Canadian Organic Growers (COG) is a national charitable organization (13014 0494 RR0001) with members in all regions of Canada. COG is connected to the regions through thirteen regional Chapters, four affiliated organizations, and to the international organic community through membership in the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM).

COG hosts events all across Canada. Check our event calender for an event in your area.

Body-Mind Spirit: Radical Self-Responsibility for Creating Client Compliance

When: February 27, 2010 at 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Where: Ontario Science Centre
Don Mills Road
Toronto, ON
Canada
Contact:
csnnalumni@hotmail.com

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Learning to drop our own bias to create better client options

As holistic nutritionists, our intention is to guide our clients to lifestyle choices that will help them to enjoy balance, vitality and health in all ways. Even with the best of intentions though, we often experience resistance and less than optimal compliance from our clients.  This workshop will provide you with effective tools and concepts that can be implemented immediately to broaden your personal and professional experience.

Join us for this full-day experiential workshop!

A recent study published in the UK caused a big kafuffle in the organic industry when it claimed there was no nutritional benefit to organic produce over conventional. The researchers looked at studies conducted over the last 40 years, and while the organic foods often did contain a higher amount of vitamins and minerals, they decide the difference was not “nutritionally” significant. In a single piece of produce, a 17 % difference in beta carotene, as one study found, may not be significant, just as they said. But what if that 17% were missing from everything you ate, day after day, year after year?  Would that make a difference? Probably, but that is the holistic nutrition perspective, not the conventional.

I put that concept out there because it needs to be said. Good health is easier to achieve if all the food consumed has the maximum amount of nutrients possible. However, the important aspect of the study to note, is that the studies they looked at examined vitamin and mineral content. Unfortunately, they did not look at the phyto-nutrient content, the new superstars in the health world, linked to prevention of many diseases prevalent today. As part of the plant’s defense system, phyto-nutrient content goes up in food when the plants are attacked by bugs or fungus.

Check out this interesting article about doctors and nurses and supplements. They are using them and recommending them but do not have the education to being doing so. Even amongst alternative practitioners there could be a debate about supplements; especially standardized extracts versus whole food and whole herb supplements. Most of us have been educated quite significantly on both topics or should be. The comment at the end of the artcile is the most interesting as it comes from either a nurse or a doctor and makes it quite clear the issues they encounter by doing this. 

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Are you determined to lose weight this year?  Well, the good news is that shedding those extra pounds doesn’t have to be difficult.  Many times, a few simple mistakes are all it takes to derail even the most well-intentioned dieting efforts.  Here are 5 mistakes I often see dieters make that can jeopardize their weight loss success, along with a few ways on how to fix them.

Now Playing in Toronto: Look for it in a theatre near you

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

Dr.Ronald Hall, a microbiologist from Victoria, Austrailia testified recently at the trial of Michael Schmidt (pictured here), the farmer advocating for a legal way for those who want to purchase raw milk. This is a copy of his testimony plus  a link to YouTube for more information

The testimony is important because he explains how raw milk has the ability to protect us from bad bacteria and help us build our good bacteria. The world has become so bacteria-phobic that basic science has been overlooked and the protection that nature gave us in our food has been forgotten

Thank you, Orly, for sending this to us.

If you don’t think much about the foods that you eat, this book will change the way you think and if you do think a lot about what you eat, then great! This book will teach you more!