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Gill Stannard
23
SEP
2011

Food, inspiration and green cleaning

Have you seen the recent links on the City Natural Therapies Facebook page? Inspiration How to be happy Hand written letters Pursuit of happiness – the path to inner joy is simple Food Chickpea flour (gluten-free) crackers recipe Gluten-free dinning in Melbourne Understanding...
20
SEP
2011

Too good for the compost bin: stem to root cooking

Nose to tail eating goes vego! A recent article in the New York Times inadvertently threw vegetable cooking to the wind, or rather have you scavenging the compost heap, with a great piece on stem to root cooking. As a fledgling gardener and organic produce forager I’m often...
07
SEP
2011

Optimum wellbeing in spring

Spring is the season for lifting your spirit, a positive outlook, renewal and growth. After a long, cool winter, the return of sunny days can gladden the heart. Just as the sap rises in plants, it’s not unusual to experience an uprising of emotions with the coming of spring. Some...
01
SEP
2011

Recipe: healing soup

This recipe first appeared in the City Natural Therapies August 2011 newsletter. If you’d like a monthly update on health and food, add your email address to the free sign up. As the weather heads towards spring, with it can come a fresh round of colds and other respiratory...
08
AUG
2011

Are our homes killing us?

To find out the answer to that question, I reviewed two books on environmental health. Healthy Home Healthy Family: Is Where You Live Affecting Your Health? Nicole Bijlsma (Joshua Books, 2010) Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health...
08
AUG
2011

Love your enemy

High on a windswept Wellington hilltop the view from Tarakena Bay is magnificent. But it wasn’t the reason I was there. We’d scaled the steep, twisting path with hundreds of steps to visit a war memorial with a difference. While the site commemorates one of the country’s...
06
AUG
2011

Why I’m learning more about mindfulness

Note: I signed up for Charlotte’s course even before I watched her video. What a bonus to learn that chocolate can be therapeutic tool!
19
JUL
2011

Recipe: roasted cauliflower dip

The following original recipe first appeared in the July 2011 City Natural Therapies e-newsletter. Click the link if you’d like to sign up for a free serving of health tips and delicious food every month. As a child I found the cruciferous winter vegetables rather boring....
08
JUL
2011

On being ill

The hospital experience is full of the drama of the untidy body: of blood, sweat, vomit, bile, all the other stuff normally contained and hidden. But in hospital, the normally compliant body does not, will not and cannot maintain its normal boundaries or habits, so any chart or...
04
JUL
2011

Can you eat earwax?

Waxing lyrical on earwax, candles and other aural obsessions Is it just me or are all humans just a bit obsessed with earwax?   What is earwax? Cerumen (the medical name for earwax) is made from secretions of the sebaceous and ceruminous glands in the ear. It’s acts as a...
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