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Welcome to the new version of Healthy Choices. Our rather

talented team consists of some highly over qualified people who hope to rock your world. Big time! We are starting out small with an incredibly big dream. A veritable hive of activity, we are about offering informed choices to what is happening around us in the health, wellness, healing, fitness, beauty & movement industries. We offer our unique questions. Our name says it all.

Our analogy is that of bees, working as a unified whole in their hives to promote their ultimate goal. The honey (or goal) for us

is the enlightenment of humanity. The shift we all are striving for in our consciousness. The giant leap. The big dream. Health & wellness on all levels. The questions we ask are the process of making honey. The hive has a queen... our communities also have queens, they are the leaders, the masters, the people who help others reach their goals. There are quite a few around at present, we hope to introduce you to one or two.

Happy reading & get ready for the launch of our website & online newsletter, which will offer a more in depth look at each issue & the articles therein.

editorial team

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PhotographyNic Redelinghuys of The Pixel Revelationwww.thepixelrevelation.com

This booklet is printed on sustainably farmed paper using vegetable based inks that are not harmful to our environment in any way. The printing plates & water used during the process are also recycled for minimum wastage of our planet’s resources.

Welcome!

index09 What is Sutherlandia?13 Milk Thistle24 Optimum health without pharmaceutical drugs29 Sceletium Tortuosum31 To juice or not to juice35 What is Biodynamic farming?37 The Sky is Alive!45 Meat free Mondays48 The way forward for Health Shops

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For the last 12 years I have

worked with brands that bring

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empowerment of the consumer.

Most of these brands are organic

and quite a few are bio-dynamic.

I have a strong focus on healing

the planet. I am also a qualified

Inner Life Skills Coach with

www.innerlifeskills.com. This has

been a very satisfying personal

journey. One that made me realise

that sometimes the questions are

more important than the answers.

Paul de KockLesley is part owner & founder

of Integrity Wellbeing situated in

the heart of Somerset West. She

practices as an acupuncturist &

teaches Tai Chi & Qi Gong. Lesley

is also a fine artist.

Lesley’s words...

‘I made a promise to myself several

years ago that I would honour my own

sense of integrity business wise. Paul

& I resonate on many levels. Our paths

kept intersecting & Healthy Choices is a

heartfelt choice for both of us.’

lesley-ann green

the editors

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Sutherlandia contains a wide range of molecules that could

explain the plant’s efficacy, either individually or in combination with one another namely: L-Canavanine is a potent non-protein amino acid & a L-arginine antagonist with documented antiviral, (including influenza virus & retroviruses) , anti-bacterial, antifungal & anticancer activities. L-Canavanine is also a selective inhibitor of inducible nitric oxide synthase & therefore has possible application in the treatment of septic shock & chronic

inflammation. Pinitol, a known anti-diabetic agent, quantitative work is in progress & suggests that pinitol may have clinical application in treating the wasting in cancer & AIDS patients. GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter & could account for the use of the plant for anxiety & stress & for the improvement in mood & well-being experienced by many patients. A novel triterpenoid glucoside has been isolated & characterized which has promising biological activities & is under ongoing research.

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COMMON NAME: Milk Thistle

LATIN NAME/S: Silybum marianum

PART USED: The seeds.

INTRODUCTION: Milk Thistle is a biennial plant which originates in South-west Europe.

CONSTITUENTS: Flavones silybin, silydianin and silychristin; essential oil; bitter principle; mucilage.

KEY ACTIONS:· Cholagogue· Galactogogue· Demulcent

INDICATIONS & USES: Milk Thistle is most commonly

used for liver detoxification & support. It is an excellent liver tonic & promoter of milk secretion too so also used safely by breastfeeding mothers. In support of the liver, it can also be used to increase the secretion & flow of bile from the liver & gall-bladder. It is thus also a great herb to use where problems of the gall-bladder are concerned.

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Caution: Avoid during pregnancy.

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It has been shown to aid in the transmission of messages within the central nervous

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Dr Mercola in his on-line article has brought attention to the

fact that, according to statistics & his research, pharmaceutical drugs are 62 000 times more likely to cause mortality than tak-ing supplements.

All the data was collected from official sources in the UK & EU. The data shows that food supplements & herbal remedies are in the safe category for indi-vidual risk. One is more likely to perish by being struck by light-ning or drowning in a bathtub, than from a lethal reaction to herbs or supplements.

Over half of the population of the USA takes nutritional sup-plements. Over 60 billion doses of vitamin & mineral supplemen-tation per year & zero related deaths.

In contrast, pharmaceutical drugs have been known to cause over 125 000 deaths per year in

the US & this is when they are administered as prescribed. Ac-cording to the US National Poi-son Data System, the categories among the most lethal include:· Analgesics, sedatives, hypnot-

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tem depressants)· Acetaminophen combinations· Antidepressants

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to our physician, pharmacist or health care advisor.

It is vitally important for each & every one of us as human beings to take responsibility for our own health. This way, by asking the right questions, being in control of our lifestyle & habits we can stay healthy. And, we can do this naturally, often without the use of drugs or frequent conventional medical care.

