Sue Kedgley, Green Party MP and author

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Graeme Sait is originally from Taranaki and has spent most of his life away from NZ as a global leader, and the question is asked, can one man make a difference?\n    Is it possible that one person’s knowledge and enthusiasm can produce a counter tipping point to farming and land management - into a new upcycle.\n    One where in a few short years, soil across our whole country can be revitalized, rivers, lakes and aquifers cleaned up, less livestock, (cows) needed\n    but enabling far higher productivity? More Co2 from the atmosphere being sequestered by the microflora, the mega trillions of bacteria and fungi that\n    live and comprise the soil? Resulting in more sustainability across the ecosphere?
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Why? Because science is belatedly realising that the answer is found in the soil - healthy soil.
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Graeme Sait, is the co-founder of Qld Company, Nutri-Tech Solutions (NTS), a recognised world\n    leader in sustainable agriculture/horticulture. He is a sought after, global keynote speaker, plus was the founder of Radiance, the 6 day Wellness\n    Festival in Queensland that attracted crowds in excess of 12,000. He has many years of researching health and wellbeing and the benefits of all the\n    correct foods especially fats and oils to teas, herbal remedies plus soil health agricultural systems and biological farming etc.
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Soil microflora and fungi
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Learn of the profound interdependence of soil microflora of bacteria and fungi that is crucial to plant growth, healthy soil (and sequesting Co2 from the\n    atmosphere). Just like the micro flora in our gut and digestive system, when we are free of chemical additives, everything flourishes and comes back\n    into balance.
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There's a grassroots revolution taking place as we read and its emergent principles are so profound that it is ushering in sweeping, positive changes to\n    land use, farming and market gardening practices to our beleaguered planet, Mother Earth.
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This most refreshing and insightful interview covers minerals, soil bacteria, fungi to plant health, that extends to vegetation, animal and ultimately\n    to human health. Not quite organic, it however, leads us back into the organic world.
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A vision for agriculture and human health
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His inspirational vision for agriculture and human health has been documented in over 300 published articles and he is currently completing three new books,\n    covering this vast subject. A much sought after, entertaining and informative speaker, Graeme has inspired audiences all over the world.
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Global warming emissions and acidification of the oceans can be mitigated by conscious use of soil bacteria, soil carbon and humous and if we use appropriate\n    knowhow found in biological agriculture … astounding possibilities not mentioned in mainstream media will give the youth (and all people of\n    our planet) a much needed boost in morale and optimism.
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Biological agriculture success stories
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In South Africa, the uptake of biological agriculture is expanding at near exponential rates as farmers witness the viability and in particular the yields\n    from healthy soil of vital healthy produce. Lead by Woolworths 460 supermarkets nationwide, they only source fresh food from certified Biological farmers\n    and producers.
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Listen to the profound biological agricultural changes happening with Dole the world's largest producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruit on the\n    astounding shifts within this corporation that are happening at this very moment.
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And in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, having saturated the land with chemical and toxic agriculture, and the resulting highest percentage of cancers per\n    head of population anywhere, are just now, changing course into biological agriculture.
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Having personally witnessed two of Graeme's presentations myself, you will come away totally inspired to far better health practices, plus a greater respect\n    for nature and the depth of knowledge this man has regarding physical health and well being.
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His many interviews on GreenplanetFM.com - cover such a range of subject matter - it is so huge and compelling.\n    
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Covering the cause of the top diseases such as heart, cancer, diabetics, alzheimers and chronic fatigue, to cod liver oil's superb results, as well as\n    coconut oil, the use (or non use) of cooking oils to mineral up-take, plus dumping your microwave oven, to no tilling of your home garden to the incredible\n    results of rotation of cows grazing on pasture is the big story of the future … the list goes on.
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Soil health - The Holy Grail?
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The holy grail is soil health, based on bacteria, fungi, earthworms in concert with nature and reciprocity is the essence of this biological approach to\n    producing healthy food.
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WHY?
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Farming over the last 60 years plus, has been based on the mistaken analysis in the 19th century of plant growth and that NPK, nitrogen, phosphorous and\n    potassium were basically perceived as all that plants needed to utilize to grow, when in fact there are 74 mineral compounds that are all part of whole\n    growth. However, western man has been full-on into unbalancing the soil to where we today have unhealthy soil structure, basically depleted in the\n    other 71 minerals, with far less soil bacteria and fungi, resulting in unhealthy plants, animals and now humans - all due to factory farming, extractive\n    agriculture and an increasingly toxic chemical ideology.
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Fortunately, this is finally changing.
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An inspiring interview regarding our collective future.
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Previous GreenplanetFM Interviews: 
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Microcosm in the Macrocosm\n    \n        
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/graeme-sait-microcosm-in-the-macrocosm\n
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Graeme Sait, Globally Recognised Revolutionary Keynote Speaker on Soil, Animal and Human Nutrition\n    
http://www.ourplanet.org/greenplanetfm/graeme-sait-globally-recognised-revolutionary-keynote-speaker-on-soil-animal-and-human-nutrition\n
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http://www.nutri-tech.com.au 
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Liz Gunn and Lisa Er took time this week to korero about the state of the nation and the ways in which New Zealanders can educate ourselves about our\n        country and our world.
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(A korero is a conversation or a discussion.)
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Sadly, the wider research on our country’s current poverty and homelessness, on our record suicide numbers, on the widening gap between the haves and\n        the have nots, can have the sense of a litany of failures . There are many reasons to feel discouraged. 
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BYPASS MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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Yet the freedoms offered by the internet, and online (and radio) discussion, can offer a way through this sense of overwhelm. 
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Lisa and Liz discuss the ways in which to become more informed and to find the courage to question the norms and the prevailing viewpoints often sold\n        to us through media acolytes of the government viewpoint. From there, it’s rewarding to become actively involved - by each of us making our own\n        contributions, in our own corners of this country we love. 
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Liz talks of her work with the homeless on our streets and Lisa refers to the nurturing of a system of values as a bedrock for political and societal\n        decision-making. 
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Perhaps the biggest issue coming in to the election is the need to find the passion to stand up and to speak out. Certainly that is the spirit in the\n        studio when Lisa and Liz meet for their discussions. 
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ISSUES
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One can see on social media much distress about the poverty in New Zealand, lack of housing, homelessness, and frustration about the state of our rivers\n        and lakes. 
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There are those who passionately want change, to cannabis laws, 1080 drops, fluoride in our water, and the banking system. Others want to ensure that\n        our food is safe and labelled, and that genetic engineering is not let out into the environment. 
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Education and health figure strongly in the list of concerns that people have. Some people concentrate on single issues and become experts, and others\n        view the issues from a bigger picture.
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However all of the above, and more, need to be included in the discussions we have, especially before the elections. Unfortunately the mainstream media\n        tends to focus on leaders and not on policy so some people feel disinclined to vote.
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Corruption is another issue that people find hard to accept but as Nicky Hager show us in his two latest books, “Dirty Politics”, and “Hit and Run”,\n        we need to be very awake and aware.
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HOPE
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Both Liz and Lisa hope that joining in with this korero - through your own listenership - will nurture passion in each valued listener, and bring the\n        simmering fire in your belly to life in a burning blaze of thoughtful discussion on the main aspects of New Zealand life that need to be improved\n        . 
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Such outspokenness will lend an urgency to pre-election build-up, and may even inspire our families - and especially our young - to sign up as voters,\n        and speak up as Kiwis. 
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Links
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UNICEF report: \"New Zealand 34th out of 41 developed countries for child well being”\n    
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/93583589/unicef-report-wellbeing-of-kiwi-kids-languishes-behind-other-developed-countries\n    
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“No lunches for poor children”\n    
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http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2017/05/lunchbox-differences-in-decile-1-and-decile-10-schools.html\n    
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This programme is sponsored by The Awareness Party\n        
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Being sensitive to our bodily responses. 
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Have you ever intuitively tuned into your gut when in a situation where there may be danger, or a sense of risk?
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Well, scientists have finally realised that there is a connection to a gut brain - and of course we have known that there has been a connection to the\n    heart brain for many years now - when Joseph Chilton Pearce mentioned\n    it 40 years ago. 
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Science finally makes the connection.
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After many years of seemingly disconnected research, scientists in Australia have pieced together much more of the disparate data on the human body to\n    realise that embedded deeply with us all, are specific organs of intelligence.
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This research has substantiated this gut brain and come out with a process called ‘multiple braining’ and there is quite possibly more of these brains\n    embedded in the human body.
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We have been using our brains for seemingly ages when unknowingly we have been receiving mixed responses because “they have been working incongruently\n    against each other. - “them as against them” where you get varied signals.
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Remember the statement, I had a gut feeling, or I felt it in my gut. Or my heart said Yes and my head said No!
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Thus when we bring all three ‘brains’ into alignment - other deeper possibilities come into being.
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There is now a two-minute practice that allows us to bring all three ‘m brains’ to align together - where you can have a win win win    situation because all brains will be synchronised and working together. 
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With more research future findings that will probably show that the ‘Vegas nerve’ will be a brain and possibly the 'reproduction system' will have a brain\n    as well.
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 Plus a learned process to being able to align them further. 
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So this is a new modality, with plenty of room for far more research so as to develop it a lot further.
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The practitioners involved in this new modality have a keenness to really advance this science into assisting the growth of consciousness. 
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These ‘M braining’ trainers and master trainers - ask this question every day - ‘How can I be the most compassionate, creative, courageous self today?’
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Compassionate being related to the heart, creativity, to the brain and courageousness aligns to the gut. Thus by first aligning all brains through a simple\n    exercise they become far more congruent and intuitively there life processes tend to be more harmonious and successful, due to one’s - ‘mindfulness’.
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Too much happening in the outside world.
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In today’s world, stress is a major escalating global problem and with it can come addictions - that for many they fall into, thinking that drink and drugs\n    can give us some sort of temporary relief.
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Then there is an increase in ‘screen’ addiction - people staring into screens including pornography and now more drama - plus distractions.
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The big one - the lack of self love, especially for the young - they can give out to other people but they unable receive love for themselves\n    - there is too much self-depreciation to the extent that so many young people are doing self harm to themselves. 
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In this interview Vivienne tells of the health benefits especially the psychological advantages that can be readily gained, once we become aware of this\n    new understanding. 
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There is a lot more in this interview that will instil in you a wider knowing that will assist you in your daily life. Especially leaving you marvelling\n    as we decode the subtle layers of the human body, in that there is indeed a deeper level of being - yet to be unveiled.
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For those of you intuitively living at the frontier of mind body relationships m-braining opens up possibilities that takes us into realms never thought\n    possible.
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Vivienne Berry can be contacted at Global Health Clinics    on 09 488 0208 or by email.\n    
 
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In this interview Dr Guy Hatchard addresses this and explains how plants animals and humans have evolved together and how our gut is made to digest natural products better than synthetic ones. He is an absolute mine of information around this, the Gaia principle and quantum physics.\n    
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Dr Guy Hatchard was formerly the Natural Health Products director at Genetic ID, a global food testing company. He now runs the Natural Food Commission\n    to inform the public about the benefits of traditional natural medicine and the dangers of food regulation. Working with industry and natural health\n    practitioners, he has organised a campaign to oppose the Natural Health Products Bill which is in the queue for its final reading in parliament.\n    
 
