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Published on Leave a comment on The Wonderful Benefits and Certain Risk Factors in Different Cups of Tea – Be Sure to Read

By Janet Vargas - Independent Natural Health Researcher 30+ Yrs
With Some Assistance

I've never been a Tea or Coffee Drinker until 2025 when I started trying different Loose Leaf Teas of different kinds from Amazon and Ebay (mostly) I tried Formosan - Caffeine and Tannin content is Negligible where it is grown. It tastes and feels very Smooth on your Tastebuds, I didn't need to add any Milk (or sugar or honey. Then I started Venturing into different Herb and Flower Teas that were Pleasant Tasting, and this made a Tea Drinker of me. I Enjoy a Cupper on my Veranda in the Morning Sunshine, the Afternoon or when I'm relaxing in the Evening. I will share about some of the Cordial Herb Teas I tried and adopted here in this Article.

Part 1 (Nutritional & Benefits): Celebrates these incredible functional properties, encouraging readers to move away from sugary sodas and artificial juices toward nutrient-dense, restorative herbal steeped infusions.

Part 2 (Cautions & Red Lights): Transitions smoothly into the "Natural Doesn't Mean Neutral" reality, guiding readers with Reflux/LES, Glaucoma/AMD, Leaky Gut/Intolerances (Salicylates, Histamines, Oxalates), and IBS (FODMAPs) on how to choose their daily teas safely.…

Published on Leave a comment on Break Free of The News: It Will Make For Less Stress If You Do. Many Of Us Are Getting Smarter – Make The Move!

By Janet Vargas - Natural Health Researcher and People's Advocate

IT'S A SCAVENGER INDUSTRY........APART FROM SOME RESPONSIBLE JOURALISM LIKE NEWS 24 (SKY NEWS) FOR INSTANCE, YOU'RE BETTER OFF WITHOUT IT. PEOPLE ARE FINDING THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. MAKING THE MOVE IS BENEFITTING THEIR DAY AND EVENING and MAKING THEIR WEEKENDS NICER. WE NEED TO PUT SOME MEANS OF RESPITE INTO ACTION IN THESE STRESSFUL DAYS WE'RE LIVING IN and CUTTING OUT NEWS PROGRAMES (Bad News) OR DRASTICALLY CUTTING DOWN ON THEM, IS ONE OF THE WAYS WE FIND THAT RESPITE. WISHING YOU WELL FRIENDS:)

A Curious Question: Lying for a Living - Can You Imagine That?
Whatever Happened To "A Decent Days Work?"

Nothing New to Telecast this Week? How about 100 Ways to Spin a Yarn?

"That will keep Our Advertisers Happy and make sure Our Pay Cheques come in
this Week"

That pretty much accounts for All the News Repeats in various shapes and Forms - different Versions of the Same Thing - if you follow me?

What we must realise is, like anything else, it's a Business Folks. They're there to give you News, whether there's News or Not - That pretty much Accounts for All the Rubbishy Content they keep dishing out and they keep rehashing.…

Published on Leave a comment on Part 1: The Foundations of Saving Big with Homegrown Greens & Veggies

By Janet Vargas - Owner of this Website
With Guided and Selected AI Assistance
I Research Healthy Gardening Often

Beat Supermarket Inflation and Take Control of
Your Nutritional Health "YES!"

CHALLENGING THE STATUS-QUO OF EXPENSIVE FOOD and SUPPLEMENTS
MAKING NUTRITION LESS COMPLICATED
MOST TIMES, THIS CAN BE QUITE SIMPLE. I WILL SHOW YOU HOW.
AND BRINGING SOME SAVINGS IN THE MAKINGS TO YOU
WHO CHOOSE TO BENEFIT FROM THIS MESSAGE
AND PUT IT INTO PRACTICE.

With grocery prices soaring across Australia, everyday families are feeling the squeeze at the checkout. Packaged salads, fresh herbs, and specialty greens have become premium luxury items, often sporting massive retail markups. By taking matters into your own hands and growing targeted, High-Yielding Crops at Home, an average Australian Family can easily Lower Grocery Inflation—Saving well over $1,200 to $1,500 annually. Those Savings Add Up over a few years hey?

However, maximum savings mean nothing without optimal biological health. True garden-to-table nutrition requires understanding the biochemistry of the plants we eat, allowing us to absorb maximum nutrients while safely managing natural plant compounds like oxalic acid.

