Living Healthy Isn’t Boring
Embracing an organic lifestyle can be challenging but oh so rewarding. Living healthy definitely isn’t boring. Whether it’s for an environmental or health reason; the overall effect should be a positive one. Both for you and the planet!
Protests Against Chemical-Laden Food
For some it is a protest against chemical-laden and processed foods; whilst others see it as a “green” answer to the pollutants in our environment.
Still others will make the choice for their health and well-being. Or it may actually be for all of these reasons combined.
A Healthier You & A Cleaner Environment
Whatever your reason; the choice should make for a healthier you and a cleaner environment for all to enjoy…both now and in the future. Are you ready to give it a go?
Committed To a Healthy Lifestyle
I’m definitely finding it a fun experience. As I research organic lavender products and their uses; I come across lots of lovely people who are committed to living a healthier lifestyle.
Living Simply & Healthy
It’s refreshing to meet people who are living healthy lifestyles and living simply. I love it and the fact there are so many committed to living healthy means our shared knowledge is growing in how we can do just that.
Organic Products Galore
From sharing healthy organic recipes, to the many uses of organic essential oils to the latest research on organic lavender uses in health and well-being.
The list goes on and on and it must be very encouraging for those who have embraced healthy living and stood against the scoffers – some of whom now will probably be wishing they had made these same choices themselves.
Growing Up Healthy
For me … I was privileged to grow up on the quarter acre block with our own fruit trees, vegie patch and free roaming chickens. We also had a compost heap and there were no take-away fast food outlets.
Healthy Eating Habits
So without realising it; I was set up with healthy eating habits from a young age and even when I travelled to the UK and Europe; I would hunt out fresh fruit and vegies; much to the amusement of my British friends.
I didn’t really know any other way to eat and for that I am now truly grateful.
A Healthy Lifestyle, A Healthy Body
My body really reacts to anything other than healthy foods, so I find it easy to eat organically and don’t miss the foods that are not good for me, as I’ve not had them as a regular part of my diet ever.
Excercise and a Few Treats too
This doesn’t mean I don’t eat cake and chocolates … they are just not staples in my eating plan. Walking and swimming have always been my favourite forms of exercise and for this reason; I hope to remain fit and healthy for a long time yet.
Gradual or Dramatic Changes
For some people however, it is a gradual change in lifestyle. While for others it is dramatic brought on by health scares such as a sudden heart attack, stroke or cancer.
Amazing Results Can Happen
You only have to look at popular television shows where very unfit overweight people change their eating habits and exercise regularly; to see the amazing results that happen. For others the change is less dramatic.
Here’s To Good Health
Whatever your reason for embracing an organic lifestyle, both your health and the environment should benefit from these choices. Here’s to continued good health and more informed choices eh!
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What a lovely post and it is all true. I especially like that you emphasize that it is FUN! Eating your veggies is not at all dull and mondane as some mistakenly think. I just recently found a recipe that I’ll soon try combining sweet cherries and lavender flowers for a compote. It sounds like a very lovely topping for a shortcake or bowl of icecream or even on meat or fish. I’m going to give it a try.
Hi Jennifer. It’s great to have you back visiting my site. I will be over to your site to see what delicious recipes you have thought up that I can try.
I want to write more about organics and have a few articles ready. Hope to have you visit again soon.
Patricia Perth Australia
Patricia
It must have been lovely growing up on acreage. I have always tried to have a lavender bush in my garden as I love the smell and often use its oil for relaxation. I love the idea of a site just about lavender I look forward to seeing where it goes.
belinda
Thanks for visiting Belinda. I love lavender and so it was an easy choice when choosing my niche. I hope you visit often.
Patricia Perth Australia
Patricia~
Your site is beautiful! I’m with you! Organic is where it’s at! It will be fun watching society’s turn from processed to organic~ We’ll all see the benefits!