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Alliance against this Bill
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An alliance of Natural Products companies, doctors, and affected individuals are mounting a legal challenge to the provisions of the Natural Health Products\n    bill.
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The government is planning to present the Natural Health Products Bill for its final reading shortly with provisions that resemble the original bill, the\n    Theraputic Goods Act, which was abandoned in the face of huge public opposition. The Ministry of Health has already begun to implement the bill’s anticipated\n    provisions. Analysis of the latest version of the bill released on 15th March shows it will greatly disadvantage traditional medicine affecting the\n    health care choices of tens of thousands of NZers. However as opposition to this bill is mounting, government has pushed it down on the order paper\n    in parliament. This is an opportunity to provide more opposition, which as you listen to the interview and read below, you will see is most necessary!
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A Draconian Law
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In 2011, the Government and the Green Party promised a law that would encourage the use of Natural Health Products alongside conventional medicine as a\n    precursor to an integrated, science-based approach to health. Instead the law has emerged from the corridors of power as a draconian and restrictive\n    approach which is very different from the integrative approach to medicine which is beginning to flourish overseas.
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1) The Bill has adopted a list of 5500 controlled substances from Australia and Canada which means that its provisions are similar to the Trans Tasman\n    Therapeutic Products Agreement proposed in 2006 which was later abandoned after being roundly rejected by the NZ public.
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2) Because the permitted natural ingredient list contains approximately 3000 chemicals and synthetics in addition to herbs; it will allow products labelled\n    as natural to contain synthetic additives thereby debasing the meaning of the word natural, which will confuse and disadvantage the public.
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3) It enshrines in law the idea that serious illness cannot be benefited by Natural Health Products despite the growing scientific evidence published around\n    the world that nutrition and traditional medicines can have a huge beneficial impact on cancers, heart disease, digestive and respiratory illness,\n    and other chronic illness.
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4) It restricts free speech about the health benefits of food and introduces chilling penalties of up to $250,000 for those who communicate the benefits\n    of natural products without first obtaining Government permission.
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5) It places pharmaceutical regulators with no interest or expertise in natural health in charge of our food and health choices. These same people will\n    adjudicate on traditional Ayurvedic, Chinese, Maori, and herbal systems of medicines. This is contrary to assurances given by the Hon. Jonathan Coleman\n    to Parliament that Medsafe would not administer the Bill and product suppliers would be able to self-certify compliance.
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6) The Government has tried to justify the Bill by saying that it will ensure the safety of the public, but no evidence of risk has been presented. It\n    fact evidence shows it is far more dangerous to go out to eat in a restaurant or consume a bowl of salad at home than it is to take a Natural Health\n    Product. Therefore there is no justification for introducing pharmaceutical style regulations.
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7) It is a Henry VIII Bill, containing enabling and regulatory provisions which allow the Ministry of Health to take decisions for any reasons it believes\n    to be relevant. This is poorly written legislation which is open to abuse, misunderstanding and litigation.
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8) It contains a clause which prevents unfairly treated individuals and firms from asking a court of law to uphold the safeguards contained in the Bill.\n    The only redress available is to ask the Authority to reconsider its decisions. This will frustrate justice and enable the Authority to ignore matters\n    of fact.
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9) Because there has been no credible attempt to rationalise the provisions of the Natural Health Products Bill with the Medicines Act 1981 and the Food\n    Bill, it contains a hidden mechanism to allow pharmaceutical companies to gain effective patents over health giving traditional herbs which has already\n    been exploited in Australia and will now be available here.
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10) It wastes money and resources on restricting the natural health choices of the public, while serious and growing problems such as childhood obesity,\n    hypertension, ADHD, and anxiety, which are largely caused or complicated by poor diet and nutrition, are almost completely ignored.
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11) It places an additional huge cost on the natural health products industry through onerous regulations and charges which will increase the cost of products\n    and likely ensure small and even medium sized companies have to go out of business as happened in Australia where dozens of firms have been forced\n    to close their doors and traditional medicine suppliers have all but disappeared.
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12) It allows unhealthy foods and products including tobacco, sugary drinks, and alcohol to continue to be sold, while restricting healthy choices. How\n    irresponsible is this, and what a complete waste of resources?
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Guy has made videos explaining his concerns, including this one, on the new global restrictions on Natural Health products.
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This interview is sponsored by The Awareness Party\n
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Jodie grew up to lose both parents due to cancer and she herself, developed hyperthyroidism and had to take medication that left her lacking in energy.
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She didn’t really get her brain and life back until when she saw a herbalist – then her mind started to clear and she started looking at nutrition – which\n    lead to cleaning up her diet.\n    
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It was a slow process because she was still fatigued and tired with two young children though getting better all the time. Having a Degree in Agribusiness\n    she has had a keen interest in food production. But realised that industrial factory farming was denaturing food. 
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Supermarket foods
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Supermarket foods today are problematic as there are so many ‘snack bargains’ available and in many ways we are reluctant or unable to address this addictive\n    behaviour. Mainstream media is basically failing in addressing this due to vested interests and advertising revenue from the ‘food’ industry. Especially\n    in relation to very recent new chemicals being introduced into food, since most of these chemicals were not around 20 years ago and thus we were not\n    eating them way back then.\n    
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Michael Moore the documentary maker in the US has put on record how big food researchers, explore ‘crave-ability’ and scan people’s brains to see the dopamine\n    spurt when exposed to certain food, - how it sounds and tastes - as scientists want to know what is going on at deeper levels within our brain using\n    hard science.\n    
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The addiction’s are more than sugar, they are carbohydrates – wheat, potatoes and salt in that mix – and we are not addressing the addictive nature of\n    these foods. Because to the snack food industry - with addictive foods, you will always get a repeat purchase.\n    
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The other fact of the matter is - that Main Stream Media ‘MSM’ in many cases state that chronic illness that’s in the world today - has a genetic factor\n    – when it could actually be up to 85% plus related to diet and exposures and we know that most exposures comes in through the mouth.\n    
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That wheat may have two fungicide treatments and insecticide treatments, plus it will have a coating before it sprouts into a plant (see neonicotinoids)\n    but there is no scientific research on all of this.\n    
 
