Eco Living Magazine article archive.
Mad, Bad and dangerous to eat…the series
The "Poisons in our food chain"
Part 1 Aspartame
By Sudha Hamilton
Pull Quote: A recent survey of 166 studies into the safety of Aspartame found that 74 of them had NutraSweet related funding and that they all found that Aspartame was safe. Whereas of the 92 independently funded studies, only 8% of them found that Aspartame did not have safety concerns in humans to answer to.
Mad, bad and dangerous to eat… the series
A1 Milk - Is Yours An Informed Choice.
A few years ago; 'milk was milk', it came in funny shaped glass bottles and was delivered by a milkman, (who was rumoured to be infamously linked with extramarital activities), and who would run along behind the truck carrying the clinking milk bottles in their crates.
Babywearing
By Suzy Barry
Babywearing is so fundamental to parenting in many cultures, that it would hardly warrant an article dedicated to it entirely. Unfortunately for western babies, most members of our culture have lost touch with that part of baby nurturing.
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Barack Obama: The West's new white knight
By Sudha Hamilton
Barack Obama's Presidency has come to represent, to many people around the globe, the hope for a new future based on fairer principles - after a dark time of ignorance and fear induced US international policy.
Chia Magic Seeds
By Sudha Hamilton
This is no 'Jack and the bean stalk magic seed story' - but there are some parallels with reaching a giant nutritional understanding from what appear to be very little seeds. There is an exciting buzz about Chia seeds, and the more I researched, the more I discovered that there is good reason to get excited.
Clean & Green: Chemical Free at home
Would you bathe in your bathroom cleaner??
By Lesley-Ann Trow
We've all experienced how tough it can be to clean our bathrooms without gassing ourselves. Anyone who uses traditional household cleaners knows you've got to wear gloves, open the windows, and scrub whilst holding your breath. This experience should tell us a few things about traditional household cleaners, and not least that they're having a negative impact on our health - while also being damaging to the environment.
Colon Hydrotherapy - Where Science & Nature Work Together.
By Diedre Ellis
"Generally speaking a colonic is often a relaxing and pleasant experience"
The essential process known as a colonic or an enema has been with us for hundreds of years and its association with faeces has not been kind to its public profile but with the technological advancements in the equipment and the real improvements in practitioner training - a colonic is now often the beginning of a beneficial educational process about your own health and wellbeing.
Hemp and Humanity- How Can it Help
By Michelle Stapleton
Hemp food products are widely consumed throughout the world, with the exception of Australia and New Zealand.
What if someone told you that there was an amazing natural resource that could help feed us, house us, clothe us, make our paper, our fuel, replace plastic with a biodegradable alternative and assist in our personal care? You would be amazed?
Lotus Birth
By Sam Pearson
Lotus Birth is the practice of leaving the umbilical cord uncut after the third stage of labour so that the baby remains attached to both cord and placenta until they naturally separate from the umbilicus, exactly as a cut cord does. This practice, named by the woman who brought it to the western world, Clare Lotus Day, is sometimes referred to as the fourth stage of labour, non-severance or the second birth.
Lungs Fit For Life
By Sudha Hamilton
In our city centred world, full of stress, pollution and too many sedentary occupations, we seem to be at the mercy of the many resultant respiratory ailments. It is all too common to hear of spiralling rates of asthma and bronchial complaints within our modern communities. The breath of life - is there anything as vital to our survival? Have you ever experienced that panic inducing moment when you just cannot catch your breath, whether it's under the waves in the surf, running a race, or simply stressed by life? Not being able to breathe properly is a terrible experience, and one that marks a rapid rise in heart rate. What can we do to check the rise of these often life threatening conditions?
From Dust to Dust
Mineral Make Up…Naturally beautiful
Being someone that rarely leaves the house without a sweep of Mascara and a few dots of Concealer, I have consistently looked for make up that is both safe and natural. My sensitive skin means, whatever I apply needs to be hypo-allergenic and free from chemical nasties - otherwise I'm red and blotchy within minutes. The best results I've had so far are with mineral make up.
NLP - Three letters that changed the world.
By Sudha Hamilton
Is there a therapy or transformational process that has been as influential and all pervasive as NLP?
Neuro linguistic programming (NLP) has, over the last 30 years, reached into nearly every level of our society. Beginning with the therapeutic community, Richard Bandler and John Grinder (who were the founders) developed their work in conjunction with three of the most effective and well known psychotherapists of the time - Fritz Perls (founder of Gestalt), Virginia Satir (family systems therapy) and Milton Erickson (hypnotherapy).
