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Is Growing and Eating Organic Food enough? By Leonie Shanahan

17/02/2020 By

Is growing and eating Organic Food enough?

By Leonie Shanahan

                                                    

We organic gardeners go to great lengths to create soils full of life which in turn creates the cleanest, healthiest food possible. Keeping our food clean and free of toxic chemicals is so important, but for many people that is the limit of their toxin-free commitment.

 

Have you considered the chemicals you put on your body every morning? And the chemicals in your home, car and workspace?

Before the average woman even leaves her home each morning, she puts 168 chemicals on her body via personal care products such as deodorant, moisturiser, hair products, shampoo, soap, perfume etc. For men that number is around 85; for example, shaving cream, aftershave and deodorant.

These (usually synthetic) chemicals slowly accumulate in your body and over time will weaken your defence system, disrupt your endocrine system and may lead to cancer or other serious health issues.

You may not be aware of it but wearing artificial scents either as perfume or other products (e.g. make up, moisturiser, sunscreen and shampoos) may cause health-compromised people to experience a serious flare up of symptoms. Even by simply walking past them! Some people may even need to carry oxygen at all times to cope with the ingestion of fragrances, whether it occurs through breathing it in or absorption through the skin. Even taste buds may absorb a smell wafting by, without the product or wearer even touching the person. Scents may also trigger asthma attacks, migraines, headaches and brain fog. It can take days or weeks to recover.

You may think it sounds crazy, but it isn’t – in Canada for example, they have a fragrance-free policy for workplaces. Do you have a neighbour who is always grumpy? Maybe her immune system has been triggered (and she is therefore feeling unwell) due to your highly fragrant laundry detergent. This is a real and challenging problem for chronically ill people who may even have to shut up their whole house until the neighbour’s washing is dry! Or consider that faint whiff of detergent on your clothes, this might be making a work friend sick!

All of the products below may contain chemicals which travel straight into your brain via your nose as you breath them in. These chemicals will affect your health.

  • Air fresheners (instead, open a window please),
  • candles,
  • cleaning products,
  • laundry detergent,
  • anti-bacterial soap,
  • fragrant hand creams,
  • hand wipes/baby wipes,
  • plug-in toxic smells,
  • fragrances in your toilet bowl,
  • deodorisers and fresheners in your car.

The health effects of synthetically fragrant products are also passed onto unborn children. Never expose your newborn baby to any of the above-mentioned kinds of fragrances, their tiny bodies already have enough to deal with in our chemically laden world.

Before you put anything on your skin, try asking yourself “Is this product natural, safe and therefore of benefit to myself and those around me?” Quality essential oils (Young Living and Doterra are pure sources) are a much better choice, though please bear in mind that some sensitive people may react to them as well.

 

Remember why we grow and eat organic food – Because we don’t want toxic exposure! We don’t want chemical build up in our body to compromise our immune system and encourage dis-ease – This is the exact reason we don’t want any chemically toxic personal care(?!) products in our home and especially, not on our bodies.

 

It’s time to use our common sense about what is good for us. Ignore advertising lies and corporate greed and instead consider the integrity and ingredients of every product and discern what truly is healthy for humans and nature.

 

You can find more information in Kate Grenville’s brilliant book: The Case Against Fragrance or visit the many toxin-free information sites and shops online.

For further reading:

Allergy, Sensitivity & Environmental Health Association Qld Inc. (ASEHA Qld Inc)

Kate Grenville discusses her latest book The Case Against Fragrance with Gia Metherell,

The Conversation: Something smells off: Kate Grenville’s case against fragrance

The Guardian: Kate Grenville interview: why perfumes are making you sick

 

Leonie Shanahan

Author of Eat Your Garden & DVD: Edible School Gardens

www.EdibleSchoolGardens.com.au

Leonie@EdibleSchoolGardens.com.au           Phone: 0479 054347

                                              

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: chemical free living

Missing from YCG, Have you seen this pot? We are always in need of 75mm seedling pots

17/10/2019 By

We are always in need of 75mm seedling pots, please lets reuse once you’ve purchased from us.

Just return the used pots once you’ve planted your seedlings, and our team of volunteers will wash the pots and get them ready for the next seedling to grow within. Don’t forget as a Volunteer organisation we try really hard to keep our costs and our prices low, help us to continue to keep our costs & prices low.

Filed Under: Nursery Plants, Other, Sustainable Living Tagged With: gardening, nursery, pots, recycling

Bente Talks To Fiona Cameron, Morning Announcer on Salt(106.5) About Our Workshops

19/02/2019 By

Click here to listen to Bente talk on Salt (106.5) to Fiona Cameron about our wax cloth-wrap workshops.

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Radio interview wax-wrap workshop

Aquaponics System For Sale

11/12/2017 By

Aquaponics System

Aquaponics Patio Unit system purchased from Practical Aquaponics (Murray Hallum)

Aquaponics system

  • Large tub for fish (1250 litres) 1470 W x 1250 D x 910 H. Suitable for Australian Native Fish (new price $1309 for large tank only)
  • Small grow bed with clay-fired balls (approx. 100 litres)
  • Timber lid covered in shade cloth
  • Bilge pump – replaced in October 2016 with AquaPro AB3000 water pump from Practical Aquaponics (purchase price $122.50)
  • All plumbing including auto-siphon
  • Aerator
  • Water testing kit
  • Nets
  • Urban Aquaponics Manual 2nd Edition by Gary Donaldson

Offers around $800 considered

If you are interested in making an offer, please contact YCG Secretary, Lissa Evans by emailing info@yandinacommunitygardens.com.au

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: aquaponics, aquaponics for sale, Murray Hallum, Yandina community Gardens

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