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Plus, there are chemicals in bread to keep it as fresh as possible. Including the possibility of soy and corn products – as seen on a great amount of supermarket\n    food packaging and many of these may have been derived from GMO sources as well.\n    
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Most mum’s will possibly only read one article every few years to warn them of what is in food – but it usually happens only when a child becomes ill,\n    or the parents go down with an ailment, will they then start to look at what they are eating – meanwhile their life becomes very stressful and they\n    suffer a drop in energy – losing momentum for vibrant living and well being.
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We need an active and diverse media in NZ but regrettably this it is not happening. That we have to wake up to the fact that we do not have ‘conscious’\n    media in NZ - especially covering the multiple interrelationships around products and their safety. 
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What is the Government doing?
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Governments are supposedly to be trusted, however we are rapidly noticing that they are not taking the electorate into consideration when once they did.\n    There are fiduciary obligations that should not be breached.
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The NZEPA - Environmental Protection Authority    is poorly funded (just like in the USA where it is deliberately underfunded) That the NZ EPA, just can not keep up with the onslaught of chemicals\n    and new products and flora and fauna entering NZ that they just can not research and check out prior to being allowed into our environment or market\n    place.
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Plus, with trade and the need for the economic wheels to keep turning – there has become a slow compromise of standards, as overworked EPA can not keep\n    up with their responsibilities and activity that is continuously increasing. This is because the guidelines - the protocols that the scientists have\n    to asses, in this case pesticides are both outdated and have an exceptionally narrow focus.\n    
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This has resulted in that ‘we’ are not engaging in the in-depth studies of insecticides, pesticides and fungicides. They are NOT LOOKING at the full formulation.\n    Most farmers know that the full formulation is more toxic. None of these full formulations when sprayed on a crop, are looked at from a combined formulation.\n    They are all only looked at separately. This means that when you mix all the effects of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides together - the accumulative\n    effect of all three - have a knock on effect that has not been researched or studied.\n    
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So we have an underfunded Government scientific institution given a contract with very limited scope that they ‘only stay within the parameters of what\n    they have been given to study.’ They are not told to look outside these areas – so they are not really looking out for the public good, for in many\n    ways the perception is they are just ticking the boxes.\n    
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Therefore we have children today being exposed to a huge onslaught of chemicals (Remember the slogan Clean Green NZ) – plus the sugar load – no wonder\n    our children are become sicker at a younger age due to this toxic overload - especially from wheat products. So though we seem to live longer (with\n    more drugs to keep us alive) we are having more young becoming ill as a result to all these chemical exposures.\n    
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Note, that the biotech corporations give the Government their specs and data and there are definitely limitations with the data offered, solely because\n    they want to get their product onto the market as soon as possible and they are not always forthcoming with data that could compromise them.\n    
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Doctors are not able to speak out as ‘big Pharma’ is looking over their every move and doctors risk losing their license if they become critical of the\n    chemicals that are persuasive in the food chain. As a result doctors in NZ are 15 years behind with what is truly going on. They are doing their best,\n    but without Government sanctioning of top quality, honest food education, their task in many ways is like being the ambulance at the bottom of the\n    cliff.\n    
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There is a need for honest Government talking about clean food – no junk food advertising – that we are today so far from a responsible Government.\n    
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The 2016 NZ Government Health Strategy came out recently but it was more like a communication strategy talking about prevention but they never mentioned\n    what prevention was - they never talked about clean food or the tsunami of sugar addiction.
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This interview mentions the challenges to communicate to NZers, especially mothers about ‘good practice’ and safe eating and it is a huge task - as most\n    magazines sell the sizzle - the hype of fancy dishes looking and smelling tempting and delicious. Not their health contents.\n    
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Mothers are endeavoring to share and use FaceBook to communicate their needs and it is not helping parents fast enough to find the answers because they\n    are often looking in the wrong place - when the game is to simply clean up your eating act and take in more organic produce that has never been sprayed\n    or been fed chemicals. MSM – just won’t go there. (Just like in the USA) 
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Glyphosate
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That Glyphosate is sprayed now on our pastures and it’s on our food crops, on our pathways, it’s in our drains, along our roadsides, around our parks and\n    no Council is testing for ‘Roundup’s - glyphosate in the groundwater – ‘none’ nor are they looking for it in our drains, creeks and river systems –\n    WHY?\n    
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Even Monsanto’s studies in Europe have found it in Europe’s groundwater and river systems.\n    
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Recently 41 Green MP’s from 14 countries in the European Union were tested for Glyphosate in their urine and all 41 averaged 4 times the allowable amount\n    for the EU and the Green MPs would eat and drink more organic food than the average European, by far.
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We are just not looking at the fungicides and insecticides and the run-off from the land into the drains, creeks and rivers – So the question being asked\n    is - where is the hard science testing for all these chemicals and the cumulative effects of them?\n    
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Most farmers are not told of the hidden dangers especially of the cumulative effect. Only when insects, bird and marine life become affected will we see\n    that this matches the ill health that children are starting to be impacted by.\n    
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There is hidden secret science that is being kept from us because MSM are basically in the hands of big business.\n    
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Is Glyphosate in NZ milk products? Evidently no one in NZ is using the ‘latest leading edge technology’ to test for glyphosate in milk\n    that has passed through the mammalian system.
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See Monica Kruger – European study http://www.gmoevidence.com/dr-kruger-glyphosate-is-toxic-to-dairy-cows/\n
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Basically science and the systems that the NZ Government have set up are failing people in NZ, and by default overseas buyers of our produce?\n    
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Note that Glyphosate can be sprayed on wheat crops – so do some research yourself.\n    
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As well as oil seeds – canola and your vegetable oils like soy used in convenience foods most are GMO’s and have been sprayed with Roundup.
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Baby formulas and infant formulas, become very problematic when there is no robust testing.\n    
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In the NZ dairy industry – we need transparent protocols because Glyphosate is being used on NZ pastures before stock is grazed on it. NZ farmers are being\n    TOLD that it is SAFE – so when one day the newsflashes on at 6PM screaming out that overseas somewhere - tests have found glyphosate in the milk –\n    we can then look to Monsanto’s scientists for accountability.
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This could be impacting animal health, sperm and egg levels causing deformities – we have not seen the tests.
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Bread – what is it doing to us and our children?\n    
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Because of chemicals in our food we can not always see what’s actually happening in our food. Because anti fungicides keep the fungus at bay, same as preservatives\n    in meat - stop it from spoiling early. We have to become far more aware.\n    
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Safer regulation makes for safer food – the EU has good regulation\n    
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ERPA in NZ is much closer to trade based interests than to Mothers …\n    
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Europe has recently made a recommendation in regard to Roundup and Glyphosate based herbicides that it should not be sprayed on food crops anymore and\n    the major adjuvants or ingredients in the formulation – called POEA – should be taken out of Roundup and it should never be used around parks and where\n    children congregate or play.
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These recommendations are light years ahead of the NZ EPA and country wide regulations. 
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Julia Rutledge professor http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/profiles/staff/people/julia_rucklidge.shtmlnzh\n    
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How do we get the message out?     
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Talk with your friends over a cup of tea and coffee, at cafes, at school events, at sports in weekends.
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Use FB appropriately plus link to good alternative media and be adroit - put your needs out among your friends.\n    
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Web search – put blog in front and after a few pages of commercial posts you get to some very interesting info\n    
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Listen to Ted talks or other programs – even GPFM.\n    
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When it comes to children eating industrial farmed food we are at present in a global emergency.\n    
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It is that developing babies, to infants, to children all the way up through their teens whose health is in balance. This is the critical time in the formation\n    of all of their organs and growing body. 
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For adults it is different we are in essence fully formed so it is not as critical when compared to growing children.\n    
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So the imperative is to get organised to make sure we have a healthy future for all children and grandchildren.\n    
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www.rite-demands.org\n    
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http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/05/03/glyphosate-food.aspx\n    
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https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Die-Discover-Scientifically/dp/1250066115\n
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The other confirmed that there is a fast growing healthy, non chemical, biological revolution of farming and horticulture happening across the rural face of NZ and beyond.
If this interview was played over Radio New Zealand’s nationwide network it would have mothers of babies and children in uproar.     \n    
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First: Is Glyphosate ‘slowly’ killing everything it comes into contact with, including humans? The statistics are saying yes!
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The research being collated from all around our planet is confirming a coming nightmare. It is looking grim for most biota. That means you and your family,\n    animals and vegetation including the elements of air, soil and water.\n    
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Regrettably, it looks like the unbridled avarice and corruption of the biotech corporations especially Monsanto, with their unscrupulous insiders - in\n    allowing this cleverly disguised toxin into the sacredness of the world’s environment - is having a devastating affect on all planetary biota.\n    
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Second: There is a powerful yet quiet revolution happening across NZ (and globally) that farmers horticulturists and market gardeners\n    have realised that there is another unique way of growing healthy food, without chemicals, called ‘biological agriculture’ that is rapidly gaining\n    prominence over the chemical agribusiness that is taking down our country’s clean green image. (if we really had one) 
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That New Zealander Graeme Sait, American Arden Andersen    and Australian Christine Jones,\n    among many others have been at the forefront of introducing this methods to the world (all three have been interviewed on GreenplanetFM).\n    
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Thus, we have come to an important shift of perspective and of action. We are crossing over into a new paradigm not only in land management and connection,\n    but to one of a new consciousness in our relationship to all planetary biota.\n    
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Phyllis who comes from California has a degree in Environmental Planning and Management with emphasis on soils and Ag economics, and worked for the State of California in ministerial level positions in energy conservation policy, municipal waste, hazardous waste management and coastal regulation. She is now based here in the Hawkes Bay NZ.
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When in America, she met and married a NZer who was studying for his graduate degree in ecology and his focus was on the regulation of pesticides and insecticides and their affect on all levels of the environment, biota and ultimately the food chain. Thus with her environmental credentials plus her husband’s PhD in ecology she has embedded a very good understanding of how the environment is being saturated by chemical pesticides and insecticides.\n    
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Her ongoing focus has continued to cover the situation of soil, microbes, water and that extends into human health and what it’s doing in particular to\n    our gut bacteria and the increasing understanding of microflora that inhabits our stomach and intestines.\n    
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Over the last 20 years, this has been a major theme that she has continued to deepen her understanding of the connection between soil fertility and environmental\n    health where she has branched out and has her own business based in True Health an animal remedies firm. Where she imports specially made up certified\n    organic tinctures - plant based extracts to act as alternatives to antibiotics so as to assist farmers to wean their farm animals off antibiotics.\n    She has a small farm on highly mineralised, high brix soils with diverse pastures with her cows producing high saturated fats, including cholesterol\n    that when taken appropriately she says are very helpful for the human body.\n    
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She has spent a lot of time with biological agriculture exponents Graeme Sait and Arden Andersen who are at the fore-front of a farming phenomena where\n    they are doing brix tests on soils and remineralising them, bringing about healthy microflora especially fungi and bacteria including earthworm populations.\n    Leading to healthy rapid vegetation growth. Thus doing away with chemicals fertilisation and applications.\n    
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In South Africa, where Graeme has a huge following pulling in very large crowds to his talks and field days he has had Woolworths the supermarket chain (not to be confused with the Australian & New  Zealand group) through their 500 plus stores switch over to only sourcing food and produce from biological farmers under the name of “Farming for the Future, a holistic approach.”\n    
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In this interview, Phyllis clearly covers the major benefits of biological farming, having brought Graeme Sait to NZ for numerous courses where hundreds\n    of NZ farmers attend and many more have now switched across to biological methods. This is where the soil is well mineralised and balanced, becoming\n    more microbially alive and diverse and producing more pasture. What this method leads too is better quality and healthy fruit and vegetable that store\n    well, taste great and have higher mineral and vitamin content (higher Brix)\n    
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This means higher dissolved solids which indicates that the food is going to be better for us.
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By creating food from the soil up that heals people, that nourishes them deeply not just fulfills a hunger - but that they have the mineral building blocks\n    to createthe enzymes and the tissues withintegrity - that actually translates into full and optimal health.\n    
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However, statistics from around the world are showing that the percentage of vitamins and minerals in our food are decreasing at an alarming rate. This\n    decline is continuing and it has been linked to orthodox farming practices due the way we have been fertilising the soil and applying insecticides\n    and herbicides to foliage. What this has been doing, in the words of Graeme Sait, we have been ‘bombing the microbe bridge’ that allows minerals to\n    be absorbed by the plant in their ideal and proper forms. This is why plants are becoming too weak to be able to produce their own ability to repel\n    insects and the more we farm in this archaic method, the more chemicals and sprays will be used as we embark down a slippery slope of poor soils, unhealthier\n    vegetation and higher costs to both the the land, the farmer and consumer.\n    
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Healthy soils and healthy plants result in the plants being able to repel pests because they are so strong and robust. We need to know that all plants\n    are medicinal as well as producers of food.\n    
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Protection of the Environment & Protection of Human Health. 
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If there was leadership in the EPA ‘Environmental Protection Agency’ especially in the USA, we the global consumer would be far more safer and the ecology\n    would be too.
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However, this is a global phenomenon, most countries have a poor record of making sure biotech companies are up front and legally fulfilling the precautionary\n    principle.
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With the EPA, a US Government Department it is known as the Global default watchdog of what is allowed out into the environment but it is poorly financed\n    and it is deliberately kept to a low budget. This way it leaves the door open to when the large biotech conglomerates like Bayer, Dupont, Syngenta\n    and Monsanto want to apply for a product to be released into the environment they are allowed tp submit their own ‘safety’ studies that they paid for\n    themselves.\n    
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Yet time and time again they have posted fraudulent data, or manipulated it or made up the facts, or underplayed the risks that is has been near on farcical\n    in many instances.
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Now all that needs to be done is for the EPA to charge the applicants a far higher fee so as to employ the numbers and qualified personnel to test on behalf\n    of the EPA. For there have been so many instances of even independent labs doing the tests and they have been found out, for fraud and taken to court,\n    fined and jailed, but it still goes on solely because of the vastness of what is happening across the USA.\n    
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From a political science standpoint, which was generally the topic of her husband’s PhD thesis that in the US the EPA which has a global standing has never\n    been in a position to be financially able to do the necessary research.\n    
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So why is the EPA so short of funds to be not able to do thorough testing? Well there is a cosy situation. That politically from the beginning the EPA lacked the quality and caliber of the scientists to evaluate the industry generated safety studies in the first place. The cosy chemical corporate lobbyists are cosy with the chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee in Congress for example and they make sure that the EPA has a very, very modest budget and they can never really keep up with the industry bought scientists. And it they do, they usually they don’t  last very long.\n
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So there is a revolving door where the head of the EPA or the head of the US Food and Agriculture or some other regulatory agency happens to have been\n    Chief Council for Monsanto for example, that definitely has happened and they put him in charge of approving Genetically Engineered crops in the early\n    1990’s There are multiple examples of someone from the industry been brought in to regulate their previous industry.\n    
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Unfortunately, this happens time and time again.\n    
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We now have the ubiquitous use of chemicals globally, remember the DDT spraying of everyone, and then the hurried ban on it? (No, very few do - as mistakes\n    are quickly buried and covered up.)\n    
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The ever present use of herbicides and insecticides globally is having a disturbing effect – not only in the rural sector and farms but now in urban areas\n    for parks and pristine home lawns.\n    
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The conventional NZ farmer /market gardener today are increasingly finding that they are totally incongruent with the precautionary principle, that when\n    they awaken in the morning, their thoughts are based on – not what they are going to grow today, but what they are having to kill today? Which becomes\n    a full frontal chemical attack of so many different sprays – so the farmers in essence, lose heart in that they are not 100% proud of their produce,\n    because they know that it’s covered in poisons - so they can not really hold their head high and be proud.\n    
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Little does the NZ consumer know that under the auspices of the EPA, the ‘Environmental Protection Agency’ formerly ERMA the Environmental Risk Management\n    Authority, that they they seem to have seemingly robust standards, yet they do not adhere to them.\n    
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As a result - Agriculture has become a killing field instead of a growing field.\n    
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A New Understanding
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In the last 4-5 years there has been a greater public understanding and reconnection across the soils, science, farming and health sector that microbes\n    are the key to our planet functioning.\n    
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In particular, the ‘gut micro biome’ and their community and the health of these are critical to our own health. Which equals a diverse healthy ‘integrated\n    micro biome’ be it on our skin, in the water, gut, tissue, blood – we need to have an inner ecology that is a reflection of a healthy outside ecology.\n    
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Science is today seeing that the human gut microbiome has been seriously compromised by anti-biotics, plus herbicides and insecticides .\n    
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They are notching that the vegas nerve from our gut microbiome to our brain is increasingly being affected as a result. This affects our mood, thoughts\n    and feelings - depending on the state of the health of our gut.\n    
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Even the risks for alzheimers is increase dramatically. Very few in the Western world have a robust healthy gut.\n    
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C section births was mentioned too as problematic as babies born of the birth canal are far more able to cope because they picked up antibodies in the\n    birth canal journey .
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To sort this there is the GAPS diet cleanse that may be able to assist.
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Marketing of broad spectrum herbicides:
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Round Up and its active ingredient glyphosate is now marketed globally by a great number of companies as a broad spectrum weed killer.\n    
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It is extremely capable of killing all vegetation other than Monsanto’s GMO or GE ‘Round Up’ – ready, corn, soy and canola and as glyphosate use increases\n    every year now - up to between 800,000 and a million tonnes is sprayed annually world wide.\n    
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It is now in our air, our water, in our food, and when we look into our food, there it is. 10 of the largest wineries in California have found it in their\n    bottled wine. So it is now in our bodies and especially our growing babies, infants and children and we have no idea where this is leading us. It is\n    also an antibiotic that is having a slow but continuous effect on our gut bacteria. This is just one of the many impacts that Monsanto’s glyphosate\n    has.\n    
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It locks up minerals to the point that it is difficult for our body to get full nutrition. It directly causes infertility in all mammals. It blocks the\n    transport of sulphur within our body and it shuts down our body to detoxify environmental toxins – through the cytochrome p4 50 enzyme pathway which\n    is part of our liver system for detoxifying chemicals .\n    
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So not only is glyphosate an antibiotic, but is shuts down our own ability to detoxify glyphosate itself and most other environmental toxins.\n    
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With the increase of glyphosate we are also correlating an increase in alhzeimers, cancers , breast cancer in particular – non-Hodgkin lymphoma’s and autism\n    is the big one.\n    
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The strongest correlation between glyphosate and Round Up is the marked increase in autism. Autism is related to gut microbiome dysfunction. Plus lack\n    of sulphur transport.\n    
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With plummeting fertility rates too.
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Phyllis asked the question – how are we going to function as a society when one out of 6 males in particular, but females as well is autistic and cannot\n    function on a normal basis? Specifically - when they need to be reliable, hold down a job, interact with people, this is becoming a huge, huge issue.\n    
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This Interview then covers the NZ environmental health authorities, previously it was ERMA and now the EPA who have approved every single application for\n    a GE or GMO trial in NZ that have come to them.\n    
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There has been over 60 applications some actually outdoor trials! So out of all of these expensive trials, none of them were commercialisable whilst at\n    the same time ran tremendous risks of exposing the NZ environment to GE and GMO ‘constructs ‘ that for all we know could still be in our environment\n    - hidden away from us!
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The fact that microbes are so small and can quite possibly mutate once they are out there , it is then basically impossible to retrieve them. This is what\n    is in supposedly clean green NZ that we were exposed too.\n    
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Regarding GE & GMO release, note that no insurance company globally is willing to insure in the case of a New Zealand GE or GMO mishap, because the\n    liabilities would be so vast and could last to 20 to a hundred years for all we know – so they realise that GMO tests are problematic in the extreme.\n    So who carries the can if there is a major mishap? In our country it won’t be the government - who is allowing this to happen, it will be we, the people! \n    
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Over seas you will notice no country wants to pay a premium for GMO food, not one. Why? Because it lacks quality nutrition and who really knows what is\n    embedded in GE food?\n    
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However, what is becoming very noticeable is that many countries are wanting to pay a premium of non GE & GMO and organic food. The reason is obvious.\n
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Organics and Premium Returns
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Organics in NZ has had a very bad rap for many years, being manipulated by mainstream media photos and video footage to be seen especially by the people\n    living in the rural sector, as a hippy thing or non scientific – this being far from the case.\n    
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In NZ today, organic dairy farmers are getting $9.20 a kilogram of milk solids as against normal farming of $5.00 – so the conservative NZ dairy farmer\n    is dragging his own chains!\n    
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Phyllis emphatically states that mainstream farmers do not have to wear thongs or jandals or grow a beard to go organic! Or not having to stop wearing\n    deodorant!
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In the US, organics is really spiking and in the dairy sector too. There is a 20% increase in production per year and it is growing fast especially with\n    the growth of organic stores and supermarkets.\n    
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As consumers we need to vote with our dollars this is critical to where shape our future.\n    
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High quality high brix food, more regenerative input and biological agriculture are gaining momentum.\n    
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http://blog.nutri-tech.com.au/the-beauty-of-brix/ 
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She states if we want to involve ourselves and even get angry if that is what it takes to control our food choices then we need to get involved! Create\n    a small demo and front up!\n    
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There are people creating products that are harming us and our babies – so we have to shake ourselves out of our collective stupor and take control of\n    what we put in our bodies.\n    
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We also need a gigantic co-operative organic super-market here in NZ to blow everything open!\n    
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Web site www.Truehealth.co.nz.
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For the first time in human history the phenomenon of the global population ageing and its impact on social cohesion and economic sustainability is increasing\r\n    - and needs to be addressed.
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The political word for elders is gerantocracy … When soon, older people will be in the majority and we will have to rethink, what democracy is …\r\n    
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This interview is about re-languaging, leadership, acknowledgement and the impacting of more people ageing and how we factor them into the full healthy\r\n    happy lives.\r\n    
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Covering New Zealand, to China and Japan as well as Europe - now known as super-ageing countries and NZ too, is getting close to becoming a super-ageing\r\n    country.\r\n    
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Whereas, Europe has been discussing this issue for 20 years NZ has not. The OECD has been warning us as well.\r\n    
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For example - In Tauranga a NZ city of 130,000, ageing people are going to be 1 in 3 in ten years time - it is moving faster that we recognise.
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An engaging interview that everyone in society needs to became aware of - the surge in numbers of people ageing and how are we going to factor the many\r\n    variables as well as the costs into this phenomenon.\r\n    
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This interview covers:

