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	<title>Chemical Free Parenting (formally Non-Tox Soap Box)</title>
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	<description>Chemicals, Kids and what we as parents butt-up against as we try to raise healthy children in a toxic world.</description>
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		<title>A close brush with poison – so what’s wrong with fluoride, really?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[This article was published in the Nurture Magazine, 2013, www.nurtureparentingmagazine.com.au] Fluoride is one of those issues that runs deep with people &#8211; like vaccination, religion and money. Those in favour argue that its addition to public water supplies and toothpastes has been a boon to dental health, providing a cost-effective and equitable way to prevent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2191</link>
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		<title>The Burning Facts: Sun, Nanoparticles and Sunscreens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[This article was publihed in the December edition of Nurture Magazine www.nurtureparentingmagazine.com.au] I grew up with the Cancer Councils Slip Slop Slap campaign. I can still hear Sid the dancing Seagull singing the jingle now, listen, ‘Slip… Slop… Slap… Slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat’. But sloping on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2187</link>
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		<title>Sugar and kombucha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We get asked about sugar and kombucha a lot! It&#8217;s great to be asking this question. And these are my thoughts on the matter&#8230; Sugar is truly a wondrous building block of life. It is nature’s gas: real, honest and pure energy. And without the sugar in kombucha, there is no fermentation, and without fermentation, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2178</link>
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		<title>Meltdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a meltdown yesterday. Full-on&#8230;.completely-lost-the-plot meltdown. Tears. Crying. Yelling. Slamming of doors. The whole lot. And because the spiritual umbilical cord is still well attached, my 7-year old had a meltdown too. Both of us, crying on the bathroom floor. It happens. I probably don’t do it enough. Release. Kids do it so instinctively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2171</link>
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		<title>change of place + change of pace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I stir my warming raw milk, coconut oil and cacao, wipe the sleep from early eyes, this is what greets me from my balcony: There is no rush; I want to savour this. I am here on Magnetic Island. Writing my next book. Reading Sci-Fi. Marking first year student essays. I had a pedicure. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2165</link>
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		<title>Making healthy Babies – Chemical impacts and the importance of conscious fertility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Published in the November edition of BUD Magazine by ACO] So you’re going to make a baby? Few of us prepare for the conception that marks the beginning of our baby’s life with the same meticulous level of detail as we do for our wedding day or birthday’s, despite conception being irrevocably the most significant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2161</link>
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		<title>A call from the wild!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Published in the October Edition of Holistic Bliss Magazine] I live a suburban house with my partner, two small children and a cat we rescued from the storm drains. Our house is the white house on the corner, opposite the netball courts, on the west side of town. It’s the one with the pink scooter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2155</link>
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		<title>Maleny Real Food Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The Real Food Festival is about authenticity and enjoying nourishing and delicious food that has been grown and prepared right here in our beautiful Sunshine Coast backyard&#8217;. Julie Shelton The Maleny Real Food Festival is the creation of Julie Shelton the former advocate for the Slow Food Movement in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. The festival [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2140</link>
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		<title>Can I drink Kombucha? Kombucha &amp; Candida Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can I drink Kombucha if I have candida? The question about weather people with candida can or &#8216;should&#8217; have kombucha is something we get asked about quite a bit on our market stalls. Firstly though, and to put things straight, drinking kombucha will not ‘give you’ a yeast infection .  Secondly, the most recent research [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2128</link>
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		<title>The Wonders of Turmeric</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We add an abundance of local cold-pressed turmeric to our Ginger and Turmeric Buchi Kombucha. And I want to tell you why we do this? Recent clinical studies established that curcumin, the active component of turmeric, is not only a super powerful anti-oxidant, but it also increases the way other anti-oxidants work, including those from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2119</link>
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		<title>Toxic Toys are Naughty, not Nice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Article in Nurture Magazine, Published in the Spring 2012 Issue] By Dr Sarah Lantz There is something intuitive about children such that they opt to play with wrapping paper and cardboard boxes instead of the plastic toys contained inside the present. Jedda, my two-year old daughter, enjoys shredding wrapping paper and running her little fingers over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2113</link>
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		<title>Buchi Kombucha Update&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[- - - - - - - &#160; - &#8216;Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving&#8217;~Albert Einstein Time in San Francisco has given me space to reflect on our Buchi Kombucha venture&#8230;as well as drink plenty of local brews here. My favourite? Cherry Chai by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2099</link>
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		<title>The risks of long haul food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know? The food in the average Aussie shopping basket has travelled about 70,000km and the meal on your average dinner plate has travelled around 2000km. Besides the impact on the environment, long haul food also poses food security risks. An Australian Federal Government report released by the Department of Agriculture, as summarised in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2087</link>
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		<title>Growing Gratitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[:Today: …thankful for this solo trip to san francisco; ….grateful for my morning solitude through Muir Woods; …watching the cablecars roar up and down the undulating streets of San Francisco; … the swell of blueberries in my mouth; …. and more blueberries; …and more… …blessed to see a red deer walking back from the beach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2089</link>
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		<title>Escape to San Francisco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined&#8217;. Henry David Thoreau For me to be good mama, I sometimes need to get away. I struggle with this at times…the martyre comes out ‘My children need me and I’m the only person to meet their needs!’ (I also think this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=2048</link>
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