Chemical Free Kids

Yesterday I was lucky enough to have been invited to a very interesting presentation by Dr Sarah Lantz. Dr Edward Kachab .. and herself published a book to provide the information for parents interested in the health of their kids. (see Chemical free kids)

During the presentation it became clear that we are confronted with the following facts:

• People don't want to get out of their comfort zone
• People believe what their parents taught them
• People want to avoid pain and gain pleasure (Marketing strategy)
• People are lazy (I guess that's what we learn in physics as any particle is permanently trying to be in the lowest state of energy)
• People seem to be not interested in what they do to their bodies regarding food, cosmetics, cleaning products etc.   ... is it really so hard to look up in the internet and read some information? 
• People love the immediate effect and they don't see the longterm effect of chemicals in their body, mostly accumulated over time
• Australia is too far behind to ban toxic chemicals, when they are banned in all other western countries. Why?

We need to create more awareness of

• misleading labelling
• what is actually labelled
• tricks used when labelled
• the real toxicity of chemicals (in understandable terms)
• food sold in supermarket doesn't mean it is good for you

And how do we create this awareness?

• Teach the women and you teach a whole family!
• Teach toxicity at Universities and High Schools

After the presentation I got the opportunity to have a chat with Sarah. We discovered plenty of common things.

• The interest and challenges with raw food adventure.
• Why do people don't think like we do :o) (my favourite one!)
• The natural "love" of writing a PhD thesis

 Will definitely have a closer look at Sarah's blog and her book.

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