* What population ageing means - fewer young people-more older people living longer.\r\n    
* Super-aging nations, changing economies and international responses.\r\n    
* New Zealand ageing. Issues, challenges and opportunities - Time to wake up and get over ageism-stop denying the reality.\r\n    
* Impact in regions and communities that some cities like Tauranga will in 10 years time have 40% of its population as elders.\r\n    
* Need for changing the language, systems understand, adapt and innovate - the good work of Kiwi Bank, NZ Super Fund.\r\n    
* Age - friendly everything needs to be factored - urban planning, products and services for people living longer living more and longer after retirement\r\n    
* Investing in growing a Silver Economy - what is it, what does this mean, what is happening internationally?\r\n    
* Opportunity for younger generations, millennials to be innovative is finding ways to tap into this market, be for services and products.\r\n    
* 10 age-friendly things to do today in your community new models-of care ( perhaps future of retirement villages) Men’s Sheds.\r\n    
* The role of Elders - leadership / values / role models giving hope to future generations.
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When we look at Europe especially Greece, but also Portugal, Spain and Italy the populations are basically stagnant, the people are getting older and these\r\n    countries are not really growing economically and the people continue to age and expect pensions. Where there is an urgent need for a new economic\r\n    formula.\r\n    
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Fortunately, here in NZ, Michael Cullen when he was the Minister of Finance in the Clark Labour Government put in Kiwi Saver and the National Super Fund,\r\n    but Carole feels that we need to contribute more to it. We evidently had one of the the top investment companies handling the fund, but when the Key\r\n    Government came to power they stopped the investments contributing into that fund - despite the fact that it was/is a good performer.\r\n    
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At present because the ageing population have very few champions for this demographic, there is virtually no discussion that factors in the growing numbers\r\n    of people who are over 60 etc and Carole says we can now include the 50 year olds as well.\r\n    
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With local government being pushed by central government to open up to more urban sprawl, how will older people who live further out of the city going\r\n    to travel to their doctor, physiotherapist or hospital to visit friends or buy food etc - when they have to travel such huge distances and now may\r\n    not be allowed to drive? Carole says there is a need for lifetime neighbourhoods or age friendly communities - so that those people can better manage\r\n    their lives - instead of struggling to drive in over-full motorways or a poor train network.\r\n    
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What has happened is Katikati, near Tauranga is an example of people leaving Auckland over the last 10 years, and because it is a good thriving, modern,\r\n    country town, with many facilities and good climate, it now has over 40% of its inhabitants over 65 years of age - and that demographic as a possible\r\n    future microcosm of NZ - is actually greater than they have in Japan - however Japan because it is the highest ageing country on our planet, has already\r\n    planned for these changes and can absorb the changing circumstances.\r\n    
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The interview also covers ‘social capital’ which is the people and their combined and diverse abilities plus qualities and how can we assist them and their\r\n    community to make their area more cohesive and resilient.\r\n    
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Carole has a little mantra which says - “we need to understand what population ageing means - then we need to adapt and then we need to innovate”.\r\n    
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Local Government needs to start factoring in the aged in their 10 year plans and focus on the changing of the demographics - up until now they have been\r\n    lacking and their vision.\r\n    
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For example - In Tauranga a city of 130,000, ageing people are going to be 1 in 3 in ten years time - it is moving faster that we recognise.\r\n    
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The critical issue is this is demographic denial and she believes that we are not languaging ageing - in that we are not talking about it.\r\n    
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Carol is very strong in calling out the way society talks about the elderly and that the ‘old people are the others’ - separated from society. She says,\r\n    they are our people - and they are our families - and they are our grandparents and our parents and they are our elders. That if we deny them we are\r\n    also in many ways denying our old age. She feels very passionate that we remain connected on every level as these older people have contributed much\r\n    to our communities and our society as a whole.- especially the growth and prosperity of NZ.\r\n    
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She says the terminology of ‘older people’ needs to be languaged in a new choice of vernacular - using the words ‘mature and older people’ and we have\r\n    ‘old and older’ people.\r\n    
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The last half of life can be purposeful and meaningful, that the baby boomers will never be old they will be pushing the boundaries at many levels.\r\n    
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We are coming into the ‘No Age Society.’\r\n    
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Our Future:\r\n    
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The longevity economy or the silver economy - is expected to grow globally by $15 trillion by 2020 and in NZ from 1$1.5 billion from 2011 to $65 billion\r\n    in 2050 and you will never read or hear about this in the media or from politicians of the impact of the boomers.\r\n    
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Because ether are living longer and icing well - however though purchasing of good and leisure activities, Carole’s interest is in lifelong learning, of\r\n    new skills extending our education reflecting on philosophical thoughts etc etc.
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Retirement villages are denuding society of the wisdom and joy of the elders by locking them away in separation from their families and the community as\r\n    a whole. It definitely does not benefit people at this age to lose connection with family, relatives, friends and community.\r\n    
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Yet, internationally countries, especially in Europe are adapting to these changes by manufacturing and marketing products that make life more easier for\r\n    elders to negotiate life. (listen to the interview)\r\n    
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Carole languages the possibilities and the opportunities that we need to look for and work towards - this is a key focus for her. She has been at an arts\r\n    debate recently where the discussion mentioned that the ‘neo-liberal economy’ has reached its limits creating many social problems and that it is time\r\n    that we revisited ‘economy’ in far more people and community friendly ways.\r\n    
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Many old established towns in NZ are very possibly going to fall away because there will be no young people left and thus the ageing people will hang in\r\n    until they finally die. And this is already happening in Japan where the Government has closed off villages and closed off roads as they are not economically\r\n    viable anymore. In some instances schools were closed and turned into nursing homes for older people.\r\n    
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In NZ we have no outdoor gyms that are put up for elders to go out, have a get-together, do some exercises and meet and catch up.\r\n    
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When a person retires with a lot of accumulated knowledge - the name of the game is to have that person engaged somehow sharing this even if it only via\r\n    workshops or other festivals or gatherings - maybe at night schools etc.\r\n    
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This is only from the the first 20 minutes of this engaging interview.\r\n    
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Footnote:\r\n    
Yet, we also have to factor in climate change and all the other urgent global variables that are happening within the biosphere too.
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(Due to Public Concern, this is a Repeat) 
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For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to the developing human brain. Extremely high\n    levels of fluoride are known to cause neurotoxicity in adults, and negative impacts on memory and learning have been reported in rodent studies, but\n    little is known about the substance’s impact on children’s neurodevelopment.\u2028\u2028 Despite many studies, the Government now appears to be planning to implement\n    mandatory fluoridation to the whole of New Zealand. 
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Currently, only around 50% of households are on fluoridated water, with only 23 out of 67 local councils still fluoridating, many voicing their growing\n    concerns about fluoridation risks and dangers. In response to more and more councillors and mayors deciding against fluoridation the Government is\n    now taking the decision away from local councils and communities and putting the power into the hands of District Health Boards (DHB), who are under\n    the direct control of central Government.\u2028\u2028Auckland Council is not one of the councils supportive of fluoride free. Many residents of Huia and Onehunga\n    are currently up in arms about the addition of fluoride in their areas.\u2028\u2028Watercare extended the Waikato Line through Pukekohe westwards to the Franklin\n    townships in 2014. No consultation or notification of fluoridation was made to the residents. So residents of the Franklin Ward townships of Buckland,\n    Patumahoe, Clarks Beach, Waiau Beach and Glenbrook Beach (who receive reticulated water) have been consuming fluoridated water since 2014 without their\n    knowledge, or the legally required consultation 
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Prof. Paul Connett, PhD, Emeritus Professor from St. Lawrence University USA is an, executive director of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) and its parent\n    organization, the American Environmental Health Studies Project. He tells us of the dangers of fluoride and how he, a scientist, first came to this\u2028\u2028In\n    a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies\n    and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children.\u2028\u2028Based on the findings, the authors say that this\n    risk should not be ignored, and that more research on fluoride’s impact on the developing brain is warranted.\u2028\u2028Yet New Zealand Authorities are challenging\n    Councils ability to keep being fluoride free or remove fluoride from the water supply.\u2028\u2028And isn’t it a basic human right NOT to be mass medicated,\n    even if some might think they are doing us a favour?\u2028 \u2028When the fluoridation of water began, there was little evidence for its long term safety (as\n    for GMOs) and since then little attempt has been made to monitor its health effects systematically.\u2028\u2028Because there are so many unanswered health questions,\n    fluoridation of water must be considered an ongoing experimental procedure, and as such it is a violation of the Nuremberg Code, which forbids experimentation\n    on humans without their informed consent. In Europe, nearly all countries have either never fluoridated their water or have ceased doing so.\u2028\u2028Yet the\n    incidence of tooth decay has declined just as much as in those countries that practice fluoridation. This fascinating interview with Dr Paul Connett,\n    will raise alarm bells about many aspects of the mass medication of the population by fluoride and he challenges us to do something about it.
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Tooth decay is caused by poverty and a poor diet, not a lack of fluoride\u2028Poverty is one of the biggest predictors of poor dental health. Many people do\n    not realise that they should never put any sweetened drink, or even flavoured milk, into a baby’s bottle. Leaving babies to suck on a bottle is the\n    cause of baby bottle tooth decay (early childhood caries). This is the main cause of children suffering extreme dental decay and needing tooth extractions,\n    and fluoride will not protect from that.
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\u2028NOTE: This interview is a repeat but the information is still valid and so is worth a replay.
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Join the NZ Nationwide Campaign . We need to stop mandatory fluoridation now!www.fluoridefree.org.nz\u2028\u2028For\n    50 reasons to oppose fluoride – go here;\u2028http://www.slweb.org/50reasons.html 
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He discusses his recent theories with John Coombs of Global Health Clinics.

Glen offers various solutions to the current challenges facing individuals and society. These include simple health issues, with reference to the work of Dr Rudolf Steiner, Astrology, and some of the key planetary dynamics currently influencing our planet.
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That includes understanding your inside nature and focusing on easily understood vocabulary to express your feelings. Because one of the greatest challenges we have today is to be able to vocalise our feelings in such a way as to be clearly understood. There is a gigantic chasm especially among boys and men in finding the vocabulary to express their needs.\n    
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So what is it that affects us in a tragedy that directly afterwards people instinctively lean into each other for support and comfort?\n
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It all started when the earthquake in Christchurch struck in February 2011 when instantly a survival situation turned everyones world upside down and all around people were communicating there concerns whilst neighbours and friends looked out for each other by visiting to check on their health and well being then pitching in to cooperate and work together - it showed a presence of care and goodness, being right there for people, sharing food on the streets, people boiling water for cups of tea on camp cookers, rigging up a generator so as to charge up cell phones - and this mindfulness deeply affected Cameron by the outpouring of community spirit. That it was so very instinctive and that day and preceding hours and days after continued to affect Cameron for weeks and months afterwards - right up until today, that it became the catalyst for the formation of the group ‘you being you’ to come into being.\n
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The events of Christchurch brought about a collective heart awakening that was powerful, very intense and very visible. Because the earthquakes capacity to strip away everyones character or body armour it left them open, vulnerable and present. Ones station in life of house, car, job etc, meant nothing - what was imperative was shelter, food, water and companionship - that was what the moment gathered and in that aftermath of continuing aftershocks and atmosphere, people instinctively leaned in and were kind, and open, there was a softness and a vulnerability in which they all shared and it was primal and very powerful and over the ensuing weeks most of the people stated - “would it not be wonderful if we could be this close all the time\"\" as out of this traumatic event very carrying groups and connections happened right across the breadth of Christchurch to other outer lying affected areas.\n
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Today the earth is still being shaken up with so many events, fire, tornados, quakes and tsunami’s and todays ongoing refugee challenge too and what this is doing it is awakening people to really comprehend what is really important in life. This is also having an affect on people by questioning life’s purpose.\n
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The www.YoubeingYou.org website and practitioners that Cameron and Brian are a part of, are wanting to offer practical tools for connecting our inner and outer worlds using the tools of timeless wisdom. Step by step they explore holistic world views which help us understand our inner life workings and how they relate to our outer world experience. You Being You gives us language for connecting with what’s important to us as unique individuals. Knowing our true nature can help us make wiser choices and decisions about how we steer ourselves through life. The teachings naturally encourage empathy towards ourselves and others. The expression of empathy is compassionate action which enhances all relationships.   \n
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That many people through out the country are awakening to different ways of being which encourage connection, openness and sharing. You Being You is designed to encourage healing conversations about how to be present and whole.\n
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Presence is a gift and a power that most people have not thought of and as it is a power it also is a force of nature … mana is one way of understanding presence. Often multi tasking can be distracting because we cannot really do what we really are focussing on, because of the pace of the world that we are immersed in, can take us off centre. Stillness in your being is important in cultivating presence.\n
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Certain people in the areas of health and support services are becoming aware of mindfulness as a movement which is really taking place around the world.  This stepping towards a change is all about becoming aware and awake of being more mindful of what is right now. This is also bringing presence to life and how to engage in the fullness of your being and how to align with your destiny and how we shape our future.\n
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When we listen to people, especially when they need an ear so as to air their thoughts, feelings and hurt, we are medicine for them, we are all healers.\n
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The language of the heart is universal and spoken all over the world and in truth we are partners with the universe. It’s also about this global collective awakening in the young people and that they have the keys and the solutions. If you are an older person and you want to share, mentor some younger people in your life and ground them in a holistic and caring way.\n
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It may be as easy as just being there for someone and listening. If they are freaking out, knowing that someone is actually present, can be all that is needed.\n
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There is today an emerging feminine power coming into being that encourages cooperation and harmony, lessening competition and division and by the integration of the masculine and feminine energies a much needed balance is now coming to our  planet\n
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We are all in this together is what Brian said - no separation.\n
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This discussion reveals how by combining the opportunities presented by new technology with positive attitudes, lifestyle decisions and exercise we enhance our qualities of individual happiness and the wellbeing of our whole society.