Organic Sommelier
Choosing the best wines by region - find out how!
With The Sacred Chef
For the freshest fruit flavours available in your wine drinking experience, it is hard to go past good organic wine. When the fruit on the vine has been treated with knowledgeable care - sans the chemicals - it often takes the wine making to a whole new level.
Probiotics - Fermenting For Life.
By Sudha Hamilton
We are not alone. In fact, we are hosts to trillions of micro-organisms, happily munching on our waste products and doing a sterling job within our digestive system.
It may come as a bit of a shock to those of us with obsessive compulsive cleaning tendencies, that killing all the tiny invisible bugs is not a really good idea. Bacteria are all around us, within us and performing vital tasks for our health and the health of this planet.
Retreats and Spas - The New Holiday.
By Sudha Hamilton
Design instructions: lots of copy, so let's have some white space copy only pages if we need to, and some nice image pages as well.
Retreats and spas are fast becoming the new holiday of choice, as an antidote to the pressured life of the mind that we all seem to be corralled into these days.
Tantra - Sacred Lovemaking
By Kerry & Diane Riley
Tantra is a spiritual science from ancient India, and in its basic essence is very similar to Taoism from China. Both involve balancing the male and female energies to create harmony, and both have an ultimate goal of spiritual unity with the universe or the source or God. The Tantric interplay of the male and female energies was represented in Hindu mythology with Shakti and Shiva, and represented in Taoism with yin and yang. Both Tantra and Taoism aimed to create union of body, mind and spirit. And in both, sexuality was seen and practiced in a spiritual context.
So you've had a baby, what happened to sex?
By Jan Roberts
If you've just had a baby you might be wondering whatever happened to sex. Rest assured that many women are relatively sexually uninterested after childbirth and during breastfeeding. In fact it's quite normal and is Nature's way of spacing out your children in the most effective way. Studies show a wide variation of sexual behaviour among women after childbirth. Every woman is different and no response is 'normal' or better than another.
Sustainable Dream Homes
By Libe Chacos
Imagine living in a home that stays between 16-24°C all year round and paying just $2 per day for all your heating and cooling costs. It Is Easier Than You Think... But only after you abandon what most people 'know' about energy efficient and sustainable homes and follow the simple steps that work 100% of the time, in every style of home, and in every climate.
HELP SAVE THE ORANGUTAN
By Michelle Walker
Currently, these beautiful, shy and intelligent great apes are on the critically endangered list. They are in grave danger of becoming extinct within the next 10 years unless we all come together to fight for their survival.
Organic Skin Care Solutions
By Lesley-Ann Trow
"Nature has provided us with everything we need to nurture our skin; we should just let it get on with it."
There's no shortage of skincare brands - marketing, advertising and making claims on the shelves in your local pharmacy, health food store or where ever it is you go to buy your beauty products. Underneath all the hype there are some fundamental guidelines you can follow when purchasing your skincare to ensure your 'natural' or 'organic' product is everything the label says it is.
Spiritual Human Evolution
By Bernie Prior
For thousands of years humanity has pondered the meaning of life. Why have a body, what is its purpose? If we really are all one why do we still fight, why do we still feel separated from each other and existence? Why do we still suffer and lack if the source is within us?
Aphrodisiacs in Food
With The Sacred Chef
Celebrating spring is very much about the birds and the bees, sowing seeds and enjoying the fecundity of nature. So what foods stimulate the arousal of life inside us by their essential chemical make-up and perhaps by their shape and form?
A Calling To Heal
Sudha Hamilton speaks with Mark Anthony, Australia's leading Theta Healing Instructor.
You may have become aware of a new type of healing name with a Greek linguistic origin - Theta. What does the word Theta mean? It is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet and more recently has been adapted by western neuroscience to name one of the deep brain wave states or rhythms. Theta brain waves are known to be associated with aspects of deep sleep, learning and spatial navigation. It is thought that when the brain is in its Theta rhythm, it is accessing deeply stored information involving the hippocampus (home of our instinctive emotional beliefs), and conveying these to the cerebral cortex (our rational operating thoughts).
Winter-Spring Earth Wisdom
By Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
In the Southern Hemisphere we have just passed the Earth holy-day of Winter Solstice, which was in late June; and are moving into Early Spring which may be celebrated in early August and is traditionally named as "Imbolc".
Winter Solstice is the Seasonal Moment of the year when Earth's tilt leans us furthest away from the Sun - when the dark part of the day is at its longest. The stories of Old tell of the Great Mother giving birth to the Divine Child on this night, as henceforth the Sun's light and warmth begin to return, and the ongoing creativity of Earth is assured.
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