Thankyou so much for your kind words. I feel very humbled when experienced bloggers take the time to visit my blog. Hope to see you here again and I’ll be over to your site to learn some more.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia…I saw your comments on Belinda’s and Linda’s blogs , so I came over for a nosy around. I love your subject and I’m definitely on board with healthy eating and detoxifying your environment. I look forward to reading more posts from you. Louise
My family has made the switch to organic food this year. We belong to a CSA which is kind of like a cooperative. Every week we get a bushel basket full of whatever organic vegetables are in season right now. We also get some organic fruit. The people who run it are really nice and it is well worth the money. Your readers should check and see if anyone local is doing it in their area.
Hi Patricia,
So nice to see your blog coming along so well.
Best of luck!
Gary Gregory
Hi Gary
So nice of you to come over and check out my progress. My laptop crashed on Friday and I’ve been offline just as things were coming along nicely. Hope to be up and running again by the weekend. At the local library typing this! I so love blogging and I’m looking forward to when your new course comes out.
Thanks again for visiting especially as I know how busy you must be with the launch preparations.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Louise
thanks for visiting my blog. I’ve been offline since Friday but I will be over to check out your blog too. I am passionate about all things lavender and all things organic so hope you can visit again as I will be posting lots more on both topics again soon.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Kathy
Thanks for visiting my blog. We are blessed here with great weather for growing both organic vegies and fruit. Also with local farmers’ markets springing up in lots of suburbs; more people are choosing healthy organic lifestyles. it’s so encouraging to see as that is how it used to be when I was growing up and now we have come full circle with it.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia,
I found you from Chis’ blog and I thought I’ll visit your blog.
Everything lavender, that’s nice.
I’ve got some friends who are also interrested in organics, health, etc who also blogs. I wonder if we could form a local communitty of Perth bloggers.
BTW, I’m an IT/teckie guy so I blog about SEO.
Ben.
Hi Ben
Thanks for visiting my blog. That sounds like a great idea. I am a baby boomer who loves writing about all things lavender but find the techie stuff hard. I will email you and maybe we could connect on Skype and organise a bloggers get together on a Saturday morning sometime. I would love to connect up with other local bloggers. I’m sure we can all help each other to be successful.
Patricia Perth Australia
I think that’s one of the many advantages of living in the country, the fact that you can get your hands on fresh produce. It’s a little harder in the city unless you can find a boutique store or something.
You can forget the major supermarkets as you never know what you’re buying there. One thing that is sorely lacking in Australia is proper labeling laws so that we know exactly where the food we are buying came from.
What cheeses me off is that our farmers have to do all the right things before their produce is accepted, something that forces the price up, and then we import cheap food from places like China who don’t have to follow the same strict regime and their inferior product reaches our shelves and we don’t even realize where it’s from.
Hi Sire
Nice to see you back on my blog. I live in the burbs but we are blessed with farmers market every Saturday here and lots more opening up locally. The farmers are so poorly paid by the big supermarkets,they can sell their fresh produce at a better price at the markets so its a win-win situation.
Patricia Perth Australia
I have always liked the calming properties of lavender. It is hard to grow where I live — I think it is too hot, but I am not sure. So I have to buy mine. I do garden organically and use no synthetic chemicals on my place.
I saw your blog mentioned on bloggerluv and came over to say hello. I look forward to getting to know you.
Thanks for visiting Stephanie. I have checked out your blog before as I am into organic gardening and hope to have another blog eventually on all things organic. Lavender is very easy to grow here as we have sandy soil and lavenders love free draining soil. Also they are very hardy in our hot climate. Hope to bump into you again sometime in the blogosphere. Meeting great people in the blogging community too.
Patricia Perth Australia
Great blog. I don’t think there is anything wrong with embracing an organic lifestyle. I actually support it. The thing is that for me it seems like it’s just “a trend” and thus many follow this lifestyle. I just hope that people really believe in it as much as you do.
Thanks Juliius. I find here in my home town that more and more people are turning away from chemical laden food that may or may not be fresh when it arrives in the shop. Whereas at farmers’ markets it has been delivered to us fresh. I think even if people don’t embrace a total organic lifestyle, small changes will still be good.
Patricia Perth Australia
We have them as well but it means driving a half hour or so to get there. May have to give it a try one day. Who knows the savings may pay for the extra time and petrol.