If we are well we have more energy and mental focus to helps others, and have higher creative faculties for political or ecological considerations.
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John describes the new Cell Wellbeing system, an assessment tool using hair follicles which operating at epigenetic levels,  converts the chemical information in the region of the brain from the follicle into sine waves. These are scanned to a super computer which is programmed to analyse the digital signatures and reconverted into coherent pie charts with prioritised written reports. Vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, emfs, microbiology, toxins, foods, omega oils and food additives are all assessed with appropriate foods and remedies prioritised for optimal wellbeing.

This significantly empowers both therapists who can focus on educating and advising with confidence while the client receives high quality written information with lifestyle advice based on current data.

He also describes how oxygen or bio oxidative therapies, particularly Ozone are helping revolutionise health and wellbeing. 65% of a human body is oxygen. If this level deteriorates then cellular and metabolic functions are compromised. Learn about these systems based on  very simple science which could be taught to 7 year olds with lifelong benefits. The average person tested is approximately 2-3 kg of Oxygen below ideal levels which clearly explains why many people are often feeling well below par.

John and Soreya discuss these therapies which are very simple to administer and still unknown for many people.

Ozone is now available in convenient spa capsules associated with an infrared sauna and steam spa which opens the skin pores allowing oxygen to permeate into the body rehydrating. John describes how Rife electrotherapy is also integrated into the spa system stimulating metabolic functionality.

Integrating these pioneering systems simplifies the new approach to health, providing options for science based proactive programs which warrantee long term wellbeing and longevity.
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Marianne describes simple and practical systems now available to help achieve optimal wellbeing. Combined with this knowledge and the long term confidence this imbues, people can be helped to radically improve their quality of life and future potential.\n
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We have better hygiene for sure, so why are we not the picture of health that we should and could be?\n    
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Perhaps in the old days people spent more time out of doors and not on electronic equipment; they ate seasonally when food was available; they cooked at home and ate far less pre-prepared food; they didn’t eat GMOs, preservatives, stabilizers and food additives, and they had far fewer prescription drugs.\n
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Our bodies also have to cope with the electro-magnetic fields (EMFs) associated with the use of electrical power, appliances and various forms of natural and man-made lighting, and from smart meters. Add to that challenge of vaccinations and fluoride, and how they impact on the body and immune system.\n    
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Education for self responsibility could be taught in schools - not just around food choices but about all lifestyle choices. We seem to be living in a system of blame and victimhood and somehow if one’s life, or bodies break down, it is someone else’s fault and someone else’s job to fix it!\n    
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We need a raised consciousness not only in individuals but within the collective consciousness, as the hundredth monkey effect shows us. That way we can raise society’s whole outlook. Imagine if we stopped expecting to get ill when we get old, and that we expect to live a full and healthy life to the end? How much improved our lives would be with that positive thought form out there!\n    
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The knowledge for ideal life is already primarily available to us. We just need to discern it and prioritise it, as translating this knowledge practically is our hope for the future.\n
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A wide ranging discussion between Greenplanet presenters John Coombs, and Lisa Er.\n
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The world of herbal lore had always interested Dee for as a child she had always been given herbs for both food enhancement, health and healing. Yet, even  today upwards to 80% of our planets population use herbal extracts, and not big pharmaceuticals.\n    
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Dee then became a speaker on herbs and continued to branch out into organic gardening where today she is very successful. Especially in growing 4 seasonal crops a year. Noting that for each season there is a particular set of veggies to grow that suit the temperatures and light etc.\n    
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Then to teaching organics over the last so many years because a whole generation have missed out on the skills in growing gardens and the relationships with the soil and micro-organisms of bacteria and fungi, composting and mulch.\n    
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However, the biggest challenge for home gardeners is that for 9 out of 10, it is the soil that is the problem, having no humous and lacking in minerals, and prospective gardeners think that they can just buy fertiliser and pour it on however that's is not like it at all. We have to build it up, with seaweed, horse, cow and sheep manure, compost and involve yourself in a dedicated process for a wholesome soil web. Getting dead fish frames and guts from fisher folk and burying them in the garden and then sheet mulching with old newspapers and cardboard, keeps the soil moist and warm, for earth worms - as well as keeping weeds at bay.\n    
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She tells of her children living up in Abu Dhabi up in the Gulf states, where the Sheik, the leader of the country was a great believer in trees and for his whole life planted trees across the desert areas using desalinated water to keep them alive, and by growing so many that after many years, the combined action of transpiring trees caused it to rain, which was a great novelty for this region, thus proving a very important point that trees, if the conditions are favourable, can create rain and moisture, which is imperative for any woodland/forested/bush area.\n    
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Nutrients have to be in the soil, so that they can be taken up by the plant. It’s imperative to have seaweed and compost, horse manure and coffee grounds etc plus growing comfrey and nettles to be able to make liquid manure and have a worm farm and to focus on going organic. NPK is definitely not it!\n    
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For example, growing Nettles provide you with nitrogen, calcium, phosphorous, iron, copper potassium silica.    \n    
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Epigenetics - that we are influenced by the outside world. It’s the environment that changes the expression of your genes.\n    
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A new book coming out soon called Patterns in Nature covering the deeper qualities in what makes form in the natural world, and how the form comes into being as mathematical and geometrical configurations of natures being, Dee has found that kindergarden teachers are showing much interest in using it. Covering bio mimicry and extending on what is embedded deep within nature, and growing relationships this interview takes us further into the beauty and magnificence of the natural world.\n    
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In Auckland a little back yard community garden has recently sprung up. When an older couple had to larger section for them to work on, Dee had 8 people, all vetted to work together and they divvy up the harvest between themselves and the land owner. This is a wonderful story and example of what can be done when we commit to organise commit and co-operate.\n    
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Dee’s most passionate request is that all people involved in working the land get a subscription to the magazine Organic NZ   http://organicnz.org.nz  one of, if not the oldest soil and health publications on planet earth  … tells us what is really happening with GE food to the TPPA, how to save seeds, make compost, mulch, prune, store food, care for bees, chooks, animals, build shelter, irrigate and much more.\n    
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Richard Main and his project on Community Gardens in Auckland is mentioned here, that many houses in Auckland and across NZ that have just bare lawns, no shrubs, flowers or anything … when for a little effort communities could turn lawns into lunch - using compost, animal manures dead fish frames and guts for sheet mulching.\n    
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www.urbanremedy.co.nz\n
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Of these investigations, 43 of the 50 human studies have found that elevated fluoride exposure is associated with reduced IQ, while 30 of the 32 animal studies have found that fluoride exposure impairs the learning and/or memory capacity of animals.

The human studies, which are based on IQ examinations of over 11,000 children, also provide compelling evidence that fluoride exposure during the early years of life can damage a child’s developing brain. One study shows it damages the IQ on average by a shocking 7 points. This is of particular concern in poorer areas where children are already disadvantaged, and will ultimately even affect their financial wellbeing in their future.

After reviewing 27 of the human IQ studies, a team of Harvard scientists have concluded that fluoride’s effect on the young brain should now be a high research priority.

It is interesting to note that before any of the studies finding reduced IQ in humans were known in the western world, a team of U.S. scientists at a Harvard-affiliated research centre predicted, based on behavioural effects they observed in fluoride-treated animals, that fluoride might be capable of reducing IQ in humans.

http://fluoridealert.org/articles/hsph_2012

So why are we having a neurotoxin that contains arsenic added to our water?
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Dr Bill Hirzy states that the prime reason for adding the by-product fluosilicic acid (fluoride) from phosphate fertilizer manufacturing into our water is to use up the toxic waste that otherwise would be a problem. Water and air pollution are minimized, and water authorities have a low-cost source of fluoride available to them. Note that pharmaceutical grade fluoride that is used in our toothpaste is not what is added to the water. It is industrial waste.

99% of this fluoridated water is not drunk and is flushed down drains, which makes the addition of it somewhat flawed, even without the associated health issues.

Professor Paul Connett suggested that the Green Party should know better than to support the use of fluoride, and challenged our government as being negligent for not looking at the science presented to them in this book, written by Prof. Connett and two other scientists, “The Case against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There”.

On the cover of the book it states that Sweden rejected fluoride in the 1970s and that the three scientists have shown in the book the wisdom of that decision.

Water fluoridation is rare in European Countries and has been discontinued in numerous countries, including Germany, Finland, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and recently Israel.

Prof. Connett mentions Scotland’s Childsmile project has reduced tooth decay dramatically without the addition of fluoride to the water.
In some European counties you can buy salt with added fluoride.

This gives people choice and does not medicate the whole population with an uncontrolled and inconsistent dose, and defies the ethic that people must be given informed consent for medication. 

Prof. Connett says it is a betrayal by health departments and boards that the science has not been properly considered. We have already seen in this country that promoters of fluoride don’t want to debate the issue with Prof. Connett and others, as this would alert the media to the issue and encourage people to seek the truth.

He says, “Stop believing the paradigm, and look at the science with an open mind.” People tend to believe those who wear white coats, but is that really how we judge knowledge?

Recently the Minister of Health, Dr Jonathan Coleman, has exempted fluoride chemicals from the Medicines Act 1981, while admitting that fluoride compounds are medicines when given to you in a pill but not when put in your water supply!

So our minister has signed into law the facility for councils to add unmonitored industrial waste products to public water supplies that can no longer be classed as medicines. It is hard to fathom how a Minister of Health can possibly think this is acceptable.

http://fluoridefree.org.nz/fluoride-now-medicine-now-not

It is worthy of note that the sugar lobby was one of the first major supporters of fluoride. Even in 1949 they were looking at how to increase sugar use without increasing tooth decay. Toothpaste manufacturers were also quick to jump on the bandwagon.

However there is no study that shows that water fluoridation to be very effective. The addition of fluoride to toothpaste has made a small difference to teeth as fluoride works topically. If people choose to use fluoride, that is an appropriate way to administer it.

However in a child’s mouth, only 0.6 of one tooth surface is shown to have any improvement as a result of fluoridation. Already through our food and our toothpaste we are receiving higher than safe levels of fluoride, without it being added to our drinking water.

By meekly accepting this situation we are risking our children’s intelligence, and other health issues, for such a minimal gain.

Professor Paul Connett is the Executive Director of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). He has spoken and given more than 2,000 presentations in forty-nine states and fifty-two countries.

http://fluoridealert.org

He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Dartmouth College and is a retired professor of environmental chemistry and toxicology at St. Lawrence University.

In his fascinating presentations Professor Connett brings new research to light, including links between fluoride and harm to the brain, bones, and endocrine system, and informs us about how the evidence that fluoridation reduces tooth decay is surprisingly weak. 

Here he speaks about the fraudulent study that launched fluoridation in New Zealand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udWk_Y7YU_g

Dr William (Bill) Hirzy is a former Senior Vice-President of the Union for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 

He has a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Missouri. He has been involved in environmental and human health risk assessment for 36 years, in the chemical industry, then at EPA HQ as senior risk assessment scientist.

Since 1986, at EPA as a union officer, he has studied and followed the developing science on fluoride toxicity.

On June 29th, 2000, Dr Hirzy was invited to give testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water on behalf of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) Chapter 280 – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Headquarters.

At the time, Dr. Hirzy was serving his sixth term as the Senior Vice-President of the Union. His presentation that day was, “Why EPA’s Union of Professionals Opposes Fluoridation.”

http://fluoridealert.org/fan-tv/hirzy

This interview is sponsored by www.theawarenessparty.com

See below an article from the Dominion 25th May 1954 
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Dr Wayne, a medical school graduate from Oregon USA, has used this training to develop what he believes is the most simple and cost effective health care options available.

He returned to NZ in 2005 to help get Ozone therapy established in NZ.

