trouble losing weight she would take them on one of her overseas trips to Rwanda and would guarantee to solve their weight problem. I have no doubt she is right. Dropping the refined carbohydrates is a great start, you can probably avoid Rwanda.

There have been a number of agricultural chemicals that were declared safe only to be found highly toxic and harmful to human health later on. This leaves questions hanging over the approval process. How can chemicals like dioxins, Agent Orange, and glyphosate be passed through an independent assessment process and approved. How can they be declared safe for the public and approved worldwide. Glyphosate (round up to you and me) has recently been declared probably cancer forming. Media reports said that was based on a split vote by the World Health Organisation Committee where half the committee said it was definitely carcinogenic the other half said it was probably carcinogenic so the declaration still reflects the best possible comment for Monsanto but the least protective to the public.

Monsanto immediately challenged the WHO finding and asked why their findings didn’t agree with Monsanto’s’ own research. It’s not rocket science.  If an independent researcher wants to do research on Monsanto’s’ genetically modified products they have to sign non-disclosure agreements so Monsanto can control the release of the research before they will even allow access to their patented seeds. Farmers are not allowed to make them available either. They too are tightly control by legal agreements. Monsanto is a prodigious litigant. In May 2013 over 2 million people in 52 countries and 436 cities and towns throughout the world participated in protest against Monsanto, their chemicals and patented G.M. foods. If you didn’t hear much about it you may ask yourself why. You would think that’s pretty newsworthy.

If you would like to try my completely natural, home-made pest repellent formulae shoot me an email request and I’ll send it to you.

Miso soup

Finely slice half an onion

Thinly slice 3 mushrooms, dried shitake is good, soak for ten minutes in one cup of water

Julienne half a carrot

Two pinches of dried wakame seaweed (Tasmanian if possible)

Half a Chinese radish thinly sliced

Tablespoon of miso

Greens-Sliced chinese cabbage, bok-choy, or kale. 1 cup

2 tablespoons of thinly sliced spring onion

Boil the onion, wakame, mushroom and soaking liquids with 4 cups of water. Cover and simmer for ten minutes. Add the cabbage and chinese radish and simmer for 3 minutes. Take some broth and dilute the miso, add in with the greens. Serve in bowls topped with spring onion. Serves 4

I love my sons three dogs. They have their own unique and totally different personalities. They love me because they associate me with food and walking. They go crazy when I come around to take them for a walk and we have had to train them not to jump all over us from over excitement. The reason they love walking is because that is what they are meant to do. A dog in nature loves to wander around, get his exercise, hunt, chase, and play.

We have a place on the river where we can let them off the leash. They love running free off the leash even more than walking. It’s just a joy to watch them charge up and down in the mud along the river, climb the 2.5 metre banks and charge off again. The reason its so good and so right is because that’s the way it is in nature.

Of course not everything that occurs in nature is great. What we aim for in health care is an optimised natural environment. Its good not to get eaten by a tiger, but it’s bad not to walk, solution…walk, but walk where there are no tigers.

A dog, or a human for that matter, can’t be healthy without natural food, the right exercise, the right rest, work and play balance. Get the balance right and health is the normal natural state. These are needs we have from nature and they can’t be ignored except at the expense of your health. You cant cheat nature.

I have a small vegetable garden and it’s just great to be able to supplement our shopping with bio-dynamically grown food. I don’t eat sugar. A good book to read on the dangers of sugar is Pure white and Deadly by John Yudkin. A recent movie called That Sugar Film is well worth seeing too.

Molasses is what is left over when refined sugar has been extracted from the sugar cane. Its usually thrown away or fed to horses. That’s crazy. Molasses is packed with nutrients and refined white sugar is completely devoid of nutrients.

For example sugar has 2 mgs of calcium compared to molasses, 684 mgs, zero phosphorous compared to 84 mgs. A tiny .1 mg of Iron compared to 16.1 mgs; 38 mgs of sodium compared to 96 mgs. Trace elements of potassium compared to 2,927mgs, trace elements of magnesium compared to 258 mgs in molasses. When you read these figures you could be excused for thinking we are insane to eat the calorie rich nutrient devoid refined white sugar while we throw away the nutrient dense molasses.

Food manufacturers know that if they don’t use excessive amounts of salt and sugar the overstimulated palates of people won’t be stimulated enough and they won’t like the food. Even if they wanted to make food nutritious the uneducated public will vote with their feet. That’s why growing your own food and buying whole organic food is so crucial in avoiding the damage and serious addiction brought on by processed and refined foods.

Honey is one of the most magnificent food medicines available. It is used in herbal formulas not only for its nutritional properties but also its preservative characteristics. Raw honey provides a potent anti-infection, anti -inflammatory effect. Manuka honey is particularly potent in its anti-bacterial and anti-infection effect.

Once honey is pasteurised it loses many of its beneficial properties. It needs to be unrefined and in its natural state (like so many other things). It has traditionally been applied to burns to great effect and many famous singers are aware of its benefits and have it backstage in the event of sore throat or inflamed vocal cords.

Honey given to children at bedtime did a better job of suppressing night-time coughs than dextromethorphan found in many over-the-counter cough syrups, said research by the University of Maryland so why would you use something synthetic when you can use something natural?

Honey naturally contains hydrogen peroxide the active ingredient that helps with sore throats and coughs. You can make a cough syrup with apple cider vinegar, raw onion and honey. A hot lemon and honey drink is great for a sore throat or if you have a cold. You can add a clove of crushed garlic to really boost it. We have a free health sheet at the clinic that tells you about great natural ways to boost your immune system. Ask for one next time you are in.

Health care is not a charity. It is the biggest industry on the planet. With the possible exception of the Agricultural chemicals industry and Genetic modification industry which is closely related, no industry would be blindly handed the competitive advantage and almost monopoly handed to medicine. Corporations that make literally trillions of dollars get given donations by the public to research drug treatments that they then own, patent and profit from. I find that staggering.

You can make a statement about health care choice by using the term health condition rather than medical condition. Sure there are times when medicine may be the best available option but that is nowhere as often as the badly educated would think.

There is a simple Chiropractic rule to follow in choosing food to eat. Ask yourself the question does it occur in nature, and what quantity would you consume it in in an optimal natural environment. If the food occurs in nature it’s generally healthy. Denaturing of food occurs in factories, freezers and packaging. Straight out of the ground or straight from the tree is always best.

Now you will always find some ‘sceptic’ tell you deadly poisons occur in nature (like that has never occurred to us). We don’t say everything that occurs in nature is healthy, we say everything that is healthy occurs in nature. That’s an important distinction.  It’s a bit like saying ‘all diamonds come from the ground’.  Does that mean everything that comes from the ground must be a diamond?

When you understand this simple but powerful principle you never need to be confused about diet again. You can read a newspaper article or watch the channel 9 news and make up your own mind about what is true and what is nonsense. Always ask the question ‘Where does that occur in nature?’ When you do that your judgement may be more sound than many of the so called experts.

We pay about 25 to 35 dollars a week extra to support privately owned businesses because we believe if we don’t we will finish up with one brand of everything, it will be owned by one company from the grower to the store and we will pay dramatically more. We will have less choice and no say in whether the food is genetically modified or chemically treated in any other way. They already don’t have to tell us where the food comes from or if it’s genetically modified. They are already taking the seeds from the fruit and vegetables, which contain not only vital nutrients but allow us a choice to grow our own if we choose to. Please support choice and variety. It’s worth it.

Your health is dependent on the quality and variety of your food. Your food, like your body, doesn’t need any help to be healthy, it just needs no interference.