“We belong to a CSA which is kind of like a cooperative. Every week we get a bushel basket full of whatever organic vegetables are in season right now” << What Kathy was saying…I keep forgetting to see if I have something similar in my area. I imagine I would being I am next to the strawberry capital of the world. My sister was telling me about a program like that…I would love it. I'm putting that on a to-do list. I like the thought of the fruits and vegetables coming straight from the local farmers.
I'm terrible at growing things..so I can't grow my own.
I thought I had replied to your comment Melinda but it didn’t get thru! I have been over and visited your blogs. Really good read and your humour one I so had a good laugh. Very theraputic. Will be visiting there often as life can get too serious sometimes and a good laugh is so healthy.
Good on you for buying organic vegies. That’s what I do although I love gardening. It helps the local economy and our farmers who are not having it easy at the moment. We desperately need rain in Western Australia. Us townies may be enjoying the unseasonal sunshine when it is winter here; but the crops need rain and plenty of it.
Patricia Perth Australia
Mine is just down the road and a healthy walk so I’m hungry when I arrive. Good reason to stop and have a healty snack and support the farmers here
See, it’s like they say, a good home is all about location. The closest thing I have to me, other than a local shopping center, is the pub
Still, at least the shops have a great pizza joint, and some of the toppings are natural
Hi Patricia
I think that we are all more informed about what we eat, fat, sugar and my pet subject – salt! My daughter seems to know a lot more about healthier alternatives than I ever did.
Got to agree with your bottom line “continued good health and more informed choices”
Good to see sites like this spreading the word and allowing us to make those informed choices.
We are better informed but when I was growing up we had the healthy lifestyle as there weren’t the fast food places and not such aggressive advertising either. Life was more simple and we simply ate what we produced in our vegie patch and shared it around with neighbours so without realising it I was eating healthy as there weren’t too many other choices! I’m very grateful now as it has meant I have been blessed with good health and naturally eat healthy cos that’s what I have always done.
BTW thanks for taking the time to comment on my blog. Will be over to check yours out now Keith.
Patricia Perth Austrlia
Sire you have that cheeky Aussie sense of humour
Patricia Perth Australia
Yep, and what makes is truly unique is the Italian blood I have coursing through my veins. probably why I like pizza so much. Do you know though, I have yet to see an Italian relative that would eat a pie or pastie. Man, they don’t know what they’re missing
Wow me too. My grandfather was Italian. I love all things Italian but like you love the pie and sauce too! Not so healthy eh??!!
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia,
I saw your questions elsewhere and dropped by to volunteer to help you with anything you would like to learn. Many people are willing to assist; however, some answers can be more comfusing than helpful at times.
Why don’t we connect in chat so you can get answers quickly?
Hi Gail
Thanks for dropping by. That would be wonderful. You are so generous with us newbies. I sure appreciate your offer of help.
Will email you so we can make a time to chat. Thanks again
Patricia Perth Australia
“You only have to look at popular television shows where very unfit overweight people change their eating habits and exercise regularly; to see the amazing results that happen.”
If you’re referring to “The Biggest Loser”, I wouldn’t use it as an example. Contestants are often forced to dehydrate for days before a weigh-in, and there have been numerous instances of previous winners of the shows going on to gain their weight back.
However, you are right about how our surroundings shape us while we grow up. I was just watching “Super-Size Me” and was really amazed at the part to where McDonald’s would use clowns, toys, birthday parties, and playplaces to imprint their brand on impressionable youths and hardwire their brains to crave the food at an older age.
Thanks for dropping by Trey. Ever hopeful that people will wake up and start living healthy. Scary thought….this generation of young people won’t outlive their parents!
Sure hope that not true as I have a GenY niece and nephew. They do eat healthy….most of the time and have been given good life examples by the family.
I just don’t like junk food. Probably cos it wasn’t around when I was growing up and so my body only responds positively to healthy eating.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia, I got here through Sire’s wasssupblog. I must say, you seem to be doing well for a newcomer. I myself am a newbie and despite having blogged for a year, I still consider myself a newbie because there just seems to be a lot more to learn.