Dr Wayne has worked tirelessly since to promote Ozone Therapy building a practice to help thousands of people recover from a wide range of health challenges with many of them moving towards optimal health and vitality.

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The largest pesticide companies in the world use Kauai and other islands in Hawaii to experiment with genetically engineered crops. Crops are created to either be herbicide resistant, or to create their own resistance.

Monsanto, Dow, Dupont, Bayer, BASF and Syngenta all operate their research and development programmes there. Virtually every type of GM seed variety passes through Hawaii and is tested in open air field trials for their new technologies. This involves very high use of pesticides and herbicides. 15,000 acres of land on Kauai are used for this research.

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Andrea began with a degree in environmental studies and feminism in California. Then she returned to Kauai to work with a non profit organization called Malama Kauai. Here she worked on issues of food, energy, economics and sustainability. Malama Kauai have community gardens and while there Andrea also looked at global systems, larger processes and structures that affected how they could operate even at this local level.
  
This drove Andrea to study further and she attended Sussex University in the UK where she did her masters in International Development and the Environment. 

She is now working on her PHD at Auckland Universitys sociology department where she is preparing a thesis on Social Movements that Change Food Systems.

Andrea is most concerned about the capital structure that incentivises profit making in scientific research around our food, and not for the public good. Now decades of research is finding genetically engineering highly unsuccessful so increasingly these companies are buying up conventional seeds . It now seems almost unable for even small community gardens to be free of these corporate giants who aim to control global markets.

Angela cites a book called Foodopoly . In Foodopoly the author, Wenona Hauter, pulls the curtain back from the little-understood but vital realm of agricultural policy, showing how it has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favour of the likes of another GE giant Cargill, and Tyson, Kraft and ConAgra. She demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities at home, to famines overseas. In the end, Hauter argues that solving this crisis will require a complete structural shift—a change that is about politics, not just personal choice.

Andrea talks passionately about this and her own research into our food systems.

She is not convinced that the labeling of GE food is an answer, although important, as it just means good food for the elite market and is not an answer for those consumers who cannot afford good food.

She is keen to see policies and economic structures changed to stop a handful of global companies controlling the food market. Some of these structures that need rolling include trade agreements, national policies, and laws that allow banks to speculate on the price of food. Changes are required to subsidy structures so they can support local and co-operative initiatives. 

Above all Andrea would like to see grassroots opposition to the corporatization of our food.

A vivacious and intelligent young lady, Andrea Brower is has much to contribute and I really recommend that you listen closely to what she has to say.

This programme was sponsored by The Awareness Party.
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To choose our politicians not because they are leaders or statesmen but because they may make more money than other people, does not translate to mean that we as a country should vote for such a person thinking this politician will also make more money for the country. This is a fallacy, they only go on to set themselves up to make more money for themselves further on.

In todays world, we as consumers are being targeted to consume as many material resources as can be paid for and when we purchase a bargain, usually as a ubiquitous, toxic plastic article it is very soon in a landfill somewhere and we end up poisoning our resources and our future.

The loss of ethics and the understanding of what it means is being lost in our runaway consumer society.

Tara states that engagement with one another was what made us a great nation and the illusion that we are all separate is more of an idea proposed by the people who want to divide us and rule.
  
We are a fortunate country in that we can recover the environment and have clean air, water and food  chain etc. We are also, not so much in debt that if we do not sell off any more assets (the ones that make the revenue for us to pay off the debt) we may very well be able to create our way into a resilient and self reliant, sustainable country and society.

It is both your fault and my fault that we have the situation that is happening in this country - why? Because we did not make the effort. Over 1 million did not vote in the last election.

Do we want to be bothered? Or, do we want to become a people who think and decide to take strategic action at the polling booth? Look at the lives that have been lost over the centuries as ordinary people courageously strived under horrendous hardship to have a say in their community. To insult these pioneers, these suffragette’s by turning our backs on these hard fought rights to universal suffrage, is not an option, especially in our world of decreasing freedoms, ethics and values.

In NZ it is against the law not to register to vote.  Whereas in Australia they have taken it a step further, and that it is against the law not to vote.

Look at a possible tax incentive to vote and those who don't vote pay more taxes?

This interview covers much subject matter:

Conservatism and what it means - to Conserve. Old people planting trees, knowing that they will never walk under the shade of them. Thinking forward as to what will we bequeath to our children and grand children’s future.

Learning from advanced Northern European methods.

Environment - In Sweden, recycling is so efficient that now Sweden has to import other peoples recycled (rubbish) items so as to keep their industries going.  They have not turned their whole country into an economic model as we have done under the RMA the Resource Management Act. Recycling is part of the common vernacular through out Swedish business and Government.

Education - In Finland, though not on the same wages scale as doctors, teachers are honoured as  professionals. The Finnish educational system caters for parental and grand parental input in their highly acclaimed educational system. Academically they have one of the highest success rates in the world.

The TPPA the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is a method to outflank NZ’s sovereignty. With regard to health, the TPPA has NZ in its sights the dismantling of PHARMAC and quite possibly the taking over of our hospitals by offshore corporations.

This also covers housing and overseas ownership of NZ, when we can not buy land in Fiji, China or Japan, why not instead lease this land and keep the ownership in this country?

GDP and the measure of how much growth we have where as like Dr. Ron Colman’s development of the Genuine Progress Index for Nova Scotia in Canada which includes the other side of the equation where car crashes, house fires, burglaries, storm damage and accident and sickness are factored into the whole economic understanding. And the books are balanced accordingly.

As a water scientist, Tara talks about:

The degradation of water, rives, lakes, selling off of NZ, that large corporate farms now may have only one house on them, where once many smaller farms built up the community as there were more homes and families. The advent of the larger and larger farms, are depopulating the community of families and this trend is escalating in NZ.

It’s our fault, as the government was designed to be a peoples process but now we are a people that are not engaged but instead disengaged. What can we do to reignite our interest in our own governance, be it at a local or a national level?

Our country is run as a business however, it can not be run solely as a business as there lies the fundamental difference that not everything has a monetary factor attached to it. Such as what about the knowledge banks of the elderly, and their input into community and society. The elderly have much wisdom and experience to offer. Lets validate them and bring them more into community decisions.

There is a way through this if we use the enlightened consciousness that we have been imbued with.

We need to be more involved with each other, we need to be able to pay it forward and at the same time as talking with our neighbours engage in pulling the strings of community together.

For New Zealand as a socially conscious country, we can once again be a global moral leader of how a small synergistic nation can once again be the emerging microcosm for the planetary macrocosm.

Finally, Tara will also tell you the story how he has been able to secure the name of: The New Zealand Party.

Contact: tara [at] NZactions.org.nz
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John Coombs interviews Global Health Clinics' new Client Services Manager, Susan Alesbury on the benefits of being able to create and manage a Designer Holistic Programme not only as a curative approach but also preventative.

Susan Alesbury has a business background and is also qualified in many therapeutic modalities in her own right.

Her special interest is in discovering the Mind Body Spirit connection. From training with the Cross Colour Healing Association in the UK some 20 years ago, she has come full circle after recognising that healing was simply \"Firefighting without looking for how the fires were being started\". Since that time, she has trained in Clinical Hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Aboriginal Dreamtime, and has trained to Leadership under Tony Robbins where she learned Human Needs Psychology. Now, with the advent of the Biofield Viewer and connecting all the dots with the mental, emotional and spiritual energy fields, Susan is finding the Colour Healing a very potent tool in her toolbox once more.

John then interviews Caroll Macy a specialist in metal and chemical detoxification. As well as helping her clients stabilise hormones which may have been disrupted Caroll helps stimulate the immune system to enable a full recovery.

Caroll’s work is helping many people who have tried for years to get well. Caroll’s system is at the cutting edge of bio energy technology based on the pioneering research and clinical work of Dr Yurkovsky a prominent USA clinician.
  
Bioresonance Testing is unique in its ability to pin-point exact information concerning the state of your internal organs and many different systems – and the Poisoning agents that may have been lodged in them. Finding which poisons are exerting a paralyzing effect is essential – no guess work – treat the cause, not the symptoms. The Therapy must induce not only the release of identified Metals, Chemicals, Viruses, Bacteria or Fungi; But, it must also support or rebuild the natural defenses of weakened or distressed Organs and Systems; thus preventing the poisons’ from being dumped back into them.

HEAVY METAL POISONING is perhaps the most prevalent and serious condition we find – playing a primary role in nearly all chronic diseases. Mercury and Lead are known to invade every aspect of the body such as the Bone Marrow, Brain, Bladder Bones, Uterus etc. Cobalt and Chromium may be found in tissue surrounding hip replacements. Mercury was once routinely put in our mouths and often still is; even though well proven to cause untold harm. All fossil fuels, from coal to petroleum, contain mercury. Petroleum is used extensively in many Beauty Products. Even the tuna and salmon (being high up in the food chain) we eat can contain high levels of Mercury. Lead, Arsenic, Cobalt and Cadmium are common parts of everyday life – without actually being recognised!

Listen to this interview to discover tips on how to either restore or improve your own or your families health, or simply for improving your general knowledge of health and well being.

For immediate practical help or to book and appointment please go to www.globalhealthclinics.co.nz
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Erica who uses a combination of Bodytalk and Counseling helps her clients with a wide range of health challenges. Her clients inevitably experience relief from emotional pain and stress , often feeling real transformational changes to their life.

Liz a local pioneer and teacher of Emotional Freedom technique explains how she helps her clients overcome long term health issues by helping modify unhelpful behaviors and attitudes. Liz offers empowering skills to self manage good health providing clients with tools for managing stress and pain.
  
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This GreenPlanetFM program is sponsored by:

GLOBAL HEALTH CLINICS: 5 Anzac Street Takapuna North Shore City

Email: info [at] globalhealthclinics.co.nz
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Global Health Clinics use a creative blend of integrating contemporary and
alternative methods together to bring about greater well being or the
healing you have been seeking.
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Biological agriculture as against chemical agriculture. Corporate control of chemicals and drugs, plus the galloping increase of corporate farming.

Our unhealthy common salt intake, lack of iodine is translating to global thyroid problems.

That five US corporations have virtually taken control of the world food chain, and use the WTO and the TPPA as mechanisms to tighten their grip.

He concludes with an overview of the USA and UK's astrological challenges that he says will become very evident over the next 18 months and how the US military appears only to go on the offensive when certain astrological configurations occur.

I asked Glen at the start of this interview to hit a number of balls out of the park and possibly he went one further and hit one, possibly two into near earth orbit ...
  
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Glen's premise:
Using bio-dyamics and agricultural impulses first introduced by Rudolf Steiner and the basic thesis of as above, so below - as per the tree of life, leaves and branches above and perennial roots and feeder roots under ground.

Questioning how can we revolutionize and add to Biodynamics, because there are so many offshoots of the near religious connotations to it, that in many ways is not applicable to farmers for cultivation of the land and growing food, be it vegetable or animals. However, it is very much a science, once people learn to decipher the language of 1920's German to equate it to todays current vernacular.

With Glen's impute, this translates to plants being able to be warmed up to have a 3 degree frost protection capacity that has been tested by NZ's Horticultural Research Centre as well as increase photosynthesis by 20% and an ability to stop fruit splitting.

These are just a few of the new understandings of biodynamics, including highly potentized humus preparation of cow manure stored in cow horns under ground and silica sprays as well as preparations made of quartz crystals and dandelion, stinging nettle, yarrow, oak bark and chamomile, which we hear and know nothing about!

This process deals in minute quantities, down to parts per million and it leads into homeopathics, which again science has huge problems with getting their head around. The reason being most tinctures are so diluted that the particles are virtually non existence, and that only the wave-form exists, (such as the ghost in the machine).

Yet, we only have to look at the British Royal family, their robust health and long life and the Royal physicians who are steeped in homeopathic knowledge. Which is really a peoples medicine as it is also very cheap to produce.

In an ideal world, Glen would like to have as your healers Homeopaths and Naturopaths working together, as well as other secondary modalities (like acupuncture, iridology, chiropractic and osteopathy) along with a host of other natural remedial practices.

Note, that it is very difficult to make money out of homeopathy. Not like the multi billions that are channelled into pharmaceutical drugs where colossal patents and costs claw back their investment and ... then some!

Then Glen reminds us that at the beginning of the 20th century the call was for 'Government for the people by the people' - the 21st century is - 'Government by the corporations for the corporations' - the manipulating 1%.

With biological agriculture making inroads into dairy but even more so in the sheep and beef industry there is a rapidly increasing up-take that is two fold in nature, healthy non chemicalised soils is translating to healthy produce that is enabling a very healthy gut and alimentary canal in the human body, and a win win for all of us who are coming more conscious of holistic choices.

Now in Australia, the two largest controlling supermarkets have bought up a huge number of service stations including alcohol outlets and now due to depressed pricing, they are reportedly forcing many farmers into bankruptcy and buying their land, which means corporate control, and thus control of the food supply of middle Australia.

Then learn from a friend of Glen's that works at the United Nations that the worlds food supply is basically controlled by five United States corporations. Through the WTO, World Trade Organisation and now the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, the secretive TPPA.

