by Leisa on January 9, 2010
3 Day Raw Food Rainforest Retreat
Uki, NSW; 23rd-26th January, 2010
This retreat is almost sold-out!
Only four places left!
Instead of sitting at home sweltering in the summer heat this Australia Day long weekend, why not join us for a refreshing raw food experience in the lush Uki rainforest of Northern NSW – only 40 minutes from Gold Coast Coolangatta Airport.
We are having an amazing weekend of gourmet raw food, relaxation and pampering at a beautiful rainforest resort – where the most difficult decision you will have to make all weekend is whether to move from the pool to the spa or the sauna!
Arrive after lunch on Saturday and be treated to a refreshing welcome juice as you check in to your private en-suited room. Over the next days, you will enjoy evening meditations, daily morning yoga, a powerful “Healing with Food as Medicine” lecture with myself, a special raw food preparation class with our own Master Chef Jo, and delicious, healthy raw gourmet meals each day.
Spend some time soaking up the sun by the 20m swimming pool with awe-inspiring Mt. Warning views; soothe your muscles in one of two huge above-ground swim spas (which are the ultimate treat at night under a star-lit sky), and indulge as often as you like in either the steam or dry sauna. For those who like a little more luxury on their weekend getaways, there is the option of upgrading to the Pampering Package and adding a massage and a deeply nurturing Day Spa treatment to your time away.
The resort is a purpose built, multi-million dollar, five star retreat facility, carved into the natural rainforest valley at Uki situated at the foot of Mt. Warning. An abundance of natural bushland and birdlife makes this centre one of the most peaceful getaway retreats you will find anywhere in the world. With no mobile access, internet, phones, television, radio or newspapers – you will feel like you are in another world as your stress melts away as soon as you arrive
Because of it’s unique location, this will be a true escape from day to day life, where alongside all the quality features and inclusions of the Embracing Life! Retreat experience, this will be the perfect time to recover from the Christmas and holiday season madness, and rest & rejuvenate as you gain inspiration for the year ahead.
Finishing after lunch on Tuesday afternoon, you are welcome to use the facilities until the leaving time of 2.30pm that afternoon.
In Summary…
There is only one price to pay which includes everything you need for the weekend on the Escape Package, or you may choose to upgrade to the Pampering Package if desired. No add-ons, no surprises. Payment plans are available and there are fantastic discounts for couples sharing a room.
- Luxury accommodation for three nights
- All food and drinks from Saturday to Tuesday afternoon
- Morning Yoga sessions daily
- Evening meditation sessions daily
- A powerful “Healing with Food as Medicine” lecture
- A Gourmet Food Preparation class with our own Master Chef
- Unlimited use of resort facilities
(Transport, phone calls, and extra services are at your own expense)
Book NOW!
The retreat is almost full and will sell out fast! Click below and then scroll down to find the order buttons for either package.
Leisa
by Leisa on January 8, 2010
While on the treadmill at the gym yesterday morning, I saw on the television news program that they were discussing a new study which promoted the fact that formula could improve on breastmilk for babies.
My skeptical mind immediately thought “who paid for that study?”, and nothing could be better for a baby than natural breast milk , ideally from a well nourished and healthy Mum.
This morning on Natural News an article came through which discussed this particular study, and sure enough, it was slanted to support the baby formula industry…
“A recent study lauding the benefits of fortified infant formula has been greeted with skepticism by child development specialists, who suspect that the study is only the first part of an attempt to promote formula over breastmilk.
“It is clear that the food industry fascination with nutraceuticals (strategically fortified food products) is now spreading into infant formula,” said Barbara Moore of Shape Up America! “This is a disturbing new development. We have parents thinking that sticking their tiny infants in front of a Baby Einstein video will improve their child’s mental development when the data suggest that parent-child interactions (and plenty of them) are the most critical factor for such development. Now parents will be encouraged to fore-go breastfeeding — which is optimal for both mothers and babies — in favor of a hyped up infant formula.”
A recent study concluded that children who consumed infant formula fortified with the omega-3 fatty acid DHA had higher cognitive function than children who consumed unfortified formula. Breastmilk was not included in the study, and the formula used in the study was provided for free by a manufacturer.
Miriam Labbok of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill said she was doubtful about the study’s findings.
“It might be reasonable from these industry-funded studies to consider that this would be a good additive to formula if you are forced to stop breastfeeding,” she said. “However, 1) none of these studies compare to continued breastfeeding, 2) you could also get these [nutrients] from other sources if you stop breastfeeding, and 3) there are hundreds, if not thousands, of other components in human milk that cannot be replaced.”
Pediatrician Lori Feldman-Winter of New Jersey noted that many mothers come to her believing that DHA-fortified milk is healthier for their infants than breastmilk.
“The marketing has actually dissuaded mothers from choosing exclusive breastfeeding, which is preferred from all the outcomes that we understand,” she said.
All major health and pediatric associations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for at least the first six months of life, if not longer.”
Unfortunately in this industry of “scientific studies for hire”, it is worth asking the question “who stands to gain” when evaluating the merits of a particular study, and “how have the results been manipulated to result in a desired outcome”.
Leisa
by Leisa on January 7, 2010
Like many people, I’ve started off the New Year with a resolve to improve both my health and fitness! Even for those of us who have a very health lifestyle, there’s often another level of vitality that can be achieved and minor bad habits to overcome…
Having had quite severe thyroid problems for many, many years that are now largely resolved, I still have to be quite vigilant about the balance in my life between the food I eat, the exercise I do, the rest I get, and the amount of work I do. If I fall out of balance in these areas, my body tells me very quickly – and then I have to get back on track in whichever area has slipped.