The Grocery Saving Pipeline:
[Supermarket Packaged Greens] ──> [Homegrown "Cut-and-Come-Again" Beds] ──> [Up to $1500+ Annual Savings]

The Economics of Backyard Greens vs.…

Published on Leave a comment on Part 2: Small Footprints, Big Yields: Avoiding Risky Cheap Plastics in Small Space Gardening

By Janet Vargas - Owner of this Website
With Some Assistance
I Research Healthy Gardening Often

Maximize Balconies, Patios, and Paved Courtyards Safely

"Short on Space to Grow Veggies? i will show you Ways Around That!"

You do not need a sprawling suburban quarter-acre block to feed your family fresh, premium produce. Whether you are managing a high-rise balcony, a rented concrete patio, or a tiny paved courtyard, you can transform empty vertical and horizontal spaces into highly productive food zones.

By utilizing targeted vertical frameworks, balcony troughs, and ground-level planters, you can secure massive yields while keeping your food supply completely free from toxic chemical contamination.

📐 Small Footprint Layout Options:
[Vertical Walls / A-Frames] ──> [Balcony Troughs] ──> [Fabric Grow Bags] ──> [Food-Safe PP Planters]
(High-Altitude Herbs)   (Rail Leafy Greens)   (Air-Pruning Roots)  (Leach-Free Pods)

The Toxic Trap: Why Cheap, Single-Use Plastics Do Not Belong in Your Food Supply

When space and budgets are tight, it is incredibly tempting to follow advice from online videos encouraging the use of free household items like industrial plastic mayonnaise buckets, ice-cream containers, or discarded plastic soda bottles.

Various YouTube Gardeners encouraging the use of these is SO DODGY,
as a health researcher, I CRINGE!…

Published on Leave a comment on Intro Series: The Modern Parent — Healing Your Stress Levels AND Your Kids by Returning To Nature

By Janet Vargas - Independent Natural Health Researcher 30+ Yrs
With Some Assistance

TRUE CONNECTION WITH OUR KIDS – WHAT’S MISSING MOST TIMES
THE MISSING CONNECTION WITH OUR KIDS – WHAT IS IT?
NATURE and HAPPY MOMENTS and A HEALTHY Nervous System GO TOGETHER

Parents and Kids are Missing this Very Important Blessing in Their Lives.
These Articles will Help You Restore what’s Missing

Watch Out for TECH Scams and Sunshine Scams and Medical Scams
NATURE or a regular "Slice of Nature through the Week
will Benefit You AND Your Kids Far More!

Healing our Nervous System in the Wild
YES, Finding the Missing Element in this Modern Day

Kids need to Break Out of the TECHY and Couch-Potato Environment they are brought up in with TVs and Tech Devices as their Baby Sitters from Little Kids to Teen Years. Probably because you were Brought Up with the Same – Never Introduce to Love for Outdoors which is Normal and Healthy for Kids.

The Tragedy of the Suburban Shift: Reclaiming the Wild Child Years Our Kids Deserve

The modern childhood landscape is nothing short of a tragedy, and it is deeply unfair that an entire generation is being systematically denied their inborn instincts to explore nature.…

Published on Leave a comment on Part 2: The Cradle of True Development — Why Children Need Nature to Discover Their True Gifts

By Janet Vargas - Independent Natural Health Researcher 30+ Yrs
With Guided and Selected AI Assistance

PLEASE DON'T OVERPROTECT and SMOTHER THEM or LEAVE THEM TO TECH DEVICES TO BABYSIT THEM. TRULY, THESE THINGS DO THEM DISFAVOURS and YOU IN THE LONGRUN.
THIS IS WORTH READING!

Every Single Child is born with an Individual Blueprint—a Unique set of giftings, talents, and inner wisdom waiting to be uncovered. However, these gifts cannot be discovered on a loungeroom couch watching TV, or can they be unlocked by an iPad app. A screen does all the thinking for a Child, programming their impressionable young minds and forcing a passive compliance. When children are shut up in Modern Housing (high-density housing and concrete suburbs we find ourselves in these days) it stunts their ability to think for themselves, trapping them in an intellectual and spiritual poverty - if they don't have access to Outdoors. They need Fresh-Air and Sunshine. They need to See Nature and have some around them.