Thanks for visiting my blog James. I blog every day and visit lots of sites including Sire’s. He has been an encouragement to me regularly commenting on my site and giving me techie help when I have asked him questions.
I want to do this full-time but I am just building up my readers at the moment. When I find all the right products to review and hopefully recomment I will put up a shopfront on my site.
Long way to go but feel I am learning from the blogging community every day. Will pop over and visit your site now and spread some bloggerluv.
Patricia Perth Australia
A healthy organic lifestyle can do a lot of good not only for our own bodies but for the planet as well. It’s great to see more and more people getting the word out about the alternative choices we have in the decisions we make about what we put in/on/around our bodies!
Kimberly
Thanks for visiting my blog Kim. Hope you have recovered from your bout of sunburn! Here in Oz definitely we are going back to healthier eathing and I believe that it will grow as people become more informed.
Patricia Perth Australia
I just found your site again and I’m glad because I so
enjoy reading about your organic lifestyle in Australia and I love lavender!
You made an interesting point when you said that you
don’t care for junk food because you didn’t have it when you were growing up … that’s the case with me
and my children grew up eating good home cooked food too but not the next generations!
I just had a thought … our blogs might send out enough healthy energy to the universe to slowly bring change?
Fran
Thanks for stopping by Fran and taking the time to comment. I will be returning the luv and visiting your blog to check it out.
If you are brought up eating healthy it is easy to continue that way. Sadly a lot of cash-rich time-poor parents opt out and do the drive by fast food on the way home from a busy day.
Patricia Perth Australia
I totally agree with you….Patricia…
Following an organic lifestyle is challenging but…it certainly is rewarding for our health as well as the environment we live in…..
Anything that helps us and the environment…thats a double whammy….
Love your blog….you are doing such an awesome job…Thank you…
Who says living healthy is boring??!! Embracing an organic lifestyle can be challenging but oh so rewarding. Whether it’s for an environmental or health reason; the overall effect should be a positive one. Both for you and the planet
Thanks for those kind word Adam. I love blogging and I love all things lavender so this blog is a joy to have and I am meeting some great people in the blogosphere.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia,
It seems that we had similar childhoods. Take away or fast food restaurants were an occasional treat. We lived on 4 acres of land, around 1.5 acres was garden; fruits, vegetables, and herbs. We had bout 2 acres was woods. We had chickens, pigs, goats, rabbits, ducks, geese on our land. We had plenty of fresh food to eat, so I got into the practice early of eating healthy foods.
If I don’t eat healthy my body tells me in the most painful ways, so I wisely make healthy choices.
It’s morning here, about thirty minutes ago I was outside picking cherry tomatoes off the vine and popping them into my mouth. Nothing like fresh produce fresh from the vine, a simple but delightful meal.
How good it that??!! Fresh cherry tomatoes…yummo
Me too! My body reacts if I don’t eat healthy. I think even with people who have grown up eating junk food, their body is reacting they just don’t recognise it. You sound like you are living a very healthy lifestyle.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hey Patricia, I try to live a healthy lifestyle. I mainly eat whole foods. The occasional “processed foof” or “junk food” I might consume, is usually made from scratch by myself.
What can I say, there’s no time like the present!
Great to see you hear Kissie. Yes that’s right. Hope all’s well and you and your family are doing okay.
Patricia Perth Australia
You sound like a great role model for your daughter. At least you know what is in it if you make it yourself.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia, I saw your post on Ben Wan’s blog and was curious. Lavender and well-being goes hand-in-hand – nice choice !! I read your blog and immediately picked some stems for the office. It’s too easy to take it for granted. Our lavender grows great in a west-facing garden in Cottesloe so there’s plenty for dried bunches hanging in cupboards and even the garage.
Have you discovered the Lavender Cafe in Mundaring area? Lavender cakes, cookies, oils, soaps, sticks….high quality too. Best wishes, Julia
Hi Julia
Thanks for visiting my site. No I haven’t visited there it sounds lovely. So many uses for lavender and I am loving blogging about it.
