By Helen Disler
 * Is your health at risk?
* Be healthy, your nation needs you!
* Your health is your farming future
* Profit from your healthy habits
Every farmer knows the importance of plant and stock health to farm profitability.
The problem is that many farmers take their own health for granted. They dont relate their health to the profitability to the farm.
What would you sooner do?
Take time off from the farm for hours, days perhaps weeks visiting doctors, getting tests done, getting treatment, being in hospital and convalescing just to stay alive if you are lucky.
Or would you rather take time off to be with your loved ones, take a well earned rest or maybe to take a holiday?
What would actually cost you less and be far more enjoyable? Its not hard to figure out.
What is a healthy diet?
The big problem is that there is a lot of misinformation fed to people about the healthy, balanced diet. Very few people know the dangers of much of the food that we eat nor are they aware |
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By Nick Mutt
 Vitamins are essential and indispensable to your life. These are organic materials which are required in small quantity for your body growth and metabolism. This article will focus on the importance of vitamin C, D, E, P and K and their natural sources.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C is also called ascorbic acid. It is a water soluble vitamin. It is essential for teeth, gums and bones. It promotes strength in the arteries. It helps to heal the ulcers. It increases resistance in the body. It is an antioxidant. It prevents poliomyelitis. Its deficiency produces scurvy. Some of the major sources of vitamin C are sweet fruits and citrus fruits and green leafy vegetables. It promotes vitality, vigor and youthfulness and efficiency in work in a person.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin. It is essential for growth of bones. It is required for proper absorption and utilization of phosphorus and calcium. The deficiency of the vitamin in children produces, thin and weak bones called rickets. In adults its deficiency produces osteomalasia and caries of teeth. Sunlight is |
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By Helen Disler
 It doesn't matter what size it is, your farm is an ever increasing asset, even more so if you can provide chemical free, clean.
Australian conventional food prices are forecast to quadruple in price over the next five years. The reason is Asia. We are in the middle of a global revolution in the way we think, eat and live.
This week I received this news from Craig Sobey who has recently toured China with representatives from five city councils, Austrade and Regional Development Victoria and reports that there is a real opportunity for all to take a significant market share in this period.
Basically, if it is Australian and premium quality there is a ready market. Australia is seen as a source of safe food regardless of whether it is organic or conventional. At this stage price does not appear in the conversation, just consistent supply and traceability. The interest in all products represented included convenience food packages (pre-cooked), meats, dairy, wines etc.
Did you know:
They have offered an entire Australian Pavilion for Aussie produce including organics in |
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