Natural Treasures of Australia

kind2creatures · � #1 � 04-30-2012, 07:29 PM

Refreshing article about Australia from EnergyTimes...

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Natural Treasures
of Australia

A Close-up look at the rich offerings in wellness from the land down under.

May 2012
By Allan Richter

If you want to take the pulse of a country�s health, make a beeline for the local supermarket. In the center of Brisbane, in the Australian state of Queensland, Trevor Allen took a break from setting out mangoes at Coles supermarket to give me a mini-tour of native Australian and regional foods and products.

He pointed to local yogurt; passionfruit (a hard-skinned purple fruit with seeds like a pomegranate); and baby rocket (a peppery green leaf). Healthful, to be sure. Our tour took us to pavlova, a gluten-free angel cake whose high sugar content probably removes it from the �healthy� column. Likewise with Lemingtons, a sponge cake entombed in chocolate and coconut flakes.

Vegemite, a tart yeast extract spread would probably fail the test were it not for its vitamin B content. Heading outside along the Brisbane River brought more clarity: scores of joggers, restaurants serving organic food and groups doing boxing exercises in the botanical gardens.

My 600-mile drive from Brisbane to Sydney confirmed why one global health group ranked the Land Down Under among the top five countries in terms of the years its citizens live in good health.

Tea Tree Oil:
Nature�s Medicine Cabinet

One balmy late afternoon in February, during Australia�s summer, Mirja Schnei�der was seated at a picnic table on the shore of Lake Ains�worth, slicing carrots and zucchini for the gas grill that her friend Evelyn Tschilar was firing up. The two Swiss tourists, both 26, had spent much of the day swimming in the lake on Australia�s southeast coast.

They made sure they put the lake on their itinerary after reading in a travel guide about its rejuvenating waters, derived from the roots of the many shoreline tea trees, which leech tannins that tint the water brown.

FULL STORY: https://energytimes.com/pages/features/1205/aussie.html

ozzie · � #2 � 05-01-2012, 03:53 PM

The koala's are beautiful, unfortunately this was on our tv just a couple of days ago.

https://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2...30/3491805.htm

and apparently the spread of urban development is taking over their habitat as well.
I did notice when travelling from Queensland to Sydney 5 years ago that they have put overhead runs closer to Sydney over the major highways about every mile for the animals to use instead of crossing the busy roads.
chlamydia, is a disease killing a lot of koala's also.
Aparrently in South Australia we still have a good population of Koala's.
Vegemite is nice on toast, and is also good to take a desertspoon full each day, for women around that time of the month as it helps with PMT, so I hear.
We grew some rocket a couple of years ago its very easy to grow and really nice in salads, and pasta dishes, it is a bit like water cress a sort of peppery taste, the only thing is I am allergic to it and when I eat it it makes my tongue and throat swell, a bit, its about the only thing that I am allergic too.

kind2creatures · � #3 � 05-01-2012, 04:18 PM

Sad about the koalas...it's good that some people are out there trying to make things better for them.

Marilyn27 · � #4 � 05-05-2012, 06:37 PM

I love rocket, the equivalent here is arugula... so nice with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, a few shavings of parmesan...

But... pavlova is not and angel food cake, it's

When we lived in Sydney I was terrified of the fruit bats, enormous bodies and 3 foot wingspan!

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