Our important choices health wise include:1. The Correct Food Choices2. A Correct & Comprehensive

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be eradicated.

Be awake, aware, take respon-sibility & keep up to date on the available information. Be well in-formed. Be healthy, happy & live well.

Dr Mercola has made significant steps to bringing practical solutions to health issues. His website provides up to date information & articles. There is move-ment towards exposing corporate, government & mass media hype.

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without pharmaceutical drugs

This article consists of extracts from Dr Mercola’s online article (www.mercola.com)Copyright Dr Mercola. All rights reserved.


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Sceletium is nature’s answer and most powerful and trusted selective Serotonin reuptake inhibitor. It has been used successfully for many years and has been researched in numerous clinical and patient review trials. This safe herb is used to combat depression, tension, stress and anxiety while inducing a sense of well being. Only Dr. Boxall’s add Avena Sativa to two of their Sceletium product varieties for those patients seeking to additionally enhance concentration and cognitive function. Both Sceletium and Avena Sativa are not addictive or hallucinogenic in any way and possibly the safest and most effective approach to anxiety, insomnia and low libido available today.

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Historically Sceletium Tortuo-sum was chewed, smoked

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in reclaiming neurotransmitters from the neuron receptors to the originating nerves thus keeping more serotonin in circulation. Sceletium is known to have a bal-ancing effect on other feel-good neurotransmitters like dopamine, norepinephrine, and on adrena-line. Thus, mesembrine allows the brain to function with reduced levels of serotonin, allowing time for natural levels to build up with coping mechanisms. Sceletium is non- addictive, not hallucinogen-ic, and no severe adverse effects have been documented.

sceletiumWhat is

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For those of you that are al-ready juicing, you can skip to

the recipes and tips. For those of you that still believe it is a menial and laborious chore, read further.

We are living in a society that tries every known diet to lose weight or look and feel good. Maybe for once we must look at creating balance in our diet rather than having a quick fix. One of the things that you can do daily to create balance is juice.

For years we have been eat-ing junk food that has little or no nutritional value. Even the fruit and vegetables that we get in su-permarkets have been sterilized to such extent that what is left over has little value to the body. This makes us consume more to sustain ourselves and we overeat to feel full. The answer is to eat

to juice or not to juice...

organic vegetables and fruit that come from a farm not too far from you. The further vegetables and fruit have to travel, the more they need to spend time in fridges and cold lines that take nutrients out of them – fridges dehydrate items that are porous, so water and other valuable things such as vi-tamin c is lost.

Coming back to juicing. The first principle is “what you put in is what you get out”. So start with good vegetables and fruit. Mar-kets are usually the best place to

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get good quality vegetables and fruit as they will be in season and most of the time they will be or-ganic. At markets you will mostly buy from the farmer directly which benefits the cost of items. Also try green grocers, delis or supermarkets and keep asking for the organic version. They will eventually catch on.

Secondly, get a good juicer. It would be great if you can get a juicer that crunches the juice out of veg and fruit, but that is rather costly. For home use get your-self a centrifugal juicer (grinds and spins the juice out at a high speed), for which you shouldn’t pay more than R800..

Here are a couple of tips when you start:Tip 1: Do not peel vegetables or fruit

(except some citrus fruit such as or-anges, naartjies and grapefruit). Most of the nutritional value lies just be-neath the skin of vegetables and fruit.

Tip 2: If the vegetables are organic, you don’t have to wash them, except if they are full of mud. Proper natural soil has amazing enzymes and bac-teria that your body needs for diges-tion. Yes, you heard right! Normal tap water has chlorine which kills en-zymes that your body actually needs. Over the past few decades we have lost those enzymes and bacteria, but through better farming practices we are slowly getting them back into our system.

Tip 3: Don’t throw or scoop away the foam! This is aerated goodness, it normally comes from the skin and puts you into direct contact with the


greatest nutrients. Have a look at how beetroot foams...

Tip 4: Drink the juice within 30min of being made. The longer you wait, the quicker the nutrients escape.

The Recipes:All recipes make juice for two, de-pending on the size of the glass-es (based on 250ml glasses).

HOLY TRINITY1 x medium Beetroot4 x medium Carrots4 x medium ApplesJuice the whole fruit and vegeta-bles. Enjoy!

FLU BUSTER¼ of a medium Cabbage½ a small Lemon, with skin and all!!!

4 Swiss Chard leaves4 medium red Apples1 medium BeetrootJuice the whole fruit and vegeta-bles. Enjoy!

SPRING RENEWAL4 Celery StalksA handful of Parsley6 medium carrots½ a cucumberA thumb sized piece of Ginger4 medium green ApplesPut the parsley and ginger through the juicer first, followed by the rest of the vegetables. Enjoy!

Next chapter: Know what you can get out of juicing – the nutri-tional benefits of vegetables and fruit for everyday juicing.



