A common mistake people make, is to assume that if someone is vegetarian, fruitarian, pescatarian (see yesterdays blog) or any other -tarian, that they automatically are healthy, but that’s not necessarily true. Someone who eats popcorn and drinks coke could be a vegan. Someone who eats doughnuts and drinks coffee all day is an ovo-vegetarian, or if you drink fruit juices and nothing else you would be a fruitarian.
None of them are, in my view eating a healthy diet. When I have a choice, and I do 90% of the times, I choose to eat natural food from plants. Why? Because it is healthy, I don’t want to kill, or pay the killers and the animal keepers, and I don’t want to pollute the world more than necessary by my mere existence. I choose natural food because of the same reasons. It is healthier to eat the whole orange than to make the juice as I then miss out on the fiber. If I don’t process the food I pollute less as I need less kitchen utensils and I use less electricity.
If I eat the peel I leave less garbage, and I could go on and on. I believe being a minimalistic consumer is better for ones health, others health and the whole world’s health, so I want to be one. It is an active choice. I eat, like most of us, at least 3 times a day. As a conscious eater I make a huge impact. Oh, and yes, I try to only eat food! That’s very important to me. I don’t call pesticides, additives and other chemicals food. And I don’t want to support that industry either. To start thinking in these terms is detoxing, and something we recommend everyone to try. It can be tough at first but as you learn you get more aware, and make choices that give you Prana (vitality and energy). There is a whole movement called Conscious Consumerism about this type of detox. Google it and find out more!
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O•live Retreat demystifies health and in the process it stands clear that health is far from drugs or injections made from petrochemicals.
First we make sure you know yourself, your body and what being healthy means to you, really means. Then we continue to a good cleanse on all levels, Body·Mind·Soul.
With over 15 years in this business and as Conde Nast Travel and some others put it "top-ranked" health retreat, we base our work on the O• method, derived from a multitude of methods, both old as Ayurveda and new as Orthomolecular Medicine. You'll get healthier in all areas of life (as we don't think one can leave health at home while going to work and we can't say we are healthy if we destroy our bodies over the weekend either). One is either healthy or not, within oneself and in ones habits. What that means can only be defined by each and one and if that is to indulge in the unhealthy stuff it's because it's really worth it for the only judge - you.
We offer events such as retreats, workshops, or online courses and we believe in education as the fundamentals of healing is that it's done by oneself. Others can support but it's only oneself that can heal oneself.
The key training for professionals is focused on enhanced productivity through self-inspiration and self-care. As a high equity manager in the finance sector put it - it's all about staying highly inspired. We couldn't agree more and we know how that biochemistry looks like.
Independent studies find that 96% of our guests become more healthy and stay healthy after 6 months, 82% stay healthy after a year. This is a better rate than any other retreat, treatment or training, as far as we know. Our teachings are based on modern science, and ancient evidence based techniques, and a lot of personal experience with trial and error, in the field of being a healthy human in the 21st century.
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