Organic & Holistic Lifestyle


Reasons why


Organic food is free from all highly toxic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, antibiotics, and growth hormones used in intensive farming.
Organic also means free from artificial colouring, additives, flavourings and sweetners. The mantra buy local think global is an apt one as local food has a higher content of essential vitamins and minerals.

By buying carrots produced in Zaire like one supermarket was selling when the UK produces them should not carry the symbol organic as flying all those thousands of miles gets to the source of polluting the ozone. Surely, if we are to be kind to the environment air miles should be taken into account before the organic trademark is represented on labels.

Organic food regulations do not allow hydrogenated fats a well documented cause of heart disease, obesity on-set diabetes and other related diseases. Intensively farmed animals are maltreated pumped full of hormones and antibiotics this must have a detrimental effect on humans once killed and eaten by us.
Note well the recent foot and mouth crisis and the clean up operation that has caused problems with cross-contamination in our water systems. BSE and the human form vCJD is linked to intensive farming, so too, salmonella listeria and E-Coli.

The cost of these diseases to the taxpayer means that in the long term conventional food is more expensive whereas organic food is better for your purse, better for the environment, and better for you.

This step-by-step guide is easy to follow and you don’t have to be rich, a guru, or an abstemious monk to implement some key points into your life for better health more vitality and better skin.

  • Drink at least 2 litres of fresh water everyday to help support liver function.
  • Eat fresh fruits and vegetables where possible organic. Try eating vegetables raw as this is the best way for vitamins and minerals to be assimilated in the body, plus the goodness will not be destroyed during the cooking process.
  • Cut down on alcohol to no more than a couple of units per day.
  • Don’t smoke.
  • Exercise at least 20 minutes a day; some of the most effective sports for body toning are swimming, cycling and yoga.
  • Place the hand just under the solar plexus on the right hand side of the body, gently move the hand around the stomach 20 times. This will help relieve stomach acid.
  • Once awake first thing in the morning sit on your knees and start breathing through the full length of the diaphragm. Do this about 80 times, this will help to super oxygenate the red blood cells, giving energy to start the day.
  • Try juicing raw fruits and vegetables to flush the system of toxins.
  • Nasal irrigation will be the next big purgation exercise which will rival colonic hydrotherapy. Get a pot with a spout (maybe a small tea-pot) and with a little salt pour up one nostril, breathe through the mouth slowly and through gravity the water will come out of the other nostril. Do the same for the other side. This exercise clears the nasal passage allowing breathing to be much freer and if you suffer from nasal congestion, snoring or catarah nasal douching will help.
  • Try a fast. Drinking only water is the best type of fast, some juice throughout the fast, but Remember if you’ve never fasted before only do it for no more than 48 hours and always consult a nutritionist. Fasting gives the stomach a rest from digesting and pushes out old waste and toxins. During the fast you may feel nauseous or heady but don’t worry as this is just toxins passing through the bloodstream.


Well that is the inside of the body fitfully maintained, now lets look at the outside.

  • When washing try using a loafer or natural sponge to gently exfoliate the skin.
  • Choose natural skin and bodycare products that is not made with harsh synthetic ingredients. The skins natural oils will be enhanced meaning healthy glowing skin. See the article on toxic toiletries for more guidance.
  • Try where possible to wear clothes made from natural fibres as man made materials such as nylon emit over 50% of the UKs total nitrous oxide emissions. Ethical Consumer magazine. Cotton is the most heavily sprayed crop, organic cotton is free from nasty irritant chemicals such as organophospates.
  • Washing clothes with a chemical free and environmentally friendly powder such as Ecover may help stop skin irritations.