You may have noticed more and more products

on the market that come from Biodynamic farming. Product like Dr Hauschka (skincare), Holle (baby foods) and of course Bloublommetjies from Wellington. Now having done a lot of training on this topic I do realise that quite a few people still struggle with the concept of organic farming. So I won’t make this technical.

If you wish to learn more you can always Google it. Biodynamic Farming has its origins in the work of Dr. Rudolph Steiner. His work also spawned the Waldorf Schools. Biodynamic farming emphasises the interrelationship of soil, plants and animals, and views farms as self-nourishing eco-systems. Regarded as the first modern ecological

What isBiodynamic farming?

farming system and one of the most sustainable, biodynamic farming’s unique approach includes the use of homeopathic, herbal and mineral preparations as compost additives and field sprays, and the use of a sowing and planting calendar guided by the movement of the planets.

Obviously no chemicals are used that can cause harm to you or the environment.

And what you end up with is delicious and nutritious foods as well and skin care products that embrace you harmoniously.


Astrology is an art thousands of years old. The Sumarians

were advanced in their understanding of the cycles of time, reflected in the seasons of the Sun, Moon & planets. Also in world events & individual lives. Ancient societies knew that what happens on earth is a reflection of the cycles recorded above.

Astrology is the combination of this wisdom & the scientific reality of the solar system cycles visible to the human eye when we observe the night sky. When we look often & for long we notice that the sky is alive. Steadily, the Moon waxes & wanes, forever in relationship with the shifting Sun. Mercury & Venus play like children – interacting with each other & the Sun as either the morning or evening stars. Mars (receiving a visit from the space craft Curiosity at present) glows red, sometimes very bright as it draws closer to the earth, always moving across the sky on the same path travelled by the Sun & Moon. Saturn appears much smaller, dimmer & therefore harder

to spot, but travelling the same route. Jupiter, the largest planet & one of the brightest points in the sky, is easily recognizable. The other planets:- Uranus, Neptune & Pluto are not visible to the human eye. We can only see their slow moving rotations with a telescope.

The wonder of these cycles & the key to astrology is that they are so reliable, they are predictable. If we know where the planets, Sun & Moon, will be at any given moment - past, present and future - we are able to understand the trends & potentials of what occurred in the past, what is happening now & what to watch out for in the future. The planets describe the cycles of time & have no direct influence on us. They are our messengers.

Monica Cromhout talks on the current cycles on the first Wednesday of every month at Mayfair Cottage. She teaches astrology at Healing House [email protected] 8524728 / 083 4530052

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Move with grace, power, and beauty and harmonize with the cosmos. This is the gift of Tai Chi. A 10 minute Tai chi practice can benefit you the whole day and extend beyond practice into every day life. It should never become a treadmill activity that dulls the imagination. It invigorates the mind and cultivates the creative spirit.

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With all the articles be-ing published & rumours

abounding, one of the questions being asked is if the health shop industry is going to fade into obscurity or become a fad that belongs in the past. As humanity surges forward with bigger, bet-ter, faster & more efficient ways of doing, are we, as shop own-ers going to be eclipsed by the bigger corporates & the pharma-ceutical industry? What do con-sumers want?

As mentioned in the introduc-tion to ‘Healthy Choices’, a lot has to do with the questions we ask. And, equally perception & choice. As co-owner of Integrity Wellbeing I choose to see the present situation as a challenge, a way to integrate the alterna-tive with the allopathic, a way towards better service, more informed, well trained staff & superior service for our clients.

After all, at the end of the day, that is what we are all about. Our clients. We are a service industry. Health shops & staff of-fer one on one service, an open minded approach, the ability to listen & advise.

Earlier this month in Cape Town, the first Health Shop As-sociation meeting was held. To date, only 25 shops have joined up. Discussed was the necessity of standing together as a group, which the HCA has pledged to administer, the supply of in-formative legislative protocols, important industry feedback, the information gained through IADSA & CODEX of the CAMS in-dustries abroad & the facilitating of an introduction to the appro-priate government departments when the proposed association is ready to work with the govern-ment to create the correct legal protocols for health shops.

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The HPA has offered their help & guidance from over 30 years experience in the South African CAMS industry.

We need to be proud of our collective knowledge, our skills & ability to advise in our respective fields. If our staff need extra train-ing, what a bonus. If our products have a greater efficacy, we can be grateful. If the government needs help understanding some of our products & what we do, let us work as a team to make a smoother transition. And, we need to be informed. It is up to us as shop owners to keep it real, not to get caught up in misinformation & to keep our clients informed. And, we can help educate those making the decisions which affect

our livelihood.As a group we can only go from

strength to strength. We can bring about change & we can work to-wards a review of our constitution. And, we have the freedom to keep asking questions. I would recom-mend each & every health shop owner to join the HSASA & get ready to embrace the challenge & changes we are moving towards.

And… we can ask our clients about how they feel, what they want & continue to offer a neces-sary service. With so much infor-mation available via the internet, the ability to listen is a gift we can offer.

Written by Lesley-Ann Green, part owner & founder member of Integrity Wellbeing.


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