Hence the call for grass roots organizations to get savvy and organize ourselves into small dynamic cells to address these issues.

From the chlorination and fluoridation of water and the direct relationship with our iodine metabolism which knocks out our thyroid gland which stuffs up our metabolism, and then as the chlorine in our water gets to our gut it sterilizes that too, hence the beneficial microbes in our intestines are under constant assault.

If you are on metropolitan water  leading to the current explosion of uncertain, leaky gut and cancer of the bowel. Evidently, not too long ago 'they' increased the chlorine levels in NZ so as to sterilize the water to a greater degree 

Covering liquids that we drink, Glen asks the question; how can we have a bottle of fizzy drink cheaper than a bottle of water?

Then there is common salt and the lack of iodine, and that common salt is basically devoid of goodness, and that high sodium levels are supposedly replacing lithium in the brain and is causing bi polar disorders.

What the latest holistic research is saying is that ailments such as cancer, bi polar, diabetes and obesity are seen to be stemming out of our excessive use of common table salt.

Glens covers astrology as well, how the planetary elite use it for their own purposes, that Hitler used it, Ronald Reagan, and (the Royal Family) however the upper echelons of society do it in secret whilst publicly ridiculing it saying it is worthless rubbish. Glen mentions the physics of it, the geometry and that we live in an electro magnetic universe and that our bodies are also electro magnetic - we are energy fields oscillating in a universal energy field.

Glen then covers 20 minutes on certain astrological situations that I will leave for anyone who wants to follow this up to listen to this information filled interview.

A clue is that the USA and UK have major challenges for 2014 and into 2015, because of their astrological make up. USA being a Cancer country 4th of July and the UK being a Capricorn country based in the 1st of January 1801.

This is a packed out information rich interview, where Glen covers the information gamut in our localized universe and basically runs short of time.

Web site:  www.bdmax.co.nz     and  http://garudabd.org
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For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to the developing human brain. Extremely\n        high levels of fluoride are known to cause neurotoxicity in adults, and negative impacts on memory and learning have been reported in rodent studies,\n        but little is known about the substances impact on childrens neurodevelopment.\n        
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In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27\n    studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children.\n    
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Based on the findings, the authors say that this risk should not be ignored, and that more research on fluoride's impact on the developing brain is\n    warranted.\n    
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Yet New Zealand Authorities are challenging Councils that want to keep being fluoride free or remove fluoride from the water supply.\n    
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And isnt it a basic human right NOT to be mass medicated, even if some might think they are doing us a favour?\n    
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When the fluoridation of water began, there was little evidence for its long term safety (as for GMOs) and since then little attempt has been made\n    to monitor its health effects systematically.\n    
\n    
Because there are so many unanswered health questions, fluoridation of water must be considered an ongoing experimental procedure, and as such it is\n    a violation of the Nuremberg Code, which forbids experimentation on humans without their informed consent. In Europe, nearly all countries have either\n    never fluoridated their water or have ceased doing so.\n    
\n    
Yet the incidence of tooth decay has declined just as much as in those countries that practice fluoridation. This fascinating interview with Dr Paul\n    Connett, will raise alarm bells about many aspects of the mass medication of the population by fluoride and he challenges us to do something about\n    it.\n    
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NOTE: This may be a repeat, but it has a NEW INTRODUCTION, covering what has happened in Hamilton over the last few months and why Hamiltonians would\n    collectively vote to mass medicate themselves with chemicals that slowly over time actually alter the bodies chemistry and make up.\n    
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To get involved in opposing fluoride and for an overview of which towns are fluoridated in New Zealand go to FANNZ website;\n    
http://www.fannz.org.nz/currentactivity.php\n    
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For 50 reasons to oppose fluoride – go here;\n    
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From the NZ navy, to the police to a farmer who went into local politics for 6 terms and realized that we should NEVER allow more than 4 terms maximum as any more than this and you lose your enthusiasm, energy and panache.

Saw town planning become so restrictive and that produced the growth of bureaucracy.

Realised in the 1960s that it was not National or Labour but 'the system' that was wrong, where Social Credit offered another viewpoint around finance and economy, he stood at different times against Bill Birch and also Winston Peters and Colin Moyle.

Always pushing the envelope he owned a health store in Australia and then 'moved on'. What motivated him was he did everything because he wanted to see how he could help people.
  
As a farmer he used to kill his own animals for meat and states that fat on meat is so important as it helps digest the protein, and that it is imperative that we have fat on our chops or whatever. Same for raw milk, it is essential that it is raw as pasteurized milk destroys beneficial bacteria along with the bad ones and destroys enzymes essential for nutrient absorption.

But there is an organization called the 'Organisation of Food Protection.' He says it is a mighty force, and he attended the last conference of 2,500 people, comprising of the manufacturers of instruments needed for testing things, the bureaucrats, the microbiologists and the lawyers who want to sue the farmers for various infringements etc. Evidently, Governments worldwide are looking to this organization for advice.

They want to sterilize every food, which entails the destruction of all enzymes etc too. What Geoffrey noted as a visitor, that they are opposed to raw milk being available to people as a choice. Fortunately, California and some other states in the USA allow raw milk as well as in Europe where it is sold via vending machines. Also now in NZ's South Island.

Some of the Subjects Covered:
We must be able to have choice to eat and consume genuine foods that give us energy dense nutrition and that greens are so necessary for iron for our body.

Too many people today are anaemic due to a lack of minerals in the soil, due to incorrect farming methods. Biological farming being the new innovative answer.

Also, that magnets and magnetism has an untapped future in the growth and yield of plants and its affects on the soil in general.

That cadmium in market gardens in Pukekohe is frightening … (and throughout NZ). That Clean Green NZ is being compromised?

Soy comes in for criticism because it it is being linked to a thyroid issue and that iodine needs to be absorbed through the skin to offset this, best get good advice from a doctor, health practitioner, or naturopath first.

With changes to the chemistry of the environment men are growing larger breasts in the USA and are having to engage in breast reduction surgery because of the estrogen in soy.

Imperative to keep family farms in NZ. Corporate farms are always driving the bottom line, and thinking chemicals always to increase output.

Use of pendulum or divining rod, especially for children to learn how to use a pendulum so that they can quickly test to see if the food they are about to eat is good for them.

An exceptionally interesting interview that covers a wide range of health matters and life experiences by an exceptionally strong and vibrant 87 year old with much wisdom to share.

http://www.westonaprice.org      
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_A._Price_Foundation

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2010/07/the-truth-about-the-weston-price-foundation.html
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Well, that is what the New Zealand Government and ten other countries around the Pacific Rim are negotiating right now under the TPPA, the secret Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, and President Obama wants it signed by October of this year. Of course the country that has the most to gain will be the US and their corporations!

And do you really think the US needs our dairy products the sale of which is the supposed benefit for NZ by joining the TPPA?

From what has been gleaned so far, if the negotiations are completed it will make it much harder for governments to pass new laws, to look after the environment, promote health, protect workers (from longer hours, less pay and possibly shorter holidays) and consumers, less stringent quality control, and very importantly not promote the public interest as it defers to lobbyists and private privileged interests.
  
Labeling of GE foods, for example, would be banned in the interest of the harmonization of laws between countries. The same for labeling country of origin of food. Present tobacco and cigarette rulings could be overridden and the same for alcohol.

We may have to compromise PHARMAC if restrictions are placed on generic medicines, thus making medicine more expensive.

Copyright laws will be toughened and more harshly enforced, restricting internet freedom and access to information.

Foreign banks, insurance companies and money traders will gain more powers to challenge laws designed to prevent another financial crisis.

If and when this secret Agreement is signed, it will not be debated in Parliament here in New Zealand, but will only need to be OK'd by the Cabinet thus short circuiting democracy in this country.

The list goes on.

The TPPA could also be looked as a way of containing China in the Pacific”, Dr Kelsey says.

Professor of Law, Dr Jane Kelsey has been at the forefront of the opposition to the TPPA and she speaks candidly about the information that has been obtained through leaked documents, and the possible scenarios if it is signed.

Jane Kelsey has an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Auckland. She has worked at the University of Auckland since 1979 and was appointed to a personal Chair in Law in 1997.

She a key member of the Action Resource Education Network of Aotearoa (Arena), and is actively involved in researching and speaking out against the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund, free trade and corporate-led globalisation.

She is also actively involved in campaigning for the New Zealand Government's full recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi and opposed the controversial seabed and foreshore legislation.

She has been an activist academic and public intellectual for more than 30 years.

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Fluoride expert Dr Paul Connett, professor Emeritus in Chemistry from St Lawrence University New York USA, says Yes.

For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to the developing human brain. Extremely high levels of fluoride are known to cause neurotoxicity in adults, and negative impacts on memory and learning have been reported in rodent studies, but little is known about the substances impact on childrens neurodevelopment. 

In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children. Based on the findings, the authors say that this risk should not be ignored, and that more research on fluorides impact on the developing brain is warranted.

Dr Connett questions the appropriateness of considering a miniscule amount of improvement in tooth surface above the importance of the brain.
  
When the fluoridation of water began, there was little evidence for its long term safety (as for GMOs) and since then little attempt has been made to monitor its health effects systematically. Because there are so many unanswered health questions, fluoridation of water must be considered an ongoing experimental procedure, and as such it is a violation of the Nuremberg Code, which forbids experimentation on humans without their informed consent. 

In Europe, nearly all countries have never fluoridated their water or have ceased doing so. Yet the incidence of tooth decay has declined just as much as in those countries that practice fluoridation. This fascinating interview with Dr Paul Connett, will raise alarm bells about many aspects of the mass medication of the population by fluoride and he challenges us to do something about it.

Details of Dr Connetts New Zealand Tour can be found here - http://www.fannz.org.nz/paulconnett.php

Check out this previous GreenPlanetFM interview on Fluoride with Mary Byrne and Mark Atkin of Fluoride Action Network.
  
This GreenPlanetFM programme is sponsored by The Awareness Party.

www.theawarenessparty.com


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He currently works in general preventative and nutritional medicine, while still consulting for some of the largest and most progressive farming operations in the world relating to biological agriculture.

His key words are: holistic farming, sustainability, healthy bacteria in the human gut and in the soil of the earth.  Plus the correlation between personal human health and planetary health.

He has visited NZ numerous times and has a growing following within the farming and horticultural sector here.

When young his father let his cows out of the barn to graze the pasture, so as to eat herbs and what we would term weeds and as a result they became more healthy and produced a healthier milk.
  
That any health or animal disease has to be correlated to soil science and the quality of the make up of the soil, its balance and the microorganisms and the nutrition in that soil.

He studied under Dr Phil Callahan the author of 'Tuning into Nature' that showed that insects only attach sick plants, which was blasphemy to the chemical industry as that conflicted with their addiction to selling chemicals.

Arden Andersen, said he went to university to understand soil, its nutritional value, balance, then to animals and health, finally to humans and our health. Which he calls biological and holistic medicine and that everything is connected within the web of life.

We learn that manufactured urea and ammonia nitrate does produce at first, fantastic results when it comes to growing grass BUT, the actual dissolved solids and the tangible feed value goes down. You gain on the swings but lose on the round-abouts.

Some salient points from this interview:
  
Calcium is the foundation for a healthy pasture and the biology in that pasture and environment as well.

Fontera is NZ's largest buyer of micronized calcium carbonate, and they are adding this to the milk as our NZ cow herds are not obtaining it from the feedstock they eat. It is a deficiency in the soil.

In the USA cows live to only 18 months old - and then 'burnt out' sent off to the abattoir, where once they lived for up to 12 years of milking and giving birth to calves.

He emphasizes that we must look at our human gut microflora, if we use anti biotics we will kill off all the good guys, so it is with what we do on the farm with our soil. Heavy fertilizer usage is unbalancing the land - all the way to the cow manure, that does not break down fast, due in many cases, to the use of antibiotics!

Listen to how organic dairy farms in the USA survive without chemicals and antibiotics and are one of the fastest growing areas in the milk industry in America. Organic Valley Coop http://www.organicvalley.coop/about-us/overview/our-history/

That in America there is now between 4% and 6% of all milk being organic.

It is important for people working with the land producing crops and grass to take brix readings. These tell you quickly how healthy your plants are.

Also, Arden is very up to date with GE and GMO's. He categorically states that GE is not needed, and that to have GE crops to save the world from starvation is an absolute lie.