Patricia Perth Australia
You were lucky to have grown up with a healthy approach to food. It’s much easier than having to break old habits and form new ones later in life — especially those having to do with eating, because we do that every day.
Growing up we had a small “victory garden” in our backyard. I remember my mom making peas from that garden and me wanting more. Unfortunately, there was only enough for us to each get one serving. We always ate home-cooked meals. To this day I prefer to eat at home, even if that means I have to cook.
Now I live in the country and we keep attempting to grow a large garden; it’s hit and miss for sure. We also have 14 free range/cage free chickens. It’s amazing to see how dark yellow farm fresh egg yolks can truly be and my husband says they taste so much better.
Hi Charles
Thanks for visiting my blog. I loved your poem. Yes I feel very blessed that I grew up when I did. Very healthy lifestyle I have carried into adulthood.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Anne
How good to be living in the country and having the space for your own garden. I would love that. Fresh farm eggs definitely taste different. My Mum insists on them and her cakes are delicious.
Patricia Perth Australia
I have to admit that I didn’t grow up with healthy eating patterns. It’s not in my family background; we ate what we could afford. These days, I don’t know that I eat all that much healthier, even though I know more. I can say this, however. My wife does have the essential oils, and lavender is part of the pack. I love having her rub oils on my back and other parts of my body when I ache; it all comes together and helps me feel rejuvenated.
I am really looking forward to coming to your blog more often, I need and desire a more healthy lifestyle and have always been interested in uses for lavender and other scents. Looking forward to more of your posts!
Hi Mitch
Great to have you over here on my blog. You redeem yourself by using lavender essential oil
I am going to be writing an article on that very things shortly. Hope to see you here again.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Jenny
Great to have you here. I am going to be writing more on lavender uses in health so hope to have you visit again. Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hello Patricia. Coming over to congratulate you as Blogger of the Week. I have some of the worst eating habits but I do love Lavender dryer sheets. Nothing beats the smell. I put them in several places around my home and when the breeze hits it’s wonderful. Now that you are sharing Lavender uses, when are you gonna start on the Lilac?
Hi Karen
Thanks for your kind comments. Must say I was pleasantly surprised with the Blogger of the Week award. Especially being a newbie but I do so love being a part of bloggerluv community. At the moment I am just blogging about the lovely lavender….so much to research and learn. Hope you visit again soon.
Patricia Perth Australia
I just stopped by to say hello and thank you for your visit to my blog. You asked if I had lavender recipes. There are several and they range from a lovely salad dressing to cheesecake bars. I hope you are having a great day. Blessings…Mary
Hi Mary
Thanks for dropping by again. Nice to have you visit. Would you mind me sharing them with my readers?
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia,
Nice post…Eating organic is eating good and eating good guaranties good health…We should all try it out.
Olusola
Thanks for visiting. I really believe if we eat well and live a healthy lifestyle we should be blessed with good health. At least then we have done all we can to maintain our health and well-being.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia
I’m so glad you popped over to my blog because I have found a new blog with well written, useful information here.
I am in great need to get back into shape and live a more productive lifestyle; reading your blog and Olusola’s will help.
Thanks for sharing
Michael
Thanks for visiting my site Michael. Glad you found this post helpful. Good health and keeping healthy is so important.
Look forward to visiting your blog again and also seeing you over here again too.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia
“For me….I was privileged to grow up on the quarter acre block with our own fruit trees, vegie patch and free roaming chickens.”
Sounds like a perfect place to grow up and obviously set you on your path to healthier living.
I think that we are all starting to realise the implications of what we eat and the way we live and are slowly changing.
Hi Keith
Nice to see you back here. I feel privileged the way I grew up. You are right; many people are realising that they need to start eating healthy and excercising more.Patricia Perth Australia
Hey Patricia, I just noticed that Doug (Health Habits) gave you a big retweet from his 87k Follwers on this post! Wonder if you got some good traffic from it?
Thanks for letting me know Jarret. I will watch with interest. I sure hope our health community will eventually have a positive influence on those who visit our sites. Great being a part at the beginning of this venture. Kudos to you for leading this group.
Patricia Perth Australia