Over the past year the area that has been put to the side more often than not is exercise. Even though I would still walk several days a week and do intermittent training at the gym, the consistency isn’t where I would have liked it to be, and I do know that being very fit helps my overall energy levels and supports my thyroid and adrenals.
So to kick the year off I hired a personal trainer to do three sessions a week with me for the next month. And that has been fantastic!
By having to turn up for an appointment that has been made, it commits you to the workout session, and because you are paying for it – following the trainers instructions for the cardio work on the days in-between to support what you are doing in the training sessions just makes sense.
Part of what I had to do as well, was fill out a food diary for the trainer, which was great. To sit down and write every bite that goes into my mouth over a day was an excellent exercise in food awareness – and I can highly recommend that everyone keep a food diary for a week or two to evaluate your true food intake and where it could be going a bit wrong.
So we tweaked my diet a little, and with training of some kind almost every day over the next month – I know that I will have formed new positive habits that I had let slide a bit over the past year. I also know from previous experience how good it feels to be really fit and strong, and after a month I know that I will have created enough of that feeling in my body, to ensure that it is very easy to continue with the positive practices.
So for anyone who does feel like they have gotten off track a little in the area of exercise, I have found that doing some personal training sessions is a great way to re-form those new commitments. By having a professional put together a personalised program taking into account your health and fitness level, and then supporting you in forming excellent new habits, can serve you for a much longer time than just the initial month of sessions.
Here’s to the new, super-fit me!
Leisa
by Leisa on January 6, 2010
Summer in Australia means warm weather and a desire for cool drinks which quench the thirst and rehydrate the body. There are some wonderful superfood drinks and smoothies you can make to give an extra boost of great nutrition with a divine flavour!
Try this “Happy Juice” Goji Berry Lemonade on a hot summer’s day while you are lying by the pool – it’s a winner!
Goji Berry Lemonade
2 Lemons, juiced
1 Orange, juiced
1 tablespoon of Goji Berries, soaked
1 cup young Thai coconut water (optional)
1 cup filtered water
1 tablespoon Agave Nectar
½ teaspoon Camu Camu powder
Pinch of salt
Put all ingredients, including the Goji Berry soak water, into a high speed blender, strain, and pour over ice.
Goji Berries
Goji berries are also known as “happy berries” and are celebrated for their ability to increase feelings of well-being and make people smile. They contain some of the highest levels of anti-oxidants of any berry, and are powerhouses of superfood nutrition.
Regarded in Tibet as the “Fruit of Longevity”, the Goji berry is thought to be one of the factors in the long lives of people in certain remote regions of the Himalayas.
High in amino acids, trace minerals, and several B vitamins, Goji berries are a great addition to a healthy diet. They can be soaked and added to drinks as above, added to trail mix, and used in raw dessert recipes.
Leisa
by Leisa on January 5, 2010
The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma’s industry’s influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the EU Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry.
The step is a long-overdue move to public transparency of a “Golden Triangle” of drug corruption between WHO, the pharma industry and academic scientists that has permanently damaged the lives of millions and even caused death. The parliament motion was introduced by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, former SPD Member of the German Bundestag and now Chairman of the European Parliament Health Committee.
Wodarg is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, a specialist in lung disease and environmental medicine, who considers the current “pandemic” Swine Flu campaign of the WHO to be “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the Century.”[1]
The text of the resolution just passed by a sufficient number in the Council of Europe Parliament says among other things, “In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards to alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly expose millions of healthy people to the risk of an unknown amount of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines.
The “bird-flu”-campaign (2005/06) combined with the “swine-flu”-campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health-budgets, but to the credibility and accountability of important international health-agencies.”[2]
The Parliamentary inquiry will look into the issue of ,falsified pandemic” that was declared by WHO in June 2009 on the advice of its group of academic experts, SAGE, many of whose members have been documented to have intense financial ties to the same pharmaceutical giants such as GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Novartis, who benefit from the production of drugs and untested H1N1 vaccines.
They will investigate the influence of the pharma industry in creation of a worldwide campaign against the so-called H5N1 “Avian Flu” and H1N1 Swine Flu. The inquiry will be given “urgent” priority in the general assembly of the parliament. In his official statement to the Committee, Wodarg criticized the influence of the pharma industry on scientists and officials of WHO, stating that it has led to the situation where “unnecessarily millions of healthy people are exposed to the risk of poorly tested vaccines,” and that, for a flu strain that is “vastly less harmful” than all previous flu epidemics.
Wodarg says the role of the WHO and its the pandemic emergency declaration in June needs to be the special focus of the European Parliamentary inquiry. For the first time, the WHO criteria for a pandemic was changed in April 2009 as the first Mexico cases were reported, to make not the actual risk of a disease but the number of cases of the disease basis to declare “Pandemic.” By classifying the swine flu as pandemic, nations were compelled to implement pandemic plans and also the purchase swine flu vaccines.
Because WHO is not subject to any parliamentary control, Wodarg argues it is necessary for governments to insist on accountability. The inquiry will also to look at the role of the two critical agencies in Germany issuing guidelines on the pandemic, the Paul-Ehrlich and the Robert-Koch Institute. Bravo!
F. William Engdahl is author of Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order. He may be contacted through his website: www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net
Leisa