Non GE crops resists droughts in the USA far better as in the huge drought of last year when GE crops failed for need of far more water to grow. Also, yields of GE crops are nowhere near as good.

http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/arden-andersen-phd-do-the-root-of-good-nutrition

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1210/S00977/arden-andersen-biological-agriculture-world-leader-ret urns.htm

http://www.regonline.co.nz/builder/site/tab1.aspx?EventID=1148546

Dr Arden Andersen Courses
Ashburton, February 13-14 2013
Taupo, February 18-19 2013
Human Health One Day Courses
Havelock North, February 16 2013
Auckland, St. Cuthbert's College  February 23 2013

Ph: 06 833 7440

info@truehealth.co.nz
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The Philosophy of Farming and Our Intimate Relationships with the Land and Biota.\n    
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Can one man make a difference?  Is it possible that one persons knowledge and enthusiasm can produce a counter tipping point to farming and land management\n    into a new upcycle, where in a few short years, soil across our whole country can be revitalized, rivers, lakes and aquifers cleaned up, less live\n    stock, (cows) needed but enabling far higher productivity? More Co2 from the atmosphere being sequested by the microflora, the mega trillions of bacteria\n    and fungi that live and comprise the soil? Resulting in more sustainability across the ecosphere?\n    
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Listen to a revolutionary land management system that is being taken seriously by thousands of South African farmers, Woolworths throughout South Africa\n    and Dole Corporation in the USA. With the uptake of millions of acres in Australia and now more NZ farmers awakening to its profitability and potential\n    in this country, this method opens the door to a more organic world view.\n    
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Without our health, life is not as exciting and fun as it is when we are healthy and active.

How many people have health challenges and what are the reasons behind these challenges? Are we eating well, or are we subjected to pesticides and chemicals, and genetically engineered ingredients in processed food; or are our immune systems hammered by the cumulative effects of life as we live it?

Often the choices we have to make in healing ourselves concern lifestyle and diet. First however there is the choice as to whether to visit complimentary therapists or allopathic doctors and practitioners.
  
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Dr Bruce Lipton, author of The Biology of Belief (and GreenplanetFM supporter) writes about how what we think and our underlying beliefs have a significant role in our health. He says Stunning new scientific discoveries about the biochemical effects of the brain's functioning show that all cells of your body are affected by your thoughts. This gives a seriously new meaning to the phrase think positive, and creates a scientific link between holistic and allopathic treatments.

Looking at the cause of a dis-ease, and finding the right solution for each individual person may be time consuming and can even cost more than we want to pay, but without looking at the cause how can we be sure to have overcome the illness that we may have inadvertently created for ourselves. And isn't life so precious that it is worth all we have to be both physically well and emotionally happy?

Lynda Wharton explains that her aim is to uncover the cause of disease, and through education, lifestyle modification and non-invasive natural therapies, remove any obstacles to cure. Through harnessing the body's innate self-healing potential, to restore optimum health and vitality, she has had much success. She talks of the commonalities that she sees in the clinic and of the informative book that she has written: Wellbeing - An essential guide to vibrant good health for women\".

Many of Lynda's patients are women and she speaks of the Super Woman Syndrome that is prevalent in western society. She describes the lifestyle, talks of the results of this, and suggests some preventatives.

Lynda also is very informative about breast cancer, and as one in 7 women in New Zealand experience some sort of breast cancer, this is an important interview to hear.

Lynda's web site is http://www.lyndawharton.com
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Sue is reinventing herself as a freelance writer, columnist and media trainer and consumer advocate.

Having been in parliament, Sue is in a perfect position to comment on the difficulty for back benchers to promote any significant change in the government. She has also listened to people saying that they feel disgusted by the parliamentary process and are completely turned off by the nastiness and hostility in the debating chamber.

The low voter turn-out in last years election is likely to be because many people feel alienated from Parliament and the entire political process.

Parliament is fast becoming irrelevant, and participating in the democratic process doesnt seem to make any difference these days. Sue says that there needs to be a review of every aspect of the way Parliament works, to see how it could be made more effective and relevant.
  
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Those who can afford to hire paid lobbyists, have more access and influence to Ministers, and therefore more influence on policy and legislation than Jo Blogs. Where is the transparency in political decision making? There is no public scrutiny!

Is the government really listening to the electorate about genetic engineering, food labeling, the Transpacific Partnership Agreement, and the food bill or do the corporations get the say. Find out Sues take on these subjects and more.

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Releasing emotional and mental blockages that are in the way to self healing can create conditions that allow spontaneous remission. With the removal of\n    fears and other emotions, a new level of spiritual growth and consciousness often happens, because the previously blocking emotions are not there any\n    more.\n    
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efthelp (at) gmail.com
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What drove the early citizens to think deeply what it wanted for the future of our society?\n    
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Especially to create institutions to take care of us, like in sickness and welfare for the unfortunate. As well as the idea of an egalitarian society.  What's that? ... I hear people say?\n    
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Let's change things back to more how they once were, but with safeguards is the new message.\n    
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Listen to how senior members within the NZ government apparatus have become extensions of US policy and the State Department ... What are the ramifications of this?\n    
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And what about MMP? We must keep it!  For though it has some weak points, we are being conned to give it away, when in actual fact we only need to tweak it. However, Alister will explain.\n    
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An illuminating interview that cleaves through the countries collective psyche and the way we are giving ourselves and our Nation away ...  'all before lunchtime!'\n    
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Alister Barry\n    
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Someone Else's Country\n    
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In a Land of Plenty\n    
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A Civilized Society\n    
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The Hollow Men\n    
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This being especially now, as food, energy and societal / cultural challenges face us down, when we can take a more simplified strategy to become intimately closer and connected to the land. 

This is where the value set of this renewing paradigm is based on simplicity, reciprocity and organics - offering one means to that pathway with a very physical hands on approach, around community, the seeking of truth and the many virtues around being human, such as beauty, forgiveness and co-operation.

This change needs to be an individual and collective decision making process and not from a top down mechanism, for example, what type of society sprays chemical poisons on its food and then eats it?

There is a need, for us as modelers for a revitalised tomorrow to be far more conscious than this!
  
What is cultural intelligence? What is relationship? How do we align to the web of life? Brendan lucidly covers these topics and asks the question, can NZ provide leadership and not 'followship' in the months and years to come?

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How do we relate to the present and deepening our understanding of our place in the ecology, that surrounds us?

A wide ranging discussion from organic food, to Koanga Gardens now Kaiwaka Organics, to broths, and seeds - about Chinese and Indian foods, many greens eaten in China and many seeds in curries in India.

No frying of foods is encouraged - due to the fact that the heat and the oils/fats produce free radicals, that are detrimental to bodily health.

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What quality of water are we pumping into our city from the Waikato River and drinking?

Dr Masaru Emoto, the Japanese researcher of thought and intention using frozen water crystals programed with Love and Gratitude that show an exquisitely, elegant and refined geometry compared to hate, and a dark convoluted unsightly structure.

Stress free living, is paramount for us as a humanity, and the need to simplify our life during these times.

The act of giving to others feeds us 'warm' hormones that makes us feel good inside and more connected. That we innately respond when reciprocity is engaged in.

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While searching for answers to her own health crisis Kay discovered four new energy fields. Kay found that the alignment and structure of these fields\n    was vital to activating life-force to promote healing from within.\n    
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With these therapies moving more into mainstream consciousness along with a healthy diet and regular exercise we are witnessing extremely beneficial effects with the human race in health and wellbeing.
Listen to Adrian Hartigan who has spent 20 years as a natural health practitioner and who introduced Jin Shin Jitsu to NZ, explain some of the deeper levels of working together. She is also the founder of the Holistic Business Network NZ and which is now the World Business Network NZ.

www.wbnnz.com

John Coombs, long term advocate and business activist for sustainable development - in natural health, organic food distribution and manufacturing, practical waste utilisation and environmental welfare.

John gives an energetic overview of the potential and possibilities around the synergies relating to the dynamics of pulling various modalities together and empowering us to take charge of both our health and collective future.

We are now at a time when the practitioners of the numerous holistic health remedies including vibrational medicine are coming together in teams to give us a 'one stop shop' to initiate well being and maximise self expression.

New co-operative ventures that pull together powerful modalities under one roof, are bringing to the community a higher level of service to those needing professional alternative, traditional and complimentary medicine.

This is the way of the future and it is happening today in Takapuna NZ.

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We benefit by eating far more healthily, gain knowledge of nature and about growing things, learn new recipes, become physically fit, share with our neighbors and kin and in particular, cooperate together.

Listen to how, a good keen couple have teamed up with others to negotiate a way of obtaining urban land, pioneering and gardening it in such a way that as a working model, it can be easily replicated. 
 When we have the will to communicate our needs, it is quite possible that across the city and urban environment, community gardens can spring up like mushrooms. 
Darren Millington of Urban Abundance & Megan Beard of Whole Health Hinemoa; growing localised gardens. 
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Lynda is well known as a health researcher, columnist and author. She is a regular columnist for Mindfood magazine, Fitness Life and Australian Nature and health.

Lynda's most recent book, Wellbeing, published by Harper Collins, is an essential addition to every woman's library. Its 400 pages cover many aspects of female health and wellbeing from a holistic perspective. 100 pages are devoted to the subject of breast cancer prevention … a subject that Lynda is passionate about.  
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Using holistic modalities they assist with counseling, to problems with pain, back & shoulders, allergies, asthma, stress & anxiety, arthritis, repetitive strain injuries, behavioral problems and conflict resolution.

Plus, a rural retreat for development and support for young adults set in a beautiful earth brick homestay, inland from Pakari beach and set among organic gardens, orchard, stream and native bush. Founded on the principle of People helping People.  
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Listen to how they came together and built up these two places of health, healing and goodwill.

Clinic: 66 Taikata Rd Te Atatu Nth Auckland 
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If that was done to you in your country would you be outraged?

Well, you may have to experience this feeling, because the FANNZ spokes people state that this is happening to the people of NZ. That we are paying Belgium for their toxic waste and we are basically sabotaging the health of the local population here.  
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As individuals, taking more personal responsibility for our own health and well being, we are realising the sacredness of the body we inhabit.

Natural therapies have been around for thousands of years, but in the last 60 years have had bad press, much of it deliberate and orchestrated, however an increasingly astute population both here in NZ and overseas are recognising that the fundamentals of natural health are profoundly beneficial for our bodies and mind, that an increasing number of natural therapists are coming out of Natural Therapy colleges equipped to administer many time honoured modalities and indeed many new ones that have expanded on older methods.
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The interview covers,  food labeling, irradiated food, poor quality food in hospitals, retirement villages and prisons, diet and sugar drinks, deteriorating teeth, education to what is a good diet and political party politics. Also, Codex and TGA effects from Australia where we get an insight to the state of affairs of Health across NZ and the way out, by growing our own vegetables in our own back yard.
  
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What would we do with US$1.6 trillion in savings?  - Mother Nature's strongest medicines are waiting for you (in exactly the right doses and without any side effects) - in whole foods.

Don Tolman has had privileged access to private museums, rare books collections, and ancient manuscripts, and has rediscovered the secrets of health vitality lost to humanity for millennia.

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A New Zealand Guide, is about what medical research actually says about natural health products and therapies that other sources recommend. In a world that's besieged by extravagant claims for an avalanche of natural remedies, who should we believe, and how can we get the information we need to make the right choices?
  
Shaun draws on a data base of 200,000 patients. The answers to these and many more questions are in this book. A surprising number of natural remedies are the subject of high-quality clinical research, Natural Remedies that Really Worksummarises and evaluates the most important and interesting research in a concise and user friendly format. A must for all New Zealand families looking for complementary natural health remedies.
  
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He is often referred to as The Father of Organic, Unrefined Flax Oil.

His work with essential fatty acids spans three decades and provided the groundwork for all the current public and industry awareness focused on the importance of Essential Fatty Acids or Omega- fats. Lack of essential fatty acids (EFAs) constitutes the most neglected aspect of a nutritional program for healthy, radiant skin.
  
As always, avoid \"white foods\" and foods rendered toxic by processing or overheating!

 * \"Low fat is healthier\"
 * \"Fatty foods clog your arteries\"
 * \"Use margarine instead of butter\"
 * \"Cut out oil to lose weight\"

This is incorrect says North America's leading expert on fats and oils.
  
According to Udo Erasmus, author of \"Fats that Heal Fats that Kill\", these so-called \"sensible dietary maxims\" come not from the science of nutrition, but from the high-paid advertising executives in New York’s Madison Avenue in Madison Avenue's \"war on fat\" that is being waged to improve corporate profits, not health.
  
\"The giant food makers know that low-fat foods have much longer shelf-lives than fatty foods\", says Erasmus. \"So they've hired high-powered advertisers to create \"fat-phobia\" in the minds of consumers - and they've succeeded.\"
  
According to Udo Erasmus, studies have proven that low-fat diets do not improve health. One recent study proved that people who switched from butter to margarine had twice as many heart attacks. \"Fresh fats and oils are essential parts of a healthy diet,\" he says. \"They should never be damaged or removed.\"
  
What has happened is that the \"War on Fat\" has stripped America's food supply of vital nutrients called \"essential fatty acids -- triggering a variety of degenerative diseases including heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and diabetes .... Children's health is another casualty in the \"war on fat\". Children raised on diets without essential fatty acids are more likely to be sick - and they frequently manifest behavioural problems and learning disabilities.\"

www.rightfatdiet.com
  
www.udoerasmus.com
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A shaman and a seer, she is described in Maoridom by various highly respected kaumatua and traditional guardians or keepers of the old wisdom as being a matatuhi - one who can read what is written in the wind and a matakite, one who sees with the healing or the third eye.
She has been specially chosen to carry the spirit connections and healing mantle for various ancient shamanic lineages. She was subsequently formally trained by indigenous elders from various countries including New Zealand in advanced shamanic healing practices.
  
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