Nature is the ultimate incubator for a child's true potential. When a Child is placed in an unstructured natural environment, their imagination instantly awakens. A simple stick becomes a tool; a pile of river rocks becomes a castle; a fallen tree branch becomes a challenge to overcome.…

Published on Leave a comment on Part 3: Bringing the Bush to the Backyard — How Suburban Parents Can Mimic Country Living

By Janet Vargas - Independent Natural Health Researcher 30+ Yrs
With Some Assistance

For those of us who grew up with the horizon as our playground, looking at a modern suburban block can feel disheartening. It seems almost impossible to replicate the magic of a country upbringing when you are surrounded by high-density housing and concrete roads. But a child’s inborn instinct to explore does not require miles of wilderness to wake up; it simply requires us to stop over-sanitising and over-managing their environment. You do not need an acreage to rescue your child from a sedentary lifestyle. With a few deliberate choices, you can bring the raw, healing elements of country living right into your suburban backyard.

│   THE BACKYARD REWILD PLAN   │

│     THE LOOSE-PARTS PIT      │                │    THE BALCONY MUD STATION   │

│ Large stones, pinecones,     │                │ Real topsoil, old spoons,    │

│ bark, and smooth logs.       │                │ and water in a sturdy tub.   │

│ Sparks deep imagination and  │                │ Introduces "good germs" to   │

│ independent rule-making.     │                │ build robust raw Immunity.   │

The first step is to ditch the obsession with a manicured, pristine lawn and embrace what experts call "Loose-Parts Play".…

Published on Leave a comment on Part 5: The Busy Busy OR Sedentary Parent — Healing Your Own Nervous System in Nature

By Janet Vargas - Independent Natural Health Researcher 30+ Yrs
With Some Assistance

Hi Friends, When I first sat down to write this series, my heart was focused entirely on our children — on the unfairness of the couch-potato lifestyle and the critical need to return young, developing minds to the healthy dirt, the blessing of sunshine, and the wild earth. But as I peeled back the layers of this modern crisis, a deeper truth stared back at me.

We cannot give our Children a Gift we do not have Ourselves.
We can Explore it though, if we have the Courage to Try something New.

The reality is that an entire generation of Modern Parents were raised inside the exact same suburban, screen-centric bubble that is now confining their kids. If you find the outdoors exhausting, dirty, or frankly a bit boring, it is not your fault. You were programmed by concrete and glass just as your children are being programmed today.

Excessive Time Indoors with so much TV Viewing and Time spent on Tech Devices is a highly Synthetic Lifestyle. No wonder we're Stressed. Did you know that those things actually Set our System Up for Stress when we spend so much time with them, because they're actually Foreign to the way we were Created and what we were essentially Designed to Respond to (Best) NATURE........this…

Published on Leave a comment on My Experience With An Idea To Dehydrate Zucchini Slices And A Handy AI App I Use:)

Hi Folks, here's a Fun Article for you for a change. There is far too much politics going on in recent weeks and Winter Weather Starting. I will let you know soon what I'm doing for Winter to make it more cheerful on Overcast days - I do like the Rains but too many Overcast days feels somewhat Yuck, aye? So we need to find a few Simple....Affordable....Ways to Offset that.

I am not an Amazon Associate
they have these Similar to mine:)

I had an idea to take my Dehydrator out and make some Dried Zucchini Slices, because when I went to Ebay to see if there is such an Item available, there was only about 3 Products there (different stores) AND Very Expensive (due to shipping costs) so I asked a Favorite AI App I've been using sometimes recently how I should go about making my Own Supply, being so Close to the very End of the Season now for Zucchinis.

The App I have commenced using just recently is called CHAT GPT - it's similar to Google AI but gives you More Detail which would often prove to be More Helpful.…

Published on Leave a comment on Maintaining Eye Health for Mental Health – A Different Concept – This Is Interesting

Hi there, don't knock this before you read it. Did you know the Retina at the back of our Eye is Connected to Our Brain? It is Amazing, so many things that are being Discovered Now in the Natural side of Science. I personally find the associations between Our Eyes and Brain fascinating. And with the amount of STRESS there is These Days, who doesn't want to know some WAYS to Protect Our Mental Health? In fact, I may find out More about New Phenomena to do with Our Eyes.

By Katie Brenneman  
A passionate Writer specialising in Lifestyle,
Mental Health and Fitness related content.

Vision Related With Mental Health

We all know that maintaining eye health is important, Indeed, potential vision loss is often one of the most feared aspects of ageing. It’s not difficult to understand why. The impacts of vision loss on daily functioning are obvious. What may not be so obvious, however, is how close the relationship is between your eyes and your mental health.

The Link Between Your Eyes and Your Brain

Physicians and researchers alike increasingly recognise the eye as an extension of the human brain.…