Detoxification

Our bodies are programmed to deal with naturally occurring toxins, but nowadays we have a serious problem with pollution, our food is sprayed with pesticides, growth enhancers, and fertilisers and manufactured with a wide variety of other chemicals. Too many toxins in the body mean that the liver cannot cope with the load and many of the toxins are not eliminated as they should be into our urine or through the gall-bladder into the intestines. They may be stored in fat and tissues in the body, or go on to cause cell mutations or even cancer.

So organic gardening - whether you set up a single window box or devote the whole of your garden to it, creating a viable compost heap, using companion planting and mulches, is not only very important to your health, but enormously satisfying.

Organic produce, grown with no synthetic chemical pesticides, no synthetic chemical fertilisers and with great attention paid to the health of the soil, animals and ecosystems that are involved in its creation will reduce the amount of toxic and persistent chemicals in your food which in turn will have a dramatic effect on your overall health.